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Pat Novak: Shirt Mix Up at the Laundry (EP1288) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Dragnet. Well, now it's time for today's episode of Pat Novak for Hire,
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something that you would think would not possibly lead to hard boiled situations,
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but here now is shirt mix up at the laundry Novak or Hire. Sure,
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I'm Pat Novack for Hire. That's what the sign out in front of
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my office says, Pat Novack for Hire. It's easy to wrench yourself out
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and you make a few bucks, but sooner or later you get burned.
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It doesn't make any difference whether you're a man or a mouse, because down
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on the waterfront in San Francisco, they build the traps both ways. Oh,
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everything looks easy, but sometimes they fool you, like putting shatterproof glass
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in a fire alarm box. And you got to watch out every minute because
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down here, if you reach out to help a panhandler, the guy,
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I'll take your arm and hand you back the dime. I rent boats and
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deal any plates, put trade in on a second hand, so it works
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out all right. Sometimes you're on top of the heat if you like the
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kind of heats they got down. But you got to get your laughs in
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a hurry, because you find out right away you're not gonna make any more
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headway than a hummingbird and a wind tunnel. I found that out Wednesday afternoon,
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must have been about three o'clock. The sun was out down at the
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far end of the bay. To put a head on the clouds down man
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put the rest of the sky in a good mood. Over across the bay.
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It was a warm, easy yellow that made you think of a pound
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cake full of eggs. It was too nice a day to work inside,
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so I closed shop and started down to a pool hall on Market Street.
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I never got there because on the way I stopped by the laundry to pick
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up a couple of shirts. It started right there when the clerk walked over
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to me. He was full of fizz and the sort of guy who gets
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a bottle of hand lotion for his birthday. Well, well, mister Nolvak,
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is it? I don't know, is it? Yes? We have
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a nice day, have Yeah, I want some laundry. Not any better
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than yesterday, though not a bit better than yesterday. What do you do
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get, malla rating? How about the laundry? Huh? Yes, let's
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have the ticket all right for twenty eighth. That should be right down here.
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Just a couple of shirts, Yes, yes, here it is.
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That'll be a dollar for please. Well it sounds like a fair price,
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but I'll take my own. Oh this isn't mine. It's too big,
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are you sure? Look I had a couple of white shirts. Now you
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better look again. Well the tickets match you see for twenty eight You must
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be wrong, mister Novaga. Look, fellow shirts, don't swell a strike.
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The package is too big. It's too big. Well we better open
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it, yes, so yeah, I can wrap them again. Easily.
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Don't worry. Yeah, it's not my shade of pink. Oh, I
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guess it's not yours. Thanks. Here's some men's clothing too. How about
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these shirts? I were a jockey, i'd take them. I want my
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own. Yes, yes, of course you do it. Oh goodness,
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I don't know what to do with myself. Yeah, you've got a problem.
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How about these shirts though, Oh, we've mixed up the tickets and
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someone has your package. I don't know. Maybe we can check on the
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collar markings. Let me see, yes, let me check in the book.
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Really here we are this long belongs to Earl Hayes. Yeah. Where's
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he left? Are you going up there? I want my shirts back.
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Yes, he lives at a three twenty one Dorset place. Give me.
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Oh, I'm sorry, mister Novak, and please apologize to mister Hayes.
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I'm so angry at myself. I don't know what to do. Yeah,
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be carefully, you don't stop a hole on the floor. See you later.
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When I left, he was wringing his hands and shifting from one foot
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to another like a small kid in the department store. On the way up
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the Dorset Place, I looked at the bundle there were a couple of women's
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blouses and four loud colored shirts. Two of them looked like a nabrohole blanket.
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Somebody sewed buttons on. I tried to wrap up the bundle, and
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about ten minutes later I got the three twenty one doors. At place was
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up on Telegraph Hill, and it was an old place somebody had remodeled.
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It was supposed to be modernistic, but it reminded you of a chromium plated
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tool shed. Apartment two A was on the second landing. I went up
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there and knocked. Earl Hayes didn't answer the door, but you couldn't quarrel
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with what you got. She was in her thirties and pushing forty hard enough
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to bruise it. But she looked good, standing there in the doorway,
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long and lean enough to make a greyhound turning his card. She was wearing
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green lounging pajamas, and you've seen bananas and loose their skins. You could
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see the bay behind her through the window, and she stood there brushing back
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enough red hair to sell to a mactress factory. And as she pushed the
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door back, she started to smile. Her lips were a pale red color
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and moist enough to put a desert on his feet. And you could tell
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she thought she used him to talk when you got tired of everything else,
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standing in in front of her, and you got the same feeling you would
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if somebody pressed the trouble and base key of an organ at the same time.
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Hello, what are you selling? Shirts? Is your husband home?
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Should I have one? I don't know. It depends on the climate.
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Come on in anyway. Oh you, My name's Novak. I'm looking for
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a guy named girl Hayes. We got to sit down. It won't take
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me that long. He's got my shirts. Mister Novak, you don't look
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like the kind of lose his shirt. I don't want jokes, lady.
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There was a mix up down at the laundry. I got Hayes stuff and
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he walked up with mine. That is stuff in the bungle, Yes it
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is. I put it on the table here we'll see. I don't think
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you're smart, mister Novaka. Where's the other shirt? You got them?
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All right? There? There's one missing? All right? See the laundry
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all I want to trade. There must have been another shirt in a bungle.
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Maybe it was too dirty. The boy couldn't clean at that fast.
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And I look, friend, if you want to argue, you go ride
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a street car. I came up for two white shirts. I were at
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it. I suppose El Hayes. Where's he? I'll offend it to him,
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but I'm afraid you won't like him. Then I'll be lonely. Just
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tell me where he is two floors up. I'll give you a time to
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work over that story, because you'll know you're lying. You wann't know about
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that shirt. What makes it that important the fact that it's missing. I'll
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find him upstairs. I hope it works into a fringe ship, but I
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don't think it will. You don't know. You're lyning and you'll get tall.
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It's around like a green salad. Is he tougher than you? No,
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it's just not as personal. Luck, darling. When she said good
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luck, you knew she was just being polite and didn't mean it any more
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than the ham. And when he tells you to watch your step. When
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I left, she was over by the window, leaning back against the table,
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as shy as a runaway box car. And you got the idea she'd
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be fun to know if you had a lot of money, and an oxygen
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tent. Well, I rolled up the bundle and I started to the fourth
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floor. I knocked on the door, and when it opened, I knew
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I had high bid for trouble. I could see into the room and there
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were three or four gunafs sitting inside. I had a dull, anxious look,
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as if they were trying to find another worm to pull apart. They
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were the sort of guys who might have been born, but you wouldn't want
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to bet on it. The one on the door was a big guy with
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bushy eyebrows that met near his nose, and the way they ran across his
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face, you got the idea he got tired of the old ones and grabbed
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it on a vine instead. His face wasn't much better. It looked more
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like a relief map than a face. It was pock marked and the color
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of moldy bread. And you knew if a woman kissed him she did blood
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poisoning. Hello, novanger, you were all haze enough to suits you come
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in. You're good at guessing names. So a little bird, so yeah,
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I saw her. She's got nice feathers. Where's the shirt, here's
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the bundle, take your pick. I don't like any of these no vacants?
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All I got where's the shirt? No, I just wear a collar.
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Mister, you don't need a shirt. Yeah, I won't need a
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memory for you, fellas. So just tell me about those shirts. Hello,
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Well, come on in. We got your boy if you made it
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Deer, you know his name. I never saw him to call mix.
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He looks different now. He came up with some of your shirts. So
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I went by the laundre. So a guy named Novak picked up the shirts,
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except one of them's missing. Couldn't be missing. We're all in one
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bundle. Ask him then, but do it nice. He's touchy. He
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doesn't have to ask. Now. Look, mister, if you're at Haze,
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I want my shirts. It was the other one with that's right.
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You got the best team. You're gonna make Hazes. Now I want those
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shirts. Hit yourself alone, then all right, Jo'll get his eyes on
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Haze and we'll take it. Sick it away. That said, I get
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his other round over there. Why do you keep your right in Hayes?
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All right, Novak, it's you or Haese. Make up your mind.
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I got it made up about you. You're gonna tie a first, No
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back where's that shirt? I don't know? Try Haze, he looks healthy.
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Hold him up, he's slipping. Do you need animals? Hold him
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up? You're running out of chances, Novak, where's that shirt? I
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don't know? Hold him up? Why you can't find the raisins out?
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All right? Has? How's your temper? I slid down on the floor
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so fast I almost went under the varnish, and I spent the next couple
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of hours checking on the termites. It was getting dark when I woke up,
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and right away the room was full of company. The host was Earl
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Hayes, and he was lying on the floor as dead as a cracked bell.
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It was over by the desk, lying on his back and grabbing at
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the rug like a hoover vacuum. The hair was wet against his head,
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and the perspiration on his forehead started to break up and run down like tears.
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So you got the idea, He cried out of his hairline instead of
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his eyes. He didn't see m pained or put off. He was smiling
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a little, as if he realized he had a better deal. Over by
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the door, Helman was talking to a couple of coppers. He sent them
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downstairs and walked over to me. You awoke the neighbors, Novak. I
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don't snore that loud Helman. He made the noise with Hayes. Yeah,
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how'd I get my face this way? You look better to me, Novak.
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How long you been here? A couple hours? That fits in the
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corner has already been here, He says. Hayes was beat to death an
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hour ago with that poker out of the fireplace. You better check on the
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prints. I already sent it down. You slept too long, Oh,
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inspector, we came by for this death. He's right to tell the morgue
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to keep him out till I get down. Come on, Joe, I
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said, Sure, is a little guy, very easy. Tell him.
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I'll check in to day shall well? All right, no vac, tell
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me all about it. I came up here for a shirt that's not hard
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to get. What about Hayes? How the beat go? It went both
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ways with a guy named Max. You better talk to him. I like
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you bet. Oh you're not bright, Heilman. I've been out of the
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game for two hours. Look, big shot, don't push me around.
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You got a story. Maybe it's good, maybe it's not. You could
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have taken Hayes and run into trouble yourself. That's the hard way, Helman.
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I don't like your whip. Get another boy. You'll do no vac
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and you'll do it all downtown Helman talking, What do you mean you can't
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send him up yet? Who's in charge down there? Give me the guy
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in charge. Ah, well, two guys just came up here. You
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must have sent him. They were here, You must have sent him.
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Yeah, they can send them for me. They'll tell me, Helman.
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I couldn't happen. No, it couldn't happen anybody but you, Helman.
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It's gonna look real good too when they find out you let two strangers walk
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in and steal a body. I don't understand it. It's simple, Helman.
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You better go in and rob that bed right now, because when they
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threw kicking you around down at headquarters, you're gonna need a sling, and
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with a figure like yours, it'll take a good sized bed sheet. When
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Helman hung up the phone, he turned the color of early summer squash.
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He stood over for the window, running his hands through his ear. He
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left the window and stood in the center of the room for a minute.
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His coat was open and his stomach was piled up on his belt in nice,
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even layers. It reminded you of a rolled up garden hose, and
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the way his pants fit him when he walked. He got the idea of
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somebody soda nan a lima lining. After a while, he came over and
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started to talk to me. He kept pulling his ear and in the dim
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light there it looked like the cross section of an egg plant. I'm still
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gonna hold you, Novak. You look better with a hot potato helmet.
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I'm gonna hold you for twelve hours and the main time that body will show
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up. You didn't look that active to me. Wake up, Helman.
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You've been backed into a corner. You better get a body first. Look,
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Novak, I know the guy was dead. I'm not gonna sit on
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my hands. The most fun you'll ever have. I'm gonna check those prints
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and I'm gonna find out why you were up here. I came to see
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Hayes the laundry, pulled the switch, and I came up for shirts.
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Checked with the guy at the laundry. Yeah, and on the way downstairs,
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stop at two A. Why there's a souped up redhead down there.
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You can ask her a question. You can do that with any woman.
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You can ask her who Max is. I went there to find Earl Hayes.
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She answered and sent me here. There's only one thing wrong with that
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story. There's no redhead into A. I checked all the apartments. Two
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a's been empty for three months. The people who are out of town.
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I think you've dreamed her. I don't dream that good in the afternoon.
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Look, Helman, I'm walking out of this place, and all you can
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do is hear the echo. I want to say, you go novak.
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Maybe you'll do something wrong and I'll track you down. You couldn't track down
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a live bear on a telephone booth. I'll make a try on you,
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mister, and went on through. There will be enough to put you right
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in that gas chamber. They can save money and do this same thing.
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I can lock me up in the same closet with you. When I left,
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Helman was wandering around like smoke in a drafty room. I picked up
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Earl Hayes shirts and duck by the laundry, but the clerk was gone and
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the place was closed tighter than the lid on a city scandal. Well I
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tried to think back, but nothing made sense in the first place. What
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made that shirt so important? And why did the laundry clerk have the wrong
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address for Earl Hayes and the main hooker was that body disappearing? Why Max
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killed him? They were in the clear. Why take a gamble like that
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just for laughs? I knew I had to get some answers pretty soon because
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Helman wasn't an easy guy. He was a tough, hard cut with a
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hard big enough to hide behind UF He's a bird seed. Oh. I
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had a couple of places to go, so I looked up Jack o'madigan.
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He's a good guy and he used to be a smart one, except he
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didn't like the San Francisco fog and worked out one of his own. I
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finally found him in the hunt room at the Bellevue Hotel. The crowd was
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at one end and he was down at the other. I thought out,
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why they did one for my baby and one more for the rule. Wait
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a minute, jocko, Ah, Pepsi, I'm singing a little sentimental ballad.
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All right, Joco, you've had enough? Pepsi. I'm a sober
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as the next man. I've been drinking since eight o'clock this afternoon, and
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I'm a sober as the next man. Stop it, will you, Petsi?
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You know I hate whiskey, But do you realize that eighty five percent
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of the human body is liquid? Now? Is there any same reason why
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all that should be watered? Of course not. It isn't fair. That's
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why we have communists, Jaco, I'm in trouble. Of course you are.
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Knowing you Pepsi, is like walking hand in hand with a moral pignic.
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All right, it's true, Pepsi. You have no moral sense.
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All you have is a small bundle of regrets, something which you drag out
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periodically as proof of your decent feeless. But you're not even enough to regret
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the things you've done. From some of your conversations about the only things you
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regret of the things you haven't done. The only reason you haven't caused more
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trouble is that you're not fleet footed in her right. All right, you're
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hopeless, Patsy. You're like some overripe planet, disemboweled and thrown from the
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skies. You don't know where you're going, and you can't remember where you've
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been. Your only joy is motion, and your only sensation is a heat
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and cold. You are through a jackal. Yes, what kind of trouble?
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Hellman wants me for a dead guy? Where is he? He was
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up on Telegraph Hill but he's gone now. Didn't die long, did he?
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Somebody took the body away. It's so funny thing to collect on.
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None of the story lays right. The guy's name was Earl Hayes. There
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was a laundry mix up and I went up there to trade. Yes,
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now, look, I want you to hop down and find out everything you
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can about ear Old Haze, find out who his friends are, find out
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where he's from, and see if there's a guy named maximum Wai. Will
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you where are you going? I gotta find a girl built that wave Michelle
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earlier tonight with your hurried jacka. We don't have time to run your love
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life. Yes, well, time is a minor drawback anyway, good night,
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lover. It was nearly eleven when I walked out of the bar,
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and the way things were going, I couldn't beat a vagrancy wrap with a
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focket full of annuities. I had to find that girl someplace, but it
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wasn't going to be easy. You might as well try to French fire a
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kettle of bones. I went back up to that apartment to see if she
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left the pointer anywhere. Helman had a copper out in front, but he
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was sitting in somebody's new mash reading a comic book. I went all through
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the apartment. On the way out, I spotted the matches in the wastebasket.
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The fold had been used up and on the outside it said Bontan Club,
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Duval Street, key West, Florida. Well that was the first break
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I got. Most people use their matches fast, so if she was using
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Key West matches, it must have meant something. I got onto a phone
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booth and started calling up for hotels. Finally a hotel upon Taylor said they
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had a miss rhode A Warren on the register from key West, Florida.
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For five bucks a bell hop, I'll tell you anything, so he said
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she was a redhead. I still didn't know, and when I went up
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there, she wasn't in. But I had to get back to my place
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for Jocko's call, and when I walked in, I got sorry about that
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five bucks. Hello mister Novak, and keep bad hours, so do you?
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And your name's Rode Warren. You like the name, yeah, so
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aheadn't use it. It's a phony. How about Max? I don't even
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know him when you call him today? It was a wrong number. Oh
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please, mister Novak, you're not big enough for menace. No, no,
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you're like everybody else in the waterfront. Got the muscles if you stage
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whispers and thirty cents in your pocket. So don't try to make a sale
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except you'd like to buy that shirt if you want to sell it, but
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makes it worth a thousand bucks? Your imagination five hundred? Od by it?
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You're bad on guesses. Five hundred. Max will do it. Look,
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I don't have to deal with you, darling. You're a pauper on
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paper and in your pocket, so I can just sit tight while you sell
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her? Go broke? Where's Max? Sell him? If I were in
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a hole, I'm not. You are all right, my arm? I
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need some help, lady. I don't know what you're making over either.
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Wait, go on, my arm? You figured out yet? Here?
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Where's Max? Come on up? Swist you until the skin comes loose?
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Worthy like your friends anyway? Yeah? No bak talking. Yeah, I've
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been out all eging whereabots? Yeah? Well, he can't use it anymore.
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Where are you the compton? Yeah, thanks laundry clerk. Yeah he
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found that shirt. No, I'm not to lose his own wishing good luck
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well he needed. Maybe they ought to take it while it's cheap. I
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know it wouldn't do any good depressor for Max. Now she was going to
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Tipper Mitch. She do it on her own. I left my place and
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grabbed a cab for the piers. I got out near market and walked over
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to the laundry. The back window opened up like a hunk of sky after
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a bad rain. I found the shirt lying out on a table. It
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looked like the rest of her o haeshus except for one thing. The collar
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was full of writing, a few letters and a lot of numbers. I
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took them down, left the shirt and headed for my place. I got
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one of those shirts from that bundle and copied in some of the same numbers,
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and I picked up a cab for Rode Warren's hotel for another fin The
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bell hop went blind and I got into her room about twelve thirty. Her
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room was empty, but her bags were packed on the bed. I took
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a sixty to forty chance and planted the shirt in the bottom of one of
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the bags. I told a bell hop to tip me off when she came
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in, and I started back to my place to wait for Jocko's call.
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I did about as well as a bottle of scotch in a Louisville bar.
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A squad car picked me up at the corner and said Helman had a call
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out for me. About twenty minutes later, we put up to Pair nineteen.
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Helman was waiting there, moving around like a pee in a boiling stew.
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I don't know, Beck, walk me down the pier, find a
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crutch. What's on your mind? Helman walked me down the pier, all
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right, but I won't take your arm. They found the body, how
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radar almost the coast gun, both spotted and floating on the bay. They
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radioed in hauling them up. Now we're all busy. I found a shirt
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too, and we may not needed. Those fingerprints worked out just right without
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their mind. It's too pat Helman. You're too smart a cop to buy
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that kind of plant. I'm a smart enough cop to hold you. Now
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that we got Earl Hayes here, we are. Yeah. I got him
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down there passing. Yeah, I'll get him alright. Here comes there.
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Well it's not water sure changed them, Helman, there's a mistake. Heyd
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his identification. They said it was Earl hay another plant. Helman, he's
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the laundry clerk. What was he doing out in the bay. Maybe that's
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the way they do the laundry. Now I'm going home, Helman, you
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better stand on his chest. That way, they can't steal him without taking
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you too. About sixty for he was beginning to pay off. Somebody was
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gathering up the loose ends, and it was going to be easier now because
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things were getting tight. But you can say that for a lot of wedding
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rings. So I bummed a ride and I got to my place about a
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half hour later. I had some trouble there because the cop on duty wanted
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to take me down up here nineteen again. He looked wistful, so I
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told him about a place down the street where he might catch a peping time,
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and I finally got rid of him long enough to get up to the
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room. As I walked in the door of the phone was ringing, Yeah,
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hell, patchy, this is chocolate. Let's you find out. Oh
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Hayes was popular anybody could appeared him. For instance, there's a lot on
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him in the chronicle mob he's wanted for smuggling. Yeah, what else?
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He had a girlfriend who pictures here what you look like? Oh, I
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haven't had enough experience the same one. I guess what else? And oh?
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Has one shoved a prison term with a man named Max Stuffer. That's
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our boy, but he got on him. He lives here now and he
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runs a business out on Vadne's Avenue. What kind of business he's going to
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sound funny? He runs a few? Well, what does that prove?
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Doesn't prove as eating? Just because you're a perfume salesman, you don't have
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to smell for me. When Jocko hung up, everything began to slip into
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place. I could see now why everybody wanted that shirt and the reason why
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Earl Hayes disappeared was ten feet tall. I called Helman. He said he
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knew all about Max Stuffer and we had a squad car on the way out.
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I met him at the corner of Gary and Taylor and we rode out
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to Vans. Max Stuffer's funeral parlor was over near Pine. When we pulled
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up, the lights around except for a lamp in the front room. Helman
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walked in the front door without knocking, and we turned in where the light
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was. It was a big night for stiffs, and there were three or
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four caskets along the wall. In the center. Over near the fireplace,
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there was a casket on wheels. The plate on the outside said a man
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named Peter Dawson had the least. Helman was about to set upstairs when the
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door in the bank opened. Oh no, that can How are you doing?
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There is the man when you're dead, not too dead to talk to
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you, Stuffer. He's Inspector Helman from homicide. The bag looks heavy.
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You're talking to you or me? Max? Where's she going? I'm putting
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her on that train? No fact, do you care? It's up the
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helmet. He wants you for killing her own Hanze. I thought he'd disappeared
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and hill out on the laundry clerk too after I visited the Trent. You
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put her on that train. She'll get off with the next station. Stuffer.
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Huh, she gave you a bad story. That shirt You got a
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phony? Wait an save yourself some time, mister, check her bags.
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Make the odds. Fella, let me see that bag. Take a look.
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He's trying to stand peaching that. No underneath there the other side,
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there's no shirt in here? What are you trying? I know how I
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got there? Next he must have put her own. Know how I got
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there? Something crazy? It don't sound sure. The next stairway, I
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gave you the right shirt. Next next, take her for the laundry.
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Guy. I'll read about you, lady. If you're crazy, you're crazy
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to tell him. I'll tell him all about it. I'll tell you every
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word. I don't forget yourself. It's shocked. Don't forget to tell much.
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If you have a girl, hate nobody, you're chilly fool. You're
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silly fool to hear over them all. You better tell him. No,
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he didn't there helmet, he didn't have a tea. Do leave me alone
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and I'll break you up. Put him on next, get away from her.
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Don't eat the gun anymore. No, pick it up. Cover.
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You had a big night, lady, Yeah, what happened to that?
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You put that shirt in there? And you lied to him? Yeah,
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you lied to him, and he thought I could. He thought I lied
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to him. What's the difference? As long as you kill him you still
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get a prize. The next morning was easy for Hellman. He shook the
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girl for the story on those shirts. The markings on the collar were a
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bill of lading numbers on stuff going to the islands. Everybody was being watched,
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so they had to handle it that way. Earl Hayes used to leave
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the shirts in that laundry. Each time somebody along the line marked one of
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the shirts. Hayes took the shirts to Max and he got the information to
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the right people in the islands. Out there, they had a line on
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what to hijack. Most of the stuff was gold and it was a good
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game for everybody until that laundry kerk made a goofy mistake. He got the
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bundles mixed and he left one shirt out. When Hayes picked up the wrong
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bundle, the girl and Max thought a double cross was underway. After Max
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worked me over until to Hayes, he went down to the laundry shop and
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he couldn't find the shirt. He could only think of one thing. Hayes
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had the shirt on, so he got him out of that apartment. Once
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he had him out, he figured the easy thing to do is to make
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him disappear for good, so he put him in a castet with another guy
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on his way to the boweyard. In the meantime, the clerk found the
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shirt and called me. The girl overheard the conversation and figured the laundry clerk
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had the shirt with him. She got in the beef and killed him.
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She went down to that laundry after me and picked up the shirt. Well,
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from there, arm the cards fell the wrong way. Well, Colman
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asked only one question. That laundry clerk was an innocent guy. Wasn't it
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too bad he got knocked off? Oh? I don't know. When you
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think of how many buttons you lose in a year, it doesn't seem so
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