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Pat Novak for Hire: Rory Malone (EP1270) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Shine. Well, now it's time for today's episode of Patnovak for Hire.
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Rory Malone. Ladies and gentlemen, The American Broadcasting Company brings to its entire
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network one of radio's most unusual program Pat Novak or Hire. I'm Pat Novak
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for hire. That's what the sign out in front of my office says at
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Foghorn for hire. Oh, there are other ways to say it, but
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down on the waterfront of San Francisco, you got to put your best foot
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forward, especially if you want to trip up a friend down here. A
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friend is anybody who's been dead more than ten years. And then it pays
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to watch out because if you relax, somebody you'll come along and knock you
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on the back of your stomachs. All right, though I rent the boats
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and do anything else, you can hide in the dark. It's about all
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you can ask because along the Embarkodaro, nothing's perfect except the heels. I
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found that out Wednesday afternoon. She was a lovely girl, the sort of
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person you'd expect to see in a choir loft about three hours after choir practice.
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Her hair was red, her eyes were as cold as a rear mortise,
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and you knew the first time you met her that you'd been seeing her
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too often. It must have been about five o'clock in the afternoon. I
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was walking down toward Pere nineteen when she pulled up alongside of me in a
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cream convertible. Can I give you a lift you already have. Well,
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is that love or reflex action? What's on your mind? You of is
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to know back, But don't put on your tracksuit. It's a business matter.
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In that case, you've got a name. I'm con Reagan. I
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went by your office a few minutes ago, but you were out. I'm
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in now, go ahead. It won't take me long as to no back.
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Stay away from roll him alone? What I'm doing all right? So
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far? Who is he? He's important to me. I don't want to
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lose you, mister Novak, So please stay away. Go tell a girl.
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I don't even know the guy you will. You're not lying now.
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He's a prize fighter and someone's going to try and hurt him, and you'd
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rather hurt him first. I'm willing to pay you to stay away from him.
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I suppose I'm going to see him a lot. Will you pay a
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lot? I'll give you three hundred dollars? All right, mister Novack,
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you know you're not smarting angel. If you're pressing that hard, the other
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team's gonna bid too. The answer is no. I'm afraid that's up to
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you, but I'm warning you don't do it. Please don't do it.
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That's what mother used to say. I'm still all right. Maybe Mother liked
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you better, mister Novak, see you later. Well. I watched her
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for a minute as she brushed her hair back and started the car. Was
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nice hair, and the dress helped too. It was dark blue and had
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a v neck. But the designer believed in big letters. She pulled away
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and gave me a look you could take on a safari. It was enough
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to tell me that she was as safe as a tap dancer on a floor
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full of dynamite caps. I walked up and turned into pair nineteen. When
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I reached the door of the office, I could see the old man sitting
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with the desk. He looked tired and a year older than the Bible.
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His hands were shaking, and his skin was coarse in the color of an
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old razor strap. When I walked in, he glanced up at me and
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looked about as happy as a cocker spaniel with his stomach ink. I could
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talk to you, please, mister Novak, we'll try at once. Go
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ahead. I'm an old man. You want to argue or go on?
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I am too old, so I must come to someone for help. My
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name is Hans Neumaya. I would like you to watch someone for me,
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someone like Rory Malone. Yeah, but what is this save Rory Malone?
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Week? What's he to you? I'm his man. Oh you don't ever
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hear of me because I'm old and not a very good manager. I guess
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after this fight, well we find hum manager maybe yeah, what swim's this
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fight tonight? Or you don't know? Or he's a good boy, he's
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a very good boy. Well, good boys don't need watchings. He got
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some bad coming out. It's something funny about this fight. He meets with
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bad people, and or he is a good boy. Yeah, I just
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met one. How deep do they run? The West is a fellow named
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Joe Slaeger. He's a bad man, a gambler. Please, mister,
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no, but you just watch Obie tonight and see he's all right? Are
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you that rich? Tasa? I don't have much money, just three hundred
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dollars maybe what I got from the fight. Maybe three hundreds. I don't
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know. I just got a little money. It's a type pop you win
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the toss, please you you don't help me? You win? You win?
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Pop? When do I look at him tonight? You come before the
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fight in its old. I'll show you too old and juicye. He's all
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right, yeah about nine? Yeah, please, mister Nolvak, I think
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you all my life. You watch ol you I think you all my life.
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Yeah. Well I'm getting short shift on that, but I suppose it's
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not your fault, pap. See you're nine. Well. I felt sorry
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for him when he turned and walked out of there. I could afford it.
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Three hundred bucks. You can buy a lot of crying towels at the
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door. He turned and smiled once before he shuffled out. He moved down
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the pier with a nervous, uncertain motion like a flower pedal, and a
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warm wind. When he disappeared, I took a cab and rode up for
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the price club. Found out a lot about Rory Malone, and most of
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it was good. He was a lightweight and Hans new Meyer had picked him
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up and brought him through the prelimbs up to the main events stuff. He
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was fighting tonight against a Cleveland boy named George zerkim Le. Betting was even.
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I ran into a chronicle man whose wife divorced him and named a fight
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club his correspondent, and he said not to worry about Joe Slagel, that
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Rory Malone fought for purses. And that's all he knew about the girl con
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Reagan, but he didn't want to say much, just that she was a
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fast five gated horse trying for seven. Well, I had some dinner and
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I went over to the arena about eight thirty. When I walked into Rory
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Malone's dressing room, Hans new Meyer wasn't anywhere around. I stood over in
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a corner and watched him get ready for the fight. There was enough lineman
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being thrown around to keep an old Ladies Home spry for years. The other
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handlers were in watching him tape up Malone and put on the gloves. Most
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of the people cleared out them. Malone shadow boxed a minute before a second
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threw a robe around his shoulders and shoved him toward the door. As he
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passed, I fell in beside him and we started walking under the arena A
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few feet down. I bumped up against him, saying about what hands Newmeyer
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oil? Where's new Mayre? What do you care? My name's Novak.
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I'm supposed to meet him here. Do you know where he is? No?
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He doesn't show up he's probably not drunk. Does he drink? No,
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Well, that's a funny answer. I don't know where he is.
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All I know is I need him tonight. I gotta get up of the
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ring. I'll go with you so just so you're gonna win tonight. You
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never know. Sometimes you do miss there, hear Riet, are too smart
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or too dumb? What's the difference. You can't fight twice in one night.
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I want to talk to you, Rory, not no Kitty at the
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fight. Please, Rory, talk to me now, getting you're crazy.
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This guy is standing around a lot of other people. What do you want
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to do? Put him on the radio. Where's he hasn't been wrong?
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Where is he right? I don't know, Kitty. If I know,
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I get him something wrong? Rory, I've been watching. I know there's
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something wrong about this fight. Yeah, yeah, there's only going to be
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one guy fighting. If you don't let me out, don't brush me off
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like a dumb fly. I know is something wrong. I want you to
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get into trouble, all right, kill don't see all right? When you
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know how I feel. Let's talk about you and Joe Sleago, please,
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Rory. You don't know what it's like to see somebody in love go crazy
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your do you know that doesn't count, Rory. Little money I save doesn't
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count next to you. Oh please, Rory, don't do anything wrong.
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I die. I die of terrible heartbreak. It hurts me all my life.
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Stop it when you're kidding, I stop crying. I don't worry.
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I'll win. Just don't let anything happen. Right, I want to say
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after the fight, coming on that. Yeah, you're real good with your
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women, Malone. After this fight, I want to match with you.
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Know that I met two of them, and they both have you and their
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dream books. Right on the fly. I'll remember talk some more. I'll
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talk enough to tell you you're being followed about twelve inches behind. That's right,
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Malone, keep walking China in the next door. You better walk alone
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unless you can run a bullet. I agreed an hour ago. All right,
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holding the dop for a meddi. Okay, you stand over here,
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I'm alone. Take off your glove. I'm gonna need it. You're gonna
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be eating teeth. Take off your glove. Help him at he Yeah,
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that's it. Hold him on the other science stairs. Put his hand on
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the Tableady, I'll give me the block yeah, you can crime alone.
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It's gonna hurt. Okay, hold him, keep his hand out there.
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Ready the glove back on alone. It's too smashed that it will hold the
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faces. Put it on. You better put it on. A blow and
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you're overmatched. That's it. I go wine up there and look good.
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Yeah, why don't you hold him the gun and he'll win in two rounds.
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Look, mister, I don't know who you are, but I'm sick
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of in moth. It's a big floor, it's a stretch out. During
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the next two hours, they either moved me or the arena, because I
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woke up in an alley down there the Golden Gate Theater. It was in
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the back of a restaurant, and I was lying there trying to look good
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in a mixed green salad. My head was about the size of a diving
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bell, and my clothes were so rumpled and dirty. I looked like a
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legman for the Hoboe News. I tried to get to my feet once,
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but it wasn't easy. It was like trying to push a basketball through a
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stovepipe. I think it was close to eleven when I got out to the
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street. I didn't even buy a paper to find out about the fight.
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I grabbed a cab and went up to my apartment, iron out of my
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spine. It was a good idea. But the girl at the desk had
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a message from Hans Newmyre. He was out at the California General Hospital and
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he wanted to see me right away. When I got there, he was
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at the end of a ward on the third floor, but the duty nurse
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wouldn't let me buy. Oh, she was a real pretty nurse, if
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you like pure mammal. Somebody buzzed, and when she oozed down the hall,
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I ducked into the ward and started looking for hands Newmyre, who was
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dark, and he was away down at the end behind a white screen.
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He looked tired, and his eyes were moist and soft, like a ripe
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fruit that's just been squeezed too hard. Geez, mister, know that you've
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come to see me. Yeah, as soon as I got your message,
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you make mistake, Miss Hunts. I don't send message if somebody wants to
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be your secretary. What happened to you in my room? I just got
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to my room. Somebody is there? I don't know? Oh? Is
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all that? I limped a little? Mister your boy got his hands smashed.
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Aw, he's a good boy. He's got a good girl. Who's
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kidding. She's cool with holy a long time, save money to marry something
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that somebody coming down this way, come here, bind that curtain. Maybe
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who comes to visit me? Whoever came to visit him didn't stay long.
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The old man leaned back in the bed and quit without any fanfare, like
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a long summer coming to an end. Well, I went out to get
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the nurse and I found her out at the end of the hall giving an
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intern some greedy talk. She hadn't heard the shots, and they hadn't seen
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anybody come out of the ward. I told her as much as I could,
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and then she wheeled the old man into another room and called homicide.
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Now that called a homicide didn't help, because from now on things weren't going
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to improve. I was fighting a forest fire with a Canna keara scene.
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About twenty minutes later, Inspector Helman showed up. He was full of finesse
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and fury, and he came charging over about as graceful as a lame lobster.
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Oh no, VC, you're up late. I had company most of
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the time. Yeah, did he boy, you somebody got tired of him.
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It happened behind the screen down there an award. Who is he guy
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in the name of Hans Neumeyer. He manages a fighter named Rory Malone.
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Yeah, the killings mixed up with a fight face, not the zerk fight.
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Yeah, that's right. They got to Rory Malone ten minutes before a
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ring. Time. You got a thin story, Novak. Look, I
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got a fat one and I got all again when going down on my side.
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The old man got it because Rory Malone was dumped in that fight.
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I don't believe it. You don't have to believe it, hellman. They
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smashed him up. His right hand was as limp as an old piece of
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letts when he climbed into that ring. They should have smashed both hands,
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though, because Rory malown won by a knockout in the fifth round. Trying
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to the page, Novak, When Helman told me Rory Malone one that fight,
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I might as well I handed him a feather. I stood there feeling
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like a guy peddling dope at his sister's wedding. How could Rory Malona won
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that fight without a hand grenade? When I saw the hand It wasn't strong
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enough to flatten a piece of silk on on Ivory table, and yet he
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won by a knockout in the fifth round. I pointed to one thing Zari
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could take in a dive. But why are the double fixed? Why had
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they smashed Rory's hand? Oh, it was a goofy pitch, like sending
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for a plumber to fix a hole in Boulder Dam. I didn't have time
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to wrestle around with it because Helman had talked on his mind. He can't
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get a booky in town to take bits in this one, Novak. No,
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not with you setting the odds. They were that way when I got
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there, So don't write up a clean bill of health. The guy's dead
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and nobody else's volunteering. You'd muff a confession anyway before you tumbled. They'd
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have to cut it in stone across the front of city Hall. What were
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you doing with the old man, helping him over the rough spots or taking
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him over the hurdle. He hired me to watch Rory Malone. They were
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stepping up the pace on his boy, for instance. For instance, Joe
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Slagel, everybody says he had a steak in the fight you don't throw a
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fight by winning in the fifth round. That's what the book says, but
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sometimes the book's wrong. You better look up Joe Schlagel, and on the
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same trip you can stop buy and see a gall named con Reagan. Yeah.
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Why, she's Malone's new sparring partner of Paul Redhead with lots of dry
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cells. She sounds nice. I'll talk to her and Slago too that I'm
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gonna find out about you and Rory Malone. First, I'm gonna run down
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this stuff on this fight and I'll find out where you fit in. Don't
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worry, no vac ou de gat. You could take the jelly out of
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an omelet. Helman. Look up the girl and Joe Slagel. I'll talk,
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not about each other, there's some connection there. I'll give even money
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their friends. They want to be what they were married a month ago in
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Las Vegas. Or don't you know about love? Hellman stood there a moment
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and smiled like a guy who's just killed the landlord, and then he turned
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around and walked out. Well, I stayed until they wrapped up the old
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man, and after that I went with the chronicle office and pulled the clips
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on Joe Slade. He'd been to three jails and gotten his master's at Alcatraz,
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and there were some pictures of him at the racetrack. He had to
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face any museum would buy in a ford that was so low he must have
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had to look down to see his hairline. There was one other thing about
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him. I noticed he was the same guy who'd smashed Rory Malone's hand.
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I began to wonder about that friendship, but it was getting late and I
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had to work fast, so I looked up the only honest guy I know,
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an ex doctor and a boozer with the name of Jock Omdigan. He's
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a smart guy and until he decided a head on your beer is worth more
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than a head on your shoulders. I finally found him in a little joint
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down on Geary Street, talking to some woman into giving up all men under
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fifty. Petsy, I've missed you in a rather a trivial way. All
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right, chuckle, I'm giving these women an lecture on diminishing return. JACKO,
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will you start drinking long enough to listen? Patsy, you fail to
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understand my drinking. Actually I hate whiskey, but I go on drinking as
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a sort of suff to providence, because everyone knows the Guardian Angels take care
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of small children and tipplers. And since I've passed the age where I look
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well in rampers, this is a very clever dodge to get a little outside
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help. Chuck, are you ever going to change? Patsy? Don't you
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know what a burden change is to a man as old as I are?
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Oh? Yeah, see, it's not the change we mind, it's the
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way it happens by degrees, never giving you a chance to remember anything else.
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So it's heartbreaking. Pert. It's like visiting a half forgotten neighborhood.
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It hasn't changed completely, just parts of it, a few old houses and
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some human remnants, is still around, enough to remind you of the change,
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but never enough to make you happy. It's that way with growing over.
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Listen. They don't allow you to grow old suddenly and leave. They
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insist on this policy of having you dribble off into eternity. It's undignified,
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Patsy feeling like a bowl of old dishwater with the stopper pulled out. JOCKO,
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I want to talk to you. Oh why didn't you say so?
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What's the matter. An old guy in the name of hands Newmyra is dead.
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Oh bless him. Homicides full of fever. They think I killed the
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old man? What did he do before he stopped doing it? A fight
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manager? He hired me to watch his fighter, Rory Malone. He should
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have hired a team because somebody got to him in the hospital tonight. How
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do you fit him? I was just passing through when the noise started.
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That was General Custer's problem. It's tied up with tonight's fight. Numaya was
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afraid of a gamber named Joe Slaye. He was around the night. Smashed
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Malone's hand before a ring time. That's a hard way to lose. It's
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a harder way to win. Malone won by a knockout in the fifth?
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Was he fighting his father. I'm not getting any place, Jocko, and
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I'm doing it in a hurry. It's a bad fit all the way around.
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They took two tries to get the old man. And if Slago bought
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the fight, why do he smashed Malone's hand. That's heaven drinking, Jocko.
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You got to help me. It's the thirst that's confusing. I want
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you to get up to Roy Malone's place. You can find it in the
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book. Go through his stuff and try to pick up a lead with you.
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Why don't you do it? I'm going to look up a girlfriend named
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Conrie and she's married to slag One, but she's trying to work Malone into
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the act. M Well, in that case, i'd be in the way.
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Look, I'm in a spot, Jack and I get up to that
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apartment. Will you what if Malone walks in and finds me going through his
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stuff? Stop worrying? He almost killed a man with one broken hand.
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Suppose someone smashed the other one. Well, I had to do something quick
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because the kettle was on to boil by the time Hellman got to him.
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Slagelould have an alibi, and my story about the smashed hand wouldn't prove a
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thing. I had to grope around and pretend like a guy. On the
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second verse of the National Anthem, I decided to tag by Slagel's place,
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and on the way I bought a paper to read about the fight. Malone
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looked real bad for four rounds and then came out of the woods fast with
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a left hand in the fifth. It was about midnight when I got to
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Slagel's apartment room began to look more and more like it when con Reagan opened
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the door. Oh, I could see Rory's point. She was a sort
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of a woman you'd never give a second look, because the first it paralyze
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you. Her red hair looked brighter now, and well, legs like that
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are the reason silkworms are born. She smiled, and you knew if you
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had never made Naples, you could die happy with her. But I guess
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she picked her friends. It's too late for the three hundred now, mister
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Nobeck, I'm working free. Invite me in a sorry darling, you look
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lonely? Where slavely? I agreed to marry him, not following about Malone,
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somebody killed his manager. I'd like to help you, mister Noback,
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but I don't like you well enough. Well you can make love later.
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Give me answers. Now, where you're going, you're not welcome. I
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want to know what those bags are packed for. I don't trust the drawers.
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Now get out of here, mister Noback. Calm down and put the
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gun away. Get out of here. You came on, invite it.
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I'll kill you the same way. Hello, no bag, you're gonna lose
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an argument. Well, it looks that way. If she's yours caller off
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Malone, tough gun. Let him walk up. He's deemed in here full
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of questions. That's a bad way to answer, Relie. That's what your
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man neu Mayer is doing. Somebody killed him tonight. I know that,
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Novak your eyes. I'm very red. I can't help, but Novank.
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All I can do is square is beef and you can start with your girlfriends.
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He's leaving town or did you buy the tickets? But Yourn I want
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to leave. I can't leave, Rory. I'll argue, would you You'll
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get the short end, Rory, because I'm leaving. Stay away from me.
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You're too close. Someday they'll met you, Eve and Rory. Maybe
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it's a referee. I'll get it. Yeah, you got a deep voice,
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miss Reagan. What's on your mind? Helman? Joe s right now?
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He cleaned up in tonight's fight, not with a betting, even wasn't.
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After the first round word got out, the Malone broke his hand,
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the betting chained, and Slegel covered every bed in the house. That's right,
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Well, the old man tumbled before it happened that's what he was afraid
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of. Did you got a motive now, Helman, you better look him
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up? We did. He's dead. He couldn't be dead if he's not.
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The bullet holes are good fakes, he assumed Novak. Well, I
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didn't talk to the girl and Rory because I knew they dummy up on me
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and I had nothing to go on. It was like trying to build a
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wall out of jelly consome. Nothing added up. Now, whose side was
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Rory on him? Where did that other girl kitty fit in? My luck
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was on the black market tonight and I knew it. So I went by
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my place to check with Jacko. He was in the kitchen, and he
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looked worried. Ah, Patsy, you know, I was going to break
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open the thermometer until I found this bottle in the clout. All right,
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jack what'd you find out that it pays to know Joe Slagel. There's a
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twenty thousand dollars check in Malone's desk. Slagel signed it. He could afford
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it. Somebody killed him an hour ago. Well it was Malone. I
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don't know, but that's not gratitude. Maybe he wir regrets you'd better get
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up there. All the stuffs pecked for a long trip, well, well,
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a couple of trunks and all these bags. Does that sound like a
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weekend party? I don't know, Jacko, he's kind of fancy. Maybe
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he likes a lot of laundry. Up to now, it was like trying
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to melt a pound of diamonds. But when the turn comes, everything happens
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in a hurry, and things began to fall faster than snow off a warm
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roof. If Jocko was right, it meant Rory and the girl fought,
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but they did a lot of clinching between rounds. Well, I got a
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hold of Helmet and brought him up to date, and then I started for
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Rory Malone's apartment. When I got there, Helman was outside the door,
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listening, as quiet as a washing machine full of pebbles. It must be
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in the back room. I can't hear a thing. You couldn't hear a
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rifle shot in a box car. Helmet, let's get a better view to
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miss your train. Malone. It's a chance to bet this is Inspector Helman
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from homicide. But he got strong, Inspector. I'm covered for Joe Slagel
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Novak Hair's alibi for miss Reagan. Check. You're scraping bottom, mister.
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We can start with a twenty thousand dollars check from Joe Slagel. That's why
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you'll stop too. The twenty thousand covered a sale of my contract. The
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fight commission can beef. But that's all you ready come? I hope you
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are too, because you're going downtown. Look fully, you can make us
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miss a train, but we'll catch the next one you're wishing now, Roy,
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who's this a fast friend with a slow burn? Hello, Kitty,
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your boyfriend's gonna leave, Saygabye, you're crazy to go with her. She
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makes me that way, Kitty. I'm sorry, Rory. I've done too
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much for you. I've kept loving you all this time. I can't leave.
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You can't leave. No, I don't want to be alone. Buy
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a dog. No, Rory, No, I won't let you go too
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good with guns drop it. You better take her helmet. She's angry.
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Don't please, Rory. I loved you too much for this. I loved
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you enough to kill somebody. You can't leave, Rory. Can't leave me
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to myself. When the guy comes, tell him where the baggage is what
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will become of you, Rory Malone? What will become of you Malone when
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you have to think about me, when you hear the sound of me in
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your head. You're brave, Rory. You're brave to leave me alone.
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Come on, conn in a place like this, we're wasting you. Come
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back, Come back, Rory Malone, come back long enough too. The
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love at me would have love at me for the fool I am. Oh,
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it's the great fool in the world. I well, it doesn't prove
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much, except the right kind of a heel can grind you into the dirt
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fast well. Helman pieced most of the story together. Slagel and Malone planned
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the fight and it went off without a hitch. Slagel bought off the other
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fighter so that Malone could win as soon as the bets had been covered.
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Hans new Meyer had an idea, but he liked Rory too much to believe
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it. They found out he was coming to me, and con Reagan tried
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to scare me off. She looked too good to Rory, and the scheme
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started to grow. He lied to Slagel after the fight about new Meyer,
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so Slagel went into the hospital and killed the old man. That left Slagel
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around to cloud things up. So Rory Malone told a phony story to his
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girlfriend Kitty. She loved him enough to kill Slagel. There was no way
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to stick Rory Malone. They could never fight again with that hand. But
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he had a check for twenty thousand bucks to start on him. That's enough
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to keep love in the living room. Well, Hellman asked only one question.
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Why would a smart gambler like Slagel take a chance on giving Malone a
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check for twenty thousand bucks. I guess Malone found out when he tried to
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cast that check because Joe Slagel was big hearted but broke. The American Broadcasting
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ABC, the American Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. I love the twist on
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this program because typically you would think that the band guard was about to get
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away with it in terms of Rory and his girl, that they were,
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you know, even though that because they were not legally culpable for what happened,
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but they really did have some moral culpability in what happened, and it
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looked like they were getting away with a good check chunk of change. But
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then that last minute, that last minute revelation really changed the whole complexion of
31:26
the end. The idea of Rory getting away scout for he was kind of
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cynical and almost added a character for the series. Because the criminals and the
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bad people have to pay a price in the end. Then they came up
31:45
with an ending where they added actually a little bit more cynicism, but to
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get to the same result of a sort of crime doesn't pay ending. And
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I also love the quotes. I chose one thing for the quote in the
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show notes this time, I'm I just chosen something else another time. When
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you listen to Pat and Novack, it's not like there's just one quote that
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could plausibly be the quote of the episode. So much stuff and then the
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pictures in the word imagery. It's just powerful and really like nothing that you'll
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hear anywhere else. All Right, Well, on to some listener comments and
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feedback over on Facebook, and Rebecca says, I love the Pat Novac commentary,
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thanks for putting it on the podcast. Robin approved of the quote we
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chose for that week, which it was he was about the size of a
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golf bag with arms. If he had a cigar box, he could see
32:47
over a pool table, and Fatty says I wasn't looking forward to the Pat
32:52
Novac replays, but gave them a second chance, and now remember why I
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love them so much the first time. Well, I'm glad that you you
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enjoyed it. And this is one of those series I don't mind going through
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a second time, though, with so many other programs at going through it
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just to kind to recreate the experience of original listeners is what's driving my decision
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to replay it at this point. But there'd be merit to the idea even
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if it wasn't. All right. Well, that will do it for today.
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We will be back tomorrow with Philip Marlow and this time the adaptation of
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Lady in the Lake. And we will be back next Tuesday with another episode
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