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Philip Marlowe: Where There’s a Will (EP1295) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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smash words dot com. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the
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Adventures of Philip Marlowe, where there's a will. When the will was read,
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everybody's figured she'd been crazy when she wrote it, and that included me.
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But I changed my mind after spending a night on an island with a
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pig, a cat, and an ape, because in reality they were people
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from the pen of Raven Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his
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most famous character as CBS presents the Adventures of Philippio and Now, with Gerald
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Moore startist Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's n usual story where there's a
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will. I had spent the whole day on a noisy job which had concerned
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itself with a lot of people who talked a lot and said nothing. When
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I finally locked up my office for the night, I was born out.
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As I drove slowly along the street, I was glad to be heading for
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home, a little peace and quiet, at least that's what I thought.
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But when I pulled up for a full stop sign only half a block from
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my apartment, something happened which brought my little dream of peace and choiet to
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an end. A car door opposite me flew open, and something mighty excited
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jumped in. I'm drive on, please along, no, please drive on?
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Okay, lady, get a good grip on the upholstery. Had ought
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to do it. Now, what's it say? You look a little pale
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and beautiful. I'm always pale when my heart's in my mouth. Now,
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why don't you swallow once? Take a deep breath, and tell me who
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is after you. There isn't much to tell. Who's a nasty little man,
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That's all I know. So thanks for making like Barnie Oldfield and good
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night. Hey, hey, not so fast. It's impolite to hitch and
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run. Look, mister, right now, I'm up to my earrings in
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trouble and that leaves very little time for small talk with strangers, even nice
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ones. But in that case the name is Philip Mallow, which takes care
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of the stranger part. And I'm a private detective, which makes trouble my
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business. Where do we go from there? No place? Three hundred thousand
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dollars worth of pidden bonds, a screwy old lady and a sculptor with a
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red beard, or too much for any one man police force, mister Mallow,
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So again, good night. Before I could say anything, she was
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out, and it was only the heavy scent of taboo in the air and
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the memory of a gorgeous profile with jet black hair and pale blue eyes.
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I sighed like a schoolboy and decided to put her under the heading of things
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that pass in the night. But I couldn't why, out of all the
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cars in Los Angeles, should she have picked on mine well. The next
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morning, as I was walking down the car to to my office door,
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I was still seeing pale blue eyes. Maybe that's why I didn't notice the
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man who waited outside my door until I was almost on top of him.
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He was well dressed in about thirty five. He looked like a man who
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had forgotten how to smile. Mallow right, I want to compliment you on
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your behavior last night, mister Marlow. Barbara told me about it. Oh,
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come on in, mister Shields, Edward Shields, would you be interested
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in aiding three people in the search for more than a quarter of a million
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dollars in the negotiable bonds, one percent of which will be yours if the
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bombs are found. Being a fairly fast man with figures, yes, yes,
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I was splendid. I'd like to view details. Well, mister Morlow,
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my aunt Bernice Mayhew Shaw died, leaving her entire fortune to charity.
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With the exception of the bonds I mentioned, Those are to be divided equally
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among three of us, the soul heirs, if we find them within twenty
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four hours. Hmm, that sounds like something you dream about after a midnight
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snack of pizza. In pigs knuckles, perhaps, but you didn't know my
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aunt. Beside myself, the beneficiaries are Barbara Haynes, the girl you met
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last night. She was and Bernice's personal secretary. And another nephew, Harlan
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Crane, who at the moment happens to be a sculptor, happens to be
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six months ago he was a sailor before that a writer without even a rejection
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slip to his name. My cousin is irresponsible, impetuous, and completely self
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in the world self, mister Shields, what are the exact conditions? At
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precisely noon today? The three of us are to meet with Luther Willard and
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my beloved aunt's lawyer, who will give us each a large sheet of tissue
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paper covered with specific markings. Individually, the sheets mean absolutely nothing, but
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combined one over the other, the transparent sheets form a coherent map to the
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location of the bond. But why all the intrigue. My dear departed aunt
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had a peculiar sense of humor. In addition to this, she was never
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particularly fond of any of us. She was sure that our individual shortcomings would
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make cooperation among us impossible, even for so short a period. As twenty
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four hours and the fact that a man followed Miss Haynes last night convince you
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that there was something too there. Convince me no, he may have been
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nothing but a personature. Nevertheless, I do feel that to play safe for
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fourth party, a custodian of the map, so to speak, would be
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advised that that's fine. When do I go to work mister Shields at noon
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at the lawyer's office. However, I regret the first you must be approved
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by the third heir. I don't like to ask us, mister Marlow,
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but would you mind very much calling on my cousin Alan personally? Not at
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all. As a matter of fact, I think he might prove very interesting.
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Yes, I am sure he will as interesting as an eighth in the
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zoo. I felt like saying, look, Shields and not as gullible as
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I look. But then I thought a client's a client, and I decided
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to play along. Holland Crane, six foot red bearded giant, talked as
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he worked, wielding a ten pounds sculptor's mallet like it was an eighteenth century
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quill. I Frank Marrow one hears and everything to me and never has been
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over one hundred thousand dollars will buy a lot of marble. Has the state
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of Amada, I'd say, But tell me the point, mister Crane.
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Do I get your seal of approval? Oh? I imagine you'll be all
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right. Anyone who can get buy Shields the all Americans screwge ought to do.
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Thanks a million. Not being personal where you're concerned, it's just a
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matter of facing a fact bluntly. Edward Shields is conniving, avaricious, and
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doll I hardly recommend him to nobody. And the girl Barbara feel the same
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way about her, Oh I don't. And the truth of the murder Marlow
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is that I know very little about Barbara Haynes. What I do know I
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like very much that I can understand. Well, do you realize that once
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you have the whole map in your possession, you're worth an awful lot of
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money? Of course I do the whole map. I have a market value
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of exactly three hundred thousand dollars. That's right for her, three hundred thousand
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dollars, dead or alive. I know it was small of me, but
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I didn't exactly see the joke. And things got less funny as time went
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on later as me in my trio get off the elevator. At the lawyer's
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office, Old Luther Willard and Bernice's attorney was waiting for us, so excited
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he could hardly talk. I've been held up for a little man. He
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wanted the mass. Yes, yes, he had a scar on the side
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of his neck. How are the maps all right? The maps? Yes,
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yes, they're all right. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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everybody give them a chance, mister Willard. Tell us exactly what happened.
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And this is mister Marlow. We told you about him, mister Willard,
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of course, yes, yes, you can't come into my office. You
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see, I was putting some papers into my safe when this little man stepped
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up behind me and demanded the maps. Were they in the same No,
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no, thank heavens, or make yourselves comfortable. The maps, mister Willard,
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Where are they now? Cossure? Right here where they were all the
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time, here under the bludder on my disk. Clever of me, wasn't
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it back seals still intact? I'll take all three of them right now,
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mister Willard. That is, if there are no objections, all right,
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then I guess we can be on our way. L mister Morlow, there
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are still two things you people must know. First, in the event the
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bonds are not recovered within the twenty four hours, I am instructed to open
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another sealed envelope, which I am happy to report is kept in my bank
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Volde. That envelope contains a complete and simplified map and is to be turned
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over to a designated charity. And Second, if any of you die before
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the allotted time is up, the bonds are to be divided among the surviving
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persons. And if none of us survives, mister Willard, why in that
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case the bonds again go to charity. You see, Harland, your aunt
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was a very generous woman. After arranging the meet with the three airs at
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Shield's place, later that afternoon, I headed for the Nice and Public Public
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Library, where I figured i'd be able to examine the maps in safety.
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By placing the three maps exactly one over the other, I saw that the
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bonds were hidden on the larger of two squares of land Old Twin Islands,
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which was a personal property of the late Bernice made Sure and located in Indian
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Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. Because I left the library with the three
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maps in my pocket eye. I felt like a well fed mallard on the
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opening day of hunting season. Then I knew I was being called. As
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I slipped into a doorway and turned, I saw it was the nasty little
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man with a sky all right, you through playing town? Yes, shorting,
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I tell you talk loud and clear. No, don't hit me,
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please please hurt me down, I'll top, I'll drive you. Everything all
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right if you're sure you can get it all straight the first time there the
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whole story beginning, middle and end. Yeah, yeah, like you say,
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whole story okay, starts through time. I figured out that it had
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been the sot off end of a broomstick that had slammed my stomach up against
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my backbone. The little man was out of side. Then another five minutes
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went by before I quit calling myself sucker, and I started to think straight.
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Nearest public locker was in the Santa Fe Trailways bus depot and Kuenda.
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I went up there and deposited two thirds of the map for safe keeping until
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we were ready to leave for Indian Lake, and I found a telephone and
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a half a dozen calls later, I knew that a caretaker named Jumbo was
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the sole inhabitant of Twin Islands, and my last call was to him.
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I wanted some kind of a well locoming committee ready for us. When I
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left the phone booth, it was only one o'clock, so I returned to
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my apartment, where I figured i'd rest until three, when we were all
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to meet at Shield's place. But that was my second mistake, because the
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moment I closed my apartment door, I was positive I wasn't going to get
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much rest. I had an unannounced visitor. Hey, you look surprised,
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mister Marlow. I am. I didn't recognize you at first without your broomstick.
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I traded that in on this twenty two target pistol here. It's more
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expensive, but it's better. Makes me as big as you are, maybe
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bigger. Yeah, but how much does it do for your personality? Quite
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a bit gives me poise, and poise gives me manners. So in asking
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for that nap in your pocket, I'll eave him say please, come on,
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Milo. I won't say please twice. No, I don't think you
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would here. Thank you. Now, before I go, one more thing.
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The hall outside here is straightening error right to the stairs, and that
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makes it fine for shooting, so after I step out, don't do anything
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rash for a while. So loving life as I do, I didn't do
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anything rash for a while. In fact, I could have whipped up a
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nice seven minute frosting be where I moved it all and I phoned the three
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Airs to get together at my apartment. When I finally had them all seated
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in front of me, I related the saga the little Man, including my
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premonition that one of the three present was signing his paychecks. Of course,
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I got nothing but QP doll innocence out of any of them. So after
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adding that we'd get under way just as soon as the missing one third of
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the map was returned to me, I threw my trench coat of my arm
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and told them I was going for a walk. But before leaving them,
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I reminded them that whoever was behind the little Man could fire him, because
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I would never have kept all three maps in one place anyway unless all of
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the Airs were on hand to watch one another. Then I left. I
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hadn't walked more than a half a block up Franklin when I stopped at the
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sound of Barbara running after me. Phil I'm scared. Harlan and Shields were
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acting like a couple of wild men, calling each other every name under the
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tongue. What do you expect? Chit chat about the weather quite acting like
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a Bobby's sock, so within squealing distance of I'm not for and try a
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cigarette. It'll come here. What does it feel? Are you smiling like
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that? What's wrong? Nothing's wrong, Barbara and nothing. It's just that
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I found this in the pocket of my trench coat when I went for my
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cigarettes. It's the math that's right, the missing third. It's back already.
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When that missing third part of the map turned up so fast, I
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figured the Airs had decided to play ball, but I made a mental note
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to keep my eyes on them anyway. At three o'clock I went to Edward
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shields hillside house in Laurel Canyon for the scheduled meeting. Shields wasn't home yet,
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but cousin Holland was there admiring the view. Barbara showed up a few
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minutes later in a convertible. Shields arrived last by cad. It finally began
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to look as though we might actually start out all together. Well, I
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see we all arrived safe and yeah, disappointed only by your clumsy attempts at
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humor. Holly, stop it, boys, let's get started. Phil.
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If you looked at the map, where are we going? Indian Lake.
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It's a four hour drive, so if you're already, I suggest we get
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started very well. I'll go up to the garage and get the car.
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So I Anpernice hid the buns in a roost to Twin Islands. Well well,
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well, nobody seemed surprised that the location at Bernice had chosen to hide
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her bonds and Holland Barbara and I stood on the front porch watching Shields as
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he climbed the very steep driveway to his garage in the car. But Barbara
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got more of my attention than Shoels. She made a mighty dreamy picture,
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and she leaned casually back against the rail of the porch. She wasn't aware
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that I was watching her, and I suddenly I saw her go tense,
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her eyes filled with fear, and I quickly turned to follow us stare shields
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car was going at a rapid cliff down the steep driveway. I still couldn't
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figure out Barbara's concern, and then she started screaming. The car was headed
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to the edge of a cliff. The tree, the tree. Stop him,
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Shields. Are you hurt? No? No one all right? Hit
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the brakes. I tried to stop. He had and hit that tree.
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You've gone over the edge. Just have a look at those break, Shields.
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Well, no, wonder what is it? Brake lines broke and every
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drop of fluid drained out. I might have been killed. No, might
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have bought it, Shields. We stood there for a while, looking at
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one another, but nothing was said. Brake lines rarely snap accidentally. And
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I remember that Hollan had been a Shields's house early and the car had been
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in the garage, and Barbara I had to admit that she actually had anticipated
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the car going out of control. Well, the twenty four hours for finding
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the bonds were slipping by, and I knew we had to get to Indian
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Lake. We held a short power without passing the peace pipe. We decided
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to take Barbara's car. We picked up the rest of the map, which
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I checked at the bus station, and we shoved off. Four hour drive
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that was about as relaxing as the thought of an overdue time bomb in a
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day nursery. We finally pulled up to the shores of Indian Lake. Jambo,
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the caretaker, was waiting at the dock. He knew how to handle
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a boat, and a few minutes later we could see twin islands. We
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headed for the smaller of the two, where I could make out a rambling
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lodge. The other island, a quarter of a mile away, seemed deserted.
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Shields was the first one to shore up here. Barbara, let me
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help you run along, boy, I'll help Barbara, thanks, Darling.
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Well, Malo, what now? Well, first we go up to the
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house. Oh, Jambo, you got everything ready for us, Hey Jambo,
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h oh oh sure, sure, everything to ready? Mister Mala.
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It's like you said, I open four of the upstairs rooms. Open the
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rooms. We're not going to sleep out here? Are we gonna try?
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But this isn't a vacation. We're here to find the bonds and get out.
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You realize it's almost nine already. That leaves us just fifteen hours.
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Mallow. Yeah, I know. I got a good watch, and I
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counted twenty four and I'm also giving orders to shred hi handed Marlow employee,
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wasn't That's all. Let's get the map together and start looking for those bonds
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right now, Take it easy, big man. The bonds are hidden on
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the other isle, and the map is his tangles, a second hand spider
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web. You wouldn't get anything at all done in the dock lot. New
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people hired me to help you find those bonds. If I have to get
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nasty to make it take orders, I can do that too. Let's play
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like we're smart and go up to the lodge and relax, all right,
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Marlon, but remember we'd better have those bonds by tomorrow or someone else will
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be nasty, very nasty, and I mean me want you two. Getting
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the three airs settled down at dinner table was quite a sure. And when
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I was sure they'd keep an eye on each other, I slipped outside.
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I hid one third of the map in a drain pipe, and I went
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upstairs to my room and I hit another third in the window shade. Now
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the maps were settled, and I began to think about other things, like
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like the accident the Shields car. There were too many accidents and coincidences to
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suit me, so I decided to drop in on cousin Holland's room to see
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what I could see. After fifteen fruitless minutes, I was about to leave
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when something in the wastebasket caught my eye, the corner of a half hidden
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handkerchief monogrammed h C. I had just picked it up when I saw Jumbo
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standing in the open door. A handkerchief there in your hand? That blood
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on it. No, it looks more like break fluid, and in this
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case it's practically the same thing. Huh. I think we'll leave it right
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here in the wastebasket, Jumbo, No, did you want something? There's
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one to say up in my own place out back if you want me.
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Okay, you know where mister Shields is. He's out in the veranda alone.
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Yeah, thanks, Johmbo. If I need anything, I'll call him.
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Good night, Shields. How about you, model? I'm wrong?
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Sounded like a man expecting trouble. It was nearly killed in my car this
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afternoon, and I don't think that was the end of it. Yeah,
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and don't stand too close to high windows. Thank you. It's comforting to
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know that I am not alone in my suspicion. Maybe. Uh, how
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are you betting I'm the beauty or the beast? Don't be absurd. I
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hope someday to marry Barbara. Yeah, the guy might be beating her time
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right now with a sculptor's mallet. You may be naive, mister Marlowe,
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but Barbara isn't. I saw them just a moment ago walking down to the
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boat house. Harlan's galloping after her like a half baked idiot as usual.
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But if miss Hayes prefers me, what can he do about it? There
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was an answer for that, but it seemed a little obvious under the circumstances.
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A few minutes later, Shields went inside, and I made a bee
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line for the boat house to water down a certain hot headed sculptor named Harland.
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When I got with an earshot, I knew I'd be as welcome as
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hooping car for the glass Flower's convention. So I stopped and listen. Barbara
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Dulan falling in love with you. You know that. Don't you let me
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hold you close? Oh this is real, Barbara. For the first time
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in my life, I'm truly in love. I want to do things for
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you, make you happy. Please wait, I'm not completely free. There
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are still ties with Edwards. You know that fat, stingy babbit. He's
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no man for you, wife. He so much as touches you from now
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on up. Wait a minute, Barbara Marlow, you cheap snooping trapping some
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minor ice compared to some of the shenanigans going on around here. What do
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you mean by that? Words are the wiser sufficient you. I'll give a
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few more. Somebody is trying to cut our little triangle down to two sides
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before noon tomorrow. What I've seen so far I don't like. So I'm
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warning every d what are you accusing? Melun stop it. Don't be a
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fool, you cave men. Control yourselves until those bonds are found. Come
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on, Hala, let's go in. Good night, Marlow. Don't get
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your head caught in any trends. And deciding sleep wouldn't be very healthy for
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a man in my position, I decided to sit up that night, and
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it was about two o'clock when I look out the window and saw something mighty
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interesting. A light was moving on the other island opposite us. I got
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hold of jump over there as fast as we could. Yeah, here we'll
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beach. It's light, said ahead with to Marlow. Looks to me like
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it's up on the picnic shelder. Yeah, I'll see you, lady.
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Johnbo who's there? Yes? Who? Oh, Marlow, I didn't hear
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you come up winds you strong. I guess I'm glad to see you spooky
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here all along? Oh sure, sure, what's the idea I do a
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little freelance prospecting. Yeah, that's right, Bernise May you love this spot.
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And I had a hunch she hid the bonds here on the base of
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his table. Oh, I guess I was wrong. Oh, come on,
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Marlow, limber up. You can't blame me for trying. Listen,
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beautiful, don't flap your eyelashes at me. I can't see anything with double
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crosses right now? All right, if you've had your fine, let's go
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back to the lodge. Will be that way, Phil, Phil. The
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sun will be coming up in two or three hours. Why not wait for
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it here with me, Barbara, Baby, don't burn up too many calories
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with that routine, because I only keep one third of the map on me.
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You think yourself smart, bright ideas hatching that cute little brain of yours
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too. Now let's you. Oh comes the gun with a pearl handle,
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no less, stay away from me, Marlow over there, Hey, what's
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going on here? Ready, Shambo? Look on Jombo stepped into the light
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and Barbara turned. I made a swipe at her gun hand that knocked pistol
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person lamp all over the picnic shoulder. I found the gun and gave it
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the Jumbo. Then I started to pick up an assortment of kickknacks that had
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spilled out of a purse, but I never finished because one of the items
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made my eyes pop. It was the monogramed handkerchief covered with brake fluid that
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I had found in Holland's room. Ah, it all made sense now.
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It tied up everything that I suspected, right along only two of my tree.
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I would plan to split up the three hundred thousand dollars worth of bonds
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from the first. As I ran for the motor launch, I yelled a
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jambo to bring Bober over in the rowboat. All the way back, I
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had the panicky feeling that I was probably too late. But when I sneaked
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in the front door of the lodge, there were still two voices, and
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they came from the open kitchen door. My hand on my gun, I
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edged along the wall and peeked in. Steals your fool, perhaps, but
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I'm going to kill you and have a perfect case of self defense. What
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are you talking about? You're hopelessly framed, cousin, Harland. I ruined
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the brakes on my own car. I planted your handkerchief stained with brake fluid
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in your room. Marlow found it. He's convinced that you tried to kill
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me. He's also convinced that he was brought into this old thing by coincidence.
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He doesn't know that he was deliberately involved in our search for the bonds,
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just so he'd make a reputable ess. You're out of your mind,
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not at all. I'm going to kill you and say it was self defense.
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Marlow will testify that you tried to kill me before. What Marlow's gonna
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do is blow your head off if you don't drop that gun. Shields Marlow,
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Yeah, Marlow, who knows he wasn't brought into this thing by coincidence?
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But it stuck around to see the fireworks and almost saw them. Just
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now, Well, what's happened, Barbara? Couldn't you hold marlom on the
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Upper Island shields? Barbara's little mistake was that she should have gotten rid of
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Holland's hankerchief after she took it out of his room. So he wouldn't say
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it. Barbara, I don't understand you. You planned all this with shields
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against me. I did in the beginning, Harland, I changed my mind
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when hell in love with you. I let Marlow find the handkerchief in my
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perof I wanted him to stop. Edward. Oh, jo Helen, don't
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you I'm on, miss Blankhead. Cut the dramatics. It shows over.
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Let's have it straight. Huh, All right, we might as well if
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we're going to find those bonds before it's too late. Edward and I did
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plan it. We even hired the little man who tried to get the maps
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from you. And when that didn't work, you're planning to get rid of
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Holland and split the three hundred grand. So we failed. So what we're
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right back where we started, one hundred thousand apiece. Let's go find those
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bonds. That's so fast, beautiful. What happened to Holland just now was
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a little more serious than a hot foot. It was attempted murder. He
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can slap you two in the jug this minute if he wants to, but
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I'll leave it up to him. Okay, Holland, what do you say?
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It's your move? No, I've got a better idea. Marlo went
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to that map is mind, give it to me. Okay, there it
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is, Hallan, What are you going to do, Harland? No,
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don't burn it there? How we all lose now none of us will get
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the bonds. That's probably how Anpernice wanted it. Anyway, it was almost
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noon. I was standing on the veranda of the lodge and a scrony old
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crow was perched up on the roof. I saw Barbara and Shields quietly pull
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away in a boat with Jumbo, and I saw Howland lumbering off to the
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far end of the island to soak. And as I watched the three of
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them, couldn't help thinking a pig in a pin striped suit, an ape
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with a red beard, and an alley cat in nylon. Keep laughing at
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BERNICI, you were right. Greed, treachery and rashness don't mix, even
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for twenty four hours. And the one percent of the bonds I was to
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get, that's my contribution to charity. Who knows, maybe I can take
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it off my income. Text The Adventures of Philip Barlow, created by Raymond
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Chandler, stars Gerald Moore and is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Featured
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in tonight's story were Mary Ship, Harley, Bear, Don Diamond, Ted
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Von ELTs, and Wilms Herbert. The special music was conceived and conducted by
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Richard o'ran. Be sure to be with us again next week. When Philip
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Barlow says, when I got the CRISP fifty dollars bill in advance, I
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thinkured my client had a heart of gold. After I was beat up,
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double crossed, and shot at, I realized just how hard a heart of
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gold could be. Raymond Chandler, dash Ol Hammett, John Dixon Carr,
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three great names in the world of mystery and thrills. One down, two
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to go Today on CBS. Now that you've heard Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe in
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action CBS in Fight, you to hear Dashill, Hammett, Sam Spade in
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action tonight, followed by John Dixon Carr's personally written radio series Cabin B thirteen
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Chandler, Hammett Carr Today and every Sunday over most of these CBS stations.
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It's a mystery if you miss him. Roy Rowan, speaking for CBS the
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Columbia Broadcasting Systems Welcome back a very interesting case study here, as we uh
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see how well this and new human nature. I don't know if I would
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term her as generous even giving all this money to charity, because it says
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no matter what sort of financial generosity she had, she had a pretty bad
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nasty streak well, particularly with setting up the opportunity where they could get more
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money by killing each other. There's definitely a lesson here for private detectives that
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they need to ask for retainers. He should have been suspicious that the ants
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beliefs about the trio may have had some truth in it, and he might
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not have been able to solve it. As it is, he wasted about
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a day and a half on this whole thing. Oh well, live and
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learn. Interestingly enough for one of these hard by old shows, no one
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actually died. Well, join us back here tomorrow for Nick Carter, and
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then when we return next week with another episode of Philip Marlow and Genheim.
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