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Philip Marlowe: The Green Witch (EP1547) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air date October twenty
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ninth of nineteen forty nine, and this one is the Green Win. It's
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times she had had suns from more red sunset moves, is warm honey and
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a generous mouth that lasts without movie. It was beautiful except for her cold
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green eyes. From the pen of Raymond Transford, I'm spending author of crime
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fiction comes his most famous character in the ad Bunches of Hilla Marlow now with
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Jerald Moore says on a bottle, we bring you Tonight's exciting. Sorry the
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green wits. Once upon a time, Halloween has been a day and a
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night on which mortal man had hit stowed over the face of the earth,
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holding cold hands was here and starting of each new shadow which the harvest Moon
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casts. That's still another twisted, grotesque govern first thing to drink dry human
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soul. I read that in the book. Once read something else too.
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The Vigil of Hollow Mass is a genuine spook show had definitely started downhill with
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the Romans. It did almost everything else until now Halloween has come to mean
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gates feeling are of course the mouth practice was proping and schalking everything into side
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till today unless you're really on your clothes and under twelve, and I'm neither.
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The thirty first day of October nineteen forty nine, but easily ever,
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peer is just that and no more. Until a worried man named John Dissipate
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at my office. I said, trick a freight until he unfolded one hundred
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dollars bill and came right to the point. Morrow four days ago, and
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man I once knew, broke out of Illinois prison. My testimony in court
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here ago sent him to that prison. Now I'm afraid he's coming after me
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for revenge. The name is Dale ST's and I want you to protect me
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from him. Is he here in Lam's division here? I am not certain.
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However, this morning a friend of mine told me of a man in
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a shabby brown tweed suit who ask about me but wouldn't identify himself. That's
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all the descriptions could give me. But here, mister Morrow, here's a
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picture of a LSD. Is his master's it's a prisoner implication pictures. Will
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you say to clothes and remove the number? It doesn't leave much I know.
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Tell me, mister Bishop, what do you want me to do?
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I want you to locate this man Estes and keep him from killing police will
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do that nothing plus a lot of noisy publicity. And I don't want because
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in the first place, it won't help my real estate business any And also
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I well I as somebody who rather not have worrying about you. Maybe,
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yes, Madeline Hughes, my fan, say please, mister Marlow, will
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you try to find sts once as soon as possible before tonight. Aw what
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happens then our masquerade and the spacific Palisades Country Club is a lonely spot out
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there. Well why go to the masquerade? If I didn't, Madeline would
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know there was something wrong, should worry, and I had to keep my
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purpose. Now, mister Marlow, all I can give you to go,
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honor three things. First, Dale ST's was once enabled body and seen me.
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Second, he likes Spanish food, could eat it three time today.
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And third he'd gladly give up both to watch a prize fight. He'll kill
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me, mister Morrow, I know he will. Maybe the magic of Halloween
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night had something to do with it. I don't know, but when I
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started looking for an escape convict, it might possibly be some place in the
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sprawling city of Los Angeles with murder on his mind, things began to change.
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First, it was ten year old girls planching around in their mother's high
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heeled lipsticks and affectations. The gangling boys screaming home from school via the great
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mischief rub. That much was fun. Then it got started everywhere. The
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kids went home and took their laughter with him, and I went looking for
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day Let see, I seemed to meet people who wore everyday's faces that I
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was sure could be masks, people like the old lady w Aoran, a
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Spanish restaurant located off a crooked alley below the street level. It started with
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her at the entrance to a damp, cold cave. Yeah, I did
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not ever see him. I'm as put no further and dely face. I
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know, Americ got worse until in my imagination even the scar brute faced on
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the sweating hulk in the distant dusky corner of the surge of Nasium. I
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tribe being to the long rest of a twenty es century man, and more
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to a preostotic brute out of some jock long ago jungle. Nobody likes that.
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I ain't been watching me today. Nobody ain't been watching me at all
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for as long as I can remember it. And finally, after two hours
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along the Santa Monica fishing piers, one hundred withered pounds of ancient manners tearing
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out the sea and more to say yes, yes, I know it.
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This Druce was spending next to me when the boiler exploded that night. We
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few talks. He was kid, but I told the skipper all about that
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one story. His name was SB two and so was the first mate Dale
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sc everybody's name. Hello, Allow, mister Bishop, I haven't run across
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and listen. He's been seen again. Yes, or at least a man
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in a heavy brown tweet this time near in my office. A model.
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Get over to thirty one thirty North Havenhurst Drive as soon as you can.
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Yes, it's a costumer shop. Alberta was in Garrol. I'll meet you
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there. Bye bye. Alberta's and Garral customer had at least a tangible name
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and occupation. The shop was cut it on and grabbed me. Windows and
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card wooden't go all immodestly marketed required his name and handsome twelve inch high goal
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leaded with a card dangling from the front door and now reading back. In
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ten minutes, mister Alberto is in go. There was nothing left for me
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to do but wait until from some place with an arms breach the conversation with
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the clat opening. You have a match please, yeah, I get so
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here when I raised the cup flames for a smiling face supporting a midsualized sunburn
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top by blonde crew cut hair. I got ready for trouble. It never
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came, thank you, yeah morrow, yeah, tomorrow. That mister going
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Offah, just the guy out of matches. Oh oh well, I wonder
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where was in? Girl is? He said everything to be ready and waiting
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for both of this. Me is, methistopoles. You just a minute.
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We've said nothing about me going to that mass. Great, mister Bishop.
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Not a word, mister marlow Please, I'm sure Este's is going to try
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to get me to night. Yeah, I know, but when you want.
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I'm sorry to be late, but there was a costume that mister Marlowe
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they gentleman to call about. You'll be able to fear him, all right,
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I don't know. It depends and whether or not our sands pillow.
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You know I'll pay you, I know, right, Okay, I'm wonderful.
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Opened the door. I am? I am? Where is that light
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twitch? Oh? Yeah yes? And now here is your costume? This?
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This is in my costume? Yes, yes, you like it?
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You do. It's pretty grotesque even for Mephistopheles. The winds my finest creation.
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It will surely bring you the first prize of the masquerade. If piorry
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bear's head hold and all it is a spouse to the devil, the lord
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of darkness. And look, hunch high on your back, a black wing.
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You pull this cord here in the wi and just for you, mister
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Marlowe, let me speak something I can whip up quickly. Girl. Look,
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marlow I appreciate it if you'd stop on your way to the club and
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pick up Madelon. It's here's your fiance saying yes, pick her up at
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my place twenty three forty one, twenty three forty miles. Gentlemen, I
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have just be seen today, mister Marlowe to night, Count Alessandro Canostro,
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eighteenth century impostor, criminals and lover part et alone. That's me all in
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all. It was another hour and I was just about rid of the afterclad
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day's goblin when I finally pulled up and parked in front of John Bishop's meet,
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Redwood and Glass Square in suburban Pacific Salad Days. When I was out
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of my car and walking toward the thin stream of light that leaked out of
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the front door, which was open, interest. Halloween goblin started coming back
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back. They whispered to me, of what I might find a cross of
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threshold a head. It took on me a finger tips to weave the door
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open. Then inside, in the middle of the living room floor, a
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framed picture of a girl takes up a glass over smashed into a huge starburst
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and around the edge, and a trickle of blood. Ah but the girl
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with bootool hair spun from a red pant skin. This smooth, there's warm
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honey. The generous mouth that laughs without moving beautiful, that's arise. It
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were green, a green then moves clear and white and deep. They laughed
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too. But the sounds yourself somehow wasn't nice? It was cool, mister
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Marla, mister Marla. He oh, don't forgive me. It's the first
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time I've seen the green witch. Well its women. Yeah, of course
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I know I'm missing the black eyed peas in the yard. Oh it's probably
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the wind. But if I may count Alexandro Taliostro, awaits your pleasures of
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Oh, oh that's you, Yeah, that's me. Oh nice, and
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how handsome to so that A man a n said, was your one old
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friend your arm? Please can the green Richard ready, did we drive or
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flock Statan himself couldn't have done a better job. In the West Palisade country
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Club, the building, which was long and tasted too close to the edge
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of the cliffs that plumbed the two hundred abrupt fleets of the churning sea below,
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was flooded in a sickly green light, while skeletons in the trees hanging
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in the restless wind by the narrow necks dance the shadowy jig to the accustoment
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of the rushing search. A long narrow path which ran along the quick side
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leading to the country club entrance was labeled dead Man's Walk, and every fifty
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feet a life guise dummy of an infamous man, first on the balustrade and
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sad blindly out to sea. Somehow you couldn't quite last. However, inside
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life was more pleasant. The light swere brighter, the costumes firepots on the
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reach fox here, and Madeleine was a little prettier than possible. And when
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she watched me up to a grand dame who was dressed as money antoinette,
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but who was wide enough to have also passed for four of the ladies in
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waiting, I couldn't make my eyes let go sall. Now, your excellency,
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I wilted you to our clubs. I did. I opened you talk
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clove. No excuse me, I mean thank you. I mean I'm sorry.
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I was looking for a friend. A beast was wis O that one
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jombs over there? I need the punch gold. As we have said,
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there was there a glass size thumb bottle for a costume. Quite appropriate,
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my DearS, the only team and the gentleman on the inside knows who's mom
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believe me? And the only who station when the Marie Antoinette rejected cut him
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that none and mor the one with the humph on his back heading for the
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veranda. He's here they too, Uh gentleman, the notorious juke of lost
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the historical hue. He looks perfectly ridiculous with that beach boy complexion. Yeah
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and crew cut, Madeline, you haven't part of your nose yet. But
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it doesn't mean. Oh yes it does, and that funny decide. I
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need a breath of fresh air. I feel faint all along fall It's five
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falls on workmark fi bet I ever spilled his off. The guy's a rying,
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how are you? It is not I just thought I broke my car,
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but they do. Yah, Duke, I'd like to talk to you
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a moment. Please talk to me for you. Uh, I can't tell
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you. Man, it's pretty good, but that's yeah, Well maybe I
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can help you. The one thing, I'm an international villain of thought,
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but another just a nice run of a middle guy. I kind of never
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refused the stranger of life. Remember why? Oh you're the guy, Yeah,
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the guy you asked for a light when he was standing in front of
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Albert Zingaro's costume shops. Before you can start talking about a smaller world we
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live in or start lying about a natural your appearance was there? Let's have
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the truth. Come on, ten pants. Was it because of their lestis
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delestices? You slipped? All right? What's the difference? Yes, it
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was because of that dude. I know that he's an escaped convict. I
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also know he's the one way I can get mettling away from that worthless mister.
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Shall I say Bishop or do you prefer the full name? John Essey?
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Bishop? And Essie's a related liking brothers. Thanks, duke, how
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much your brother hold on? What do you think your doll? Keep your
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hands off iron man, your face is hanging out. You know you'll not
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end up fear not. I my hand hop I dropped a duke of gloster.
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His face twisted and hurt surprise, and his pseuit of pony armor landed
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on a flight stone pass like a truckload of tin cans, with him in
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the middle, who was still clanking as I left him and went back to
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the ballroom, where I spotted my client, a beast with wings with a
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punch bowl, again making himself even more hideous looking by pouring punch down a
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slip in his neck a long taper machet chin. When I got close enough
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to speak his name, he's fun, taught me like I stuck a pin
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in him. What do you want? You're getting pretty jumpy, bishop you,
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but I take it easy. I'll say, you're getting a little picked
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pune. Don't you think you're riding the punch bowl too? Hunt? It's
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really none of your business decision. Certainly is this is my business too?
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You hired me to pertect you against the less, but you didn't say one
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word about sd as being your brother. How about it? Well, I
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didn't think it was necessary. How'd you find up your sunburned friend with a
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crew cut, a hunchback in armor. I've been checking up on you because
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he doesn't think you're worthy of meddling. Oh that's so. Where's Madeline?
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Now? I think a broom's saddle. Maybe I don't know a room.
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Oh oh yeah, I'll bet you go find her. I listen. I
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think things are going to be all right. You can take it easier from
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now on. It gives you that idea. Bishop. Nothing has happened so
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far, maybe nothing will check with you both tell you just what's your funny
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bone? Marine was sorry? There the bottle? You know it? Even
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he just told me that what about wax statues? Out of the fair is
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bleeding that I saw? Nobody really is a box anyway, it's bleeding real
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blood too, And that's that's too much. It's all right to have decorations,
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but usually real brothers behind too far, too far. You mightn't even
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that gets nobody believe me. I just hey, you'll you'll bring them pelt
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a white gummy bleeding not really harry you because I saw the one ways and
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by the fair the white is the brown sweet too. Bleeding real blood out
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of aggression is dead pool. They just play brown sweet Bob, and I
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saw brother Brown clay shoulder. But that's nothing. The real blood is the
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important. Hey, yeah, come on, okay, it's going. It's
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right over there, pal behind those bushes over there. Come on, youn't
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say no for me when I do. Well, where is it? Hey,
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it's gone, somebody run, I'm moving on there. No. Oh
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yeah, was right here, pops up against the railing, and I had
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bulled off over his face, but I could see the gash neck from the
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lights down on the top of the stairs. Come on, Harry, let's
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get Hey, wait a minute, bottle, you can be right you right
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here on the rail well, coming to those heads all the way down the
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water. Oh yeah, yeah, but you an awful crime better than two
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hundred feet because a little boat running down there, I guess there. There's
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more than that down there. Now, Harry boy out of the patrols and
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his label and the light cat it down. Then he interested un following the
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stairs chopped and stardid rock along the natural path that wound over the pace of
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the cliff was steep and rough and slick, from which the fog that moved
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me sly across them, like what nervous fingers, but behind me was enchanted
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just enough to slip of the kid with every step and still managed to keep
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us putting. Half way down, we saw a trumple attacks when we had
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teeth it or what we found us about him, and a wook and yellow
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light of the lamp it struck on his face. After bringing down two hundred
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battering feet of jagged cliffs, all there was less of a man in a
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brown squeed suit a rum bottle costume. Beside me was still intact, but
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the little man inside of it was wearing thin was beginning to come apart.
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Some joke on the rest of him all because that's the worst stuff. Oh
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that's the real man. It was a man. I mean, up together
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and give me a match, Yeah boy, yeah, or like that can
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do a lot of a man's face. Hey, hey, this guy looks
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familiar to me from the back here. He looks like John Bishop. He
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shot it's his brother. I wonder the Bishop figured things to be okay from
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now on. Huh? Why somebody coming down the stairs, get over there,
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out of sight and keep quiet. As I made the support of the
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stairs, I looked up in time to see a hunch bike monthster and I'm
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a half hidden in the arriving yellow miss stuff back from the edge down the
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stairs with the Duke of Glossa again asking for another punch on his sun tan
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Jaw. I took the slippery steps so at the time as far as the
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first blind corner. When I found out that he beat me to it even
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not along but next time, I know you're in trouble. Now I know
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what gone. I turned out how to use tant sail gune. I know
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you don't chiller sudden lunch. My dog caught me off God and my thirty
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eight went spinning away into the night. He turned the right. The fog
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in the night covered with a useless creamingute. Touch my gun was all they
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needed. By the time I got up to the clubhouse service again, the
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Duke was gone. I was met to, said by the ever marry Marie,
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answering that only this time without giggles. It's just going on anyway,
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honey, baby, did you see that phony hunchback to Duke of rotting me
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ran over me shopping something about a phone call, but he got ready go
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I'm trying, don't you boys know? It's dant later, baby, later,
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right now? I want to know. Wait a minute, that place
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put there on your list? Where'd you get it? It's the dand the
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Bnadies Objailary is the best place. Minute. Then what this club look?
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Do all members have anything like that? Of course he's got the club,
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Chris. The movies have brieches and the men. I know what the man
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wear. I just saw one. If it means anything like I think it
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does, I better find Madeline Hues. But fast have you seen her?
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If she's a witch? The witch to Greenwich? Well it was the last
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time I saw her. She was walking down toward the fountains. Horrible metisop.
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She and John Bishopper, perfect couple tonight. But I think right now
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it's your CROSSI said, But thanks for the tip, I'll see it.
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Ran test the little black school out in the terrace railing and over the gate
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where the flagstone pass cut him, and I walked the past as I could
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without staying. I think. Down into the little sheltered outcove where the fountain
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was there something standing close together beside a pale marble bench, half hidden in
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the shadow. A beautiful green eyed witch and a hard knifemare with huge leathery
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wings hulking over if I've got reasons days here in town right now? Yes,
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that means one thing he's found out about us. He knows what we
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did to him. Wait a minute, I didn't lie in quart about aim,
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you dude, but you didn't object when you found out. Instead,
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you're celebrated by getting engaged to me. Oh, John, You're sorry,
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way I saw it. I've got me to worry about, Bud. He
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went to prison with the idea that you loved him, Madaline. In fact,
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he was trying to get his hands on enough money to keep you happy
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with a cups column. Okay, I'm extensive. If he couldn't afford me,
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that's his cable and his love medal. And who's problem is that?
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Well, what are you doing? Yeah? When I'm not John Ladlin,
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I've already taken care of John un Dale and you liliaro, which my one.
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So I'm gonna stragle the life over you like you did me. I'll
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stay back, you take one more step and I'll pudget. That's the laugh
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that is, because it won't they any good. You're trapped here. I'm
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gonna get you nosy and then hurry not to that all I got to do
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is walk across the dance floor, in there and out the front door,
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and in this week I won't even be noticed. It won't make it suck.
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Naha, fop for you your gun? Damn Now what Surrey lousy here?
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Take it out. I shouldered. Now I'm when I'm from a bullet.
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I could feel my shirt getting warm and thinking, I tried to follow
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him. A flight stone passed was ten miles long, and my legs were
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melting him. I saw him go to the ballroom door, and I made
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it over to the side of the building but support, but I knew I'd
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never catch him. I looked in the window and I saw him hot across
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the floor, a garish horned beast with wings shoving his way to flee him.
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I saw a milling mob of France and heapings. I was flashing out.
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I knew it. I tried to yell I stop it, but the
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crowd inside was going crazy, laughing and comporting around the beast with the wave
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and flying at him, holding and shoving him back to the door. I
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saw him fighting and then so town as the heart of pleasing creatures blows over
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him, and then everything went black. Wow are you awake, Model,
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I won't stay long. I just want to thank you for saving Madeline's life.
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The group of Gluton. Well I really just Bruce Wiley, the doctor
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said, doctor Dantamnica Hospital, Model, you were shocked. Remember four hours
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ago at the Halloween party. Oh yeah, yeah, let's see he got
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away. He got away, No he didn't. I just came from police
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headquarters where as he's confessed. Want me to tell you about it as far
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as I dreamed it. Well, as he's killed his brother John Bishop out
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in the terrace before the dance team traded his run swite suits for Bishop's Memphisophiles
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costome so we could move around inside. Yeah, that's right. Almost was
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caught there by little Harry the rum bottle. Remember but when the coast was
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clear, as he threw the body over the cliff and went into dancing Bishop's
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Mephistopheles. Look, I know this already, but after he shot me,
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he was as sent to escape. That's where it gets puggy. What happened
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then? Brother? It's handsome a piece of irony as I've ever seen.
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The Mephistopheles got them that Bishop would all tell me. Yeah, well,
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first pride that's all. The club wouldn't let us he's leave until he received
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the award and unmad. Oh it's quite a scene at police. I called
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when I thought you were a killer, showed up to take him away.
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Then we found you on meddling out on the terrace and brought you here.
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And a happy Halloween to you tube. How's meddling fine? Thanks to your
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efforts. He's waiting outside now I'll send her in. He's working on Okay,
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Hello, hello, beautiful throat. Food could have been loose. He
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could have left just in time, even had new food. His voice is
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so good. The cups was wearing a wristwatch band from the Palisades Minute Men
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Club. Gave me the switch. I knew it was Dayling the customer.
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I think it is the only reason for impersonating his brother and didn't even have
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a gun. You cut in on him. I took a lot of mood.
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Okay, don't mention that. Would you get the lights as you leave?
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You had some pretty bad things about me tonight and probably thought up the
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se was very ill. Matter of fact, I didn't get that kind of
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faith. Okay, so that'll be careful with a day. Now we can
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catch the lights on your way out for you in a minute. I'm the
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maturity something too. I haven't since good into me to night, and I've
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been thinking things are going to be distance from a Yeah, those next Swanny,
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I haven't decided. But whoever he is model, he'll be the only
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one, and he's no exact way. I'll have to see it happened first,
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daty, Okay, I'm going to wait for a while, but i'll
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be black watch the next time. Yeah, would you put your way out?
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M Madlin left sleep left with it. I got out of bed,
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went over the window and looked out the sky, and the ocean was killed
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k but over meeath the first glow of gong was starting on the horizon.
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The goblins flew screaming into the mist until next Halloween. At that moment,
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Okay moved across the pitting moon something that looked very much like a beautiful witch
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with hair sunset the cool green eyes, and I saw something else in the
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white sand of the beach, the scotted witch's custom and green and beyond it
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just grew over. I thought I saw Madalin leaning against the rock looking out
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the sea. I never found out if it was Madelon or not, because
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then the sun came out and she costume and a well God. The Adventures
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of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character, star Gerald Moore
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and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Robert Mitchell and
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Gene Levitt. Feature and the cast were Eve McVeigh, John Danner, Paul
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Please welcome back. All things considered, this is an incredibly good episode.
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It was probably a lot more rare it was for programs to have Halloween based
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episodes. The Adventures of Sam Spade approached Halloween story by just going, you
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know, totally over the top sort of comedy, sort of feel what Marlowe
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does in this program, without going to any sort of weird, strange happenings
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or literal ghost or witches or anything like that, he creates It's a great
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atmosphere and mood. You get a sense that Marlowe is not a fan of
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Halloween. I get the sense it's because he's dealt with so much real death
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and darkness and so really just cannot get into this holiday at all. His
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feelings, you know, somewhat mixed and other parts he just absolutely didn't care
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for at all. It really creates just a great backdrop to the story.
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I will say that the writing for the revelation of the murderer and his motive
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was a bit melodramatic, but you had John Dayner delivering the lines, and
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so I think it came off pretty well. Actually, so this was a
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really intriguing and interesting episode. I thought it was kind of an interesting contrast
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with Crime and Peter Change, because Marlowe was a lot more hesitant about putting
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on a costume than Peter Chambers was. But then again, Peter Chambers was
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just going to a normal masquerade ball, and I think kind of Marlowe's mixed
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feelings on Halloween may have contributed a little bit to is reluctance. Anyway,
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listener comments and feedback, and I know we just finished Man from Homicide yesterday,
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but since we're not going to have any more episodes, I did receive
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an email from Christy who writes in regarding the second episode we played of Man
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from Homicide. If we were still playing the show, I would have waited
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until it's stay in the rotation, but since we're done with it after this
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week, we'll go ahead and address it now. She says, I've been
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mostly listening to Sherlock Holmes, but catch up every few days on the rest
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of it. Today I heard the third episode of Men from Homicide, and
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Wow, it was dark, like really dark. I can handle most of
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it, but this was almost too much. How he handled each He's dead
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felt overly cold and almost cruel. I can definitely see that Lieutenant Dana was
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a very cold character and will really the show ended up being a summer replacement.
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You can definitely see reasons why it wasn't picked up. You know,
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this is the type of thing, you know, I think might have gone
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over, Say if we had a radio in the nineteen seventies when you had
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the Death Wish movies and Dirty Harry really didn't work too well in the nineteen
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fifties, And I definitely would not probably enjoy old time radio detectives if they
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were all like Lieutenant Dana. But if there's a spectrum from nicest detective to
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meanest detective, Lieutenant Dana over on the mean side, with probably mister Keen
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Tracer of lost Persons his polar opposite. And I guess one reason I do
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answer this on Philip Marlowe is I think that Marlow really, you know,
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I find it fascinating. You know, we played Pat Novac for Hire right,
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you know, before this, and also opposite Philip Marlowe on Wednesday.
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To me, it does create kind of a contrast. I mean, I
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think that both Pat Novak for Hire and Man from Homicide have merits, but
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they don't get the hard boiled detective genre exactly right. And I think Philip
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Marlowe comes as close as any show does to that, because it deals with
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a seedier side of life, and with some dark moments, and with a
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he who is capable of unleashing righteous fury on you. Nevertheless, there's also
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a certain touch of kindness, compassion, humanity, and even some wistfulness that
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you'll find in Philip marlow that you won't find in heroes. While perhaps entertaining,
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may be a bit too hardcore for a lot of us. All Right,
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well, that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with
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Nick Carter, and join us next Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of
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Philip Marlow. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great
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