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Philip Marlowe: The Unfair Lady (EP1433) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to Adam Graham po box one five none one three, Boise Altohol eight three
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seven one five. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures
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of Philip Marll. Original air at eight June fourth, nineteen forty nine.
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The title is The Unfair Lady, Get This and Get It Straight. Crime
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is a sucker's road, and those who travel had wind up in the gut
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of the prison of the grave. There's no other end, but they never
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learn. Let me give you an example, I was hired to find a
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thief, and I did a thousand miles from home. But first I found
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a lush with a luga, a fresh corpse in the closet, all because
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the only woman in psych wouldn't play fair. From the pen of Raymond Chandler,
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outstanding author of mystery, comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly
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enemy. As we present the adventures of blow Now with Gerald Moore starred as
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Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Unfair Lady. A
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knock on my office door was soft, almost apologetic, so when I mumbled
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come in, I was ready for something delicate and about itself of facing as
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your rye heap. When the door swung open, I knew exactly how wrong
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I could be. A gentleman was maybe forty great at the temples, with
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shaggy eyebrows and a military mustache, and built like a heavy cruiser with a
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pair of catchers mits for hands. I Ammelio Flory, mister marlow mister r
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Jornsen's secretary, are your services available to it? All depends on what you
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and mister Bjonsen want me to do. Flori, what's the job. Specifically,
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it's her to catch a thief, said, of course, thank you.
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Mister Bejonson is being robbed systematically of diamonds? Are they disappearing from his
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story? Owns or somebody rubbing his wife? No? No, no,
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mister Maler. You see, sir, mister Beyonson owns and operates the Beyonds
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and mines a relatively new but important depositive kimberlite pipe. Kimber light which kimberlight
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pipe, mister Maler, it's a geological term of the diamantivorous blue ground which
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yields the minerals. Oh, of course, diamansiveness. Oh last November,
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so the twenty first, to be precise, you worked for mister Craig Norton,
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a mining engineer who lived here in Los Angeles. He recommended you to
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my employer. Now, mister Maler, will you take the job? I
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don't know. You still haven't said anything about the stealing itself? Is it
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a Beyonce in representative here in Los Angeles who's coming up? Minus, it's
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mister Beyonson himself who's being robbed. Mister Marlowe at the mine, proper,
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I see, and he wants me to yeah, Oh wait a minute,
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this mine, this diamond mind wouldn't be in South Africa and knows it wouldn't.
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It's at Rislow. It's a hamlet one hundred miles south of No Gallis,
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south of Way No Gallis. Mister Malo is a city in Arizona,
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a few hours drive from Tucson at the Mexican border. And now, look,
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mister Florie, I'm a private detective in the city of Los Angeles who's
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at home in a barn, a back alley, or sometimes with a blonde
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not in rural Mexico. Is that clear? Oh yes, sir, perfectly.
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Also, it's something that mister Bejonson anticipated. I refer to your reluctance
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to make the trips up to mister Beyonson and Rieslow. Los Angeles is the
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nearest metropolis where a dependable private detective could be found to you in Los Angeles,
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Riislow is a new world. Therefore, therefore, mister Marlow, these
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papers. The first is your plane reservation day looks passage leaving tonight for no
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Galleys, where you will be met and chauffeured across the border to Rislow.
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You know you toss that off like it was transferring from a red bus to
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the e car downtown. It's less complicated, so I'm sure. Now these
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other papers, mister Marlow, are both checks, each for five hundred dollars.
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One is your fee and the other for expenses, not including your air
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travel decisions. Oh well, my decision, mister Florrie, is that for
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five hundred bucks plus, Rislow is plenty cousin Politan for me, I'll go,
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you'll go, I'll go. At eight the next morning, we dropped
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gently out of the clear sky over an out gully's, where I was met
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by a short round Mexicanua should me into a car label beyond some mines and
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suggested that I sleep for the next three hours, which was the travel time
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to Rislow, one hundred miles south. So after thirty minutes of panoramic,
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dry sandy hills and occasional cactus, I did. When I woke up again,
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it was better than noon, hotter than hades, and we were parked
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at a filling station in Rislow itself, which could have passed for home if
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you happen to be a prairie dog. It wasn't until I had my eyes
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wide open and I realized that the man leaning on the running board inches away
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and staring at me like my eyebrows were on upside down was not my driver.
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It was shaggy hair all around, an unshaven, unpleasant face that was
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home to a pair of watered eyes. I said he was drinking himself at
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death, and when he talked, I knew it was a cheap rum.
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You're the new mining engineer. Maybe, yeah, I didn't know. It
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showed me. Since you're an American, that means you got to be an
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engineer. Oh no, other Americans come out this way. I'm an American
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myself, you know, from a Philly Hey, good old Philly. Yeah,
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it's a great time. What's for sale? Hot transits? Now?
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That's just been friendly. Name's Caler, MJ. Caller. I'm staying over
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the Granado Hotel for a while, the first floor rear. Why don't you
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look me up sadnight any night long? About eight. I used to been
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engineering myself my two fat a while. Yeah, yeah, we might do
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bad, so well, I'll look forward to it. It's a long foul.
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When my driver and I were back on a hot dirt road, I
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was told the Beyonce in mine was the open pit sipe, a deep hole
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about a half mile in diameter in the middle of the beyond and property,
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which was clearly circled by eleven miles of eight strand barbed wire fence, which
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was guarded by fifty xgim Mexicans who were under the iron fist of one Captain
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Juan Lufino. Twenty minutes later, when we entered the main gate and were
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slowly driving up a neatly landscaped white table road, we had a different picture
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of life of the Beyonce and Mines. It was the residential side, plush
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and strictly beverly hills, and a sprawling red brick house past the green and
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white tiled swimming pool, the guesthouse beyond. Inside I found a multi millionaire
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himself was a ball fifty perspiring and shaped like a bowling pin. At ten
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o'clock last night, Marlow, it happened again. Five thousand dollars worth of
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stones the seventh Roppery and as many weeks, excluding of course, the usual
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criket, the usual trickle one or maybe two thousand dollars worth of a month.
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That's stealing. Nobody can stop the natives, the guards, visitors,
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everybody but most of them we catch, Marlow, because in the first place,
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our policing is very thorough, and second to steal a rough time and
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this one thing. But to get rid of it is hunting else again.
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Well tell me, mister Bejoransen, these big thefts, you're concerned about it?
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They all have anything in common, Yes, two things, Marlow.
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They always occur at night, and they are the work of somebody who knows
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my habits and has a good knowledge of the inside of my house. The
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big safe is never bothered. It is always some drawer or cabinet where I
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am keeping stones temporarily I see. And mister Bejansen, is anybody ever seen
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this theef? Last night Helen Austen saw what could be the man running through
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the grounds at about eleven o'clock. She said he was tall, with a
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lot of wavy hair. She said that he was not the Mexican. By
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the way, Marlow, Missus Austen and her husband are staying in the guest
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house where you will be put up. He works for you, mister Johansen.
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No, Kelly Austin has a mine of his own about five miles from
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here, smaller than ours, but rich. Nevertheless, Oh, this will
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be Captain Luffino. Don't mind if he appears unfriendly, Marlow. He considers
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your presence here personally in self. Come in you wish to see me your
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benes, Yeslino, this is mister Marlowe the detective. Ah. When Senor
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Flora came back this morning, Senor Mirlo, he spoke very highly of your
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reputation lost hungry mister Florie only talked to my friends in Los Angeles. Captain,
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I must to be honest, and you were telling me about the Austins.
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Yes, they have been with us for two or three months now,
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while their new house is being constructed at their own mind, their last place
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burned to the ground. I would suggest, Marlow that you speak to her
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as soon as possible. Also, the captain here will tell you of some
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evidence that he found here on the grounds last night. No, Senior,
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it turned out to be nothing. What kind of nothing, Captain A fountain
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pain. Yes, it belonged to one of the office. Yes, did
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you tell him about that? Not Campbell or No, Marlow. The International
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time in Exchange keeps us advised that the movements of the bigger black marketeers whenever
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possible. Three days ago. We were told that a man named Nat Campbell,
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an American who was at one time an engineer, has been operating in
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Mexico close to the border. Is there an accurate description of him? No?
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Anything else you have to know. Captain Lafino will take care of you.
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Also. I am sure that the Captain will be glad to show you
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to your room at the guest house. Sure, it will be my pleasure
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to assist in your mile on any way I can these ways in your please.
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Captain Lafino's interpretation of assist was to hand my suitcase to a boy,
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pointed tack famine a general direction of a guesthouse and disappeared, so I,
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after thanking him for his trouble, I went to my room unpacked, changed
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into a dry shirt, which was down again in three minutes, and then
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started for the suite on the opposite side of the building where I'd been told
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I could find Helen Austin. But when I was halfway toway screen door,
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I stopped at the sound of a raised voice that i'd heard before. It
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was mister Elliott Florrie. I was about to leave and unhappy about the whole
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thing. When I was close enough to see missus Austin. I could also
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see why my lady was blonde, deeply just a shade off, beautiful and
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almost dressed in a white man in the shorts with alter of the match.
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Oh am, I you're just waiting, my dear. We'll see who the
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fool is around here? Oh yes, Marlow, what are you doing out
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there? Calling on missus Austin? Why do I need a visa Florrie?
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Did I need a vis Did I need anything? Look? Anne, won't
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you hello? It was Jesli. Yes, I have to be running along.
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I see you later, Helen. I can't wait here, Mister Phil,
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isn't it Phil Maler? Nice name? You know, Bill? I
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don't often get to see a new phase around here. Is there anything I
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can do for you? Be a pleasure? I'm sure the pleasure will be
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all mine. But aren't you Fred? You'll catch cold? Why do you
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like this? I made it myself. I do most of my things.
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You know this is no style to do far behind New York to suit me.
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My husband, Kelly says, I'm clever better than that. You startled
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me, darling. This is Philip Marler. I know I told me you
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were with us. Mister Marlin. Can I be of some help? Possibly?
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No, not at the moment, mister Rustin. Right now, I'm
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only interested in knowing if your wife here can add anything to a description of
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last night's stranger. Can you, miss Well? I know if there was
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anything else outstanding about the man, I certainly would have told, no doubt.
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But what about the run of the mill things, his dress, the
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way he walked like most men, Malo, he wore one pair of pants?
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One should had early one here? Also like most mini smell of liquor?
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Rum? Maybe we all engram here? How about joining us at dinner?
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Long buddy, thanks? But long about eight? I've got to be
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back in Rislow to see mister Calder. Have you hear of him, Austin?
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Why no? Should I have? I don't think so. He'd have
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very little in common with you people, with one exception, which is what
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rum missus Austin, he's crazy about it. After I left Kelly in what
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with one healthy cloudburst? Dat it would make a great Sadie Thompson. I
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found arab Bejonsen and told him that I thought last Night's stranger one m J
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Colder and that Campbell could be all one and the same, and that I
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would like to go into Rislow and check on just that, which sort of
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been fine. So, apologizing for having just let Captain Lafina go off the
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evening in his car, he gave me the keys to a battered station wagon
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and wished me good luck. Four hours later, when it was dark and
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I was in Rislow and walking the dirty length of the ground floor card of
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the Granada Hotel, which was doctor, I had a feeling I was gonna
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need it. Yeah, small Ow Coler, the new man at Jonson's mine.
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Oh fine, you're right with you in the expect you to take me
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up so soon. Yeah, well you know the mine's Campbell. One's just
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as dull as the next time. That's right. Did you call me Campbell?
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That's it, isn't that? No, name's Carlder MJ. I told
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you that today. Yeah, and at the time I believed your good old
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Philly included. Come on, rummy, uncover the masquerades over, open up
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while you still can talk. What do you say? Okay, okay,
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ain't the biggest secrets in the world here, sit down. You don't name
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any better than your life I had. All right, we'll see now come
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on, get up. We'll start all over again. I have to we
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check you once. Kind usually has a nasty luga tucked away someplace. All
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right, now, what do you know about, hey, Campbell? Let
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stuff over there seeping under the closet door. The color isn't right for a
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rum brother, it's too red. Wow, Captain lou Feno. Yeah,
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he's shut out. You'll be right with him. You see, I was
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right, Campbell. The kind always has a nasty luga someplace. No,
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I didn't do that. I didn't kill him. Oh yeah, sure,
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sure he committed suicide in your closet and closed the door as a gag.
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I suppose enough. I don't try to be funny. I didn't even know
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he was here. I was out. I want to come back. I
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found Campbell let line retired with a flintlock rifle. If you hadn't pop oiled
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your brains and feels the lawyer, you'd realize it. But it's the truth.
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I'll tell you what the truth is. Cousin Lafino had a piece of
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evidence that tad You was being out of Bejance's mind last night at eleven o'clock,
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but he passed it off as a fountain pen. That meant nothing because
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he resented me hounding into his territory. Then he came here alone to put
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a pinch on you and get the credit, only you dropped him instead.
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That's a lie, and I can prove it for the best witness in Mexico,
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next to Bejonsen himself. Oh, you're talking about one mister Eliot Flora.
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That's who I was in the cafe Kelota last ninety eleven and Florie saw
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me there No dice Campbell. Floria didn't get in from the galleys until this
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morning. You're pretty seedy for a big city boy, myrto. You can
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check the boutender at the cafe and see if I'm not right. But right
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now I'm gonna put you away so I can get out of here. An
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walk show, got the back way and down the stairs. Go on,
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move, What are you gonna make mine wad to look like robbery? Don't
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as a brave You'll live because I figure you'll clear me one way or another,
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whether you like it or not. It's fair enough. I opened that
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cellar door. Okay, when you get out, don't waste time looking for
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me. I won't be around, so long countryman, don't hurt yourself.
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Cellar was as lighting wholesome as a Parisian sewer. Even with the help of
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several generations it termines. It took half an hour to break out, and
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I got upstairs again. It was deserted except for the late Captain Lafino.
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I went through his pockets, but I had nothing more exciting than bat at
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cigarettes, than some small change. But under the tight sash around his waist
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was a small green suede pouch containing three minute diamonds in the rock. I
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began to see what Yonson meant by the usual trickle. Everybody, including the
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chief of his own God, seemed to be in on the act. I
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dropped the pouch in my pocket and headed for the Kiloda Cafe, where two
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American bucks and a nasty snart at the bartender brought me the fact that Elliot
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Floory actually had been there last night. I had waited two hours for somebody
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who didn't show up and then left. That made my next step the mind,
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so I bounced the station, wagging out of town back to Jornson's house
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and started in with a pair of bare shoulders above a snuggling and halter intercepted
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me. Hello, you're back safe, I see enjoy all the sights and
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now filed this thinking little town not much, missus Austin, you should have
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taken me along as a guy. I could show you a lots of interesting
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things. Hmm like what for instance? Like this guy? M h.
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I like things clean, so I like lights and muses and peach, I
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like you save it had buttons and Bow's routine is strictly your own problem.
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I've got work and it starts with Elliott Floory. Where is he? What
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makes you think I know that because you're two have been keeping c track of
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each other for some time. You're anxious to drop it, but Flori isn't,
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and now he's got a hold over you, and you're worried. Silly.
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Let's get that too. What I know I can fill in a very
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unpleasant yawn, and I will if I have to. So come on,
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baby, no dramatics, let's have it. Where's Florie Illo? You're a
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lous but that shit better than he is went over. I placed the mind
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about half an hour ago. I don't know why I wouldn't tell me.
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Just want me to keep my mouth shut and left. It doesn't make sense.
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Where's mister Austin. My good husband is off somewhere checking on supplies.
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He said, Okay, I'll pay a call on Flori right now. When
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I get back, baby, I'll have a lot of answers. So I
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advise you to wait up. Huh sure, when you're all through it,
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and do me a favor, will you, mister tough to ticket? What?
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Throw him back? No? Kill him? After she said it,
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she stared at me for a moment and then turned and walked away. In
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from the bitterness in her face, I figured she had more on he mine
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than she told me about it, because I beat it around at the driveway
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where I left the station where I can climbed in and wheeled out the gate,
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I forgot about theories and headed for the Kelly Austin mine and a big
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scale diamond thief as fast as the rudded road loose body boats will permit.
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I'd barely gotten out of sight of Johnson's houseway from somewhere out of the truckload
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of shadows I was hauling in the rear into the station wagon. The muzzle
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of a gun was shoved hard against the back of my neck, and hell,
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there well over and stop, mister Marlow, but don't take your hands
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off the wheels, near off your rocket. You have been working too hard,
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not so hard that I didn't get back in time to see you kissing
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my wife. Get to deny it. Do you for what it's worth?
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You get your subject backward, but never mind, I turn around. Marll.
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I'm sorry about this. I liked you when we met today. Listen,
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we'll take this up later into the tail. Right now, I'm after
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a guy who's been biting it at Johnson's Diamonds, and I'm sure it's his
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own secretary, Elliott Flori Flory for that episode. Yeah. And what's more
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is currently after something cute at your mine. He's in my mind, Flory.
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That's what I said after I've seen him Buster. I'll be indignant with
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you all night if you like. You're a clever liar, Marlo, but
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it won't work. You're not getting out of the stead easily. I'm gonna
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tell Jornson what you've done. But first, you cheap Masher, I'm gonna
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get some satisfaction out of you personally, like this soul. First first on
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one side of my head and then the other exploded like roman candles. It
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fell a long way out of the car doing the road. I finally stopped
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falling and started back to my feet. I had a double handful of Mexico
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in my mouth. All the rest of it I could see look big and
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black and deserted. The station wagon was gone, and so was my enthusiasm.
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And the picture of mallow on foot in the middle of the Mexican mountain
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looked pretty stupid. I trudged back toward the house. I stopped as a
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pair of headlights swung out the gate and slashed down the road at me.
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Came to a sandstorm. Halt, Oh what happened to you? A long
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story, missus Austin. Unless you hear about it from me, the better
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for all of us. What do you mean that Kelly her husband was watching
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when you wanted to show me the Mexican sky and the moon up there at
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the house, It was just a tency bit irate about it? Oh?
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Is that all? That's enough? What about flooring in the mine? Marlin?
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How should I know? And I got tangled up as a heavy and
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this corny gas like melodrama. Wait a minute, you did you put that
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jacket on? Since I saw you last come over here, and they're like,
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come on, sure, listen, Helen. You told me once sewing
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was your hobby. Did you have to make this side of yourself? Yes,
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Simony, what's so important about it? It's your long shot. But
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if it pays off, I'll catch both a killer and a diamond thief.
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I to borrow your car, Beautiful. Wait a minute, I'm coming with
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you. Oh you're not. I've got to get Floria and stop a murder,
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and that takes a different kind of speed than you've got. So long,
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baby. With every jolt of the car, another Roman candle went off
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of my head, but I kept the gas pedal jammed with the floor until
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I saw that turn off signed for the Austin mine, and I cut the
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lights and pulled over. It was four hundred yards up the side road at
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the gate, where a Mexican sentry and a bat at sombrero leaned against the
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post on a bob wire barricade. I skirted him and followed a path outside
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the fence until I found the landmark I was looking for. There was another
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sombrero and a few feet away, sprawled out, sleeping soundly from a blow
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on the back of his head. It was its own two strands the above
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where have been cut. So I crawled through and up to the edge of
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the big pit. It looked black and bottomless until a tiny flicker of light
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down deep inside, went down for an instant and then went out again.
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That was my cue when I was fifteen tooth and nail minutes playing mountain goat
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on tiptoe down one hundred and fifty vertical feet of ladders and catwalks before I
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was near the bottom and close enough to hear a pick biting hard clay.
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When it snapped suddenly, so did I and listened with my thirty eight clinched
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in my hand. But Flora had been surprised by someone from the bottom of
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the pit, not by me. Austin Austin, how did you don't shoot?
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Austin Fleees? Why not, mister Flory? You found what you were
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looking for, didn't you, didn't you? Yes, yes I did,
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And what precise did you find? My mind has run out, but it's
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worth listed. I've kept it going only with stolen diamonds. That's right.
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I suspected it. Now I know you're the one who's been stealing from the
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arson. You bring the diamonds here you SALTERI on ground with them and then
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remind them as fresh and get the full market price. Yes, but what
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do you hope to achieve with this information? Now, mister Flory, you
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realize, though I have to kid you away, I have nothing against you,
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Kelly. In fact, I have a proposition to offer you if you're
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in a poor position to bark and but go ahead now. You'll never get
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away with killing me. I got away with one murder. He would have
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found out about me eventually because I made a mistake last night. That soft
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tevile will take the play for him. And right now you're just another trespasser.
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So make your offer, make it good, Go on, go on,
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right, I promise you no one will ever know about this if you'll
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get out of Mexico. Leave Helen here with me that I'm not gonna shoot
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you, Florrie. I'm gonna strangle you with my back. Turn back and
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right here golds out trapping. Austin stands there bother me. It's too late
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for that. You hit it, Mama, you got it. I think
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he's dead, and I got something for you, Florrie. I hope I
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can get the slime him off my fist, pretty smaller. Pour yourself another
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here to help your headache to go away. Oh, thanks, mister Johnson.
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It's cooler out here and it was inside. It's better now times.
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I don't know. I am happy and I am sad. Book found in
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my teeth, all right, but you lost me a friend in the bargain
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and the way we live out here, our friends are as dear as our
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diamonds. Oh, it's one thing about diamonds, mister Johnsen. They won't
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go bad on you. You're right there, my boy. It's hard to
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realize that Kelly Austen was our man. I imagine it is. You said
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it was Helen's jacket that gave you the answer. How was that? Marlowe
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Well Luthino was carrying a little green swede pouch. I thought it was his,
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but actually that was a piece of evidence that he found last night.
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It wasn't until I saw missus Austin's jack, the same green swede I realized
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the pouch must have been made from the scraps left over from the jacket I
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see, And since the wife showed the jacket herself, that made the husband
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the logical owner at the pouch that's right. You know, in a way,
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you might say Helen's responsible for the whole mess. How do you mean,
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Marlon, Well, it all adds up like this. Helen wanted diamonds
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bed, her husband started stealing for her. Things went well until he almost
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got caught. That was last night, that's right. Running across the lawn,
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Kelly dropped a little pouch. Lafino, who caught sight of him,
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followed and found the pouch with the three diamonds. But Captain Lafino thought Campbell
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was the thief and went to Campbell's quarters in result to force the confession out
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of him. Kelly followed him, killed him before he learned too much,
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knowing that the RUMs of Campbell would take the rap. That Austin woman,
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she's got no business here in this desolation. She loves diamonds, but not
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in the rough. So once where I'm a beautiful neck of hers with big
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city lights bouncing off them in all the dictions. But the lady wouldn't play
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fair to get them. She's packing now, and mister Florid has already left
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bag and baggage even Lafin knew is gone. Now you know it's going to
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be lonely around here, Marlow, I couldn't prevail on you to stay over
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a while. No, no, just to be honest, and I'm afraid
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not, I'd probably catch myself picking little pebbles out of every clay bank I
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found the first thing. You know, I'd be stuck here too. Besides,
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what would Hollywood Boulevard do without Marlow? And vice versa. When the
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driver who was taking me back to our gully's was finally ready and we started
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out of the mines, I I took a long last look down at the
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gaping, dirty, lonely pit that was the Beyons in diamond Field. And
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then as we headed north into the border, I settled back and thought about
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my own diamond Field, the one that stretched out for fifty miles from the
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San Fernando valleyed a long beach in blazing brias. Yet in its own way,
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I knew it was just as dirty, just as lonely, and just
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as tough as the pit at Rislom, But it was my hometown. The
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Adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler, star year Old Moore and are
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produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is by Meldonelli, Robert Mitchell,
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and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Parley Bear, Betty Lou Gerson,
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Hans Conrad, Paul Dubov, Wilms Herbert and Nester Piva. The special
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music is by Richard o'uran. Be sure and be with us again next week
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when Philip Marlowe says, she had soft brown eyes in an accent, and
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she came to town with a job to do. But before it was done,
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death had struck three times. Then she was gone, and all because
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of thirty drops of pigeon's blood worth fifty thousand bucks. Later this evening on
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CBS, you'll hear a voice saying quietly, a tortoise told a household pest
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goodbye, goodbye, an MD, he said, you'll pass the test up
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in the sky. Those words are a magic key to fifty three thousand dollars
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in cash and prizes. Like to take a try at it, then be
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waiting for sing it again. CBS is our long fun fest of music,
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laughter and wonderful songs. Later tonight, on most of these same CBS stations,
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this is Roy Rowan speaking. Now stay tuned for Gangbusters, which follows
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immediately over most of these same stations. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
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System. Welcome back. Well, the one thing I wonder is, from
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a logical standpoint, why wasn't a private detective from Phoenix, a lot closer
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to Tucson than Los Angeles. Why didn't they go to Phoenia. Well?
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I did some research, as this often promised me to do, and I
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found that in nineteen fifty Phoenix only had a population of one hundred and five
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thousand, while Los Angeles had nearly two million people. So the decision does
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make sense. I like the part where Marlow was concerned about being able to
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wipe the slime off his knuckles after hitting that one guy, which was an
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understandable act of revulsion. And of course, the basic gist of the ending
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is, yeah, he knows Los Angeles might be sleazy and corrupt, but
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when you come down to it, it's sleazy and corrupt, but it's home,
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all right. Well, that'll do it for today. We will be
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back tomorrow with Nick Carter, Master Detective, and then be sure and listen
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next Wednesday for another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime,
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