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Pat Novak: Little Jake Siegel (EP1348) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time to get into this week's
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episode of Pat Novak for Hire, the very last one. In fact,
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the idea of a big season finale was something that defined television when I was
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growing up as a child. Whether it would be a dramatic show like Star
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Trek The Next Generation or comedy like Growing Pain, there would always be this
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sense that at the end of the season you needed something big, something memorable,
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to wrap it up and to perhaps have people interested in tuning in to
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see what you're going to bring them next season. Well, that type of
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feeling was usually quite absent from the golden age of radio. People. You
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know, they just did their programs and you couldn't tell whether a show was
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from the start of a series or the end unless they said specifically this is
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the first in a series of new dramas or at the end you heard well
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and this is the last in the series. Da da da da da.
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There was no sense of doing something big to wrap up a series or to
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wrap up a season, and that right there makes this episode of Pat Novac
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for Hire a pretty interesting listening and far ahead of its time in that regards
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because it marks a different type of story. Oh, it still has the
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same elements, with the same verbal sparring, but there's a much more intense
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and I'll be honest, much darker story. And this one, I really
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would say listener discretion advised. This one is a little more as I said,
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a little more dark in the way that it plays out. And I
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hope some kids parents listened to the podcast parents might want to listen to this
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on their own and decide whether they would like their children to hear it.
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The story Little Jake Seal we actually have had in a very rough form.
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The audio was really kind of bad, so it was hard to tell what
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was going on. In addition to that, the ending was clipped, and
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so Novak's closing monologue was also missing from the program. However, a few
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weeks ago, I received an email from Thomas who said, dear Adam,
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I was going through my collection of old time radio cassettes and stumbled upon one
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that had the final episode of Pat Novak on it. I remembered listening to
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the version that you played on your podcast, and the audio quality, for
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lack of a better term, was well not up to par. I believe
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you even mentioned your comments before playing the episode that thedeal quality was the best
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you could find. The verse that I have, the audio quality is crystal
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clear, and it got me thinking that it would be a shame not to
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allow other fans of Pat Novak to be It would be a shame not to
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allow the fans of Pat Novak to be able to hear the final episode with
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better audio. So on a hunch, I opened up my computer and connected
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my walkman to my computer and recorded the episode using the sound recorder on my
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computer. And he went ahead and he sent it to me, and thank
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you so much, Thomas. So now we can listen to the whole episode
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in much better sound quality. So here now is little Jake Siegel pat no
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bank higher Sure, I'm Pat Novak for hire. That's what the sign outside
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my office says. Pat Novak for hire, or you can set it to
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music or put it up a neon. But down here on the waterfront in
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San Francisco, you're too busy staying alive to worry about the next guy unless
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he's pointing a gun. Most of the time you got as much chance to
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fly paper to fly on his solo flight. But it works hot. Oh.
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I rent boats and do anything else to keep my stomach and my contents
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running. Even it's like juggling hot marbles on a high wire. But it's
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a living and you're having any more kick coming than a swimmer diving into an
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empty pool. I found that out last Tuesday night. I was sitting in
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my office after dinner, watching the fog stream through the gate and wrap up
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the bay for the night. Up on Russian Hill, the lights were just
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going on in one thousand dollars a month apartments, and right away you got
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a picture of warm rooms and cold martinis. I guess I was feeling sorry
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for myself, so I started the page through an old address book full of
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bad debts and tired memories. I was getting older by the page and the
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regrets were piling up around my knees. When the phone rang, Novak talking,
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that's a small lay, Petsy. Are you busy? Yeah, father,
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tearing up old phone numbers. Are you reforming or angry? Neither one,
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Father, They just wore out its sounds tat Petsy. Expect them to
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last forever. Nothing's that good. What's on your mind? I want to
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ask you a favor. Make it a small one, father, I'm all
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out of big ones. It's a small one, Petsy for you. Yeah.
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Another customer told me the same thing, father. His brother was on
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the way to the chair. He wanted me to smuggle in some rubber underwear.
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I'm asking, Petsy, not thank you. Okay, Father, what
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do you need? Can you see me in about an hour? Up at
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the evening was when's it over all? Bout eight thirty? I don't be
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afraid of coming early. No, I'll take a rain check on that,
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father. That's what Lawah's friends used to say. I'll tell you what thirty.
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It was a little before eight point thirty when I started at the steps
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of father Ladies Parish church. I figured the services were over, so I
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hung around in the vestibule for a couple of minutes, trying to look like
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a part time bell ringer. The last few people straggled out. Then an
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order boy came out and gave me the high sign. It was a clean,
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irish looking little kid with a face the size of a minute and just
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about as young are you used to know that? Sir? That's right you
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the lookout. I'm an ordered boys to know that. My name is Jake
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Sico. Little father calls me. Yeah, where's father, lady? Now,
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Jake's back in the sacristy. Mister Novak, watch you to wait inside
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here. No, this will do. I'll wait right here. No,
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sir, mister Novak, I'm sorry. Father says to be sure and bring
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you inside. Okay, Little Jake lead the way down the side. I
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guess I was too busy trying to act like I knew my way around to
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pay much attention to a fat, chunky little guy. When he stood up
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in the back pew a couple of miles over, Little Jake seemed to pay
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trouble in the air. That man back here? What's he doing? All
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right? Jake? Get out down on the waterfront. You learn early to
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look for trouble in any place anytime. You can find it at the top
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of the marker at the bottom of the bay. But this is the first
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time it caught up with me in the middle of a church. The lead
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got as thick as confetti on New Year's Eve. I spun around. I
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made a dive for a little jake, but I wasn't soon enough. It
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went down like young wheat in a hailstorm. When I grabbed for him.
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I must have hit my head in the base of a marble pillar or something,
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and things got dark for a minute. I stumbled down the aisle and
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into the street after the guy, but the odds were all on his side.
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The fog was so thick you couldn't read a newspaper with a cleaglight.
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I guess I covered every alley in the street in the neighborhood, but it
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was like running after a hat full of feathers in the middle of a windstorm.
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Oh I don't know how much later it was when I stopped for a
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minute in an empty doorway and I tried to remember what I was chasing.
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A siren was crying somewhere in the distance, so I started back for the
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church. The coroner's wagon was just pulling away when I got there and fatherly
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he had disappeared. I saw a light in the rectory, so I went
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upstairs and rang the bell. He came to the door in his shirt sleeves.
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He just stood there for a minute, looking at me, and then
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he motioned me inside. You want to see me, father, Yes,
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in here, so don the kid father, little jake. What do you
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think? Yeah, they go fast instantly. I'll get the guy father.
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I'm not asking that, Patsy. I'm not asking you for anything anymore unless
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I need trouble. Now, somebody told you a bad story. Father.
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That wasn't my gun. I should have known better than to call you.
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I should have known it meant trouble. It's your middle name, Patsy,
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you're married to it. You're looking at the wrong man. It wasn't my
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party. I called him here, Tony to ask you a favorite pets.
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Anything you want, Patty, it's too late now. We were going to
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have an Auto Boys picnic tomorrow at Paradise Cold. I wanted to borrow one
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of your boats. We won't be going on, Patty. We've got a
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funeral instead. Yeah, what do you want me to say? Don't say
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anything. Patty just listened for a minute. I asked you to come up
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here tonight, but I didn't tell you to bring your friends. If you've
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got any private fights for those waterfront hoods, that's your business, but don't
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bring your beefs into the church. And I tell you I never saw the
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guy before. I don't know anything about it. You're shooting at you when
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he hit little Jake, wasn't he What else am I supposed to think?
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Yeah, they find the murder again. Nothing you'll blame me to need,
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Patty. I liked you better without the temper, Father, and I liked
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you better before your hands got dirty, Petsy. I warned you about that
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waterfront crowd, the cheap thugs, the cheap women. I told you,
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Patty, roll around in dirt long enough and some of it's bound to stick
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to you. Got it all over your face, in your hands, and
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it's working inside your Petsy, it's working in deep At the end of the
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sermon, father, and tried to warn you, but you had it figured.
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We'll figure this. When Patsy, there's a nine year old kid on
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his way to the more. He stepped in front of a bullets and saved
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your life. I'll go ahead, figure it yeah, I will find it,
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but you better be on call. When I catch up with a guy,
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he's gonna have a lot of praying to do. When I left Father
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Lady, I checked in at the church for one more look around. A
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couple of red faced diaries cops in uniform were wandering around the vestibule, trying
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to look at home and chewing gum like mad to kill the beer on their
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breath. And over in one corner, half a dozen old women had their
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heads together, clicking like hens over a square egg. Outside of them,
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the place was deserted. I gave the course a quick rundown a couple of
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miles over where I figured the gun soil must have passed. I picked up
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a matchbook. The ad on the front said Max Joint Cicero, Illinois,
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and there was a phone number scrawled inside the cover. I was just about
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ready to toss it away when a bell rang and I took a closer look.
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Was my phone number. I put the match book in my pocket and
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I started home for the apartment. Maybe the cab wasn't going fast enough,
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because halfway there, three years stock of headache caught up with me, and
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the ceiling started to jump Oh. The cab driver was kind, though when
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we got to my place the offer to help me as far as the curb
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for an extra four bits. By the time I made it to my front
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door, I was feeling lower than n man of an Irish wake. The
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reception committee didn't help much. They were short and dark, all three of
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them, with rolls of loose, oily fat where their necks should have been
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in, small pig eyes that squinted through the cigar smoke, rolling out of
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wide nostrils and up their faces. High end Novec. How do you feel
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lots better after you find the door? Hey, decks, Novac don't like
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us, he'll cultivated taste. No, they don't build stomachs. That's strong.
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Nice, It's easier that boy. Now, look, Buster, I
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don't know who you three pigs are. Remember be nice, Yeah, I'll
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remember. You know. West Coast punks are all alike Novak. A couple
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of times and you cry, ain't that right, lud? Maybe Novak's tired
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fellas help them into a chair. Yeah, Novak, sit down. Blood
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wants to say something, all right, then say it and get out of
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here. We want the gun, Novak, We want the papers that go
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with them. Sounds like a great puzzle. Sorry, I can't help with
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the answer. You better tell lud Novak it's liable to get rough. All
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right. My gun's over there in the desk, and the paper's on the
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wall. Be nice, Nova, just once more, Novak? Where's the
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gun and where's the papers? Look, I'll spell it for you. I
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don't know what you're talking about, all right, deck smack, get his
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arm, yeah, alright, hold his head them yeah, okay, lood
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there that's the way they do it in Cicero. Last time around, Novak.
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The gun and the papers? Where are they? I don't know the
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gun, Novack? The papers? Now your sposs we lost them? All
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right. It's a big floor, and I'm finding his own way back.
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Well, it was a long night for summer. When I woke up,
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the sun was bleeding to a rip in the blinds, and there was a
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funny smell in the room. My stomach felt like a piece of practice rope
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in a boy scout class. And then the room got noisy. You wake
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up slow, Novac. I have a hard night. You're never on time
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for the party. Are your helmet? I'm choosing no, Vac. I
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don't like your friends and take up social work. What's the occasion I got
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a phone, Pip, I drop up for a visit having fun. Yeah,
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there's a gall in the kitchen board the dead. Huh, take a
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look. She took it hard? Who is she? Sally kim Brome.
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That's what her driver's license says, dear friend of yours. How would I
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know? Even her mother couldn't tell? Messed up, isn't she? Novak?
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Must have been a rough party. I wouldn't know. Helm and I
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closed early at georg joined. What happened? I said? I closed early.
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Three gunzels were drinking my scotch when I got home about ten thirty.
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They were anxious about a gun and some papers, and they figured I could
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put them straight. I couldn't, so they laid me out. Now tell
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me how sorry you are. I bleed for you. No back, No,
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let's have it. Strikes as straight as you're gonna get a helmet.
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If it's not exciting enough, try as squire. You talk brave for a
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punkin hot water. I'm not gonna scream till it burns. And you better
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start practicing Novak because I'm gonna burn you. You better hurry Helm, and
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your pension's catching up with you. Mark your mouth, Novack, you're up
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talking to your gunzel friend. That's hard to tell. Helm and you both
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use the same technique. Now show me the warmth or I start charging your
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rents. That damn body is all the warned I need, Novac, Now
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talk. How did you get so dead? I told you once. Pick
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up the three gunsls and ask them. But they look like like you,
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Masai smaller. They're from the East around Chicago. What else they wouldn't leave
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their birth certificate? Oh ahead, smart boy, get in all the laughs
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you can, but don't ask me to calm the orl board for you.
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Now. I don't know, Helman, you won't be there. Maybe I'll
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like prison life. When your knee deep in the rain and your boots spring
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a leak, you might as well throw them away and take your chances barefoot.
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Helman and his boys left with the body, and I grabbed a handful
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of aspirin in a cold shower. Then I started out to look for the
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only honest guy I know. An ex doctor and a boozer, but the
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name of jock O Madigan, a pretty smart man until he find out you
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can poison your worries at four dollars a fifth. I finally found him,
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sitting in the middle of a bourbon fog in a little Spanish joint somewhere on
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the edge of the Excelsior District. He was down at the end of the
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bar, trying his best to make time with a plaster bust of Queen Isabellachie,
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you're just Jim Bruce, shot boy. Gender hand me that be.
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Come on, Jacko, sober up. I got to talk to you,
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Patchie. Here's to your own peculiar brand of happiness. Jacko, would you
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cut it out? Patchy. I don't to be rude or ungentlemanly, but
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I don't think I altogether approve of the clientele in this place. This woman
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next to me, Patsy, the one with the stony gaze. She's been
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here ever since I came in, and I don't mean to be uncharitable,
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but I think she's the picture of a perfect boy. All right, all
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right, Patsy. To a member of the old Castilian school, there can
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be no excuse for the conduct she's exhibited. Why do you know I was
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even good enough to buy her three rounds of Portuguese brandy imported, mind you.
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But what do I get for my pains? Not even a sibyl?
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Thank you? All right, Jack, I've been sitting here in the most
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gentlemanly way, sipping this delicate nectar in great mouthfuls and trying to keep the
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party going. But does she help No. I've talked to her about politics,
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medicine, literature, Keiths Byron Shelley, Nick Kenny. I've even talked
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about the weather. Jack. Oh, she's a statue. She's Oh,
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a simple oversight. Patsy might have to anyone listen a minute, will you.
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I'm in trouble. You're always in trouble, Patsy. And that's the
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way you'll stay till you find some kind of moral rudder. You've got to
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find direction instead of trying to be so righteous in an evil sort of way,
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get in tune without decaying civilization like me, Patsy. Why tempt the
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fates. It's much more practical to buy off your destiny with a good bi
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the virush whiskey you all through, Jocko, Yes, what kind of trouble
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this time? Three gunzels from the east. They're shooting up the town and
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I'm running front for their murder wraps, Patsy, why not plead guilty?
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The rest might do you good. Somebody shot a nine year old kid,
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an aller boy? Oh where did that happen? In father Lady's church?
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The gunsel took me for somebody else and started shooting. Problems getting bigger,
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Petsy, What am I supposed to do? I want you to check on
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a guy the name of Mike Quinlan, also a girl, Sally Kimbro,
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tagged by the Examiner and the Chronicle, Morgues and those around the horse parlors
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out on Eddy Street. Will you? Why not? Everything you can?
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All right, Patsy, But you've broken up a beautiful party. You've disillusioned
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me about Queen Isabella here, and I've suddenly grown dreadfully thirsty again. Let's
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have four or five for the road, shall we? Later? Jacko,
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we haven't got time? Well only if you, says oh, Patsy.
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But every time I leave the hallowed confines of a bar room, I'm a
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poor pilgrim, caught up in the vices of the crass everyday world. I
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tattered, often, leaning disconsolately against the bitter winds of chance, tossed and
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buffeted about endlessly by the cruel storms of fortune. By the way, I'll
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need carfe all right here half a butt, but patsy refreshment later, and
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I'll get going. When you, jack O, where can I find you?
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I'm gonna check by my office and I'm gonna see father lady well as
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soon as he mentions taking the pledge that you're cue to leave. Good night
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lover. When I left Jocko, I caught a cab downtown and on the
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way I started hunting for just a piece of the answer, but all I
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got was questions who were the three gun soels and what was the stuff they
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were after? Mike Quinlan where did he fit in? And that dead girl
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in my apartment? Who did she belong to? Well, the zero's were
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piling up faster than flies on donuts. When the cab pulled up for a
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stop sign at sixteenth in Mission and a little guy with a worried mouth and
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a loud sports shirt jumped in. His lips were wander out a phony kind
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of smile, like I had waiter just before he hands you the check for
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a big party. It's okay, driver, we're friend. How I have
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Betsy friendship comes easy for you. Mister, you got a name. This
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is for Kepe Snovack. I want to talk. You've got until the next
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corner. We both mean it, Novack, me and the gun. I
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look, Junior, if you want to play the heavy, go find a
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melodrama. Who you working for? Sandel? I? Just go to name
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as Anny? All right, here's your corner, Sally kimbro Where is she?
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Novak? You're fast with a question, mister, Let me ask you
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one. Who's Sandel? I got the gun? No back? Yeah?
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Well who Sandel? I'll do the asking. You sit there and make the
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answers. You're running out of tickets, Junior, come here all right now,
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reached down for that gunanog Jammie through the floor boards. Who's Sandel?
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He's a Chicago hood He's have to get me. Works both ways. It's
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a good plot. Now. Who are you? Mike Quinlan? All right?
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Now? What about Sonny Kimberley mopped her up off my kitchen floor this
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morning? Somebody's gonna get Sandel. Maybe we're on the same train. What's
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he look like? Fat men? All look alike? All right? You
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can leave any time now, sure Novak affairs getting high see you, lady.
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Well, the whole thing went faster than a Mexican divorce. The black
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sedan pounded by on all twelve and Quinland pulled it up like a playpan and
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a high wind. We tried to follow the car, but it would have
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been easier to win the Kentucky Derby on a pogo stick. So I went
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back to the corner where Quinlan was still hugging his cement. He was draped
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over the curb like a tired carpet, and if his suit was a brighter
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yellow, we could have passed for a loading zone. Hellman was there with
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all his relatives in uniform, so I told the cabby to drive on.
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I just couldn't seem to shake the picture a little jake when he went quiet
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in that church. Well, when I got close to a phone, I
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paid off the cabby and I put in a call to Jacko. I called
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Newton at the Examiner Morgan. He said that Jacko had just left, so
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I called Breens. I asked for the guy who was drinking the cheapest whiskey
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in the tallest glass. No Madican speaking, there's Novak, how'd you make
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out? Let me tell you about these back of twishpaper men down here had
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no high birth, a true breedy. They liked Scotch almost as much as
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I do. What'd you find out about Quinlan? By Eddy Street informans tech
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him as an ex con Patsy sent up for armed robery in nineteen forty and
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paroled about two weeks ago from Joliette. Quentland had a few dealings with named
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lut Sandel. On what I can gather, Quinland's supposed to have taken the
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rap for Sandel and his brother. What else? Quinland is a local boy
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out of Bernow Heights. He has a sister, Patsy. She belongs to
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Sandel. She's probably the only sales girl in town with a six room apartment
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in the best part of the Marina. To get the address Baby Old Towers
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down at the foot of Fillmore Street. It sounds good. Maybe she has
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a friend. Does he get anything else? On Sandel? The Turk Street
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said tells me he's out here to set up a slot machine. Root I
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gather he's the pushy type. Thanks, Jocko. I'll see you at the
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apartment, Oh, Patsy, on your way home, pick up something for
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dinner at the delicates the stuff in the ice box. Pictures of a sandwich
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Patsy dinner without Bourbon's Night without Hope, I borrow from the neighbors good night
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lover. When I hung up, I caught a d car out on Vanass
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Avenue and I hit it down into the marina. The answer box was still
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fat with questions, and little Jake's killer held a four lap lead, but
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at least the field was getting thin. I figured it was one out of
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three Sandell or either one of his gunsels, but which one. When I
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got down to the foot of Fillmore Street, the fog was thicker than ankles
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of the Fat Lady's Convention. Fog horns out beyond Yacht Harbor started on overtime.
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The Bayview Towers was one of those swanky, new looking places that gets
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old in a hurry. It saw lots of brass and brunettes during the war,
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but now the only uniform left belonged to the dormant. I found Quinland's
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sister in the penthouse apartment, and once she opened the door it felt like
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Clyde Beatty with a broken chair. Her lounging pajamas reminded you of a good
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butler and came in and went out at the right places, and they stayed
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close to the job. I felt like the Fisk boy. After some he
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blew out his candle bom talent on the loop. Don't you come in?
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Yeah, it'll save time. My name's Novak. I got some news for
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you. I'm Bobby Quinlon. I'm looking for answers. Lady, if you
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want a companion, advertise your brother's dead. Sandel shot him? Such a
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big imagination, mister Novak, why didn't you relac? Look I got proof
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in my pocket. Baby, you want the rest of this couch. Now,
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it's going to get worse with your brother gone. Take a look at
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the paper. Yeah, you've been practicing. You're getting past. I can
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feel your heart. Yeah. No, let's quiet down and talk. Murders.
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You're hurting. You're hurting me. Where Sandel? Where Sandel? Where
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is he? To my arm? You'll break it, tear it up and
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throw it away. Now, where Sandel? No? I swear I don't
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he kills your brother. He shot him down on the street. Joke Novak.
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Right. If you won't believe me, take a look at this chronicle
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right there on the front page. Look at it No Bill promise, promised
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he wouldn't touch Mike. Why complain? Think how Mike feels and now wear
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Sandel bell at the hotel the Gurban Arms on Eddie Street. He lied to
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me, no back, I played it straight, but he lied to me.
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You're a mistake day. I'll see you, lady. Why'd you do
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it? You lied? You and Sandel you promised me and you killed him.
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Somebody had to go like that, auto boy? Huh got it one
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snowback. It's tough for the second time. There's no second time, Dex
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all right, sweetheart? Not take him back? Yeah? You finished?
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Stephen, Baby promised me. I been lied. He and Sandel killed Mike.
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L Sorry, baby, you make this till alone. There wasn't anything
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I could do for them, so I took a calf down to the Durban
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Arms on Eddy Street, but sandelad checked out an hour before. The clerk
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told me his baggage was still around, though, so I figured that could
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only mean one thing. I put on a call for Helman and then I
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grabbed a cabin headed for Father Ladies. By the time I got up on
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the hill, the fog had taken a lease on most of the town.
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You can always tell when it's thick because all the sounds out in the bay.
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Get a free ride. Halfway there, the driver was ready to quit,
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but for an extra two bucks he threw the cabin. Second when we
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called the rest of the way that we got a block from the church.
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By that time, the fog was so thick you could have sold it for
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the pound. I did the last block on foot. I was just about
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twenty yards away when I spotted Sandel and macked the gunseil standing under a street
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pike just outside the door to the church. They waited a minute when they
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turned and started up the steps. Don't bother Sandel, you call too late.
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Boys, who's out there? It's a smart fuck? No back now,
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don't closer. I can't see you the fox. Come on out and
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get me, Sandel. There he is, Mac. You're flying blind,
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Sandel. You made the trip for nothing. I got the gun and I
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got the papers. He's lying loud. Come on out, No fack my
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good deal. I said, you're late, Sandel. I already made the
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deal with Macy money. No Mac, they no shut you up, not
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even close. Mac. Which one of you got the order? Boy?
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You not worry no, fack. You want to tell him a letter?
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Should I? Mac deals a lot better than you shoot, Sandel. Ask
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him about it. Huh, what's he's saying, Mac, He's saying nothing,
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loudy talking crazy. He let him go out and get him. Ask
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Mac about this afternoon, Sandel. Ask him where he was when Dex got
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it? Ask him how I got the gun in the paper? Craky what
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I'm not so sure? Mac? Don't be a second or no back play
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cute? Sorry Mac? You took the chance. He's turning your luddy's lying,
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Mac, but I can't chance you, all right, Sandel. Now
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it's just you and me and the fog. Come running, no back,
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we're working. Deal, Come in or I can see it. All right.
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That's five shots, Luod, you got one left to make good honey,
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all right, Sandel? Now, or even come here, let me
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come. No, No, you off? No what I do to you?
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Cut it out with him? You didn't get her to talk to that
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allar boy. Huh. I didn't mean it at the kidder. I'm sick
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of your mouth, all right? No, that that's enough, No Mac,
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I yeah, let go of them this, Sandel. Yeah. A
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few minutes ago we could have booked him for murder. You could have him
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now. Helman saved the States of money. Novak next broken. That's your
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Petsy over here, father on the steps, Hello, inspector, this is
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the man Petsy. Yeah, Father, that's him. I'll pray for him,
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Petty. Why waste it, father, It wasn't worth it. They
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said the same thing about two men on a hill in Calvary. When the
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fog lifted the next morning, things got lots clearer for everybody. The story
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was the cheap earth Kind, but then so were the characters. After Mike
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Quinlan joined up with Sandell and his boys back in nineteen forty, they pulled
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a bank job in Chicago, and instead of cutting in Mike on the take,
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Sandell framed him to take the rap for the three of them. Then
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Sandal came west to operate. He lined up Quinlan's sister for his girlfriend.
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By the time Quinlan was paroled, he was fast on Sandal's game, and
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he had lots to beef about. He lined up enough of good evidence to
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put Sandeal and his two boys away for life, and then he threatened to
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spill it. Sandal didn't cut him in for his share the job. And
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stay wide of his sister. Sandal wasn't generous and he wasn't genteel, so
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he played along with his tongue in his cheek and a gun in his pocket.
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When the time came to swap money for evidence, Quinlan picked the church
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for a trading ground because that's where he'd hid in the box with the evidence.
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That's where we finally found The deal was all set to go when something
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scared Quillan off and Sandel came in, mistook me for Quinlan and get little
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j Sandel's boys tried to get at Quinlan through his girl, Sally Kimbro,
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and when she wouldn't spill, they killed her and planted the body in my
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apartment to take care of the opposition. Mac and Sandel were in the black
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Sedan when I had finally caught up with Glinnam in the alley off Mission Street.
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Well, what did I get out of all this? Nothing? Father
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Lay He took Jocko to dinner at Lupo's. A couple of days later,
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Jocko's bar bill read like a social security number. Hellman asked only one question,
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how could Father Lay he ever pay for a dinner? Check that big
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I don't know, but when he got back to his church, I noticed
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he slipped in iou in the poor box at Novako Hire was previously released by
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Our Men and Women overseas. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service,
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the Voice of Information and Education, the Welcome Back Wow. And as
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I said, this is very intense in a way with the idea that the
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killer dies at Novak's hand, though it's much more case of manslaughter and regardless,
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not something that Hellman is going to press on. This episode, as
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I said, has a very different feel throughout. This isn't Pat Novak taking
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some money in a deal that's too good to be true, thinking it's too
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good to be true, and doing it anyway. This deals with Novak dealing
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with a horrific crime and really having this way about him as an almost sort
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of avenging angel. It's a different intensity, it's a different focus, and
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certainly it's something that jars him. I also think that it's one thing to
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be told off by Jock Omatic, it's another thing for Father Leahy to lay
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into him. And I think that it's understandable and in a way very realistic,
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and it does make you wonder if a second season of Pat Novac for
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Hire would be any different. Well, actually, that will do it for
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today, and do it for Pat Novak for Hire. Next week we'll be
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listening to lost episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, that have recently been
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discovered and brought into general circulation, and these will be with edm and O'Brien
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and John Lynn. Also, I do have our list of programs that we
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will be doing on Tuesday's next season. This season still to come, will
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have Easy Money once we finished with Easy Money. The programs that we will
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be offering include Crime in Peter Chambers, some more lost episodes of programs we've
39:00
done previous see and I'll let you know more about those as we get closer,
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The Man from Homicide, The Adventurers of Ellery, Queen Hearthstone of the
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Desk Squad, and Crime Files of Flamont. And these will all be coming
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to Tuesdays in the next season. All right, and remember support the listener,
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