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Philip Marlowe: Face to Forget (EP1709) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for
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  Speaker 1: today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original
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  Speaker 1: air date June fourteenth, nineteen fifty and the title is
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  Speaker 1: face to Forget, Get.
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  Speaker 2: This and Get It Straight. Crime as a Sucker's Road
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  Speaker 2: and those who are travel and wind up in the
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  Speaker 2: gut of the prison of the grave. There's no other end.
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  Speaker 2: But they never learned.
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  Speaker 2: Now, with Gerald Moore.
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  Speaker 3: Starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story,
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  Speaker 3: The Face to forget.
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  Speaker 4: All right, All right, wise guy, I told you once
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  Speaker 4: you couldn't come.
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  Speaker 2: Up here to this room. That's right, landlord, but I
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  Speaker 2: found all I needed. Well, you won't be able to
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  Speaker 2: use it. After I teach you some manners. I'll teach
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  Speaker 2: you to break into a respect of the room house,
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  Speaker 2: leading with you all right, you want get up, Come on,
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  Speaker 2: get up. Okay, I'll teach you something about cooperation, Landlord.
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  Speaker 2: All I wanted to do was look this room over,
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  Speaker 2: and I was nice about asking.
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  Speaker 5: Got it.
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  Speaker 2: I got my room, and I got a job to do.
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  Speaker 2: I've been looking for Dave Stroud for a solid week,
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  Speaker 2: and his trail finally let me here.
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  Speaker 4: I got to look out for my rumors privacy.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, only Dave Stroud checked out of here this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: He's no longer a guest. Anyway. I found enoughing here
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  Speaker 2: to Ostrau's taking the train to night for San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: So that winds up my lecture, and I'm happy to
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  Speaker 2: say my business with you and your charming establishment. Good night, Landlord.
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  Speaker 2: When I stepped out of the cheap, musty rooming house
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  Speaker 2: into the warm night, I felt for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in a week that I wasn't wasting my time. By
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow i'd know why a quiet young guy named Dave
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  Speaker 2: Stroud had suddenly dropped everything that gave life some sense,
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  Speaker 2: everything from a lovely girl who a fine job and
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  Speaker 2: vanished completely. I stopped in a phone booth, called my
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  Speaker 2: client and told her to meet me in an hour
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  Speaker 2: at the Leopard Spot, the bar in her hotel, and
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  Speaker 2: I made a reservation on the ten o'clock train for
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco, went home and threw a toothbrush and shirt
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  Speaker 2: into a bag. And when I walked into the Leopard Spot,
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  Speaker 2: I was right on time. I found my client, Ellen Wyatt,
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  Speaker 2: and a booth near the back. The soft rose lights.
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  Speaker 2: Touching her face made me wander all over again. What
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  Speaker 2: kind of pressure it could possibly have been to drive
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  Speaker 2: David Stroud away from a girl like this?
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  Speaker 6: I tried to wake my apartment upstairs field, but I
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  Speaker 6: just couldn't. Is it good news?
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  Speaker 2: I hope? So Ellen had broken down rooming house over
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  Speaker 2: in East La paid off.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Dave, we're staying there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had been under the name of Donald Stranagan.
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  Speaker 6: Why would he take place like that? He must have
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  Speaker 6: plenty of money.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, the city's cluttered with those joints there as
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  Speaker 2: common as ten cans. He figured you can't look into
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  Speaker 2: all of them. We were just lucky.
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  Speaker 6: Then he knows what he's doing. There's nothing wrong with him,
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  Speaker 6: like like amnesia.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's something else. Selling good evening, miss why Martini? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: please for you, sir, Martini sounds fine, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Right, Marlow. Maybe that punch I had about gambling, maybe
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  Speaker 6: it was right after all. Couldn't some kind of terrible
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  Speaker 6: jam with gamblers do this to Dave?
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  Speaker 2: I might, but I checked that and drew a blank.
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  Speaker 2: Say listen, Ellen, the description of Dave I got at
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  Speaker 2: that rooming house isn't to complete that snapshot I asked
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  Speaker 2: you about you bring it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh? Yes, here that was taken on our first date
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  Speaker 6: four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Four years ago. Those year has made quite a change
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  Speaker 2: in both of you.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Dave and are good for each other. Field. I
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  Speaker 6: only hope that the next.
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  Speaker 2: Four years Martini very dry? Oh oh, thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I wish we had the kind of news we
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  Speaker 6: can toast.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we will sooner than you think.
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  Speaker 6: You've got a new lead. You know where Davey is, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Close enough to be pretty sure. He's taking a ten
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  Speaker 2: o'clock to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 6: San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so mine Phil about coming down to the
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  Speaker 2: station with me me.
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  Speaker 6: But do you think that's wise? What if he saw
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  Speaker 6: me first?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's worth a chance for you to point him
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  Speaker 2: out to me. What do you say, baby, got something to.
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  Speaker 6: Drink to now, yes, I've got to do it fast
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  Speaker 6: before I start to bawl. Tears would be awful and my.
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  Speaker 7: Teeny no luck, peel, I still haven't seen me.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, how about that one album over there
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  Speaker 2: at the cigar count right?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he fell on the T shirt. Yeah, Dave couldn't
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  Speaker 6: look that sloppy, And besides he's taller.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. So yeah, well, I guess we missed him.
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  Speaker 2: I better get aboard. Huh.
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  Speaker 6: This kind of scares me. You don't think Dave just
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  Speaker 6: pretended to be leaving that he treated you?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, those leads weren't planted. They weren't that good.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, baby, Dave will be on this train when
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  Speaker 2: it pulls out. I'll bet my last buck on it.
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  Speaker 6: Find him for me.
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  Speaker 2: So sure, you just keep that chin out I will.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, you'll call me the very first chat.
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  Speaker 2: Should get Pardon me, lady, I'm sorry. Hey, yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: a short.
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  Speaker 1: Minute, my friend.
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  Speaker 8: Unless you happen to favor dirty shirt size seventeen, you're
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  Speaker 8: in for a big disappointment.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Well, I think you made
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  Speaker 2: a small mistake.
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  Speaker 5: There isn't that, my bag.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid not, mister sat pays in Philip Emazon mollow.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how do you like that?
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  Speaker 8: I saw you pick it up back there at the
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  Speaker 8: information That's where I left mine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna thwarn and belong to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, it's all right, happens to everybody sooner or later.
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  Speaker 8: Of your friend say you're gonna be on Old sixty
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  Speaker 8: one for Fisco too. All right, So well, let's call
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  Speaker 8: this an introduction our bags, my handle. Many are back
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  Speaker 8: on the road for five for plumbing fixtures.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I'll see you on board.
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  Speaker 2: Brow much doubt about that. No, we might get up
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  Speaker 2: a little game fun.
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  Speaker 8: Huh oh fine, Yeah, well, I better take a leg
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  Speaker 8: and get my bag.
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  Speaker 1: I'll find you, all right.
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  Speaker 5: I'll never forget a face.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I ought to cut my head off. I stopped
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  Speaker 2: off and Mike and Popping just long enough to drop
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  Speaker 2: my suitcase, and as we pulled out, I moved through
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  Speaker 2: the train of the dining car and picked a seat
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  Speaker 2: where I could keep an eye on the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the tables. For Dave Straud Well, even if I didn't
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  Speaker 2: recognize his face, I knew from his fiance would handle
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  Speaker 2: a knife and fork European style. He likely to order
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  Speaker 2: liver and bacon and drink tea without sugar, and would
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  Speaker 2: probably be dressed in wooded tweets with a shirt collar open. Hell,
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  Speaker 2: as soon as I sat down, the cow began to
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  Speaker 2: fill my table. Companion acquiet tab color type had his
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  Speaker 2: own business, and you how to mind it almost one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent, which he did for the fifteen minutes he
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  Speaker 2: took him to eat.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know why food always tastes better on his train,
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  Speaker 9: but it does.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks letting me share the table with you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, not at all.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps i'll see you later in the club car. We
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  Speaker 5: might have a nightcap.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a deal.
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  Speaker 5: Fine a house all there?
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  Speaker 2: You are fine?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, I've been looking high and low for you, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: What you're doing in here? They serve nothing but food
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  Speaker 2: in this car. You know, you'd say, who's your pal?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. He was here fifteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes and we didn't get that far. I know exactly
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  Speaker 2: what you mean, you do.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, those quiet birds give me the willies too, You know, friend,
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  Speaker 8: I've seen him someplace before, and I never forget a face.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't catch his name?
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  Speaker 8: Huh, he didn't throw it, He didn't throw you like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there, you're right on, my friend. Well, it'll come
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  Speaker 2: to me. Face.
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  Speaker 8: They're kind of a hobby with me. I meet a
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  Speaker 8: lot of people, but I never forget a Hey. Have
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  Speaker 8: you lost somebody in.
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  Speaker 1: He the way?
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  Speaker 8: You keep looking around?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think I found him again.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you going? I followed the leader. I'll see
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  Speaker 2: you all back.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Marlow, come back.
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  Speaker 8: You dropped something here.
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  Speaker 2: In spite of the fog kicked up by the traveling typhoon,
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  Speaker 2: and never forgot a face. I'd managed to catch a
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  Speaker 2: glimpse at the door of a bunch of tweets and
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  Speaker 2: an open collar on a bill that exactly fit the
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  Speaker 2: four year old snapshot in my wallet. I bucked a
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  Speaker 2: huddle of undecided doulagi is blocking the aisle, but managed
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  Speaker 2: to keep them inside all the way back to the
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  Speaker 2: car sixteen without being seen there. I watched him on
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  Speaker 2: lock compartment EL and go inside. I was convinced it
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  Speaker 2: was Dave Strong, but at this point I had to
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  Speaker 2: be sure. I went to look for the conductor and
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  Speaker 2: finally found him tucked away at a lonely table back
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  Speaker 2: in the club car as intent on his ticket count
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  Speaker 2: as a cheated solitary. I figured I could afford the
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  Speaker 2: time now, so I decided to wait. I headed back
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  Speaker 2: for the seat, and I ran into my dinner partner,
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  Speaker 2: the tad color.
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  Speaker 9: Well, hello again, you ear little earlier for that nightcap,
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  Speaker 9: but to sit down anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, by the way, I'm Roy Tourney.
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  Speaker 2: Oh mine's Marlow, Philip Marlow.
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  Speaker 5: Philip Marlow. I've read that name many times.
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  Speaker 9: You're the famous private detective, well private detective anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Bad know you're tony privilege for me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you're looking for a match here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, keep them keep in my eye on this. Oh, thanks?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks again?
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  Speaker 5: Are you on a case now, Marlow? Or shouldn't I ask?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I well, man, are you
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  Speaker 2: hard to hang on too?
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  Speaker 8: But you're mighty lucky. I'm honest, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: You see this, Yeah, I see it's my wallet. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: When you bowled it out of the dining car, you
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  Speaker 8: dropped it on the seat.
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  Speaker 5: I found it for you.
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  Speaker 8: Nothing fell out of this picture here?
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  Speaker 2: And is she all right?
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  Speaker 8: Man?
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  Speaker 10: Oh man?
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  Speaker 2: Who is you? Boy?
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  Speaker 8: The name?
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  Speaker 2: I mean? Huh, don't tell me. I bet you've seen
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  Speaker 2: it before. Yeah, yeah, And I never forget her face.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, well thanks now, if you let me have it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm very grateful.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure, sure glad to be of service.
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  Speaker 8: To my friend anytime I can. Well, speaking of familiar faces,
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  Speaker 8: this is a gentleman.
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  Speaker 5: That you had dinner with.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, that's right out. This is the gentleman, mister Aravak,
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  Speaker 2: mister Tawny, for better or worse, till your destination do
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  Speaker 2: you part? How do you do turning? Turning? Turning? Turning?
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  Speaker 2: That's funny, you know.
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  Speaker 8: I was just telling Marlow here that I recognized you
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  Speaker 8: from some place.
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  Speaker 5: That's very unlikely. I have a fair memory myself. I
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  Speaker 5: don't remember you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I'm pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: But wait, wait a minute, I'm getting it.
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  Speaker 8: Sure, sure, Oh this is silly, but I saw you
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  Speaker 8: tonight in the railroads.
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  Speaker 5: Ah no, that's impossible. I was so late and nearly
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  Speaker 5: missed the train.
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  Speaker 2: Me too, Only you had a good reason.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yes, sir, my friend, you were kissing the little
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  Speaker 8: woman goodbye. I couldn't see her too well, but she
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  Speaker 8: was quite a looker, and judging from the way you
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  Speaker 8: were going at it, yeah, yeah, Well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 8: I didn't get any offense.
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  Speaker 2: I was just kidding you along.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I guess i'll go by my way into
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  Speaker 8: a little poker.
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  Speaker 9: Excuse me, I suppose there has to be one on
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  Speaker 9: every train.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they helped the ride like a square wheel.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I think i'll go read a while.
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  Speaker 5: Model.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck on your case. When the conductor climb out
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  Speaker 2: of his pile of tickets to stretch, I went over,
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  Speaker 2: introduced myself and asked the sixty four dollar question.
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  Speaker 4: The Car sixteen, Compartment L.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's see.
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  Speaker 4: Oh here it is, mister Marlowe. That room's occupied by
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  Speaker 4: when Daniel Stacey.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Stacy, em sure, same initials as Dave Strode, But
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  Speaker 2: we're not carrying any Dave Stroud tonight, don't bet on
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  Speaker 2: that conductor. It was that simple. I walked up through
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  Speaker 2: the train to Car sixteen, and when I got to
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  Speaker 2: the door of Compartment L, I'd already decided on how
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  Speaker 2: to handle Dave something that he had to go back
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  Speaker 2: to Ellen Wyatt, regardless of what had happened to him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I had it all figured until I heard it. They
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  Speaker 2: come from inside. The door was unlocked, but the lights
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  Speaker 2: were up. When I got them on again, I realized
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  Speaker 2: that nothing was simple. Ever, stretched out of the floor
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  Speaker 2: of Dave's room was many hour back, staring straight up
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  Speaker 2: as he rocked with the pitch of the train, the
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  Speaker 2: side of his head against the sharp steel corner, his
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  Speaker 2: eyes already beginning to glaze. He said, you knew, I
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  Speaker 2: remember sometime. Remember what Why did you come here?
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  Speaker 8: Mannie said, I remember.
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  Speaker 2: Mannie, Mannie. Oh Mama, you'll move again. Let's see you
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  Speaker 2: tell Lis Dyllen wise, who's that?
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  Speaker 6: But who?
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  Speaker 3: make every day more enjoyable. Now with our star Gerald Moore,
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  Speaker 3: the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's exciting story.
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  Speaker 2: The face to forget either it had been the flat
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  Speaker 2: of a pistol crashing against the side of my head,
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  Speaker 2: or my head crashing against the stone hard floor of
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  Speaker 2: the compartment. Then it turned light into the dark and
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  Speaker 2: left me with a whip behind one ear that size
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  Speaker 2: and shape of a cube board. I couldn't tell which.
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  Speaker 2: When I had both my eyes open, I knew that
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  Speaker 2: it didn't matter. But nothing mattered, really, except that I
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  Speaker 2: was tearing in the many hour back's dead face. About
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  Speaker 2: only inches away, a pair of feet were moving, feet
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  Speaker 2: that belonged to Dave of Stroud, whose suitcase and toe
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  Speaker 2: was on his way out, one hand already on the doorknob.
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  Speaker 2: I went for him around the knees, my my noise
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  Speaker 2: sight at the time, I was off the floor and
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  Speaker 2: after him. He was well out in front, wrestling with
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  Speaker 2: a heavy steel door at the end of the empty
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  Speaker 2: passageway slowed him down. When we reached the platform between
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  Speaker 2: the cars, he was almost mine, but then suddenly a
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  Speaker 2: hand shot out of the dark, grabbed a fist full
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  Speaker 2: of shirt front and spun me hard against the opposite door.
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  Speaker 2: No my hand that belonged to a man and the
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  Speaker 2: tab color mister Roy Taney plus a shiny twenty two
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  Speaker 2: automatic and minus club cock velvet voice.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Get up, Marlow.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: We've got a little talk coming at this stage. It'll
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: be a pleasure, believe me.
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: We'll see what do you want with Dave Stroud. I'm
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: a census taker who's real time is running short, Marlow.
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: When you get off at this stop coming up, you
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: stay off.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Eh, what's your angle?
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: Dave?
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: He still needs my help, and he's still gonna have it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: No matter who he kills kills? What's that supposed to mean?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Many hour back, that chummy one who couldn't forget faces,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: he's very dead back in Dave's compartment.
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: Well, then that loud mouth wasn't just a blow hard
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: salesman after all, he was what day has been running
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: from one of those lousy card shop.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Slips, he toney.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they don't count, mister detective.
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: Nothing counts anymore. But Dave get out of a jan
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: that can cost him his hide. Just for the record,
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: a game back in La three months ago that cost
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: Dave every said he had plus ten grand. He didn't
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: was about as level as the rest of that knee
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: pants town of it gets, which makes you what two
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: things smart Alec. First, a guy from Detroit a real town.
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: It doesn't like a lousy fix. And second, I like
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: a fix even less when the sucker on tap is
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: my own brother. Now, people, get back away from that door.
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: The station's on that side. I wouldn't want you to
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: run for it and get shot before you got to
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: say a few words back over here, Mollowuh.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Take it easy with that gun. Huh, they go off.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: You know, all right, the pitch. Let's have it. Now.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: What's Dave to you? Ellen? Wyatt mean anything?
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: Not very much, but Dave is sorry about that. So
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: when you get back to your client, you tell it
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: hold just like you are on stay cheerful to stop. Carter, Carter, gentlemen,
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: Oh conductor, this train wait here a while?
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, is there any time to get off on stretch?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Sir, just stop long enough to pick up little male,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: leave little mail once in a while, take on a
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: passenger hardly ever, though Carter folks aren't much on traveling.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: But by the way, aren't you the gentleman who was
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: looking for mister Stacy.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: H yeah, I found him. Thanks. Oh, don't mention it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Glad to be of service. Say don't get too close
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: to the edge. Chair Gentlemen, Carter Carter, California.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: We were talking about Ellen Wyatt Toney. Why didn't precious
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: brother Dave ever let her know that he had to
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: lay low, that he was in a jam with gamblers.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: A bunch of roses with cotton clothes could have gone
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: a long way. Or again, there's the top.
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: I'll button it up, Marlow. I don't know any of
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: the details. Maybe the kid didn't want it to know
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: he couldn't stay away from the pace boards. Maybe he
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: just didn't want it to worry. Anyway, that's not the point.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: And what is that?
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: A broken heart? Pizza, broken skull seven times a week?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: You should know that much.
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: People, So so, I don't want you, the girl, or
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: anyone else to know where Dave is heading, at least
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: not until I get back to La buy my lonesome
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: and call a few spades.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Just that like they do in Detroit. Maybe, huh, like.
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: They do in Detroit. No, maybe you tell the Wyatt babe,
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: I look her up. Then, now you get over there
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: at the door and you take your choice, jump or
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: get pushed, Jump pushed or shot.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Go on, mondo. This is where you get off on the.
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: Longer you're wait the hotter it's gonna be name it jump,
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: push or shot.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I couldn't say much for the alternatives, but one look
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: back over my shoulder, at the gaping twenty two automatic
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: level in my head and Tanny's ice cold gray eyes above,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: and at my mind for me jump it had to be.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I would always remember one thing about Cotter, California. The
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: right of way was more sand than stone. I was grateful.
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: Carter station will his hand and speaking. Limited left ten
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: minutes ago. No, no package for you, miss man.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: I'm sure, sure, I'm sure.
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: Huh me snapping at jew Now listen, miss lit Yeah,
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: brash of some people.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, what happened to you?
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: Shir?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I tripped?
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Dad?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: This is important? Can you tell me where the Limited
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: stops next? E?
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: Is anybody getting on in the Murdoc corner?
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: No?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: No, no, the first real stop A good sized time.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: She smokes cigars shut No no, no, look Dad, this
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: counts now, come on tell me well then, yeah, yeah.
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: Sure, well no, there's fortune at you half our week.
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: You gotta match please shirt.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, here's a whole book keeping. Now tell me
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: how far is fulting? Ooh for you?
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Maybe fifty miles.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Upgrade on how can I get there in a hurry?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I gotta catch that train.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Well, if you gotta, are you.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Where can I rent a car or get a cab?
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: You're not a Chentzney. Excuse me, Jeeves calling from bigger feet.
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: He's expecting the grandhot All right for Jake.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Now listen to me, Dad. There's a dead man on
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: the Limited, this killer as well, and I was tossed
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: up a train. Now let's take that business.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Where are your ne case? Let's call ahead and get
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: the police.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I don't want that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Because, for one thing, the killer may have been justified
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: self defense on the side of the law. Toss them
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: into a lot of panic will only end up in
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: more gunplay. For another, I have a very personal instagrind.
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: Getting tossed off the train.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, among other things. Now, will you tell me that
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: coop out there? Is it yours? But I can't for
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: fifty bucks, my car your cake cash here? Also, here's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: MI credentials. I'm a private detective out of LA. I'll
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: get your car back to you as soon as possible.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I'll pay you another fifty When I do, I give
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: me the keys, will you quick? Yeah?
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Sure?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure sure?
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: Here here it's one in the middle.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Thanks Dad, and don't worry, I'll drive real kit.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: What's the matter where you're staring like you don't feel good?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Your head?
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Maybe?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, my head. Maybe I already to have it examined.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's real slow coming up with the truth.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: The truth.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: What do you mean, Sean.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I mean I got a big fat hunch, a hunch
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: that may be able to stop a second murder if
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I make it the Fulton in time. So long, Dad,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: thanks a lot, You've been a great help. My apologies
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and congratulations to Jake. Like the station agent himself, Willard
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Hanson's coop was a little less than spry, but with
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the accelerator jammed heart of the floor and only straight
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: empty highway ahead, I managed to keep it at this
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: training seventy most of the way, and fifteen minutes later,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: when I tore into Fulton followed the street markers to
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the station, a long, low, welcome sound in the night
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: told me I was on time. The train was just
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: getting under way again. I slammed to a stop at
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the end of the depot, piled out of the coop
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: and started to run for the last car, but I
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: changed my mind. The train could chug and it's merry
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: way without me. After all, it was going without Dave
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Stroud and his big brother. The two men were walking
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: down the deserted platform toward me. I slid back into
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the shadows of a pile of crates and waited, my
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: hand tight on the thirty eight in my pocket, suddenly
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: positive that my hunch was now a sure thing. Roy
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Tarny was not Dave's brother, but he was the one
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: who had murdered many our back and cast sixteen compartment
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: lro and he was ready to try and murder again.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: All right, Straw, that's fine enough all of there.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Tony, you're out of your mind.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: You've got no reason to kill me.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I'll never say anything.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Ellen knows that. That's why I ran.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: I could never turn Ellen over to the police.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: My love her.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sure, your nuts about it. You got lots
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: of reasons to be haven't you.
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: Reasons like Ellen crossing you up for me in a
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: tall stack of doll Reasons like knowing that we're both
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: responsible for knocking off our ex boss to come into
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: that dough. Sure, kid, you got lots of reasons to
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: love it.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: But Tony, I tell you, I do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: I ran away, didn't I But the of.
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: Course, mister Strad, of course you ran so that you
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: could wait for a smart time in the smart place
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: to try black man.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: No, no, that's not it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I ran because I love Ellen, because whatever she's done
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: has been your fault.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: Oh no, kid, you got it all wrong. The lady
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: was the pilot all the way, even to hire and
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: allows the people named Marlow to tag you. Said, I
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: know where to get my hands on you.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: The man on the floor in my compartment, the dead man.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: That was a loud mouthed salesman with a memory for faces.
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: He would have spoil everything if he remembered that he
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: saw me with Ellen in the railroad station and passed
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: it on to Marlow. I had to shut him up
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: and then give the people a big cock and bull
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: story about you'll be and my brother and in hot
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: water with gamblers.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: And Marlow was the other one, the one who grabbed
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: for me. That's right, stra that was Marlow.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Too bad he didn't grab better, isn't he?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Perfect shame. Taney makes Thrus.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Right big?
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Is he?
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Is he dead?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Mama? Yeah? Dan? Even in Detroit it because all dead
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: come on Dave, we got some telephone calls to make
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the police for one. All right, Marlow, it is all
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: this really true? Yeah, fright, So, Dave, a girl you
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: wouldn't turn in for murder wanted to murder you. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: believe it, kid, all at once. It'll be easier later
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: on that way. Yeah, sure, Thanks Marlow for getting here
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: when you did. You saved my life. Well, not exactly.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: A guy named Willis hanse It gets part credit for
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the guy who runs a railroad station at Cuta, California,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and also smokes cigars and sometimes runs out of matches.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: What does that have to do with it everything?
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: Dave?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: See, Hands had needed a light, and I gave him
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a book of matches that Roy Tunney had given me
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: earlier in the club car. I hadn't noticed them then,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: but I did when Hands had used them. They came
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: from the Leopard spot, David.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the cocktail lounge at Ellen's hotel.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: That's right. And I couldn't buy Towny's having them as
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: just coincidence that tied him at Ellen too tight. A
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: hunch said, So wait here with your kid. That only
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: be a couple of minutes. I've got a long distance
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: call to make before we get in touch with the police.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: But what are you going to tell her Marlow? Anything, Dave,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: anything that'll keep her right where she is, ready and
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: waiting for what's going to turn out to be the
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: La police. I won't be long kidding. After the telephone call,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Dave and I spent a long hour with the Fulton
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Police explaining why a man named Roy Tawny was lying
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: in the quiet railroad station, face down in a pool
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of his own blood. And it was a long hour
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: again with the railroad officials, who arrived with their own
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: set of questions. Well, it was four o'clock in the
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: morning before we were finally aboard a train heading back
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: for La Dave Stroud and I sat opposite each other
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: in silence through that bleak, empty yellow and you can
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: almost feel the day that's coming up, nudge, the one
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: that's just gone by. I was real glad to see
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: it go. I sat there looking at Stroud and wondered
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: if he'd never heard the lyrics of a song or
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: train was always makes me think of my mammy done
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: told me when I was in knee pants. My mammy
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: done told me, son, a woman's a two face, A
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: worrisome thing will leave you to sing the blues in
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the night.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Remember friend. To make every day more enjoyable, treat yourself
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: often to refreshing delicious wriggly spearmant chewing gum. There's lots
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: of cooling real mint flavor in every stick and chewing
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Wrigley's spearmint helps keep your feeling fresh and alert. You
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: feel better, work better, get more fun out of doing things.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: So indoors, outdoors wherever you go, keep some healthful, refreshing
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Wrigley's spearmant chewing gum handy to make every day more enjoyable.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Creat yourself often to delicious wriggly spearmant chewing gum. The
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most famous character,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by Norman MacDonald
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: and written for radio by Robert Mitchell and Jean Levitt.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Featured in the cast where Harry Bartel, Sammy Hill, Roy Rowland,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Parley Bear, Larry Dobkin, Elliott Reed, and Junius Matthews. The
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: special music is composed and conducted by Richard Durrant, the
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: makers of Brigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum. Invite you to be
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: with us next week. When Philip Marlowe says, this time
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I tangled with three snakes. The first was made of gold,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: the second war of mustache, and the third was in
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the bag, and each in its own way poison. Bob
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Stevenson speaking, this is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: This is Andrew J.
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: Graham, author of the web Surface series and a man
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: of his wife.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: You're listening to the great detectives of Old time radio.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, Marlog, I'd a bit rough with that landlord.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I don't particularly want my landlord if I'm a renter
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: co operating with a private investigator. Still a good episode.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And mysteries board trains are great, and there was so
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: much when train travel was at its height that you
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: could get out of a mystery set on a train.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Of course, there were obvious stories like murder on the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Orient Express, but there were one hundred others taking advantage
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of so many features of train going through dark tunnels,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: empty impartments, and the ability, as in this story, to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: throw somebody off a train in them be able to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: get transportation to actually end up getting back on. I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: think you there have been mysteries that have been set
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: on airplanes. But I think it's a lot harder, particularly
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: if you're trying to be realistic in dealing with modern
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: airplanes which are often so cramped. Philip Marlow on a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: train up, good idea and a good story overall. All right, Well,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that we'll do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: with Nick Harder. In the meanwhile, do Sandra comments to
• 32:29
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• 32:41
  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.