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Philip Marlowe: The Grim Echo (EP1613) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment,
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  Speaker 1: before we do get started, I do want to encourage you,
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  Speaker 1: if you've not already, to pick up your copy of
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  Speaker 1: Slime Incorporated. It's my first ever full length detective novel
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  Speaker 1: Cole eu Stick, a private investigator trying to find the
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  Speaker 1: or audiobook through audible dot com or through the iTunes store. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of
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  Speaker 1: Philip Marlowe. The original air date February fourteenth, nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: and the title is The Grim.
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  Speaker 2: Echo Get This and Get It Straight. Crime is a
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  Speaker 2: Sucker's road. Knows who travel had wind up in the
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  Speaker 2: gut of the prison of the Grave. It could have
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  Speaker 2: been perfect snowbound in the mountain lodge with a girl
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  Speaker 2: who was falling in love, but also present where a
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  Speaker 2: widow sick with rage, a bitter old woman, and a
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  Speaker 2: jealous man with reason. They hate me more than anyone
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  Speaker 2: else in the world happened like this.
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  Speaker 3: From the pan of Raymond Trandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
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  Speaker 3: comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
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  Speaker 3: Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
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  Speaker 3: you tonight's exciting story. The grim echo.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, yeah, yeah, hung snowshare man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty thick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're lucky you caught me shun man. He's
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  Speaker 2: closing up when you have a.
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  Speaker 5: Better fill it with the regular.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, that mean you're aiming to go on.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, gotta get back to la.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't advise your shun old Jagger, and sure wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I would hit ten below day shame.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you being skiing?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Wake of it up at Angel's Roost. How's the road ahead?
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  Speaker 2: He's got forty miles or nothing but mounting.
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  Speaker 7: The next time you.
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  Speaker 2: Know you're bound again? Good? You know where anytime? And
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  Speaker 2: why don't you blow that thing? And what's a tariff?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Call it three bucks? Even you know I've been run
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  Speaker 2: and this mobile gas is your puny. I know these
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  Speaker 2: storms arenestra.
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  Speaker 5: Ooh yeah, yeah, I'll be all right. That's with you all.
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  Speaker 2: Jay out on the road, you could freeze the gass
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  Speaker 2: were easy in this plaid shirt.
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  Speaker 5: I'm wearing your ribbing me popular.
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  Speaker 2: That shirt won't even start keep the warm.
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  Speaker 8: On a deserted highway in this bridge taken from Old
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  Speaker 8: Jagger and Shun.
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  Speaker 2: I know well anyway, how long old Jagger. It took
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  Speaker 2: me a solid nerve breaking out to make twelve miles.
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  Speaker 2: I began to realize just how right old jack Ernst
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  Speaker 2: the gas.
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  Speaker 5: Station boy had been.
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  Speaker 2: When the road ahead was lost completely in a constant,
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  Speaker 2: bracing blur of white transformed Debil Rise into a treacherous barrier.
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  Speaker 5: I had a batter my way.
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  Speaker 2: Through chains on all four wheels, chewing at the drips.
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  Speaker 2: I managed to keep on the road somehow and plow
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  Speaker 2: out another five miles. And then I caught a glimpse
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  Speaker 2: of the first lighted window I'd seen in all that
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  Speaker 2: distance just as I started down the back side of
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  Speaker 2: the short steep too. And then it happened. First the
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  Speaker 2: help was feeling in the skid or I could do
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  Speaker 2: anything about it. I was off the road in the ditch,
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  Speaker 2: nose first and hood deep in a colvid drifted pull
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  Speaker 2: of snow. I horsed the door open and wounded back
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  Speaker 2: up to the road.
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  Speaker 5: I knew there was no chance of getting the car.
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  Speaker 2: Out without helping, lots of it, and the ten below
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  Speaker 2: zero that the weather Bureau had bragged about was setting in.
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  Speaker 2: I looked back through the slashing snow for the lighted
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  Speaker 2: window I had spotted and saw a lantern swinging crazily
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  Speaker 2: in the hands of somebody coming told me a minute
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  Speaker 2: later I could see it was a girl. Oh oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay.
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  Speaker 5: My car stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Guy skid it off the road. Oh my, No chance
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  Speaker 2: of getting it out of there to night. That's bad.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe tomorrow for busit lets up.
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  Speaker 4: We can get you out any time.
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  Speaker 2: You got to come on up to the lodge, mister Lodge,
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  Speaker 2: huh me. I slid up the road right in front
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  Speaker 2: of a tourist line. Oh boy, how can I be
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  Speaker 2: that lucky? Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Well, maybe it's fat.
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  Speaker 2: We're not open for business and winner. But on a
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  Speaker 2: night like that, I know what you mean. Believe me,
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Get tough staying out here. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, my name is Marlow, Philip Mallow.
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  Speaker 5: I want to pay you for it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you say, Philip Marlow? There's something wrong with your business,
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  Speaker 2: miss Tomlow?
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  Speaker 5: Oh well, I'm a private detective.
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  Speaker 2: My lab and skiing.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care where you've been a where you're going.
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  Speaker 2: You'll get no help from me.
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  Speaker 5: It's the pill up Mallow, you understand.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather get shut it to a dirty dog.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you're freeze, Yeah, I hope you're freeze to death.
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  Speaker 2: She was a thin girl with black, hollow eyes full
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  Speaker 2: of hate for me. She didn't stop or look.
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  Speaker 5: Back all the way to the door.
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  Speaker 2: I just ran in and slammed the chut. I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: understand it. Even on my worst day, my reputation never
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  Speaker 2: was that bad. I didn't wait around to worry about
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  Speaker 2: it because I was cold. Besides, I wanted to know
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  Speaker 2: why the good name Philimala was such poisoned the place.
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  Speaker 5: I'd never heard of before.
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  Speaker 2: I waited up to the heavy, rusty door and looked
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  Speaker 2: in through a tiny window. All I could see was
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  Speaker 2: one corner of what had to be a big room.
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  Speaker 2: It was log, leather and Navajo rugs, dominated by an
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  Speaker 2: enormous fireplace to build every.
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  Speaker 7: Nook with a warm, dancing glow.
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  Speaker 5: Poisoner. No, I want it in, Donny.
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  Speaker 3: That's a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Oh oh, you you picked a bad night, used to drive? Well,
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  Speaker 4: won't you come in?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure, sure, I'm done.
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  Speaker 4: This is echo large. We're not open now, but of
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  Speaker 4: course you go on.
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  Speaker 7: In this storm.
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  Speaker 5: No I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Besides, my car's in the ditch.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you'll be standing the night.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to, but there seems to be two schools
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  Speaker 2: of thought on that subject.
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  Speaker 4: So what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why, but you know I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I'm very welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 5: Well for Helen.
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  Speaker 4: But you which one you've been crying?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know who he is? No, we haven't gotten
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  Speaker 2: around with the magic of my name yet, Helen.
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  Speaker 5: But maybe you'll be good.
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  Speaker 4: Does that mean anything to you? Yes, Virgil BAROCKI was
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  Speaker 4: my husband, Virgil BAROCKI was Dona's brother, And Virgil BAROCKI was.
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  Speaker 2: The man that you shot down and killed do you remember.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it all right, six months ago, trail that
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  Speaker 2: led up a blind Los Angeles sally to a garage
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  Speaker 2: where stolen cars were switched. I remember the pair of
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  Speaker 2: vicious blue eyes glaring at me over the sights of
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  Speaker 2: a blazing forty five.
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  Speaker 5: I remember shooting back fast. When it was over, I
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  Speaker 5: was alive. He was dying.
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  Speaker 2: And later the car and as jury decided that killed
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  Speaker 2: and self defense. The savagery here in the eyes of
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  Speaker 2: the woman who had been virtual. Baroki's wife said that
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  Speaker 2: that decision meant nothing.
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  Speaker 4: He said, is this true? Are you the one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's true. I shot a man named Virgil
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  Speaker 2: BAROCKI I had to or be killed by him.
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  Speaker 5: There was no choice.
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  Speaker 2: You lie, You killed him in cold blood. I'll get
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  Speaker 2: hold of you. You're done enough to get off Vin.
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  Speaker 2: This is the man who killed Bertie.
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  Speaker 6: Know I've been listening and I heard everything. Go find
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  Speaker 6: Ralph on me, Helen. Then you better go off your
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  Speaker 6: workshop for a while, do you hear me? I said,
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  Speaker 6: Go call Ralph now at once, tell him all from
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  Speaker 6: the cabin. Then go back to your carving. Can't turn
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  Speaker 6: a man out in this weather, not any man.
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  Speaker 7: You'll say, mister Marl.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, mister Burk.
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  Speaker 2: Donna go get some hot food, all right?
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  Speaker 6: Ma'm so you're Philip Marlow, the private detective, look much
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  Speaker 6: like i'd imagine you. Oh, would you mind picting?
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  Speaker 2: This fire? Needs another long all you? Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Were stopped by the storm, Mistermorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my god, getting into the ditch about the the
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  Speaker 2: yard down the road, I see almost at our doors.
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  Speaker 6: Tip you might say, rare coincidence?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it almost too rare? Missus Baracke. I'm sorry. The
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  Speaker 2: circumstances are painful for you.
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  Speaker 6: I have grown used to that kind of pain, having
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  Speaker 6: lost both the husband and.
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  Speaker 2: Fate uptain now has never.
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  Speaker 6: Been very generous.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe in fate, mister Marlow? No? Oh, something's
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  Speaker 2: happened for which is no explanation. Maybe who knows.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps everything happens according to a pre arranged schedule.
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  Speaker 2: And oh, come on, you don't really think I was
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  Speaker 2: deliberately shoved off the road at exactly the spot for
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  Speaker 2: a reason.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you might admit it's strange though, that there was
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  Speaker 6: a house nearby just when you needed one, and that
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  Speaker 6: it was our house. Oh, thank you, Donald, I.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me so.
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  Speaker 4: But it's hot and joining me's fresh bread. I hit
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  Speaker 4: the coffee.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be ready in a few minutes. Go ahead, mister Marlow,
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  Speaker 2: sit down.
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  Speaker 1: It will do you good.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Looks wonderful.
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  Speaker 6: In the meanwhile, I'll check up on Ralph. He should
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  Speaker 6: have the cabin ready by now. It's small, but you'll
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  Speaker 6: be comfortable. There's a fine, big.
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  Speaker 4: Oil heater in it.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't worked one for years.
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  Speaker 6: You won't have any trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me who is this Ralph?
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  Speaker 6: Ralph Tom young fellow who lives near here, Ralph and
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  Speaker 6: looks after us in the winter.
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  Speaker 2: He's staying over tonight because of the storm. He was my.
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  Speaker 6: Son's best friend. Oh, don't let the soup get cold,
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  Speaker 6: mister Morlow.
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  Speaker 2: The soup was thick and delicious, and the coffee was rich,
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  Speaker 2: black and steaming down. I sat across the table and
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  Speaker 2: watched me eat.
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  Speaker 5: There was no hatred in our eyes. I looked for
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  Speaker 5: it closely.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't even anti must, only confusion, and for some
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  Speaker 2: reason shadow of fear. About. As an hour slipped by
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  Speaker 2: and the conversation came easier, the shadow disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: Our eyes even began to smile a little.
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  Speaker 2: When I'd finished down to the third cup of coffee
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  Speaker 2: and started to help her clear the table.
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  Speaker 5: The cup slipped.
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  Speaker 2: Both crabbed for it, brought one slim inch from breaking,
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  Speaker 2: and wound up together on the floor.
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  Speaker 7: Our faces close.
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  Speaker 4: We did it?
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  Speaker 5: What a tea table waited the jugglers.
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  Speaker 4: Both and make a fortune?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, ral Yeah, Ralph, what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: We have almost dropped cup?
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 9: That sure would have been too bad, wouldn't it done it?
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  Speaker 9: You already got about fifty like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why it's so important to you before
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  Speaker 2: it's worth I.
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  Speaker 5: Was the one to drop this.
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  Speaker 9: It's not important to me. I guess other things aren't
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  Speaker 9: so important to Donna either. I think you can get
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  Speaker 9: it out of the kitchen now without any more help, Donna, Ralph,
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  Speaker 9: high time?
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  Speaker 7: Did you.
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  Speaker 2: Missus?
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  Speaker 9: Barouki asked me to tell you the cabin's ready, Marlow. Thanks,
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  Speaker 9: No thanks necessary, mister. It's just part of my job. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: everybody's job has its lousy side. Huh, even a private detective.
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  Speaker 9: Some of them get trigger happy.
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  Speaker 5: I heard I'll see you, Donna. You better get out.
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  Speaker 2: There right away, Marlow.
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  Speaker 9: Donna's got four whole dishes to carry out with the
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  Speaker 9: rate she's been going to you want to get started,
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  Speaker 9: as you'll never make it.
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  Speaker 2: Keep you a fat trap, shut busty at causing a draft.
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  Speaker 2: Tolman walked behind me as far as the door and
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  Speaker 2: pointed through the snow to a tiny square of lights
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  Speaker 2: sitting apart from the rest of the buildings that made
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  Speaker 2: up that golarge. As soon as I was outside, he
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  Speaker 2: slammed the door against my back and both it and
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  Speaker 2: still on a fortune, thought about the setup for a
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  Speaker 2: minute while I lit a cigarette, and I stepped out
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  Speaker 2: with the snow and headed for the cabin. Half Way there,
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  Speaker 2: I could see it clearly. It looked snug and warm,
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  Speaker 2: none of the circumstances. I knew it was better for
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  Speaker 2: everybody that I was sleeping outside the main lodge. But
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  Speaker 2: then I saw a sudden flash and felt the impact
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  Speaker 2: before anything else. Right in front of me, the cabin lurched.
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  Speaker 2: One entire wall burst out in the roof collapse. A
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  Speaker 2: second later. As I ran told what was left of it,
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  Speaker 2: I could hear the others coming, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm okay, now what happened?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know to them, but I can't understand and.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, hell, and that's the way it looks but it
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  Speaker 9: was working, Okay when I left, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to burn all the snow and put
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  Speaker 2: it all out.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes, another few secontinue you'd have been in there,
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  Speaker 4: you'd have been killed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that was fade too. Huh.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I want to get a.
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  Speaker 2: Weak and if I wish you had been in him
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  Speaker 2: follow you.
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  Speaker 4: He's got no bitness to your hear me alone, good lord,
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  Speaker 4: what he's done to it? How can you there even go?
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  Speaker 2: Look at how you come back? You never go.
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  Speaker 6: This is an accident, Donna, an accident from here.
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  Speaker 2: They happen tomorrow. Oh sure, sure everybody knows accidents will happen,
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  Speaker 2: missus barookie, of course.
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  Speaker 6: Oh let's get back into the house before he please today,
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  Speaker 6: you can have my room now, I'll sleep with Donna.
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  Speaker 2: Come along, all of us.
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  Speaker 3: In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlow.
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  Speaker 3: But first, Grachio Marx, his famous ad libs, and his
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  Speaker 3: teams of opposites will be back betting their lives on
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  Speaker 3: most of these same CBS stations tomorrow night. You've missed
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  Speaker 3: half your life if you haven't bet your life with
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  Speaker 3: raut Joe Marx on Wednesday Nights this season. Hear him
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  Speaker 3: on this top quiz show tomorrow night on CBS Now
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  Speaker 3: with our star Gerald Moore. We returned to the second
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  Speaker 3: act of Philip Marlow and Tonight's story, the Grim Echo.
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  Speaker 2: It was a dreary little procession that trudged back toward
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  Speaker 2: the lodge again from the shedded cabin. I said nothing
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  Speaker 2: and pushed hard against the storm as far as the
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  Speaker 2: front door. When they were all inside, I ducked back
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  Speaker 2: into the biting glizzard and ran down to my car
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  Speaker 2: in the thirty eight I kept in the glove compartment there.
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  Speaker 2: I thinured it would be a warning comfort through the
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  Speaker 2: long cold night I hit until I saw that somebody
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  Speaker 2: else had figured the same way. Locking the glove compartment
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  Speaker 2: had been sprung and the gun was gone. Now there
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  Speaker 2: was no doubt about the explosion. It had been no
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  Speaker 2: less accidental than Lucretia. You're working over and after dinner drink,
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  Speaker 2: so I hurried back to the lodge. I suddenly felt
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  Speaker 2: a kind of inside cool. You can't have blame on
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  Speaker 2: the weather around you. But a moment later, that same
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  Speaker 2: cold began to fall because huddle at the edge of
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  Speaker 2: the lodge steps ahead was done. Where have you been
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  Speaker 2: What have you been doing?
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  Speaker 5: Do you think you're going to be all right?
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  Speaker 2: Please?
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  Speaker 4: Why did you go down your car?
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you, but you're going to be sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but you got so upset of but nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to get some cigarettes out of the glove compartment.
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  Speaker 2: It was fresh out.
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  Speaker 4: That was your only reason cigarette?
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  Speaker 7: Sure?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, how come on, huh, you gotta worry. Let's do
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  Speaker 2: it well, we can both be warm. Rent over to
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  Speaker 2: the fire. I'm a city boy. You know this cold
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  Speaker 2: isn't doing.
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  Speaker 10: Any Hey, Donna, those tears in your eyes?
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  Speaker 4: If the wind it always makes me crying. Oh, Phil,
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  Speaker 4: why did things have.
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  Speaker 2: To be this way?
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  Speaker 7: Ago?
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  Speaker 4: When you were eating, everything was so nice, so friendly,
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  Speaker 4: and suddenly Ralph angry, the explosion, Helen's screaming and clawing
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  Speaker 4: at your mama.
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  Speaker 5: Day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what God, Look, look baby, listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: Hot Huh you see the things you just spoke of, Ralph,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the explosion, Helen, all of it, all the trouble.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: It belongs to the night.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I could blizzard out there. Oh it's raging now, sure,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: but tomorrow, or maybe a little left to tomorrow, it'll
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: stop everything.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: WI look bright and clean to you. It's unny. That's
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: the way it'll be all the.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Way on, believe me.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Oh God, I want to but what but you're talking
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: about tomorrow. I'm worried about tonight. I'm afraid, phil awfully afraid.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I spent the next ten minutes trying to convince Donna
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: that there wasn't anything over Eve, and then once she
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: gone to a room, I went to mine and started
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: all over again, trying to convince myself. Day out of
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: seasoned fireworks in the cabin and a gun stolen from
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: my car made that a very tough proposition. And I
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: checked the room, which was on the ground floor and
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: close to the kitchen, and then I bolted the door
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: and looked forward.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: To some much needed sleep.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: After that, I took off.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: My shirt and shoes, only got in the bed waited
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: for sleep, which your weekend of skiing made more important
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: than a cabin full of pain. Suddenly I was wide
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: awake and sitting straight up in bed. The footsteps could
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: have belonged to my dream. The door that closed couldn't have.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: I scrambled out of.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Bed and ran to it, but it was still bolding,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: so I turned to the single closet in the room
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: and opened it sharply. It was empty except for a long,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: thin finger of light that streamed through a keyhole. A
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: keyhole belong to a door at the rear of the
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: closet that gave out out of the kitchen. Obviously, the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: closet had once been a pantry. I tried the door,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: but it was bulleted in the kitchen side. I got
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: into my shoes, grabbed my shirt and ran out of
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the room around of the kitchen and smack. It was
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: a very surprised Marlow. What are you doing up and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: rolling around? I'm asleepwalk I watch your excuse. Come on,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: let's have it. I'm playing target for the night talk Marlow,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: and I know why you're hearing exactly what's on your mind.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I will not before. Why don't we come to termside?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: All right, let go.
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: I'm here because my room is on the ground floor,
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: and I heard somebody cross through the house and come
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: into this kitchen.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I decided to investigate. You're a liar. You're in my
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: room tolling, and you know it. You get in through
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: the door that leads into the closet. Come on, Buster,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: let's level with keeping each other away. Listen Marlow. I
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: don't like you, honest, and I don't like the way
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: you and done are the way? Well, what come on, boy,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: get it up your chest?
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: Ever reminded that no, look at this wood shaving so
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: what Yeah? I found it near the door of the
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: closet in your room. Might also be the answer to
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: who your visitor was after calling card?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: What do you mean calling card? Helen?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: He's always covered with these shavings. He makes things out
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: of rupt pine. Where is this workshop of hers toma out.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: In the back? Just be on the bar.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: More?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Low, Not that it's any of your business, but I'm
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: gonna see the lady and i'll see you. What do
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: you want conversation, Helen? If you don't mind wait a minute,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: you would flat a door? I will, and I will
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I get up there and sit down. We got a
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: few things to clear up, like what where you married
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: my husband? Cut it out? Stop at Helena off, just
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: shoot a time to behave your strong blood? Baby? What
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: a you gonna be good? Yeah? All right, I'll sit
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: down over there, away from those shop chisels you work with,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: and keep your hands in your lap. Go on that
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: share there very well. Or anything to accommodate the man
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: who ardes my husband, which brings us right to that point.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: You deny that you're shut him down.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I fired and self defense, thinking live. You need to
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: set of your own nest to be a hero to
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the police in the newspapers. You're wrong, Helen. I killed
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: your husband because I had to. He was on the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: wrong side. Oh, don't make me laugh.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: You can't trying to get money for his family for me.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: You're all laughing on the wrong.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Side so much that he should have been killed, shot
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: down by the lives of you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, mister Marlow, you have no idea I'll through these
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: past six lonely months.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I thought of him.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I wondered what you looked.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Like, what the man who killed Virgil was doing, How
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: you'd like to meet the same death you brought to
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: my husband under the brave.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Battle of law and order.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, I.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Don't think I didn't plan your death a thousand times.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: Don't think I didn't have toach Mama Barock.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: You ran full and sweet little donna with a delicious
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: thought of revillage. No, no, they talk like you talked,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: mister Martin. Virgil was doing the wrong thing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: He was caught. It wasn't right or wrong. It was
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: him or me.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: Oh you shut up, sho.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Sure Bertha was stealing, all right. It was stealing from me,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: is why. That's why I left to you. That's why
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I try so hard.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: That's why you had no reason to kill him, and
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: that's why you should die too.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: That's also why we had an accidental explosion that the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: cabin I was supposed to sleep in. Huh. I was clumsy.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I was hasty. I won't be the next time. You're
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: completely out of your mind, Helen, of course I am.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Did you see this? Existence is living without the man
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I love?
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Good?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Leave me otherwise?
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Did you think me?
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Ki?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: No one telling me isn't going to bring him back.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Go on, get out and if you can, mister Marlow,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: go back to.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Bed while you wait for a chance to get me
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: with my own gun, the gun you're stole from my car.
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to shoot you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I would only further disgrace the Baroki name.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: No, no, I'm not going to shoot you, but I
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: am going to get you.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: For a long, chilling moment, I stared into the eyes
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: of a half crazed woman standing in front of me,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the ice cold, bottomless eyes that a cancerous hate had
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: destroyed as something human. And as I turned and started
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: out of the room, I knew that I made a mistake.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: That night, when Virgil Barocki had died.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: In my arms, the mistake I had to correct before
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: it was too late, and there was nothing left of
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Helen but the ruthless machinery.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Of her mind dedicated to murder.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Headed back to the house and talked to Mama Barokie,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: which I think it had to be the first immediate step.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: When I'd gone only a dozen yards from the workshop,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I stopped. No, I'm obvia shna, what are you doing
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: out here?
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: I was too worried about you. And then when I
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: started to leave the house for my window and had
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: for the work shot, ye got your face.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Oh it was Helen. She she got a little upset
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: in there, a.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Little would look at you, your pocket ripped off your shirt, your.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Face, Oh it's all right, donnah? No, hey, hey, my pocket,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: the gun, Tell.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Me please hold it on, give me a cent.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure, it adds all right. And I look
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: get over there inside the barn and scream long and long,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: huh yeah, yeah, it's the only chance. Go on, do
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: as I say it. Donna scream, all right, I'll do
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: it whatever you saying. Second, Donna cut loose. I stepped
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: out of sight behind a tree that was opposite the barn,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: and I kept my eyes glued to the door of
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the workshop. I just left. I waited for the shadowing
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: report of the gun. I was a friend, I'd here.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: But then the door flew open and Helen was running
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: out toward the barn, and Donna scream I thirty eight,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: clenched a handkerchief in the right hand and look up
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: stock bewilder and stamped over her face. What are you
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: doing here? By the bomb? I didn't know.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: What do you mean you don't know?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I had that gun back without pleasant discussion. I get
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: back against that wall and don't move an inch.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Sure, attempted murder, honey, she's all right.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Attempted. Do you mean telling here we're gonna try and
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: killed some one?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, herself suicide, Uh, suicide, that would be called murder.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: And pinned on me. It's gonna be her way of
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: getting even.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I can't believe she tried to once, Honey. The explosion
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: of the cabin. When that failed, everybody knew how she
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: felt about me. A warped mind hit upon this little plan,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: and all the pieces would have fit tight too.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: What Pie, what do you mean?
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: But one?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: We argued who she came to my room tonight and
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: ripped the pocket off his plaid shirt so that we'd
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: find it clenched in her hand after she was dead.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: You see it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Three, she stole my thirty eight, which has my fingerprints
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: on it. Or she left an obvious clue on the
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: floor of the kitchen, a wood shaving that would bring
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: me out here on the run. Everybody could find me
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: close by when it happened. Oh, it was tight, all right.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: T is a hangman's noose.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: She was gonna shoot herself well just after you left her.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: That's why he made me scream.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: And that's why Now, Donna, lady, tonight, I'm going to
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: tell us something that I intended to break to her gently, something.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I was going to tell Mama.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Barockie first, something I hoped would straighten her art. Well,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: your brother Virgil didn't die the moment he was shot down.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: He he lived long enough.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: To ask one thing of me, what are you try?
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: And stay Phil?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: But I never let Helen and you people here know
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: about the woman he was in love with in La,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: a woman through whom.
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: I at tracked him die.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I get it. It wouldn't be good for
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: her if I was around too much.
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: I mean, not for a while anyway, it wouldn't be
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: good for any of us.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Huh, Come on.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Donald, let's get he rid of the house.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: Yes, it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Was the Next morning, I went into the kitchen for
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: some coffee and found myself all alone.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I thought I wasn't any place in sight. So I
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: got my things together and walked slowly down to my car.
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: And when I got in, I didn't feel like waving,
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: not right away, And I was glad that warming up
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: my Moto was the smart thing.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Gave me time to light a cigarette and think.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Look around. I taught Echo Lodge, where.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I could see Donna waving goodbye, went upstairs window. Yeah,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I'd see her again a little while. It was a
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: small world all right, full of echoes. And just think
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: how the web of pets we call coincidence. It brought
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: me and those whom you were in love first beginner.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: Sunday.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe Don and I would be looking for each other,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: and those paths would make it a lot easier.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: famous character, Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Norman McDonnell and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Sammy Hill,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Betty lou Gerson, Bernad Felton, Frank Gerstel, and Junius Matthews.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: The special music is composed and conducted by Richard Aran.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Be sure and be with us again next week. When
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Philip marlow says, this time a peddler of pulp paper love,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a black malow with muscles south of the border Chisler,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: a simpering prude, and a corpse in a bedroom all.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Had one thing in common.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Each was a woman.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Al Jolson will pay another of those wonderful visits to
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Bing Crosby this Wednesday night, and the gags.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: And songs will again fly thick and fast. Bing and
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: l will team up to sing waiting for the Robert
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: E Lee and whispering.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: And as for the gags, well, just tune in on
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: most of these same CBS stations. Remember that's this Wednesday Night,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the CBS Bing Crosby show. This is Roy Rowan speaking
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: no stay tuned for Pursuit, which follows immediately on most
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: of these same CBS network stations.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: This's the CBS where you Bet You Are Alive with Roger
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Marx every Wednesday, the Columbia Broadcasting.
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: System welcome back.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Well, for my money, that is one of the better
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: episodes of Philip Marlow. Great atmosphere and a great twist
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: as to what the villain's game was. Just a very
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: well written piece. I also have to admit when I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: heard the Bing Crosby Show with Al Jolson that it
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: really that sounded like something that would definitely be fun
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to listen to. Two great singers, just legends in their
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: own area. All right, Well, we do turn to some
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback, and we start with a note
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: from Joan, who emails regarding episode sixteen four s suspense
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the blind Spot. This is an excellent show with all
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the twist. One was kept in their seats waiting to
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: see what was going to happen. Edmund O'Brien gave an
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: excellent performance. Even his character had his blind spot and
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: it all fitted into the storyline perfectly. I thought the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: show was so good I listened to it a second
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: time later on today and enjoyed it just as much
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: as I did the first time. I shall be keeping
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the show to listen to again at some point in
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the future. Thank you Adam for bringing that's this great show. Well,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: thanks so much, John, and I do know that many
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: of our listeners have got a very regular pattern where
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: they'll listen to the podcast in particular episodes as they're
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: going to work. If you can find a little bit
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: of extra time, I definitely do encourage you to take
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a listen to the blind Spot. It really was a
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: tremendous special and I'm glad Joan enjoyed it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: That will do it for today. Join us back here
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: tomorrow for Nick Carter, and then next Wednesday another episode
• 33:30
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• 33:33
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• 33:50
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