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Philip Marlowe: Bum’s Rush (EP1499) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow.
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The original air date September the third, nineteen forty nine, and the
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title is The Bombs Rush, Get This and Get It Straight. Crime is
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a Sucker's road knows who travel had wind up in the gut of the Prison
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of the Grave. The trail started Montana with a bum with two names rushing
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away from his lady love and led fast into La asked a Southerner from Canada,
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a worried wool dealer, and a chorus girl with a forty five.
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When it finally stopped at Murder in the Park, the tramp was still in
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a hurry from the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of cry in fiction,
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comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Barlow. Now with
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Gerald Moore startist Philla Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Bum's
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Rush. You know, there comes a time in everyone's life when a relative
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wants a favor. But this was a particularly nice relative. It's like the
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great old gal. She'd written my name and address in the center, and
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her name Jesse Gavins Eagles Rock Montana in the app left corner of the envelope.
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The stamps total Away Mail Special, and the letter inside started off like
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one of those I was wrong. You've got to find him for me.
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You've got to tight But it didn't wind up that way. Clip through the
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letter was one hundred dollars check and under that a not too good snapshot of
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a bald man holding a rake who wouldn't have been helped any by better photography.
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Ten minutes later, at exactly eight pm, my long distance call was
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put through. In the voice that belonged to end, Jesse was snapping at
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me Migo's rock Montana like the end of a whip bism old. How many
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Disney given as you think there an Eagles rocks. I want you to find
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Jonathan Minor and saff he's all right, yeah you said that in your letters
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and Jesse young man. But I'm fifty one and he's fifty five, and
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there's nothing wrong with the stem of the harmony's falling up. Yeah, I
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hope my harmony is that good when I'm fifty five. Why are you worried?
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Honey? Toby left your last week on some kind of a big deal.
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What's the paper? That's all he tells me. I haven't heard of
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what from him? I see? Well, tell me what sort of a
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deal would it be? I mean what business? He's not in any business?
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Oh? What was his work before he retired? Well, he's not
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exactly retired either, He's not. Look, Aunt, Jesse, I'm getting
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at this. What does he do? Well? What did he used to
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do for a living? Clean enough? Well, I might as well tell
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you. Most folks around here, Philip think Jonathan Lighter's just to mom.
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Maybe he is. He came to Tom Philip on a on a freight train
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a month ago, and he's been raking leaves for handouts ever since. That's
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how I met him. But he's a fine, honest, proud man,
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and I'm find to marry him. Congratulations. Yes, look, you didn't
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happen to give that fine on his proud man a lot of money to finance's
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big deal is, did you? Well, then don't because I'll be frank.
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Sounds to me like a broken down con man warming up a new routine.
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And I gladly pay to find that out, Philip. But I think
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you're wrong. Jonathan told me that he had to prove himself by making some
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money of his own before he'd marry me if I didn't have enough to take
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her two people already. Okay, Jesse, he's a little offcentive it out
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by it. Can't you find him? Don't tell him that I hired just
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I say, he's very proud and then it hurt him and now, oh,
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I can get you to go on. Aside from that snapshot, I
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send an address seven six four Hope Street in Los Angeles, seven six four
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Hopes. Well, how'd you get that? From checking through every single thing
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of pay as I could lay my hands on. It was on the back
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of an envelope. May not mean nothing, It's all right, Jesse,
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Please not don't shook with me to the Jonathan was so serious and in such
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a hurry, and there was a funny, brave clint in his eye when
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he left to your bed, brave glid Okay, Jesse, no jokes,
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goodbye Dland. That felt little sorry, my aunt Jesse Gevins, because the
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concept of a night of the road rushing off on a secret quest to prove
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himself worthy of marriage and left like a celluloid's shovel. And I got no
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help when I pulled to a stop in front of seven sixty four Hope Street.
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It was a cramped combination warehouse and office of corrugated iron and glass brick,
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respectively, with a shy red and black signed reading hirsh Woolen's over a
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door that looked like that. It looked like it handled about as much business
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voice and later or a fair shop for spinning wheels. It was half open,
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however, so I went in just in time to catch the last round
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of what must have been a healthy spat going on behind a frosted glass door
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marks private. Well, I'll tell you something, mister Elden. Hurt Peter
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writes more on wool and left on nylon and you'll be better off, all
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right. I haven't take marka. This is no kind of ribble. We've
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got more important things to do on left. Of course, you want to
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keep that chorus job at the proom forever? Well, okay, do that's
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what's your stept by eld stand aside, stupid, This is our hallway,
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not an art yellows a petty girl, I've ever seen one. Hell,
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what do you want, oh, mister hirsh Yes, yeah, well I'm
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ned Johnson. I'm looking for a job the kind oh salesman wolves my life.
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See how long have you been waiting out here? I just kept in
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come into thanks so down? What is your specialty? Felt? Well,
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I I've handled them all. We confine ourselves largely to a very high grade
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Marino Woolen, mister Johnson, need Johnson, I've worked with Marino. Oh
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what about the others? Lester perhaps Lincoln? Oh, sure, Lester Lincoln
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is certainly. I find it all a fascinating business, so do I very
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romantic background. Yeah, by the way, what do you think of lanatal
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As against Marino Lantel? Well? Not good, not no. You see,
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I've watched the Lanotels and the Raines right through shearing and on up to
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weaving. It just doesn't compare. What's the matter? What are you really
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after I slipped? Then you tell on your faith. Lanetel is a synthetic
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wool made from milk. Now, who are you? Okay? Okay,
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I'm from the Sequoia Credit Association. We're investigating you. Just a periodic routine
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thing. It's strictly competent. You're like, get out of here and stay
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out if I ever catch all right, take it easy. I was clumsy,
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That's all. I got to start a riot about him. You fired
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on my appoint Tampa. You got there. I watch it Hershe will get
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you in trouble. So long, I hadn't exactly been wool gathering with hirshe
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and company, but I hadn't exactly made strides on the connection between a bum
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and a hurry in seven sixty four Hope Street. Are they? However,
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I couldn't help wondering what hirsh It meant when I'd overheard him speak to the
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girl in the office about more important things to do. So when he slammed
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the door on my shoulder blades, I went around to the alley for a
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peak in his warehouse, but I skipped that when a man stepped into view
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wearing the identical face I had in my pocket on a snapshot. It was
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Jonathan Mider. He swapped the rake for a silver tip cane and patches.
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The fourteen carried classmen spats to a hamburg, which might well have covered a
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bald head. But it was the sane man, no doubt about it.
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So I decided to play this one strictly. Three cushions of the reverse English.
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Hey, hey, hey, you boy? You addressing me? So?
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Yeah, don't I know you? Oh? Sure I do? Pointe,
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you're mistaken, my man. I haven't been East since thirty years.
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Oh come on, friend, I know you anyway. You're good old Jonathan
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Mider. So I am Ross J. Crowley of Canada, and I have
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never had the dubious pleasure of your acquaintanceship until this very moment, Ross J.
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Crowley of Canada. And okay, Midas, that's the way you want
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it. What are you doing around the world business setting it up for a
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fleecing or just pulling it over somebody's eyes? My good man, you've obviously
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confused me with someone else. Now pack off, Can I tell I wait?
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A minute. Pop, Wait a minute, Let's get this straight.
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First, your name's not Crowley. Why are you using it? My god,
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please here, you're trying my patience. Stand aside. Come on,
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let's have it. Oh very well, have you insist? Hey, I
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come back here, you'll go get it. Don't you look out? Why
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you awkward? Roughly? Why don't you look where you're going? I was,
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but I couldn't get around all three of you three What do you mean
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you and your too big fat if you can't keep those gunboats out of people's
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way by yourself, hire a pilot and you? Oh by now, my
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boys so far ahead. I couldn't catch them if he stopped for lunch.
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Thanks to you, goodbye? What as far as the corner anyway? But
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I'd been right the first time. Jonathan Mayday alias Ross J. Crowley of
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Canada was long gone, and I had no idea where left me With one
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slim, lovely leave. A lady named Marsha Bideaves dropped correctly. She would
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shortly be making with the legs and the chorus of the plume sta or Restaurant.
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It was seven point thirty when I added the platum plated saurust trap on
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Hollywood Boulevard that featured small portions of bad food on the glass and large helpings
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of good skin on the lights. Torusted me. Ten bucks in a fast
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had lived backstage, but it would have been worse out front. So when
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the chorus high kicked its way out in the wings, I nailed Marsha.
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She went by, She narrowed a half a pound of mass carre at me
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and let a footlight smile drop, which left very little elk. Yeah,
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my name's Marsha. What do you want? Make it campy? I gotta
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change, James, watch yourhead. Doom just won't take a minute. Baby.
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All I want to know is where Jonathan Mighty can be found. How
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should I know? I never heard of him. You're stelling on your own
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time, Baby, I got all night not see you, Jack Blow,
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I'm back here. This is important. Now, listen you I don't know
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anybody called Jonathan what's his name? And put one more fingerprint on my arm
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and you'll get bounced out of here on your head. You know, there's
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just a chance you could be on the level. Look, guy wants about
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fifty five and spats with a Hamburg over what is no doubt a ball dome,
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carries a black cam with a silver tipping. For some reason, answers
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the name of Crowley. Ow, Yeah, that's it, Ross J getting
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warmer head kid, and don't bother telling me I never heard of it.
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So I've heard of him. So what. He's a good pal of mine.
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Met him a couple of nights ago. He's quite a sport. I
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bet he is. Why can I find him? What do you want him
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for? I want to talk to him. That's always He lived up a
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tree, like I said, buster blow, like I said, baby,
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this is important, so important. I'll have a lopsided line. And the
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next time, if you don't talk, because you won't be there, you'll
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be on your way to the pokey. Now whe does he live? I
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don't know. It's from Canada. You can come closer than that, sweetheart,
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Give all right? He tells me he takes a walk in the park
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every night. He raves about the gladiolas like they grow in cold a canyon.
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Maybe maybe thanks your good kid. Keep your power dry, baby,
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I'll see you. That park looked deserted. One a half hour later,
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I drove by it to the bar and turned down a side street and stopped,
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But as I started in on foot, I saw him fat Homburg cane
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and alien handling slowly away from me along the back path. I started affing
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him quietly, and when he got near a corner, I was close enough
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to hale him and then grabbed. I didn't get the chance stand still and
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keep their mouth shut. I turned slowly because the gentleman with a big feet,
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and he wasn't much ugly, It's just a little flabby and the automatic
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wrapped up in his fists. You seem to be falling over my feat every
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time I turn around. I noticed that, but I think it the first
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time with coincidence. What do you think of now? And that gay dog
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mister Crawley who just turned that corner of the airs wagging two tails to hold
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the gavel shaman? And don't you forget it? So he gave you the
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name Crowley? Did he? Why you think he's got another one? Stop
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that? We both know he's lying. But I don't know is why he
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took that name? Of why you're interested in the hobby? I collect old
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geezus with more than one name. I'm going to handle a lot. You
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won't tell me. I don't know you're angle. Either we might work out
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a trade. No, I'm not wasting any more time either. You're not
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going to get away from me again, and that means you'd better stay right
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here. Oh he plowed me up on the ground with a stomach full of
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pains. I saw him run down the path. When I got back to
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my seat, he was taking the corner and just started after him. When
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it came I froze and listened. There was nothing more to hear. I
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walked softly as far as the corner. He was faced down in the toes
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of his oversized shoes, digging into the grass, and the gunny hadn't time
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to use. Filled a few inches away from his clenched dead hand, across
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the park and rushing for Colwood a canyon road as fast as the seat would
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go. As a bum with two names in a homburg hat in just a
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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 bombs Rush, and I took after the fleeing figure
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known to my aunt Jesse as Jonathan Mider or Ross. J. Crawley was
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still barely visible ahead, with arms and legs flailing the night air like so
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many test streamers in a wind tunnel. I didn't know any more about his
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double identity than I had before, but I did know that what might have
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started is only a competent game of sorts. And now Mushroom did a murder
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with the aforesaid gentleman very much involved, and a moment later, when I
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saw him, breathless and afraid, duck into its tagging deserted wooden check,
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I showed a single red light and was labeled to pop in the pox fire
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equipment Private. I figured the right time and place had come to talk it
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all over. When I finally carefully stepped inside and announced both myself, I'm
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thirty eight and hand in definite sentorian tones, he agreed wholeheartedly. All right,
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all right, hand up. I have no reason to ride other than
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murder. No murder, that's noise I heard. That's what he's got.
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Somebody was shot. Now, somebody was run over by a bullet rolling down
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hill at a terrific rate of speed. Now shut up and turn around,
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pop hands still high time we got cautious? Are you searching for a gun
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on these the young man us be out of your mind? First you insist
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that I'm a mister m m somebody I never heard of her, and you're
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convinced that I'm a murderer. I don't understand you. There no gun?
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Na is that no intrigued? Where'd you throw it? I did? I
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never had? Yeah? The name Crowley Ross J. Why do you use
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it because it's mine, and that young man is a very common customer.
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Do you mind if I leave? I do now, look old time.
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I'm only going to be nice about this for a little while because, first
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of all, as a fresh cops outside and where I can you could be
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responsible for it and checking. The second of all is my angle, where
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I fit, who I work for facts, and I don't want to reveal
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him unless I have to off from the top. You and the dead guy,
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the connection, what is it? I haven't the slightest idea of what
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you're talking. Yeah, haven't. Okay, pop, we played it straight
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all the way. Now listen. My name's Philip Marlow. I'm private detective
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and I know what it's time to blow with it. Don't move you never
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will again. Oh fine, maid Marsa all loaded down with a nastyle forty
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five automatic that makes her look and feel very unladylike. Drop it, mama.
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Come on, tell miss Crowley about waiting for Mala to apologize on cool
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where the hotel is important to her. I will waste the second. You
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won't need the key. Somebody's waiting for you. Good Bye, mister Crowley,
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goodbye. I hope I never meet you again, mister Madan. It's
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cute as me, darling. The moment's unimportant right now, you're my only
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concern. Malow. No, it's nice. It's cozy, just a three
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of us, you and that giant US pistol caliber. Well, say,
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baby, that's not your gun. No you feel excited? Oh no,
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no, sweet happy say that? Why? Some one know you will you
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can't? You see baby as a free safety devices an army gud and that
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do hit you there on the side is one. It won't work unless it's
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in the four thought. I will not a great question, teacher, You
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and Grandpa Elias Jonathan might also Elias Ross J. Crowley. What's the game
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you do? A player where the first fit is come on, it's getting
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late, it's not people wants an answer. Thanks to get to the head
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of the class talk what is it? I don't remember and I won't put
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on by I'm getting masculine or polish in Apple's pupils. When I forget I
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to get for a long long time. Is that clear? It is?
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Since I can't wait, since I want to go out and play, we'll
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pitch you with Hey, honey, you know you don't mind if I go
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through your bag, do you I didn't think you would. Ah, here's
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the key that says, in what room I'll find a team of Crowley and
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fine as oh mine mine such a temper. After I picked up my thirty
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eight, which the lady who no longer sounded like one, it made me
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drop, and I checked the hotel key that read Villa twelve wilt your gardens,
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Beverly Hills. I ran outside and back toward my car and what I
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figured should be a big hurry. When I was halfway there, I had
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a premonition of speed. Was not to be a premonition. That was a
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head dressed in blue, carrying a club, wearing a badge and leaning on
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my right front sender. And it wasn't until I was next to him that
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I quit worrying about how long involved delays. The officer on hand, one,
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Kurt Lemley, was an old and I hoped still good friends. Oh
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for you, since the calling about that body, if the son kid heard
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the shot, so you would once tag this all alone in very suspicious looking
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car, yeah, as it was yours and disappointed, I'd hope the name
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of the owner's tag was going to be Rowling Nukeomb. Wait a minute,
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women, you know his name, so jud Now we were on different sides
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when he got shot. Oh he's from Canada. What Yeah, Vancouver.
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He had a business up there with a guy named ross Jed Crowley. Crowley.
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Hey, Kurt, how'd you find all this out? I found a
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clipping in his wallet, got a picture on it. Wait for a light.
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Yeah, hurry up. When I see see two guys in front of
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a building, Rol Nukeom and Rossted Crowley officiated there. But sure, it's
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what I said at the guy's a liar. I've already met a guy who
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assisted. That's his name and his ball like the Crowley in the picture.
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Yeah, but there's a similarity in even though the picture is anything but clear.
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You're talking about Jonathan Mier and old Geezer. I was hired to find
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Bumbo was pulling something fancied that. Incidentally, I been real tight with that
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murder over there. You know what he is? Said? Sure, I
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know that's where I was heading when I ran it. Oh ran into what
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is it the picture? What, Kurt? Move your time up a little
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whit the way you just had it my bum Yeah, yeah, move it.
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That's it like that, Oh, brother, brother, if I got
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a hunch about what another murder and eat when the schedule to come off any
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minute at the Wilshire Gardens Hotel, I'll see you later, goodbye. At
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best it would ten screeching stop and go minutes from Coldwater Canyon Park across Beverly
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Hills to the Wilshire Gardens Hotel on the boulevard of the same name, and
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all the way I kept hoping over time that one of two things was so.
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Either my hunch was wrong and nobody else was going to get hurt for
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a while, or it was right no soon on time. But when I
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was there, parked and running towards the villa Number ten, which was a
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silent stucker square, choking to death under rivy and showing only a single light
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in the living room, I was almost sure that it was going to place
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till another way write, and too late to do any good. When I
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tried the door and pounded open and inside saw at once the letter propped up
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against the lamp on an end table that I'd been afraid i'd find. There
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was no longer any doubts, and even as I crossed the room, I
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knew that I was going to read a suicide note addressed to the police telling
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them that the undersigned Ross J. Crawley had taken his own life. Well,
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it's better the partner had been stealing from Raleigh Newcombe or it's currently been
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pursuing him. But I didn't know until I reached for the letter to make
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sure that I'd figured right With the last line just before the signature, it
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read, also, rather than face the humility of being dragged with the courts
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for killing Newcomb, they had taken the life of a man who would have
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caught me a private detective named Philip Marlow, especially when it's the picture A
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right move, Ah, mister hirsch uh or do I call you Crawley?
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Now? Doesn't matter Marlow suit yourself. What does matter is that showing up
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white the boy genius you think there were meaning? What? Meaning much?
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You talked to her the plumes, and she talked to me. Between the
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two of us, we maneuvered you around just like we wanted to, so
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we could include you in our plans. In other words, my lot friend
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Marcia sent Mida here from the park. We knew you'd follow Yeah, all
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year round. I'll bet okay, Crowley. So the one with two heads
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isn't Jonathan Mighter, it's you. You is Ellen Hirsch here in La Ross
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j Crowley and Newcomb's partner up in Canada, a crooked partner Crowley, who,
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when he knew he was going to be caught, decided to kill him
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something with another guy's body, Jonathan Midas. So it wouldn't hurt exactly.
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Also, my litw nobody will bother to look past what will pass us Crowley's
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buddy for the murderer of Newcomb, who I didn't expect from the seat.
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I think you'll admit it's all accounted for. And that letter there in Crowley's
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my handwriting. Bravo, you skip nothing. Now what about me? Yes,
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you you must go before Jonathan Meder. You know, otherwise the caroler
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might find something wrong with the sequence of death. So at you first.
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No, doubt is unconscious in the bedroom right now. Doubt is standing right
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here listening, you crazy fools you are, mister Crowley. I won't that
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way I die least I have a cattle mighty all right, yeah, I
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think so? Just wing. Oh yeah, you got him, didn't change
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tomorrow? Yeah no, no, Jonathan, you got him and Rush did
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it your big bombs mallow, Yeah, bomb? It was too long hours
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the first aid for Jonathan's arrest on the charge of murder for both Crowley and
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the accomplice before and after the fact, mopping and questions and answers and triplicate
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to the police. Before Mida and I were finally alone and back in my
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office waiting for a call we put through too, of course, Eagles Rock,
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Montana. But even then the gentleman vagabond couldn't quite get over things.
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Then. In other words, mister Molow, this Crowley who introduced himself to
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me is kersh had his fiendish plan already formulated, and one of his tips
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down from Canada saw me when his train stopped at Eagles Rock. I was
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shreking leaves around the depot and he saw me, and he hired me on
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the spot because he needed someone to fit the part of his court. That's
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it, And you'll admit you are well qualified for the job alone in the
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world except for Jesse, which you didn't happen to mention, and the fact
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that you were bald. Two truths. Don't be sensitive, you see,
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Crowley or Hirsch was also bald. Why all that hair of his. We
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that's right to pay every bit of it. And incidentally, you see the
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reason I caught out of things. Johnny policeman found a newspaper picture of Newcomb
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and Crawley and Newcomb's wallet, which told you that I couldn't be crowing.
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That's right. It also told me more when the policeman accidentally put his thumb
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over the ballpart of Crawley's head gave me a different picture. Then I only
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paid attention to what I could see, features blurred though they were, which
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then you were her shoe. Uh huh yeah. Hello Philip Marlow, please
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Marlow speaking on your calls, and miss Jesse Gavins and Eagles Rock Montana one
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moment please yeah, heah, take it, Jonathan, Yeah, yeah,
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go ahead to speak, Oh Jesse, Jesse, that is Johnny. Yeah,
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I'm in Los Angeles with mister Marlow. Turtles. You don't have to
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shout so loud, you know, you know what she can hear. You
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just talk. You get what happened? Now? A man hired me to
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work for him, pose to pose impersonated mister Ross J. Crowley because he
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said he had to be free to investigate some crooked people who would try and
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contact me. And since he offered good money right on the spot there,
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Jessica, I took the job. I thought you'd be proud of me making
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extra money. Wait a minute, mister marlw I a better cut the short
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at night. It's a long distance. It's cause money. Don't worry about
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it, Johnny, there's no hurry to take your time. Now, what
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this man really wanted you're there? What was to use me as a court
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that's like a buddy. Oh here, I feel fine. He was gonna
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put his rings on me, another identification to knock me up content. By
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the time I got Jonathan Mida down a Union station and the border northbound train
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with specific instruction is to stay away from strangers, and got back to my
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own apartment on Franklin. It was better than three o'clock in the morning.
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Oh and I was tired, and I emptied out my pocket. Just got
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to do undress. I forgot about that when my eyes fell on the picture
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that Jesse Gavins had sent me in her original letters, the picture of Jonathan.
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Well, now, Aunt Jesse was going to be happy, but I
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wondered for how long? Somehow the portrait of the man with a hole with
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a solid look of the agents didn't fit the spare frame of Jesse's Night of
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the Road. A lonesome train whistle would blow in the night, and Jonathan
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Mida would be gone. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe star Gerald Moore and are
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produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldon la Robert Mitchell and
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Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Georgia Ellis, Hans Conrad and Morrison,
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Herb Butterfield, Wilms Herbert, and Bill Bouchet. The special music is
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composed and conducted by Richard A. Rott. He currently with us again next
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week. When Philip Marlowe says, the lady Tauris was a schoolteacher a after
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glamour, and she got it, but only after she learned that in Hollywood
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the three hours could be reading done in a dark room, writing found in
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a dead man's pocket, and arithmetic that added up to murder times two.
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If you think you've got troubles, you should be married to Liz Cooper.
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She can scare up more trouble than a tropical hurricane, but it's always the
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kind of trouble you can laugh at because it's all part of My Favorite Husband
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starring Lucille Ball. My Favorite Husband is part of CBS's great laugh line up
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for Friday nights. You will want to miss a single minute of My Favorite
31:26
Husband, and you'll want to be around too to hear the Goldbergs, Leave
31:30
It to Joan and Breakfast with Burrows. They'll all be broadcast on Friday nights
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over most of these CBS stations starting next Friday. This is Roy Rowan speaking
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Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these same stations.
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This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting Systems Welcome back, well your sunshine and
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optimism. Though he may have a point about human nature, and that's probably
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one of the more world weary ends, though in some ways it was almost
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wistful about the nature of knots of the road. Also really nice to hear
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Hans Conried in this. Conried really is probably best known for his comedic work
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on programs such as Life with Luigi, and of course he was the voice
32:30
of Snodly Whiplash and so by comparison, this is a much more dramatic role,
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even though there's a bit of a comedic edge. I also liked the
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twist with Marlowe reading a confession to his own murder. That was a bit
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chilling. I wish they would have just left the tension hang for just maybe
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a second or two longer. At any rate, though, another great episode
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of Philip Marlowe, and that will do it for today. We will be
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back tomorrow with Nick Carter, and then join us back here again next Wednesday
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