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Philip Marlowe: The Lonesome Reunion (EP1349) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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of Philip Marlowe, The Lonesome Reunion of Cops that Wouldn't Stay Dead. A
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pistol with a silence around, a of fortune in a black satchel spelled death
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for the Big City Boys when they finally got together in Loans in Arizona,
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population eight h two on the pane of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime
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fiction comes his most famous character. As CBS presented The Adventures of Philip Marlowe,
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and now with Gerald Moore starretist Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting
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story, The Lonesome Reunion. At eight thousand feet on a clear afternoon,
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you can see enough Arizona real estate to become an authority on the subject.
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And as I huddled around a circle of window aboard an American Airlines flagship and
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gaped like a two weeks with pay vacationer at the carpet of sand stone and
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cactus, unrolling a slow inch at a time below, I was impressed.
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Also, I was thinking about a job which was providing both the switch and
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scenery and two CRISP one hundred dollar bills less the cost of a round trip
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ticket from LA to the capital city of Phoenix. But then at the thought
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of money, I stopped sightseeing and started to think about the work ahead and
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how easy it had sounded that morning in my office when Kay Gordon was something
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pretty and blonde but slightly tonished for twenty eight it hired me all in one
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bread marlow My brother Joe Gordon is in a room with the Granada Court Hotel
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in Phoenix, Arizona. In one hand, he no doubt has his usual
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smelly cigar. In the other a small suitcase filled with a mess of papers,
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all legal or proper. You fly there, pick up the suitcase,
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fly back for that two hundred dollars cash, Yes or no, Yes,
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on one condition, the papers? Do I get to see them? If
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I look, I go all right, you look good, I go goodbye.
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That was the way it started. An hour after breakfast lunch was alone
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in the the airport. Then it would wait until I'd seen mister Joe Gordon,
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a man who was willing to pay a lot for a little. My
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plane dropped out of the sky over Phoenix gently at three. At three point
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fifteen, I was in room one eleven with the Granada Hotel and only thirty
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six smelly inches away from the usual cigar. The man behind it was heavy,
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pale and maybe forty, and like his sister, Joe Gordon, was
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overbearing in a hurry. The smiler is the bag they used. The papers,
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stocks, bonds and mortgages in themselves worthless to anyone else. There now
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negotiable information to my competitors. They're priceless, satisfying, more or less meaning
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what exactly what is your line, mister Gordon. Oh, I'm a broker,
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one who bets on long shots when they come in. I don't like
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to split with the boys who sit in their hands. Anything else. Yeah,
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I've got some time to kill before I fly back, So I take
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the bag now or later. You take the bag now, okay, and
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don't let go of it until you're with my sister in La. I'm paying
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you money to stay away from my enemies, not to shop for trinkets.
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Oh and incidentally, my enemies also play rough, So wash your step and
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act smart, real smart. I still had two hours to kill when Gordon
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locked the bag and handed it to me after dropping the key in his pocket,
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So I decided to take a room there at the Granada Hotel, shave
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shower and stretch a sleepy clerk in the lobby. It was not in a
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hurry, nor did he hear anything I said the first time. So when
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I finally got to my suite on the second floor, which had as much
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ill ballroom is the inside of a life saving thirty of the idle minutes were
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already gone. I locked and bolted the door, checked all the windows,
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carefully and then peeled off my shirt, broke out my shavemaster, and reached
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for the knob on the bathroom door. But I never made it because as
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the door swung open, I caught a glimpse of a fist the size of
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a candleope standing for my jaw. I stay right there, Buster. The
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first time I swing, the second time I shoot, and I do both
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good equal nice. Everything all figured out ahead of time. Yeah, but
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it ain't very hard, especially when the guy he wrapped it shouts at all
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to a desk clerk, my era, which leaves just the three of us
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real cozy life. Three you, me and one hundred and twenty grand here
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in this bag. You way off face, brother. This bag's got papers
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in it, nothing more. They belonged to a businessman. I said something.
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Yes, you're very funny, look, Buster, Joe Gordon is no
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moral businessman and his real name is Joe Gordon. So after I leave,
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you go back to Sam Dietrich in room one level been and tell him that
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Marty stopped. He says, thanks, Oh, what for the one hundred
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and twenty thousand dollars I've been waiting two long years for? And also tell
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him and Gigi Ganther, who might still be around that Stoppka had it all
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figured. Like you say, malow ahead of time. I don't follow you,
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Bud. You're not supposed to just turn around, face the wall and
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listen carefully. You tell Sam Dietrich that I know he'd pull something like this
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just as soon as he got back into circulation. You got that. Yeah,
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yeah, word for words. Stop g yeah. Now all you have
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to do is remember Marty's Tapka said, remember, And he put that cattle
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up with fingers in the small of my back and shoved hard. By the
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time I got my feet again, both he and the black bag were gone.
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Had made Joe Gordon or Sam Dietrick my best bet. So I took
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the stairs at the ground floor fast and raced for the end of the carter
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in Room one eleven. When I threw the unlocked door open, I found
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something I hadn't counted on. A curtain flapping in the breeze of an open
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window, or nothing more. The desk draws, the closet, the bureau
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empty, and on an end table next to the telephone a bus schedule unmarked.
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At that I was beginning to get very mad at a private detective with
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Public Patsy named Philip Marlow. Then the telephone rang, and when I answered
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it, the operator said that she had a long distance call for Joe Gordon.
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I said, thanks, I'd taken Hello Sam, this is Kay Marlow.
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Yeah, honey, Joe Marlow is in brother Gordon. Remember. Oh,
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I can explain all that Marlow. Oh sure, sure, baby,
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but not now. Later, later, after you've had a chance to think
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up a few more live all right, all right, So I didn't tell
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you the whole story. What's the difference. Did you get the bag?
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I did, but I didn't get to keep it very long. Something ugly
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name Stopga wanted either rid or my life. So I made a quick decision.
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Stoca has the bag. Oh that's great. Yeah, yeah, isn't
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it? Though? One thing, baby, I'm the decoy with suitcase for
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some kind of Shenanigan that's wrapped around one hundred and twenty grand, which you
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and Sam Dietrick have. And there's a trio in the act namely Sam Dietrick,
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Marty Stop Gun One, g Ganta, Gig Marlow. Have you seen
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Gig have you made maybe? Yes? Maybe no? Why don't you come
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clean? It'd met you happy that Stopka got the suitcase from me while Sam
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beat it out of an open window. That my part of the job is
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over with. Come on, baby talk all right, I'll make it shorten
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to the point. You got two hundred dollars for doing nothing. Out of
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that, sixty ydd went for an airplane ticket. The rest is yours,
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right, go on, there's no need to Marlow. I'm finished, and
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so are you, so why don't you just be a good fellow and keep
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the change? So long? Sucker and kay Gordon hung up. I slammed
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the phone down, cut a tin twice, and went back to the unhappy
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business of getting mad at Marlow. But again I was interrupted. This time
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it was a newspaper, the Phoenix Herald, sticking farn Off out of the
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wastebasket under the telephone to expose the dateline, which made it exactly a week
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old. I picked it up and saw the two inches of story circled in
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pencil and slugged five released from state penitentiary. Sam Dietrich, forty one of
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Los Angeles, who was arrested in Lone of Arizona for the armed robbery of
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a general store in February nineteen forty seven, also was released today. Now
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everything was beginning to add with one high priced exception. Very few general stores
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in towns called lonesome keep one hundred and twenty thousand bucks in the till,
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even on a busy day. So I headed for the office of the Phoenix
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Herald and the chance that I could learn something about the cash involved from newspapers
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that were two years better than one week old. Thirty minutes later, I
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was in the back shop of a herald receiving facts willingly supplied by a sandy
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head liner type operator with a sad face who had never heard the word forget.
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Tripe. Mosster was the second National Bank of land comparty here in town,
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held up at one ten pm February cheven, nineteen forty cheven, but
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three men who took one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, none Mark Hanns twenties
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and fifties. One was badly wounded and run gunfight, but they all got
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away clean, no arrest, no suspects, rather than the usual rigamarola trying
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to pin the job and every two bitch stick up man hold in the next
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six months, no anything else, No thanks, I don't think. Say,
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wait a minute longsome Arizona, that unmarked bus schedule. Tell me,
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do you happen to know where something called lonesome is? And if so,
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how a guy could get there if he doesn't have a car. Sure,
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Jati seven miles west. You're here and the bush will do the trick,
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but not anymore today. Uh the only bush left an hour ago. And
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now, young fellow, you tell me something work? And Sam here is
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lonesome in the bush departure you got to do where the bank robbery was pulled
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two years ago? Where I stand right now? Dad, I can't say
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when I get the lonesome Ask me again, I may have the answer for
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you. I was thirty minutes running a car and in thirty minutes getting the
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lonesome population eight h two. I drove without seeing anything that could possibly be
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mistaken for Sam Dietrick. I was about to turn back when I saw something
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that brought my right foot down hard on the break was a brand new green
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mash standing outside a Motel California license plate. Got out of my car and
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got a look at a registration card wrapped around the steering wheel. It said
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Katherine E. Gordon the motel only had three kettles that showed any light.
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The first belong to the manager. In the second decay, close to an
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open window, I saw the man K was talking to. He was an
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ext convict and part time broke. I named Sam Dietrich. All right,
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all right, so Marlo knows he was set up for Martie Stoffka. Who
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cares? We're hearing so far? Stop givesn't And even when he does show,
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we'll be gone with a real black bag safe on our hand. Yes,
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but what about Gigi Saim? I told you Marlo mentioned his name.
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I told you to forget it. Parla must have been swinging in the dark.
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Gigi can't be alive, Kay. He was badly hurt when the stopped
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and I got clear of the bank. But why wasn't his body found?
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I don't know, Kay, I pulled you out a thousand times. Now.
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Now, look, honey, why don't you just relax and think of
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us a little Gigi's dead baby. There's only you and me, Sam.
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You know how I feel about that. I love Gig. The only reason
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I'm helping you. I don't want anything to do with this money. I
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only want to know for sure about gig. Kay, okay, hey,
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did you get a line on Leland Mills, the name that was on that
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mailbox two years ago? Yes, yes, yes, he owns the place
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and lives there alone, once upon a time, small ranch on the last
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block in town. Coming apart of the scenes, What about Mills himself.
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He's an older fer maybe fifty, lives close to the fireside day in and
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day out. Good. That means I can handle him that in trouble.
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And now look, baby, it's says seven. Now at nine this time
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will be fast asleep, and at ten I'll take care of everything. So
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why don't you just curl up there on the couch and think about nice things?
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Oh, nice things like what we like? The money I had at
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Leland mills place five hours after the boys and I took that bank one hundred
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and twenty thousand dollars that's soon going to be back here with me. You
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were belongs, and I took my queue and left because one Leland Mills was
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a man to be four one, while ten o'clock was still three hours away,
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I was ten minutes finding his place, which was on the edge of
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town, and another two locating the doorbell, which was the kind of pull
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to start a bunch of jingling inside. It was three pools later before the
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door creaked slowly opened, and what had to be Leyland Mills stood in front
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of me. It was shaggy gray hair curling on the side of his neck,
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a face with a thousand crisscrossed wrinkles, and dirty old clothes. Everything
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I'd expected, with one exception, ripped firmly in both hands and pointed directly
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if my head was a long, long rifle. Oh are you, mister
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Mills. Maybe well, I'm a private detective named Philip Mallow. Also someone
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who knows that there's one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in cash shitting here on
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your ground, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars to the penny. Yes,
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two years ago, mister Mills, the Phoenix Bank was rubbed by three toughs
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named Dietrich stopgn gg ganther gg. That's a queer name. It's not important,
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old man, but this is now, somehow or other, that stolen
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money was hidden here in or around your place, and tonight one of those
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men is d back to collect. That, of course, means trouble for
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you. You think we should call the law. No, not yet.
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If we play it smart, we can get the door spotted first and at
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least one of the three. All right, mister Morlow, if you're sure
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of what you're saying, I only hope you are sorry about this gun here.
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I don't like poachers on my land. Yeah, we all have our
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pet peeves. Now, mister Mills, I want you to sit tight till
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I get back, and no matter what happens, don't open that door for
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anyone. If you got that h yep, where are you going to town?
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Checking? The only two things that can possibly give us any unexpected trouble
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on a nasty man named Mardy Stopkin. The other guy I've never even seen,
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the elusive mister G. G. Ganther. In just a moment,
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we will return to the second act of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. But
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first, that elusive phantom voice will be back on CBS's great show sing It
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Again tonight, and the prize for identifying him is now climbed to a value
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of twenty four five hundred dollars. Yes for music, suspense and sensational prizes.
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Don't miss the Singing Again Show tonight. Over most of these same CBS
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stations, and now with Gerald Moore starred, we returned to the second act
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of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The Lonesome Reunion. I left Leland Mills
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standing in the door and worried my way back to town if Stopken Gigi Ganta
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had no more trouble getting lonesome than I did. A reunion about as quiet
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as a truckload of hot dynamite was due to take place any minute. I
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passed the motel where k and Dietrich could hold up and saw that Hakka moved
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into the stall between cabins and draped with a blanket to hide its California place.
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So they were thinking along the same line that I was. At the
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hub of town. I parked and started to case the lively spots on Main
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Street, which took me all of ten minutes at a slow walk, but
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a short side of the mouth conversation with a couple of resident sports revealed that
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the local underground stemmed from the Red Dog Cafe, a warped wood two story
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wiki up on the one side street in town. It was operated by a
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hard bitten blonde one hundred and sixty pounds of western motif, complete with stetson,
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red flannel shirt, hiccock belt, blue jeans, and the name Flora.
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She sat at a table at the back of the bar room, letting
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us cynical it to nobody else but my old pal stopped. I walked up
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behind him and when he turned around, I hung one on him, A
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good one. Love me, Jack. What do you think you do?
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Sorry, Flora? Nothing personal, that's got canny, no rock, husband
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and I joined. Come on, Hensome, I mean you me? Why,
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Flora? How can you say that? I just came in and asked
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my old pal here some questions. That's all. Here we go, Pal,
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come on, set up in that share, okay, Ki let me
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alone, say Flora. The only way stop your here knows how to start
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a conversation. Bring him another beer? What is all? When got spilled?
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You're right boy? When you see that, you dude, Torris Levia
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beefs outside. Next time, I look, stop you. I want to
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know what happened two years ago on that highway out here. You guys split
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up, didn't you? You better talk? Stop you all right? We
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split up? The heat was on Bladen. Gigi was half dead already from
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a cop slug in his back. Datrick had all though, right, What
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do you think I left him and gig off outside of town. I took
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the car, tried to shuck the cops away from him. We were supposed
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to meet later. I just kept going to save your own high, didn't
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you. Certainly I'm just gonna pay you off, shucker. You'll see since
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the money was never found. You figure Ditrich hit it around here and he's
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coming back to dig it up? Is that it? Keep guessing, shamish?
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Maybe we ought to loosen your jaw again. Stop him handsome and by
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Sadie, I'll plug you well, a real genuine forty four? What museum
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just wiped that from? Flora never mind? Got a legal right to defend
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the piece and choir tom I joint and after twenty two years and this dad,
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I don't know how to do it now. I ask your knights once.
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Now I'm telling you you get out that back door there, sure,
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thanks, Hey, wait a minute, flurna, let that look get away
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yet? Up? How you sat down right there and count up to fifty?
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Then you're leaving by the front quietly? Okay, you win one two
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Flora coud he's back. Sorry you bother bait. I'll leave this cannon on
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the back steps. How long Flora? I beat it out the back door
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and into an alleyway between the shacks. Stoppka was still in sight, but
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walking fast, and when I took after him, he saw me and started
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to run. It was a hud flat sound, like someone striking wet sand
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with a hammer. Stopka folded and lurched up on his toes, as if
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he suddenly changed his mind about running. The same insn't on a wall even
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with him, I saw the shadow of a man holding a pistol with a
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long, awkward barrel. The hard flat sound came again. Stopped, the
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curled up on himself and fell, and the shadow slid off the wall disappeared.
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I ran for the wounded man, but by the time I got to
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him, there was no trace of the gunman. A roll stopped go over.
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He was hit hard, slipping away fast. Silence always used the silence,
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dad, huh, you wise guys never know when to quit, do
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you? You're in real trouble now, Handsome, Hey, wait a minute,
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I didn't do this. Come. I couldn't hear the shot to silence
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him? Yeah, that's right, trade Mark of a guy named Gigi Ganther.
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All I saw of him was a shadow on that wall. Say what
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kind of law have you got in this town? Flora non scept the highway
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patrol I stopped in every night. Okay, call him, get him over
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here. This guy's Mardy Stoppa, wanted for a bank job, nearly two
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years old. Now kidding who you as trainer. I'm a private detective who's
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got no business here except I don't like to be pushed around. I listened.
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Do you know Leland Mills Place at the edge of town? Sure?
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When you get the cops out the Mills Place by ten thirty, do you
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understand that's where the big attraction is going to be? If I can keep
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Gigi in his silence of amdter fearing again, let me down, beautiful.
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Yeah, I won't let you down, Hanson City boy, You're all right.
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I stepped to a back road and drove with my lights out until I
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was a good safe distance beyond Leland Mills Ranch, and I hit the car
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in a dry gully and walked back. The house was dark and still,
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I thought once what might have happened? The Mills of Gigi had gotten there
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ahead of me. I kept in the shadows and worked my way across the
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yard at the back door. Who's there, i'llah open up. I was
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beginning to worry. It's pretty near ten o'clock. I know, I know,
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I've seen anybody so far. No, nope, not a soul.
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I've been watching close too. Did you find them men? That gg that
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stop cut? Yeah? Stop is dead and as killers. You to show
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up here anytime now. Oh, we're going to have our hands full.
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I wait a minute. Is that a car? Sure sounds like one.
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Yep. There you can just make it out. Turned it down by the
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covert and stopped. Yeah, I think a man got out. Yeah,
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yeah, there he goes across the field there behind your shed. It's Dietrich.
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I'm going out in my mills. You stay here. No, I'm
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going too. That That fellow's head and right for my watertank. All right,
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he's heading for your water tank. Don't get excited, you'll tip I
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met I get this mills. You've got to stay here and watch for Gigi.
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He's bound to show up, and when he does, you better have
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that rifle of yours handy, because he's a killer. Do you understand?
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Yep? Sure, I understand. Don't worry, Marlow, I'll keep my
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eyes open. Don't you worry about a thing. When I eased out of
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the door and started across the yard, I knew I was getting myself out
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on a nice long limb. Leyland Mills was about as reliable as William Tell
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with their hiccups, and the apple was on my head. It was too
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late to back up, so I skirted the bond, stayed below the crest
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of a low rise, moved toward the elevated water tank until I heard a
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shovel biting dirt. I got a comfortable grip on my gun, headed up
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over the rise to where I could see, and it was Dietrick all right.
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It was fent over under the tank and working on a hole as if
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his life depended on it. He didn't even look up until I was almost
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on top of him. Who's there? Who is it me? Mister Gordon
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Mallow? How did you get hit? It wasn't easy, sammy boy.
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I had to come and apologize for losing your precious bag full of waste paper.
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And you sure picked a dangerous time. The showsucker. You were fired
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once to bed. You can't take a hint uh huh, and being tagged
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as a Patsy's lousy for my business. Dietrich isd have thought of that.
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Just leave your hands on that shovel handle, Sam, and keep on digging.
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Maybe I'll let you take a peek at that one twenty grand before I
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turn you both over to the place. Go on digging out, not so
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fast, male, else, I told you to stay in it. Hey,
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that's quite a pistol. Don't move, neither one of you. I'll
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kill you if you move, you mallow, drop your gun, drop it.
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So this is where it's been all the time, one hundred and twenty
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thousand dollars. I looked everywhere, every day for two whole years. But
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I never thought of looking here under the water tank. When you knew where
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the money was all the time, you'll lie, you'll lie. I'm the
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only one that knew that. No. One night, two years ago,
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I heard a noise in my bond. It was a man groaning. I
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looked in and I saw him. He was wounded. And I saw you
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when you come back from burying the money. I overheard the whole thing.
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You wouldn't tell him where you'd hidden it. You said you'd never tell anybody,
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but I was sure I could find it. I looked everywhere, sat
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yeah, Mills, everywhere except here under the water tank, where you buried
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Gigi's body after you killed him, and with his own gun at that.
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Oh no, I didn't kill him Dietrich here. I only buried him so
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nobody would find out that him and Dietrich had stopped at my place. I
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almost went crazy looking for that money, But nah, I know where it
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is, and I'm going to have it. You fool. You don't think
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i'd come out here with nothing but a shovel, do you. A friend
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of mine is right behind you with a gun in the hand. To come
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on, drop yours room, Come on, come on, drop it all
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right? Okay, that's an old trick, die trick. Let him have
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it? Shoot? K shoot? Didn't work, did it? And knew
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I'd have to kill you sometime anyway if you ever came back. So you
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wull Mills. I suppose that makes me next. Yep, mister Marlow,
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I think it does. Think again, mister Mills, who's that? Kay?
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You were there all time, and Ditric wasn't. I love youkay,
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baby, And I'll take the gun own, Mills, turn it loose.
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Come on, break your arm. That's better. I'll look after this gun
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until the police get here, and look after this one. Toomlow, I
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haven't got the courage to use it anyway. I couldn't even shoot Sam Dietrick
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with it. He's the one I wanted to use it on. Why because
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of Yeah, because he killed Gigi and live to me, I promised to
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help Dietrich on because I figured all three of them would show up here,
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Sam, Stopka and Gigi. That way, I hope to find him again.
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You were right, baby, all three of them did show up,
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only this time they finished that job good. It was ten thirty on the
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nose when we got back to the house and the highway patrolla just pulled up,
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So the question in answer period started, and by the time it was
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over all the field work finished up, four hours plus had gone by.
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It took some fast conversation and a lot of promises to stay handy, but
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finally Kay was left with me. After all, her only real mistake had
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been falling in love with the wrong kind of a guy. When the last
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patrol car drove away, the desert was suddenly very still. The stars were
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small and sharp and the clear sky. Yeah, it was cold. Maybe
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that was why k got and trembled. I'm sorry about all this. I
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got you into it, Remember he also got me out of it. K.
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Well, I can forget about Gigi now that I know for sure what
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happened, and all because of a jerk named Leland Mills. Mills was a
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desperate guy, k after he buried Gigi just about when nuts trying to find
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the money. When he finally realized Dietrich was the only one would lead him
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too, he shot Stopkin would have killed anybody else, keeping fermiterfering with Dietrich
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until he uncovered the hiding plate you know in away, Mallow. It was
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a horrible trick of fate. They both picked the same place to bury things.
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Not really, Nels and Dietrich had the same jobs to do under the
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same conditions. They each had to bury something in a hurry and in the
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dark, so both of them picked the spot where the ground was soft and
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one that was clearly marked at the same time under the water tank. Yeah
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and it Mallow, I'm kind of scared. I don't like this place,
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this spooky little town. It's the end of nowhere. Yeah, I wouldn't
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be caught dead here myself. Let's go, baby. I walked herto a
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car, started us safely on our way. So long, sucker. She
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waved once and drove down the road and out of sight without looking back.
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Soon even the sound of the motor was gone. A long night and a
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strange reunion, and now two lonely lights were the only sign of life in
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lonesome Arizona. I stood on the empty highway for a few minutes and listened
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to the immense quiet of the desert. And I went back to my rented
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car and headed for Phoenix and a plane. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe,
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created by Raymond Chandler, stars Gerald Moore and is produced and directed by Norman
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McDonald. Script is by Meldon l. A, Robert Mitchell, and gene
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Leavitt. Featured in the cast were Joan Banks, Edgar Barrier, Virginia Gregg,
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Jeff Chandler, Bill Bouche, and Jack Khrusian. The special music is
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by Richard o'rant. May sure and be with us again next week. When
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Philimolo says it was a weird racket that mushroomed in a world of gaudy canvas
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and the man with purple hair, the inquisitive midget, and the Lady with
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Strong Hands each played a part, but all that was only a sideshow when
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death got into the act. Across the nation, communities and the parents of
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boy Scots are observing Boy Scout Week, agreeing with the boys themselves that adventure
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that's scouting. Now. Stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most
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of these same CBS network stations. This is roy Ron's for CBS the Columbia
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Broadcasting System. Welcome back. What of This is one of my favorite episodes
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of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. The exact identity of Leland Mills was a
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good twist, and there was just a lot of mystery and atmosphere, and
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really this was just engaging. I haven't listened to all of the episodes of
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this series, but this has got to be close to my favorite of those
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that I've heard. I love the whole pond that they come up with with
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the law with the Lonesome Reunion. Now, there is not actually a city
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named Lonesome in Arizona. There is a Lonesome Valley, which is more from
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what I can gather about Arizona. More of a wilderness area outside of Prescott.
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Also, we got to hear Jeff Chandler of the New Adventures of Michael
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Sheene fame as one of the thugs in this story. So overall, just
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a pretty solid episode. I really enjoy it, and this is one of
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the reasons why The Adventures of Philip Marlow is simply one of my favorite detective
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shows ever. So I'm just so glad to be bringing that to you.
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All Right, Well, listener comments and feedback don't have any right now,
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so that'll actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with Nick
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