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Philip Marlowe: The Dude from Manhattan (EP1457) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to nine one three Boise alohol eight three seven one five. Well. Today's
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episode of Philip Marlow originally aired July as the second, nineteen forty nine,
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And the Tunnel is the dude from Manhattan get this and get it straight.
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Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel and wind up in the
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gut of the prison of the grave, there's no other end. But they
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never learn this time. It was going to be a vacation in the wide
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open spaces, but a black stallion, a tiny emerald, and a batted
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horseshoe met at twenty four hour delay. It could have been worse because to
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the dude from Manhattan, they meant debt. From the pen of Raymond Chandler,
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outstanding author of mystery, comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly
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enemy. As we present the adventures of villat Marlowe now with Gerald Moore starred
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as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story, The Dude from Manhattan.
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Every so often life in the city seems to boil down to nothing but
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noise and concrete, where all a deep breath does for you is to pack
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more exhaust fumes ind your lungs, and the nearest thing that nature is a
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mangi sparrow pecking survival out of a dirty alley. So when I got a
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long distance call from an old friend inviting me to spend a week in the
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great outdoors at a ranch, he just bought me a rattlesnake mountain, I
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snapped with a chance. Inside an hour, I was rolling down the highway
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towards San Bernardino, and one hundred and twenty miles later, at five o'clock,
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I turned in under a big arch of null cedar that spelled out Rainbow
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Ranch. But the layout beyond was about as primitive as a dry martini a
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ranch house the size of you in station was backed up by blue tile swimming
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pool, paved tennis court, and a semicircle of bungalows. With all the
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rustic charm of a Hollywood motel, I drove on in slowly as a broad
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brimmed hat, red gabardine shirt, hiccock belt and hand tooled boots, bounced
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out the door and ran taught me it was my host, the X hotel
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man, Harold R. Laws. How are you boy? I am sure
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glad you could make it fine out. Don't show you around? Hey?
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What is all this, Harold? From your phone call? I expected a
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shack with oil, lambs, so woodstoven, at least a few head of
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cattle. You mean I didn't tell you why? This is a guest range
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field, guest ranch the best in the way, oh brother. Oh incidentally,
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don't call me Harold. No bad atmosphere for the dudes. The name's
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Buck now buck lass buckh No real spread here, Phil real spread fourteen,
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big cabin, string of thirty horses, stables down there, beautiful dead how
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evolks? Sure is mister and missus dobleman. He's a big van of storage
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man in law as saying it. Tell me who's coming? Red rider?
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Not funny, but I'm not funny. Look it's thunder that black Devil's hush
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again. That horse will kick the fence down of those pools. Don't hold
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him. Hey, hey, that's some animal. He's a beauty. It's
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in a renegade and a skittish, temperamental bronco with anybody but Virgil Soil.
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Yeah. Oh, they got to rope on him. Now, that'll hold
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him, huh not for long? Sawyer's the only hand I've got who can
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get close to that stallion, and he's leaving tomorrow blasted. How come?
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Well, frankly, that's what I wanted to talk to you about it.
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Yeah, wait a minute. I came up here for a rest, not
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a job. I know. I know you'll get it filled, you'll get
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it. But since you hear, I figure you could sort of keep your
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eyes open for me, Lasten. It's a dirty trick on enough field.
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Please, I'm expecting trouble, and bluntly I can't afford it. Every cent
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I've got is tied up in this ranch. A serious scandal could ruin me,
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and you're just the one who can keep that sort okay, okay,
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So it's the old hotel business on horseback. How does the Sawyer mean trouble?
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Well, there's a couple here from the east, the Mortons. He's
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a top silk cool sailor from New York rip and that kind of means everything
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to me. Phil. But his wife, Judy the next dance instructed with
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Arthur Murray back east, is well, she's bored stiff out here. And
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the upshot of it all is that someone mm hmm. Somehow she and your
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cowboys Sawyer started making eyes at each other and the husband got nasty about it.
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Huh how did you know that? Yeah, well it's standard like a
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B picture plot. Well, anyway, they came to blow us this morning.
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Maybe Virgils innocent, maybe not, but I can't take a chance,
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so I fired him, ordered him to pack and get off the place by
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tomorrow. Well that's that. What are you worried about? Plenty. Sawyer's
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a proud man. I know he was furious. He threatened to get even.
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I'm not sure he means it, but if he does, well that's
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what we have to look out for. We now, look, Buck,
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you built me into coming up here, and I got a good notion to
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turn around, hold it him. What's the manner? You see that couple
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going into cabin number eight? Yeah, that's the couple I'm talking about,
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the Mortons, pauland Judy Cabin eight. Eh, don't tell me, just
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let me guess. Yeah, yeah, you're right. You've got number seven.
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Ok, yeah, sure, number seven it is. I'll be seeing
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you buck. I walked up to number seven and waited for the boy to
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show up in my bag and I started unpacked, but stopped when I heard
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a riot next door. At that point, sprawling Rainbow Ranch was just a
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horizontal tenement, nothing more. I want to shutting the window. Is it
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bad enough to make a pool of yourself in private you have to make a
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public seat as well. The voices rattled on for a few minutes, then
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dwindled off into a long and golden silence that said maybe a peace treaty had
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been signed. But then the door slammed the number eight, so I peeked
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out. It was Morton, and from a look on his face, I
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knew the peace treaty was nothing but an armed truce. I followed him to
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the Big Lodge and into the bar, and when he sat down. I
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took the stool next to him. Well, what would be, gentlemen,
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Scotch and water? No ice? Eh, the same with ice. Well,
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mister Morton, I guess that brand's US's dudes. Huh, Bourbon's the
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only drink out West. I wouldn't know, I'm sure. Oh it's a
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fact. Hey, that's a handsome ring you got there, And the initials
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are the same as mine. Those stones are emeralds, aren't they. That's
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right, Yeah, it's supposed to be four of them. One's missing,
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I say, is that memorald too? It was happens to be my birth
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Here are gentlemen? Oh fine, allow me, mister Morton, there are
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Oh thank you sir. How'd you lose it stone? I mean, I
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don't know. It happened several months ago, And in any case, it's
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no concern of yours now, if you don't mind, I'd just as soon
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be left alone. Oh well, that's too bad. Here I was hoping
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i'd find out all about the silk business. What do you mean by that?
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Oh? Just conversation. You are in that business, don't you,
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of course? But who are you anyway? Name's Marlowe? And just why
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you're prying into my personal affairs, mister Mordel, because I got a little
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free advice for you. Cool off before you start, the kind of fire
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you can't put out. Huh. So that's a cowboys saw it, Marlow.
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Now you're getting two personally. I suggested to mind her own fish.
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I'm sorry, didn't mean to lose my temper that way. Good night.
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Yeah, it's bound to be charming, isn't he. Well, missus Morton,
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where'd you come from? I was standing over there watching my husband has
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all the social grace of a tarantula. Well, maybe you should have looked
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closer before you made the leap. Oh, that's the wonderful thing about him.
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Eh. You're not have to like Paul much when you first meet him,
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but once you get to know him, you hate him. Yeah,
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I'm not sure that's funny. It's not supposed to be. I've been living
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with him for six months now, so jealous. It's unbelievable. He wouldn't
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leave me in New York. Oh No, insisted on dragging me out of
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this dust bowl with running water. Why a rancher. I'll never understand.
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He doesn't know one end of a horse from another. Well with his aptitude,
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he'll learn. You know, it might be figured you two might get
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back together if you had a chance to relax and the open missus Morton.
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Mm hmm, so he said. However, we weren't here ten minutes before
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he accused me of getting romantic with that leather faced cowboy. Did that makes
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sense? I don't know. Both gentlemen are justified. You're lovely to look
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at. Somebody ought to remind my husband his idea of welding a marriage is
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to spend all his time playing gin with that Doverman, Oh, Doverman,
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the van and storage character from Los Angeles, which of course leaves me saddled
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with his wife Carrie. Now there's a cute personality for you if you happen
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to like neurotic parrots. So what with the desert the Dame and gin?
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Rummy? Virgil began to look pretty good? Is that any excuse me?
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Folks that care to order another drink before? Yes, I would, and
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I'd like it over there alone. Mag a Manhattan bar, tender strictly Manhattan,
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and make a double mister Marlow, good night. M No, I'm
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not so sure. It was almost dark when I left the bar and headed
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down to the bunk house where the working personnel at Rainbow Ranch called home.
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A casual clutter of rumpled cot, scattered pulp fiction, and dusty boots gave
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it the only sign of authenticity I'd seen in the entire place, But aside
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from that, it was empty, and a noise from outside brought me around
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the building of the back, where I ran up against six and a half
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lean feet of solitary cowboy with his hat shoved back on his head pitching horseshoes.
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He was out of uniform for a flashy dude wrangler, which left him
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in a faded blue shirt and levyes that fitted his lanky legs like a pair
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of bent stovepipes. He spotted me and stood there swinging a bat at horseshoe
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in each hand while I walked up to him. Hello, Hi, sawyer,
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little doc for horseshoes, isn't it little? Hey? Hey, you're
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good good at horses too, eh. I understand you're the only man who
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can handle that black stallion thunder. Yeah, what's a secret, No secret,
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just to have to treat him bright? What's on your mind, mister,
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fact that you're leaving tomorrow? I reckon you better keep out of my
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now. Look, so it takes at least two to make a fight,
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and fights are poison to buck lass, and so I don't like to see
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my friends poisoned. Now, why don't you take it easy? Huh,
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lay off, keep your nose clean. I don't know who you are,
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mister, but I'll tell you this anyway, seeing as you're so interested.
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I'm leaving here tomorrow, all right, and I'm going to square up with
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a couple of folks first before I go. I got a raw deal here,
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and I'm just not the kind to take a laying down. What do
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you mean raw deal? You're a big boy, now, you are no
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better than to get yourself all involved. I'm not much for a conversation,
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feller, but I'm going to say something real plain so you'll be sure to
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sell. No. By the time I got myself untangled back on my feet,
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a strong, silent fugitive from the old Chisholm trail was gone. However,
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my original theory that it takes two to make a fight is still valid.
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So I decided to find Paul Morton and spend the rest of the evening
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close to him. His cabin was dark, but I remember the running Gin
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game he had with a big van and storage man. So I went down
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the line but the Doberman cabin and knocked. It was Carrie, the perennial
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dude, who galloped up to open the door. Howdy, stranger, come
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on in and set a spell. Our latch is always stringing out. Well,
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A sure do, thank you, ma'am. My name's Marlowe Orville.
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This is mister Marlowe, Hody Morrow, howdy, hope you'll excuse the looks
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of the police or a box of extra clothes just arrived from town. Carry's
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been on pack of us. Sit down there, miss Marlowe, and mostly
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old things. Just throw him on the floor. Oh thanks, but really
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I can't stay. I'm looking for Paul Martin. I thought I might find
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him here. Morton say, there's a nice chap. Met him day before,
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Yes, and he for the first time and won ninety dollars off him
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in Gin already, haven't seen him to Niko. Morville was out looking for
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him himself just a few minutes ago when she did. Why yes, As
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a matter of fact, it was he didn't locate him. No, I
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didn't you know. He seemed to be all upset this afternoon, couldn't keep
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his mind on the game. I thought i'd have a little chat with him
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to calm him down. So or for the whiz at fat, miss Marbo.
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It's not me, he carry us this country. I don't see how
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a man can keep trouble in his mind on a place like this ranch mollow.
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It can happen, believe me, harpy cock whice son. There's something
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about this open land around here that cleans out a man's head and his heart
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too. It sounded like a travelog. I'm here a few more days of
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this and mortal forget there ever was such a thing as a cash register?
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Yes, sir, give this on teamed countryside a chance and little curing.
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Yes, what was that? It wasn't the call of the wild? Miss
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steveman Watson. What's the matter? Hell, come on down to the stable,
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hurry, Something Charles happened. I shall find out about it. Glossy.
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One of the boys told me hurt him to raise in the terrible fus
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come over to check. But but then it was all over. Give me
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the Latin Harold, Holy smile. It's poor Martin all right. He's been
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trampled with dead, ghastly accident, and it's all my fault. I knew
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thunder was dangerous and I didn't get rid of all. Right, take it
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easy, Take it easy. There's a lot of questions to be answered before
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anybody takes the book. Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute.
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Look at this here by the game stables, a full of them. Feel
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yeah, not like this one. Look at it. It's all a batted
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up, right, did you bet it? We're such a pushunt. And
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yet it gives me an idea because the last time I saw one of these
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was being pitched at nine Stake behind the bunk house. What are you getting
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here? We'll the chances are at least fifty to fifty that Paul Morton's death
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was no accident. It was murder in just a moment the second actor,
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Phillip Marlowe. But first, perfect musical settings for a Sunday before the fourth
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are regular Sunday afternoon features on most of these same CBS Network stations. Now
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with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe
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and Tonight's story The Dude from Manhattan. When I labeled poor Morton's dead something
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worse than an accident, loss in his mouth fell open, and the muscles
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in his face jerked as his eyes moved slowly from me out to the now
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quiet black stallion in the corral, who somehow or other seemed to sense the
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death at our feet. Then, as the trembling man's lips silently formed the
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word murder, he gestured for me to help him carry Morton's body out of
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the stable. After that, he looked at the dead man's broken face once
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more, said he was going to call the Sheriff's office, and hurried away.
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A minute later, Judy Morton stepped into the small circle of light that
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surrounded what, only a short time ago had been her husband. Except for
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a thin line of perspiration above her lips, she was no different than when
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I'd seen her last. I just passed buck on my way down here,
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told me my husband was dead. Didn't tell anything else, Judy, about
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how Paul died. I mean, no, it was a stallion. Wasn't
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it an accident? I doubt it. Why Mallow, one thing, this
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horseshoe too close to the body. But this is a statement, And this
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a horseshoe that's been used exclusively for pitching at a stake in the ground.
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Here look at it, and remember Cowboy Virgil's favorite sport is horseshoes. Besides,
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what reason would your husband have for coming down here at this hour?
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In the first place, it wasn't too crazy about horses, you know,
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no, But it was about me. Let's move a little way from here,
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Marlow, cigarette, no thanks, I'm not coming apart of the scenes
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because it isn't in me. I hated Paul, hated him with all my
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heart. Morlow, I'm down here only because he pleaded with me, begged
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me to talk to him once more, to listen to reason. But why
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about the decision I came to less than an hour ago, which was divorced
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unconditionally. I thought you said you came out here to try to patch things
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up. I did. I also said that we weren't doing a very good
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job of it. Then tonight, a little after we left you with the
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bar, Marlow, I got my hands on the lever. I needed to
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pry myself loose from that jealous maniac. It was a knowledge model that my
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late husband was crooked silk business. Yes, while he was drinking his dinner,
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I went to one of his suitcases for an aspirin, found what instead
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at least three dozen samples of the best silks made without any importer as a
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manufacturer's name, and underneath that two hundred thousand dollars in cash. I know
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enough about the silk business to fill on the blank smallow, all of which
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comes down to the heading black market. Huh. Yes, I added what
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I had found the fact that this yewed ranch he had insisted on was close
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to the Los Angeles, close enough for him to run off and conduct his
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purchasing while I thought he was communing with nature or playing gin with that mister
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doveman. Then I had him. M hmm. You also had a divorce,
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no strings attached, right, exactly, blackmail to get rid of your
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own husband. H pretty, isn't it? Yeah? Well, at least
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with this accident or whatever it is, it's no longer necessary. Oh how
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duty, Only two things are necessary location of Virgil Sawyer and the other you
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and your own cabin. When I can ask you some questions later, Why
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do you want to ask me questions? Well, I might be making a
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big mistake, baby, but it might be that Virgil and you are out
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for the two hundred thousand bucks. You know, honey, that man in
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a saddle might like money too. I'll see you. When I started back
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to the bunk house, the only place I knew of that might give me
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a lead on the strong, silent horseshoe picture, I realized that tagging Paul
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Morton's death or murder was one thing, proving it was going to be quite
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another. And when I was there and the place was empty, without even
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signs of a hasty departure, I was sure of it, but not by
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intuition, as was the gentleman standing in the open doorway watching my every move.
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All Vil Dovoman, champion of the wide open spaces, didn't believe that
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a clean cut cowboy could be guilty of anything more unrefined than spitting on a
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potbellied stove. Oh, I think you're crazy. Buck told me about your
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finding that horshoe next to Morton's body on the conclusion you jumped to from there.
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You're being very hasty, boy, and that's dangerous, and that's the
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reason I'm here. I don't believe in neck tie party. Next man's hey,
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hold it, nobody said anything about lynching your hero. I want to
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find Sawyer so that, if I'm right, we can save the state the
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time and trouble of a man hunt. But since you brought it up,
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vigil Landy, don't scramble for conclusions too quickly yourself. I happen to have
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a little more to go on in the relative position of a horseshoe, not
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that idle goship that's going wrong the same at the moment. It figures two
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ways. Virgil's unhappy enough for the state's quota, liquidate the city slicker,
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or Virgil and the squaw light out after a clean start the hard way.
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Choose one small it either case, and especially there's stupid suggestion that the girl
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in Virgil Sawyer an't cohoots. That I can't believe, well sentimental reasons.
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I can't either sides. Judy Morton found out enough about her husband within the
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last hour to make murder for freedom's sake very unnecessary. She learned he was
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a crooked mister d if you can stand the disillusionment, oh no, and
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shady dealings in silk. Judy didn't go into details about it, but I
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gather she found out enough to make him sit up and take notice. And
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that brings us right back to Virgil Boots, saddles and all the fine points
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later, but right now, mister Doverman, if you want to make sure
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that everybody gets a square deal, get close to Judy's cabin and stay there
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centry due to your object. Oh right, and if I'm wrong about the
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cowboy, you have done nothing worse than waste your time. Goodbye. I
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spent the next twenty minutes talking to cow hans, guess, miscellaneous, hired
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man, any and everybody who might have been able to say he went that
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away of Virgil Sawyer with no success and to make matters worse. When I'd
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given that up and was on my way back to the lodge to help Loss
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and wait for the sheriff, I found myself being paigd Western style, of
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course, by no one else but missus Carrey Doverman, the Capital b and
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dude Ranch. Howdy howdy, ma'am, oh, mister malo, yeah,
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Miss Marlow, look at this, Look at what I found. I've struck
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it rich and might say, much like the old wrestlers, rustlers, Missus
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Doveman stole cattle. Oh yes, oh yeah, so they did. I
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guess I meant those panhandlemen. You know, gold is where you find it
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anyhow, Look it's a precious stones all but nevertheless, pressure I mind while
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digging for worms, No doubt, mister Marler, you're teasing me. You
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know very well that this is a polished stone. Funny thing, though,
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is where I found it? Shall I tell you? Oh please please do,
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Missus Dovein. Well, I was just unpacking those clothes that Orble has
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sent up from Los Angeles, some slacks and things like that. And well,
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when I started to hang a pair up, this fell out of one
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of the cups. And now I wonder how a little old emerald like this
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ever gotten there? Well it was probably mice, missus Emerald, let me
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see that quick. But yes, of course, But believe me, mister
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Marlow, would can't be very valuable. I'm sure I'm not. What are
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you talking about? Murder or a reasonable fact similar thereof? And a girl
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named Julie Morton. If I don't hurry, go by and bless you,
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missus Doverman, and you talk too much. But now it was the right
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time because I ran for Julie's Kevin. I didn't know any more about the
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whys and wherefores of Paul Morton's death, and I had before I made small
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talk with Missus Doveman. But I did know that unless lady named Luck and
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I were on the same team, a rainbow ranch was you for a second
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corpse. When I was close enough to the rough folk door number eight and
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Orville Doveman, who might ask to stand God was nowhere in sight, the
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full impact of that responsibility sank into where the wingtips on the butterflies of my
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stomachs were scratching at my hip pocket until I moved in still closer, and
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there, in the light of a single lanp that was halo enough for me,
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I saw the girl for Manhattan, nervously lighting one cigarette from the end
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of another, but more important, very much alive. I didn't bother knocking,
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smallow, what are you doing here? What am I doing here?
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Honey? I'm uncrossing fingers and toes alike. You know they've been that way
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since I realized that I opened my mouth too wide, too soon, which
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puts you right smack on what used to be known as the spot. Oh
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that's the way it happened. Yeah, that's the way. Now. Look,
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Judy, baby, you can't know what I mean yet. It's Doveman,
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honey, the gin player with all the moving vans. He's the one
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your husband was buying that black market silk from. I didn't know that until
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a few minutes ago, which was after I told him where you could be
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found, and that you knew an awful lot. Oh witch, yes,
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Tomrlow. He thanks you and warned you not to move you. Oh see
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what I mean, Phil, Yeah, sure, I see. You know
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it's funny Doveman. When I was outside and didn't see you around, it
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did see that Judy here was still in good health. I figured that either
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you had decided to sit tight until you knew exactly how much she did know
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that you already started iran. Yeah, this I didn't count on. And
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this Marlow should point out what I said earlier about your jumping to conclusions is
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dangerous. Handling hot silk as child's play. It has been for me for
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twenty years, Marlow, for your husband, Missus Morton, it was much
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more. That's why I had to come to you like this. That's why
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I had to know. If his stupidity went so far that even you knew
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of me, you shouldn't have bothered mister Doverman. I didn't know, but
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you see, Marlow did that leaves me even U correction, Doveman, Paul
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Morton's dead. You're out in front. I didn't kill Morton, Marlow,
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and neither did Virgil Toya. I sought all my friends so I can tell
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you that the man who killed Paul Morton was Paul Morton himself. Suicide?
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Are you out of your mind? No? Not suicide, missus Morton,
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merely a plan for murder that backfire. The intended victim was you his wife?
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Oh no, keep talking to why Marlow? I'd rather keep you guessing.
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I would not Baby, keep talking, I can't. I'm you'll be
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again if you don't say come on, dobleman. I'm not going to ask
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you again. I'm not even gonna let you fall until you tell Hey,
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okay, I overheard Morton ask him, so I'm go to your place for
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a sawyer pick up one of your horse shoes, and then he went to
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the stables near the Black Stallion store, the horse shoe in his hat.
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Sawyer my shoulder, man, Dobleman, you're not finished yet. I figured
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that he was going to his wife leaves Sawyer's horse who were will be found
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then half make it look like an accident that would full nobody. Huh what
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went wrong to him? And why didn't it work well? He he approached
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Thunder from the right side instead of the left, The horse got excited,
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kicked out, and Lawden the dude nah like go Sawyer with pleasure. It
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was a slow but steady two hours of first aid and questions and answers,
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mixed with the San Bernardino Deputy sheriff who couldn't quite get over it. Before
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Auville Doberman was on his way to a hospital that featured bad windows. Missus
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Doveman, a complete innocent was on our way back to Los Angeles, and
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buck Laws and Julie and I were in the bunkhouse watching Virgil Sawyer watch a
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pot full of water boil for copy ranch style. Hell, you know you
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can't ever tell tomorrow, and this whole thing might have just the right effect
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put the ranch on the map. I mean, after all, it was
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a genuine one cowboy who saved the day for it. No, that's not
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right, buck, Uh, it was Mallow here. I only followed him.
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Coffee is ready for me? Oh, that's for me, let's go.
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What did make you go up there, mister Marlowe, Oh little precious
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stone Virgil an emerald at once fell out of Paul Martin's initial ring, but
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model that happened a long time ago, three four months, but just after
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Paul had returned to New York from Los Angeles. Yeah, and negotiations with
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Doveman. You see, honey, it was missus Doveman really who found the
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missing emerald tonight and a pair of slacks that Oval had sent up here.
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Then that was proof that Paul must have been with Doberman and Los Angeles before.
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Yet they claimed to have met for the first time here at the ranch.
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Yeah, that's what they claimed that. Plus what you told me,
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Judy made the man with the moving vans it and you're, oh, hey,
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Virgil at coffee's hot. But it's good anyway. Since I told Doveman
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where you were and that you knew your husband had been dealing in black market
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silks, he took his cue accordingly. Yes, unfortunately you yours. Well,
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that makes it two people who tried to kill me tonight, and his
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partner mis heard regeon, Oh fine, and disguies, Ho're not cloudy,
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old day, good night, gentlemen. Original Sawyer made good coffee, and
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lots of it. So another hour went by before we finally broke up,
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and I was outside, smoking a cigarette and strolling toward my cabin in the
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start of a vacation that already had been postponed too long. But halfway there
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I stopped the sound of raised voices. Ahead of me. A man and
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a woman were arguing violently, and a little away from them on the porch
27:52
of my cabin, watching the Battle of the sexes with consternation. While he
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waited for me, was buck laws in mine host. I'd turned quickly and
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hurried back to the bunk house, where I knew Virgil Sawyer would put me
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up for the night, where I knew that early the next morning I could
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sneak off, find a quiet, cool stream and fish a coyote high in
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the hills someplace, said I had the right idea. The Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy,
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star Gerald Moore, and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is
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by Meldon La, Robert Mitchell and gene Leavitt. Featured in the cast were
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Charlotte Lawrence, Bill Johnstone, Bill Lelly, Herb Butterfield, DJ Thompson,
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Lou Krugman and Jack Carrington. The special music is written by Richard o'rant.
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Be sure and be with us again next week. When Philip Marlowe says,
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I went from a mansion in bel Air to a chief flat in Southgate looking
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for a girl with a secret or a man in a pork pie had a
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wise cracking secretary and a fat copse didn't want me to find. But who
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I found anyway? Because of the quiet. Number three highly individual, highly
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entertaining mystery adventure shows stand high among the top shows on CBS. Every Sunday,
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Sunday when they come to you. For most of these same CBS stations,
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this is Roy Rowan speaking. Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately
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over most of these same CBS network stations. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting
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System. Welcome back to those of you who are fishing audos of cowboy music
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at all. There was a nice treat during the conversation in the first half
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of the show between Marlowe and the wife where Ghost Riders from the Sky was
30:45
playing in the background. That is one of my favorite Western cowboy songs of
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all time. But that was a treat for me. Poor Philip Marlowe lured
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out there on vacation only to be into working and that may happen to a
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lot of people in the professions like that, invited over and suddenly finds there
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being pumped for advice. Thankfully, I don't have any skills of general use,
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so that doesn't happen. Marlow doing a cowboy accent. I don't know,
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budd he was goofing around, so ill just no problem there. Also,
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it was nice that marlow wanted to go fishing, and it's a shame
31:25
that this wasn't airing concurrently with Bob Bailey's a Johnnydler. If it was,
31:32
they could have had the two private detectives go on a fishing trip and certainly
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hodgings of some sort would follow. At any rate. We turned out to
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listener comments and feedback and just a question from Ken did you ever broadcast Richard
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Diamond, Private Detective on the show. Not yet, but it is on
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our list, and once we finished with the Adventures of Philip Marlow, Richard
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Diamond will be next. We have a ways to go, but we'll be
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bringing you Rich than Diamond sometime in the first half of twenty and sixteen.
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Lord Willing and the Creek don't Rise. Well, that will do it for
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today. I do want to go ahead, and before we go, wish
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all of my listeners a very happy new year. I hope twenty fifteen is
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