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Philip Marlowe: The Eager Witness (EP1493) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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at storedo Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode
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of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air date August the twenty seventh,
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nineteen forty nine, and the title is The Eager Witness Get This and
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Get It Straight. Crime is a Sucker's Road and those who travel had wind
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up in the gut of the prison of the grave. This started with a
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man on trial for his life and an a one sitz An eager to testify.
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But there it was interrupted. And it wasn't until I found a copse
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in a bubbling bath, gun play in the woods, and lots of blackmail
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that the real ego witness had a chance to talk. From the pan of
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Raymond Chandler and the author of mystery comes his most famous character and crime's most
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deadly enemy. As we present the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, now with Gerald
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Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story the Eager Witness
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to the Superior corn in the State of California and for the County of Los
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Angeles. Now in session, the Honorable Albert Winston Judge presiding, Everybody rise.
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It was the case of the people versus the aft arrested never convicted smooth
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Earl Jernigan sometimes Bookie, charging the first degree with a one f old killing
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of a kindly gray haired horse trainer named Kurt Hopper, who had once almost
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been my client. It was the afternoon of the fourth day of the trial,
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and the prosecutor for the state had already built an almost airtight case against
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the alleged gambler. When my turn finally came to father substantiate the state's claim
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that Earl Jernigan did willfully and with malice of falthought take the life of the
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deceased Kurt Happer. Well, mister Philip Marlowe take the stand. He's a
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right hand. Can't tell truth, truth about truth. Happy God, I
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do take your name and occupation, Philip marlow private detechniquet, mister morlow On
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the morning of the thirtieth day of July last, the day on which the
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late Kurt Hopper was murdered, were you hired as a private detective by the
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said mister Harper. I was, And at that time, mister model,
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did mister Harper state his reason for hiring you? He did want me to
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act as his personal bodyguard. On the following day, when he planned to
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drive to San Francisco. Did he say why he needed a personal bodyguard?
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He did. He told me he was afraid for his life and he refused
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the gamblers. The man that he drug a certain race horse a week earlier
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that that gambler had threatened to kill him. I say, i'mus to mollow.
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Did mister Harper name that gambler? Yes he did. Who was it?
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Earl Jernigan, thank you? No further question, Johanna, counsel find
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the defense. Counsel for the defense waves cross examination, your honor, which
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is his excume? Didn't make sense? No cross examination because from the opening
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adjective the consul for the defense, a dapper item named Calder who always appeared
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in French cups, Greg Gabardine and a Kaki uninviting smile had raved rendered and
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practically spit at each witness the state had presented witness. So the courtroom was
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left with a tingling impression that Earl Jernigan's attorney had something of a surprise waiting
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up his legal sleep. Later, when Carler was on his feet and addressing
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the jury, that something started out fast. Now that the state has taken
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the trouble to offer so much circumstantial evidence, so much hearsay, rumor conjecture,
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Now I smash all of that with the testimony of one man, one
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man known to all of you as an outstanding citizen of the city, a
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prominent real estate broker had unimpeachable and it's eager to testify, mister Leonard Gates.
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It worked, landed in each and every lap like a live grenade,
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and exploded all the way around at once. And when the eminent mister Gaines
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Gray at the Temples maybe forty five a neat and expensive midnight blue flannel with
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giant stickman, the match took the stand, and in his own meeting of
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the board, tone of Voice told the court that Earl Jernigan had spent the
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end, hire day and night of July thirtieth last with him at his Mallebule
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Beach home. The prosecuting attorney's joe dropped on his chest and he stirred,
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dumb day or night did mister Jernigan ever leave my home? And as for
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the hour of the murder, eight o'clock in the evening, we were having
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dinner. After that we played gin Rummy until until midnight. I you are
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sure of that, mister Gaines the hour of your dinner rammy, I am
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positive, mister Calder, order of the part be fine, I won't any
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Miss Harvey Hie Hodder. This part is adjourned until tomorrow morning at ten o'clock.
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Now this gotch you so, mister yeah, I guess so wait a
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minute, baby, and I think get gonna have a company. Mister Morrow,
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can I talk to him for a minute. I'm Gailhopper. Yeah I
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know, but I don't know his Why you're not doing thirty days on a
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rock pile for that rump is? She just kicked up and caught you like
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a soft drink. Okanks, all right, just one baby, jack.
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The judge said he understood and left me off with a short lecture, which
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is what I had counted on. Oh, I mean all that fireworks and
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there was planned, not just spontaneous combustion. That's right. I had a
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halftime. Look, mister Mardel, will you work for me? Oh look,
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help me prove that mister Lennard Gaines is a line and that Earl Jernigan
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did kill my father. Take it easy, Gail. It's a big mouth
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for you know Tomalow. Listen, please, there isn't much time. We
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got to prove this tonight or never by noon tomorrow. With the outside,
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the case will go to the jewelry. Okay, what do you want me
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to do? Take over where I left off. But first let's get out
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of here, all right, and never mind that drink. Miss Where do
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we start, honey? With Leonard gaines ex wife Debbie Janson. Here's a
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snapshot of her. They were divorced about six months ago, mister Marlow,
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and she wasn't very happy. No made you figure she was your in?
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Yes, And I was right, mister Marlow. Who took Eves dropping bribery
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second story work? But I found out plenty I bet you did. Like
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what? Oh, holdly Gale Light's read like the fact that Debby and a
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guy called Eugene Mao, you're putting a bite on Gaines for twenty thousand dollars
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blackmail, mister Morrow, with the payoff schedule to be made some time tonight.
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Right now, she's staying at the sullen Selfice Screens Lodge out in the
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valley. Ganes used to go there once in a while. There's right,
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and why at the whole business there's a lot of Gaines once wrote to his
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ex wife, no fooling. Uh huh, Well tell me what's that to
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do with Jernigan's trial and games being a lot? Oh it's green. Now
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I think there's a connection because yesterday I overheard Gaddy tell this mau he's something
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about Gaines scheduled appearance at the trial today and he was jerk California drivers,
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the man behind the wheel, what about him, facet flun hair. I've
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seen him before. I know he was trying to hit one of us.
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Oh fine, well that'll keep thanks from getting dull, won't it. Then
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you're gonna help me? Well now look, I ha ha eh, who
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could resist you? Baby? Okay, tonight I check in at the lodge
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at Sunlands Sulfur Springs. Come on, let's get out of here. Ah.
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It was eight o'clock and almost dark when I reached the foothills of the
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mountain range that separates the San Fernando Valley from Malay Proper, and turned off
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onto a narrow dirt road that ran through a twisting gorge, past the moon
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faced watchman, who asked no questions as he slowly opened a sagging wooden gate
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faintly labeled Sunland Sulfur Springs, where Mother Nature's remedies bubbled from the earth private.
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There was another five minutes along the same dirt road, uphill and through
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thick foliage before I was at a parking space out of my car and walking
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the last quarter of a mile toward the lodge itself that was spotted with widely
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separated cottages, also sagging, and each tag cusser and followed by something Spanish
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and hard to pronounce. Inside the place was cheap ports furniture and occasional threadbare
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rugs over scarred pine and deserted, except for a sleepy old guy with thick
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lidded eyes and an accordion wrinkled face, was slouched in a heap behind a
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sign on the reservation desk the red manage shop no less night manager. When
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I gave him my name and said that both my rheumatism and I needed a
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rest, he came to almost room. Eh, mister Marlow, well she
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can let you have most any one of the cottages. Half of them are
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empty. Things come slower this time of year. I'm sloking you again.
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You'll be surprised. How's about CASTI Francisco de Leon Guys of Francisco. Yeah,
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that'll be fine, mister Sharp, alrighty sure, Now, if you'll
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just sign the register here, i'll get your key. But yeah, as
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I signed my name, I checked the guest list quickly, and the next
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second found what I wanted, Deborah Jensen, and next to that, and
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in a different hand, her cottage for the night, a casse Rolando de
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Barondido. That's close enough. Well anyway, it was all I needed.
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I took the key from mister Sharp a missnomer if havever you heard one,
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learned the location of my quarters, paid him in advance, and left outside.
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I turned to my right past a large open bath that smelled like rotten
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eggs, and talk to itself like a junior vesuvius as more warm self award
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as equally unpleasant to smell. Bubbled from a pipe in the center. Beyond
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that was the first cottage, another cassa I couldn't pronounce, and it stayed
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like that all the way down the line until I reached the second one that
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showed light. It was the cassa known as Rolando the Barandido. And when
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I moved closer around to a window that was clean, only I knew that
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my client had done our eavesdropping well, because in the center of the room
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and putting on her coat was the ex wife named Debbie, and standing nearby
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and holding on tight to the cigarett in his hand like it was support.
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There's what had to be the boyfriend. You're sure that games will go through
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with this all right for the hundredth time, Eugene, Yes, I'm positive.
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Can't you understand he has to If it's twenty thousand dollars won't break him,
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it won't more than bend him a bit. Now, stop worrying what
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I can't Debbie? Why must you go alone? Now? Why can't I
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go with you? Eugene? Please, we've been over that. I told
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Leonard that i'd meet him in town at the Beverly Crest Hotel at ten and
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alone. He agreed to also be alone except for the month. Rebby.
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You do handle things well. Come here, darling, I have a kiss
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for your brilliant Oh please, Eugene, there isn't time. What's the matter?
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My kiss is losing their flavor at this point. Be a fool.
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Look it's late, Eugene. It's after nine already. I've got a hurry.
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Go on, go on, be a good boy and leave that.
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You shouldn't even be seen together to me when not w it's not smart.
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Meet me at the Tulip room down and hit eleven as we played and YouTube.
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We'll have time and reason to relax, twenty thousand bucks worth of reason.
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Yeah, as mauri Oo's taught the door, I slid away from the
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cottage and into the shadow of a clump of trees nearby, stayed there as
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he walked out of sight down the road that led back to the parking space.
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Then a few minutes later, when Debby picked off the light and left,
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I moved out of hiding and started slowly after the safe distance until from
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someplace in the night and ugly snub nosed automatic that belonged to someone blonde and
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thin faced as a near automobile like ciment, stop me cold? Where are
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you going? Jack? For rare? I love to walk in the country
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at night. Okay, I wouldn't know, Jack, I'm sitting boy myself.
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But as long as that's what you wanted, jake with me, as
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long as it's whereas good and dark. Now go on that way, oh
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Jack, that's fine up? Hold it then around and face me. Why
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so I can watch you pull the trigger and have a mind. Why just
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okay, turn of these that's better now, one step closer, President,
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my friends, take before I beat you in the little pieces. Let's have
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it. Who are you? Who? Do you work for on? What
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do you want with me? Come on, gunman talk okay, okay,
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no more. My name's Langley, work for real, Jennikin? Oh yeah,
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I've been watching you ever since the trial started. Jennikin didn't want you
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moving in on, which is why you tried to pick me off with a
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car when I was with Gail hopping this afternoon. How come on? Yeah,
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yeah, that's why. Now what are you gonna do with me?
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That time? Being busted? Olivia As is light on your back because I've
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still got to catch up with a lady before series City Boy in just a
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moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe, but first, because of the
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sharp rise in America's birthrate during the war, we face very serious educational crises.
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Many communities will find that their schools lacks efficient teachers, classrooms, and
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facilities. Citizens must get together and work for better schools, more teachers.
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If we want all of our children to have a chance for a good education,
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we must take action now. Now, with our star Gerald Moore,
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we returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Eager Witness.
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It was strictly hit and run. I pile a Langley into the Manzanita
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and didn't even wait to see him bounce. Instead, I took off through
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a gully there was a shortcut to my car, because I knew that Jernigan's
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Watchdog had nothing to offer compared with the hot headed Debbie Jensen. At the
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moment, no doubt, was well on my way to the Beverly Crest Hotel
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and the blackmail rendezvous. There was a cinch to wind up in the final
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destruction of the letting. That was my theory. But I dropped it like
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a hot rock. Just as I crossed the path to the sulfur pool,
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somebody screaming, he's never on the spring. Oh gosh. It was nothing
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but self affumes in the thick gurgle of the springs until Shop played his flash
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flight over the pool and we saw and the water that was turning red from
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blood oozing around the knife, and I like, look, it's miss Johnson,
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come on popping her hand. Let's get her out of there. Come
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on, take it easy, now, take it easy. That's it,
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Debbie. I never should have tried tried. What Who was it, Debbie?
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Who did this? Who got the letter? Debbie Debbie. Right did
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she? Did? She pass out? For good minute? She's dead?
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Oh she? She seemed to be mumbling something about her letter. Did you
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get what it was the only part of it. The killer apparently took the
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letter away from her. Believe me, that's bad letter. Watch your letter.
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Minute. It's probably that pheasant again, that is What are you talking
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about? Oh? I guess I'm just getting jumpy. Hey, hey,
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there is somebody. Come on, Pop, sounds sounds luck. He's over
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there, Marlowe. I can hear him. Oh no, that ain't gonna
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do any good son, not that brush, It ain't and much more.
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I wouldn't go any further if I was you, But Papaul, he needs
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his ten seconds and he can destroy that letter for good well, just to
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see him. There's a million and one place is a killer can hide in
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there and lay for you. So yeah, yeah, Pop, Well it's
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the moment. It's a stalemate. I'd sure have to find out who that
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snake in the bush is. You know, I've run a peaceful place up
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until it's getting to be like one of them there movies. The only thing
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left out is a pussey. Yeah, you're so right. Murders in the
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night lost letters. It's corny enough without a pussy. Yeah, and my
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dangerous too. Yeah, I see what you mean. You're ready to h
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Yeah, I'm ready. I lead you actually the office, my jasper.
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I don't understand this one bit. Missus Jensen is stabbed to dazz over that
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letter and then her dame? What is up ahead there? Somebody duck behind
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that big tree. Keep the chair going, man, walk on up the
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path. Don't let him know we spotted him. Go on, talk talk
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Okay, sure I'm saying. I know what I'm saying. Oh applecious Jenny.
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As quiet as a tool as the old man. Grimly I had led
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his way up the path. I followed a few feet behind. Want to
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get even with the tree? I turned suddenly. So three fast steps and
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well, well the lened gains the unimpeachable citizen themselves standstill, gains a gun.
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What's the idea by running? And it'll come to you? I suppose
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you've got a legitimate reason for being here, all thought up. I'm here
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because I have got a touch of arthritis. I need a treatment night's rest.
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Writis is no, you're gonna have if I find what I think I'm
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gonna find in your pockets empty Inbuster. I have them, all right,
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I'll ave you them. That's better a shop. You're a witness, and
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I demand that you hy just a minute, mister Gaines, you're in a
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pretty bad spot to demand anything as our baby. There's a letter we've been
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looking for. Pick it up, Gaines, pick it up and rad it
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now. See here there Ganes, read it? Why you're able to?
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Yeah, my dear Debbie, if I didn't know you so well, i'd
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resent your stupid accusations. Now look, we've already made our property settlement,
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as you're well aware, and you'll be a long time finding a court that
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says otherwise. Now you know where you can go, so why not get
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started? As ever? Letard? Oh fine, that's is about as incriminating
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as a lecture on the family meet bill. Shut up? Whose jurisdiction are
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we under here? Georsh? Why county Sheriff's all things? All right?
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Call him? Also call you a man out on the highway and have him
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locked that main gate? Mean gee, yeah, say no, that's a
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good idea. I'll do it right now. Wait a minute, have you
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got a gun? Yep? Got a rifle? Been in the family for
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a year. You use it? Well, yeah, I reckon, I
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can, well, where are you going out? The round up Langley and
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be pushing hard to give his boss a star witness here a big helping hand.
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I want to be in shape to push back. And remember Pop,
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keep your eye on Gains and out on the phone when you make those calls.
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I'll see you. The second time that night, I started down the
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hill and toward the car out, keeping in the shadows and moving slowly this
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time because it was odds on that Langley had taken everything in and I knew
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that he'd tried to part my hair with a gun barrel and pulling it Gains
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out of the gym. He was in the very first chance he had,
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so I stayed off the paths long enough to have both socks full of burrs
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when it happened, but not what I expected. It was the shop family
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blunder busted. It exploded with a blast like a small howitzer. So also
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for the second time, I turned and ran back up the hill, this
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time to the office. I got there just as Man had climbing handle the
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hand up a smoking rifle barrel made it to his feet. Man Man what
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happened was gaines, I don't know he got away. I guess a shot.
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What about that he went up there through the room. Oh fine,
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gosh, I didn't you speke the thing? He just said he wanted to
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smoke, but he didn't happen to have a match, I know. So
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you hung your rifle over your arm, stuck both hands in your pockets to
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find one for him, and that's when he took here. Yeah, that's
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exactly what happened. How did you know? Never mind, Pop, I
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made a grab for him, though, Riptys caught about halfway. Oh that's
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great, that's great. I'm sure. Sorry he got away from all right,
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don't worry about it. You can't get followed. The gatelocked. Well,
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I got bad news there too. Hold the gates locked, all right,
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But there's a back road back wh back road? Right? Yeah,
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much rough and rocky. But he's fashionable, and anybody's been up here as
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orphans, mister Gines has sure nobody. Oh great, look, Pop,
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can't you understand that there was a murder committed here tonight? We had the
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murder of no butts hell for the oldest gag in the world. Suck it,
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I turn him over the here and we stop waving that envelope yes,
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order to see this all right? What is it? Oh? Where'd you
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get all that loot? Games dropped it when I ript twenty grand it says
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here on the wrapper something else written here to Casa Rolando the ronde though at
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ten gossa right pop, that's it. That's the answer. Come on,
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we gotta get down that back road. And I hurry the shop of the
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wheel of the pickup truck. We bounced over the pair of sometimes parallel rut
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studded with stones the size of bowling balls. It was called a back road
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the better part of two miles before they cut lights and motor and whispered that
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if Gaines was going to get stuck at all, it was sure to happened
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in the why I washed just around the next bend. I told him to
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wait and went ahead on foot. It was right. Games were stuck in
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more ways than one. His car was up towards hubcaps and sand, and
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as wallowed up to a stamp compartment and blackmail conducted by his ex wife's murderer
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with the same leather she'd had the letter. It was Eugene Murray and clenched
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in his hand was a tetted white envelope, nothing more. I held my
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thirty eight in close to my side and edged up behind him. Twenty thousand.
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Now, Mauri, I don't have that much jewel line you're going to
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pay her that? I don't know. I know because we worked the deal
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out together. Only she got greedy, tried to double cross me and pull
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it alone. So you killed her. Yeah, I didn't intend to,
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but when I found out that she tricked me, I was curious. The
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first thing that I knew i'd stabbed there. That's enough of that. Just
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give me the money. You have nothing, you're worried, But listen,
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Mauri, I tell you you, listen. Games you're in no position to
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buy. It's better than having your two hundred thousand dollars ambling got exposed and
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your reputation ruin, doesn't it? Or facing the trigger man Langley if you
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refuse to alibi for Journigan, isn't it? Or fucking a Pedgieri charge if
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you do alibi. No, you got yourself in the corner gain So pay
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all only twenty grand. But I tell you, Maori, I don't have
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it lying again. No, it isn't don't move, I don't want to
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here. Leave your hands where they are. I got the twenty grand right
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here, and it's pretty well ear marked as blackmail payment already. But just
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to round things out, mariy, I'll take that envelope you've got there.
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Yes, what do you want this for? Funny man? Because it's no
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doubt postmark with an hour a date in the location, which, together with
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brother Gaines's own handwriting, places him out of town on July thirtieth, by
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time, he swears he was at his Mellible home all day with Jernigan.
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Right, Gains, smart boy, hunt your marrow. You still got a
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chance, Gains. You've got a gamble with me. You've got nothing to
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lose now. I'm with you. Standstill, Buster, So I help me
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out now, Gaines go, Oh my leg. Were you thinking of going
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someplace, mister Gaines? Oh I am not going any place, mister Morrow.
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Well, Gail, the big show is about to start cautably in session
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in a few minutes, I know, and different from yesterday. Oh you
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did a swell job, mister Morrow. Gee gee, I don't know how
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to thank you. Save baby that scale, Lady Justice holds in her hands
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is in better balance today. It was your hunch and old man, it's
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Blunderbus did as much to put it there as my running around for the brush
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itself of springs on. It was the game's line. I didn't know it
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was as complicated as it was. Now. That's because Debbie Jensen was twice
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as treacherous as we figured. I still don't understand. How did you know
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that Eugene Maury had killed Debby? You see, Baby, I overheard her
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tell Maury that she was going to meet Gaines in the Beverly Crest Hotel at
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ten for the playoff, but I figured that was a lie strictly for Mari's
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benefit. When Pop gave me the packet of money Gains a Drop, it
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had that complicated name of a cabin in the time of the appointment, which
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was also tan written on it, so I knew the real meeting was scheduled
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to take place out there. Oh ye, and she was going at the
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Marlock to the Beverly Crest while she collected the money at self for springs and
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then beat it alone. That's it, honey. You see, if her
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cabin had been named something simple like number four and Gaines could have remembered it
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instead of that cassa Robino del bangadoro or whateburg was he had to write down.
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You see, well, then things might have been different. Oh,
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you'd have foed away after all, you figured out it was the postmark that
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was important. Only after I've been slapping the face by a perfectly harmless letter
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with no envelope. Had to be the postmark. What else? Who they're
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starting? Yeah, good luck mis tomorrow, give him the works. Don't
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worry, baby, I'm eagle witness. Today. We're gonna knock them dead.
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Literally, they got it coming. I watched Jernigan's face as the preliminary
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has gone underway. The killer was beaten me. When the court finally settled
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down to work and the prosecutor took over, I listened to his death build
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up as he primed the jury, and the dramatic ring master of voice he
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used when he called, will Philip Morlow take the stand? Please? Now,
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mister Morlow, you told us yesterday that you are a private investigator.
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Now will you tell the court in your own words what happened to you last
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night? I sat there looking into the cold bale flies. The prosecutor he
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thought of a paraphrase on that wonderful quote from Oliver Wndel Holmes. It's not
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enough to ask for justice. One must also hope for mercy. Mister mollow
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oh oh, yes, I'm sorry. Well. It began here in this
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room yesterday afternoon at about three point thirty, when the Council Defense called a
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witness and mister Leonard Gaines to the stand. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing
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You Raymond, Chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy, star Gerald
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Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldonelli,
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Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Joy Terry, John
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Dayner, Michael Ann Barrett, Junius Matthews, Ben Wright, Lou Krugman,
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Larry Dobkin, and Bud Widam. The special music is by Richard o'runt.
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Be sure and be with us again next week. When Philip Marlowe says,
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the trail started Montana with a bum with two names, rushing away from his
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lady love and led fast into La past A Southerner from Canada, a worried
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wool dealing a chorus girl with a forty five. When it finally stopped at
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Murder in the Park, the tramp was still in a hurry. You and
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I have a friend coming to call next Monday night. She's my friend Irma.
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If this beautiful, lovable, but dumb blonde isn't your friend now,
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she will be the moment you hear over most of these same CBS network stations
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next Monday, following the Lux Radio Theater, my friend Irma will bring you
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plenty of laughs and great entertainment, So be sure to make friends with my
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friend Irma these Monday nights on CBS, where you'll hear them all this fall.
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This is Roy Rowan speaking. Now, stay tuned for Gangbusters, which
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follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations. There's is CBS where Arthur
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god Prees telling Scotts I heard Monday's the Columbia Broadcasting System Welcome Back. I
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like that episode. Really nice setup in terms of the stakes and the mystery
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that needed solved, and also a pretty satisfying conclusion. The only thing I
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didn't get was the last line when he remembered the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote about
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mercy. Because I can't figure out why he was thinking about that. Usually
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at the end when they throw in those little quotes, they kind of make
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sense in the context of the episode. But that will actually do it for
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today. Join us back here tomorrow for Nick Carter and next Wednesday another episode
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of Marlow. In the meantime, become one of our friends on Facebook,
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