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Philip Marlowe: The Torch Carriers (EP1583) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now we turn to today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, and this
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The original air date is January the seventh of nineteen fifty and the Tontle is
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the torch carriers. Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's
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road, and those who travel and wind up in the gut of the prison
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of the grave this time each carried its touch, and each was burned by
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it. They heal the hero worshiper in the Hot Bitten Blonde at all because
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of a woman already two days dead from the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding
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author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe. In Just a Moment Tonight's story, But first, a message for
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test drive the fifty four that your Ford dealers tomorrow Now with Gerald Moore starred
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as Phila Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story. The Torch Carriers.
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Eight hours that had just slipped away had been a noisy assortment of big people
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with little troubles. I hadn't wanted their help, and little people with big
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troubles I hadn't been able their help. So by the time it was all
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over and I was heading for home, a cozy, quiet cocktail lounge at
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the Wilshire Gardens Hotel seemed like a good idea. When I was there,
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up at the bar, with one down and one to go, the strain
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that had been with me all day began to ease up. But even as
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I relaxed, the tension between the couple sitting at my left became more and
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more aturned. I looked down. The bar girl was young, pretty and
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obviously afraid of the little man. With her wait only asthma where a voice
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should have been now if I made myself clear, I don't know what you're
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talking about. I look, says Sir Larry Sower. Doesn't couple people snooping
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out from nothing. I need to do why? It gives me work to
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do that sometimes. Rough enough, Poddy Grave boy, all right, little
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man, you've had your busy day. Hey, take your hands off as
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soon as you'll relax. Okay, okay to me, gentlemen, please,
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no fighting. I can lose my license for it. Now you leave it.
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Won't fight him? Innute body? You heard him busting? Okay,
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I said, want to come to say anything? You? All right?
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Miss? Are you sure? Would you like another drink? No? I
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go back to my dollar. Oh you're staying here at the washer? GUNA
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got your little clean? Maybe I better see you as far as the door.
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Little paleoids might still be around us. Thank you? All right?
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Come on, this is really very nice of you, mister Marlow. Philip
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Marlow, what about you? What? Oh Claire usprings? Now, look,
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Claire, I'm not trying to ply into your business, but in a
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way, people like Larry's salva on my business. Larry, how did you
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know about him? The little piel on the bar, wasn't whispering. I'm
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a private detective, Claire, and I see a lot of people get in
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over their heads. I hate to see it happen to you. You know,
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these people play rough, usually for keeps. Maybe you better tell me
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about it. Huh, this is my title. It's tomorrow. I'll be
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frank with you. Come. Months ago, I got into a jam.
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It was an investment. I've made some stock, a sure thing. I
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was cold, and they usually are anyhow, the certificates weren't quite Joe dead
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and they took a dive, a deep one. I need to protect myself.
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I needed more money, so I took a breaklet. I had a
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diamond run and got a loan on it from Larry so Yes from Chafer,
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a friend a prison I sat with. A friend recommended him to me,
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Oh, you cash your break slid, covered your investment, got your money
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back, and now you want the bracelet again. Correct, Yes, but
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Salt isn't around. He's high. How do you know? But I went
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to the club. He runs up on the strip. I overheard it there.
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The two men spoke of him as being on an extended vacation for his
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health. Of course I didn't believe that. So I went around the back,
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found a door open, and got into Saltr's private office. Maybe that
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in itself is a wonderful way to get into troubles deep. Yes, I
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know, but I just had to find out where Salt could be located so
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I could pay him and get my bracelet. Path you're not, It's just
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papers. He was folded under Shaltas memo pad. On one side it says
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Madge Glad's down two seven fourth, the last numbers missing turn off and on
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the back meet at one one. No, it was ten ten? Can
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this help? Then? The first Claire a couple of questions that might help
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even more? Who was that Erstart's little Caesar slapped you in there? One
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of the men I overheard talking at Chaltre's club. He must have seen me
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and then followed me here that figure? Now, look, honey, yes,
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scrambling off full hot for a thousand bucks bracelet. What's the rest of
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it? Right, David? But you're out of your honey, that's funny.
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I might just as well tell you the bracelet doesn't mind, mister Marlow.
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It belongs to my aunt. I live with her in San Diego.
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Oh you borrowed it while she was away. Maybe huh, yes, Oh
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please, I've learned my lesson. I only want to get that bracelet back
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now, mister marlow Please, Pa, will you help me? I'll pay
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you in never mind that now, Oh pleeez. I must know where Larry's
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soldier is. Okay, Clay, we'll try to find out. But I'm
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want condition huh which is right? But you go inside, lock all doors
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and windows, sit next to the phone, and until you hear from me
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again, do absolutely nothing on your own agree. Oh yes, agreed,
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mister Marlowe, Thank you very much. Maybe it was because the sweet young
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kid had the kind of voice she could still hear long after she was gone.
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You know, one of those lingering sounds like the echo of the train
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was hanging on chrisp early morning air that when I was at a payphone,
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I stopped wondering and started dialing numbers prefixed gladstone and followed by two, seven,
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four, and then in order one, two, three and so on
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until afternoon. Answer once, wisecrackers twice in the babysitter who thought I was
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a masher from her high school. I finally scored at number five. The
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answer took me to a dame named Madge Gilbert, a place called the Beakman
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Closet. It wasn't the kind of place you'd go for mother, and Madge
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Gilbert wasn't the kind of girl mother would put up with. However, she
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must have been nice to look at once, and from the smile pleasant to
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know. Okay, mister busy guy, now that we're together, what is
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it? Oh? For one thing, the name's Kirby, and you can
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drop the fancy handle. And for another thing, Kirby, I want to
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find Larry Sliver it quick. Got a proposition for him. He won't be
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interested. How can you tell you don't know what it is? No,
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but I do know what at the moment Larry is. And in three letters,
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my friend, the word is sad. He lost his lady love drink.
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No thanks, What do you mean is lady love? I heard that
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you went, You heard all that used to be the pre Jana's trial period.
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I'm the sad comes from Jane's finding a better deal. Maybe huh.
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No, she was killed allomobile accidents, not before last. No. Again,
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she was alone and drunk, and that's probably the way Larry is right
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now, A blind pool. Sure, look baby, believe me, it
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won't put up a torture. Carry shut up. Sorry, I broke the
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whole thing up. Now, what was that proposition you mentioned? Larry exclusively
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worthy the foundry on cushion, faundry and least Los Angeles. Hey, wait
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a minute, Curvas, you seem kind of lost for a friend of Larry.
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I'm just fuzzy on locations. So how about numbers you address down there?
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What is it? Come on that ten ten? Unless it's been changed
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recently, it hasn't. Okay, busy guy, you're still all right,
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thanks, And if you play it real close, I think you'll be too.
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See you imagine Cushing Avenue in East Los Angeles is industry literally wrong side
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of attraction. About his non Hollywood is an honest day's work. And all
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the way there, I kept blessing the dumb luck that had made me answer
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ten cents for the addressed before I'd even had time to think. When I
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pulled up and parked away from the place, I hoped that luck would continue.
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Because the head was the foundry, or what remained of it, and
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in no sense did it looked like friendly territory. I found a metal staircase,
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climbing from what had once been a loading ramp up to the yard Foeman's
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office, where a single, staring, unshielded light inside said that somebody was
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home. And when I quietly gone up those stairs, I saw through a
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glass door who that somebody was Larry's Sawfi alone next to a telephone and fishing
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dots at a smiling face on the calendar across the wall that read January nineteen
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twenty eight. And I knocked with the barrel of my thirty eight on a
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dirty glass door, told me to come in without looking up. Thank yourself
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at home, neighbor. I'll be with you in a minute. Ah,
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I did it. The front toots had been trying for that all night,
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so glad you made it. Now I won't be on your mind while we
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talked. What bracelets? Bracelets, neighbor, This is an iron fondly,
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but you wanted a jewelry shop. Let's save each other a lot of time
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and a level. Huh. I'm a private detective named Marlow Soldourn at the
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moment worked for Claire Osborne, who now is the price of a bracelet wants
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it back in a hurry. Do we do business? No? You don't,
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And it's not because I don't like your neighbor, but because one I
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never heard of any clear osburn two bracelets and stuff for second story man,
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which I am not. Three. You ought to get yourself a pair of
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sneakers. Stupid Eve been followed all the way through the yard, up the
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stairs and into this room. An old gag. So no, no gag.
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So you still can You better put that gun away because my boy Cover
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takes a strange delight in messing people up real bad. Your bracketed you better
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drop it fast. Ye yep, that's better him. I'm all over with
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im. Any double talk about babes and bracelets, let's happen. You don't
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want to Freeman best boys, aren't you? You think guy had something to
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do with him getting knocked off in that ditch. You're here to square things
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away. That's it is. He gets your hands off home. Okay,
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I won't touch you again. But that's more than I can say for Cob.
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Yeah, lots more. It was a toss up whether COB's gone on
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the side of my head, on the side of my head on the floor
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down the damage. Either way, it didn't seem to matter because I couldn't
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make it back any further than Larry Sol's voice. It sounded like it was
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coming from the bottom of the well, even though I could see him talking
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at the telephone. Mine later It's eighty one North. But then I couldn't
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even see that anymore. Oh oh yeah, oh good, evenin Wilchair Gardens
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Hotel twelve. Please one moment, please, oh hello, Hello, Claire,
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listen, I'm over and East Los Angeles. Come on, Lord,
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did you find him? Do you know where Larry's galdine? I think so?
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Eighty one hundred Northfolds sarn it'sp in Hollywood near you. And listen,
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Claire about the bracelet? What there was no no trouble on stock marketing,
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no loanmade. Why do you want to know where Solar is? What do
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you want from him? It's life? Good time. Wait a minute,
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Claire, listen to me. I oh, I wouldn't try it. Hey,
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Covi, listener, you don't have to go no place until Larry Slider
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comes back and says so no relax, chum in just a moment the second
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with our star Gerald Moore, we return to the second act of Philip Marlowe
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and Tonight's story The torch Carriers. I turned to the poka face cover in
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the forty five boats tearing at me from across six us. The feet of
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concrete floor that may be ancient East La founderies seem colder and even more lonely.
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You don't stay put? So good do you? Sweet ear? You
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kind of heavy handed with that gun, don't you covid you want to try
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again? Sweet eart, I'll pass and he hears telling at each other.
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You have to get dull. Don't you think that's entirely up to you?
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Sweet eye? You bleed, I'd like that when you're cure. Look just
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so I don't get plugged by mistake. But let me sit down before I
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fall down. Help so over there on that box, so we keep me
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between you and the door. That's right. You're a good boy. You
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got no idea? Hey, come on, how long do we play like
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this? I'll tell you better when Oval the Squeak gets back. What's Oval
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the Squeak? She runs errands for Larry, like finding out what's phony about
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a certain young babe and or bracelets that don't exist. So that's where the
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bird with the whiskey soprano fits. That's the way the punk operates. Huh,
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well that way covid will both die of old age before Oh well,
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you hear that somebody moved downstairs. Maybe this is a visitors night and the
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old Foundry. Don't get your hope some sweet art those live here, they're
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rat they eat small dogs. One thing more, please shot? What's that
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for? Punk? Dropping your hands out of your lap where I couldn't see
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him? Don't try it again. I'll put it on your bill. You
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know kvit. You're holding me here on Larry's Solda's orders, and yet I'm
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the only one who knows what schedule I happened to him tonight. Maybe you
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better tell me. Sure, Only first, I want to know something about
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the late mister Freeman. Best Freeman was scum, well stinking scum. Nobody
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misses him, I mean nobody, And Larry didn't kill him match out,
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but he was connected, wasn't me? And there was a girl named Janie
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Trial. How does she figure? You better let that one set, sweetheart,
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for your own sake. Now let's have your running fast. What's supposed
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to happen? Did you hear it? Yeah? What? Don't tell me?
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A tough boy like you who gets jumping. All right, give come
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on, wise boy, jabbing co won't do any good anyway. I'm the
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only one who got there was something made your right, something enough to wear
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shoes. Shut up, I said, and sit right there. I'll bully
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you in two and I mean it. Ov ovo, Hey, squeat?
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Is that Joe who's out there? Ask me? Its cover? Dged out
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of the room. I he was along the side of the box I've been
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sitting on for a jacket chunk of metal slag I spotted earlier. It was
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about the size of a baseball and heavy. I picked it up and moved
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across to the opposite wall near the door. Yo, got a hair the
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bosses throw at it. I fit. I stepped out and saw Covid standing
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at the head of the stairs, his back to me. I threw the
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lump of iron slag with everything I had caught him come up between the shoulder
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laces had flew back. A singer's clawed at the air, and he pitched
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taste first down the stairs. I caught a glimpse of a woman ducking out
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of sight behind the foundering furnace. It was Mad's Guilbert, You're killed him,
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Cobra dead. I don't know, and I don't care. What are
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you doing? This's brought it up right trap. There's nobody else here,
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just does cover creepy number they called Oval the Squeakers do any minute, nasty
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little loss gives me the willie. You made your bed, baby, But
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let's not get lost. What are you after in here? I've been thinking
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plenty about that torch you're talking about. I decided if you carry the same
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old one long enough, you're bound to get burned. Finally felt the heat.
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Huh, yeah, plenty. So I came here looking for you or
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Larry. Couldn't make up your mind, certainly. I wanted to tell Larry
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I was throwing it a beat you to it, but you found me.
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So okay, what if Larry of the Squeak come back after what I'm gonna
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tell you. You gotta help me get out of here. Larry'd kill me.
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You wanted to know about Janie Trout, Okay, I'll tell you she
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was beautiful. I'd be the first to admit a brunettelike every woman wishes she
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was. And Larry fell for she took him away from me just like I've
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been dead ten years. Only she was rotten number once they're clean the vault
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in her twisted, dry old brain, jealous, lover jealous. Sure,
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I was jealous at first, and just hurt and disgusted. She was double
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crossing Larry every time he turned around, but there was nothing I could do.
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I try to tell him, yeah, oh, but this one time
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I made it stick. She borrowed Larry's car to take that slimy Freeman Best
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out for a ride in it with extra laughs because there was Larry's car,
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mind you and Freeman Best. In case you haven't heard, I heard,
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Well, I gotta leave that they were gonna wind up at the bridge cafe.
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I made Larry take me out there to prove what I've been telling him
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about Jennis was true. You proved it. Sure, We waited for him
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at the bridge. They showed up all right during ninety She couldn't make the
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curve and they hit the bridge rhythm. He killed them both. Wait a
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minute, Wait a minute, your stretching baby. Freeman Best body was found
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thirty miles south. Sure, sure it was because Larry couldn't bear the idea
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of Janis troutbying found with Freeman's bed. He tried to protect her and keep
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everybody from finding out what a tramp she really was. He pulled Freeman's body
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out of the wrecking hall that cleared down the Long Beach and dumped it.
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I watched him do it. And all this business is just to keep that
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secret about Jenna's trial. You can you imagine a love like that going to
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waste? Huh? Even with her dad? Even now, he wanted as
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much as speak to me. I'm not so bad. I've tried and I've
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waited, but he won't drop it. So it's all yours, Kirby,
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and take it. I hope you put it right when he to them.
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No, that Kirby was just tall. I'm mallow privately take it? What
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gee? How cheap did I sell out? Anyway? That depends. The
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only ex time grinding is for a girl named Claire os whenever you hear of
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her. No, that's funny. For some reason, she hates Salta even
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more than you. It's horrible. It's horrible. You stay where you are.
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I'm scared of it. I'll pull his fans. Just talk, get
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absent minded about which side you're on. Oh horrible? Why's Lally. I
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don't know. I've been waiting for her. It's covered. Then I got
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something in parking cover. Oh why he went out for a few minutes.
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Yeah, I don't like this, sister. You want to hear all by
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yourself. Something's wrong? What is it? Hell? I what the master?
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Hold it all? Hi? Why the goud guess? What do you
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know about Claire Osbond? I don't think I know the party show? You
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do a cute little brunette named Claire. I want the straight dope on it,
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and I want it now, not later. I over hid answer my
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questions her crap, you're working anything out of me? Larrie'll pick care a
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phota. Yeah, Jirk, maybe there's something on it will give me an
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answer without talking back. Ook. He always wrote things down on a little
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notebook inside his chair. Yeah, you're right here it is. Let's see.
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I'm not sure sure this is it. Claire Usband arrived from San Diego
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last night by plane. I just did it. Wish your gardens as Claire
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Usbands recording the driver's license. Her real name is for Pete's sake, no
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wonder. I'll see you kid. It took me twenty minutes to get from
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East la Over to Lucerne and another five to find the bleak, white bungalow
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that belonged to Larry's solver. It's fun windows with dark. When I drove
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past it, parked on the side street and walked back, but in the
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rear one window showed a light. The screen door was open, so I
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eased myself into the service porch, where I could see Solfa sitting at the
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kitchen table, a look on his face that hurt the pliants, like a
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small boy accused of something he hadn't done. I couldn't see it was facing
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him, but there was no mistaking the voice. It was Claire. Oh
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my yess was everything to me. Now she dead and you killed him.
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That's true, isn't it. I've already told you once, kid, you're
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making a mistake. I know I'm not. You're going to pay for my
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sister's death. No cld'll ever call it murder, but that's what it was.
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You get it just as surely as if you'd strangled her with your own
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hands. And now I'm going to get even for Jannet. Claire. You
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crazy? So why did you come here? Give me that gun? Claire?
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You can't stop me. Nobody can. Even if you shoot me,
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Marlowe, I'll kill here. Listen to me, boy, start pulling that
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trigger. You better know all the fact everything saw her here has done since
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your sister's death has been a shield and protect what little she herself left of
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a good reputation. She turned bad, Claire, No, No, what
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reason have I got to lie? I'm telling you this because it's true,
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and I can prove it. I've you're trying to trick me. It was
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your big sister who tricked you years ago. She was no good, that
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double crossing dirty cheeta. Wouldn't shoot square for five minutes, that's more,
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and she died. She was too timing, Larry. But even in spite
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of that, he risked his neck to move the body of the other guy
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just so she wouldn't be found with a kind of cheap trash she'd been running
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around with. And you know why, because Larry saw her there. Loved
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your sister, loved her every bit as much as you did. Yeah,
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this can't be true. Yes, it's true, kid, all of it.
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I loved her all right. Just too bad that Jenny's went like she
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did. Okay, baby, The hutot give me the You know anybody now
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no better our class? Yes, hope you all right? When I get
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used to a few new ideas, what's going to happen to me? Now?
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Yeah, that's pretty much up to you. How do you mean?
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World spins like mad honey? You have to keep up or get lost.
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Like I was tonight, I was last mile, Oh terribly. Everything I
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had any facing with gone. That's because you had blind faith, Claire.
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You know that's okay for kids, but you're not a big girl now.
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Ah yeah, I get it. From now on. It's me on my
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own two feet and my eyes wide hoping. We'll take it easy, baby.
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It's fun to close him once in a while. After I dropped Claire
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off at a hotel, I remember the drink I'd started out to get and
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left half finished on the bar. Well. It was too late now to
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stop anywhere, so I drove home and poured myself a nightcap in my own
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applotment. I carried it over to the window and looked out across the city
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at the endless miles of winking lights, each one of tors Everybody carries a
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torch for something, some for love. They can never have an ideal that's
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out of reaching some just for memory. Funny thing, so many dark corners
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get their only light. I'm a torch that somebody carries. Philip Marlow will
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be back in just a moment, but first, here's a message from the
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Forward Dealers of America. More than one hundred and ten thousand delighted motorists were
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already driving the new fifty Ford. Here's what Jack Ferrell, hotel manager says.
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I did a lot of shopping around and chose Ford for styling, and
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I'm certainly glad because I found there's plenty of car beneath its beautiful body.
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There's plenty of power under the hood too, and it's as comfortable as a
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high price car. I could go on for hours about the quiet, it's
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the economy in the comfort of my car. But it all ends up to
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this. The fifty Ford's a mighty fine card own. We Ford dealers are
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not surprised that new owners rave about their fifty Fords. We've studied this new
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Ford from stem to stern. We know every detail of it's fifty ways new
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for fifty. Well, until you get behind the wheel, you won't be
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able to believe how good it is. That's the reason we want you to
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test drive the fifty Ford. The classified phone directly will give you the name
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of the nearest Ford dealer, or perhaps you know him personally. Why don't
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you phone him tomorrow before you buy any car at any price. You owe
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it to yourself to test drive the fifty Ford. He shoreing me with us
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again next week. Quen, Philip marlow says, this time everything that happened,
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from the orange haired man with a matt patio for the pitchfork to the
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body at the covered bridge was wrong, dead wrong. The Adventures of Philip
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Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced
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and directed by Norman McDonnell and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell and Gene
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Levitt. Featuring the cast were Sammy Hill, John Dayner, Vivijanis, Harry
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Bartel Wilms Herbert and Edgar Barrier. The special music is composed and conducted by
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Richard o'roont. This is Roy Rowan speaking Stay tuned now for Gangbusters, which
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follows immediately on most of these same CBS stations. This is CBS the Columbia
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Broadcasting System welcome back. Well, a different sort of Philip Marlow episode with
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a very different sort of ending, not ending up in an rest, and
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some great hard boiled dialogue here. I liked Marlow's description of a location about
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as non Hollywood as an honest day's work. Also, the Ford commercials were
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interesting, particularly in that William Johnstone played the hotel man Jack Sparrow in this
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all right, well on to some listener comments and feedback, and we do
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actually have a comment from Jack. It was posted regarding the price of fame
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matter, but we have so many comments on that, plus its leads into
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the episode the Little Wishbone episode fifteen seventy one. Jack says, Adam,
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thank you for playing two of my favorite old time radio episodes this week.
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Of the thirty minute Bob Bailey episodes, the one with Vincent Price is the
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best. And let's us see why Price was perhaps a better radio actor than
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screen actor. He had such a command of his voice. Jonesy is my
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favorite Marlow episode and it is the best detective series. What a huge range
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of emotions more could project. And also just a simple comment from Karen love
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that Gerald, well, thanks so much to appreciate your comments. And I'm
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glad you enjoyed the show. And as I said, we'll have more comments
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regarding specifically the price of fame matter on Friday, and we will be back
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though tomorrow with an episode of Nick Carter and then join us again next Wednesday
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for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime, send
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