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Philip Marlowe: The Sword of Cebu (EP1649) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of
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  Speaker 1: Philip Marlowe. The original air date March the twenty eighth
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen fifty and the title is The Sword of Sabo.
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  Speaker 2: Get This and Get It straight. Crime is a Sucker's
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  Speaker 2: road knows who travel had wind up in the gut
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  Speaker 2: of the prison of the Grave. This time I started
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  Speaker 2: with a Roumanian from left Field, got misled in the
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  Speaker 2: Philippine Jungles, chased the beautiful blonde clear of venice, and
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  Speaker 2: wound up with a friend from Siam, all without every
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  Speaker 2: leaving Los Angeles. It happened like this.
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  Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymond Trembler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
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  Speaker 3: comes his most famous grin the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
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  Speaker 3: Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
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  Speaker 3: you tonight's exciting story, The Sword of Save Boot.
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  Speaker 4: You could tell me where is the office of Philip Marlowe,
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  Speaker 4: the Detective?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe? Yeah, sure, right around the corner here your left.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you very.
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  Speaker 5: Much, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: You know this mister Marlowe? Y, yes, I think you
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  Speaker 2: could say I know him.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me he is a reliable man.
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  Speaker 2: Depends on what you want to rely on him for.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, what you want to want to lock the door?
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  Speaker 2: You are Philip marlow Yeah, you're so right. Come on in,
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  Speaker 2: mister never.
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  Speaker 4: Mind, now listen to me. I will pay you twice
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  Speaker 4: what Henry Pound has offered to you. Also, I will
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  Speaker 4: add to that one thousand dollars for a bony.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what is this Henry Pound?
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  Speaker 4: Because please, please, I have not the time for haggling.
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  Speaker 4: We may get two thousand dollars, but you must work
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  Speaker 4: for me, not for Henry Pound. You only pretend to
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  Speaker 4: work for him.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Look, but in the first place, I haven't heard
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  Speaker 2: from Henry Pound since I worked for him four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Second place, I still don't know who you are or
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  Speaker 2: what you want. Maybe a better sitana over there, start
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning and tell me lying.
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  Speaker 6: Right to freak me very well tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: The short, nappy man with wild black hair turned suddenly savage,
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  Speaker 2: swung a hard fistful of knuckles in my front teeth,
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  Speaker 2: and pawed me back up against my office desk. By
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  Speaker 2: the time I got out into the hall, he was gone.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna follow him with my phone screaming for
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  Speaker 2: attention inside stop me. I decided to be philosophical about it.
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  Speaker 2: After all, screwballs find me all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Marlow Hell, this is Henry Pound. Remember me?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I just had a reminder.
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  Speaker 7: I've been trying to get hold of you for two hours.
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  Speaker 2: My boy, where have you been to dinner? And now
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  Speaker 2: listen mister Pound.
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  Speaker 8: I just first, Mardo, this is most important.
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  Speaker 7: I need your help again immediately.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt includes the stubby crumb with a head full
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  Speaker 2: of wild black hair and a nasty tampa that left
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  Speaker 2: here on the run ten seconds ago. Great Babisco, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you call him, it's probably it Bibesco.
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  Speaker 6: Great Babesco.
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  Speaker 7: He's the one man I have reason to hear, Marlo,
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  Speaker 7: come out here to my place at once, will you,
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  Speaker 7: my boy? Oh, Henry Pound's future is dangling over a
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  Speaker 7: very deep abyss by the merest threat all because the
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  Speaker 7: sword is gone?
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  Speaker 2: What sword? What sord are you talking about, mister Palm.
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  Speaker 7: I'm the island of Simpo in the Philippines, the sword
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  Speaker 7: of simple what it means everything to me, and it's
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  Speaker 7: gone furnished.
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  Speaker 6: I must have it back. Hurry Marlow.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty minutes later, I pulled up in front of the
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  Speaker 2: wall in jungle. Henry Pound called home and zig zagged
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  Speaker 2: in through an okanawan at evil spirit gait waited past
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  Speaker 2: the grove and dripping elephant airs and right a banana trees,
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  Speaker 2: and finally made the front door the house itself from
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  Speaker 2: turned up eaves to patch nipa and I must have
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  Speaker 2: been gathered piece of me along the Pacific Islands, all
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  Speaker 2: the way from Hokkaido to the New Hebrides. Was Henry
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  Speaker 2: Pound himself once at the door, Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Marlow, you know the only thing wrong with you is
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  Speaker 8: I never get to see you except when I'm in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: It's the business I'm in. Come in comm here. It's
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  Speaker 2: quite a place you have here, mister Palm.
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  Speaker 8: The islands by boy, Yes, it's business. Keeps me away
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  Speaker 8: from them. I brought their atmosphere here to.
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  Speaker 2: Me, even the music, all with the mosquitoes.
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  Speaker 8: Oh shoeshoe, now stay away from underfoot?
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  Speaker 2: Will you want to get shoeshoe ear? That's an albino Siamese.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's quite unusual. But he sheds that abominable
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  Speaker 8: white furve. He is like a common cat this type
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  Speaker 8: of year. By the way, did you see my servant
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  Speaker 8: high deck?
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  Speaker 2: Was I supposed to?
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  Speaker 8: When I couldn't reach you by phone, I sent him
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  Speaker 8: down to your office to week roll.
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  Speaker 2: He must have gotten lost then, no matter.
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  Speaker 8: Let's get out the cases, my boy. Now sit down,
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  Speaker 8: sit down and listen.
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  Speaker 6: Close.
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  Speaker 8: All my major business, as you remember, is importing pearls
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  Speaker 8: from the Orient and since you worked for me last
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  Speaker 8: I acquired a partner, a fine fellow named Boss in Manila.
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  Speaker 8: With his contacts there and mine here in the stage,
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  Speaker 8: we've been extremely successful.
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  Speaker 2: I was either one who sent you that sort you mentioned.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, she arrived two days ago, but he said, over
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  Speaker 8: half the curios you see in this room. That's why
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  Speaker 8: I failed to realize that there was anything special about
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  Speaker 8: the sort of Say boo.
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  Speaker 2: What is so special about it, mister Palm?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, read this letter.
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  Speaker 2: I got fuming, Henry. I'm certain now there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be trouble from one Kurt Bibesco in particular. Yeah, However,
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  Speaker 2: I've taken every precaution rest assured Henry that if anything
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  Speaker 2: ever happens to me, I shall somehow get the complete
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  Speaker 2: list of my contacts here into your hands. Sincerely, Eugene Voss.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Eugene Voss was murgan four days ago in Manila,
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  Speaker 8: murdered for that list of contact.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think the sword ties in in some way?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm positive of it.
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  Speaker 2: What does it look like?
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  Speaker 8: It's it's three feet long, Marlow. The handle and the
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  Speaker 8: sheets are from the same gorgeous piece of white mahogany,
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  Speaker 8: and literally covered with intricate and exquisite carving.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds wonderful.
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  Speaker 8: When the sword is in the sheets, the two pieces
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  Speaker 8: form a complete pattern. I thought of it it once,
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  Speaker 8: of course, but when I came in to examine it again,
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  Speaker 8: it was gone stolen.
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  Speaker 6: Naturally.
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  Speaker 8: I called Junstead of the police. I've got to get
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  Speaker 8: it back Morrow intact and without publicity.
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  Speaker 2: White.
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  Speaker 8: That sword is wait, Hi deca, hey, he's hurt, missa Palm.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry he did not see hole, Missa Morrow.
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  Speaker 6: Dick was attacked outside the minicure.
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  Speaker 2: By a stocky guy with wild black hair.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, he finds out where high Decky was going.
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  Speaker 5: Then he tied not all high deck you remember, until
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  Speaker 5: a few minutes ago when he worked up.
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  Speaker 8: Do you need a doctor, hikky No.
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  Speaker 5: No, thank you, just the same, Miss p Hi taky
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  Speaker 5: already feel much better.
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  Speaker 6: Well if you're sure.
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  Speaker 8: If you were everywhere now you better go lie down.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, So thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We washed your head first on to be ship shaped
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  Speaker 2: more time. Very sorry.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, that explains how the bisco got to your office.
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  Speaker 2: My boy, he's a hor man or yeah, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think the bestco has the sword. You see, he's
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  Speaker 2: looking for it. He offered two thousand bucks to meet
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  Speaker 2: a double cross you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I can't understand it. The BESCO is the only
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  Speaker 8: one who might know the truth about the sword. If
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  Speaker 8: he didn't take it then, Oh so you're stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Can't get out there. I knew it.
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  Speaker 6: Now, see what you've done broken my chiling.
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  Speaker 2: He was playing with a piece of paper over there.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Oh yeah, here it is. It's a
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  Speaker 2: rent receipt may out of somebody, somebody named Saunders.
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  Speaker 9: Let me see it.
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  Speaker 8: Sure received forty dollars rent one month in advance for
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  Speaker 8: eight twelve Front Street, Venice. It's dated yesterday, Modal. I've
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  Speaker 8: never heard of dishonors person, yet this thing was dropped
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  Speaker 8: here in my house, perhaps by our thief model.
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  Speaker 2: Do you realize what a break this ease dropped? Isn't
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  Speaker 2: the word this was deposited? Oh you mean the planet.
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  Speaker 2: It's a planet, complete with name, address and date. I
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  Speaker 2: was left here by someone who wanted it to be found.
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  Speaker 2: Because whoever has the sort of say boo right now,
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  Speaker 2: I might also have it up for sale.
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  Speaker 6: I think you're right, my boy.
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  Speaker 2: What do you plan to do? The only thing I
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  Speaker 2: can do? Go to Venice and strike a bargain in
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  Speaker 2: our favor. I hope, I'll call you mister Palm. I
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  Speaker 2: pushed my way out through the jungle of my car,
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  Speaker 2: turned around at the dead end of the street, and
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  Speaker 2: went down the way I'd come. At the first intersection,
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  Speaker 2: leaning against the lamp post was six feet of lantern
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  Speaker 2: jawed redhead and a turtleneck sweater and seamen's jacket. Gave
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  Speaker 2: me a hard steady once silver until I was out
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  Speaker 2: of sight. Later, halfway to Venice, I picked up a
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  Speaker 2: pair of very sticky headlights in my rear view mirror,
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  Speaker 2: but lost them again. I turned out a front street
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  Speaker 2: and finally found number eight twelve, all by itself, out
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  Speaker 2: of the far end. I parked the block away and
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  Speaker 2: walked back. It was a battered rickety beat check. I
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  Speaker 2: moved in gently and found a crack wide enough to
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  Speaker 2: look through. There was no furniture, just one big packing crater,
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  Speaker 2: kerosene lamp, and a blonde. Oh what a blonde. She
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  Speaker 2: belonged in that joint like an orchid and a blacksmith.
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  Speaker 2: In one hand she held a cigarette and the other
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  Speaker 2: a small automatic. I went quietly at the back of
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  Speaker 2: the house found a tin cannon through it, and I
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  Speaker 2: plastered my back up beside the door and waited. She
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  Speaker 2: came out slowly, gunn first, and when there was enough
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  Speaker 2: showing to get a hold of, I grabbed my sister.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, KIV, that's better. Now we can go in
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  Speaker 2: and talk.
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  Speaker 10: Huh you think you're so clever?
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, hey, cozy little spots you.
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  Speaker 10: Picked you got here so it serves its purpose?
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  Speaker 2: Awhile Philip Marlow, Henry Pond's private detective words. A sword
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  Speaker 2: we thing to talk overting position as lousy miss Saunders?
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  Speaker 10: What's the author?
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  Speaker 2: Zero? Baby? I'm getting it back for free. Nowhere is it?
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  Speaker 6: Take your hands off me.
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  Speaker 10: The sword is here in the house, but this cab
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  Speaker 10: it isn't. And one's quite worthless without the other.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not taking a lot of chances, are
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  Speaker 2: you kidding?
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  Speaker 10: So it has already brought me five thousand dollars mil
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  Speaker 10: and I've only just begun, So make an offer and.
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  Speaker 6: Make it good.
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  Speaker 2: You're a liar, so it's not worth one tenth that,
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  Speaker 2: not of itself.
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  Speaker 10: No, but this one's special and I know why. And
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  Speaker 10: I'll tell you something else.
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  Speaker 2: You bet you will. You'll tell me where it isn't
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  Speaker 2: fast drop the gun.
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  Speaker 11: I even turn around.
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  Speaker 2: A lantern joe with red hair. You were telling me,
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  Speaker 2: after all, you said it.
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  Speaker 10: Now wait a minute, shut up, but I get.
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  Speaker 11: Up the front door.
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  Speaker 2: Go on, go on, beat it.
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  Speaker 12: I'll see you later, now, you mister, now what Now
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  Speaker 12: we sit down a couple of smart guys and find
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  Speaker 12: a good sensible way to work this out.
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  Speaker 11: Only I'm just a little smarter because I got the
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  Speaker 11: only gun.
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  Speaker 2: Keep talking.
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  Speaker 11: What you say the sword was Speak up, fellow, times running.
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  Speaker 2: Out sounds like time's not the only thing that's running
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  Speaker 2: out red. Somebody's in my back room. Sorry, tootsy, but
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  Speaker 2: now this only works one wait. Oh oh, I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: tell how long I've been out. I felt like I'd
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  Speaker 2: lost at least a weekend and somebody's boiler factory. I
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  Speaker 2: got back far enough to realize that something was going
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  Speaker 2: through my pockets. It was snaggled too for the week's
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  Speaker 2: growth of beard and put the room in need of
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  Speaker 2: a healthy spring of sweet air.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah that's that's a little better. I thought you was
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  Speaker 6: done in there for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: E who I Oh what happened anyway?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I'd like to know.
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  Speaker 1: Call me.
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  Speaker 2: Sid, okay, Sid, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I was walking along the beach out there, like I
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  Speaker 6: always doing. All of a sudden I heard a swim,
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  Speaker 6: you know, like I was a wounded cat came from
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  Speaker 6: in here, and I know this house has been empty
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  Speaker 6: for years?
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  Speaker 2: Was it you?
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  Speaker 6: Was screened?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? No, I went out too fast.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, I come a running, and just when I
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  Speaker 6: stepped up in the porch and fell on the pea jacket,
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  Speaker 6: come charging out and beat it down the street.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Reading the noise in the back. Have you been
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  Speaker 2: in there that back room? Me?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I just looked this far and then I
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  Speaker 6: found you. What what's it all about, mister? What's back
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  Speaker 6: in there?
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  Speaker 2: Hey? Bring that kerosene latin were.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, sure, here I got it.
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  Speaker 2: Look a guy, yeah, a wild head Roomenian named Bibesco
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  Speaker 2: with a sort of save boost, taking clear through him
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  Speaker 2: dead center.
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  Speaker 3: Now with our star Gerald Moore, we continue with the
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  Speaker 3: second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story, The Sword
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  Speaker 3: of say Boo.
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  Speaker 2: While the Beachcomba gaped like a marionette with broken jaw,
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  Speaker 2: strings of the impaled body of Kurt Lebesco slump at
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  Speaker 2: our feet, I quickly covered the room in the back porch,
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  Speaker 2: which led to the beach outside, looking for the wooden
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  Speaker 2: sheath that belonged to the sword of say Boo, just
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  Speaker 2: in case Claire Saunders had been bluffing. But five minutes
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  Speaker 2: of that got me nothing more than a little exercise
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of salt hair. Well what choie ought
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  Speaker 2: to do? Now? Mitt?
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  Speaker 6: Did you call the cat?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess so.
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  Speaker 6: Sure would like to take that sword?
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  Speaker 2: What jor? But the homicide boys are kind of narrow minded,
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  Speaker 2: you see. They like their corpses as is. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: let's get to the phone.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, there's one's a couple of blocks away.
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  Speaker 2: You got a car, Yeah, it's upfront, got a light?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? He match?
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute. What do you do with the
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  Speaker 2: conger clubs? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Oh matches ain't mine? Just picked them up off in
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  Speaker 6: that barrel.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, good club man, you know where it is?
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  Speaker 6: Sure it's right here in Venice ex Marine run in
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  Speaker 6: a while, though cops rated at once they had some dancing.
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  Speaker 2: Where is it? Where is it? Come on? It could
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  Speaker 2: be important.
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  Speaker 6: Straight down Front Street, Broadway, then left phone block and
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  Speaker 6: you're there.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look you call the cops and get back here.
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  Speaker 2: And wait till I come. Tell them my name is
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  Speaker 2: Philip Marlow. I'm a private detective.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, no, sir, not me. I ain't waiting here alone.
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  Speaker 2: Ten bucks? You heard me here? Tell he'll all get
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  Speaker 2: in touches as I can. Also said I'll match that
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  Speaker 2: ten the next time we meet. If you've kept your
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  Speaker 2: mind on your work.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, but well I telling me you
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  Speaker 6: went to the conger.
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  Speaker 2: You catch on fast the conga junr. Well it be
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  Speaker 2: Max Scotch and a little information girl named Claire Saunders
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  Speaker 2: dressed in a white linen. I never heard of him.
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  Speaker 2: Mac Oh, I see so many people, you know? Yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 2: now you get what I meant you may, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Well you better make that a double Scotch on throw.
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  Speaker 2: He should have known better, trusting a fast name with
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  Speaker 2: every set of his war bonus war bonus. Yeah, who
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  Speaker 2: should have known better? Well? I yeah, I've been waiting
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  Speaker 2: in a minute. A look, who should have known? Betterness?
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  Speaker 2: My kid brother back in New York. He's a vet marine.
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  Speaker 2: He got his check in the state and he turned
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  Speaker 2: it over to this Claire's sawas they were going to
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: get married. That's what she said, and that was the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: last he saw her. Oh well, it happens every day.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: He'll know better than us time.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: I just happened to remember, you do. Yeah, but around
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: a couple of days. Now it's pretty flush all right.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Now where she's staying, Yeah, sure do.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Ritzie motel about four blocks from here, the pavilion pavilion.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: H yeah, she got bungalow ten there, Mac, I know
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: because she was complaining about it being the end one
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: and too long a run for the bell hop and
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: a cracked ice to tell you go get him, Mac.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: And when you do, tell a kid brother that another
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: ex marine tipped you off.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you bet I will, bell hop eyes. We're gonna
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: straighten it out right now, Quiet down now over there
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: as much as bat at full syelash, take inventory. Baby,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I know you're alone because I played Peeping Tom before
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I played bell Hop. Sham of maid's doing much needed
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: job on bedspreads.
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: All right, So we're down to the pillow. So you've
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: got the sheet. Now what are you gonna do with it?
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: And without the sword?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: You kidding, duchess. You don't think I missed that back
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: room at the cottage?
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: Do you you found the sword there?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: And Kurt Babesco, who's wearing the sword the hard way
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: through his insides.
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: Somebody was killed with the sword.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Oh come on, come on, it's a little late for
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that wide eyed pitch baby. It doesn't shut carrot top part.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: And I tell you every time he kills anything wrong.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure, yeah, sure, but just for laughs, let's
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: pass it. I knew a lot of the cops.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: Huh no, please don't please, I'll tell you everything.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Marrow.
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: Turner isn't my partner. He hardly knows me.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: That's better just to Turner, the man with the red hair.
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: Malla, believe me. I can explain everything.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's try it did just Tables saw it for
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: my client, Henry Pound. Yes or no? Yes?
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: Why let me start at the beginning a week ago,
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: and Manila.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Please, all right, let's have it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: It was late in the afternoon and I was shopping
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: for a handbag, just looking in store windows. Suddenly I
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: noticed a man hurrying down the opposite side of the street.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Man who turned out to the Eugene Voss, Henry Pound's partner.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's right.
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: I could tell he was afraid of something, Marllowing. He
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: darted into a curio shop nearby. A minute later I
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: saw Turner, you know him, just slightly. We met once.
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: Obviously he was following Boss, but he didn't go into
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: the curio shop, and Steady he hid close by. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: then when Boss came out, he shot him marllow.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Just like that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: It was gone before anyone knew what had happened. I
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: ran over the Boss to see if there was anything
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: I could do to help, but there wasn't.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: He was dying.
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: Oh, it's rightful. Please, I'd like a drink there on
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: the desk when you're through, go on, go on.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: What happened makes Oh?
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: He told me to take the money in his billfold,
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: five thousand dollars, to take it all for delivering a
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: message brought the sword. Yes, I was to get in
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: touch with Henry Pond here in Los Angeles and tell
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: him that the sword, which Voss had just purchased in
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: the curio shop was on its way. He should pay
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: special attention to it. And then he died.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Well, you decided that five thousand bucks was an awful
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: lot for playing messager boy, eh? So you said nothing
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that the police grabbed the first plane for LA got
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the pounds place here and swiped the sword right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: A delivering message was worth five thousand dollars. The sword
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: itself would be worth.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: A lot more, but you had no idea why.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: Maybe a cold in the pattern of the design and
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: the jewels in the handle. Probably not the sword itself.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you figured right, little schema. Yeah, here's your drink.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Hu. The rest of the story I can fit together myself.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: You know you had something, but you didn't know what,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: so you swiped the sword. You left an obvious clue
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to an empty cottage, that rent receipt. You counted on
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: it to start the ball rolling, and it certainly did.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: What would that be? I don't know find out.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: Who is it?
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: I want to talk to you just a minute.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: You still sure you're not partnership?
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I told you the truth, All right, answer. I'll wait
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: here in the closet with the door open wide enough
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: for the barrel of at thirty eight. Just in case
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you've never been a miniela. Go on, hurry, Maybe you're not.
• 21:47
  Speaker 12: When I slugged over the cottage, wasn't then when I
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: went back, just some bomb I skared away, went back.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I went.
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: Back after you ran.
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: There was some excitement Sweet. First I slugged the people
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: because I heard some noise in the back.
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: I thought, we you me.
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: I never returned to the cottage.
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: I know it was the loudst name, but Besco I
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: got him, all right, but the very sort he was
• 22:08
  Speaker 12: at the little number right here in my hands.
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: He was competition.
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: So we you, sweet, except that I doped your angle
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: a long time ago. What do you mean I told
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: you something before he died in another I stopped after
• 22:21
  Speaker 12: I ran doll.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I even came back.
• 22:24
  Speaker 12: I saw you go for his bill cold some mumble something.
• 22:28
  Speaker 12: When I ran into you again here in la I
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: knew you were swinging in the dog. It was a
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: nice try, Sweets, but you missed. Now give me the sheet.
• 22:40
  Speaker 12: He's too belonged to get it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Come on, hand it over.
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: You don't want me to be rough to your dog. Yeah,
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: Like I said, they belonged to together.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: That's funny. They should fit it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 12: What are you laughing at the Yes, Sweet's a slip
• 23:03
  Speaker 12: of paper with a list of people on it.
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: I think it's crumpled in the bottom of the sheet here, and.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: That's why the sword all the way.
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: A piece of paper, A.
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: Valuable piece of paper.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Sure names the numbers of all the players. Oh he's dead,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: isn't It's about his dad, as a guy named Eugene
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Voss was last week on a sidewalk in Manila or
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the party called the best Go.
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: What is it?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: China is dead? But I don't think his partner is No.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: You thought I was his partner?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, yes, and I thought wrong, Claire. And now
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I'll get a little more to go on. I'll see
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: your honey.
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: No way, what am I supposed to do?
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: Call the police and explain it all away As a practical.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: Joke, O have a hard Where are you going?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Back to my client, little dreamer? I think it? Give
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: me a line on that part, ander'd be good. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: was an hour plus driving slowly back to the transplanted
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: world on Crestline Drive, and all the way I kept
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: adding and subtracting all the screwball figures i'd run into,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: hoping that someplace i'd find a mistake. But when I
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: was there, through the junior jungle and standing at the
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: front door, I knew that my hunch was right. You've
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: got the sword sheath like mister Palmerer in my car. Also,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I got news the best goes dead. So I don't know.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: But why haven't you brought this Ordan sheath in with you?
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Because they don't count, mister Palm, there wasn't any code
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: in the pattern on either one. The answer was a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: slip of paper jam down in the sheath. Here is
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that what we're after? Me?
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, Marto, this is it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: I knew he wouldn't fail me.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: I knew voss was loyal. I knew it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, better than that, mister Pound. You counted on it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: And don't move a finger. Happy. It's a great night
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: for killing. Now go on into the study. We're going
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: to use the phone. Marnal, you're sure sure? I am,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: so much so that I let the hairs from an
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: affectionate Siamese cat changed my mind about everything. Keep moving
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: the cat.
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: What do you mean?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I mean? The turner who shot Eugene Vossum and the
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: low murdered Butbesco out of the beach, who I just
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: killed before he could kill me, had white hairs molting
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: white Siamese cat all over his suit, the same kind
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: of white hairs I got on mine when shoes shoe
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: rubbed against me. I go on open that door. In
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: other words, Pound Turner was a friend here, not full
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: and from there on in it all figures. But do
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: you still think I'm insane?
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I oh, Marle, You're right, you bet, I'm right.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Turner was in this with me, a partner.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: You might see, you see. I knew that Eugene Voss
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: was worried about competitors.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Like Vibesco go on.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: I knew that Voss would see I got his clients list,
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: the Pearl dealers if his life was really.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: In danger, and gave you a brilliant idea put his
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: life in danger, So you sent Turner to Manila to
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: kill Voss once the list was on its way. Oh,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I'm neat, tell me clean cut. Why didn't you let
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Turner know about the sword at once?
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Because he was strict?
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Bost planted a faint listed his hotel, hoping the Turner
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: would find it and go his merry way, which Turner did.
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: He didn't know it was fake until he arrived here
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: this morning, which of.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Course didn't affect the scheduled murder. Nice and thorough, aren't you?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Or if you left have some little detail I should know,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: like why you bothered having Turner get mixed up in
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: this at all tonight. I would have brought the sword
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: and sheet back for you without him.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: I know you would, Marlow.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: That's why I heard.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: But I also knew that there was a good chance
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: that in finding the sword you would also find that
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: ideal in opium, not.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Per you know. Oh fine, And Turner was right behind
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: me all the way, ready to kill me if I
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: found that out from say Berbesco.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: Huhice, Turner was right behind you, Marlow. Even if high
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: DECKI is right behind you, You're fool.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: Why do you think I kept talking here, kept confessing,
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: Speak up my decade.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: He can't.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Hi, Debby is very unconscious. Hire him with a place
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: a Philippine.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: You're lying.
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: All You've got him behind the curtain.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: There's nothing there, honey, I think more than a friendly
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: cat named Shoeshoe. It took a long time, it always does,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: but finally the police in Los Angeles and the police
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of Manila knew exactly who had done, what's a whom
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: and why, all of which left Henry Pound, the vicious
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: little character. Wouldn't eve recognize honor among thieves with a short,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: unpleasant future. And I thought about him and every rotten
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: thing he'd done as I walked through his imported island
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: jungle to my car. I thought about him, and Butbesco
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: about Turner the houseboy, about Eugene Vasen. I didn't think
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: about Claire Saunders until I got to my car. Was
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: in behind the wheel, headlights on. The words were written
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: in lipstick, the linked and breadth of my windshield Still dear.
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: I stepped out when nobody was looking. But don't friend,
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: because from here on out I'm going to be very good.
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: I've learned my lessons.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: PS.
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: My plane doesn't leave until morning. Would you like to
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: help me?
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Wait?
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: The report of the airport cafe. They have good food
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: and they're open all night. Claire Airport Cafe, and he's
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: in hours drying unless I hurry.
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