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Philip Marlowe: Night Tide (EP1421) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio, Boise, Idaho. This
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is your host, Adam Graham, recovering from a bit of a cold at
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five nine one three, Boise, Idaho eight three seven one five. Well,
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now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip marlow The original
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air date May of nineteen forty nine. In the title not Tide. When
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it started, the tide was high on the San Pedro waterfront and a hot
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tempered kid had murder on his mind. There was a knife at my throat,
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of beating under the peers, and a corpse on the beach before the
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tide went out again and the kid was finally stopped. From the pen of
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Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in
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the Adventures of Philip Marlowe now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we
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bring you tonight's exciting story Night Tide. It all happened in San Pedro,
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the harbor of Los Angeles. The lights on the ships were fuzzy through the
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wet mists that creeps up out of the ocean every night, and I drove
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slowly looking for the establishment of Mike Basso, my new client. One side
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of the crooked street was nothing but the smell and the sound of oily salt
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water slashing through the pilings. Beneath the piers. On the other side was
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a tangle of warped, dingy buildings equipped to satisfy the thirsts of reckless men.
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You never get beyond the water front of any port. The foghorn out
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on the breakwater began to bellow as I parked near a U shaped pier labeled
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Vasso Docks Private, and walked past the line of moored fishing boats to a
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squat two story office. The bottom floor was dark, the second floor had
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lights on. So I started up the steep wooden stairs and was halfway to
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the top and I caught the voice, and I had already heard over the
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phone when I was hired. It was my clients, Mike faster. I'll
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get somebody who can. These boats got to be handled faster. Why even
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the croup Johnny Dyke was better on this Joe than you are, Johnny Dyke.
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Why I heard a get on my way. The big guy with a
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Latin Jay shoved past me and stumped down the stairs. So I went on
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up into the office. Mike Besso looked like a block of concrete. It's
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two hundred and twenty thick pounds, hunched over a scard roll top desk.
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As I walked in, he swung a heavy bulldog head around and glared at
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me. I never held a knocking first. I guess that's right. And
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Moussa just left here. Got me all out of the mood for courtesy.
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That shocky my crew pusher good man is slow. Come in down. I
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got other business. I drink kanyaki. Thanks, okay. Now, it's
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a hot headed punk by the name of Johnny Dike. I sent him to
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prison three years ago for stealing money from me. I made it as tough
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as I could for him any special reason. Why? Sure, because I
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trust a fellow who works for me. Johnny Dike used to have Shaky's job,
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but he took advantage when the police grabbed him and found my money in
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his own house. He squealed like a pig and said he was framed like
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all cheap punks do. How does this get around to you wanting a private
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investigator? Because Johnny Dike is out of prison, got out yesterday on parole
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and he's backing town. Now, hey, you what you're looking at your
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clark? How come it says eleven thirty a twenty eight. It's electric?
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It was turned off last night and I didn't start it yet. Now look,
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I was here with Ed Giles when he heard some noise on my private
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launch out there. He went down to see about and who's that? Girls?
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My general manager. While he was gone, the lights went out in
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here. That's when I got clogged on the head. And when I went
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down, I got kicked around plenty. I'd be killed right now, But
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Shocky happened to come along, and the guy was scared off of me.
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But you happen to see who it was? No Giles did he got a
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good look. He admitted it, only he claims you don't know who it
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was. He lies an ac countact. He's an old friend of Johnny Dike's
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maybe girls isn't lying? What makes you so? Certainly was Johnny who slugger.
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I found this just the book of matches. Huh. But see how
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the edges are crimped. Johnny Dike always did that. He's nervous all the
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time, fidgeting. Sure, he might as well have left his calling card
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for me. Ah with Johnny. All right, okay, bess Over,
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before you get too far in, I'll tell you something. I don't go
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in for bodyguarding. Who wants a bodyguard? Is what you do? Mallow?
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Find that punk. See what he's got in mind. He beat me
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up once. Maybe that's all he wants, or maybe he's coming back to
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put a knife in me. Just find out and let me know, that's
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all. I looked out at the fishing boats along the pier, gently nudging
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each other, while Mike Besso told me that Johnny had a blond wife named
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Christine who ran the Albatross Cafe, and the dead Giles lived alone in a
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house at forty three Terminal Road. It was enough for a starter, so
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I said I'd keep in touch and left. Because I walked off the pier,
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the blinking neon light from a sign across the street made a swirling green
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veil out of the mist between me and my car, so I almost got
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up to it before I saw her leaning lazily against the door on the driver's
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side, A girl in a tight black silk dressed, cheap fur jacket,
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double eco strapped spikee. She smiled with one corner of her red mouth as
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I walked up to her and stopped. Hello, sugar, Hi, you
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a sweet hat. The name Ginger, that's too bad. Ginger always gives
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me hype like that. What did Mike Bessel have to say? Yeah,
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we were talking business, baby, that's all. Say. Tell me which
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way to Terminal Road and it intersects about ten blocks down. What's the number
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forty three? Oh? You want to turn right? Then? Ed's place
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is a cozy, secluded one by the water. Thanks, you know mister
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Giles huh yeah, he's around Mike all the time. He's nothing. Well,
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I'll see you around so long, handsome, Eh, I want something
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you Giles, Mike Besol's man. Yeah, so what, I'm mollow,
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private detective. I'm looking for Johnny Tyke. Why'd you come here? Is
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your a friend of his? The only one I haven't seen I heard from
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him, so I'm afraid I can't help. Wait a minute, let's go
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inside. I'd like to talk about that. Ye. Look, he's put
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himself in a pretty hopeless situation coming back here to Pedro. What do you
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think because he's got enemies like Mike Vasselas shocky, Yeah, what's he gonna
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do? Fight it out? To be smart and leave tom Listen, private
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investigator. I told you once, I don't know because I haven't seen him.
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You're a liar. You saw him last night. They're working for Mike
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Gaunt. Get out shot. I'll shove harder than that, brother. Okay,
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Kyles, we'll try it my hard way. Now, where's Johnny?
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I don't know? Come on, get up, get up, let's play
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again. You saw him last night, didn't you? Didn't you? Right?
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I saw him about eleven three. I was standing on the deck of
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Mike's launch when I heard a commotion and looked up. I saw Johnny jump
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down the stairs from Mike's office and run off the pier. I haven't seen
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him since. That's the truth. Okay, Sorry, I had to make
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a squeal on her friend. Where's the Albatross Cafe Albatruss. Yeah, a
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corner of Front and Castle at you, but look, can't you leave Chris
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out of this. She's a good kid, She's been through a lot already.
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Think Johnny's gonna leave her out of it. Besides, it's for her
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own good and I want to see her. Yeah, I suppose you're right,
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but I'll tell you something for your own good toomorrow. If you find
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Johnny Dyke, don't push him too hot. It was tough before he left.
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Now he'll have a raw height for brains to depend on it. At
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the corner of Front and Castle, I spotted the Albatross Cafe, half on
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land, half teetering on a set of spindley, still thringing the high water
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mark with jagged lumps of barnacles. I parted down the street and started back.
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When the door swung open and the lantern jawed moved shock, he lumbered
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out. I watched him cross the street without seeing me, and disappear between
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two buildings. I waited a couple of minutes, and then I went in.
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Took a booth near the front. Place was neat and clean, even
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the tablecloths. A soft brown eyed blonde and a cris peasant dress, picked
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up a menu and came over him. Good evening, sir, Chris.
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Yeah, yeah, well Chris, it's probably not on the menu around here.
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But how about a double order of plain facts? Straight? What are
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you talking about? Johnny? You remember Johnny Dike? Your husband? Who
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are you? Mister private detective named Mallow? All I want to do is
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talk to him, Chris, just talk? Is he here? No?
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I haven't seen him. He hasn't even called me. How do you feel
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about this bird known as Shocky? He always crowded Johnny, and now he's
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got his job. I hear he knows something. Have you seen him lately?
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No? I haven't. It's funny he just left here. Okay,
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so I'm a liar. Maybe you're just blind. I've heard that. Love
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does that? Baby? Maybe any skin off your nose? Nope? Cigarette?
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And how about a match for me? Huh? I suppose? So
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let's see yeah here? Thanks? Hey? These a cute had crimp border
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on the edge, especially the one put there by somebody's jittery thumbnail. And
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maybe your eyes are bad. Maybe not, Chris, but you better do
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something about your nerves. They're shot. Good night, baby. I didn't
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look back, but I knew she was watching me all the way out the
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door and down the street, so I made it real good as far as
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the next blocking around the corner. Then I doubled back fast and stayed in
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the shadows until I got within sight of the Albatross Cafe again. And then
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time to see a man. He's out of side door and slip out of
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sight among the pilings under the building. I moved in closer and found a
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rickety trail of green see planks that let out through the forest of slimy pilings
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under the piers. I felt better on a type rope, and it was
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home ground to Johnny Dyke. I felt my way slowly along the slippery planks
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went from behind the piling and on like steel springs snapped under my chin,
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while a hand pressed the point of a long, thin knife with a curved
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white handle up against my tail. You said you wanted to talk to me,
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marlows a talk, but fast, because I don't have much time.
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He's up on my foot when you okay, hey there, you're a sucker.
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Why don't you try to give up trying to even the score, get
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out of time and forget it? Sure, sure to you that's easy.
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You didn't spend three long years in the cooler for something you didn't do.
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I'm gonna get even, all right. I don't know how for sure yet,
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but I will wind up right back in the coopsucker. If it keeps
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this time, Is it going to be worth it? It could be.
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I was a good boy up there. Every time I wanted to slug a
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guard, I said Mike Basso to myself instead. Now I got it all
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bottle up inside me. I'm going to carry all that hate around forever.
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I'm going to get rid of it, and there's only one way to do
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it. Ed girls was right, they've got a raw hide for brains.
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You better put the knife away, Johnny. I think we got visitors show.
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We have Marlow rats, big ones. The peers are full of them.
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You should feel right at home. Don't sleep too long. Pounds between
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the between the thropping in my head and my numbness across my shoulders where my
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back had struck the planks. It took me five minutes to get to my
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feet and another five to climb up the street level, and then the pier
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was deserted, so I headed for the best of docks on the double with
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the unpleasant answer to my client's question, plus the added attraction that i'd even
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seen the knife that I contented to use, I still had a block to
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go when I saw a hulk that had to be shock He stried off the
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pier and turn in my direction. When I got close enough, I heard,
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yeah, I'm shocky? Or do you want But Mike's still in the
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office. Once and now on, this is no time to tall heavy,
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imlow. I'm working for him. I got a message I won't keep Is
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he there or no? Oh? The office is locked up, he's gone.
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I'm looking for him myself. Why what do you want him for?
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Because I'm pretty sure that Johnny Dyke is holed up in the back room of
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the Albatros Cafe. I only wish you were right, shocky, but sure
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about a half hour too? Like, what was that? Can't roup the
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street there? Yeah, let's go shocking. Maybe we're both too late,
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let's find out. Yeah, Hey, what day by the guardrail? Hu'
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ginger? A pall of Mike Pastos. Yeah you're right, Ginger, Ginger,
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what's the matter? What happens down there? Take a look with the
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ice scared thee I think maybe I'm gonna be sick. Come here, Look,
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Holy, that's Mike down there with the knife in his back. Yeah,
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a long tin knife for the curved white handle belongs to a guy named
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Johnny Dyke in just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first,
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he may be a close neighbor of yours. At least he lives quite
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near you. You go to the polls, you elect him, You bid
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What happens to your congressman and the nation's capital. What pressures are brought to
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bear on him? In how many hundreds of fields must he rapidly become a
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CBS, you'll hear Ralph Vellamy, star of radio, stage and screen,
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most of these same CBS stations. Now with our star Gerald Moore, we
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returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story Night Tide, lying
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with his face muzzled into the sand and the rest of them half submerged in
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the shallow lapping water. Mike Besso was violent death at its ugliest. Ginger
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turned and walked slowly away from us, trembling like a whino caught in the
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morning sun. And I told Shaky to go get the police, and I
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headed for the Albatross, where I figured I might get a lead on Mike
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Besso's murderer. When I got there, I skipped the formality in the front
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door and quietly moved around to the back, where I ended without knocking,
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and made my way along a narrow, dusky cart as far as a half
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open door labeled private, where I met Christine Dyke talking on the telephone.
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She looked up and gasped the sight of me, and then slammed the phone
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down abruptly. I was willing to bet that the party on the other end
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had the husband Johnny nobody else. What do you want? Marlow most of
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all won Johnny Dyke and handcuffs. Don't bother with the my man pitch,
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honey, because at the moment the lyrics will make me sick. I just
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left the cops. It used to be Mike Besso battle dead Martin. Yeah,
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or because of Johnny's nie it's sticking in his back, Chris. No,
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Marlow, Johnny wouldn't do a thing like that. He couldn't. You're
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on, Chris, he didn't know where is he. I don't know.
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You're lying, baby, You were just talking to him on the phone.
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You gotta know. No, I don't. He didn't say where he wasn't,
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oh what or anything about Beso being dead. So don't move Marlow.
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Well, husband with knife, wife with gun, charming couple. Never mind
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that. I'm not going to see john in trouble again for something He didn't
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get in that closet tomorrow where you'll be out of the way now, all
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right? In it is, But first, baby, a word of advice.
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He isn't worth it. Believe me. I don't go get in and
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keep your mouth shut. A closet in Chris's office, which double is a
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storeroom for the restaurant, had no window and a three inch stick oak for
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a door. So I was twenty minutes as a one man mob scene,
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bouncing the inventory around before I was heard, and the little man with a
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big meat cleaper of along the kitchen opened up and demandedn't know what I was
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doing in there. I heaved the number ten tomorrow, Juice can Adam Purnance.
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I started running and didn't stop until I was outside in my car and
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pointed for Red Giles Cottage, the only other place I knew where Johnny Dyke
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might go for help. When I came to a stop at the house and
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found Giles himselves standing on the outside steps, looking puzzled at a pair of
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tail that were blinking out of sight, I knew I was too late.
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Yeah, Marlow, it was Christine and all upset about getting her hands on
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five hundred dollars. Said I had to lend it to her for Johnny's sake.
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She say, why, oh, only did he needed help? Murderers
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usually due your boy Dyke just killed Besso Giles a knife in his back.
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Johnny Johnny killed Mike about an hour ago over on the beach. Tell me
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did you give him the money? Ah? She ran out of the house
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before I even got to my safe did not saying anything. I was saying
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a word mono. I wouldn't even know she was gone yet. If I
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hadn't heard heard what guy desk draw in a living room? Come on,
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Mallow, quit me. He heard the draw open when I was inside near
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my safe. I wondered what she was looking for. When I called foot,
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he had no answer. He ran outside after he is it, Marloye're
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gone a boat case? She must have taken it for Johnny. Ask him
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for the money? Was only a trick to get me OUTA wait a minute?
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What both keys here talking about? God the Master? I said,
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two keys on a large brass ring. They fit the ignition lock on any
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boat at the Baso Docks. She knew I had them, Yeah, but
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she also knew that even as a friend of Johnny's, you'd balk and handing
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him over if he knew he killed Basso? Right? Or are you still
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shielding old friends? Giles? Which is it? Don't be stupid, mollow,
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I'd draw the line something all right? Now? One more question?
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Do you have a gun? A gun? Yeah? I do, good,
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and get it because we're going to the Basso docks. Giles, Come
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on, both piled into my car, and in something less than ten minutes
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ripped through the white empty streets to the Basso Ducks, which were two parallel
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piers set about one hundred feet apart and jutting out deep into the bay,
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with more than a score of boats more to the inwood side of each.
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But when we were out of the car and saw nothing of Johnny Dyke or
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the girl, and heard no sound other than a dull tump of wood on
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wooden me rhythmic slap of water against the hulls, I decided that we should
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split, and I told Giles to search one pier carefully while I took off
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for the other. Later, just as I started out alone over the oil
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so plunking, I remember the panoramic view of the docks had gotten earlier that
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evening from Busso's office, So I stopped and turned and ran for the flight
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of wooden steps that led to it. I was halfway up, and when
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I stopped again there was somebody ahead of me, and with a key opening
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the office door, I crouched low and moved closer, one slow step at
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a time, thought what I knew might be Johnny Dyke. But in the
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next second the light clicked on in the office, and I forgot all about
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being subtle and leveled the thirty eight my hand at the belt buckle of the
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sharply silhouette figure. It was Shocky. I wouldn't move if I were you.
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Bust there, Marlow, Shocky, who are you expecting? Nobody funny
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man? But I wouldn't want it to beat Johnny Diyke at the moment.
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You might want to settle low scores. You know, Marlow, the price
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for two murders is the same as a price for one, So I've heard
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now, unless we straight from the subject, Shocky, do you mind telling
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me what you're doing here? And don't say I'm getting personal or I will
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and I like a big boy, all right, I'm here because I don't
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like cops. Right now they're done on a beach, swimming around Basso's body
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like kids are on a may pole. Also, I figured that before he
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blew, Dyke might come up here after the money he knew Basso always kept
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on hand. Satisfied you no word? No? Why not? Because I
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buy the switch first. You go out here, Shocky to steal that dough
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and let people think that Dyke took it on his way out. You can't
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prove that only because I haven't got time. It's see, Shocky, it's
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the odds on bet that Dyke's out on one of those boats right now,
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just waiting for the Oh this is it, my love, Shocky? What
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time is it? The time quick? What is it? It's eleven thirty
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five? Why whatch I got to do with Dyke shoving off from where I
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stand? Everything now? I look, Shocky, get back down to those
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cops. Get him up here, and Marle. Look over there at the
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end of the Starbuck pier. It's Dyke, yeah, and trying to get
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away. Go on, Shocky, get to the cops fast. I took
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the wooden steps back down at the docks, three at a time, and
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then raced across the stop with pier and out on the length of it until
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I was close enough to the end or I could see Johnny Dyke climbing over
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one of the boats. I was about to call him the stop when I
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saw something else, standing almost oppositely in the shadows some nearby, rigging gun
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in hand and taking careful ama Dyke was ed Giles. His finger slowly closing
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on the trigger was too late forward, so I followed suit and fired before
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he did, got him high on the shoulder. HiT's me, Giles,
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I know the man who murdered Besso, isn't He's right here, Giles,
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what I mean? But I just found out you were a liar about seeing
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Dyke last night from the deck of Besso's launch. I couldn't have so you
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weren't shielding him, Giles. You are framing him, framing him so that
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you could get rid of Besso and penn his murder on Dike. You'd also
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get rid of while playing public citizen whos helping the private detective apprehended killer.
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What do you say, Giles, is that it a smart guy figured out?
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Be yourself, come clean, or I'll blow your head off. All
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right, Chris, and I framed Dike. Chrish, what are you giving
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me? We figured that we'd being a clear with the money we took from
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Bassel and with Johnny Well tucked away in a big, strong prison, your
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dirty loss keep talking, So we took advantage of Johnny's loud mouth and incidentally
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you as well. With Basso gun, I was gonna step into his spot,
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your other one with a loud mouth, gyls Well little red riding hood.
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I went for the line, funny, what a sucker a smart guy
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can be. He wasn't the only sucker, baby, Johnny, stay back,
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Johnny, shoot if they move it in. She's got a gun.
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Shout for some qua, Johnny, get away from me. You wouldn't shoot
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me, Chris. You wouldn't shoot your own husband. Shot the man you
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talked into running away and til the things quieted down, the man you'd move
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heaven and earth to help so he could be shot in the back. But
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you can't shoot me while I'm facing your tenure your cheek. Cut it out,
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Okay, Marlon, Okay. It was a long hour of questions and
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answers before the police were finished, and they'd left with Chris and Giles and
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told Johnny and I were standing alone out on the end of the pier,
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where I was looking down at the shallow black water below and listening to him,
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trying to convince himself that the whole night had been something more than a
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bad dream. Chris against me, Giles against me from the very beginning.
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Marlowe, that's right. Giles because he wanted to be in Besso's place.
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My wife, Chris because she wanted him. That's right. When Besso hired
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me to see what you had in mind after that beating, he'd taken from
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what he thought was you. But it was really Giles laying the groundwork.
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I fell into the role of star witness, somebody reliable enough for them both
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to play against. Yeah, I get it, so you could testify that
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it. At first Giles had tried to shield me like a good friend.
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Yeah, and then the end had to kill me when I tried to escape.
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Sure, and just to make sure there were noose slips, Chris kept
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feeding you's instructions under the heading of wifely advice. Yeah. It practically ran
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on a timetable, Johnny. Yeah, but there was one slip. I
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found out Giles was a liar and trying to frame, not shield you.
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M hm, how was that my life? Well, look, he said
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he saw you beat up Besso in his office at eleven thirty last night,
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when he was down on the deck of Besso's private launch investigating a strange noise.
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Yeah, well, Johnny, he couldn't have because at eleven thirty last
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night, as well as eleven thirty tonight, the tide was low. Of
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course, the launch with it, and from Besso's office you couldn't even see
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the launch, yeah, or the other way around. From the launch,
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you couldn't see the office, right. That's it. So in the end,
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Johnny, you did have a friend stuck by the sea. Yeah,
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I guess that's as good a place as any from me. Maybe the sooner
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the better, any place in particular, No, just the sea. I'll
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drop you a card whenever I make Port Marlow. After all, I really
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had two friends. I won't forget that so long fellow. I watched him
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walk away until he had gone the length of the empty pier and was swallowed
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up in the empty night. And I turned back to the shallow black water
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beneath me, which way the sea and the land were close to meeting,
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was coated thick with oil and dirty and almost stagnant. And I thought a
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lot about Johnny, people like Chris and Giles he'd mixed with and trusted.
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I felt sorry for him. But then I looked up a little away from
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the water at the pier and out toward the open sea, where it was
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deeper, cleaner. Further, I looked cleaner it seemed to be. Then
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I remember that was where Johnny Dyke was heading, and I felt better.
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When Philip Barlow says, I was hired to find a thief, and I
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did eight thousand miles away from home. But first I found a hammy,
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a fellow, a lush with a luger, and a fresh corpse in the
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told a household pest goodbye, goodbye. An MD said, you'll pass the
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This was definitely a rough in, certainly not the roughest, but there
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was certain there was a good job of really throwing us off the trail and
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then shocking us with the final conclusion that both wife and best friend were in
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on It was not even something I would have thought of, and it's kind
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of a perfect sort of world we are into this story with the references to
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the sea. It's pure the further out it went, and as his only
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friend. Well, that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow
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