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Pat Novak: Rubin Calloway (EP1264) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for today's episode of Pat Novak for Hire. In today's
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program is Reuben Callaway's Pictures Ladies and Gentlemen. The American Broadcasting Company brings to
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its entire network one of radio's most unusual programs, At Novak or Hire.
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Sure, I'm Pat nova for Hire. That's what the sign out in front
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of my office says. Pat Novak for Hire. You don't get in the
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blue book that way, but you don't embarrass your friends either, because down
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in the waterfront in San Francisco. They don't separate the good and the bad.
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I let them run together, and before long you got a caste system.
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You're either alive or dead. If you're on top, you keep fading
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the crowd and trying for sevens until you lose the dice. It's not the
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only way to play it unless you like worms. I rent boats, do
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anything else that'll put a fast handle on a bucket. But it doesn't always
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work out, because down here all your luck is junior grade and trouble is
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trumps. I found that out. Tuesday night was the first time I ever
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saw Reuben Callaway, and the last time too, if you like to keep
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a tidy record. It was about seven o'clock and I just started back across
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the bay from Saucelito. It could still see Mount Tamil plasts squatting on the
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marin shore. Light brown near the top, but dark and black farther down,
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like a cupcake that's been in the oven a little too long. A
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low fog was beginning to squeeze in on the fire side, so I kicked
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in the searchlight and that's when I picked him up. He was struggling feebly
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with his face near the water, and it was almost bald, so that
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when the light hit of me, he looked like a candle oop that somebody
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got tired of. I pulled alongside and started to haul him aboard. He
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brought most of the bay with him. Help me. Yeah, well,
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we'd like get a hold of you, wip. Come on there, sit
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down, No here, lean against the gunwale. Yeah, yeah, thanks,
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because the water redd or you've been shot a little. You have to
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know everything. No, it's your load, carry of mystery. Yeah,
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mo't your feet. I gotta get us ashore if you like it to go
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ahead, but don't hurry for me. If you feel that way about it,
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pick another spot to die and go back in the bay where you'll have
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company. You've got to help me. I want you to get in touch
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with a girl named Alma Peak. Yeah, you'll find it at the Empire
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Club out. I'm garystre you. My name's Ruben Kellaway. Tell her about
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me. She'll pay you for what you do collect bodies. Just give her
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this key. It's for a locker down in the bus station. Now,
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look, Pop, you don't know me. Suppose I use the key.
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You can't spend it. You better take the money, all right, Just
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see Alma and tell her it didn't work out. It didn't work out for
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me at all. I guess that's right. On the big things. You're
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one hundred percent. I don't did chick go here set up? I told
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you I didn't want you to dieing in here. Stop, hi fella,
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you don't have all of that jug They must have sent a fast chariot,
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because when I leaned over, the guy was dead, and he was working
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hard at it too. He was a skinny little guy, all bent up
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and twisted in the bottom of the boat like an old paper clip. They
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wouldn't do any good to straighten him out because he wasn't gonna sleep easy.
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His eyes were open and rolling around at the sky as if he was on
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the make for a star, and the skin hung loose around his face so
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that when you text it felt like an empty baked potato. I pushed him
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into a corner and started for Pare nineteen. When I got there, I
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pulled him on the dock and went down. The call homicide must have been
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about eight thirty. I took a cab out to the Empire Club. It
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was a gambling joint out on Geary Street, where they cut their whiskey and
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cards in different rooms. I asked a guy at the window if he knew
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Alma Bigs and he pointed her out with the roulette table. She was wearing
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a white satin evening gown, and as I walked up behind her, I
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noticed she moved in rhythm with a roulett wheel was interesting if it had been
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a merry ground at a pinched. I squeezed in next to her at the
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table, and I was thinking of trying it again when she started to talk.
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It's a type fit. Are you sure you like it? I'm not
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going to stay long. That's what Rudolph has said. Make your best,
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pladies, make your best. Stake me, Alma, I can't afford you
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dolling well, go broke for Reuben Calloway. Then four on the red.
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I ought to keep you for a lot, darling. Will you call me
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a hat? I'll take the chips. They look bad on callaway. Oh
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it's too crowded here, let's find it calls all right? Did he look
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pretty for a fish? He was all right? How are you pat Novak?
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I picked him up in the bay, said to look you up and
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tell you didn't work out. That would please Turk. Yeah, who's Turk?
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The reason it didn't work out is that all, mister Novak, except
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for a key. If it's a bus station locker, here you keep it,
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mister Novak. It won't buy anything now, looks sweetheart, I picked
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up your boy and dried him out. But that's all. We were small
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friends at best. So the services stop. You can come to a slow
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stop for two hundred dollars. Take the key and pick up what's in that
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locker. I'll get it for you later. Yeah, i'll meet you in
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an hour. Where's a good place your apartment? Well, it's a place
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I'll find it in the book. I hope you don't mind. No,
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the thin walls will save me. What's in the locker? What would approve?
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Proves you've got a small mouth angel, unless you're going to kiss it,
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don't worry. I'm thirty. Then all right, I'll bring the two
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hundred with me. Don't worry about the dough. Oh, because I scooped
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your chips off the table to see you later. She stood there watching me
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as I walked over to the cashier's window. She gave you a nice,
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warm feeling like a Bunsen burner in the middle of your back. And as
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she stood there in the center of the floor, smiling, you knew she
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could turn a glacier into a steam bath at four hundred yards. A nice
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little mouse that made you want to go home and test all the old traps.
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Well. I cashed in her chips, and the boy at the window
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shoved out two hundred rocks and a pained look, as if he just handed
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over his right lung. I got a cabin rode down to the bus station
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at seventh in Market. There were a few people sitting at the counter and
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a couple of old men on the benches waiting for somebody to get up and
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leave the funny papers. I went over near the wall and opened up the
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locker. Was a long trip for a small package. It's a square Manila
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envelope and was in the dress up on the corner Reuben Callaway photographer. I
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squeezed the envelope and it felt like photographs, but I wasn't sure. I
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started to close the locker when I turned, and then I tumbled for the
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first time. It's like getting a drop of rain on your hand before you
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ever look up at the sky. The two of them were standing over with
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the cigar counter watching me. The guy with a heavy overcoat and a little
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small guy about the size of a hangnail who wouldn't do any good to sit
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down, because I knew they'd stand till somebody condemned the building. So I
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walked past him out onto the street. There was a cab standing right in
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front. Cab, mister, yeah, swing up to the Saint Francis were
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you. Yeah, Now, look, you're gonna be tailed, so brush
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up on your allies if you'l like it that way. Hey, you were
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supposed to take a left there on mission. I got a license. Where's
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yours? I told you to double back over markets. I'll get out and
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walk and get don't like it I've been bought, mister, Oh my two
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friends. That's right. You should have come first. I got a part
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your hair. You got more chance with them. Here we are where you're
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going. You like Alley's, that's what you're gonna get. Yeah, take
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it easy, fella, You're not going anywhere. You were nice with your
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last today. Get easy. You better walk up a wall. They'll block
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the alley. See crowded alley. Yeah, give me the annual lope so
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we can all get out and Junior will help you give me the h Now,
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let's see it. Yeah, still see you you all through. I
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don't know I'll see you like him, Joe. No, that's the way
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it is, mister, you don't like you. I slid down like an
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old sock on a bony leg. I rolled over a couple of times and
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tried to stand up, but it wasn't easy. You might as well try
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to find a hair in a bowl of chopped suey. But it began to
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rain, and I figured it'd be easier to float out to the streets,
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so I went to sleep. When I woke up, the rain hadn't helped
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the alley much. It's like washing your kid's face and finding out he was
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ugly to start with. The mud had washed up against the walls, and
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there was a thick sour smelling down the alley. Across the street, there
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was a part of a sign sticking out that said eats, and that isn't
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what you felt like at all. I started groping around to get up and
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my hand hit the pictures. They were scattered all over like clothes in a
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boarding school. I picked them up and started for the street. On the
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way up in the cab, I got a chance to look at him,
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and they didn't make sense. There were six of them, and they were
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all just about the same, a bunch of mob scenes of that fire over
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in Oakland. I didn't have time to figure it out because the cab bulled
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up in front of the Saint Francis and I went in to call Alma Biggs
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and tell her the party was off. Part of that Alley must have come
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with me, because when I walked into the lobby, the dorman looked at
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me as if I'd just blown up a nunnery. I tried the number once,
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but nobody answered me. I decided to wait twenty minutes and call again.
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That was a mistake because I just got in the booth and started a
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dial and somebody started rapping on the door with a nickel. It was Helman
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from Homicide. I don't know. Thank come on out. You can't get
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a date in that suit. Nobody you want Helman. Come on out.
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You're a hot man, defined but you don't look in the right places.
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I'm a family man. Tell me about the dead guy. I don't know,
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Helman. He died in my boat. That's all I know. He
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didn't say anything, just sentimental stuff. His name's Reuben Calloway. Somebody threw
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him in the bay without instructions. I don't know a thing about him except
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he takes pictures. Yeah, I'll wipe off the drooler. Not your kind.
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Who is friends? He's got new ones by now. I don't know,
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Helman. How about that guy up in your couch. Huh, I
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just left your place. How about that guy in the couch. There's a
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gall up there, but that's all does she wears the spinders? Huh.
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Then take my word. It's a man, and you're gonna tell me he's
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dead, Helman. No, I'm not gonna tell you he's dead. Novak.
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He made a soft breather. When Helman mentioned the stiff up at my
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place, I knew we were going to be in low gear the rest of
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the night. Because Helman isn't an easy guy. He wouldn't give his wife
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an aspirin if she had concussion of the brain. He took me out the
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side door and we rode up to my apartment. The dead guy was lying
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on the couch with his arms across his chest as if he wanted somebody to
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give him a lily or a way out of this. The lamp was shining
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down in his face and the light was distorted, But when you stood over
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him, you could see his face with a color of press seaweed. If
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he had anything to be happy about, you couldn't tell, because his mouth
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was open and hung over to one side, like a loose chain purse filled
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with old teeth. His clothes were rumpled and his shirt was open at his
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neck. We could see a chain around his neck and a silver metal in
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the dole light against his chest. He looked out of place and made you
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feel funny, like seeing a picture of a madonna and a bowling alley.
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I watched him while Helman made noise. He still looks like a man.
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Yeah, who is he? George Leggett? What does that prove? Who
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his mother was? We're checking for a record the gun too? What gun
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one was lying here on the floor. I want to know if it's the
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same gun that killed Reuben Calloway. Well, you'll need some prints. Anybody
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can buy a handkerchief. Where were you tonight in an alley down their Mission
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Street? Do you like it down there? It's all right? You'd like
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it. I got shoved in and pushed around for these pictures. They don't
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look like the right kind of pictures. Well, I can't explain that,
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Helman. Maybe they took the good ones. How do you fit in?
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Calloway gave me a key to a locker down on the bus station. It
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was for a girl named Alma Biggs, and the girl sent you down.
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That's right, with two hundred bucks running money. If you want to know
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about Calloway, look up a guy named Turk. Turk what I don't know,
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Helman. Maybe he's only got one name. Maybe the other was Stinker.
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You got a police file, look him up. The girl mentioned him.
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That's all I know. We'll look him up. But I'm not gonna
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forget you. One guy's dead on per you're nineteen an they're up here in
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your apartment. It mixed up, Novak. There's a connection. I'll shop
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around till I strike it. You couldn't strike oil in the filling station.
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You've got a double murder shop for a pair of people. I'll shop far
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enough to get you, big shot, far enough to see you from You
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got the lard for it, Helman. Keep your mouth shut now you can
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hold in the blood. Helman talking, Yeah, where'd you find out that
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make it easier? You sure the same gun killed them both? Yeah?
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Yeah, I'll be in well. Oh prong number. No, they didn't
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give helm in a sense of humor. They gave him a loud laugh instead.
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When he walked out of my place, he was smiling like a funny
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man who's just exposed Santa Claus. I didn't feel very funny myself. I
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took another look at those pictures and I was as mixed up as a guy
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with a Mexican divorce. They were just ordinary pictures of a fire in Oakland?
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What made him so important? I was sure that Gunsel had taken some
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pictures? But well, were they any different than those? And why was
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Alma BIG's afraid to pick them up? And who was a guy named Turk?
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I was full of questions but no answers, like some guy at a
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peace conference. If I went over to anymore, I'd be counting my toes.
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So I got out of there and looked up Jock o'madigan. Oh he's
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a good guy, and he was a smart one too, until he decided
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the only way you can get a good trade in on hard Luckys with a
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bottle of whiskey. I found him at a Melio's bar, patting bill Le
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bartender on the back with one hand and pouring Jiggers a gin with the other.
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Had the chambers down and maris in the place where Louie dwell Ba ba
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ba, gentlemen, A song resolve on a spree from here to it,
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Jacko. I want to talk to you, Patsy. I'm driving a Harvard
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Man crazy. He's at the end of the bar, and stop drinking and
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listen to me. I've got to keep on drinking, Patsy, if I
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want to preserve any continuity in my life, because I don't drink to forget,
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but rather to remember to remember all the pleasant events of my life.
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There were two of them, I think, all right, Jacko. First
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was a girl I met many twilights ago, and the second, which is
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summer night in Saint Louis, when a bartender felt crazed with the heat and
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set them up on the house to stop it. I'm in trouble. Memory
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is a blessed toy, Patsy. But you have to be careful because it
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can be dangerous, like giving a rifle to a small child for Christmas.
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It's true he can get some temporary pleasure out of it by shooting various neighbors,
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but sooner or later he's going to kill the only rich relative in the
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family. Jacko, I'm tired, and memory is the same way. You're
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entitled to collect the few good ones you have. You're allowed to straighten them
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out and put them in order. After all, an old pool ball gets
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wrecked now and then you all through. Yes, I've run out of memory.
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Hellman thinks I killed two guys ten miles apart. Wasn't it difficult?
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The same murder gun. The whole thing is tied up with some pictures in
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color. A guy with the name of Ruben Calloway died in my boat.
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He gave me a key to a locker downtown. The pictures were there.
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Is that one of them? Yeah, take a look. Uh if it's
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a group pictures, they were a very unruly family. It's the Oakland fire.
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Two gunzels followed me and took some of the pictures. In the meantime,
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some guy got shot in my place. Everybody's after the pictures. Why
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have you seen the other pictures? No? I took an intermission that's why
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you got to help. Now you'll find Ruben Calloway's address in the phone booth.
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Get up there and go through his stuff with him. He doesn't sound
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legal, neither's a bum murder wrap. Get up there and go through his
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pictures. Try to find anything that'll fit in with his set. Where are
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you going besides jail? I gotta find a gal named Alma Biggs. You'll
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have trouble with a name like that. She's probably changed. The locker key
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was tabbed for her, but she hired me to run her errands. Is
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she pretty? Yes? If you like a fast track. Now I get
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up there, Jocko, Well you stop at Jacko. Just get up there.
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Forget about her. She'd scare you to death. Yes, well,
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at least i'd die hopeful good night, lover. Well, finding Alma Biggs
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was quite a job. I knew she was around, but I couldn't get
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to her. It was like trying to get a peanuts shell out of a
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back tooth. I called the Empire Club, but they didn't know anything about
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her. I went through all the phone books in the city directories and I
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didn't get anything but a sore thumb. And I didn't do any better with
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the hotels. I sat in Loopos and called them all one by one,
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and by one o'clock I knew more desk clerks than a vice squad cop,
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but no Alma bigs. Finally I went out to the Empire Club and started
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talking to the cabbys. About fifteen minutes later, one pulled up and remembered
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taking a girl in a satin evening gown up to an apartment on the hill.
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I called Helman and rode up there to check the names. Alma Beggs
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had an apartment on the second floor. I knocked on the door and she
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didn't answer, so I tried. The lights were out, so I closed
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the door and groped over to the desk. I should have noticed the draperies
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as I passed, because they were full of people. Wait a minute,
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all right, now, wait a minute, mister Nilvak stopped breaking things and
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day you may want amend me. Do you always sleep in the curtains?
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Do you always talk this long in the dark? Turn on the light?
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Yeah, I wanted to see who you were. George Leggett maybe, Oh
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do you know it? We're roommates. He died on my couch tony,
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anything serious or just howm drum dad? He's satisfied. What do you know
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about him? I never heard anybody say a bad thing about him. Gross,
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I never heard anybody mention him looking. So it's late. Who's George
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Leggett? Why do you care? Because homicide cares. They got callaway and
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leg it back to back, and they want my skin. It's a nice
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skin, darling pictures. Unless you're a social worker, you're not gonna like
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them. Here. Let me see they're not all here? Yeah, I
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figured that where the other pictures, Patsy, some gunuffs album. Two of
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them jumped me down their mission street. Who are they? We never got
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that friendly? Well they couldn't have been two of them. Well maybe the
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little guy was just window dressing, but he gave the right answers. That's
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see. I think you're a liar. Been nicer than homicide. I want
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those pictures, you do. I'm gonna take them away from you if I
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had them. That's a big enough gun to do it. Get the pictures,
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Patsy. It's a bad time for murder angel homicides working this week.
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I haven't time, Patsy. I'll push it down like a blade of grass.
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Get the pictures. I look, sweetheart. I took a job for
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two hundred bucks. It covers a tandem murder wrapping, a sapping down on
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Mission Street. But I won't cover big talk from you, and I'll put
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the gun away or I'll bend your heart. Your talk. You're around behind.
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Come on, give it a me feels good? Let it go or
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take the pain. Drom it. You don't have to hang on. I'm
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not a bar belt. You're handing out? Who's Turk? Hep it?
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You're hurting my arm. There's a guy named Turk. I want to know
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who he is. Who's he? Go ahead, tear it off, but
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you'll diagnous. Yeah you sound blue, novak. Oh what do you want,
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Hillman? I want to give you a reason. We got the corners
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report on George Leggott. Yeah, he died in your apartment. The blood
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of your carpet looks good on these slides. All right, So the murderer
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sold me the rug, So whit helman. So we ran down George Leggott's
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record. A Detroit gunman who got out here six weeks ago. Yeah,
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he traveled for years with a guy named Turk Spaniel now that's your boy.
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You better find him. We already have. Don't tell me he's up on
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the couch. He was born too soon for you. We checked with the
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Detroit police. What they say They know all about turk Spaniel. He was
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killed nine years ago in West Detroit. They found the guy that did it
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and sent him up to Lansing for life. Yeah. Yeah, he was
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a guy named Joe Biggs. Say hello to your girlfriend. Oh. I
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didn't talk to the girl because I knew she'd close up faster than a Dublin
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meat market. On Friday, I left her and went down to the Chronicle
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Morgue to find out what I could about Turk Spaniel. Helmet had covered it.
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Spaniel talked too much, and Joe Biggs killed him and left him growing
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out of a ditch like an old weed. I didn't know where to turn
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now. With Turk gone, who was after those pictures besides Alma Biggs?
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And what did they prove? I knew the answer was there, probably in
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plain sight, like a blimp on a football field, but I couldn't get
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near. It was past two when I got back to my apartment and the
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phone was screaming for help. Yeah, helly, this is Jocko. What'd
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you find out that Killaway was quite a photographer? Yeah? You should see
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some of the pictures. I mean nothing, all right, Jocko. Did
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you find anything to check for one thousand dollars from Alma Beaks? Yeah?
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What else? Some more pictures of the Opland fire. One of them looks
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good. Yeah, it's just like the rest, except in the background something
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is circled with a red pencil. That'll do it, Jocko. And there's
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a clipping here with another picture. I can't tell, but I think they
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match. What's it saying? Well, it's all about Jocko. What's the
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matter? Are you right, Jocko? Jocko? You all right? He
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says, to tell you no. After Jacko's call, I grabbed a cab
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and rode up to Callowie's apartment. When I got there, Jacko was sitting
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in the middle of the floor, sat as a steer on a sheep ranch.
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He hadn't seen who hit him, and the picture was gone, so
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was the clipping. I asked him if there were any negatives around. He
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said no. That meant that somebody was still on the pile for those negatives.
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So I called Helman and briefed him. He said he'd made us at
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Reuben Calloway studio in ten minutes. When we got there, it was dark,
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but I sensed Helman in the back room. Turned out to be a
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couple of pans of acid. But Helman was there going over the negatives.
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All this guy did was take pictures. Let me take a look with you,
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Helman. Can you spot the right one here? Jocko hold him up
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to the light. All right, here are the fire pictures. How about
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this one? No, no, I had that one. Yeah, that's
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it. And this fellow back here's the one that was circled holding up so
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I can see. Oh, turkey, you waited too long. Give me
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the picture, mister. All that gunnal do was making noise. Spaniel,
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it won't make enough to keep a secret. Just tand me the picture.
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Somebody knows you're alive. Now the pictures for laughs. It's your word against
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mine, and I'll be so far away I can't hear the argument. Let's
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saving. Don't give it to him now that yeah, I'll give it to
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him. You take it away, Helman. Thanks Novay that alley touch your
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manners? Just stand over there. Want to remember the way you look.
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Don't worry. I'll tell you about them turch backing. This guy is going
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to show around your breastbone. The guns are getting cheap. You better drop
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yours. Spaniel over there, you look the same, Turk, You're almost
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the same. You got this all wrong, Alma. Joe doesn't look the
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same. Nine years in the cooler and you lose your personality. Please,
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Alma, don't do anything crazy. After nine years you lose almost everything.
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Joe's lost everything but me. Down on the floor, Spaniel. I want
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you on your knees, please, Alma. You got it wrong. I
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got it all right, Turk, because Joe wouldn't lie to me when he
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said he didn't kill you. I knew you were alive. Please, Alma,
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down on the floor beside the table. Go easy, baby, you
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got a copper here. I can't hurt him. No back, Turk.
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Spaniel's legally dead. All you can do to a dead man is kick up
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the dust. You're not seeing this right. I'm gonna have a better chance
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than you. You couldn't see, Spaniel. You couldn't see your way back
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to help Joe out. You look good on your knees over by the table
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that along, Sweetet. I'm gonna help him see the whole and full up
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it. I'm gonna help you see spaniels. Please help me. You wouldn't
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do that. You got the short end of the bed. You better look
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at him and Jacko. Don't bother. I'm you're a baby doctor. We
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may need you him, not for this copper, Remember Tex Spaniels dead,
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Detroit says, So he looks live now. He can't be dead. They're
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and live here. I like your climate, but it's not that good.
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You can't see me, Turk, I'll bet you can hear me. Walk
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out of here. Goodbye, Turk. I'll send you a cane. Well.
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Hellman managed to get most of the story out of Turk's spaniel. Ruben
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Calloway stumbled into the whole thing, and he didn't know what hit him.
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He went over to Oakland to take some pictures of the fire, and he
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got a picture of Spaniel in the crowd. Spaniel saw him and trailed him
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over to this side. He had to get the pictures because back in Detroit
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he'd frame Joe Biggs with a riddled up body and skipped out of the country.
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He'd been away until a few weeks ago, and now he was waiting
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for a boat out of San Francisco, so he had to stay dead.
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He sent George Leggott after the pictures, but Leggott figured it was a good
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way to double cross him and stay in the clear, so he tipped off
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Alma Biggs, who'd come out here on our lead a few weeks before Kirk
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finally tell him with a local gunsil he killed Callaway and left Leggott in my
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apartment where he trailed him. Almost worked out, but he didn't get to
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that shop in time. Hellman asked only one question when I first met her,
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that I know that Helma Biggs was that hard no, and that saturn
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The answers Yes. The stick even continues with poor Rube and Calloway, who
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when he lands on the ship, is dying and I would be thinking,
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why have all boats did I have to land on this one? And again
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we get some great images, such as the idea of a parent who washes
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their child off and discovers they were ugly anyway, And we also saw a
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reason why police officers would really hate this program, with Hellman actually roughing up
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Novak here, which was somewhat unusual even for an era when the police foil
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didn't get the most respectful portrayal in the first place. All right, well,
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quips. Jack is so quick to say. I just wish I could come
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up with him like he did. Well, to be fair, probably even
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the writer couldn't come with them as quickly as Novak did. That's the advantage
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of being the writer. You can sit there and think things out and then
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your characters can say them quickly. And then a comment from Sheila who says,
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you and God bless well. Thank you so much, Sheila. All right,
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