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Philip Marlowe: The Cloak of Kamehameha (EP1397) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the
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Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air at eight was April the twenty third
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of nineteen forty nine, and the title is The Cloak of Camea Maya.
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It started it doing in a Los Angeles taxi and wind up that night on
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a cliff in the middle of the Pacific, all because of a Dutchman with
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fifty thousand dollars, a coups in, a lily Punton, and an orienter
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with a show for one of that cloak nte of nothing but that is from
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the pen of Raymond Chandler, standing author of crime fiction, comes his most
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famous character and the Adventures of Philip marlow Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip
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Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story. A quote of a Maya Maya.
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The message that a repulsively wide awake boy who was missing at two Front
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Row Center had delivered at six am had come in two parts. The first,
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scrawled in black ink on a wrinkle piece of paper, said marlow get
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hold of a taxicab, poses the driving yourself and an exact at eight o'clock
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this morning, come past eighty eight to forty in a thousand drive, signed
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Pollard Schindler. The second half made more sense. It was printed in neat
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letters, I need a green paper and under an engraving a Benjamin Franklin read
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one hundred silver dollars payable to the bearer and the man. So at exactly
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eight o'clock, I was behind the wheel of a hired cab leather jacket pete
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cap too quick and all and within hey taxi distance of number eighty eight forty
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Mister Pollard Schindler round man and square clothes with haircut to match was not late.
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That's way, yes, sir calv of course, I think I'm humping
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my head off. I want to go to the municipal airport. Do you
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understand the municipal airport at Inglewood? Okay, Okay, Inglewood Municipal Airport.
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It is mellow Mika, quick put the flag down eree minute and oh yeah,
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watched by whom mister Sindler. Yeah, I do not know, man,
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I would listen carefully. Mallowlika. You want to go to the hall
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An a hotel and wait for a young lady named Lani Collier. Then at
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the hour she designates you go to her house number forty four Diamond Head Circle
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and pick up the Oh wait a minute, Halemoana Diamond Head all those places.
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This hotel isn't my NHS in Hawaii. Didn't I mention this in my
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note? No? You didn't. In order to mention picking up a cloak.
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That just proves I haven't been myself ever since yesterday when I received this
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anonymous letter that's postmark onno Lulu. All it says is Camea Maya's cloak of
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golden feathers will bring no less than death. Have you ever been to the
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islands, Yeah, twice once business one's pleasure. But then surely you've heard
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people who speak of Kingdom Maya mayor. Oh sure it was back in the
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seventeen eighties, right, they organized a conquer Oahu by driving the defenders over
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that cliff that divides the islands. Yeah, that's it, my lord.
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The feather cloak at Kamea Maya was about one hundred square teeth and strided a
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golden yellow feather value that more than half a million dollars. Really, how
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come, well, fads? Oh yes, but they are from the now
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extinct black Mamo bird mallow and there was only one yellow fellow on each bird.
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And I could explain why they're now extinct. Don't tell me this is
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all a game of Calia and Marlow, the sandler with a cloak the Blanston
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And you say, oh no, no, Marlow, no, it isn't
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there with the cloak you speak of, But Lanny Carlia has another one less
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valuable. Of course it's one quarter of the size, but it also belonged
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to the king, and it also has made the big priceless feadows. And
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it's this a property to having the whole legal like yeah, yeah yeah.
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Lney is wealthy young, oh yeah, about forty five. He went to
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a fashionable schools here in California and without cares more about fun and first from
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I J. Fox and she does priceless early. So for fifty thousand dollars,
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I have bought the cloak to is sell to a New York millionaire,
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but almost she loves Island law and Vegas. I was right. I'm still
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being followed just right. First, no no, no, no, no,
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nothing exactly as I want it. Whoever it is will follow me,
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not to and when I am in Honolulu, they will still follow me while
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I take care of the business on hand. Y. Yes, here is
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a reservation for you on the next plane. So after you leave me and
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collect your cab there which will be five hundred dollars, you drive away.
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Then later Mallow get back here board your plane. And tonight when I've got
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the cloak, they get back to your hotel room at the Alamo Anna and
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sit on it. Ah Because unless I am a complete success as a decoy,
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you will have your share of couple two. I'm sure, but Marlow
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from which specific direction it will come, I do not know. I got
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the five hundred bucks, which is the cover expenses for my honolul will trip,
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and I was told to keep the change. So after I returned both
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cab and costume with their owner, I had a tend of the original hiring
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price and had him drive me back to my apartment and wait while I packed.
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Then I got into the cab again rear seat said Municipal Airport Inglewood,
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and settled back to think about the crossroads of the lovely hula hands and what
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shouldn't be too rough a job there? I was wrong, because in the
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next minute and those that followed, everything was done in the hard way.
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First we ran out of gas, then got tied up at a traffic jam,
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and after that got stopped for speeding, all of which added up to
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me at the airport. Just in time, I'll watch my plane take off
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without me. But then when I told the cherubic clerk and a great flannel
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and insipid smile, that my name was Philip Marlow, that I wanted a
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reservation on the next flight, which was leaving in an hour. Things got
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even worse. But you can't be Philip Marlow, sir, That he's not
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the Philip Marlow who was on TI twenty one that just left. You have
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a reason for saying that life will certainly do. There were thirty six seats
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on that plane, sir, and when she took off, all thirty six
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were full. Now I know, I checked myself and I don't make mistakes.
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Well, bully for you, boy, but I happen to be both
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Philip Marlow and the man who was supposed to be on that plane also bluster.
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I'm out of patience. Now I get the next planet, don't I
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Come on, I can't stand in decision. Well, I got you what
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it could be arranged, mister mollow. It's a better effect. I know
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it came well in that case, my friend, Thank you. When we
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took off, my flame of mind left me ready and waiting for at least
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the crack up at sea. But an hour later, the last of California
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had slipped over the horizon, and there was only clear sky. I began
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to relax. My mind drifted pleasantly. The flavor of the lime life saver
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in my mouth made me think of tall, wondrous frosted Hawaiian punches and the
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sinulous grace of lovely whol hands. I opened my eyes again. Diamond Head
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was in front of us, majestic in the red globe, eating the sun.
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It gave all of the lush Morna valley. I could see the texture
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of pick building. We landed like the airport was made of marshmallows. And
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a half hour later I was in the lobby of the Hellnuana Hotel. It
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was cushioned rad tan and Filipino mahogany of a cool tile, and everywhere laughing
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sunburned faces wearing bright splashes of color. So smiling both inside and out.
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I walked briskly to the reservation desk and told a good looking Hawaiian and white
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flannel that I was Philip marlow That is reply, I stopped, smiling,
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both inside and out. But sir, your reservation was taken three hours ago.
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There must be some mistake. I doubt it, But you are Philip
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Marlowe of Los Angeles sir, that's right, and I've been through this before
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today because of what I thought was an error due to hey do to what
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me? And nothing? No, I'll talk to you later. There was
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a large circle of mirror on the wall behind the curtain. Even as we
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had talked, I caught her a flection of a beautiful tan girl in a
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cocoa brown suit, white pearls and nose stoppings, with the mention of my
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name, had Donna take that? It made a long blonde hair whip straight
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out, and she saw me watching it. She pivoted sharply on a spiked
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field and hurry total deny under a Banian tree, where there was Hawaiian music
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and a lot of different looking people drinking the glass top tables under a three
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quarter moon. I stayed near the reservation desk long enough to light a cigarette,
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and then I followed them. She was seated away from a lobby entrance,
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and on a hunch that she might be landing Kallia, I started for
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an empty table next to hers, but the middle aged Chinese and Greg Gavidy
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and Panamata match slipped under the chair that I was after, so I forgot
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about being subtle. And addressing her as miss Callia, introduced myself as an
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old and dear friend of Pauline Schindler's one Leland Dunn. Well, this is
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a pleasant surprise, mister Dunn. But tell me how did you know what
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I looked like? Well, Paula Schindler's accent doesn't have for his vocabulary,
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Miss Callier, he used the right djuctive to believe me. I'd love to
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believe you, but I can't, mister Dunn, because Paulad Schindler never saw
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me in his life. Hould out business was done by Telifoni. Okay,
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my mistake. I'm Philamolo, and I want to know when we rendezvo with
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forty four diamond head circles with a cloak of kameya mayor. Yeah, you
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are no more Philip Mordel than you are Leland Dunn. And if you need
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a reason, it's that I just left Philip Hollow upstairs. My wait a
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minute, David, there's only one model that's me. I can prove it,
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y'all. Bet you can forge capers and all. I've already been warned
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to watch for imposters. So coup wasting both your time and mine, and
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get out of my way. I've got things to her work, Ronnie.
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I proved that you're neither dumb nor model, but comea Maya himself. No
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thanks and good bye. If there had been a door, should have slammed
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it all. Now I had two clues. One an obvious party would assume
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the name of Philip Mallow, and the other Lenny Kaya, less obvious but
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more intriguing. So figuring the road company Malow would keep, I followed Lennie,
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who by this time was getting into a new yellow Mash convertible. Before
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I got to it, she stepped on the gas, through the lights on
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and lurched from the curb. So I ran across the street to what I
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thought was a taxi, But I was wrong, because it turned out to
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be a Chouford limousine and being helped in by a small, swarthy item of
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ubious lineage you know, wrinkled cotton uniform. Was the Chinese and Greg Gabadeine
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and Panamata match who've been sitting nearest on the l nine. What counted more
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was that he obviously sensed my problem. You wish to follow the girls?
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Yeah, it's a lover spet, you know what I mean? I think
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so quickly. Yes, sir, you know where else she's going. I'm
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not sure. Maybe diamond head circle. Maybe he's gaining. Let's make a
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diamond head circle. They're fast away. There a shortcut. There is no
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no nola, which means what in never mind diamond head circles. Drive past
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to the factory and the thing I do not move. Mala, Oh comes
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the heavy artillery. Okay, cool man, show what's with the factory?
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You out of the way until the cloak of Kamehameha is mine, which won't
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work because, believe it or not, clever one, there's another Philip Mala
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with the moment a lot closer to that collection of fancy feathers than either of
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us. Nine. I bet they would not get here. Four. It
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was my chance. As we hit, I thought that his gun and then
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jerked the hand of the door and jump. When I got to my feet,
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I was on the sidewalk and bruised, but better off than Shina boy.
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It was draped over the back of the front seat and shouting dirty words
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and a half a dozen Oriental dialects at both Jolo and the driver of the
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pineapple truck that at sideswipers a cloud that included a towering Hawaiian policeman who promptly
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told mine hostess shut up, gathered in a hurry, so I ran for
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a TAXI, gave the driver ten bucks the address I wanted, and took
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off. The sweet on which Monny Cartier lived was a neat curving strip that
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rose sharply from sea level up to the shadow of Diamond Head itself. And
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we were there in less than ten minutes, but finding number forty four was
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something else, and another thirty minutes disappeared before we finally poked away from the
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place, which is Glass corner Wood, and they can't find the front door
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without a blueprints. I'd beat behind a thick grove of bake palms. That's
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all the driver back down the hill without losing this movie, and I stepped
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into the grounds and definitely moved toward the house. So what I thought was
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the trunk of another palm tree stepped into my past stop where you are at
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the top, which was over six and a half feet, there's a shock
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of flaming red hair. The whole frame was half covered in dirty yellow shirt.
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Once upon a time, white ducks and battered brown sandals. God daylight,
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it would have looked worse. Phew, were you someone with an appointment
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to see as Callier? Why you belong to this place? Yes? And
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this place belongs to me as well, all of it, Missus Carlier included,
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She's mine to protect. You understand that Malahini follow it Malahini green tourists
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the kind that I hate, and it's ravaging all this beautiful seeming the islands
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from those to whom they belong to Take it easy, Red, I'm not
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here to ravage or stick your pretty island into my when you're not looking.
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All I want is words with Lenny Keller, who are like the rest of
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them, crying with cunning with the seat, to turn her head away from
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these shores and toward the mainland where you come from. I won't stand for
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it. Look, why don't we break this round table up and get to
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the house. I'm in a hurry, all right. I'm sure that Landing
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will be on my side. So should In fact, that we really shouldn't
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disturb the flower? Should we? Should? We? My Lachini in just
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a moment the second actor, Phillip Marlow. But first, if mystery and
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detection are your dish don't forget you can get more of the same over CDs.
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Tomorrow, for instance, is the day when two unique and widely different
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sloths make their weekly appearance. One is that well known character Sam Spade,
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Dashall Hammett's heart boiled private Eye. The other slut, whose adventures are yours
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every Sunday, is Danny Clover, an old hand on that gaudy street called
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Broadway. Broadway is my beat, says Danny Clover, and it's a beat
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where anything can happen. Both Broadway Is My Beat and The Adventures of Sam
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Spade come to over most of these same CBS Network station. Now with our
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star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second actress, Phila Marlowe, and
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tonight's story, The Cloak of Kameya Maya, the red headed lunatic with a
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slow, soft voice and fast hot fist, took me by surprise and I
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wound up plat on my back, so I realized it's so much as move.
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By the time I got to my feet and took after me was sprinting
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for a bamboo thicket. I had a thirty yard lead, which was all
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he needed to lose me completely. And I finally untangled myself from the jungle.
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I came out on the road and I heard a motor behind me,
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so I dove for the underbrush again, just as a heavy car road by.
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I'd seen it before, in fact, I'd been in it. It
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was the limousine that belonged to the Chinaman. The back seat was empty,
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but the half pair show for Jolo was crouched behind the wheel. Drove out
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of sight, like his life to front the water. As I walked back
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toward the house, I saw that the door was standing open and spilling a
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shaft of yellow light across the dark grounds. Started up the walk when it
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came and a second lady, Lenny Kaya, burst into the path of light
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and ran to the open door. I went after a corn I want ham
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and spun around. Don't let me go? What happened? Why did you
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scream? Running in the year. I came up. I found him,
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Come on, show me. I talked to him. I gave him a
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cloth. Now it's conning. He's dead with the knife in his dad.
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What the oh, brother? Who is it running? You know? Hm?
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That's Philip Maltam. I made chromes Lenny tag that came in the lily
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pond with my name. He was faced down in the shallow water and three
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inches of crooked steel, the ugly cob handle of a Chris stuck straight up
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between his shoulder blades. Somebody had made a very grim mistake. But it
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took five minutes of argument and the thorough checking of all the credentials I carried
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to convince the badly frightened runner. I dragged the body out of the water
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and up onto the grass. Then I went to his pockets a card,
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Oh yeah, from the Hawaiian Island Art Products Company Limited me on the twelve
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Harbor Street. You mean anything, No, I never heard it. Put
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on the back light. Number departs the time of the plane I was supposed
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to take out of Los Angeles for three years. He's been one jump ahead
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of me all the time, right up to a Lily Kan. He was
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anyone with him when you gave the cloak, half casting the choke his uniformference.
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No, I gave him the cloak. Justic Shender had inspe listen,
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Ronna. There was a down at the heel redhead here just before you came
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out. He claimed to be a friend of yours. That was Lawrence cockran
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the poet. That guy's a poet. Yeah, at least he was going
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to be one grateful one years ago about two lovers who leaped together over Apollo.
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Oh he keeps him being setlated and their souls turned into bed It's still
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very popular here on the oll. What happened then? Oh, then he's
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got the habit of drowning and stuff in gin. Now the lady's calling a
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poli's occazy. That's closer. He's always hanging around. I suppose he still
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believes he's in love with her. He's not so crazy. My mother wanted
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me to marry him at one time. Now that she's dead, he thinks
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he shouldn't take him. Okay, Lonnie, and let him keep thinking.
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So what do you mean? I mean, you can use a good watch
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dog right now. So when Cochlan comes back, you make him park on
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your doorstep and was staying inside, And be careful. The guy's named Philip
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Marlow getting knives in their backs. I've got a few things to do myself
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with Faz. I like to borrow that souped up convertible of the oars.
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Where are you going? Number twelve Harbor Street and the Hawaiian Island Art Products
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Company Limited. Arba Street was a narrow, twisting alley two blocks below King
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Street, a kind of social sagesso where the derelicts of the Pacific quietly founded
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and dives built into the damp crevices between warehouses. However, number twelve turned
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out to be practically a blank wall. There was one small window high up,
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a door with a heavy iron grill over the glass on which Hawaiian Island
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Art Products Limited ik Lee President was painted in small black letters, and a
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thin passageway blocked by an iron gate at the side of the building. A
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light burned in the side that the door was locked. So, after I'd
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ruined my shoeshine and skinned all my knuckles, I managed to climb over a
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game an edge down the passageway to the rear, where I could hear water.
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Along there was a marble fountain playing in the center of a walled gardener's
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Orientalies for Bidden City. I eased the cross it's rigid dainteness to an open
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door, peek in, and then reached my gun. Because sitting inside with
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a sleep white mahogany desk of the Chinaman and the gray Panama. This is
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a somewhat unexpected ton of events. Please be carefully, gun. You'll be
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carefully and you won't have to worry about the gun. I'll tell me something.
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Why'd you break connect to get Tomaa's cloak anyway? No, it will
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happen if you would try to sell it. Oh right, good man,
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I can tell that cloak every day for the rest of my life. A
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fash. The world must be full of feather collectors, him manufacturer. If
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you told father lake islanders were on the heights while the bird is extinct,
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the desire for it one or two golden mammo feathers in each leave one hundred
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dollars of the Now do you understand you? If that thing's a little mixed
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up, actually powerful? Your boy Marlow is dead at Atlantic Collier's place.
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Oh no, that was on the sub lake and easily expected a gentlemen I
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had on the excuse you only pretended to be you would accept the feather cloak.
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I've known all about put planxception. I followed every movie. Is that
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it was I who caused all the other On the way to the airport this
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morning by means of a god. To your driver, answer the one,
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yeah too, bad. You won't be able to keep your nest lined with
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them as breathrow after all, because I'm going to walk out of here with
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it all big chunks of your person. Now name it the cloak now mm
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hm, I'm the gather from this. You don't have it. Marlow showed
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observation, and the shinder, as I suspected, has us. Darling La,
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I'm morning and start talking. That's all I wanted to find out.
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Go ahead, that is due, though, mister Marlow almost magic with me.
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Do look and break your back up our telling him to Marlow, so
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you behave Shinda has the cloak, no doubt about it. So I must
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find him at once with no interference from you. So dollow who has gone
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knock him inside? Keep Mallow until I call. I may meet him later.
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It's something the half cast a gun to my spine at the edge of
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his hand. My legs were paralyzed. I felt like the practice down me
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in a school for chira practice. Every joint in my body ache when I
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moved, so I didn't move into a feeling those back into my less and
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then I wabbled my feet and looked heart. There was the small high window
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and seen street, every chair, a desk with a lamp, and something
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like a picture framed in vampoo on the wall. I glanced at it and
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then and I looked back. He kept looking hard for a long long time
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until I finally realized what it meant. Answer to the whole thing was contained
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in that bamboo frame. I had to get out, and get out fast.
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I unplugged the lamp, plastered my back against the wall next to the
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door, and tapped on the lamp shade to and trigged Jolo into coming in.
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It worked, and the knob turned slowly. I threw the lamp up
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at the window. A crash brought the door open with a jerk, and
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Jolo stepped in with my gun in his hand. What he's going on here,
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mister mutt, Well, where are you right here? Come on,
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get up. I've got some magic to show you now. That trick I
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laned in Kansas called a hay mad. I ran down the whole of the
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street door and out of the car. There was no traffic problem at that
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hour, so I jammed guest cut of the floor and held it there right
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through the heart of Honolulu and up the twisting road that led to the mountains
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back of the city. The echoing roar of the motor is a tunnel through
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the forest. Lining The road was finally replaced by another raw wind, the
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unending gale that shrieks through a precipitous past three thousand feet above the city.
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The Polly. I swung the card to the side of the road and ran
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the rest of the way out to where the rocks rose to a knife edge
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that dropped a sheer thousand feet to the valley floor. And I spotted him
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Lanny, lying stunned at the cliff's edge, and standing over her, his
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red hair ripped by the wind. Was the mad Island poet, drunk as
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a lord, and flattening around his shoulders like a pair of huge gold wings.
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Was the cloak of Camea. Oh, don't weep my load. I
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offer you the freedom of the girl. Colney. You're the mad one.
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You can tell your treasure to leave the island. Your mesty is here.
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The one shinload can killed this cunning of the man who gave the coat to
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him. I killed thousand times to keep you here with me. You belong
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to the island's money like this doke and I do. We must Emily come
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and HOPI of a soon and our souls full tons of birds, and live
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forever in this paraconda. Don't in the beer money, honey, I know,
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I know, I know, all right, Lenny, Yes, I
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know. Look Hawker must have lost it as he fell. We had brought
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it back here to me. I don't want to touge it ever again.
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I know what you mean. Come on, baby, I'll carry it for
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you. Let's get out of here. Yeah. Ah, nothing like ham
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An ancient put black coffee in the morning, so to make one forget an
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ugrey night like my friends. Absolutely right, coffee, nice Lannie. So
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Lee was picked up on the little place. Yeah, sure, I had
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it all set up. He spent some time in prison, and that,
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by the way, he was still unconscious when you got to him world and
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feels he has it mostly that's when you got away the poll. Yeah,
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but how did you know it was law? Well, it all tied in
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with that one popular poem, cock Grinie. That anonymous letter you got in
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Los Angeles, mister Schindler was a line from that poem. And my house
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will bring no less than that. How did you find that out? Well,
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when I was locked up in Lee's factory. I saw a full copy
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of that poem on the wall, little bamboo prayer. When I came to
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the line you just quote it, it stuck out like it was putting me
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on that peg. Cochran as the killer. Once I had that, I
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tried to look at things from his angle. He was a murderer, sure
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to be caught, desperately in love, and sanely possessive of everything he thought
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belonged here on the islands. And he was an unbalanced lush as well.
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So all the rest of it figured, that's all. And when he was
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calling it, he went back to the one important everything exactly Baby. He
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was lost. So he identified himself with a hero of his poem. And
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but that is the only way out. Amisian fully, and am Asian a
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terrible thing. Who knows. But we all got what we went after,
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didn't we, each of us? The lines cockran after Shindler left to catch
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a plane for the mainland, and Lane said aloha and left to get right
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to grow. A day, I sat on the lanai of the hotel,
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watched the sweep of the Pacific fun Diamond tap the hills across the harbor,
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from the white sands of whitey Keys, the green shadows over the reef,
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with the purple depths beyond. There's a warm wind whispered to the palms.
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The natives strummed a jukuilele under a Banian tree. I heard Monny whisper.
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There's a The Adventures of Philip marlow created by Raymond Chandler, star Gerald Moore
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and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldon la Robert
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Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast was Barry Kroger with Lorette,
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Phil Brandt, John Dayner, Paul Freeze, Byron Kine and Clark Gordon.
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The special music is by Richard o'uran. He sure and be with us again
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next week. When Philip Marlowe says, a thick fog that clung to Los
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Angeles made searching for the girl who was going to kill herself slow and easy,
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And in the end, I'd have settled for that and more, because
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murder happened twice before I found the lady in me. Fifty two thousand dollars
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A nice pocket full of change to have around, isn't it well? The
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chance to win it comes your way again. Just a little later tonight when
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CBS's giant one hour quiz show Sing It Again, come to you over most
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of these same stations. This is Roy Rowan speaking. Now stay tuned for
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Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these same stations. This is CBS,
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the Columbia Broadcasting System, Welcome back. When the app was first introduced,
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the first version of the app had it so you could have an actual
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extra, just a general extra set for the whole app. And I had
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this program set as the extra that listeners could listen to because it's a great
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detective story. The one thing is there's just so much a plot and turns
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in it. It's one of those programs where you look up and you say,
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is this all really just in half an hour? Some fun characters,
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a great concept, and I love the ending. It's also nice to move
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Philip Marlowe out of la for an episode, something that was done very well
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back in The Lonesome Reunion done equally well here. And the mad Poet is
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villain just genius and I think a real hard boiled story. Now it's time
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for some listener comments and feedback. John asked a question, I love the
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show. Will you ever broadcast Broadway as My Beat? Yes, yes,
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I really do hope to do so. You can see a list of all
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the programs we hope to do over at Big Less, Great Detectives dot Net.
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Broadways My Beat is on there. It's a really going to be a
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really tough series to fit in just because of how many episodes are out there.
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It has one hundred and sixty three episodes in circulation, and of the
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series we haven't done yet, only Boston Blackie has a bigger archive of program
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So when we do Broadways My Baby, we're going to be looking at three
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years plus to get through it. And of course, Broadways My Beat is
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a show that you have to balance out. I love the show, but
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I know many people find it kind of depressing. I like the poetry and
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the feeling of the start of the show and kind of just the realism of
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how Danny Clover reacts to things. It's not, I would say, entirely
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realistic, but it's just a wonderful piece of art. But I also have
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to have a balance in there, which means, of course, when we
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do Broadways My Beat, we'll have to avoid any shows that could be seen
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as similarly depressing, so we won't have a night be going when we're doing
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Broadways my beat. But yeah, absolutely we're going to get to that.
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They'll just take some time, so stay tuned, and I appreciate everyone's patience.
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Well, that will do it for today. Join us back here tomorrow
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for Nick Harter Master Detective, and then we'll return next Wednesday with another episode
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of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. In the meantime, send your comments to
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