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Now it's Tom for this week's episode of Patnovak for Hire. Fleet Lady,
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The American Broadcasting Company brings to its entire network one of
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radio's most unusual programs, Pat Novak for Hire. Sure, I'm Patnovak for
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Hire. That's what the sign out in front of my office says. Hat
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Novak for Hire. You got to put it in block letters because down on
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the waterfront in San Francisco there's a price tag on everything. You got to
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do that or marry a rich widow. I don't like to work that hard.
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So I rent boats and do anything else that's cash and carry. Oh,
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it's all right if you don't mind trouble, because that's one thing you
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can't duck. It's like trying to dance the minuet and skis and the best
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trouble always looks good from the outside. You're all smiles and feel like a
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kid opening a hand grenade under the Christmas tree. I found that out Tuesday
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night. It was around seven o'clock. I was getting ready to close the
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office when this little guy showed up. It was about the size of a
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golf bag with arms, and if you had a cigar box he could see
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a were a pool table. He walked up the desk and started talking in
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a voice that made you think he was trying to put Lily Pond's out of
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work. Hello, you know, Beck, you're doing all right so far.
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What's on your mind? I'm Jackie Greg. You heard of me?
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Huh, you're the shy type. I know. I'm Jackie Greg, the
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Jackie. You heard of me? All right? Now? I heard her.
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You put the show on the road. I'm looking for a horse.
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You want to find me a horse? Yeah? I breed him in the
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back room what color do you want? Yes, so tough. I gotta
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take that from him. Calm down before you wind up in a boy's choir.
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If you got anything to sell, put it on the line or beat
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it. I'm riding the horse tomorrow called Fleet Lady. She's disappeared. She's
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not here. I'm supposed to ride the sixth race with her tomorrow, the
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Bananza Handicap, and she's gone. All right, she's gone. Maybe your
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horse likes to go out at night. I haven't seen her get to the
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point. I'll give you two hundred bucks to find that horse. Somebody took
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her in a van. I tailed it down here the waterfront, but you
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lost him up with a ferry building. That's right. Something funny's going on.
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My mom disappeared, and you gotta find her. This is a big
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waterfront. And where's the two hundred bucks? You'll get that all right down
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by peer nineteen the van turned in. I think you can find Fleet l
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I don't know who owns woman named Sybil Thornton. She's mixed up. I
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think, yeah, why steal your own horse? I am run a ringer.
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Maybe that's a tough trick. This woman's got some good ones. You
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want the two hundred bucks? Yeah, all of the odds. What's the
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difference. You're gonna open a book. You better take the two hundred bucks
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now. Yeah, the door will keep you sound frightened, junior, and
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you sound nosey. Here's a two hundred. I want you to find the
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horse. You let me know at the Kingston Hotel. Huh sure. And
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if you don't find anything around the water front, maybe I better try the
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track ask around there. Yeah, by the way, how do you fit
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in? How come you got tw hundred dollars interest in that horse? Maybe
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I love horses? What do you care? Maybe I love horses. I
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don't look like you've gotta love something. Oh yeah, it was a sweet
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proposition, a jockey in search of a horse. There's something phony about the
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whole thing. I had the two hundred bucks, but I didn't feel good.
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It was like a guy stealing a murder gun to help out in a
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scrap metal drive. Well, after the little guy left, I closed the
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office and started to hit the docks. But it didn't work out. You
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know, you can buy good whiskey these days, So you feel funny walking
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up to some guy in the here and asking have you seen a racehorse around
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here? Mister by nine? I was sure the horse wasn't around, so
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I borrowed a car and drove out to the track. I found out where
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Sybil Thornton's horses were quartered and headed down that way. It was pretty dark,
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so when I bumped into her, all I got was a vague outline.
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She had a good looking, vague outline. Oh, I'm very sorry.
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Yeah, I'm full of regrets too. Shall we try it again?
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You a little mixed up in your animals? They keep horses here. You
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don't seem to mind. No, you lean nicely, but you'd probably feel
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safer with a platform. We try this again when I've had three good meals.
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That's a horse. Yes, I know that guy owner. I see
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that. It'd make you, Sybil Thornton? Yes, what would it make
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you? A guy named Patnovak? Looking for your horse? I was hired
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in the waterfront to find it. Right. They grow big on the waterfront
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too, must get a lot of sun by the way, fleet lady,
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miss he jockey, says she is. That's why I'm snooping around. Didn't
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know he had any friends. He's got a check book, how about fleet
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lady. Is she talking in bed? Let's take a look. Huh find
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it very dull? Mister. Yeah, that's what they said to Anthony.
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Let's see the horse suit yourself. That's why, okay, I'm doing that's
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not the bigness of my heart. I think you're wasting my generalety. I
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don't use it all this trip. It's from the stable. Come on,
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don't about his Fleet lady's tall here. There's a flashlight on the wall.
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All right, oh poor thing. So horses die broke too? Who is
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it, fleet lady? Yeah, so you're satisfied. No, I'm going
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to ring up headquarters. You crazy, and I'm gonna call Jackie greg and
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tell him his hunch paid off. I wouldn't do that, mister Nosa,
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stop kidding me. So we hot. She didn't get killed in the fight
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when another horse crag figured somebody was telling the machine. That's why fleet ladies
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dead. That's why I'm gonna call headquarters. But remember what happened to fleet
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lady? Are you getting tough angels? No, it wouldn't good with a
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saddle, mister. Well, I watched her as she turned and walked out
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of there. It's kind of a walk that makes you flip the calendar and
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find out how far away spring is. I looked around a while, but
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it didn't do any good. The place was full of doors, so whoever
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killed Fleet Lady got out easy, like a rumor at a church picnic.
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I closed the door and went down the line to call the headquarters. So
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I stood in there talking. I saw Sybil Thornton drive away. It was
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a long convertible with red assbesta seat covers. After I called the headquarters,
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I went back and waited near the stable. About a half hour later a
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police car pulled up, and when I so got out, I began to
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get unhappy, like a three legged man in a ballet school. It was
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Helman from homicide and he had a squad with him. All right, all
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right, I'll talk to him. Hello, Novak, where's your trainer?
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Your boys get paid to the lab at your helme? And I don't.
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Yeah, where's the horse? What are you doing on the case? I
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came for the ride? Your mind, Novak? No, I just wondered
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if they wised up downtown, because you could find a dead horse helmet.
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If they staked it out in the middle of Market Street, you'd find it
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before long. I'll try this time, whereas it's all eighteen over there.
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Keep an eye on the boys. Only back in a minute in here,
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Novak, Yeah, the one with a teeth like yours. You better shut
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up. No back, don't get jumpy. You haven't seen the horse.
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Just shut up. Huh. It wasn't gonna be much of a conversation anyway.
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What color horse was that, Novack? What do you mean take a
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look at it? Yeah, yeah, I did. I just took a
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look. It's a smart horse, Novak. That's right. A dead horse
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in there is wearing a double breasted soup. Helman got the message straight.
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I walked in and took a look. Jackie Greg was lying there on the
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floor as dead as last year's love. The sickness didn't show until we rolled
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him over on his stomach. Somebody had gone duck hunting in the middle of
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his back. I'm begin to feel a little sick myself, and I was
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ready to send up for the same gun when Helman started to talk. You
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forgot to mention the guy when your phone headquarters. He wasn't there. I
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was in here before and the guy wasn't around. What was he doing?
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Another horse? I don't know, Helman. Maybe he crawled out of a
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crack. I don't know. There were two shots. I came in and
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found the horse. Yeah, checked the horse trying to tell me. The
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horse shot back. Who is he? A guy by the name of Jackie
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Gregg. He gave me two hundred bucks to find a missing horse. Yeah,
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a horse called Fleet Lady running in tomorrow's handicap. This is the end
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of the line. How do you know it's the same one. I don't
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Maybe you gotta be a horse to tell. Why don't you ask one of
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your boys. Yeah, the boy's real tough. I'll call him off,
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Helman. He's nasty. We all hate him. No back, it's all
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right. I'll put it on on your bill. Helman. That's good.
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You can write it up at headquarters. Helman, you ought to run an
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idiot. The heavy thinking's too much for you. I can piece this together,
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but come out here and find a dead man with you kicking up dust
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forty feet away. Look, Helman, I didn't kill the guy and call
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up headquarters. I know they're bad and homicide, but I'm not that big
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hearted. We got a fair hook for you. No fact, that's where
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you stay until somebody get you off. When you can start out with Sybil
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Thornton, another horse, She's got the speed for it. Look her up.
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She owns fleet lady again. She was dashing around in the dark here
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playing easy to get. I'll look her up. You better leave the boys
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behind. After all, she's only a woman. When you see her,
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ask her about that van down on the waterfront and what she was doing before
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I made that phone call. I'll tag all the bases. Don't worry,
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Junior, and if things fit together, you'll both be in the jug.
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I'll see you later. I got work to do. Yeah, it's getting
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late. You better put the boys back in the cave. I began to
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worry after Helman left. There was no murdered gun, and he didn't have
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too much to go on, But there was no one else wanted my job.
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I know the girl was going to have an alibi, and I was
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the last guy that Jackie Gregg had seen. I had about as much chance
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as a fat girl at a Princeton prim Helman didn't like me, and he
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was a smart cop with a disposition like a ton of rhubarb. Well,
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I had to start right from scratch. I felt like Adam the first morning
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he woke up, so I looked up a guy named jack o' madigan,
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an next doctor and a boozer who will give you a lift if you show
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him where the stirrups are her. He's a good guy, but he thinks
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all food makes a gurgle. I hit all the bars and finally found him
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up at Maggie Nielsen's apartment. She's a good looking voice that lives up on
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the hill, and Jacko was working his way into her liquor supply. Hello,
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Patsy, are just in time to join me for my first drink of
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the evening, or one of my first at least. Yeah, I see
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Maggie's not here, but I found a whiskey. It was in plain sight,
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locked in the closet under some newspapers. All right, Jacko, when
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are you going to sober up? I plan to do it briefly on April
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first, when the rest of the world plays the fool. Also, look,
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I'm in trouble, Jacko. You gotta help me good. I have
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a special bottle I used to forget your trouble. Look, stop caressing that
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jugg and listen to me. I'm in a jam. Patsy, there is
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nothing in nature so sad as a half empty bottle. It's like a broken
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vow or an unfulfilled promise in the skies, a falling star or a jacko
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a falling star and you shrug it off, never realizing that a whole world
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has ended at that moment, a hundred million dreams maybe, and you watch
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it fall and make an asenine wish. That's all the good it does a
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star to fall. It gives some kid a chance to wish for a bicycle.
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You of finished now, Jocko. Yes, what kind of trouble anything
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I could aggravate. I'm mixed up out of the track. A guy by
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the name of Jackie greg is dead and I don't look good hellman. Yeah,
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the guy's a jockey and he hired me to find a horse named Fleet.
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Lady, did you a horse and the jockey ran a dead heat?
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But there's something funny about the whole deal. Did you talk to the jockey?
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No? Not enough, Patsy. You've got to break yourself of the
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habit of waiting until people are dead before you think of a question, Jocko.
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I want you to hit all the horse rooms find out what you can
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about the sixth Race tomorrow. It's the Bonanza Handicap and I hurry up?
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Will you? If it's the sixth race? Why can't we wait? Awhile
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start Now, get everything you can and call me. I'll leave a message
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to your place. Where are you going? I don't know. Maybe you
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have to see the girl, Patsy. You're going to be waving at the
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hangman's wife when they spring the trap door. I gotta see her. She
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owns fleet lady. Oh, why don't I see her? She's got a
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steak somewhere. And I got a lot of questions. What could you do
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up there? Yes, if it weren't an academic question, I'd argue the
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point and would look like a bum deal right from the start. Patsie,
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you have the instinct for recognizing trouble, but not the intelligence to duck it.
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Save your breath? Will you? Like a man walking under a scaffold
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on a building, you realize it may crash down and kill you, But
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instead of hugging the building where you can't get hurt, like every other dope,
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you scurry for the edge of the sidewalk, where you're bound to get
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hit if it fall JOCKO, will you get out of those horse powers.
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I need backs, not fables, and don't give me a hand. All
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right, give my love to fleet lady. My name's Sybil Thornton. I'll
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bet I'm not far wrong. Good night lover. After I left, Jock
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all went to the Chronicle. Morgan looked up the NBC program director, Paul
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Stangle. We pulled out the clips on Sybil Thornton. They were nice and
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fat. Because she'd been to Reno four times and hadn't broke training for years.
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She'd been traded around more than a Red Sox picture. The clipping said
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she was thirty two. There were a lot of pictures from her eyes.
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He got the idea she was around thirty five. But there were arguments the
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other way too. There weren't any stories on her for the last few months,
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just a few items from the columns. They all said the same thing.
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She was hitting the night spots with a gambler named Rudy Hawser. There
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were pictures of him too. He wouldn't look good in a cave with heavy
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curtains, I asked Paul. He said Hawser had a gambling place out on
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Geary, so I took a cab out there for ten bucks. The guy
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at the door said Sybil Thornton had left the place an hour ago. That
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made me feel good. When Hawser opened the door of his office, I
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lost the glow. Yeah, what's with you? I got a problem.
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You got the wrong door. You can't get any tougher, so I'm coming
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in. Suit yourself. Never throw anybody out until I'm sure they've lost all
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their money. What's on your mind? A horse named Fleet Ladies. He
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disappeared at seven o'clock tonight. You check them at the rug. I'll try
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the captain. She got back just in time to greet somebody's guns. If
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I say no, will you go out and lose your money like a good
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boy. Fleet Lady was owned by a gall named Sybil Forton. In the
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column say you're number five on her list, and they never lie. A
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whiskey's too good. Also, a little bird says she was in your office
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an hour ago. That's right, she said, your name's Novak. Yeah,
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next time you got a bombshell, give it a test run with Fleet
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Lady dead. Your money's gonna look real good in the six tomorrow. It
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makes you think the guy would throw a race for the same reason she goes
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out with you. Uh. When a girl takes a great Dane like you
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out in public, it generally means the guy's a few bucks ahead of her.
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You want to fight the team now, No, Beck, Just remember
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sometimes you can't be right and a gentleman too. Yeah. I hope that's
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the way you feel when they pick it for Jackie Ggg's murder. Huh.
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Oh, you do a real nice double take, mister. The jockey checked
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out with a horse. I didn't know that, Novak. Yeah, with
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no brains, you built this gambling club. I didn't know it was dead.
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If I told you that, Novak, I meant it. He's all
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right for a little punk. Sorry, he's dead, so's he. I'll
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see you later, Hauser. I got a nose around and find out where
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you were tonight. Yeah, it seems all right, Novak. So I'll
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tell you you got any dough left when you leave my tables. Better on
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a horse named Fleet Lady in the sixth race tomorrow. You always bet on
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a dead horse. You got the tip, use it a barrier, but
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don't loan it out. Oh, the case was a regular grab bag.
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When I walked out of Hawser's office. I began to tick off the things
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that didn't add up. First on the list was that van down on the
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water front. If it was Fleet Lady who got shot in the stable,
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If it was the ringer, that meant Fleet Lady would run tomorrow. I
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couldn't figure out why Hawser was so sure she came in. An idea kept
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racing around in the back of my mind like an a hand in a cookie
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factory. Jackie Greg led about that van down on the water front, of
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why not to bail me out of the poorhouse with two hundred bucks. I
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got part of the answer when I stopped with the pain telephone and called Helman.
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Yeah, Hellman, duncan' novak, I got some news. I have
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to put it on the back page. Well you got your friend Jackie Great
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had some love life. Well there's a chance for you, Helman. Who's
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the girl Sibill Prton? Yeah, we found a picture in his wallet,
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the gooey kin. I bet you' still it for long train rides. But
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time do you die? The right fit for you? Between nine and ten
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o'clock two shots from a thirty two caliber pistol. How about the horse forty
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five caliber two people. It's getting involved. Maybe maybe not if you got
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two hands, Novak. Look up a guy named Rudy Hawser. He's got
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to joint out on Gary Street. I got enough friends you look him up.
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I did. He's still talking about Fleet Lady and Tamara's race. Maybe
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he's sentimental. Look, Novak, I'll pick up my own work. I
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don't need free help from you. Jackie Creg paid two hundred bucks and look
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what he got. I'd suit yourself. But Rudy Hawser and that Galler close
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friend, Ye like two part harmony in a telephone booth. Get off the
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dime, Helman. Howser's got that galluons his pocket. She owns Fleet Lady
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and he's betting her to win. It's gotta be a slow field to lose
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to a dead horse. Wake up, Helman. You couldn't smell a wrack
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in a basement full of cheese. I did all right in your apartment.
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Huh that thirty two caliber pistol, we found it in your place, see
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you later. Well, I wasn't too worried about that. Helman is smart
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enough to know a phony plant. I began to think about that thirty two
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caliber pistol. It's a woman's weapon. Well, that doesn't prove anything,
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so it's a breadknife if she's in a bad mood. Must have been about
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midnight when I got to Sybil Thornton's place. She was wearing black lounging pajamas,
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tied tighter on a slim waist. She looked like a wasp with a
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nice sting. She had come me come in. Yeah, mister is Ronnie
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Stark? Hello Novak. He's not very friendly, Sybil. He's just parting
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because they're going to arrest him for Jackie's murder. How do you like Hellman?
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You've known him longer? Yeah, somebody left the murder gun up at
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my place, or you've been all night? Please, mister, you're embarrassing
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Ronnie. That's right. I'm blushing, and it's not the whiskey, Novak.
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I see you mustay longer, Ronnie. He's persuasive. I know that
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you won't forget, Ronnie. I won't forget. I'm betting on you,
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all right, What won't he forget? No? I hope nobody ever asks
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you that question. You don't want to talk about putting that gun in my
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apartment. Let's talk about Rudy Howsard, then your meat grinder friend. We
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just had a good talk and he open up a new road. What'd you
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tell him? Don't break a spring? He's all right? Will you do
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me a favorite petty? Like not talking to Howser anymore? That's won't do
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any good, pets, And it'll do me a lot of good. How's
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he gonna know which horse got killed? I'll bet you lied to him?
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Angel, it's my applect Patsy. You leave it alone, sure, but
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play your hand right, maybe because I'm gonna watch your cards, and if
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you've got one that says Jackie Greg, I'm gonna court you the hard way.
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Patsy, You nice beast. I really think you would sit down?
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Yeah, drink no? Do you good? Right now? Yeah? You've
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read the book, just a couple of chapters. I bet they're the right
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ones. You better watch out, baby, I may be a long shot.
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Do you care as long as I bet I don't. That's good.
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I didn't think you'd mind. Aren't you beginning to crowd the beachhead? Don't
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be a sissy, Patsy. You can't live forever, all right, Angel,
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It's time to wear the folks just wait until you know me, Patty.
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That's for me. I left the number. It's your fault. Yeah,
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hello, Patchie. What'd you find out, Jocko? Not much.
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Nobody seems to care about the sixth grade. I care about it. That's
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because you killed one of the jockies. The rest of the people have a
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more casual interest. Out of the odds run no heavy favorites been Air and
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Sleepy Time Gal figure to be the best around five to one. What about
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Fleet Lady? Down the line somewhere, I talked to one fellow. He
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says she's a dog and couldn't beat a paralytic goose over a hundred yards.
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Yeah, what else? What do you mean that's all Start digging, Jocko.
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We're not getting any place, not even at Urine. Uh. I
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counted on you to do better than that. Good night lover. On the
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way home, I bought the morning papers. There was no story on Jackie
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Greg, no detail, and most of this story was a statement by Helman
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on Helman. There was no mention a fleet Lady, and at one o'clock
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in the morning, it was nothing I could do but roll into bed.
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I woke up about nine, called Jocko. It was like sending a message
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out to the Pharaoh loans by Indian runner. He just muttered and said he'd
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meet me out at the track. Well, I had to have some more
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dope, so I called Ira Snow. He calls the races and bets on
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him the way he does it, A horse is a real beast, a
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burden. He was playing elf when I got him on the wire. Yeah,
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Ira, this is Novak. What do you know about the Bonanza handicaps
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a horse racing? You're funny? What about the field? Are the horses
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any good for Hamburgers? Maybe? Nothing else? How about Fleet Lady Eastern
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Track? Nobody knows? Would you be worth a heavy plunge if you want
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to be a munk? What's it all about, Ira, I'm in trouble.
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How about a fix? Could they run a ring around on Fleet Lady?
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It's been done before, but it ain't easy, That's what I figured.
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How's Rudy Hauser on horses? He ain't. He got bought a long
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time ago. He never bets. I think you're wrong. Look no back.
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I know every guy in tom that's got the inch. Rudy Hauser nol.
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You know a guy named Ronnie stark. Sure, why nothing, may
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see you at the track. I'm gonna make a bet. Yeah, I'll
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tell the horses. Well, that left me in a hole. The fire
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was right, Rudy hawser on Fleet Lady didn't make a bit of sense.
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I got up to the track about two thirty. Jocko was there and Hellman
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was wandering around up in the grand stand where they couldn't push him into a
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starting gait. Sybil Thornton waved from her box as I walked by to get
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a better shot at the starting line for the sixth. They were almost at
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the post when Jacko came back from the betting window where Pepsy I bet two
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dollars on a horse call Scotch victory. It seemed like a good omen.
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Yeah. I saw your friend Rudy Hauser at the window. Huh. He
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was pouring money down on the papers to win. Well, that's why the
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odds are gone down on vent Air and sleepy Time. Yeah, look at
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that board, will yeah, Fleet Ladies gone all the way up to twelve
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to one, from eight to one, all the way up. Maybe the
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wood got around. She's dead now that's the funny part. She's down there.
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See number three on the rail, not a deep out of anybody.
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Hot brother is going to the front by run length, sleep be Time gal
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by ahead, Fleet Lady between horses is running third by one length. On
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the outside. It's vein air, an old soldier. Going into the clubhouse
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turn. It's hot runner by two lengths, Sleepy Time gal by a half
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length. Fleet Lady is moving up on the outside. It's beIN Air,
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fourth by one length, an old soldier. Now the back stretch, it's
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hot weather by two lengths. Fleet Lady moving up on the outside is now
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second by one length, sleep bloody house. You'd better hurry up or he
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won't see much the hurry. He left the track ten minutes ago. Are
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you sure jack him? Yes? I heard him tell so many He had
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to make a phone call just before the bedding clothes. Well, JACKO,
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you're a sweetheart. Oh I like to think. Let's go to that stable.
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The race is no, it was over five minutes ago. How about
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my two dollars come on? Well, yeah, there's only one person who'll
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try to fix a horse race. That's a horse. Oh. I knew
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there was going to be trouble fast. The horses were just coming under the
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wire when I waved to helme and started for the stable. When we got
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there, Sybil Thornton was clearing out like a fire sale. And then a
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hurry, Patsy, go and let me buy. You made a bad planes
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will stick around. You hurt him, lady, stick around. I'll take
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charge. That's a big gun, houses I got a big beef. Let
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me drop one hundred grands your idea, Rudy, Not this way. Let
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me drop one hundred grand, because you ran Fleet lady, program, said
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fleet lady. And that's who ran. I brought those odds in the line
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at the window. I already looked bad on Fleet lady. You didn't stay
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to watch your trail the field. He lost one hundred grand. You killed
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the ringer. You're a smart big shot who was gonna sew up the race.
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You ran Fleet Lady and cost me one hundred grand. All right,
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Copper, move away from it. Oh but this way, Sybil, Well,
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don't let him do it. Patsy, I want to see how tough
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you are. Come on, said well, let's shoe and me move against
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the star. Wat you houserd, you're back into the horse. Grab the
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horse. Novak's gonna trample him. Grab him. It's your idea. Yeah,
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yeah, you should learn the first time. You can't beat the horses.
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That's a bump joke, Novak. I guess it is now that we're
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all here, who do we book for Jackie Gregg's murder? Who's this guy?
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That's when you missed? Helman? Hello Stark, I know, well,
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what are you waiting for? Sybil? Tell the man you killed Jackie
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Gregg? Enough today running? You got more coming? You figured it out
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yet, Novak howser Dumpty's eddy grand on you? That's right, it's a
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lot of spending money. Wait a, I don't like this. You'll get
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your half, baby. I'm going to write out and I owe you when
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they book you for murder and the votes in. You can't use it like
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that. A dead girl can't spend forty grand. She killed your guy,
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Copper and tried to palm it off on Novak. I was there, so
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I'll testify, Honey, good God, don't be silly. I love justice.
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A booker for murder Copper. I want to tear up that. I
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owe you well. Hellman finally worked it out. Started out as a fixed
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race. When they were all through, it was up to the horse.
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Rudy Hawser put the squeeze on Sybil for some dough. She offered to run
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a fast ringer in place a Fleet Lady so Hawser could pick up a bag
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full. Rudy just wanted to make sure, so he sent one of his
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boys around a knock off Fleet Lady. Only the guy killed the ringer instead.
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Now that was a break for Sybil. She made a deal with a
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booky named Ronnie Stark to take all the Hawser's bets and guarantee him that Fleet
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Lady couldn't win because she wasn't that good a horse. It panned out that
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way. She let Hawser think Fleet Lady was dead. He spent the twenty
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grand at the window pushing up the odds on Fleet Lady and dumped another eighty
28:41
on her to win the moving van. That was a phony story, Greg
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used to get me to scare Sibyl. He wanted in on the deal.
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He went back to the stable that night, gotten a beef, and she
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killed him. She had him out in her car when I went to make
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that phone call. She figured it was a good way to pass the buck.
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Helman asked only one question, Why would a nice team horse go crazy
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and trample a guy to death. Jocko had the answer. The horse that
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killed Hauser was a Philly. The American Broadcasting Company has just brought you the
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fourth of a new series, Pat Novak O Hire, starring Jack Webb.
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have to say that Pat Novak for Hire is one of those shows that really
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does make the cat for listening to a show more than once. I have
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to admit that I'm enjoying this a lot more of the second time through,
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and it's kind of odd in one hymn, but just seems a lot better
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this time particular. I love that line about the being as unhappy as a
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three legged man at ballet classic. All Right, some listener comments and feedback.
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Jones says, thank you so much for bringing back pac Novak. I
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just love his smart mouth. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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And then we also have another listener comment on Pat Novak for Hire. The
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writers of this show were great, so descriptive and vivid and definitely paint some
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interesting pictures, particularly when talking about out All I saw of her was a
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vague outline. She had a nice vague outline. Stuff like that interesting as
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well as just in some ways this communicating emotions like the idea wishing for summer
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to come. And then we have one other comment on podcast Ali, not
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related to Patnovac that just says, keep up the good work, Adam,
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Well, thank you so much, and that will do it for today.
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