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Philip Marlowe: The Indian Giver (EP1481) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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support the show and support Great Detectives dot net. Well. The original lairedate
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of today's program is August the thirteenth of nineteen forty nine. The Adventures of
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Philip Marlowe and the Tittle is the Indian Giver. Get this and get it
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straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it wind up
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in the gutter the prison of the grave. It started with an Indian gift
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of a piece of pottery and led to a brown bear and moccasins, an
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archaeologist, much laughing order, and finally death in an alley. But just
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to make matters worse, the Indian giver was a female and one hundred percent
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genuine, hot blooded apache from the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of
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mystery, comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy, as we
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present the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald starred as Philip Marlowe,
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we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Indian Giver. By day, the
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industrial heart of any city is just so much steel and stone streets jammed full
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with the raucous sounds of one thousand and one different machines. But by night
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all of that is gone, and there are only endless, smooth sided,
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lonely canyons that overflow the steady, humming silence that everywhere hangs like a distant
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echo of the day that's passed. And Los Angeles was no exception. At
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nine o'clock at night, because I pulled up and parked in front of a
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grace curtain store front on a deserted downtown street. It marked the showroom of
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the wholesale curio dealer who would telephone my office an hour earlier, and in
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a Dutch accent lays tight with worry. It urged me to call on him
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at once. A raised gold let ring on a side door that showed a
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strip of yellow light at the threshold, said Alex van Nord private in an
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ornate eighteenth century script. So when I knocked, I was ready for something
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continental with thick bifocal glasses, and the door swung open. My jaw dropped
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to my chest, and I couldn't help gaping because the huge v of a
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man in front of me in cheap snug clothes, white, dark haired,
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dark skin, and dock her eyes had to be no less than a full
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blooded American Indian moccasins and all. What you want, mister van Nord is
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Ian name your business? Well, it's personal. What's yours? Eight?
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For those who would destroy our culture? Oh, mister Marlo, mister Marloyd,
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let me help you. Upset? Yeah, I'm fine. Nor how
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are you all right? Oh sure, I'm fine. Hey had engine.
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He certainly can hit high. Yes I know. He also struck me though,
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I tell you, mister Mallow, it's terrible. It's also a little
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confusing, mister Vanoid. Exactly why did you call me in the first place?
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Oh well, it began this morning when I received a scipient of Indian
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curios for my buyer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Well, everything in
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the crate was in order except one extra piece of pottery ball or Indian ball.
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Yes, yes, it appeared no place on the invoice. Oh,
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I didn't pay much attention to until I noticed that the two in wide band
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of inscriptions near the top were not like any others I'd ever seen inscriptions.
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You you mean those Indian signs broken arrow with one kind of stuff? Yeah?
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Yes, So my curiosity was aroused, and I called my representative in
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Santa Fe. However, he knew nothing of the ball either. So finally,
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well, I put it in my display window there and forgot about it
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until about none when a frail sandy headman stepped in. You know his name?
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No, No, only that he said he was an archaeologist and that
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he wanted to buy the ball. He refused to sell it. Huh why
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for two reasons, mister Marlowe. One I could see that he was fighting
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hard to control his enthusiasm, and two I had no idea what to charge
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for the ball. I told him to come back tomorrow again, and then
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I removed the ball from the window. It wasn't until five o'clock that the
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second visitor appeared archaeologist. No, a beautiful girl named Mona Water. Oh.
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She was very sophisticated, wore an expensively tailored white smart suit. No
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jewelry, she was whatsoever. She described the ball I had placed in my
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storeroom perfectly, and then asked if I had seen such a piece of pottery
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or if I had one for sale. I said no, same reasons,
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more or less anything else, mister vanoy Well, isn't much more. The
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young lady gave me her address the Walker Hotel and Wilsair Boulevard, the room
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five point fifteen to call her if I came across a ball like the ones
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he described. Then he left. Naturally, my interest at this time was
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near the bursting point. Naturally, what do you do about it? The
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only sensible thing I knew of. At six o'clock, I closed my place
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and I went to the public library to borrow a book and hieroglyphics of the
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Indians of the Southwest. When I got back, I found a rear door
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forced and poof, the ball was gone, and you called me. Yes.
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Then this Indian shows up. He claims I would rob his people of
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everything, and then he hit me. Makes perfect sense to him now that
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yes, no, whill you try to recover the ball for me? Please?
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Well, I think answer one question without stumbling. Yes, Why I
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know, police, mister van noord Because objects of art, mister Marlowe,
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aside from their intrinsic worth and the clay bowl has none, are only valuable
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for resale. Create a public disturbance such as the police and the thief will
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destroy the object and another day steal again. No, please, you'll try,
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mister Morrow. Yeah, I'll try, all right, mister van Norden.
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And when it comes to our two fisted brave who's so crazy about the
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preservation of Indian culture, I'll try real hard. Good night, sir,
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I know it's enthusiasm and the hundred bucks he pressed into my hand before I
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left for encouraging, and I drove straight to the walk A hotel on wilshi
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Of Boulevard, where a moment after I entered the plush lobby, encouragement came
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once more, because gliding from a travel agency booth taught a cocktail lounge was
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what my client had described as beautiful girl, expensively tailored, smart white suit,
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no jewelry whatsoever. But when we were both inside and adjoining stools,
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at the bar, where the soft light sack centered her high cheek bones and
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jet black hair. I knew that mister Van Nord had skipped something important,
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because, in spite of a full mouth, neatly rouged eyebrows, pencil come
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hither in a coiffure of shingled Vintage nineteen forty nine. No, no,
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Waters could also be full blooded American Indian, which is what I was working
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on when she turned blew us smoke signal in my face and spoke with an
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accent that was about as apache as Vesser. Don't let me make you lose
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your place, But do you mind telling me why you're staring? I collect
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the reasons for a hobby, you know, like some people save stamps ah
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huh, and others pottery? Who are you a ceramics fain named smith?
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Now I'm on it. Let's talk about you. Why? Because I've already
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been offered ten thousand dollars for the ball? Good enough? You have the
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bowl where? Well? Not in my pocket, honey, it's too bulky.
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I've got it tuck safely away outside my car. Oh yeah, you
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know you didn't hide it very well after you stole it from van Norden.
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You've been in my room? Could be how do we talk business? Yes
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or no? Yes? What do you want to know? Well, for
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one thing, what's the bull to you? Everything? It's mine, all
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mine via primogeniture, which is a patchy for what. Listen, mister Smith,
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I'm an Indian, all right at that, But I was born in
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a duplex, not a tpe. I think Martini is not firewater. And
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I've got a Mills College diploma and an IQ that'll probably make yours look six.
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So that's clear the air in a hurry. Yeah, Well, let's
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clear enough now, smart boy. My late uncle George Waters, also known
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as Chief Laughing Waters giggle. If you want to own the bowl, you
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want ten thousand dollars more so so a long time ago he willed it to
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my father. Ever, my father died a year ago, leaving only me
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as their apparent. Since that bowl is mine, all mine via primogeniture,
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which brings us right back to where we were, Except you haven't mentioned why
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the ball means so much to you, and I won't know. Will you
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play the ten thousand bucks? Huh? I didn't say that, and I
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won't say anything more until I see that bowl now I've got to make a
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couple of calls. Should take about twenty minutes. After that, I'll be
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in my room. Please call before you come up, and if you don't
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have the bowl, don't come up. Okay, baby, Fair enough.
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So long it had been the kind of conversation piece where and each party is
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quite sure that the others a liar, but not quite sure why. So
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a moment after I was on the sidewalk and out of Mona's sight, I
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dotted for the side of the hotel in the rear entrance, where I made
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my way to a self service freight elevator that got me to the fifth floor.
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Just as the apache was lost closed the door to a room at the
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far end of the carpetit hallway. I was about halfway there when it came.
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The door of five fifteen wasn't locked. When I threw it open,
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I found about what I'd expected. Mona slumped in a corner of the room.
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Pride heard only in opposite her a wide open window, which I figured
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led to a fire escape until I was standing next to it and saw that
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there was nothing but sheer wall that plunged five stories to the sidewalk below.
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And on a line with the hotel's fought for a rooftop, but at best
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was a good fifteen feet away. When I closed the window and turned back
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to the room, Mona was already on our feet. That sly jerky wait
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till I had the door closed behind me, and then he swung oh broto
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whenn't we meet a chair? Oh? Mona, hoo? Did he get
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the ball? Get the ball? I thought you had that smith. I
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was kidding, and you know it now once more? Who was it?
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His name? Mona? Jimmy brown Bear, Jimmy Witch, brown Bear,
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Smitty. A lot of Indians have Indian names. It's a custom. I
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have to fall apart every time you hear one. I will if you'll stop
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being persecuted. I think Indians are all good Americans. Now tell me about
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the big brown Bear. Okay, all right. It's absolutely soul a bowls,
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a priceless tribal air, and the white man's trying to steal. He's
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plain nuts. Who else would try to jump like that from a fifth story
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window. Yeah, it's quite a hop if he actually made it. What
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do you mean if nobody fell? No, maybe nobody jumped he there,
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Maybe you make up heap, big story, baby, hide bowl here in
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closet, then fall on floor. Tell wild tailor screwball Apache. That'd be
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smart, yeah, he but also smart if you take long nose out of
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engine girls of fairs before it gets blown off. Stands still buster you Oh
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Tomahawk caliber thirty eight. How unfriendly but effective? Now Smith, what's your
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real name? Sammy blue Ox? My father calls me, Junior. Let
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me clear up a very important point. That Indian bowl, in some strange
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way is the answer to the location of enough lost Spanish goal to keep you
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and me and every one we ever met off the bread lines from here on
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out. Okaym intrigue with the points you're going to clear up? Does this?
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I've got a dandy idea where I can find both the bowl and Jimmy
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brown Bear right now, that's something I want to do. Buy my lonesome,
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I'm back into that closet and keep quiet while you headwear on the warpath
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via bus. I'm a hot, blooded up patchy he remember so long,
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baby. There are times when things look black enough without staying put in a
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dark closet. So I kicked in the locks point in the casing and walked
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out in a room five point fifteen, just in time to hear a timid
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knock on the hall door, and it opened up. One frail of sandy
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haired man wanted information. Oh, I beg your pardon, sir? Can
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you possibly tell me what I can find? Miss Mona Waters? Oh you?
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My name is clarks can I I'm an archaeologist. I'm sorry, friend,
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I can't say any more than miss Waters is out after a wild light?
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Apache. Who's got a piece of pottery it tucked underneath his arm?
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What? Oh? Not the bowl it's supposed to be in Van Nord's Please
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not Jimmy brown Bear? Right on both counts, mister Erskin. But what
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makes the name brown Bear ring a bell? You too met before? Well,
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we certainly have why that idiot has hampered every archaeologist who is so much
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as set foot in New Mexico. Now that you mentioned in, mister Erskin,
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why your keen interest in the bowl? What does it mean to you?
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What does it mean to me? Why? By good men, those
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inscriptions circled around it are going to prove invaluable. Possibly another Rosetta sterne an
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open sesame to the countless undecipherable writings we've already collected about Spanish gold maybe Spanish.
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Oh sir, what are you talking about? Nothing, look Erskine.
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One question? How did you know that Mona Waters was staying here at this
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hotel? It wasn't simple to learn when mister van Nord refused to sell the
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bowl to me until tomorrow to be certain that he also didn't sell it to
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anyone else. So I watched his shoulder. Oh that's smart. When I
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saw miss Waters there, I recognized her at once. He's in the patrie
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and I followed her here where I found out her name and room. N
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Now I'm going to wait for her until she returns. I'm not going to
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give up that bowl. Metld at her skin. You happen to Knowld Jimmy
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brown Bear's hometown? Come on quick, but yes I do. It's a
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ConA, New Mexico, Sicona, New Mexico. It's by bus. Thank
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you, friend. I'm sorry to have to leave you to do your wedding
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alone, but I gotta catch your bus. But where mister Marlow at the
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downtown Central busty for to put cot before horse, to turn tables A switch
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in short, mister Ruskin to track an Indian so long in just a moment,
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the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first you meet many an old
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friend from the wide field of music. Every Sunday afternoon, when the coraliers
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and the cinmpinnet, I heard most of these same CBS stations this Sunday,
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The fine voices of the corolliers will recall such old favorites as I've been working
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on the railroad. The best things in life are free and Janine, I
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dream of Lilac. Time the sympinet will bring you the overture from the Bohemian
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Girl, a Strauss composition, and a stirring March, among others. Be
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sure to hear the sympinet and the coroliers to find your old friends and favorites
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every Sunday. Now, with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
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second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story The Indian Giver tracking an Indian over
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the busy concrete of downtown Los Angeles sounds a lot tougher than it turned out
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to be. Apparently, a six feet four apache in a full crown,
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black hat and mosins was not a the even in a city of out of
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these and everyone who's seen him remember him, from the guy behind the bus
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depots ticket desk, the newsboy outside the flop house nearby where Jimmy brown Bear
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had made camp. The next bus was still forty five minutes away, so
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I decided to visit the flophouse. But Jimmy Brown there must have seen me
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coming and was expecting trouble, because when I stepped into the hall, I
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saw him duck out the back door of the alley. I ran after him
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and watched him turn down what would have been a dead end to a normal
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man, but Jimmy made a jump at a nine foot wall, caught that
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top, and was pulling himself up when it happened. Jimmy stepping on the
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wall when the second shot came, he dropped rigidly like a poisoned fly,
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and lay very still. I started over to him, but stopped at the
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excited voice of a cabby running toward me from the open end of the alley.
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Hey, what happened? I heard a couple of shots tonight? Uh?
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Oh, yeah, that's what you heard? Holy mackel it Hey way
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way, that's the India. I mean, you know him too, Yeah,
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I hauled him around in my cab tonight. Who did it? Mister
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you? I don't be silly, will you? The shots could have come
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from any place. Any one of those windows is on fires? Oh yeah
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yeah, between those buildings. Added, Hey, that dame running for the
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street when you get out of my way, Not so fast, buddy.
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You know as I know, a'mna water is the product when you get the
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cops over here right away? Well in, I gotta catch that girl.
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No chance, mister, she's long gone. No Van Noord, well,
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I certainly didn't expect to find you here. What in the ball is going
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on here? Among other things? Murder? Yeah, it's that Indian,
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mister van Nord, the same one who good heavens, mister Marlow, did
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this happen because of the ball? No? Does? Nona Waters just got
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away between those two buildings. I'm pretty sure she's the one who took the
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ball out of your place tonight, because Jimmy brown Bear I got it away
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from her later and she's got it back again, and he winds up like
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that, then you think the girl killed him to recover the ball. Right
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now, onto a ball, I have to think anything, So just a
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minute, how do you manage to show up here. Why I started home
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in this man's taxi and found out that he was the one who broke mister
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brown bear to myself tonight. Yeah, that's right. I picked the Indian
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up right out here on the corner. So we came down here because I
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thought if we found that the Indian was stinged, might be a help to
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you. Marlowe. You were waiting in the cab when he was shot.
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No. No, I started into this place alone, and then I felt
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better of it and came out to get you Cabby to come in with me,
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and then I heard the shots. Now, look, mister van Nord,
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you better keep your nose out of this mess. Go on home and
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sit on your curios. I'll call you when I got something. Assuming that
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my client's story was true and that he did have the Cabby to back him
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up, I got in my car and headed back to the walkerhouse. I
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parked at the side of the hotel and started to that convenient rear door again
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when I saw the commotion of half a dozen excited passes by bending over a
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man stretched out on the sidewalk. You like that, It's enough to make
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a faidless out of your hanage. Absolutely what happened? Why that poor guy
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there is walking along mine his own briness and practically gets his back broke by
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uncle pottery. Some jerk must have heaved out of one of them windows up
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there. Pottery, you mean a ball? Maybe? I don't know.
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It broke all the smither rings. It was plenty of he he goes about.
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Hey, hey, look look here's a chunk of it. Let me
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see that. No shoot a brown clay with cymbals cut down it Indian symbols.
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Listen, buddy, what window did that come out of? Anybody?
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See? No long doll? Dok up chare? We can't figure out why?
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What's the matter? Where you gone? There was no doubt about it.
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A broken piece of pottery i'd clenched in my hand must have come from
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the Indian bowl. I ran inside, rode the elevator up to the fifth
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floor again, and beat it down the hall to five point fifteen. Sprawled
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out on the floor inside was clockhursk and the archaeologist making a valiant but wabbly
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effort to get back on his feet. I dropped the chunk of bowl in
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my pocket and gave my hand. Come on, fella, help you go.
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Come on it. Take it easy. Sit over here and tell me
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what happens to am I. Who are you? Mallow? Marlow? Remember
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you're in room five point fifteen to the Walker House. When I left,
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you were waiting for Mona Waters. But I came back to find you spread
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out on the floor as flat as that puddle of ink there on the desk
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blotter. Now you take it? How come all of this? Oh?
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Yeah, yes, I remember, now I was, yeah, yeah,
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But Marlow, at the lights are out and they're better left that way unless
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you want the room full of irate citizens who struck you. I have no
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idea. I was sitting at the desk there writing miss Waters a note because
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I decided not to wait any longer when I was hit from behind. That
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explains the spilled ink. What about the open window is closed? When I
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left open window? Why that's strange change, it's screwy nuts. What do
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you mean, mister Marlow? Just what is your position in this business?
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I'm a private detective working for mister van Nord, and I'll tell you something
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else. Whoever slugged you? Open that window and seal the precious Indian bowl
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right out into thin air five stories high. Smash down there on the sidewalk.
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The bowl is gone destroyed. Oh no, oh, yes, why
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that's hideous. The markings on that bowl were priceless. Why Marlow, great
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Scott, Why was it destroyed? That's what I mean. Say it's screwey.
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I'll wait a minute. I'll go hello, Miss Mona Waters. Please,
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it's urgent you a State Airlines calling. She's out. I'll take the
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message. Thank heavens, we want erected by a perfectly ghastly mistake. We're
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afraid the relief operator may have given Miss Waters two twelve am instead of one
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twelve am as a departure time of her plane. Tonight, Baby, it's
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twelve thirty now if she leaves it one twelve No, we're just sick about
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it. Can't she make it? I hope not. I'll do my best
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to deliver a message in person. You're a dear girl for calling goodbye?
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What was it? Mallow? Something important archaeologically? I'll see you later.
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Wait. Wait, isn't there anything we can do about the bow? Oh?
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Sure, get a bottle of glue and a dustpan and hop to it.
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So long on earth? Can I'm off to the field of the thunderbirds.
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Oh fine, how luck, officer, I was never mind. Oh
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Mac, you're back in a thousand. You pulled out of the hotel driveway
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two blocks back, ran one full stop and a red signal getting this far.
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That's great. So what's your story then? Drinking not? I drop?
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Believe me, and look, I've got to get to the airport in
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I hurry bye, yet to catch an Indian girl. A guy named Jimmy
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brown Bear was murdered tonight because a bowl was stolen. A minute, hold
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it who was murdered? Oh? I know what's he here? There's no
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use in going. Oh so my name is Marlow. I'm a private detective
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working on a case, and I got to get to the airport. But
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let's see your page. Oh sure, sure, here they're all here.
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I got the Marlow license number. Hey, what's eating you? What are
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you staring at? Blue black lines on the part of my hand. They
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look just like holy smoke, they are. That's the answer. I gotta
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get back to that hotel. It's a matter of life and down. Just
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please give me a ticket, give me three tickets only. Let me get
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back to the walkerhouse right now. Well, youall like depends on it.
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You better be right, Marlow, wait till I stop the traffic, then
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making you turn now go ahead. Made it back to the hotel and something
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under seven minutes for a round trip. I ran for the elevator, waited
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for the car to come down, and when the gate opened, bump head
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on and the clock erskine himself. I backed him into the elevator again at
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gun point and pushed the fifth floor button. I didn't say a word by
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the time the elevator stopped and the gate slid open, and he was beginning
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a sweat mollow. I just don't understand this. Why is the gun?
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Take a guess, erskin. I want to know what happened. I'm Mona
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Waters. I don't know. She didn't come back here. This is five
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fifteen, remember going open it up and get inside. I listen to you.
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I know who killed Jimmy brown Bear, and I found out plenty about
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the ball, so I'll talk. Where's Mona? Find you with a gun
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in my hands, so don't move. Oh great, Well, at least
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you're okay except for a headache. Yes, I just woke up in the
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bedroom with a heap big lump on my scalp. And I know a pale
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face who's gonna pay for that topic? Gun mallow drop it? Who's this
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character here? And where's the ball? Illowhited Miss Waters? I saw him
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hit you and take it. I tried to stop him, but he eat
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me too. My name is Erska and I'm an archaeologist. I only wanted
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to make a scientific study of the bowl. Buck Is vendal here has destroyed
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it destroyed right wing. And listen before you start shooting, there's a lot
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of wampum mistaken nothing else. Now keep that in mind. Okay, big
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wuinn, start blowing, speak your piece and keep it straight. He's a
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treacherously on Miss Water, so I know I'm braced for that. No,
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you sweetheurt you, all right. The inscriptions on that bowl were the key
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to the treasure, which is probably no news to you too. You didn't
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know how to work it, Mona. But Erskine here did he found out
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that some of the lines were etched into the clay and others were raised like
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the face of type in a printing press. Do I go on, pray
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do professor? All right? Now, look, if you look closely,
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beautiful, you'll see ink on his fingers. Also you'll notice that a bottle
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of ink poured out on your desk blotter of there made the same kind of
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inkpad you used for a rubber stamp that hek was spilled by accident. Now
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don't listen to him to cut up God Muller. Well, l after he
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knocked you out and left you in the bedroom, all he had to do
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was roll that wide flat border of the bowl through the ink, then roll
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it again over blank paper and it prend it. What's more, baby,
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if we look real close, we'll find a perfect prendit map on your hotel
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stationary stuck in one of his inside Let me get the chart on the likes
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O Marlow, Marlow, are you all right? Yeah, yeah, I'm
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okay. Then I did shoot the right man, clean and sugar mitch Water.
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Well, that's about the story, mister van Orden. I wanna here
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slip the Indian ball into your shipment to keep it away from the guys.
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You know we're after it. And of course she had to follow the ball
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here to la Erskine followed her. I see it's amazing, isn't it?
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Positively amazing? Marlow? How did you discover that the intricate pattern on the
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ball worked like a printing price. Oh well. After Erskine had made his
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print of the map, he threw the ball out the window to smash it
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so no one else could duplicate it. I got a hold of a chunk
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of it and clenched it in my hand. I found out later when I
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passed that cop my credentials that a chunk of pottery Ha'd left separate distinct lines
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of ink on my palm. Terribly clever, isn't he? Mister? I'll
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take it easy, baby, He is clever, miss Waters. But what
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a poor Jimmy browmbert well Erskin followed me from the hotel at Jimmy's place and
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shut him so I'd never have a chance to talk to him. He was
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a ruthless little guy, Clark Riskin. But if he survives that bullet wound,
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the state will get him from murder. Yes, oh, miss Waters,
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you will have to hurry and finish your breakfast so that you can catch
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your plane. But before you go, I have a little gift for you.
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Excuse me, I'll get it and wala. Speaking of gifts, I
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have one for you, Camy. Oh baby, that's nice? Is it
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keeps? Go'se nae silly. I'm an Indian giver. Remember when I come
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to town again, I'll be rich and reckless and loaded with all that old
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Spanish gold. That's when I take my kids back here with interest, along
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Philby. Well. When I finally got home, completely fagged out, at
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ten o'clock in the morning, I took one look at my favorite chair,
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the big, deep, soft one, and then sank down into a good
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and heard, oh ooh. Something that felt like a broken beer bottle stabbed
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me. I reached for it, and it turned out to be the jagged
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chunk of the Indian bowl I dropped in my pocket earlier. The first time
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I really looked at the hieroglyphics on it. There were three Indian figures.
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The first was breaking sticks into one even length. The second was holding a
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small fish in it was running away with all the wampum. It took me
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a long time, but I finally got it. I think the Indian picture
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message could only be translated one way. It heads to me, never give
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a sucker and even break. And right then and there I thought about Mona
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and what she'd say. That's when I'll take my gift back again with interest,
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So Long Field, Faith, So Long Baby, The Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy, star
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Gerald Moore. Tonight's story was produced and directed by Cliff Howell. Script is
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by Meldon la Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt feature in the cast where Betty lou
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Gerson Hans Conried, Clark, Gordon, Howard Culver, Peter Leeds, Jane
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Webb, and Jane of Bello. The special music is written and conducted by
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Richard o' run be sure and be with us again next week when Philip marlow
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sells inside of two hours, a lavish mansion seized with suspicion, a sealed
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cabin filled with gas, and an artists retreat had a copse on the floor,
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all because one man was too good looking to be true to anyone.
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There'll be a couple of unusual twists for mystery fans on Gangbusters and on Basil
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Rathborne's adventure Tonight. Gangbusters will present a former chief of Detectives on the New
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York City Police narrating the case of a better and a long shot that ended
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in murder. Basil Rathburns drama will find that suave gentleman going to jail himself
29:51
in order to deliver a man to the police. This is Roy Rowan speaking.
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Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over more to these same
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CBS stations. This is the cd as the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back.
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Well, that doesn't quite hold up as well today as one would perhaps
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hope, at least culturally. I did like the I did like the idea
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of this piece of pottery being a three D map that was That was a
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nice twist and makes a pretty solid ending for the story overall. All right,
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