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Philip Marlowe: The Orange Dog (EP1331) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. The Orange Dog, a startled corpse, a
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blue eyed woman, and a cryptic message scrolled by a dying man with the
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pieces of a Chinese puzzle. It wouldn't fit together until I found out what
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was deadly about the Orange Dog. Well, the pen of Raymond Chandler,
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Adventures of Philip Marlowe. And now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe,
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we bring you tonight's exciting story The Orange Dog. By six, in the
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evening of a very slow day, I had resigned myself to the business of
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no business. So I took my feet down from my desk, switched off
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the lights, and started out the door for home, with the prospect of
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a nice, quiet evening ahead of me. But I didn't make it even
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as far as the door. Oh hello, Philip marlow Now, my name
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is Shelly Martin. I'm an eighty four to twelve lost peenus of private residence.
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I want you to come out here right away. My sister is in
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a jam nasty one. Well, miss Martin. As a matter of fact,
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I was just closing up for the night. That was you. I
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need the services of a private detective right now, this minute, and I
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prepared to pay for them there are plenty of others in town. Are you
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coming or not? Yeah? Yeah, okay, And thanks for the reminder.
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That's me. You hear sprinting at your front walk. That's much better.
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And Marlow, bring your brains along, you're going to need them.
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And that was the end of my quiet evening. But I just couldn't resist
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those government engravings of mister Lincoln. So I drove down to west and turned
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off on Los Pheless and found the number eighty four to twelve. The yard
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was an overgrown tangle of perennial plants losing their battle with the weeds. It
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was like a girl in a strapless evening garden with her hair up in curlers.
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However, I could see a light through the Venetian blinds, and the
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door bell worked with a resonant two tone chime that caused the door to open
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just far enough to allow a pair of eyes so blue they were almost purple
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to peek out of me. Yes, what is it? I am delivering
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that private detective you ordered? Oh, Marlow, come in, thanks,
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sit down, won't you? Thanks again? All right, what's the next
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move. It's about my kid's sister. She's involved with a man named lou
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Horner. San Francisco broke her. She's quite deeply involved. I'm afraid.
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Oh, you see, some very strange things are going on, Marlow,
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and my sister is a naive kid caught right in the middle of them.
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Yeah, I see what sort of strange things, miss Martin. Shelley sweet
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Well, to begin with, when I arrived from San Francisco today, my
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sister called me and asked me to meet her here in this house. When
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I got here, the lights were on, the radio was playing, and
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the front door was open, but the place was deserted. Whose house is
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it, honors? No, I think she said. It belongs to a
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friend of his who's in Europe. Now, this hornor person uses it when
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he's in Los Angeles. Well, couldn't they have stepped out for a while?
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You know, you don't look at side, Shelley. But maybe you're
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just panicky. No, I'm not being panicky? All right, all right,
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where's the nasty jam right behind the couch? Take a look? Okay,
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but you know, I, oh, I see what you mean.
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Who is he, Shelley? How to get here? Maybe as Horner?
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I don't know. I tried to search him, but I couldn't. It
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wouldn't have helped anyway. Over shot him, cleaned him out, no wallet,
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no papers, nothing. I found this magazine lying under his hand.
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Look here, he must have written this just before he died. Where's that
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here? It says, call Marion tonight about the orange dog a foe,
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his dog a foe for what. That's why I called you, Phil.
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Marion is my sister, and whatever the orange dog of foe is, it
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must be awfully important. We've got to find out what it means, Phil,
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for Marion's sake. So far it means murder, honey, and that's
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what the curt Well all right, call them, but keep Marion's name out
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of it. A thing like this could destroyer. Look, maybe she pulled
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a trigger on our friend here. Maybe, but I don't think so.
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She's a sweet kid, Phil, Give her a break. If I'm wrong,
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I swear I'll help you bring her in myself. That's fair enough,
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Okay, Shelly's a deal. It makes just as much sense as the orange
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dog full, but no more. After I checked as far as I could
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on my client and set her home, which was the Village twelve with the
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Wilshire Gardens Hotel, I ripped the general squeegy tire ad with a message scribbled
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across it out of the magazine, pulled it up and stuck in my pocket.
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Next, I call Liukenedy Barrett Homicide and told him where I'd found a
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body, probably named Lou Horner, leaving out all the details about Shelley Marion
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and the Orange dog. And I started out the door, but that back.
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As a shadow swim across the walk, I caught a glimpse of a
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large, ugly head of long, dirty hair set on a small, ugly
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body that was moving fast. By the time I got out on the walk,
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long hair was already putting mileage on a green coop with a broken tail
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light. It winked mockingly as and went out of sight. So I got
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in my car and headed for New Chinatown. It was a logical place to
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get some information regarding a Chinese dog. I saw a light filtering through a
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bingy window, huminating the words James Tang dealer in oriental curios. Inside the
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musty shop, a little man dressed in a black kimono drifted phone softly.
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Yes, I think perhaps you can help me, huh. I am honored
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to be able to help, would bring fragrance of plum blossoms to my nostrils,
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carpet of rose petals to my humble floor, and a thousand blessings upon
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my head. That was very pretty. Tell me what is the dog of
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foe? The dog of four? Why? Why this this fantastic creature here
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is called dog of phol? His fierce eyes and snarling mouth? How to
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frighten away evil spirits from temples and Buddha? Why do you say called the
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dog of pol Amateur collectors and auctioneers have named him that it sounds exotic to
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ysh customers. Actually is a lion, the lion of Korea? I see
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tang. Would you happen to have an orange dog of phone? Very strange
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that you should ask that, my friend strange? Why written number one?
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There is no authentic orange dog a pooh. That's a good reason. Why
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not? Because two Buddhists, orange is color of sorrow. The piece you
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speak of could not possibly be authentic. What's raised number two? You are
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second person to inquire after this non existent orange dog of poo within the last
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few minutes? Was it an ugly little man with long hair? Quite contrary,
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it was very pretty girl with short hair. Was her name Marion.
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She made point of not leaving her name. Now it proved something, however,
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my friend, all Chinese proverb, loosely translated says, a little knowledge
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is the instrument of a fool. There were nine other curio shops in the
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neighborhood, so I started making the rounds for a non existent orange dog of
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foe and a girl who was interested in one. From the first three shops
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I got a fast horse laugh and the fact that the girl was still ahead
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of me. The next two added an insular piece and a total blank on
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the day, and from the sixth called Saxon's, a glossy, well ordered
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place on West seventh Street. The only effect was a coldly curious raised eyebrow.
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A man in front of me, whom I took to be mister Saxon
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himself, was a gaunt white Russian with a high naked head the color of
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warm parafine. The slender fingers played nervously with each other as we talked see
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orange dog of four. Yes, I have heard of such a piece.
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I think it would be porcelains. Probably this is your business. Who has
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it? Mister Saxon? Can you tell me no, No, I'm sorry.
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I believe I heard this orange dog mentioned just once somewhere down in the
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village. But I'm sure I could never remember who spoke of it or when,
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no idea of its value. Then huh, now that you mentioned it,
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I seem to remember the figure twenty thousand? You mean, yeah,
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how much in American money? I am speaking of American money. It would
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be an importation from China. You know, how could it be worth that
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much? It's not even authentic, mister Saxon, partent. You seem to
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know a good deal more than I about this orange dog. Possibly one would
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have to see it to appreciate its value. Yeah, tell me it's a
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girl. But in here a night looking for this orange dog? The girl
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I know? Now anybody named Marian? Marian Marian? No, there is
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no one in my acquaintance by that name. But why do you ask?
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Because Marian has quite an interest in the orange dog. I have a feeling
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that make a great team if we could get him together. I see,
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And what is your name? Say? It's not full manchew, mister Saxon.
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Good night. Saxon's expression didn't change. I turned and walked out of
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the place, and then, because with both of us using double talk,
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the conversation was boond at deteriorate. At least I had found out that the
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orange dog befoe existence. It was going for a very high figure, especially
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for a phony. And it didn't take an abacus to figure out that Saxon
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knew more than he told me. Now, I started up the sidewalk for
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the next brickup Brack and poor im when I saw something park on the side
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street which brought me to a halt. It was that green coop with a
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broken tail light. I went over to it, found it empty, and
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stuck my head inside to check the registration card for long Hair's real name.
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Yeah, it was a very foolish move because long Hair at that very moment
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proughted my kidney with the muzzle of at thirty eight, and neither he nor
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a gun had a sense of humor. All right, mis, a wise
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guy, come on, walk, You and me are gone up the alley
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here. It doesn't matter. Don't you feel it home in the light?
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Shut up. I don't like it much anyways, But he's off with a
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smart science. Okay, this is fun of woll mis. The wise guy
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did you find what you're looking for. You me and the orange dog,
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Shorty. The answers, no, yes dog. So that's where the plate
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shot? What plates? You're working for Horner? You don't know what places
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look chim when you get your next haircut. Have your brains dusted off.
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Nobody works for Horner anymore. Horne is dead. That just what? What's
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the surprise act for? You saw the body you were sneeping around that house
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on lost Felis, In fact, you might have killed Horna yourself. I
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thought he wasn't Hornaway honor three times the size that I lost Felis. He's
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bored. Oh so he's so dumb he can't remember his own phone up.
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I'll look at for all the street where they follow, isn't I'm sorry,
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Joe, I want I'll blow your brain shirt, all right, Come on,
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mister wise guy, tell me what Horne has got on his mind?
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You know, all right? I saw you taking orders from this girl,
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I mean Shelley Martin. Who else? But maybe it meant Marion? Who
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was Marion Shelley Marttin's sister. And don't let her worry. Marian's got the
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orange dog getting out of her hand. That they funny muster. It's just
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peculiar because Shelley Martin don't have a sister right now, so it seems like
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you're a very mixed up character. In fact, mister wise guy, you're
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so mixed up you're not good to me at all. Get over there with
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the rest of that. I took my time getting up. A dirty,
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long haired little man was gone my headache and a rabbit giving me with a
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pistol barrel, and I was disgusted with myself try dirty, disgusted like a
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drunke at sunrise because a nasty little jerk with an oversized head and a blue
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eyed dynamo with auburn hair at me jumping through hoops like a trained ape.
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He stood in the alley and swirre at myself until the futility of that routine
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dawned on me, and I decided to go hunting. But I made one
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stop first at a telephone to at least get a barrow off my conscience.
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Hollo, lieutenant, I just found out that body and lost philis isn't horner.
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I that an hour ago. Huh, the body isn't horn, isn't
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horn, It is no broke. He's account of it or a big one
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though. The dead man was a treasury agent, aamed slat who was closing
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in on on it. So if you've got anything you haven't told video,
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better get it off your chest. At this point, it's a pleasure girl
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named Shelly Martin's calling the signals about now and she could be found at Villa
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twelve, Wiltshire Gardens Hotel. Yeah, hurry, you'll just about meet me
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Therey Barra. No wait, suppose you go alone and find out what you
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can't first. That's a switch I'll follow in half an hour. Let's not
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freeze her up, mallow, Let's keep her talking. Okay, okay,
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Bora, that's easy for it. She's got a FOURD tongue, only this
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Orange Dog. When I pointed my car toward the Wilship Gardens and a beautiful
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liar named Shelley Martin, I was sure of two things. The plates that
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long Haired wise cracked about just before he piled me into a row of garbage
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cans were the engraved kind that counterfeit is used to make money the easy way.
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And second, both long Hair and lou Harna were racing for the plates,
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as well as the Orange Dog, which could be one and the same
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thing. But twenty minutes later, as I pulled up near a Villa twelve,
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which was strips of yellow light raised voices drifting out of half open Venetian
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blinds, I forgot about the gentleman involved and concentrated on a lady who didn't
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have a sister, called Marion. I went around to the back of the
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villa, where I found the service door unlocked in the kitchen beyond dark.
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And when I entered and quietly moved to a spot near the living room where
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I could see Shelley snapping at a pompous, excitable man with a red face.
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I figured that a little leaves dropping might pay off. I'm here in
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Los Angeles. Is there anything wrong with that, mister Horner? Yes?
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Everything. Why I wouldn't even have known you were in town if I hadn't
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gone back to the place on Lost Philis where I saw you and some man
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having a delightful little chit chat over the body of the tea man. Yes,
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is that who he was? Meddle, some fool I caught snooping from
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my papers then, and you killed him, Lou, Of course I killed
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him. I had to. No, I'll stop asking questions and get out
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of here, because this is business, not pleasure, Shelly, and that
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leaves no room for you. Oh Marion, What do you know about Marion?
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Not enough for what I do know. I don't like look, Lou,
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who is Marian and what does she mean to you? Marian means money
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to me, Shelley, nothing more. So just leave me alone here so
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that I can make a call according to schedule. A call, Lou.
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That's the matter of Shelley. Behind you, Lou, there in the garden.
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The crash through a closed window didn't stop until I got the Horner,
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who grabbed his chest and dropped to the floor even before the glos quit flying.
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And by the time I got outside where the shot had come from,
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I found nothing but a little wind rustling a lot of trees. And I
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got back to Shelley and the blood of a tweet on the carpet. Hannah
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was already dead. Marlow follow the man out. There was Henry Peel,
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Peel something in long hair and dirty clothes. Yes, I met him in
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Horner's office once. Lou said he was a broker from chicag Come on,
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both Peel and Horner are counterfeiters. What blue accounterfeit? That's right. Never
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mind the carefully arched eyebrows, Honey, they mean nothing but Marlowe, I
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swear I never knew that Horner was anything but a broker, A broken maltreating
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poor sister Marion. You're a liar, Shelley about Marion, Yes, I
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haven't even got a sister. But from there on out, I'm telling the
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truth. Film and tell some more and fast. All right here it is
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blue. Horner's been my boy and check book for the past year and a
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half. But about a month ago he suddenly stopped being very attendive, and
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I couldn't figure out why. So you decided to keep your big blue eyes
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wide open exactly, And it paid off because I found out that one he
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had taken better than twenty thousand dollars out of his bank account, two that
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he was coming down he had a Los Angeles and three then a knightem named
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Marian might be beating your time, Yes, And that part of it upset
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me plenty until ten minutes ago. But then I found out that Horner here
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was a murderer and that Marlow I don't buy three cheers for the all American
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girl. Oh skip it, Marlow. I'll live my way, you live
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yours. Don't worry, honey, nobody wants to change places with you.
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Hey, hey, look, why does Horna wear a little rubber band on
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his little figure? Do you know. Oh, he had a bad memory,
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used every kind of gadget in the books to keep himself from forgetting things,
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especially numbers. For example, that rubber band might mean ten o'clock.
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How do you figure like five and five? The fingers on each hand reading
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from left to right, use things like that. Wait a minute, Hornor
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was going to make a call a Marion just now, And the message the
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tea man left was call Marion tonight about the Orange Dog? A pole baby?
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Where's your phone? Fast? Come on, it's quarter after ten already?
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What's out there in the hall? MANA what are you talking about?
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A line? Honey, A line and your ex sister Marian. This has
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lou Horner. Mister Saxon, I know I'm some fifteen minutes late with this
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call, but I'd still like to see you about the Orange Dog of Foles.
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The Orange Dog is here waiting for you. Good. I'll be right
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over. Who is mister Saxon? A man very close to a lot of
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trouble Shelley. Now look, you wait right here for the law, and
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in particular one lieutenanty Borough. Tell him nothing but the truth about Horner and
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what he meant to you in dollars and cents. And you may be all
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right, But where are you going? Mana to a curio shop on West
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seventh Street, to see, among other things, the orange dog of full
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You are the mister Hornor who called Yeah yeah, also the one who was
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here this afternoon, you remember, Oh yeah, Well, I I'm sorry
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I didn't call you a ten, mister Saxon, according to schedule. I
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hope it hasn't inconvenienced you. No, that's quite all right, mister Horner.
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One moment, sir, doesn't matter. Is anything wrong tonight? See
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my age, mister Saxon. I am so please, mister Horner. Don't
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make a single stupid move? What mine? Why the gun? Mister Saxon,
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I promise not to bite the orange dog. You won't even touch the
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orange dog. No, who are you? Now? We've been all through
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that. I'm Horner Saxon, Lou Horner of San Francisco. You're not Hornor
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would have had no reason to wander around curio shops as you did this afternoon,
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asking any and everybody about the orange dog. No, once more,
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who are you? And where is the real Lou Hornor? All right,
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we'll take him in that order I'm a private detective named Philip Mallow, and
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lou Horner is a copse. But also I'm a good friend of yours because
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I'm going to give you a little bit of advice for free. Call it
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quits, Buster lickt. What are you talking about? Marlow the tea for
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treasury man named Slade. Before he died, Saxon he talked, I see
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and believe me, he said, enough to put you away. Orange dogs
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are as popular as life savers. What do you say, Saxon? We
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play it smart, very well, Marlowe. We will play it smart,
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my kind of smart. Now turn around and walk through that curtain there.
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I want to show you some orange dog maybe, yes, the orange dog
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off fall. I want you to see it for yourself before you die.
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Saxon said, die like it already happened. After he relieved me of the
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comforting bulge of the gun in my pocket, marched me to a large windowless
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room that was a little duck in the lining of an eight ball. He
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told me to stand very still, and he turned on a single lamp that
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rested on a large scarred table and next to an inn ordinary shipping crate and
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cushion on all sides. It's my white wrapping paper. I finally saw the
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Orange Dog be full. It was a porcelain lion, popeyed, majestic in
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a crazy way. And also it was colored orange, bright and clear.
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But now that I'd seen it, I knew the next move was Saxon's.
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I turned to face him. It was then that I noticed the black curtain
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behind him moved slightly, and long hair quietly stepped into the room. This,
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mister Saxon did not know. Well, Marlow, now that you have
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seen the Orange Dog for your first and last time, what do you think
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of it? It takes It's just jet therdy, mister. I'll drop your
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gun before I blowed it top of your head off. Gone drop, It's
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better I sit down there and stay put. You Marlow, get across the
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room. Okay, thanks for showing up. Heel before Saxon here ran out
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of small jokes. Okay yourself, Marlow, I didn't just show up.
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I've been right behind you all the way. That's how I work. So
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what do you want for you? A couple of very fine and gray place
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that I've been after for six months now, lights which could be in the
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Orange Dog, A full no place else. But what do you think that
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maybe the late mister Horner wanted is annymo. But that's all it is.
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There are no plates for the orange dog. It is only a collector's And
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you're a liar, Sex, And I know the best way to prove that.
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Mar put that thing up and throws it against the wall. No,
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no, don't I tell you there's nothing. Go on? Okay, Peel,
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Ah, Now I will see who's right up about the plates? Seeing
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here? Nothing happy here? Ah? No? All right, Sex,
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and get up. I want to know what a place saw. So I'm
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going to count the three. That's how long you have to live if you
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don't tell me. No, no, Peel, believe me. There are
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no plates. So holl it, Peel. Wait? Here are the plates
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here in this jewel box? Look right here? And is he? Is
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he out? Marlow? Yeah, he's out, all right. He took
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a light with him too. Is there is there another lamp in here?
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Oh? No, there isn't not? Is there another gun? Why you
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sticking little? Wait a minute? Those siren saxony are heading this way?
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Police? Yeah, the police looks like sooner or later everybody gets together in
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the back room at Saxon. Everybody stays here, So I'll take this wrapping
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paper and leave now rapping paper that stuff that was around the Orange dog.
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Yes, a sample up the best grade of counterfeiting paper made Marlow, and
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that's what Warno was supposed to buy, not plate those he got a month
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ago. Still make sure a crook Saxon and one will never get past the
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front door. Oh no, we'll see about that. Marlow. Keep shooting
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Saxon in the dark. He got four shots left fifty only one now,
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Saxon, that's number six. Throw Saxon. By the time he Burrow and
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his boys, plus a half a dozen very anxious team men got into the
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room, Saxon was already coming apart at the seams. After a half hour
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of steady questioning, he split wide open and let us all to a basement
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hideout, where the teaman went wild over a few thousand sheets of A one
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counterfeiting paper. But an hour later, after Peel, who admitted murdering Lou
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Horner, and Saxon, who was ready for the nearest straight jacket, were
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both in the lock up, there was still the problem of the glib last
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from San Francisco. Finally, when Shelley, Lieutenant bar and I sed the
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green light of the globe in front of the police headquarters. I knew that
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the girl, who technically was only guilty with holding information from the police,
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was not going to spend any time in the pokey, because, after all,
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I was more or less guilty of the same thing. Besides, lieutenanty
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Burrow was still interested in the others. We allay, it looks like the
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whole business actually boils down to a single transaction between Clay Saxon, who had
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the out of hitting paper. Hello, Hannah was supposed to buy it.
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That's ready, borah. But Honnah, who must have made his contact with
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Saxon via some middleman in San Francisco, only had a telephone emburned the password
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the Orange Dog of Foe to work on here in La. But how do
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you get hold of that number? Phil from the message that t man left
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before he died. You mean you actually call someone named Mary? No,
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Honey, I just dialed Marion M. A. Madison r Io N seven
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four six six Madison seven four six six. You get it. Yeah,
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another one of Horner's screwy memory tricks, like the rubber band on his tenth
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fingers. Hey, that's pretty good, phil It's an old gimmick. Really,
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I read it in a dozen detective stories. You know, maybe I
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ought to read some of those. Well, good night, Philip. Look
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for you tomorrow night, Lieutenant Well, Shelley, I do I show you
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the way home? No, Mama, aren't you hungry or thirsty? Yeah?
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Yeah, yess I am at that. Well, I know just a
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place for us. Don Oh, it's a cute little place right smack in
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the middle of chin. Well. We got through a small Chinese dinner without
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seeing or hearing from a single orange dog, And when it came time to
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leave, I was thinking that Shelley wasn't really too bad to hit at that,
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so when she left the table to powder her nose, I started to
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my plans. But when she got back I forgot about them, because in
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the meantime she'd run into an old friend, a rich old friend who was
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all alone in the big city. I said, I didn't mind taking a
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raincheck when she explained that he was from Kansas City and a brooker at that.
28:48
He certainly was overweight so much steak and potatoes, steaking potatoes. Wonder
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Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back, a good story in the vein of a
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lot of Marlow's where you just throw Marlow into the situation and figure out which
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shady character is truly the perpetrator in this particular case, though it seems probable
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that any or all of them might have been behind it. Interestingly enough,
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this is not the only Philip Marlow episode known as The Orange Dog. There
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was actually a title in the NBC series from nineteen forty seven called the Orange
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Dog. And I was actually searching to see if Chandler wrote that, because
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they tended to in that series to use a lot more of Chandler's stories.
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But I found that this story and that one actually both were original. The
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plot of The Orange Dog from nineteen forty seven, and this comes from Digital
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that was trained for war and his possible connection with a brutal slain. One
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of the sound effects is a high pitched dog whistle that is inaudible to the
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human ears. Engineers say that when the whistle is blown, it should make
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dogs within the range of any radio plane the program to pick up their ears
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and run to the alloud speaker. That is an interesting radio special effect.
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I'm not certain dog owners would be pleased if they got that notice, and
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that was for nineteen forty seven's The Orange Dog as opposed to nineteen forty nine's
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which entirely different plot. Well, that will do it for today. We
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