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Candy Matson: The Cable Car Case (EP1508s) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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the ninth. All right, for today's play it again, Adam, We're
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going to bring you Candy Matson. It was suggested by listeners Jim Bash and
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Laurie Walker. They didn't provide a specific episode, so I went ahead and
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chose the first example of a broadcast episode of Candy mattson we had. This
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was actually the second episode of the series. The first episode was a rebroadcast
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of the audition program which we had. Certainly there are going to be some
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differences to what became the norm on Candy Matson, but this is still a
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very interesting mystery and a nice introduction to the character. So here from July
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the seventh of nineteen forty nine, is Candy Matson in the cable case.
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Hello you can two eight two o nine. Yes, this is Candy Matson.
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Do you have a little unsolved murder in your home. Got some blackmail
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you want to unload? Are you the victim of some vulgar extortionist? I
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know a girl you should meet. She may not be the greatest private eye
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in the world, So what if it does cost you three or four hundred
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dollars? She sure is sweet. She's Candy Madson, like the meter her.
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Hello Candy Madson. Well, I wasn't sure when I looked in the
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mirror this morning. Oh there have been rougher ones. Look, boy,
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before you get caught with my receiver down, who are you and what do
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you want? As to who I am? You'll find out very shortly.
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What I want is you? How romantic and over the phone? Yet let
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me finish. What I want is you to lay off that cable car business?
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Oh that well, I'm afraid I can't. You see. I was
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sitting beside him when they discovered his transfer had been punched sort of permanently.
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That's how things happen with me. I get into the craziest routines, you
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see. I used to be a model. I've been told I have the
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proper displacement for such a career, but I found there wasn't enough money in
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it. A girl has to maintain a nice apartment on Telegraph Hills, keep
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enough clothes to highlight the displacement I mentioned, and also eat, doesn't she
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sure? Though I turned private eye, you need a better class of people,
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mostly named Rigor or Mortis. Now take this cable car deal. It's
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positively fantastic. What, after all, this is radio? Isn't it like
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to hear how the whole thing happens? Leave his trip along to Act one.
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I wanted to get downtown that morning, but I couldn't take the f
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car on Stockton. They were ripping up about eighty seven streets, which is
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par for the course. So I walked down Telegraph Hilling up to Mason.
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That's where the Bay and Powell cable car stops. Oh, bod, come
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on line a show up, shapefully ankles. We gotta make the fam out
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by wos some cars. The car was loaded, and so was the character
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next to me. I tried to budge into the seat between him and the
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Fisherman's Wharf dowager, but I couldn't quite make it. I'd forgotten my shoehorn.
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Say pardon me, but would you mind reading your Wall Street Journal over
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that away? A bit like to sit in here, Oh a night of
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old. He budged his hips a quarter of an inch, and I slipped
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in, ready for my rocket ride over the hill and down into town.
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The trip, as usual, was uneventful, three smashed fenders and several choice
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words I'd never heard before, but I wrote them down. By the time
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our Prairie schooner reached the turntable at Market Street, the crowd on the car
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it dimmed out, but the buster was still beside me, his head buried
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in common and preferred markets straight. I started to get down. Hey,
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lady, take your boyfriend with you. We're heading back up the hill.
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Boyfriend also, he looks like the advance man for Lewis and Clark. How
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do you like that? He fell asleep over a stock and box. I
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looked again. Hipsy wasn't asleep. Hipsy was stone cold dead on Market.
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What a twist, I, who always went on the prowl for who done
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it? Get one literally tossed into my lap. He just hadn't gone out
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of this world toene like. Oh no. It was a steady slurp slurp
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of blood trickling down his vest, just north by northeast of the equator.
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After a half hour wait full of questioning my homicide legman, I knew my
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morning shopping tour was rained out, and after all, I was only going
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to buy an emerald clip to match the glint in my eye. Well,
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that would have to wait. I knew the next step. I grabbed a
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cab home. I wasn't long in waiting, right on queue, and if
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it was the right queue, it would be Lieutenant Ray Millard from headquarters,
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daintily pressing his cuticles against my apartment buzzer. I was right, I've been
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expecting you. Come on in, Mallard, you've been expecting me. Why,
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Candy, naive little roverboy, you have a drink? No, No,
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I'm not in mood. Uh just make it a double sit down,
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Mallard. Let's be civilized. Take off your hat. It is off,
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Oh, Candy, for once. I'm puzzled. You're just saying yeah,
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because it's true. I've checked and rechecked. No matter how many loose ends
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I tie together, I still get no connection between you and Dwight Ellsworth.
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Right, Who's worth Ellsworth? Your extremely limped traveling companion on the cable this
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morning? Mallard, I can give you an angle and that. Yeah,
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yeah, the angle being that I didn't know him from Adam level. Straight.
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Look, honey, pot, this mediocre dialogue is getting us nowhere.
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What did you haul your size eleven's in here for? Oh? Frankly,
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I don't know. Eh here, he let up, Weddy. You're not
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just going around in circles, Mallard. You're going around in double Yeah.
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Yeah. Like I've said before, Candy, you've got a pretty view from
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here. Oh way I turn around, I mean from your window. I'm
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gonna chip down there, just docking where down there there's romance for you,
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probably just in from the far east. Here's your drink? Oh thanks?
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You know it is sort of romantic. Don't you think it'd be fun to
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jump on a tramp like that and whisk off to the south Sea on honeymoon?
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No, that's what I thought. See, Mallard, don't call me
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Mallard. Why not? We're just playing for ducks, aren't we, Oh,
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very crisp playing for ducks? No, Candy, we aren't not.
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In this case, we've got a dead man in our hands. Rudy Toot
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shot right through the heart and you were sitting next to him. Sure,
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sure, go on, I'll get out of here. If you heard me,
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lift your hind quarters and get back to headquarters. Candy, I don't
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like that look. I've got something on your mind. Yeah, but you
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wouldn't recognize it if I told you about it. One word a warning,
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don't dabble. You're in deep enough. Got it? Got it? Here's
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your hat, grab it. It's a long mallard. See you around a
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jail house sometimes fivefo twas. Then I smelled the big fat fee, that
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great, big, kind of attractive mallard. He missed the boat. Oh,
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he saw it, but he missed it. It was that ship he
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saw docking. That was the first time I came out of the darkness my
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Tunerville ride down the hill in the morning. I needed help, so I
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called an old friend of mine, if you can call that help. Rem
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Brandt Watson was his name. He was a photographer and other things. He
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spent most of his life in the dark room, dabbling with bottles. His
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negatives and prints were sharp, his thought processes not quite. But he'd given
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me assistance in the past. So I called him Remron Watson, speaking photography,
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portraits and camera work. Yes, Rahm Brandt, I know so available
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for gardening, teritorial service and babysitting. Rembrandt, it's candy, especially over
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twenty one. Ooh, Candy, now you're tuned in. Dare you baggage?
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I was experimenting with a new type of formula ninety prou for one hundred
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hundred and Candy had work sputibly as a delightful little pixie and a pig ballet
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skirted me living. We'll leave it there and get over here immediately to my
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place. Take a cab. I'll pay for it much rather have a handsome
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carriage with a brace of chestnut. You've got him in your head. Now,
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just do as I say and get over here. Float in Rembrandt,
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Gadfrey, where's the man who takes me? Cloak, gloves and topper?
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You're wearing a sport code and flax, and you know I have no man.
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They're in Lijah or basic trouble, My dear, you have no man.
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Now, every man should have a woman. Every woman should have a
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man. It's the incontrovertible law of the universe. Can they you should have
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a man? You sure I'm no longer a man. I'm a sprite transtending
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the world. We'll stop transcending a moment and come down to earth. We've
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got a job to do poetic how I get it. We've got a job
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to do for money. Eventually, Oh one of those, very well,
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miney bring me up to date. I don't really know if I can or
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none good, and I shall leave and return to me formula. Oh no,
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what I mean is the whole stories are fantastic. You never believe it,
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I might primate, can they? Well? I get on a cable
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car and sit next to a character reading the Wall Street Journey. A strange
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coupling a cable car and the Wall Street Journal. Yeah, and when we
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get to the end of the line, my friends next to me is dead.
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Apple Blaze. The ride down the hill frightened him to death. Eh.
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He looked like a used punchboard. He had a neat little bullet hole
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through his heart. Candy, my little badger in a friend in the pink
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skirt is more believable than what you just told me. I told you it
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was fantastic, but none of how it happened now. Sooner or later,
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Mallard is going to come out of his fog. And when he does,
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I'm going to be out of a fee. See that's so far doesn't exist.
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It will if my hunt is right. Now, here's what I want
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you to do. Go down to the Chronicle and get all the backfiles you
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can on Southern Island Steamship Company. The Chronicle a pleasure. I have a
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few questionable companions there who indulge in formulas. Stay away from those companions and
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just do as I ask. Very well, mind love, I go,
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but entirely against my will. And where will you be around town? Rem
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brand, I've got to do some legwork. Let me assure you, Candy,
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you have just the right equipment for it too. What a joint.
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I'll bet they mount slip gullets on the walls instead of deer heads. Well,
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come on, Candy, get your tools out and screw up your courage.
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Yes, what'll it be? Nothing right at the moment except in information
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information water both FRAE. What do you want to know? I'm looking for
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the purser off of Dwight Sonia. I hear he does his shore duty in
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here. That's right, named Campbell. I'd head on the table. All
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of their belongs to him. Thanks, Hello sailor, Hey Campbell, wake
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up? Come on snapper out of it? Who are you what? My
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name is Candy Metz, and I want to ask a question. I'm only
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drinking, not until I find out what I want to know. Dwight Ellsworth
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was murdered this morning. I thought that would bring you to Oh that's the
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nicest news I've heard since VJ Day? What do you want to know?
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Where does his brother live? That's stuge. He's got about as much spine
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as a water reel. Never mind, I want to find him. He
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seems to keep his whereabout. The secret is an atomic stockpile. The whole
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family ought to be knocked off. Hey, he lives out on Sickliff twenty
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five dash Road. Good a bartender by my friend, little reward and one
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for yourself too. Oh so far, so good? Oh how did I
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know about Campbell the purser? Let you see, I have quite a few
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friends, most of whom my pel Mallard doesn't approve. So I grabbed the
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cabin, navigated the driver out towards Seacliff. It was so foggy I couldn't
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see the meter, but I paid him anyway, gave him a neutral tip
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and dismissed him. There it was twenty five Dashel Road, an austere looking
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Cabania, one that dared you to ring the front doorbell. I dared.
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I had the awful feeling I should have been around at the side door delivering
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hand laundry. Good evening, well except for the fog. Yes, is
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mister Ellsworth in? Yes, here, But I'm afraid I must ask you
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to leave there. There's been a death in the family. I know That's
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why I'm here. Come in, please, thank you, walk this way
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please. Oh, I'm afraid I couldn't even if I lived to be one
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hundred. Mind your tongue, young lady. You're in the house of an
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Elswelle. Oh weighty toity. The old babe had delusions of grandeur. Well,
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no need to get up at it with me. I've mingled with royalty.
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I once played a bit part in Rita Hayworth's picture. But this old
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gal was really something. She couldn't have been more than forty five, yet
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looked like something out of the Barretts of Wimpole Street. She ushered me into
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a large ceiling living room, and there on the divan was my boy,
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his head lowered into his hands, and quite obviously touched quite a Roger.
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This young lady is here to see you. I don't believe you mentioned your
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name, Candy Matson Madsen. You in shipping too of a sort. Oh
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well, this is my wife, Miss Madson. You'll pardon me if I
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don't seem hospitable. But my brother was murdered this morning. I know I
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was sitting next to him when it happened. You don't talk to her,
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Roger, I don't trust her. This whole thing is a threat of some
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kind. No, it's not a threat. It's a business proposition. I'll
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come right to the point. You see. I'm a private detective. Oh,
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one of those persons. Put your nose back down, missus Ellsworth.
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I want to get the show on the road. Yes, I'm a private
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detective, and I'm in a spot too. The police think I'm connected with
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the case in some way, so I'm here for a double purpose. I'm
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listening, miss Madison. Roger, I forbid you to speak with this woman
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too late, Missus Ellsworth. Now this is it. I'm in this business
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to make money. Give me a check now for three hundred dollars, and
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I'll find out who killed your brother, and I'll also clear myself. Roger,
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I'm warning you naturally. You want to see the killer of your brother
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brought to justice, don't you, mister Ellsworth, don't you all right?
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Yes, yes, here are I'll make a checkout right now, thank you.
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Just make it out to Candy Mets and payable today. A lovely collection
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of guns you have, mister Elswick. You hunt much? Oh yes,
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yes, my wife and I are quite fond of shooting. She's an excellent
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shot. Here you are, Thank you. I'll be in touch with you
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sometime tomorrow. Mister Reid didn't say a word. She just stood there against
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the fireplace and shot sparks through me. After I waved the check in the
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air a few times to dry the ink, she showed me to the door.
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Very clever, aren't you taking advantage of a weak willed ma'am? I
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wonder who made him that way. Don't cash that check, I mean it.
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Don't cash that check, missus Elsworth three hundred dollars. I need the
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money badly. I need some new roles for my player pian. I know
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I buzzed back downtown. I wanted to cash that check in a hurry.
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And you have only one person who would give me the crisp green at that
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hour of the night. Uncle Charlie, the honest miller who ran the chase
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room. Uncle Charlie, in the strict sense of the word, was a
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gentleman. So with a tender little pat on my cheek, he cashed the
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check and I went up Telegraph Hill and home. All of a sudden,
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my eyes did a couple of inverted loops. All my lights were on.
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Who's in here? All right? Speak up, Candy, the light of
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my life. Come join our party. Oh rem Branch, you gave me
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a scare. You don't scary, see either, Candy, that's something on
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your mind. And Mallard, well, how ducky at midnight? To are
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what goes on here? Chicken you had in the icebox? It is delicious,
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It was delicious. Looks like you've done everything but eat the bone.
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No vintage is suburb too, Candy, have a little formula? No,
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now, come on, what gives that's my line? Candy? What gibbs
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You're in on? Something? I want to know about it? Oh Mellard,
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believe me, it's nothing. I'm just trying to parley a couple of
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hunches, tall hunches. Look at all those clippings on the south Sea Island
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Steamship Company, what are they for? I meant to tell you, Candy,
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I had remarkable success down the chronicle has everything you want on that steamship
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line. Now, Brandt, did you have to tell the whole world?
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Candy? You tied me unnecessarily. I merely had the clippings on the table.
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Red Hawkshaw here walks in on me. Okay, Candy take it from
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there. I can't tell you yet, Mellard. Nothing makes sense yet.
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I've got about four loose ends that need tying off. I'd only put two
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men to following you. I'd save myself a lot of great Two days,
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that's all, Mellard. Just give me two days. I think I'll have
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it for you, all right, But don't forget the boys down at Turney
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Street headquarters. Don't love you the way I do. Two days, no
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more or less. I gotta go. Thanks for the foul chicken, A
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very gay. Here, rem brand here's fifty dollars for you. Fift day
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my work. What's all this talk about the recession? Go on and take
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it. Go someplace and stabilize the economy. I whipped through the old newspaper
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clipping. It was all there. Fire at sea on ellsworthship. Two steamen
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lost off Ellsworthship near Honolulu, south Sea island line ship loses rudder and storm.
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On and on it went over a period of three years. I threw
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the papers back on the table, helped myself to some of Rembrandt's formula,
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turned down the lights, and went out on the porch. The day was
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dark except for an occasional path of light from a passing crater. I sat
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down to think and think. Then quick click, just like that, two
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little timbers. My mind fell into place. Only one thing to do,
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and that was to do it the hard way. The next morning, just
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as the Ferry building siren was announcing eight o'clock to downtown San Francisco, I
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got rem brand on the phone. Can they what on earth you're calling me
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for this hour? Can't help it, there's work to be done. I
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did my work last night so extremely well that I'm just going to bed now.
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Sorry, you'll just have to delay your sack time. Meet me at
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the corner of Mason and Union in ten minutes, right where the cable car
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stops. Now, what are we going to do? We're going to take
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a cable car ride one of those bouncing, jugging little contraptions. Not the
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way I feel this morning. Oh yes you are Union and Mason in ten
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minutes. All right, ram Brandt, get on. This is the silliest
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thing you've ever done. Can they Maybe we'll see Dwight Ellsworth was already on
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the car when I got on. Here and a lie a good hotel.
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He mumbled something when I asked him to move. Allounds logical, although I
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wont remember stumbling into a corpse who mumble for hours after it been liquid at
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it? Rembrandt was on in one of his rambling moods, so I let
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him alone. The car pulled over Mason Street, down Washington, and then
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swung on to Powell and up the hill. Now I watched the buildings and
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apartments carefully. There was a little red brick building, now a big apartment
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house, a woman's residence, club, and so on. Then over the
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hill, more apartments than the possibilities petered out of Bush. Well, only
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one thing to do, canvas all those blocks between Washington and Bush. Okay,
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Rembrandt off the car the stranger's corpse. I ever did say, what'd
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you say? Candy? Off the car. Come on, now what I
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just want to get to bed. Well not for a long time, boy,
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Blue. Now here's the pitch. You take this building and I'll take
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the next. We'll alternate as we go along. Ask if a tall woman
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with a horsey face and dressed something like Queen Victoria ever lived around here.
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Oh, Candy, I know it sounds wild, but it's got to be
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done, of course, with a tall face and dressed something like that.
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And Brent, look at me, get that smoke out of your brain.
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A tall woman with a horsey face and dressed something like Queen Victoria. You
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got it, got it, Okay, get going. It was slow and
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tiresome, and the answers. I got a tall gal dressed like Queen Victoria.
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Oh, sister, that was about par Nobody liked that I ever left
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here. Are you positive, Dame will fetch that description? Yeah, I'm
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positive. The morning wore on, and so did we. We were over
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on the other side of California Street. Now, so we stopped and had
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a bite to eat. I had pickles with mine, and rem Bred had
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olives on tooth thicks in a glass. And again we picked up the hunt.
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My heart was suddenly making with a rumba. There just on the other
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side of Clay, in front of a three story red brick house, was
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a police squad car. There was a little knot of people gathered around,
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daintily lifting my crinolin, and I didn't mail patten down the block and up
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the front steps. I didn't have any trouble finding the room. The door
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was wide open and there was a body on the floor. Four representatives of
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the law were buzzing back and forth. One of the buzzies was Mallard.
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Well, my little ambassador of violence, Why is it you're always around the
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extremely dead Candy. I've got no time to brandy the ad libs Mallard.
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Who is it? I don't know yet, no identification. Let me see
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h a pen pal. Maybe I was right. I knew it, knew
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it, knew what You're right. He was a pen pal. He wrote
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me a check last night for three hundred dollars. His name is Roger Ellsworth.
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Very interesting. Must be open season on Ellsworth's. Okay, Candy,
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time you filled in in the blanks. Start Wait a minute, I want
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to look at the window over here, m Mallard. There are a couple
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of younger Ellsworth's living around town here. I'm sure you'd like to see them.
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Stay healthy. Get out to twenty five dash of road and pick up
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an old crone also named Ellsworth. Five will get you twenty. She's the
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one you're after. Uh, all right? Did you get back to your
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place and stay put? Understand? I want to have a more illuminating chat
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with you. Oh, mald I'm just like putty in your hands. The
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moon was coming up over Diablo and spraying a path of silver on the bay.
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Still no mallards. I wondered, what could be wrong? This was
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it? This was a showdown. Have you seen a tall face with a
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horsey woman? Oh? Randy, I'm so mad at you. I could
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oh see? Now, what's the matter? What's the matter? She says,
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I've been rolling all over Powell Street ringing doorbells. Where did you go
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trade her brand? I'm sorry? And in the excitement I forgot all about
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you? What the excitement? There's been another murder In a moment, that's
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going to be another. I'm looking right at you. Can they cool?
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Have some formula and stop snorting steam? What was that? Your window?
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Candy just shattered? What? Wait a minute, that window didn't shatter by
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itself. Quick, get the lights, rim Brandt. Now, duck down
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here. That's a silly game we're playing. Now, this isn't a game,
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believe me, Andy, Andy, all right, Yike sits the gum
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shoe. Yes, I'm all right. Where are you? Mallard? Over
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here? Two houses over? I got your girlfriend trapped on the roof next
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to you. Don't move and stay cover. Okay, all right, this
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is don't work? They coming down peacefully? Or do we have to play
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pops her off? I'm not coming down until I get that Candy nuts.
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She did. She washed me to kill my own ruggert law of it's your
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own wife, Okay, looten her up a bit, boys off of July.
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Keep your head down, Rembranton. Why did it come down? This
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work? No? Not that sham. She's rowing my whole life. Oh
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my god, just because of her snooping and cry. She's gone. I
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tell you it was a miracle. Candy. You must have moved slightly just
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as she shot at you. It was too close. I can tell you.
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She's dead, Oh decidedly. I think she was dead before she hit
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the ground. That one shot got her. We went out to her house,
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and she was just driving off when we got there. We trailed her
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up to North Beach, lost her for a block, and then spotted a
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car at the top of the hill. Here. We arrived just as she
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was getting on the roof next door. Okay, now you tell me your
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little drain. Well, it was that ship docking that sept my wheels going
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around. The name Ellsworth started burning in back somewhere. You saw the clippings
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we dug up. The south Sea Island steamship lines were slowly being sabotaged.
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I did some checking and I found that the insurance companies weren't going to renew.
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Ah. I don't know why I didn't tie that in sooner. Oh,
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it's just that you have too many things on your mind, mallard did.
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I went out to the place on Dashall Road, and when I left
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I was pretty sure the old girl had knocked off her brother in law.
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Why well, for several reasons. One she was a venomous old witch.
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Two, you've never seen such a collection of guns in all your life.
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And her husband admitted she was a darn good shot. I also saw one
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little pot gun that was very interesting. It had a silencer on it.
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Uh huh. That was the one she used on you tonight, and also
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the one she used on Dwight Hillsworth from the window of that apartment where you
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found her. Go back there, you'll see a nice little bullet hole in
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the curtain with burned powder all around it. Now, don't tell me that.
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Yes, I'm telling you that she rented that place knowing that her brother
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in law always went downtown on a certain cable car. She waited that morning
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until we were riding by, and she plucked him. I have now heard
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everything and the reason. Dwight Ellsworth, rather than fighting the insurance companies,
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had decided to sell his steamship line, but the old gal thought she'd beat
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him to the punch by knocking him off. The steamship company would then fall
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into her husband's hands. Ah, what about her husband. Well, after
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he gave me the check and I left, they evidently had a fearful row
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and she spilled the beans. Somehow, she lured him down to that place
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in Powell and gave him some lead poisoning tool. And that's all there is
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to it. Candy. I wish you'd have told me all these things earlier.
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We might have been able to save the life of Roger Ellsworth. It
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wouldn't do any good because if she hadn't killed him. I was going to
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what m while I was waiting for you to get here, the phone rang.
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It was Uncle Charlie, the honest miller. That no good. Roger
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Ellsworth, his check bounced like a brand new golf ball. What's so funny?
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Mallard listening again to the further adventures of Candy Mattson girl Sucker. Well,
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that's the way it goes. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.
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In this case, nobody did except Rembrandt. He stucked his dark room with
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fifty dollars worth of formula. And that's the kind you use on negatives either.
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Let's see murder on a cable card, d White and Roger Ellsworth done
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in as well as the old gal one check that bounced. It really does
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sound fantastic, doesn't it. But I told you this was radio, didn't
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I. Oh, wait a minute, maybe I did come out ahead of
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that On the way out. Mallard, Lean done kissed me the first time
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it ever happened. You know, at times, it's kind of fun to
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be in the arms of the law. Listen again next week at the same
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time. For excitement and adventure, Just dial Candy Madson yukon two eight,
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two oh nine. Heard tonight were Helen Cleeve, Jack K. Hill and
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Harry Becko, Jack Thomas, Is Rembrandt and Henry Lavas Mallard. The program
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stars Natalie Masters as Candy and is written and produced by Monty Masters. This
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has been a presentation of NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome Back,
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Candy Madson continued on the radio, I should say from nineteen forty nine to
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nineteen fifty one, there'd be a lot of changes from this particular episode.
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The idea of Rembrandt being a drunk would pretty much go away. This program
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was released after the success of Pat Novak for Hire, and it's clear that
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they were kind of going to imitate that here. The show would be hugely
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popular over its two year run over the radio. It would only air on
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West Coast stations, and in some way it's over reliance on its San Francisco
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setting may have been a bit of a limiting factor as well. Though I
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should say that many programs were said in New York and that didn't seem to
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produce a problem. Overall, This is a nice slice of radio and a
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very unusual program. There are only fourteen episodes in existence, but if you
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want more, Candy Matson, you can go down to the Thousand Oaks Library
33:57
where they have scripts for more than eighty episode that's in Thousand Oaks, California.
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At any rate, that will do it for today. We'll be back
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tomorrow with the Saint and Uh. In the meantime, send you a comments
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