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Pat Novak for Hire: Dixie Gillian (EP1294) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, today, we're actually going to play an episode of Patnovak we haven't
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played on the show before. When I first started, I didn't want to
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do a ton of repeats, even if they were in order. The Dixie
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Gillion episode was actually one that was done in San Francisco and with the sponsor
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of Gallencamp in nineteen forty six, and it's the only surviving San Francisco recording
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of Pat Noovak for hire. However, it did air in the there was
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a new performance of that nineteen forty six script in nineteen forty nine, and
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I didn't play it when we first went to the series. So this is
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the first time we've heard this particular episode. Because up again slightly more tolerant
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of replays or redoing scripts when it was something that was done in the original
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broadcast order. I found that in general fans didn't mind much so, but
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at any rate, here now is today's episode of Pat Novak for Hire,
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Dixie Gillion, Ladies and Gentlemen the American Broadcasting Company brings, transcribed with the
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entire network on a radio is most unusual program. Novack, Well, hire
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sure find Pat Novac for Hire. I set the sign up in front of
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my office, says Pat Novac for a hire. Down on the waterfront in
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San Francisco. You always bite off more than you can two. It's tough
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on your wind pipe because you don't go hungry. I'm down here. A
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lot of people figure it's better to be a fat guy in a graveyard than
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a thin guy in a stew That way you can be sure of a type
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thing. I rent boats and do anything else that makes a sound like money.
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It works out all right. If your mother doesn't mind you coming home
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for Easter in a box. I found that out Wednesday night at about nine
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o'clock. I closed the shop early and I came home to read. It
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wasn't a bad book. If you ever wanted to start a forest fire.
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It was one of those historical things. And the girl and it wanted around
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like a meat grinder and ribbons. I was moving, all right, She's
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just getting her second win before going after the world's record. When the door
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of my apartment opened and the place began to get kind of crowded, where
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I sacked, the crowd looked good. She sawted in, moving slowly from
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side to side, like one hundred and eighteen pounds of warm smoke. Her
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voice was all right too. It reminded you of a furnace full of marshmallows.
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Good evening. Yeah, thanks for knocking. I don't think you mind
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my coming in without warning. No, I get the cabbage spell from next
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door the same way. Does it pay to be that politeness to novack saves
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you the trouble saying please, what's on your mind? That's bottle in front
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of you. Will your pawing and drink? No, I won't we'll save
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dough if you look up a bartender. All right, I came to use
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you instead of your whiskey. Anyway, let's here. My name is Late
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Inderwood. I'll give you three hundred dollars to do for me lonely take an
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hour. That's too much do unless it's murder. And if it is murder,
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it's not enough though. Are you afraid? I just don't like paid
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murder. I told you, when you get caught, the pain gets expensive.
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If it were murder, I do it myself. Mister Novak, I
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want you to fighten someone for me. Why don't you hire a friend at
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the tooth pretty. It's a man named Dixon Gillion. They'll find him in
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an office down on Fulton Street at this address. I promise nothing will happen
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to you. That's what they told Benedict Donald. He'll be in this office
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until eleven tonight. I want you to go in a scene. Tell him
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you'll from Adrian, and he used to get out of town by tomorrow noon.
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Suppose he wants to put it off, he won't. Don't let him
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know who hired you. Don't tell him. Adrian said to leave. Look,
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lady, you better go on home for three hundred bucks, I won't
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buy a tissue paper plat. Now tell me more, say goodbye. There's
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not much more I can tell you, except there won't be any trouble.
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It's a rotten little beast and I want to fighting badly. Why it's been
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bothering my sister? That isn't about in you? Because I bothered back to
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first. He wants the three hundreds to novak. It's going to be a
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long summer to put it on the same good And you'll need this too.
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Now you keep that, I don't want it. Then it's empty. Don't
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worry. See no shells. It's perfectly safe. Now looks sis, I
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got a nasty disposition. You could write that for three hundred bucks. But
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if you want more, find a gun. Sol. I don't want you
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to be a gunzel. That's why I want you to use this gun.
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I know it's empty. Use it on Dixon. You'll scare fast. It's
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just a way to save some breath, all right, So you're three hundred
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You got to go now? Yeah? Wait, I get it. If
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your doorbell rings don't play mouse? Oh, because I may look you up?
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Am I too young to ask? Why? Because if anything goes wrong,
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I'll be around looking for you from now on. It will be nice.
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I'll dirty you up like a locker room towel. Relax, Patty,
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you'll never land a fall in love that way. She handed me the gun
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and walked out of my apartment. Seeing her leave made you feel like Frank
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but losing an argument. She walked with a nice, easy swing of a
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satisfied leopard. For a small leopard, she had pretty good spots too well.
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I put the gun in my overcoat pocket and I went down a fulsome
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street. The address was down near the bridge entrance, and the street was
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deserted except for a couple of whinos near the corner trying to buy back nineteen
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twenty six of the dollar a jig. I stopped in front of the place.
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It was a machinery company, and I could see a light burning in
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the back. I began to walk through. The place was so quiet you
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could hear a worm with whooping cough, and there were enough shadows around to
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keep a ghost happy for years. When I got to the office back in
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the corner, through the glass, I could see a man sitting at the
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desk. When I opened the door, and walked in. He didn't seem
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surprised. Come on in, mister, you're bad on noise. Yeah,
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that's right. You make too much for a seaf and not enough for a
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customer. What do you want about ten words? If you're a Dixie Gillian,
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go ahead. You better look at the timetable. What makes you that
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tough? This? Oh? Then you look tougher with a gun? Does
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it make your talk faster? He look, I'm gonna say it's slow,
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mister, Pack up your roppers and get out. Is that you talking to
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somebody else. I'm just a guy with a gun. Adrian does the talking,
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and he says, get up. That's right. You've got the whole
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message. Now, all right, you told me so, wander out and
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spend your door. I will. Oh you will need part of it though,
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because I'm gonna give you an answer for Adrian. I'm gonna take that
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gun away from you. Mister. You can pick the pieces out of your
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head on the way home. You better stand back off shore it with you.
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You've got your offer, mister, Let's see your mate, do it?
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Save your muscle fellow, slave, your muscle fellow. The gun tempty.
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Somebody fools sometimes you can get a home run with a half swing.
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That's the way it was. This time. He couldn't have made it with
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a prayer book in both hands. He slid down to the floor and trembled
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for a minute, and then flattened out like a leaf in a pool of
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water. Just before he died, he grabbed his side as if he didn't
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like the way it hurt, and then he didn't care. I rolled him
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on his back and let him look at the ceiling. His eyes were open,
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and he looked surprised, like a guy who didn't figure on a change
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in the weather. It was a scar that ran across his forehead and dug
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deep into his hairline, and he was lying there with a bunch of pink
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gum, showing as if he was trying to pick up a few bucks with
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a toothpaste ad Well. I didn't have time to tell him how sorry I
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was, because if homicide caught me here, I'd have about as much chance
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as a canary and a basement full of cats. I started for the door,
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but right then I knew I could start ordering bird seed. It was
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Helman, and he walked over to look at the body. Hello Novak,
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the guy looks embarrassed. Yeah, I guess he is. Helman. What's
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he do dead? They want to beat somewhere? I guess he rates it.
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He'll like you for that, Novak. How did it happen? A
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team play? We worked it out together. But you've got the gun.
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That's right, I got the gun. Yeah, you feel like a bet?
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No, just keep stealing the old way. You know how I feel,
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Novak. Do you feel flabby to anybody else but to yourself? I
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suppose you feel good. Look I walked in here with a gun. There
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was some quick fight talking. I kill him, but it's still not a
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good rap. I can get a long price on it for you, Novack.
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I'll bet you can. Helman. You can give me a bad deal.
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But part of the time it'll beat on the other side of the deck
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worse than that. Novak. It'll be all the time. I want to
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watch you because I think you're gonna be a crime baby. I'm gonna school
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if that's what you mean, Heilman. I'm gonna scream about a gall that
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sent me in here with an empty gun at the Big Old for a cap
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pistol. Novak. I got a last minute curve. It was empty once.
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Yeah, that's the only way they make a gun. I don't want
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you for an hour ago. I want you for this dead guy on the
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floor. All right, all right, I told you I didn't come in
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here to kill the guy. I don't know him. He may even be
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a good guy. I'm sorry he's dead, all right, Novak, Just
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wait a few weeks. You can tell him personally. Hellman had me up
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against the rail and he knew it. While he left there, he was
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wearing a big, toothy smile. It was big enough to sew on his
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ears. He called the corner and told him to pick up the stiff,
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and then we rode downtown. He dropped the gun into ballistics and hauled me
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into his office. The reporters were there. He gave them the whole story
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and told him how to spell Helman. After that we wound up at the
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desk and he booked me on suspicion of murder. The next hour and a
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half was the kind of stuff they don't write about in the paper. They
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call it interrogation. When you're finished, you've been through a lot of tight
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spots. I can at him up at Caltech about eleven o'clock Helman brought me
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into his office, and from there on it happened kind of fast. I
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just talked of the DA. He's going to streamline things for you. Oh,
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he's gonna look funny, going to travel on. The guy you can't
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identify. Will find out all about the dead guy. You can't cut his
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fingers without making a mistake. If you want to know who he is,
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talk to that girl. Her name's Lee Enderwood. You've been through all that,
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Novak. Now I suppose you tell me who Dixie Gillion is. I
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don't know, Hellman. The girl said his name was Dixie Gillion. I
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won't press you. I don't have to know, Vak. I've got the
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only parley I need you. The dead guy in a big fat murder gun.
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Sure, Hellman talking, Yeah, I know it was a thirty eight.
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They're crazy downa ballistics. There's I'm standing over the dead guy. It
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must have made a mistake, that's all. No. No, I don't
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want him in here. I don't want him in here. Hey, Tony,
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Tony, I getting pale. You need some more ruge, Helman,
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I got some bad views inspected. No, keep it here, you'll take
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more home to your wife. I'll talk to you later. I'll talk to
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him now, Helman. If that bullet doesn't match the gun, talk to
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him now. That's right, inspect you're a thirty eight bullet, but it
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won't match the gun you brought in. It's gonna match. I came in
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and foun him standing there. He's already admitted it's a neat trick. Then
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if he fired the bullet out of that gun, he retooled it in mid
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air. I'm not that fast, Helman. Come on, get out of
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that chair so you'll have one to you. Keep still, no wreck,
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I won't bother you. I'm going home. I'm walking out of your jail.
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Helman. You got a broken down thirty eighth. It won't sit anything
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with your thumbs. You can't hold me on that I found you over the
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body. I can hold you on suspicion of murder. But it'll hurt Tomorrow
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morning, Helman, the papers will be down for a follow up and you'll
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have to tell them what it looks like out in the left field. I'll
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handle them. You can't afford it. Them start laughing at you. People
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get the ideas your face. You can take corp there and just stay right
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here, because I'll have your back bite noon tomorrow. You're not that good
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helmet. You couldn't hold a mouth of the searchlight that time on a thank
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you? Always a nice jail helmet was you around? It'll last for years.
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When I walked out a headquarters, I had a nice message juggle.
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It was like trying to walk the baby on a floor full of marbles.
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If things didn't add up for Helman, they weren't gonna do any better for
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me. I knew that gun I had went off. If it did,
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what happened to the bullets? And where did the other one come from?
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And why weren't there two shots? Well, I couldn't put my finger on
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it. Saying and nothing added up was like trying to follow a grain of
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rice in a Shanghai suburb. So I looked up Lee Enderwood's dress, and
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I went by her apartment. A girl downstairs told me that she worked at
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the nightclub out on the Bay Shore Highway. I had to hit a couple
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of places, so I look up the only honest guy I know, an
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ex doctor and a boozer by the name of Jack o' madigan, a good
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man until he began to figure the last drink in the bottle is this is
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easy to get at as the first. I found him in a little leather
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trimed sink on Powell Street. It was a grimy little hole where they washed
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the glasses once a week in stale beer. But Jocko was more at home
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than a vulture and Calcutta. Ah, Patsy, you're just in time to
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celebrate my return to health. Something mild for mister Novak, a double stinger,
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perhaps, Well, I'll forget it, Jacko. I got to talk
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to you, Patsy. I've just passed through a crisis. A few minutes
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ago. They set before me a glass with a woman's lipstick all around the
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ring. Jacko. I took one gulp and looked at the glass, and
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in this dim light, I thought I was bleeding to death. He took
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them ten minutes and three mirrors to calm me down. Jack Arman, tell
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me you gotta help me. But they washed the glass for me in ammonia.
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They must have left a little ammonia in the glass, because the next
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drink had a very odd tang about it. I've had three more, just
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like a sort of ammonia Collins. So far they've been using domestic ammonia.
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When the important stuff comes in, I may give up whiskey altogether. Calm
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down with you, Jacko. I got a bum shake tonight. Yes,
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I either kill the guy or I thought I did. It uses up the
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alternatives. What are you doing now? Taking a boat? I got hired
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a scare a guy down on Folsom Street. Ten minutes later the guy was
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dead. Patsy, you take your work too seriously. Couldn't you have just
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scared him into a lingering illness instead of killing him. One of the props
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was an empty gun houlding. When the fight came, it grew bullets.
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Helman walked in right after on a telephone tip, what are you doing out
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of the gas chamber? The whole thing backfire down at headquarters. The bullet
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and the phony gun wouldn't match. Oh it doesn't add up, Jacko.
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That called a helmet's a tip. I was framed, But why wasn't I
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framed all the way? Who is the dead man? I was just a
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guy with a falling blood got His name was supposed to be Dixie Gillian,
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but there's no identification and no record on him. You shouldn't have vied outers
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and guns. I told you I didn't hire out as a gun. Solt
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was somebody else's idea. You have no conscience, Patsy. It's just this
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sort of soap opera rule of thumb you put into practice now and then,
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but no real conscience. You let a dying woman lie in the middle of
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the highway unless her head was resting on a pile of savings bond at Jocko.
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I'll try with you later. I need help now, or sort of
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help. I want you to break into a girl's apartment is don't worries she
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won't be home. That's supposed to be an incentive. It's a fist address
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here half on O'Farrell. Her name is Leeanderwood. She's the one who hired
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me. If the girl's not there, what am I supposed to find anything
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that'll connect her with a dead man. He's a big guy with a scar.
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That doesn't help much. You can't miss. Go through the desk and
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drawers, pick up everything you can when you and leave a message at my
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place as soon as I've finished this strint, Oh, hurry up, well
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you Jack'll leave the glass alone and get going. Rushed me hurry up.
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Were you the glasses empty anyway? Yes, stansfood, you thought about that
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gun with the fellow gutting all through. Joe's out of it? Good night
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for over. I went by a horse power on O'Farrell Street and borrowed the
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car from a guy. It was after midnight when I started down the Bay
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Shore Highway, and a lot a half hour later I pulled up in front
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of a cat's paw. It was a long, rambling place on the left
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side of the road. There was no plan. It just followed the erosion
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line until they ran out of material. There was enough neon in front to
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light a main intersection in Heaven. In the lobby, I saw a picture
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of Lee Nderwood, one of those shadowy things that was supposed to make you
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think she'd die in a cold climate. She was sitting at a piano with
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a little microphone in front of her, and he got the idea right away.
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She didn't have much of a voice, but plenty of songs that made
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your wife went over and asked me to I asked a fifty year old bus
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boy and he said she was back in her dressing room getting ready for the
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one o'clock show. When I walked in and she was sitting in front of
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a mirror working on enough swept hairdoo, and she swept it up anymore.
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I was gonna leave her head. I stood behind her and looking at the
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paint fresh part of her neck that didn't show when the hair was done.
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You see, fascinated, Patsy. No, I just want to know where
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to brig it. Oh the guy on? Yeah, I like to look
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down on people who gosh that jam of hair back? Why do you like
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it in your eyes? Now? Brush it back so I can see your
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answers. Who's DIXI jenden? What difference does it make? Lounder him and
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some to me? He's dead? Well, it couldn't be dead. He'd
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like to believe that too. I couldn't sell him that story about it at
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the gun. He couldn't have been killed with that film. No, I
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put in a blank, Patsy. Somebody used a hard working bullet because Dixie's
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dead, no reason to chilling. I don't understand him. Yeah, you
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even with homicide, but they got a bigger team. So I look.
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I made a diagram angel up at my place. I ran over murder with
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you. I don't like it. If you kill people, you don't get
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invited out enough. So I but you were me on this one. I'm
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gonna push you all away. Who's Dixie Gillian? He was asked some Michael
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film. I thought I could scalle him away. You better be ready to
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identify him, because homicide stopped. Even that scar didn't help. The scar
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across his face. There's no record on him. No, no, a
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Patsy. Everything goes wrong, everything you touch goes wrong. That's the wrong
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man, Patsy. Yeah, well it's too late for a recount. You've
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got to get to that body, Passy. I don't know how, but
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somewhere you've got to get to him. An wait a minute, of Dixie.
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I don't know how it happened, Dixie. I didn't mean it that
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way. You like it that way? Or right? Bring your boyfriend too,
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No, don't let him, Passy. Sound's too big. I'm going
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with him. There was a short trip. He let us out of a
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dressing room and down a thin hall to the back door. On the way
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past the kitchen, you could smell onions and use grease, and that's about
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all you noticed except the sound of a jukebox. Somewhere out in front,
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and somebody laughing in a loud and mirthless way. When they got to the
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door, it was raining outside. We walked about forty feet over near some
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trees. Wore. The dark was working over time and against made us stop.
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Pick your spot. Ly, you can't pick that crazy Dixie. It's
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gonna get wet. Mister. You'll have a little trouble yourself. When I
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woke up, it was still raining. I was lying on top of the
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mud like a stubborn seed. My wallet was gone and the gun stel had
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ripped open my pockets. I stood up and walked over for a last look
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at Lee. The rain had washed the makeup off her face, and she
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looked small and tired as she lay there, like a broken doll that had
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been tossed out in the rain. I guess she was oh. I got
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to my car and I drove back to town. I checked my place,
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but there was no word from Jocko, so I went up to Lee's apartment.
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When I opened the door, the room was dark, but I knew
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somebody was on the rug. Either that or they advanised the floor with bourbon.
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I flipped on the light and bent over. Jocko, Hey, hey,
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hey, wake up, Jocko. All right, chuckle, come on,
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wake up, Come on this moon here I think would bring me around.
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What happened? I was sapped? I guess. Yeah, everybody's got
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the same act tonight. Help me up? Where have you been? I
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wants? You got to meet the girl? Where'd you meet her? In
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a swimming pool? I did in the rain all night? She's gonna stay
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longer. How'd you find out the fellow with the sky's a husband? Yeah,
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there's a picture in the desk. Are there any more pictures if you
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take a look? Well here, yeah, well, well who's she?
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It must be Dixie Gillian, who was down to pay off a debt tonight.
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She called him Dixie once. There's a note with that name and an
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address in the other drawer. He's our boy. We gotta get up there.
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He's already killed two other people. We can't wait for helm. And
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if he gets away, I'm all through. I won't have a leg to
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stand on. That's my friend. When the other fellow gets through with us,
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we won't have much standing to do. I felt better now, and
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was the lonely guy left in the picture. So I dragged Jacko up to
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his place, was an apartment up on Post Street. The elevator operator took
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us up to the eighth floor and said that Jillian had come in a few
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minutes before. There was no answer, so we tried the door and it
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was opened. Jocko didn't like the idea. See this is funny, list
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My life is one of the bravest things you do. Keep still, Jacko,
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What are we supposed to do? The door was open when this or
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a lot of graves. But I've never been tempted. Look at the furniture.
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There's been a fighting here. I'll look in here. You check in
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the bedroom. If I'm not right back, don't expect me at all.
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All right, Patsy, Yeah, Patsy, come here. They something beyond
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the fire escape. I mean I stand back here. Oh he's not moving.
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He was leaning that way when I first saw him. But I'll get
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on this side. He raised the window. I'll go easy, Jacko.
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Can you see him from there? Raise it a little more. Alright,
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he's still leaning there. I can reach out. Watch yourself. If he's
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kidding, you'll lose an arm. I got it. Good. Freeze wind
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the ball. Take the fact he's falling, give me a let me from
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here. Hold on, shoty. He was probably dead anyway. If he
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wasn't, there was a step in the right direction. It was an easy
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night to die. Three of them had checked out already, and it was
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still time to look for more. Jacque and I went downstairs to see the
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guy who was lying face down in the ally, and as you looked at
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him, you got the funny feeling he belonged there. He didn't disturb the
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scene, he just fit it in, like a dirty, wet newspaper under
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a grandstand. There was a gun in his pocket, probably the same one
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that killed the girl, but there was no way of knowing. Jacquoa and
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I watched him for a minute. But your eyes begin to hurt when you
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see your only warm lead in a deep breeze. Just past two, when
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I got down a headquarters and looked up Helman. I briefed him on the
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girl and the guy in the alley, and then I asked him if any
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microfilm it turned up on the first guy in the morgue. That was a
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waste of time. Helman couldn't find a brass ring in a dead man's nose,
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but we went over to the morgue for another look. So far it
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was working out like a crossword puzzle torn in half. It's your time,
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Novank. I got more after tomorrow, you haven't. The microfilm must be
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on the guy. Three people have been killed fort and I got roughed up
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just for a last We searched the guy once here it is all right,
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help me roll it out. Yeah, well, well he sure got thin
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under that seat. Wait a minute, Oh you run a good morg Helmetan.
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What little of paper say when they hear the stiff got up and walked
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out? They got him in the wrong place or something. He didn't walk
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out. Well he's gone, Helman. He got an answer. He's been
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more good to The guy was dead and I saw him put in here.
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Couldn't be walking around with a hole in the middle of his bank. I
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don't know, Helman. You do it with one in your head. Don't
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sell the guy short. When Helman found out the body was gone, and
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stood there and stared at the empty slab, and then he started looking around
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in a nervous way, like a man trying to find a sugar bowl at
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a restaurant counter. A few minutes later, he turned and walked out of
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the morgue, and we were halfway downtown when it happened. It must have
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hit us at the same time, sharp and quick, like a piece of
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candy and a bad tooth. The guy back in the alley had come off
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that slab in the morgue. We got out to Dixie's place and we began
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to check. There was a phone operator downstairs and she said that Dixie had
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put to a call about two hours ago. Helman checked the number and it
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was the ticket office of a railroad. We got downtown and ran through the
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time table. There was a train leading the Oakland Mole in about forty minutes.
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Now it was an outside chance, but tonight that was the only kind
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for sale. We got down intown to slide on the last ferry over to
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the Mole. It was still dark out when the ferry all away from the
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slept and started across the bay, but Overcharde the Berkeley Hills, it was
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beginning to get light. The sky was the color of a bruise spot on
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a man's arm. We'll get up to the Palette house and tell nothing dark
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until we've gone through all the passengers. He doesn't have to be on this
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one. I'll check the train when we get there. Wait a minute,
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you don't have to check. There's your boy where up there on the rail.
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See now you better go easy, helmet, he's not a scale monitor.
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Yeah, just walk quietly until we're behind him. All right, turn
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around, mister, you get a better view. I don't know that.
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How is the wind and the rain in your head? You need inspect your
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helmet. You better turn in your chicket. Help you brought your muscle a
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helmet? It all right? Cover pitch over on the rail. Worry helmet
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would know that kind? Oh you over, that's one down the sand,
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now for you. I landed on the deck and watched him disappear into the
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dock. Halfway down the guy turned in. I got up and followed him
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down the ladder and along the main deck. He ducked into one of the
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engine spaces, and I started him to look for him. It didn't take
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long because he turned out to be real helpful. You got the idea yet,
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no back, I'll come closer. Tell me then, do it's yourself.
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But I'll not get down hard when your show what that platform you're backing
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into trouble? Way back to novack. Watch out for that platform. Why
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you're backing into the engine? I kind of wound up last. Yeah,
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that's the way it looks. Did you get the microfilm? Yeah? I
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got a big hurright, do Joe a little? Yeah, it's been a
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long night. Go back huh. Yeah, but your words are over.
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It's almost dawn. I don't know if I can use it, but I'll
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give it to you. They fished helmet out of an oil select a few
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minutes later. It was the first time his hair ever looked good. Fixigillion
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lasted long enough to piece of story together for homicide who Underwood knew her husband
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was carrying microfilm and he was worried, so she hired me to scare off
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Gillion. Oh it might have worked too, But the first slip came when
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Lee's husband went by to make a deal with Dixie without telling her. When
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I jumped him, Dixie was outside and figured it was a double cross,
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so he killed him with a silencer. When that phony gun that Lee gave
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me went off, fixing me that the microfilm was still on the dead man.
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The only way he could be sure was to get the body out of
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the morgue. He took it up to his apartment. When he got the
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film, he planted the gun and put the body on the fire escape.
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It was a little safer that way. There was a fifty to fifty chance
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the police admits it the first time around, and he'd have a fair lead
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and almost worked out for him except for that phone call. The microfilm was
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in a capsule next to the roof of the guy's mouth. Sold it was
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new again. Well. Hellman asked only one question in that fight. Did
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I have anything to do with pushing him against the Yale? I told him
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sometimes it was ferry boat. The American Broadcasting Company is dus Brock is a
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tenth of a new series, Pat Novak for Hire, starring Jack Webb.
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Pat Novak is produced and directed by William B. Russell. John Nomadagan is
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played by Tudor Owen. Inspector Helman is played by Raymond Burr. Music was
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was great as always. Did you notice at the end of the episode the
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right. Keep up the terrific work. Well, thanks so much, Tim,
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