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none one three Boise alohol eight three seven one five. Well, now it's
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time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Morrow. The original air date
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is June the eleventh of nineteen forty nine, and the title is The Pigeon's
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Blood, Get This and Get It Straight. Crime's as Suckers Road. Those
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who travel had wind up in the gut, a prison of the grave.
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There's no other end but they never learned. This one had soft brown eyes
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in an accent, and she came to town with a job to do.
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But before it was done, death It struck three times. Then she was
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gone. No because of thirty drops of pigeons blood worth one hundred and fifty
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thousand bucks from the pen of Raymond Trampler, upstanding author of Mistery, comes
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his most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy. As we present the Adventures
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of Philip Marlowe, now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring
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you tonight's exciting story, The Pigeon's Blood. At five o'clock of any weekday
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afternoon, the lobby of the Started building in downtown Los Angeles is a mess
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of milling office workers. So I was ten impolite minutes peering into chattering faces
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before I found my new client, Charlene Danielle. When she called me an
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hour ago, a slight French accent had been coated with worry as she identified
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herself as an illustrator for a fashion maga with offices in the building. He
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said that she needed help. She was huddled in the shadowed far corner of
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the lobby like a frightened puppy going through his first thunderstorm. When I was
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close to her, she stepped into the light and hurriedly took my arm.
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I am glad you didn't disappoint him. Mister Mallow, Come along, please
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quickly. There's a bar just across the lobby where we can talk. All
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right, come along please. It's already soft, lustrous hair that was shingled
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into a thousand short curls which kept running into one another, framed a beautiful
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face and a wisp of a smile that never seemed to leave her lips.
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Labeled her gentle people. I couldn't quite get over it. When we were
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inside the bar and seated at the table, she was still talking. I
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was still thinking how lovely she was. Mister Mallow, mister Mallow, are
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you listening em? Oh? Yes, of course I am. Yes.
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Now, what I want you to do is simple, but very very important.
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It must be done at once, easy, easy, honey, that's
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not gonna help, honey, And one step at a time. What is
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it, Charlie, I'm sorry. It's a terrible man named Martin Loomis.
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He lives here in Los Angeles on North Crossmore Street, number seventy seventeen at
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private house. He is the one who had the collection stolen from Vivian's father.
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I know he Wait a minute, who slow around the corners? Now?
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First of all, what's the collection of ruby, mister Marlowe, rare
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pigeon's blood, ruby, exquisite one, the thirty of them worth at least
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the very least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Tell me all the rubies
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as lovely as you are, please, mister Marlowe. Okay, okay.
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Who's Vivian? My best friend, the girl I grew up with in Lyon.
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She's still in France, but I got out before the war, to
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Mexico and Thenada. Some friends at the Ruvera Pacifico helped me to get to
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California. Vivian and her father, Maurice Ador, an old man. Now
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they lost everything. They had family, a home, their business, and
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then they had only the rubies left. We should bring us to this guy
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Lumas. So he does, mister Marlowe. He was in France only last
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month. A guest in the Shadoor home, A charming American businessman who was
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going to buy the rubies, just wouldn't say when tell me, Charlene.
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Did anybody actually see him take the stone? No, but there's no doubt
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that he did it. Mister Marlowe. He was one of the few persons
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who knew when Monsieur gardeout kept them. What about the police? Oh no,
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no, mister marlow not yet. Only when we know that Loomis still
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has the stones, when we know where the rubies are. You see,
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any hurried arrest would only mean that the jewels would be gotten with us gone
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forever. Why isn't vivin here. Monsieur Gardeaux told you he is an old
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man, a broken man, and they are penniless. The rubies were going
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to be sold. That's why this Loomis was visiting with him. Now,
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please, mister Marlowe, can you do this for me? Can you find
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out where the jewels are? It would mean so much if we can return
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them so much? Yeah, where can I find you? Later? Charline?
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I live at the Bradford Arms. The telephone number is Sunset one two
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to nine. Now what is your feet? Well, I we'll talk about
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it later. Huh, All right, you are kind. I only hope
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that later isn't too far away for Monsieur Giardeau's sake, why why? Yes?
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For for everybody's sake. Good luck. Somehow or another, I managed
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to stop at all the red lights and go on all the green ones and
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not hit anyone all the way from downtown LA, where I'd left Charlene,
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up into Hollywood and over to Marty Loomis's house at seventy seven ten or Rossmore
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parking at half a block away, I stood looking at the rambling White House
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Vintage nineteen fifteen. I was startled into action by a wiry, white haired
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old boy in search of a match. After a quick servicing job, I
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moved up to the door. As I knocked on the massive display of aging
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oak, I decided that Marlow should play the role of crooked jeweler to ease
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the entrance. When the door finally opened and an Ox and sharing a blue
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surge, answered, I wasn't too happy with my choice of rolls. A
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big club would have been better. Yeah, what do you want? Marty
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Loomis? Is he in? Who's asking questions? Hey? The name's Becker,
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mutual friend recommended me to him. Does Lefty know about this? He
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shouldn't? Wh're not you ask him? Okay, come on, in relax
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while I find out thanks any place in particular. Yeah, flat on your
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big mouth and don't bother going for your gun. I'll do it for you.
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A nice thirty eight at that? Now your wallet, lefty, that
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you were picking up your que fast, didn't you mischief? Oh Marlow,
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private detective? What were you thinking about when you bit big mouth? Something
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nice and calico? Your warm buster? My mistake? Where do we go
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from here? You know? Place till I make a phone call? Excuse
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me, sir Westwood nine nine oh three, Yeah, my number, uh
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Gladstone two seven four to two just won't take long? Marlow? Then you
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and I can in that. Oh hello, Tony, Oh it's chalky.
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No, no, I looked every place. No, honey, I tell
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you the stuff just ain't here. But something else is a private dick named
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Marlow. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, probably one of that stinking
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Slaters boys. But you don't have to worry about Marlow. So long,
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baby, your mother, Chucky, listen to Laos. I got one question
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to ask you don't want to straight answer fast? Are you working for zig
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Slater? I don't remember. Well, that's too bad, you know,
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I might have to get nasty. If you don't cooperate, doesn't much make
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any difference whether I cooperate or not. Let's face it, at chucky,
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all right, let's do just big mouse. I. By the time I
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sorted my legs out from those that belonged to the coffee table, jockey was
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gone. But in his wake there were three things that a very fast,
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superficial search revealed. My gun in the hall outside empty, next to the
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door, my wallet intact, and near the overturned coffee table. Upawn ticket
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from the Ryan Loan Company corner hell an eighth received for one great topcote right
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sleeve, ripped alow in seven dollars and fifty cents, I dropped into my
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pocket, then put through a call a one lieutenanty Bar at police headquarters.
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In a few minutes, I knew that Zick Slater was a fence with done
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time twice on stolen property charges, and at present could be found in or
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around a shop on Locienaga Boulevard near Melrose, where he sold of all things
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tropical fish. I hung up and started out of the door of my car,
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but in less than fifty feet I knew I wasn't alone. My shadow
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was the shock of white hair, who earlier had stopped me for a match.
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It was his turn to be surprised when I suddenly will gret that both
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his lapels and shocked. Well, you want to believe me, I just
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want to rearrange your marbles. When you're started talking, it comes out straight.
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Now. Why you're following me and don't tell me you need me another
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match? Come on, I'm tolding you because I want to warn you what
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a giant of a man I just saw New York car and a beat up
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blue Surge maybe yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. You see.
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I live across the street, and after you gave me that match, I
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took my regular evening walk. But when I got back, I saw this
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man, this giant. He was going to let the air out of your
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tires, I know, but I stopped him. Yes, sir, I
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yelled him real loud, and he ran away. He cursed me first.
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Nah, Nah, aren't you sorry? You shook me like you did?
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Yeah? I am that lets you shake me back. But there isn't time,
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pop. I don't know no matter, fell I guess I can figure
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it all right. I mean, the way you're acting must be a beautiful
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girl behind this someplace? How was this right? Right? Just to make
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sure she stays that way. You'll excuse me, but I got to see
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a man about some tropical fish. It's a long pop zig Slaty's place in
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Losianga was three walls lined almost solid with bubbling tanks to wahoom for the kind
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of screwy looking fish that made you wonder what they could possibly see with a
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bad case of DT's. Slater was small and slight, with black darting eyes
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that were too large for the rest of his face, which was prune winkled,
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shaped like a coke bottle, and had all come hither look of an
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octopus. He was on the phone. It wasn't until I was close enough
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to hear the number he was after that I was. I was glad he
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was having trouble because it was the same digit arrangement that Chalky had called earlier
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and prefixed westward as well. No, right, I did not go my
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nine three three. It was worse with N nine all three, that's right,
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all three? Yeah? Hello Toby zi Hey darling, where have you
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been? I try to reach you half a dozen times? Walk? Oh
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well, look, baby, you meet me over it? Wait a minute,
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lost something, mister. H oh. Yes, as a matter of
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fact, I have one of my twin sawd tails died. I was just
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admiring yours here. I'd like to buy one. I'll be right with you.
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Huh. I meet me at the blue Chip in thirty minutes. Ah
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sweet, Now, don't worry. I'm a little bit late. I got
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a few things to do. Fake right, goodbye, baby sawd tailed,
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mister? Or a dollar ton of dollar thirty five and a dollar eighty?
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What'll it be? Why an't they started at dollar ten? Uh? Huh
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at the last place. I only played ninety cents for a sawd tale good
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one too. Then maybe you'd better go back to the last place, sir.
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Well, maybe I had good night, sir, and I was outside
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my car and pointed toward the blue Chip, which was the next speakeasy on
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Santa Monica Boulevard that had quite never gotten over it. I knew that I
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had something to work before it was time to call Charlene and report that so
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far I had located neither the Rubies nor Marty Loomis. With luck, I
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could have words with Toby at the blue Chip before Slater arrived. So twenty
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minutes later, when I was there and seated it all alone, table for
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two drink in front of me. I looked up at the sound of high
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heels clicking toward me and the five and a half feet of blonde that grew
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out of them and wrap around swathed. When I called Toby by name and
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she pivoted like she was built on a hinge. I was back in business.
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I don't know you. What do you want if it's Handy Chalky's telephone
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number? You're Marlow, aren't you? Yes? In private detective you ordered
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bounced to ran. I let's not waste any more of each other's time.
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Toby wears Marty Loomis. I'm sorry, I never heard of him or the
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pigeon blood rubies. Who are you working for? Marlow? Don't you remember?
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And when a Slater's boy, you're a liar, not a double cross
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at Toby, Well, what do you mean by that? When you're on
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the phone with Chalky brother Ziggy is referred to as the stinking Slater, but
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when Slater's on with it, it's sugar and spice all the way around,
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which means what that you're not even close to being on the level with one
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of them. I discount Chalky because he's kind. You higher pay and forget
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when the job's done, Marlow, so behave. He's right outside that back
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door. It's a little thoughtless of you, isn't it, Toby. The
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lad's top coats in hockey might catch cold that I'd hate to see. I'll
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bet. Now look, Marlow once more? What are you after? One
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Ruby's to Marty Loomis. If I can't help you find either of them,
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then I go to slater on whose behalf of my client, who represents the
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real owner of the stones named what it escapes me, Toby, let's just
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call her a lovely lady from France. Uh from France. For a minute,
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I thought you were on the side of law and or what's as different?
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Marty Loomis is dead. Marlow has been all night in the closet of
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his study at seven seven one old North Ross Moore. What and just so
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you don't miss the point one thing more. I found the body, but
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first outside I found something else running away. It was a girl, Marlow,
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a girl with a French accent. In just a moment the second act
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And now with our star Gerald Moore, we return to the second act of
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Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The Pigeon's Blood. When Toby said French accent,
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it rocked me right back on my heels. I stood there with my
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mouth open, trying to reconcile death in a closet with a soft, deep
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brown of Charlene's eyes all the blonde in front of me twisted her mouth into
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a victorious smartender as a cobra's. I got up and went out the front
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way, dragging what was left of my pride behind me. I had to
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know the truth about Charlene, so I called her. She answered on the
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first ring, and I made my pitch. I said, I thought I
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knew where the rubies were hidden, and told her to meet me at seventy
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seven ten Rossmore. And I drove to Rosmore and waited, and five minutes
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later a cab stopped down the street and she got out. So I went
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to meet her. Marlow, Yeah, come on this way, Charlene.
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I here, Marlo in this house. The rubies, I mean, we'll
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find out, baby, Come on side, doors open, I said,
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I wasn't sure, and I'm not a lot of things, and watched the
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stairs. You should leave to the study. You're still with me. I'm
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coming, okay, Charley. Now, if I've been lied to, this
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is the place to check. I'll start with that closet there, the close,
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Yes, open it up, go on, open it? No,
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No, I got it. You can't because you already know what's inside,
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don't you. No? No, oh, I didn't do it. I
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did you know it was there? So you must have been in here before.
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Yes, yes I was, I admitted. I tried to see no
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miss myself this afternoon. I followed him downtown, but I lost him.
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When I got back here, I came in and I found him like that.
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I didn't know what to do. I called you, but then I
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lied to you because I was afraid. You're still afraid, So maybe you're
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still lying. No, no, this time is the truth, all of
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it. You're not holding anything back. No, no, that's all of
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it all, Phil. Please don't force me. Please, you must rus
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what was worth? I thought, I the door cloth, I must be
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jumpy. I guess I have a cigarette. Yeah, why it's a bond
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ticket. Oh yeah, it's my brains. Can't you tell the Ryan Lone
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Company corner Hill Street and eighth at Hell and eight. Don't worry about it,
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Sharlley, and it's not mine, longs to a guy named Chucky where
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the hawk is winter wardrobe. They keep himself in Hamburgers. Forget it?
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You want that cigarette? And no, no, no, come on,
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let's get out of this room. Come on, please, I pill There
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is someone here, a shadow moved on that wall of the back hole.
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Hey, you're right, asten. You beat it out that side door.
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Go back to your hotel, and white girl, see this is I want
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to stay with you. Get out of here, hurry, hurry, all
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right, creep, crawl out of the wood work. Come on. I
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know you're present because you like your shadows sticking out right up out here.
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Ow well, well, slimy little swordtail salesman himself, what are you doing
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here? Well, i'll tell you, Marlow. I'm telling you got my
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name too. Oh huh. And more from a short talk with a platinum
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blonde named Toby. Oh yeah, fencing forrest later her a Loomis Cincy.
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You're find things out, don't you. Well, I didn't want to do
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it. I've been going straight since I got paroled. But legitimate business has
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been louder. When Loomis wanted you to arrange a deal, you took him
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up. Huh yeah, but right away it got too hot. I had
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it all set until that blonde started cutting in on Loomis. I don't go
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for that. Nobody's got a chance on a double cross, for instance,
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I know what's in the closet, see and Toby's the one that put him
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there. She told me Toby killed him. Did she have the stones?
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I don't know. I guess so, because she was trying to make me
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go through with the deal, but I turned her down. Then I had
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a sap that gorilla chalky to get away. It's good, but it won't
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fit Slater. Why'd you come back here? Clean up the joint with my
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record? All that would take is for my phone number, even my initials,
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to turn up here, and I'm cooked? Where does Toby live?
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If I tell you, will you give me a brother? Tell me anyway
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and faster. I'll give you a break and a sat of your head.
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Let's have a talk. Okay, okay, one fifty six South Ogden Drive
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apartments. See now, how about it? Pow, what do you forget?
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You saw me here? You lost your wanting because things got tough that
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they had in your begetting callouses from counting money or a crummy spider slightest.
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So stay out of my way, because next time we made I'll step on
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you. The little man rolled his big head up at me and grinned.
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I looked at it the minute, then shoved at hard the one side and
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walked out the way things stood. I figured the next move, which was
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mine, had to be first to call the police to report Loomis's murder,
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the second to fast pressure play on a faster blonde named Toby. But I
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was wrong on both counts because I was halfway to my car when I found
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out the next move wasn't mine at all. Out of the corner of my
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eye, I caught a shadow easing told me under the cover of the hedge
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with the white hair duffer again and the setup was just like before. So
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I saw no reason why the same maneuver wouldn't work twice. I slowed down
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to give him plenty of time. When I was sure he was right behind
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me, I turned fast and swung thin. How many times do you think
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you can pull las? Done? Son? Okay, it was my mistake,
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Yes it was. And don't move because my gun goes off. I
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want to ask you a few things. I don't feel talkative. Who are
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you? And what's your racket? Son? Philip Marlow, private detective?
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What's yours? That doesn't happen to be any of your business? Son?
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I just say I'm looking for one Vivian Jardau happen to know where she is
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Vivian Ghiaradeau, sure right now, she's in France, Leona be specific.
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Yeah, she's in France right now, like her in Madagascar. Save yourself.
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Trouble, son, where's she? You know you wouldn't know the truth
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of it fell on you? What's your rangle? Marlow? Oh, come
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on, let's not be coid. It's the same as yours, A fist
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full of rubies. Well now you don't say, and I suppose that's why
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Vivian Jardou has been following Loomis around all that f and the Vivian again.
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You won't turn a loose, will you? Now? Listen? Son,
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Jardo dams here in town, I happen to know she hopped off on Norwegian
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freighter. I finally picked her up right here. She was tagging Loomis and
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I tagged her. We played ring around the Rosie clear downtown. I lost
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them in a traffic jam, but I picked up Lumas again for a few
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minutes at the corner of a hill and a job. No, girl,
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wait a minute, did you say Loomis? Was it hillin eighth? Yes,
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that's right? Why because I know a guy will give six bucks for
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a great topcoat on that corner. So whoever said you can't teach an old
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dog nude tricks wasn't nuts. It wasn't at one's called slapped the pistol and
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busted the old geezer. Sorry, Pop, it had to be I got
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business. It won't keep so long. I ran my car, piled in
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and headed down. Watch the boulevard wide open, because anyway I looked at
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it, Ryan's porn pillar at hillin eighth was home plate, and at the
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time I'd spent gabbing with Pop, there was a good chance that blood was
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already being spilled on an old gray top coat with a lining full of rubies.
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And when I remembered Charlie and had walked out with a pawn ticket led
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coat in her hand, I got a little sick. When I got to
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Hilly eighth, I spotted Ryan's place, squeezed into a four foot crevice between
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two tall buildings and dark inside. I cut my lights, park reloaded my
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thirty eight, and walked up the alley to the back door. It was
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standing open on foot, and inside a flashlight was lying on a table.
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While moving in and out of its beams, she clawed through a rack of
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secondhand top coats with Charlie had her feet face up on the floor with a
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nasty gash over one eye. Was a man who no doubt used to answer
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to the name of Ryan. I used the door open another foot, one
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end. I got as far as the glow of light before she saw him.
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I just slug him. Honey, you had the ticket, you could
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have just she didn't slug him, Marlow, I did Slayer. Yeah,
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don't turn around, just toss your gun back here. Come on, that's
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it. Well, it takes care of everybody. Now they're all here,
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so we can get back to work. Aren't you forgetting Toby in her trained
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ape. No, Toby can't make it, and Chalky won't without her.
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She can't make it because she's dead. I found a nice closet for her
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too. Oh. I told you a feb when I said she killed Loomis.
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I did that for both of them because they were double crossing me.
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They were cutting me out of my own deal, and they were laughing about
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it. I can't stand to have people left that it's my fault. Feel
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like I didn't wait for you when I when I realized that lou miss the
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coat. Not that joke here. I was sure that he had hidden the
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rubies in it for safe keeping. So I came here and now, and
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so did I and a quarter. Then I sat a little trap for the
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big strong man who steps on little spiders. Now you which coade? Is
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it? This one? No? No, I don't know, So it
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is this? Give it? No, No, you can't take a stay
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away from me, charl don't be a fool. Let him have the coat.
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The rubies in it are mine. They belonged to my father. I
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came halfway around the world to get them and to take them home, and
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I won't give them up to this this rote ugly little man. Wait,
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he's hit, sure, son, go here was as open as an invitation
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to the old timers picnic. I've been listening. No, don't move now,
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either one of you. I've still got some business with missus VIVI.
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Hey, come back here, Charli, Yeah, missed, that's your last
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chance. Believe me, a trigger happy jerk, she's off the door.
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Stand aside, son, I've got to get that girl, I don't think
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so. Who's car is that out there? Yours? Yeah? With a
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full tank of gas? What are you grinning? About okay, Son,
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she's gone your coat and Ruby get away from both of them. Didn't see
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and from the look on your face, you're not quite sure whether you've lost
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or one. Two hectic hours jammed with phone calls, police reports on Toby
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and Chucky, and long winded conversation in general, went by before the whole
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mess of dovetailed motives and overlapping authority were straightened out, to the point where
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Detective lieutenanty Bara decided to get along without us and turned me in my white
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head pal. Who yeh, who I blushed to discover is one Sam Harris,
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twenty years in opposite of the Immigration Service, loose on the town again.
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In Sam's car, we threaded through the traffic. Big night, wasn't
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that, Son? Yeah? You know, Sam, you should have told
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me who you were and saved yourself that swollen jaw. Yeah, that's all
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right in a mix up like this one was a few loose teeth better than
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a loose tongue any day. All I knew was that Vivianjadeau was an alien
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who jumped ship. I didn't know a thing about those rubies until I was
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right in the middle of it, and she just made up the whole story,
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huh about being Charlene Danielle and working here as an illustrator. That's right.
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We're gonna do about her hearts well son, as it works out.
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I'm on her side. Now. How's that she wants to get back to
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France, and it's my job to see that she does. There won't be
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any trouble. You know, she's a crazy kid to try what she did
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alone. But she made up her mind to get her rubies back and she
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did. Yeah, she's pretty too. Or did you happen to know it?
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Mm? You're not listening. I was looking at that metal you got
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there on your keychain, Pistol Marksmanship Champion, New York Service Range. You
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know, Harris, when you shot at Charlene tonight you wait a minute time?
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It was dark, and that medal is ten years old. Besides,
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it's not polite to put a man in the spot already had to argue with
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his conscience. My mistake. Will there's your car exactly where I said of
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the bee, right across from the airline passion the gate. Someone who had
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to make a plane in a hurry must have borrowed it. Amazing, isn't
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it? Good night, molow, see you again, Sam, and thanks.
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When Harris drove away, I walked over to my car and got in.
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I didn't start up by a way. Instead, I just sat there
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and thought of a plane fading off somewhere in the night, the girl from
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Friends with soft brown eyes, and remembered that I didn't even get a chance
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to say goodbye. But then I saw it. The notes stuck over the
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ignition key scribbled on an old envelope and hurried pencil. Well, it's said
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was someday, Sherry, Someday. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond,
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Chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly anime star Gerald Moore and are
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produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldon la Robert Mitchell and
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Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Alma Lawton, Edgar Barrier, Gloria
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Blondell, Herb Butterfield, and Barney Phillips. The special music is by Richard
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be sure and be with us again next week. When Philip Marlowe says easy
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money is a sucker's racket, this time it's started as a routine search for
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a rich girl's fiancee, and the trail led to a silent house, haunted
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by a face at the window and blood in an open cedar chest. But
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before it was over, it became a quest for a corpse that wouldn't sit
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still. Oh will he be in friends? The lady took a chance.
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Heilo the Dane will show who could resist romance. You'll be hearing four short
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lines ung sweetly later tonight, and to some bright lucky CBS listener, there'll
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be the key to fifty thousand dollars in prizes and cash. It's the new
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Fatom voice song on CBS's sensational Saturday Nights Sing It Again program and hour long
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bonanza of prizes, music, and gaiety. Phone calls go out to all
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the nation asking CBS listeners to solve gay little riddle songs. And for those
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who guess these riddles, it means a chance at the fifty thousand dollars Fatom
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Award, twenty five thousand in super prizes for solving the Fatom's identity, twenty
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five thousand more in cold cash for answering only one more question about the Fatom.
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Listen closely when Singing Again comes to you. On most of these same
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CBS network stations just a little later this evening. This is Roy Rowan speaking.
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Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these same
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stations. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. I
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love this episode, in particular Philip Marlowe's description of a Slater just absolutely perfect,
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and I have to admit I was surprised that Slater was the guilty party,
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as surprised as Marlowe. As a matter of fact, why love Philip
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Marlowe? This episode really seemed to do uncommonly well at capturing the spirit of
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the hard boiled detective genre. Well, now we do turn to listen or
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comments and feedback, and an email from Christy, who writes several years ago,
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my godmother introduced me to some of the old radio programs, including Red
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Skelton or Miss Brooks, Suspense Advance, and Philip marlow It was interesting to
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compare the last two in my mind of how a detective should sound. The
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former was too polished for me, but the latter, Oh, marlow is
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what a hard boiled private dick should be. A man who always strives for
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moral endings, even if he perhaps has to cross the law to do it,
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but it's always a case by case situation. AnyWho. I'll admit when
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I first started listening to your show, I just like the intro nothing against
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you, but I just wanted to listen to the show. Perhaps it was
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the mic, but it bothered me. Then my hands were too busy to
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jump past and I listened in. I enjoyed the insights on not just the
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mystery, but the cast, writers in much beyond. I'm catching up on
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my episodes and regret when I reached the end and am instead going day to
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day. I hope to hear more of the other shows out there, like
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Box thirteen, Rogues Gallery, Boston, Blackie and One starring Frank Sinatra and
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others. Keep it up, Christy, Well, thanks so much, Christy,
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and we have actually done Box thirteen in Rogues Gallery and Boston Blackie is
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in the on Deck Circle, and shortly after we finished Nick Carter, we'll
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be hearing from Boston Blackie. We still have a good ways to go through
33:20
Nick Carter, and of course we'll get to Rocky Fortune for twenty five glorious
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weeks one of these years. I just want to make sure we do the
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whole series Justice, but thanks so much for your conn email Christy to appreciate
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it. We will be back tomorrow with Nick Carter and join us next Wednesday
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for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime, send
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