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Philip Marlowe: The Cloak of Kamehameha (EP1691) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boiseidaho.
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  Speaker 1: Today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow originally aired
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  Speaker 1: May the sixteenth of nineteen fifty and the title is
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  Speaker 1: The Cloak of Command.
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  Speaker 2: MAYA get this.
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  Speaker 3: Get it straight? Crime is a sucker's road. Those who
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  Speaker 3: travel and wind up in the gut of the prison
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  Speaker 3: of the Grave. No o they're in, but they never learned.
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  Speaker 4: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of cry
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  Speaker 4: and fiction. Comes this most famous character in the Adventures
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  Speaker 4: of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore. It's bill to Marlowe,
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  Speaker 4: we bring you tonight's transcribe story. A clot of comea maya.
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  Speaker 3: Message that was delivered by a repulsively wide away boy
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  Speaker 3: missing at to front row center, arrived at sixth and
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  Speaker 3: the Am. And it come in two parts. The first
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  Speaker 3: scrawled in black ink and a wrinkle piece of paper,
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  Speaker 3: said marlow get hold of a taxi cab closes the
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  Speaker 3: driving yourself at exactly eight o'clock this morning, come past
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  Speaker 3: eighty eight forty, I thought, then drive signed Holland Schindler.
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  Speaker 3: Second half it made more sense. It was printed in
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  Speaker 3: neat letters on nitha green paper, and under an engraving
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  Speaker 3: of Benjamin Franklin read one hundred silver dollars in payable
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  Speaker 3: to the bear on demand. So at exactly eight o'clock
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  Speaker 3: I was behind the wheel of a hired cab, leather jacket, peek,
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  Speaker 3: cap tooth thick, and all within hate taxi distance of
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  Speaker 3: number eighty eight forty as the poll at Sheendler around
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  Speaker 3: man in square clothes with haircuts to match was not
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  Speaker 3: like there, Yes, Sir cav.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I do think I am shouting my head off.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to the international airport. You understand
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  Speaker 2: the international airport at Ingleboard.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Inglewood International Airport.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 5: Malomnida. Quick put the flag down. Every minute I'm being.
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  Speaker 3: Batchuh oh yeah, watched by whom, mister Shendler.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Now, listen carefully, Marlow.
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  Speaker 5: Later you have to go to the Hallemaana Hotel and
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  Speaker 5: wait for a young lady named Lene Collier. Then at
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  Speaker 5: the hour she designates you go to her house number
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  Speaker 5: forty four Diamond Hip Circle and pick up the cloth.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Halle Moana like diamond? What is it?
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  Speaker 3: The hotel isn't by any chance in Hawaii?
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  Speaker 5: Is didn't I mentradition my note? No you didn't, or
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  Speaker 5: did you mention picking up a cloak? There just proofs
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  Speaker 5: I haven't been myself ever since yesterday. Yesterday I received.
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  Speaker 2: This anonymous letter that both mark Honolulu.
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  Speaker 5: All it says is Mayha may have cloak of golden
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  Speaker 5: feathers will.
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  Speaker 2: Bring no less than death.
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  Speaker 3: Oh great Mallow.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever been to the island?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Twice, one time business in one's pleasure. But then surely.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard people speak of King Tomeha Mayha.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I do. He was back around the
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  Speaker 3: seventeen eighties, right yeah, yeah, yeah, big organizer Kakawa who
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  Speaker 3: by driving the defenders over the cliffs that divides the
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  Speaker 3: island in.
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  Speaker 5: Two in the Pali. Oh yeah, now plow. The feathered
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  Speaker 5: cloak that Mayha may have war was about a hundred
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  Speaker 5: square feet and every inch of it a gold and
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  Speaker 5: yellow feather and value that's more than half a million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I'll come the feathers.
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  Speaker 5: They are from the now extinct black mammo bird mallow.
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  Speaker 2: There was only one yellow feather on each.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta explain why they're now extinct. But don't tell
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  Speaker 3: me that all this is a game of Calia tomorlow
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  Speaker 3: the Shendlo where a cloak that belongs to the museum, no.
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  Speaker 2: Malo edition with the cloak you speak of. But Lani
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  Speaker 2: Colia has another one the valuable.
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  Speaker 5: Of course it's one quote the side, but it also
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  Speaker 5: belonged to the king, and it also is made of
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  Speaker 5: the priceless.
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  Speaker 3: Weather, and it just have property that haven't a whole
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  Speaker 3: legal life.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, a Laniers Redy about twenty five, went to fashionable
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  Speaker 5: schools here in California, and as a result cares more
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  Speaker 5: about fun and pretty close and she does the priceless heirloom.
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  Speaker 3: I can't understand that.
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  Speaker 5: So for fifty thousand dollars, I have bought the PLoP
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  Speaker 5: to rese help.
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  Speaker 3: To a New York millionaire for almost rie that time.
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  Speaker 5: He loves the island lord.
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  Speaker 2: I was right, I'm still being followed.
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  Speaker 5: Don't look back right first, don't do nothing exactly as
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  Speaker 5: I want it now, whoever it is would follow me,
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  Speaker 5: not you, And when I am an Honolulu.
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  Speaker 2: Will still follow me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I take care of the business on hand.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there's a reservation for you on then explain.
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  Speaker 5: So after you leave me and collect your cabs here,
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  Speaker 5: which will be five hundred dollars to drive away. Then
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  Speaker 5: leader Mallow get back here. I've bought your plane an underway.
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  Speaker 3: That's to night. When I've got the cloak, take.
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  Speaker 5: It back to your hotel room at the Haleemana and
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  Speaker 5: sit on it half.
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  Speaker 2: Because unless I am.
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  Speaker 5: A complete success to the decoy, you will have your
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  Speaker 5: share of trouble too. I'm sure the mallow from a
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  Speaker 5: specific direction is for a car.
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  Speaker 2: I do not know.
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  Speaker 3: I got the five hundred bucks to cover expenses why
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  Speaker 3: Hanolulu tripping was told to keep the change. I can
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  Speaker 3: my apartment, I pack got another cab, sit International Airport, Inglewood,
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  Speaker 3: settle back to think about the crossroads in the Pacific. There.
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  Speaker 3: I was wrong, because in the next minute those that followed,
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  Speaker 3: everything was done the hard way. First we ran out
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  Speaker 3: of gas and got tied up in a traffic jam,
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  Speaker 3: and after that got stopped from speeding, all of which
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  Speaker 3: headed up to me at the airport, just in time
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  Speaker 3: to watch my plane take off without me. A few
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  Speaker 3: minutes later, when I told that cherubi clerk in a
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  Speaker 3: grave flannel and insipid smile, that my name was Philip Marlow,
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  Speaker 3: and that I wanted a reservation on the next flight,
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  Speaker 3: which was leaving in an hour, things got even worse.
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  Speaker 4: You can't be Philip mollow, Sir, That is not the
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  Speaker 4: fit of Mallow who was on flight twenty one that
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  Speaker 4: just left you.
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  Speaker 3: You have a reason for saying that my mode certainly too.
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  Speaker 4: There were thirty six seats on that plane, shirt and
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  Speaker 4: when she took off, all thirty six football I know,
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  Speaker 4: I know, I checked them myself, and I don't make
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  Speaker 4: a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: Well, bully to you, boy. But I happen to be
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  Speaker 3: both Philip Marlow and the man who was supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be on that plane also. But I'm just about out
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  Speaker 3: of patience. How do I get on the next planet?
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  Speaker 3: Don't I come on? I can't stand any decision?
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  Speaker 2: Will you? What will miss themlow?
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  Speaker 3: I think it can be a that's better.
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  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I'm almost sure of it.
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  Speaker 3: An hour later, the last California slipped over the horizon
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  Speaker 3: and there was only clear sky, red. Oh. I began
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  Speaker 3: to relax, drifted pleasantly frosted Hawaiian punches, warm white beaches,
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  Speaker 3: lovely land, and I opened my eyes again. Diamond Head
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  Speaker 3: was in front of us, and majestic in the red
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  Speaker 3: globe of evening some that gave all of the lush
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  Speaker 3: Mouna valley, I could see a texture of thick felt
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  Speaker 3: We landed like the airport was made of marshmallows. And
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  Speaker 3: a half hour later I was in my lobby of
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  Speaker 3: the Hollijuana Hotel. It was cushioned rat tan and Philippine
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  Speaker 3: mahogany over cool tile, and everywhere laughing sunburned people wearing
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  Speaker 3: anything from Catalina swimsuits, the peat fabricated hula skirts. So
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  Speaker 3: smiling both inside and out, I worked briskly to the
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  Speaker 3: reservation desk and told a good looking Hawaiian and white
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  Speaker 3: finel that I was Philip Marlow. But at his reply
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  Speaker 3: I stopped smiling, both inside and out.
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  Speaker 6: But sir, your reservation was taken two hours ago. There
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  Speaker 6: must be some mistake, some mistake. You are Philip Marlow, sir, yes,
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  Speaker 6: so right. And look I've been through this before today
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  Speaker 6: because what I thought was an error.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing. Yeah, I'll talk to you later. There was a
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  Speaker 3: large circle of mirror on the wall behind the clerk,
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  Speaker 3: and even as we had talked, I caught the reflection
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  Speaker 3: of a beautiful tan girl and coco brown suited, white
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  Speaker 3: pearls and no stockings, with the mention of my name,
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  Speaker 3: and then a take that made a long blonde hit
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  Speaker 3: whipped straight up. When she saw me watching her, she
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  Speaker 3: pivoted sharply on a spiked heel and hurried tad little
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  Speaker 3: Nye under the Banian tree, where there was Hawaiian music
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of different looking people drinking at the
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  Speaker 3: glass top tables under a three quarter moment. I stayed
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  Speaker 3: near the reservation desk long enough to light a cigarette.
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  Speaker 3: Then I followed her. She was seated away from a
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  Speaker 3: lovey entrance, and on a hunch that she just might
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  Speaker 3: be Lanny Kallier, I started for an empty table next
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  Speaker 3: to her by the middle aged Chinese and gay Gabardine
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  Speaker 3: and Panamata Madge slipped into the chair that I was after,
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  Speaker 3: so I forgot about being subtle and addressing her as
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  Speaker 3: missus Kyllia introduced myself as an old and dear friend
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  Speaker 3: of Poullat Schindler's one Leland Dunn. This is a pleasant surprise,
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  Speaker 3: mister Dunn.
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  Speaker 7: But tell me how did you know what I looked at?
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  Speaker 3: Pollard Schindler's accident doesn't happen as vocabulary and miss Kallier, oh,
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  Speaker 3: he used the right adjuctant to believe.
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  Speaker 7: Me I'd loved you. But I can't, mister Dunn, because
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  Speaker 7: Pollard Chindler never saw me in his life. All our
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  Speaker 7: business was done by telephone.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, my mistake. I'm Philip Marlow, honey, and I want
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  Speaker 3: to know when we rendezvo at forty four Diamond Head
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  Speaker 3: Circle for the Club of Ka Mayor.
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  Speaker 7: Look, you're no more Philip Malo than you, Alieland Dunn.
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  Speaker 7: And if you need a reason, it's because I just
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  Speaker 7: left Philip Marlow's tape.
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  Speaker 3: Look, baby, there's only one Mallow. That's me. I can
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  Speaker 3: prove it.
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  Speaker 7: I'll bet you can forge papers and all. I've already
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  Speaker 7: been warned to watch for imposters, So quit wasting both
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  Speaker 7: your time and mine and.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of my way. I've got things to do.
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  Speaker 7: Saw proof that you were actually Commanda himself.
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  Speaker 2: No thanks, mister s.
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  Speaker 3: Now. I had two clues. One an obvious party would
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  Speaker 3: assume the name of Philip Malo, and the other Ronny Callier,
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  Speaker 3: less obvious, more intrigument So figuring the road company, Mallow
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  Speaker 3: would keep by followed line. Why this time it was
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  Speaker 3: getting into a long yellow covertible. Before I got to her,
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  Speaker 3: she lurched from the curb, So I ran across the
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  Speaker 3: street to what I thought was a taxi. I was wrong,
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  Speaker 3: because it turned out to be a showpen women's either
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  Speaker 3: being helped in by a small swarthiat of a dubious
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  Speaker 3: lineage in a wrinkled cotton uniform was the Chinese and
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  Speaker 3: gay Gabadeen and Panamata match who had been sitting near
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  Speaker 3: us in a Lunai. What counted mall was that he
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  Speaker 3: obviously sensed my problem. You wish to follow the girl, sir, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know it's a it's a love dispatch. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: I think so Judah quickly, Yes, sir, you know where
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  Speaker 5: she's going to?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Maybe diamond head circles. Maybe it's cleaning
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  Speaker 3: to well, let's make a diamond head circle. Is there
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  Speaker 3: a fast away? They are a short cut?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, there is, Judah begayl yep, yep, which means
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  Speaker 5: what means never mind diamond head circle.
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  Speaker 2: Drive fast to the factory instead, and do not move mister.
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  Speaker 3: Monow follow Oh heybe artillery? Okay, fu manshew? What's with
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  Speaker 3: the factory?
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  Speaker 5: You out of the way until the cloak of Kamehameha.
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  Speaker 3: Is mine, which won't work, believe it or not. Clever one,
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  Speaker 3: there's another fill of molow at the moment is a
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  Speaker 3: lot closer to that collection of fancy feathers than either
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  Speaker 3: of us. Love this stupid bit for freedom.
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  Speaker 2: They will not get you anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Got up, we hit. I slipped with this gun and
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  Speaker 3: jok the handle of the door and jumped. I got
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  Speaker 3: the night feet I was on the side walking broad
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  Speaker 3: but better off in the China Boy. It was right
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  Speaker 3: over the back of the front seat. A crowd that
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  Speaker 3: included a towering Hawaiian policeman who promptly told my hostman
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  Speaker 3: shut up, gathered in that hurry. So I ran for
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  Speaker 3: a cab, gave the driver a ten bucks. The address
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  Speaker 3: I wanted and took off. The street on which Lena
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  Speaker 3: Caya lived was a neat curving strip that rose sharply
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  Speaker 3: from sea level up into the shadow of Diamond did itself.
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  Speaker 3: We were there in less than ten minutes, finding number
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  Speaker 3: forty four was something else. Another thirty minutes disappeared before
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  Speaker 3: we finally parked away from the place, which was glass
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  Speaker 3: in ConA wood but behind a thick grove Dave Parks.
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  Speaker 3: I told the driver to back down the hill without
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  Speaker 3: using this motor, and I slipped into the grounds and
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  Speaker 3: carefully moved toward the house until what I thought was
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  Speaker 3: the trunk of another palm stepped into my path. I
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  Speaker 3: stop where you are, which was over six and a
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  Speaker 3: half feet. There was a shock of fighting red. The
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  Speaker 3: whole frame was half covered in dirty yellow shirt. Once
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  Speaker 3: upon a time, white ducks and bedded brown sandals who
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  Speaker 3: are you someone with an appointment to see miss Callier?
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  Speaker 3: Why you belong to this place? Yes? And this place
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  Speaker 3: belongs to me as well, all of it, Miss Collier included,
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  Speaker 3: She's mine to protect you. Understand that Malay Heini Malowitch
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  Speaker 3: l Lahiney Greenhorn tourists a kind that I hate, A
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  Speaker 3: kind that's ravaging all that beautiful, steering the islands from
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  Speaker 3: those they belong to. Take it easy, Red, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: here to stick your pretty island in my pocket when
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  Speaker 3: you're not looking well. I want his words with Monny Collier,
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  Speaker 3: he like the rest and trying with cunning in the
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  Speaker 3: seat to turn her head away from these shores and
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  Speaker 3: toward the mainland where you come from. I won't stand
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  Speaker 3: for it. I know we break this round table up
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  Speaker 3: and get to the house. I'm in a hurry, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that Lani will be on my side, so
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  Speaker 3: sure and fact that we really shouldn't disturb the flower?
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  Speaker 2: Should we?
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  Speaker 4: In just a moment the second act of Philip Marlow.
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  Speaker 4: But first, this Wednesday night, Fred Allen will be bing
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  Speaker 4: Crosby's special guest under Bingals CBS half hour of Laughter
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  Speaker 4: and Music. Earlier this Wednesday The winner of the one
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  Speaker 4: thousand dollars prize and the Doctor Christian Prize contest will
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  Speaker 4: also be announced by Gene Herscheld, star of CBS's Doctor
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  Speaker 4: Christian Show and Don't Forget That Drout Show. Marx and
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  Speaker 4: Burns and Allen will also be here on most of
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  Speaker 4: these same CBS stations this Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: Now with our star Gerald Moore.
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  Speaker 4: The second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The
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  Speaker 4: Cloak called Kamea.
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  Speaker 3: Maya red headed lunatic with a slow, soft voice and
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  Speaker 3: fast hard fit, took me by surprise. I wound up
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  Speaker 3: flat on my back before I realized he so much
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  Speaker 3: as moved. By that time, I got to my feet
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  Speaker 3: and took after him. It was spreading for a vando
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  Speaker 3: a thicket and had a thirty yard lead, so all
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  Speaker 3: he needed to lose me completely, and I finally untangled
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  Speaker 3: myself from the jungle. I came out on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Then I heard a motor behind me, so I do
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  Speaker 3: for the underbrushing angel with the heavy car wrought line.
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  Speaker 3: I had seen it before, in fact, I'd been in.
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  Speaker 3: It was a limousine that belonged to the Chinese. The
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  Speaker 3: back seat was empty, but the half cash show for
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  Speaker 3: Jolo was crouched behind the wheel, like his life to pandodize.
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  Speaker 3: And as I walked back toward the house, I saw
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  Speaker 3: that the door was standing open, spilling a shaft of
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  Speaker 3: yellow light across the tor crowns. I started up the
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  Speaker 3: walk when it came a second later, Ani kaye first
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  Speaker 3: into the path of light and ran to the open door.
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  Speaker 3: I went after a quarter of my one armage front
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  Speaker 3: of a round.
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  Speaker 2: No, let me go.
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  Speaker 8: What happened?
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  Speaker 3: Why you scream?
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  Speaker 2: Line?
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  Speaker 9: Back there in the pond, I heard a noise. When
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  Speaker 9: I came outside, I found him there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on, show me.
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  Speaker 9: I talked to him just a few minutes ago. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 9: it's gone. He is dead with a knife in his Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Looked down in the water.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, my.
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  Speaker 3: Skin on my neck crawl As Lunny tagged the thing
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  Speaker 3: in the lily pond with my name. He was faced
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  Speaker 3: down in the shallow water and three inches of crooked
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  Speaker 3: steel and the ugly curved handle of a crisp stuck
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  Speaker 3: straight up between his shoulder places. Somebody had made a
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  Speaker 3: very grim mistake. It took five minutes of argument, my
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  Speaker 3: thorough checking of all the credentials I carried convinced the
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  Speaker 3: badly frightened lunny right body out of the water and
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  Speaker 3: up onto the grass, and I went through his pockets.
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  Speaker 3: What did you find the god the Hawaiian Island Art
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  Speaker 3: Products Company Limited Number twelve harve the street mean anything? No,
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard it. What's that on the back flight
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  Speaker 3: number and departchet time of the plane I was supposed
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: to take out of Los Angeles very easy. He's been
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: one jump ahead of me all the way right up
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: to your lily pond here? Tell me, was anyone with
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: him when you getting the cloak? A half cast in
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: a shelfy's uniform.
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  Speaker 7: No, I gave him the cloak just Schindler had instructed
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: me too.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I listened, Lennie, there was a down at the heel
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: redhead here just before you came out. He claimed to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: be a friend of yours.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: Yes, that must have been Lawrence conquering.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: The pot, making him runt it these days. Lawrence wrote
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: one great.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: Poem years ago about two lovers who leaped to death
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: over the valley keep from being separated, and the soul
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: was turning to birds. It's still very popular here in
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: the What happened? It's got the habit of rounding himself
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: in gym and now the natives call him Papooli crazy one.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's closer. He's always hanging around.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: My mother wanted me to marry him at one time,
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: and that she's deady, he thinks he should look after me.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, Lonnie, let him keep thinking. So what do you mean?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I mean you can use a good watchdog right now?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: So when Cochrane comes back, make him park on your Doorstef,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: you stay inside and be careful. A guy's named Philip
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Marlow getting knives in that back. So I've got a
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: few things to do myself. But fat I could borrow
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: that souped up convertible of yours.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Where you're going?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Number twelve Harvest Street and the Hawaiian Island Dodd Products
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Company Limited. Harper Street was a narrow, twisting alley two
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: blocks below King Street. A social saw guessho where the
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: derelicts the specific quietly founded and died. Those were the
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: damned crevices between warehougers. However, Number twelve turned out to
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: be a practically blank wool. There was one small window
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: high up the door, with a heavy iron grill over
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: the glass. On which Hawaiian Island, Dot Products Limited. Ik
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Lee President was made. It in small black letters and
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: a thin passageway blocked by an iron gate at the
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: side of the building. A light burned inside, but the
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: door was locked. So after I'd ruined my shoe shine
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: and skinned all my knuckles, I managed to climb over
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: the gate and edge down the passageway to the rear.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I could hear water running. It's a marble pomfrom the plague.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: In the center of a walled garden as oriental as
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: the Forbidden City. I eased across its rigid datd insto
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: an open door, peeped in, and then gaged for my gun,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: because sitting inside at the sleek, white mahogany desk was
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: the Chinese in the Panama.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Well, this is it somewhat unexpected donal events. See, be
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: careful with that gun, won't you.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: You'll be carefull, Lee, You won't have to worry about
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the gun. Tell me something. Why'd you break in next
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: to get Kimmaa's cloak. You know it will happen if
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you try to sell it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: My good man, I can sell that cloak every day
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: for the rest of my life. A few feathers at
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: the time.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: The world must be full of feather collectors.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: I manufacture the beautiful feather lace that islanders way on
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: the head. And while the bird is extinct, desire for
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: its leaving feathers, is not one or two golden mammo
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: feathers in each lay. And instead over me one hundred
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: dollars apiece, I can get double that triple. Now do
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: you understand, mister Moller?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: And you know you got things a little mixed up,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: haven't you? Licha, your boy Marlow is dead Atlantic Cartier's place.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Oh no, that was a mister blake and easily accessible gentleman.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I hired a main street in Los Angeles. He only
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: pretends to be for obvious reasons.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: The feather cloak.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've known all about Parlor Chindler's land since the inception.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: I followed every move he made.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: In fact, was I who caused all your trouble on
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: the way to the airport this morning by means of
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: a bribe to your driver.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Too bad, you won't be able to keep your nest
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: line with Kamanda's bathrobe after all, Lee, because I'm gonna
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: walk out of here with it all big chunks of
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: your face, your name it, where's the cloak? Now?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I gather from this that you do not have it, mister.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: That's what's known as a shrewd observation.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: And that mister Schindler, as I suspect, as tricked as
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: both just stolingly.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I'm wanning and start talking.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: That's all I.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Wanted to find out. Almost black magic Jona can break
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: him back if I tell your behave Schindler has the cloak,
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: no doubt about it. So I must find him at
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: what with no interference from you to marrow.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Uh jodo. You heav his gun, so lock him inside.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I may meet him later. Something that half cast it
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: under my spine at the edge of his hand. My
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: legs were paralyzed. I felt like the practice done me in.
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: A school for chiropractice ridoyed my body when I moved,
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: so I didn't move until the feeling who's back into
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: my legs.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: And I wabbled to my feet and looked around. It
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: was a small high window i'd seen from the street,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: a heavy chair, a desk with a lamp, and something
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: like a like a picture framed a bamboo on the wall.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I glanced at him fresh kept looking hard for a
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: long long time, until I finally realized what it meant.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: The answer to the whole thing was contained in that
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: bamboo frame. I had to get out and get out fack.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I unplugged the lamp, plasted my back against the wall
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: next to the door, and tapped on the lamp shade
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: to intrigue Joelo at the coming in. It worked, and
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I turned slowly. I threw the lamp op at the window.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: The crash brought the door open with a jerk, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: the jerk stepped in with my gun in his hand.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: What going on here, mister? Where are you? Hansome?
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Right here? Joe? Okay, I get up. I got the
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: magic to show you a trick I learned in Kansas.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Call the haymaker. Ran down the wall of the street
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: door and out of the cubs with no traffic problem
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: with that hour. So I channed the gas fed with
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: the floor and held it there right through the heart
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: and Mount Logo and up the twisting road that led
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: to the mountains back of the city, the echoing Road,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: the motorist and tunnel through the forest lining the road
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: was finally replaced by another row within the unending gale,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: which shrieked through a precipitous past three thousand feet above
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: the city a polly. I swung the car to the
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: side of the road and ran the rest of the
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: way out to where the rocks rose to a knight aage.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: They dropped the sheer a thousand feet of the Then
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I spotted him, Donnie, lying at the cliffs agent's handing
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: over us, his red hair ripped by the wind, with
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: the mad island toys concas the lord and flapping around
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: his shoulders like a pair of huge gold wings as
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: a cloak of command.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: Man, Oh, no, no, no, don't weep my I alayil
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: afraid of the first come loney, don't let me because
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: you're down. No, Laddy, you're the man one. You think
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: you're gonna tell your treasures and leave the island. Your
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: destiny is not.
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: Yours.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: None try to warn.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: Ship there, for the four kept on might kill his pannier.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: The man you gave the cloak too, and I kill
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: a thousand times again. Keep you here with me.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: You belong to the island.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: Money like this cloke, lie.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: We must never leave.
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: Over soon, and our souls will try the bird and
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: live forever. This holiday, I.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Don't back money. Hello, I know, I know.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Are you all right?
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Money?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I am all right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Look the cloak how my subaster as he felt the
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: wind brought it back to me.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Strange.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: I don't want to touch it ever again.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I know, I know what you mean. I'll carry it.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Come on, money, let's carry.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: And nothing like ham and eggs and put black coffee
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: in the morning fronts big one forgetting ugly night, write
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: my things.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Right, mark coffee film. Oh thanks, Lenning. So Lee was
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: picked up by the Hanolulu police. Huh sure, I had
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: to all set up.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: You spent some time in prison, and by the way,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: he was still unconscious, and.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: He got to him. What in the world to hit
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: jo with?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Marlow?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Enthusiasm mainly, And that's when you got away and came
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: up to the Pariay, well, how did you know.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: It was Laurence?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: And well it's all tied with that one popular poem
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: that Cochrane had written, Leanni. That anonymous letter you've got
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles, mister Shendlow was a line from that poem, Oh.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Kabah house, floake of golden feathers ring, no list? How
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: did you find it out? Marlow?
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I see when I was locked up in Lee's factory.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: I saw a full copy of the poem on the
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: wall in a little bamboo frame. When I came to
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: that line you just quote it stuck out like it
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: was pointed in Neon. See for me that peg Cochran
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: is the killer going on that hun shy. I try
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: to look at things from his angle. He was a murderer,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: sure to be caught, desperately in love, insanely possessive of
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: everything he thought belonged here in the islands. He was
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: no unbalanced lush as well the rest of its figured.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: That's all my se. Mohney was cornered.
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: He went back to the one important thing that he'd ever.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Done, exactly, Lanni. He was lost. So he identified himself
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: with the hero of his poem and sook that is
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: the only way out.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Amazing, truly an amazing thing.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: It's a terrible thing too, mister.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we all got what we went after, didn't we,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: each of us, even Lawrence cockran after Schindler left to
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: catch a plane to the mainland. Lanni said Aloha and
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: left to get ready for our date. I sat on
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: the Lanaia the hotel and watched the sweep of the Pacific,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: from Diamond Head to the hills across the harbor, A
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: white slam of white ke green shallows of the reef,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: the purple depths beyond. As a warm wind whispered through
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: the ponds. From somewhere, I heard the sound strum of
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: the ukulelean. It suddenly occurred to me it doesnt Lohart
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: really mean?
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: famous character, Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Norman McDonald's and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: and Gene Webbittt featured in tonight's Transcribe cast where Wilms,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Herbert Lynn, Allen, Jack Krusian, Dan o'hurlehy Byron Kine and
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Peter Leeds. The special music is composed and conducted by
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Richard Urunt. He showing me witness again next week, when.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Philip marlow says, this time a dead witness, one hundred
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars bribe, the eyes of a beautiful dreamer and
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: a corpse in a tool bin. We're all tied tight
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: to the same thing, a fox's tale.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: This is Roy Rowan speaking for CBS. The Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: This is Andrew J.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Man AND's Wife.
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: You're listening to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well for listeners who have been listening to
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the show for a while, this may seem a familiar story,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and with good reason. The script was originally used on
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the Adventures of Philip Marlow back on April the twenty
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: third of nineteen forty nine. Because of lost episodes and such,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: we actually played that episode back on October the twenty
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: second of note of two thousand and fourteen, so it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: been a little less than a year for us. But
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: still this is a storyline worth repeating, with a lot
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: of mystery, intrigue atmosphere, just a great tale. Of course,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: there had been a couple of scripts that were somewhat
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: derivative of prior episodes, but this was the first full
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: out and out repeat and it was, as I said,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a very well done story and worth playing again. All right, Well,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: start with a comment email from Catherine, who writes, I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: could swear that Missus Demrist was voiced by Lucille Ball
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: on this week's Adventure of Philip marlow Do you have
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: any way to verify that love your podcast? Keep up
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the good work, well, Kate. An answer to your question now,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I do not believe that Missus Demerist was voiced by
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Lucille Ball. This episode that you're referencing was The Seahorse Jockey,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: which aired in nineteen fifty. By that point in her career,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Lucille Ball was already a pretty established star. She hadn't
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: made I Love Lucy yet, but she was the female
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: lead on My Favorite Husband and had been in a
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: lot of movies. Simply put, if Lucille Ball was starring
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: on Adventures of Philip Marlowe at that point in her career,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: we would definitely know about it, because I would have
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: been named in the credits, and the CBS probably would
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: have made a big deal about it. There's a certain
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: economics when it comes to the way that detective shows
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: tended to function. You would have the star of the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: show who would earn a decent salary. Em and O'Brien
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: during his time on Johnny Dollar, for example, earned five
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a week. It was a pretty good money
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: back for nineteen fifty nineteen fifty two, and generally you
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: would have the lead actor. Maybe some of the actors
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: who have recurring roles paid a bit more, but everyone
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: else would be paid by union scale. And if you
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: only worked one radio show a week and you got
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: paid union scale, you could probably eat, but you wouldn't
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: eat too well. However, the nature of radio work was
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: it didn't require a whole lot of rehearsals. There may
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: just be one rehearsal and then recording, and if you
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: appeared on enough of these shows in a given week,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: you could make a very good living. And that's why
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: we have so many episodes where Harry Bartel, or Herb
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Vigrant or Howard mcneer make an appearance. These are people
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: who knew how to act, were professionals in the radio industry,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and could play a wide variet character roles and could
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: do several in a week and manage to make that
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: union scale work. You wouldn't have Lucille Ball coming out
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: to appear on a detective show, Philip Marlow or anybody
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: else's to work union scale in nineteen fifty The shows
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: that you would hear Lucille Ball in would be an
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: episode of something like suspense or locks radio theater. Who
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: would give her real star money. Outside of those big
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: anthology shows, when we're listening to a great detective story,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the big thing you can spot are the character actors,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the alan reives and that sort. Then we also do
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: have a comment on Facebook where Francis says love Gerald
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Moore's voice. Well, thanks so much for your comments. That
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Nick Carter and join us again next Wednesday for another
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime,
• 36:05
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