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Philip Marlowe: The Covered Bridge (EP1589) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's
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episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air Nate on. This
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week's episode is January fourteenth, nineteen fifty and the title is The Covered Bridge.
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Get This and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and
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those who travel and wind up in the gut of the prism of the grave.
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This time, everything that happens, from the orange head man with a
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map, passed the oaf with a pitchfork, to the body at the covered
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bridge was wrong, dead wrong. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding
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author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's
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exciting story the Cupboard Bridge. You know, every once in a while into
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the life of one Philip Marlowe, a little peace and quiet must fall,
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a day marked by neither murder nor mayhem, no phone calls, just nothing.
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I'm just beginning to like it too. When the door opened and a
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head full of slick orange hair walked in, it was not a man wearing
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a new flannel suit, a handpainted tie in a reckless grin. He shoved
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the telephone out of his ways, sat down on the corner of my desk
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and sized me up with a pair of careful gray eyes. Got a proposition
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for you, Laddie, Tell me about it. Let you know. If
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I'm interested. You should be. There's good money in it. It's not
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always the answer. Go ahead, got a good car, good enough?
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I don't keep it in the off You like Mexico? Look? Is this
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a social call or a quiz program? This is business. I asked your
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question. Yeah, I like Mexico. I don't like you. That's good
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because you're gonna drive a couple of friends of me down there. Name your
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price? Not interested? Thousand bucks? Not interested? That's too bad.
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Would have been nicer to work this out without a gun, laddie. This
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gun is bigger than both of them. Are you going to drive across a
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Mexican border tonight with three passengers? And it won't be any difficult questions because
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you were the well known signor Philip Marlowe, a respectable bride detective somewhere below
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the body your fellow travelers, or catch a boat, But this you don't
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have to worry about. Look just a minute, right, laddie. I
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came to here for several reasons, one of which is that you're smart enough
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to know when to quit fighting the problem you got to make a stop for
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So let's go and leave your artillery in the drawer. Come on, yeah,
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sure, Since I'm now an old palliods, what do I call it?
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You you pick it? Believe me, you won't like it. How
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about George? You like George? Not particularly good? Just call me George.
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Let's go, Marlo. We nodded at the elevator girl, wave goodbye
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to the kid in the parking lot, and headed south on Highway one oh
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one, all with the front of that mouser nudging my kidney. It was
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cruel, but I was on my way to Mexico. Don't get ambitious,
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Marlow. Not too fast, not too slow, just keep it rolling,
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nice and steady. I did what I was told once for a break for
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every foot of one hundred miles down the coast. At ocean side, we
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cut inland past Escondido and up into the Citrus country. Once he dug a
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little map from his pocket and studied it while we headed into the hills where
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farms were farther apart. George was busy looking for a turn off when my
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chance came, and it came fast. My foot slammed down hard on the
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winchhie. My gun slipped out of his hand. I dropped two wheels and
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fitch, but I got the gun. He took one look, then jumped
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out and ran in a low cross from the back of the car. Before
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I could follow him, I heard the truck coming. It was a big
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two section chop rolling fast. It topped the rise just as George pivoted toward
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the road. The truck driver must have seen him, just he had bright
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flock on all twenty six wheels at the tab. I ran away. George
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lay like at his cut a dollar out of the road. The truck driver
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was out of his cab before it stopped rolling. I didn't see him.
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I didn't see him. I come over the right there. I didn't see
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it. Make it easy, honest, I didn't see him. Is he
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all right? He ain't that is he? Oh? No, he isn't.
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They won't be walking much anymore. It wasn't my fault, mister,
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honest, I know it wasn't. Get hold of itself. Gosh, what
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should we do? I want you to drive to the nearest phone and get
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the police, then come back. Here's my card. Give it to the
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trooper. Tell him I can reach me at my office. Eh, what
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are you going to do? Figure out how to read this map of his
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I'm gonna pay a call on a couple of people who are expecting this guy.
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Maybe it's just a stubborn street, but when I'm being used as that
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Patsy, I like to meet the people involved. As I drove, I
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studied the map, and two miles down the highway, I found the first
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landmark, a dead tree. There I left the highway and followed a rocky
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trail seven corkscrew miles up a canyon to the next landmark, a bridge,
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one that looked like it had been lifted out of some rustic Connecticut woods and
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dropped across the California Gorge, purely by mistake, because it was covered complete
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to roof and walls and made entirely of lumber. And on the hill beyond
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was a lonely house where the trail marked on the map end. I drove
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slowly through the sagging wood tunnel, and at the other end deliberately killed my
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motor and I got out raised the hood and went to work on the distributor.
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I don't know where he came from, but when I glanced up,
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he was standing there watching me, a bull and overalls with a pitchfork clenched
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in a pair of hands as thick as four dollar stakes. We didn't like
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each other's looks. You picked a bad place for trouble. Missed in.
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That's so why nobody almost never comes up this road, especially strangers. I'll
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come you took it? You really want to know? You're just killing time.
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I wouldn't be too smart ify with you missed in? Uh living that
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house up there? No, not anymore. I got canned for drinking.
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Why are you so interested in that place? The only farm around here?
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Maybe they got a mechanic. Yeah, where'd you say you were from?
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La Los Angeles? Time? You're real sure you don't know anybody up there
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on the hill, like who, for instance, a certain party who took
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a trip to La not so long ago in another thing city. Boy,
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don't get out of line or I'll fix you. Good understand? Oh yeah,
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Now, I mean, how do you do you want something? Yes,
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my car is still at the bottom of the hill. Who's there?
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A man? Uncle water? He says, he's corbro down. What's that
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carbro down? You say, yeah, I don't know what went wrong.
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Mister. My name is Brule Walter. I'm glad to know you. I'm
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philam Malow. What are you doing on this road, mister marlow I thought
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it was a shortcutchu as you were wrong. It's a dead ends. Thanks.
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Look, mister Brule, I'd like to have somebody who knows motors came
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down and look at my car. All right? Then Ed comes in.
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I guess he could go down this year. Oh that's my new hired hand
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ed Fry. I don't know, uncle Water, it's getting pretty dark.
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Yeah, I was taking the same thing myself. As a matter of fact,
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if you've been accommodate me, mister Brule, I just as soon risked
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up a while and shove off in the morning. I want to pay you
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for everything. Of course, stay overnight. Oh I I'm afraid that's impossible.
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Impossible. Why what's the matter with you, Dolly? If necessary,
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I'm sure we're going to arrange to take care of mister Marlowe some way.
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Oh okay, that's better. Now. If you want me, Dalla,
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I'll be out in the barn. Make yourself comfortable. Mister Marlowe. Your
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uncle huh, he owns this place. My mother was his favorite. Sister.
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You won a cup of coffee, I'd love it. I haven't had
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any farm kitchen coffee in ages you. You don't seem to have any visitors
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at this way, Dolly, huh No, not many. Nice farm though
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thinks that's why you run off to l A know, man, how did
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you know about that? I guess I ran into a friend of yours at
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the bottom of the hill. Pair of overgrown shoulders with a pitchfork said he
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used to work here him He did up until a month ago. That's not
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a big one, big dumb goof. Here's a cop by the way,
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mister Marlow. Where are you heading? Oh, Mexico? Maybe Mexico.
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It kind of came a long ways out of your way, didn't you,
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Ali? Ali? We're in here? Ready, what's the matter? Car
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at the bottom of the hill. Who's is it? Cow? Belongs to
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me? It's stalled? Oh will this is mister Marlow, Ready, he
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said on his way to Mexico. You don't say. And since your's car
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broke down so late, he may say, all night. Uncle Walder said
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it'd be all right. Is that a fact? I'll go get some blankets
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Eddy, see you can take them up to the spare room. Okay,
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Dolly, mister Morrow, where are you from? Mister Marlow La. You
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points east. You know this road don't go to Mexico model. In fact,
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it stops about a mile up the drawer here. And it's funny that
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you wound up on it, isn't it? I don't see you breaking up
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over it? Eddie? Do let my poker face throw your pal? Traveling
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alone? I am? I am now meaning what that? There's nobody with
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me? That's simple, isn't it? Not? My book? Pal?
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I might even want you to draw me a picture of that one. Ed,
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Okay, okay, it's fine. Man upstairs, Mollow, I'll show
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you the room. You want me to go with you and make a bed?
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No, you stay here and put up some more coffee, Dolly a
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hunch, I may want lots of it tonight. Let's go Mallow right behind
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you. Eddy. How's the weather been in La? So? I might
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call it hot? Uh? Huh? Get the door? Will you sure?
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Okay? How come at you, pal? I got good credentials of
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carn at tight. Yep, you better be right on all three? How'd
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you find me? Little map? Eddie messed Indido to the dead tree of
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the covered bridge and then up here at the cinch. Why'd you show alone?
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Where's red gotta meet us at the border. It's a bump fit,
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Pal, it's not in a book. Why in some kind of a last
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minute jam with the boat? Oh the jerk. He's had a month to
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line this up while I've been holding up out here in the sticks making like
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a farm hand. Well, better work, that's all. If we picked
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up this time, it's curtains. Oh incidentally, you got a gun,
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haven't you. Yeah, sure, let's see it, Oh, dice,
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Eddie. I didn't tell me everything, just enough so you'll get your money's
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worth. I'll do what I'm supposed to do, and no questions asked for
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my little automatic and I stick together regardless, real close together. Okay,
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mom, shuit yourself. I will and something else. The rest of the
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company is going along. Is that all set? Well, we'll see about
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that when the time comes. You're not leaving any loose ends around, are
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you. It's not your worry, Pale. We'll get out of here around
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eleven. Oh and that routine about your cabby installed it is a gag,
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I hope. Yeah. Sure it won't start if anybody tries, But in
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ten seconds with a screwdriver, I can fix it. You're okay, Mallo,
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just keep playing your game. Yeah I will. Maybe then I'll find
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out what the score is. After all, you might at bet. Come
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on, let's see. Dinner at the Brutal Farm was as loaded with gay
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chadder as a bad case of lock jaw, and when it was over,
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the participants scattered like everybody else was contagious. I wound up a load in
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the dark spare room on the second floor, which had one advantage windows that
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viewed both the front and the rear. The moon was bright, so I
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didn't bother with the lamp. I listened to Dolly rattle dishes in the kitchen
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until that stopped, and then I watched the old man Bruel pace his front
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yard once said Fry went out and talked to him briefly, and then headed
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for the front door again. For a long hour after that, the big
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house was silent until from somewhere out in the back there was a soft,
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metallic tapping. Eventually I spotted a heavy figure outside tossing pebbles against the window
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pane downstairs, and he edged back from the shadows to the barn. A
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moment later I saw the girl step out a rear door and run across the
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backyard and join him. I went down the backstairs, not along the house,
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to a hedge, and I followed that until I was closing a thing.
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Oh, I tell you, he's an escaped convict, the killer.
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He's been hiding out here on your place. I can't believe it. No,
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I just can't. Are you sure? Of course? I am.
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I read it by accident just to night in an old newspaper from Denver,
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the whole story with pictures. There's no doubt about it. Ed Fry is
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really Eddie Fillmore. He's a murderer plenty of times over. What do we
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do We call the police? Oh no, not on your life. Listen.
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You want to get off this farm, don't you more than anything in
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the world. Okay, then we'll do it together, Dolly. I didn't
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tell another soul about this, you know why, because they put out a
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reward, a big one for him, twenty five hundred dollars. And we're
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going to get it, just us, you and me. I don't know.
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How can we talk about did you hear that? More? That's nothing,
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nothing, that's one of the cats. Maybe. Look you've been taking
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walks with him lately, Dolly, Yes, I have no Well, never
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mind that now, just get him to take another one right away. Get
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him to walk you down to Pritchet's house. I'll be waiting there. As
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soon as you get inside, I'll jump them. You'll never know what hit
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him. Will you do it? Well, I'll try. You give me
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some time to persuade a sure, sure, Oh you see things my way,
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honey, No boy would With that reward money, there'll be no stopping
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us. You better go in now before they miss you. Okay, I'll
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get him there. Hey, Bickman, what who's there? Mollow? Listen
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I gonna do. You're listening all the time. Why don't you and believe
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me? You're making a mistake. They're playing with dynamite, Bicman. You
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two, and that's a tackle like guy alonely is too tough for you.
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So you want to help, so you can cut yourself in on the reward.
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That's all. Well, it ain't gonna work. Don't be a sap.
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He's covered himself. There's somebody else in with him, somebody around here.
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He's got an ally. You to try to grab him, you're gonna
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be in trouble. You're lying. He's been hiding out all alone. And
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we're gonna get him, Dolly and me by ourselves. And if you try
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to horn in, mister Hell help me, I'll beat your brain. Cut
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it out. Reward, No reward. You gotta listen to me. No,
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Maybe that'll teach you not to stick your nose in city boy. In
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just a moment, the second actor Philip Marlowe, but first Fred Allen's first
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appearance on the CBS Jack Benny Show. Al Jolson sings, but the face
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is Charlie McCarthy's Andy of Amos, and Andy goes on trial for deserting his
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bride by mistake. Those are three headlines that guarantee you a world of fun
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on CBS Tomorrow Night. Yes, this third Sunday of the new year will
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be an all time high in radio entertainment. Hear them all on CBS Tomorrow
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Night Now with our Star. Gerald Moore turned to the second act of Philip
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Marlowe and Tonight's story the copboard Bridge. I didn't pass out my jaw hurting.
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My legs moved like they were rubber. Now I had to find the
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robing wall of Bruel because he should know where Richard's house was. Where the
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ambitious team of Dally and Noah might be fighting off a lot more than they
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could chew healthy four hed teeth. Notwithstanding, it's the Bruel, it's the
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brawl. Yeah, who is it? Marlow? Come on minute? What
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is important? Yeah? It's important? All right? Is it? Mister
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Marlover? What is your friend? Noah? We had a few words,
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nor a big one. You are no friend of mine. He is no
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friend of mine either. Look, Bruel, I I'm gonna have to trust
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you. I've got no choice. Bickman found out Ed Fry is really an
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undesirable name. Naddy Fillmore is wanted for the police by murder. He wants
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to trap him for a twenty five hundred dollars reward that's been posted, and
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didn't want me in the way. Now, look, I'm not a passing
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tourist with more trouble with a private detective. Tell me who is Pritchett and
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where does he live? Richard? Where does he live? Mister man?
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Or somebody has been making a joke on you. Ellie who Prichard died twenty
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years ago? Live right in this house where I do today? This is
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Pritchett's house here, Oh, Pricher's house. No, no, no,
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that it is down the road near your car. The covered bridge. There
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is Pritchett's house the bridge. Ah, you see Ellie who Prichard was from
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New England and he had a covered bridge on his farm there, so he
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wanted one here. He built it himself day by day aboard here and mayor
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there. Yeah, since he spent so much time out of people call the
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bridges that, yeah exactly. But then right it is important because of a
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meeting, mister Brule get together that. I don't think it's going to be
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on the quiet side. Let me borrow your flashlight, which I'll get back
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inside and call the police. What are you going to do? Reinforce the
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reward, happy sweethearts, and keep an eye out for someone I haven't met
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yet, a third party any fillmore plans for tour Mexico with it was a
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quarter of a mile romp country style back down to the covered bridge. When
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I was there, the miles arrive recovered from George in one hand, flashed
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like the other, I found only the moonwashed, gray covered bridge itself,
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trying to stand erect like an old soldier who was more pride than posture.
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But then as I stepped on the chalk road on to the shelded oil so
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planking, I found something else inside, and face down was Noah Bickman,
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lying nearby the red stained icy fingers of the pitchfork that had killed him.
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I started to move closer, but then footsteps in the road behind suggested that
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I do different, So I moved quickly back to the bridge entrance, flapping
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myself into a narrow shadow, and waited, Noah, Noah, is that
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you smallow? Dolly? What are you doing here? Why are you down
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at the bridge at this hour? Where's Noah? He's dead, Dolly,
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He's in there, but don't go inside. Look, I tried to stop,
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and believe me stopping stopping. Oh, father, baby, I know
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about fry being Fillmore, the reward, all of it. What well,
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First of all, I'm a private detective from LA was dragged into this by
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a next body of film woars. Second, I was in the barn when
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you were noa major plans and your left. I tried to talk Noah and
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accepting my help. Why, because I know what Fillmore's kind is like.
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I mix with him every day. I know how they work. Look,
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did you tell Philmore to meet you here, yes or no? No.
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No, I couldn't find him. I've been looking since I left the barn,
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every place. That's why he came down here just then. Yes,
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I wanted to tell Noah that our plan would have to be postponed. What
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difference does all this make? I don't know. Maybe a little, maybe
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a lot fillmore. I had known about this, this rendezvous. You two
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planned it be twenty to one that he got here ahead of schedule and took
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Kara Noah. But since he didn't, Yeah, since he didn't, I'm
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betting on a third party, someone we haven't met yet, a third party.
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Yeah, And I listen to me, and do just as I say.
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Turn around and walk straight back up to the house. And when you
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get there, get inside and stay put. Go on fast, all right,
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but be careful Marla. Whoever killed Noah, won't he take to kill
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you when she's it Back up the road, I turned on the bridge again,
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my flashlight, following the dusty white footprints and the freshly oil planking leading
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to the dead man. I stood over in the circle of lights sweeping the
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area around him. It was just one thing I had to know, Fillow,
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it's me, what are you doing down here? I thought you might
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need help. So after I called the police, I got my rifle and
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came down here, and hey, he's dead. The proms and that falk
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were right through him. Oh yeah, look, Brule, was this planking
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freshly oil today? I just wanted to make sure those chalk footprints were made
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today. But Bruel, you stay here and see that no one is the
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bridge. Where are you going after your house? In a hurry, because
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I think I know who the killer and the third party is city red legs
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and smart fed lungs. I made it up to the house and record time.
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As I reached for the front door, I knew that time hadn't been
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quite good enough. The shot had come from somewhere in the house, and
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by the time I reached the living room, I knew I was too late
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to do any good. In a chair at the far side of the room,
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Dolly was slouched down, a surprised expression on her face, while our
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hands tried to hold back a small stain of blood oozing through her blouse.
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Little frightened words whispered out of my mouth. He shouldn't stand where you are,
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mollow. She had had come into her a two time and louted you.
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I understand, honey, you're no good little I was in the barn
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heard the whole thing. You and the pickman planning a switch with me out
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you wrong edny. Dolly didn't try to double crush you, Addy, Jelly
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pretended to so she could set No Bickman up and kill him. That's what
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she did. You're a liar, true. I don't believe it, Dolly,
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Is that true? Momo. She didn't cross me. She was trying
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to help me, that's right. Film Bickman found out who you were,
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one of the twenty five hundred bucks. You were worth it or alive.
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Dolly had to play him along for you. I say, I should have
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listened to her. I should have listened. How do you know all this
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model found Dolly's footprints inside the covered bridge approach. She'd been there before I
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found Vickman's body. Yeah, you know who I was. So you put
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it all together. Well, you're holding the gun, kid. With the
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next move. It doesn't matter much anymore. I could still lamb out of
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here for Mexico somehow. I don't want to. Not without Dolly film the
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police model. I'm not going anywhere. It was several hours before the county
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policem need he filled more gun. Pila Brune and I sat at the long
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wooden table, watching the light and the fire dance across the hanging skillets and
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pans by the grate, and nobody said anything for a long time. I
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I suppose hot epold pie at four in the morning seems odd to a man
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from the city at all, or in the morning sometimes middle of the day
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in the city. Yeah, yeah, more copy, Mistermorrow, Yeah,
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yeah, please kay. You know, Dolly wasn't really a bad girl.
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It was just that sometimes she didn't think. A woman who loves like that
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doesn't think, mister Brule, just feel maybe in some way it is my
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fault. The whole thing. Now, nobody's fault, mister Brule. She
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was. She's trying to do the right thing for the guys she loves.
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Yeah, well, if your bed is still ready, if you can't at
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the stake, oh thanks, sure, I'd like to. If you can
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find your own way up, I think I'll sit here just a minute longer.
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Sure night, Good night, mister Marlow. As I sat looking out
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over the starlit countryside, I thought of all the great love stories written about
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the good people, love Love summer, and then the pathetic face of Dolly,
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in the pain racked face of Eddie, said what about us that had
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no answer? Yeah, shuck up another one, marlow Another one of those
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things which there is no answer. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond
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Chandler's most famous character, Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by Norman
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MacDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in
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the cast were viv Janas, Ben Wright, Jack Moyles Wilms, Herbert Jack
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Kruschan, and Barney Phillips. The special music is composed and conducted by Richard
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arant He Shure and be with us again next week when Philip Marlowe says,
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this time of twisted mind, a whole cut and no wire fence and a
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corpse in a stall room all added up to freedom, but only for the
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one who had it coming. The event you've been waiting for. Fred Allen's
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first visit to the CBS Jack Benny Show will take place tomorrow night. Yes,
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the most famous guest appearance in radio, The Fred Allen Jack Benniac will
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be heard in all of the CBS stations tomorrow night. This is Roy Rowan
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speaking. Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows over most of these same
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CBS stations. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System. This is Andrew J.
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Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a Man of His
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Wife. You're listening to the great detectives of old time radio. I like
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it when a story travels to different locations, as long as it's not overdone.
32:52
It kind of makes an episode feel a bit uh baker and scope.
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As we start with somebody coming in to Marlow's office, then we have that
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great road side scene, and then the heart of the action in this really
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out of the way place. Now, there is an interesting recurring theme here
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when you think back to last week's episode with two Weeks, where the plot
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features bad boy characters who are genuinely in love and in this case ends with
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a somewhat sad and melancholy conclusion to the story. I'm not too sure how
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well this works within Philip Marlow, and I hope that they go some other
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