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Pat Novak for Hire: Father Lahey (EP1282) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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iTunes store. Well, now it's time for today's episode of Pat Novack for
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Hire. Father lahy that no gay, we'll hire? Sure, I'd well
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hire. That's what the sign out in front of my office says, have
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Novak for hire. It's about the only way to say it. Oh,
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you can vess it up and tell how many shopping days they're auto Christmas.
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But if you got yourself in the market, you can't waste time talking with
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you. Gotta be as brief as a paupers will, because down the waterfront
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in San Francisco, everybody wants a piece of the cake, and the only
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easy buck is the one you just spent. Oh, it's a good life.
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If you work real hard and study a little on the side, you
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got a trade by the time you get to prison. I rent boats,
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do a few other odd jobs you can't afford to pick it on. Works
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out alright if you put your tongue in hawk, because down here you shouldn't
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talk. It's like installing a set of drums and a belfry. You make
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some noise, but it's never the right kind. I found that out a
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few days ago. Must have been Tuesday or Wednesday night. Anyway, I
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was sitting in the office reading Time magazine when the door opened. I looked
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up and had to keep right on going because the guy was so tall he'd
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have to bend over to see through a transom, and he had a voice
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deep enough to read out as a bassoon. Good evening, mister Novak,
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I'll take your word for it. You have a small opus. I'm small
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time. What's on your mind? My name is lady, I would hire
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you. Yeah, sit down. Are you cold? That overcoat around your
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neck? You're either cold or a priest, though I'm a priest. Mister
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Novak, I'm sorry, father, you got a slow rogue. What do
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you need a few hours of your time? I want you to help a
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man's skiing from prison. Father. You'll never get along with a bishop,
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mister Novak in a curious way, this is an errand of mercy. Well,
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this isn't my year for mercy. I'm sorry, father. Maybe you
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don't like to hear it that way, but if I got the right feet,
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it wouldn't be mercy anymore. When I say it's an errand of mercy,
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that's what it is. Sometimes tonight a man is going to break out
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of Alcatraz. If he's allowed to get into town, he may kill somebody.
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You want me to stop him, that's right. And if he doesn't
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kill anybody, he can still be shot down by the police. Man.
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That's the percentage. Father. If he comes off that Rocky knows that.
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Stop worrying about him. If you could bring him to me, I know
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I can talk him into going back tell headquarters. He'll do the same thing.
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If I did that, I'd break a promise. This is the only
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thing I can do. Will you help me? Yeah? I suppose how
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do I pick him up? Treadwater and a bailey comes by? He's due
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in at Pere nineteen sometime tonight. When he comes to shore, bring him
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to me. I'll be waiting at the Ferry building. I'll suppose he doesn't
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want to come. I suppose he wants to party. How am I gonna
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get him there? I don't ask you how to say the beads. If
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you're any good, you'll get him there. But you don't want him in
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sections. I want him all at once, mister Novak, ask you this
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if it wasn't important. I gotta help him. He's one of my boys.
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Yeah, sure, what's his name? Joe Feldman? Feldman? Yeah?
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If I don't worry about the spelling, you don't have to either.
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He's one of my boys. Flow down. Nobody's pushing your father. I
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don't know when he's due, but I'll be at the ferrybuilding from eight o'clock
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on. Yeah, I only got one worrying. Is there really a guy
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named father? Lady? I suppose you'll have to take a chance on that.
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Yeah, Well, it's a big chance. You come in here with
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a story anybody can see through like a screen door, and I'm supposed to
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buy it. You could dig up a collar. What happens if you're a
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fake? Just try to guess, right. Suppose I don't and you're in
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the same spot. Put His pilot was good night, mister Novak. Whoever
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Joe Feldman was, he had a good friend, because when father lay he
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walked out of there, and I knew he was all right. He could
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tell without even testing him, the way when you pick up a pool cue,
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you know right away whether it's any good or not. He stood at
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the door for a minute, and then he walked out. You got a
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funny feeling that he didn't walk into the night, that he was big enough
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to wrap it around his shoulders and take it with him. I got a
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last look at him as he turned the corner under a street lamp. He
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looked even taller now, and you knew if somebody stood him in an oil
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field, you couldn't tell him from the rest of the derecks. Well,
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I made a couple of phone calls, and then I closed shop and went
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down to the end of here. Nineteen to wait. The bay looked as
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dark as a bruised crow. The fog was beginning to drift in and over
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near the piers. By nine o'clock, you couldn't see a thing, and
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you felt like a guy trying to shave in a bathroom full of steam.
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I was about thirty feet from the end of the pier when a small boat
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pulled in and let somebody out. I was sure it was my boy,
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so I moved behind his shed and waited. The boat pulled away and the
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guy started down the dock. I waited until he moved past me. Oh
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sorry, you ought to be glad. How's the huh? You're lonely,
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mister? What do you care if you are? Buy a beer and talk
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to that bartoner. I'm busy, all right, you're tough Feldman. Let's
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go now. You got dates for us. You're gonna see father Lakey.
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Come on, you're doubling for Gabriel. Let me alone, mister, right,
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I want to go. Look, Junior, if we draw straws,
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you're gonna get the shirt one O. They's supposed to be a gun in
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your pocket. You get a chance to find out. That's what I'm gonna
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do because I have one too. Let's start to hit your stomach back down
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always yours, mister Timmid. Bad night for bluffing, so goodbye. Come
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here one you can let go. We see then come on, come out
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in the water like you want to start again. No, alright, I'll
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see you. Man, lady, I gotta make a stop for it,
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make it after. We'll take five minutes. Look, mister, if you
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want to do it the easy way, let me make this stop. You
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go with me, all right, five minutes and then you see father lady,
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suit yourself that if I'll make heaven. But if you want to run
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into Ferance, it's all right with me. If you need the credits,
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you need the credits. Joe Feldman wasn't very friendly. He sat over in
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the corner of the cab and he didn't say a thing. He just kept
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looking at me and waiting, like a guy feeding arsenic to a rich aunt.
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A few minutes later, the cab pulled up in front of a hotel
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on Geary Street, and we walked in. One look at that lobby and
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you got the idea. The place was about as cozy as an abandoned mine
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shaft over by the wall there was an old mohair couch, and the legs
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on it were so warped. Pretty soon it was going to look like period
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furniture. There were a few chairs, and over by the stairs a faded
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calendar of a girl in tights holding a jar of mayonnaise and winking whatever that
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man. And there was a broken clock over the desk. But you knew
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it was all right because nobody there cared about keeping track of time. It
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was something he got rid of in a hurry, like a bent quarter.
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We went up to the second floor. We walked down a long hall that
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smelled like an ante room to a sewer. When Feldman knocked in the door,
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she opened it right away. The room was full of taboo. She
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stood leaning there for a minute, a sort of a girl of moves when
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she stands still. She had blonde hair. She was kind of pretty,
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except she could see somebody had used her badly, like a dictionary and a
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stupid family. Feldn seemed to know her. Oh, Anne, well,
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the harvest hands arrived all at once. Yeah, it's good for the cross,
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but tough on a woman. Come in, who's your friend? A
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missionary? I guess he grabbed me down to the docks. Does he talk
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or just stand there looking healthy? He growls a little, you really growls.
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Come on, hurry up, lady. Your friends got a date.
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I'll bet you bite instead. Don't worry about him. He can go over
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in the corner and place it will now. Look he's got five minutes.
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Use him quick. Yeah. I came up with a message, jam,
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time's been changed, stay around till ten o'clock. All right at all?
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Yeah, it's all you want the other four minutes, let's go all right?
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Opened it door? Yeah, he didn't open it fast enough. When
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Feldman hit me, I wabbled for a minute and went down like a price
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of winter. Whek Fatheray, he had any loose prayers lying around, now
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is the time to crate them up and ship them over. Because I wasn't
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going to stay awake long enough to test the varney. I rolled on the
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floor a couple of times, and then I took a rain check. On
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the next couple of hours. When I woke up, it was like buying
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a new nash and then finding out you can't drive. Joe Feldman was lying
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next to me with his throat cut like a pound of rib roast. His
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head was over the one side and his body was twisted it over the other
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way, as if he couldn't make up his mind which directs him to die.
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And I got up and rolled him on his back. He was grinning
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like a pullman porter at the end of the line, and his mouth was
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half open, as if he expected you to drop in the suggestion on your
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way by. I noticed right then how thin and small he was, about
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as fat as a shadow, and tall him if to scrape his head on
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a lamp shade. Oh, there wasn't anything I could do but wish him
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luck. So I called the check stand at the Ferry building and had them
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page father lady. About two minutes later he answered, hello, I'll lay
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there's no back father, yes, calling the outfield your boys dead. I
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see what happened. Somebody didn't like him lots. I wasn't around for the
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main event. No, I'm in some cave up on Geary Street. He
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wanted to come by here. First, Father, who's Anne? I don't
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know. Speldman got a girlfriend. He's got two sisters living. One of
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them was named Now A tall blonde with lots of speed. That's your definition.
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It'll probably she was around for a while. In case you ever want
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to check, what are you going to do? Get out on the backstairs
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and pretend I never heard of Joe Feldman. I'm silly, mister Gobick,
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I'm silly. It work out that way, so, my father, if
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you liked him, I'm sorry. He may have been a nice little guy.
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Oh I could do without him. But if you like it, I'll
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say he was a good little guy. Oh little, I don't know.
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We could start to pick at fence with him. Why because you've got the
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wrong man, mister Gobik. Huh. If he's on the six feet,
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you've got the wrong man. Whoever you've got a player, isn't Joe Veltman.
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Well he's happy about it now, father, whoever he is, I'm
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sorry. It's the percentage. Why the percentage? If it isn't Joe fe
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Feldman, Why that's the waterfront? Father, If your name's Joe nobody,
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you still can't do better than eight to five. At least Joe Feldman was
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smart. If you're gonna get your throat cut, it's a good time to
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send in a substitute. As soon as father lay he hung up. I
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knew hanging around that hotel was going to be a waste of time, like
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sending mass notes to a bearded la. If I couldn't prove the guy was
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alive, they were gonna charge extra down at the desk. And if Hellman
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down at homicide ever found out I brought the guy up here, I'd have
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about as much chance as a bottle of scotch at a cocktail party. So
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I picked up my hat and started for the door. I looked at him
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once more, but he wasn't gonna say goodbye. So I started out,
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ooo, hello, Hellman expecting me no, mak no, I'd have rolled
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him first, Invite me in, crash the party, Helman, you'll be
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more at home, all right. He sure looks lazy. Who is he?
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He's supposed to be Joe Feldman, But Feldman let him do the hard
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work. Good friends, you better check. I don't know the guy.
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Help me roll them over there. Here, here's his wallace. You let
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me have it. You're gonna break your fingernail, give it here, all
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right, no money in here. You're gonna drop the case. Here's his
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God Mike Greeley didn't like you either. You're wearing out the rug helmet I
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don't know the guy. You brought him up. I checked at the dead
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well, check on who left. Then I brought him up here on a
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phony lead, right because I was hired tow him around. He liked the
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room, so we dropped by and he cut himself shaven. I wasn't around.
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There was a girl here for the handshakes, kind of good. I
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don't know, Helman. How many kinds are there? Her name was and
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he had a fast pulse. That's all I know. You must know more
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than that. If you don't, you'll never get a lawyer. I won't
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need one. He'll save money at least, because you got a real hole
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this time, Novack. We get a phone tip and find you in the
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murder room. You've got half a story, Helmet, I know, but
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i'll get the other half until then you're under technical arrest. It's practically the
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real thing. You got a technical head, Helme, and I wouldn't tip
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myself off. Somebody else would walk around, no back and tie yourself out,
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because you'll wind up sitting down. Meantime, I'll have your tail.
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You're a man, couldn't follow a moose through a revolving door. And I
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look Helman. I'm gonna double back. This guy's a phony lead. I
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was supposed to meet a guy named Joe Feldman, but he never showed up.
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He didn't know. I got a dead coppet to prove he did.
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Your boy, Joe Feldman killed a sergeant named Grubb at the gold Rush Club
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club a half hour ago. Got to start that walk, Novak. There
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are two kinds of raps. You can't ever be cheating a woman with kids
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and killing a copper. So I knew Joe Feldman could put in for reservations
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right away, And I knew Helman had stay with him like a February cold.
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He'd stay with the whole thing, and I'd have a real tough time
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explaining. I couldn't explain it to myself. What about the message up in
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that room? Why did the little guy tell Hanne to stay until ten o'clock?
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Why did he get off at Peer nineteen instead of Joe Feldman once he
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got there? What was Feldman doing at the gold Rush Club? And why
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did they spot him so fast? Well it pointed to one thing, a
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police tip off. But that's as far as I could go. On the
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way down, I stopped at the desk, and I asked the clerk to
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see the register. He pushed it over toward me. It was a dirty
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brown thing that looked like an old tortilla somebody had left behind. They didn't
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do any good. The registration was a phone. Oh. I had to
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do something in a hurry, so I looked up the only honest guy I
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know, an ex doctor and a boozer by the name of Jack o' madigan.
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He's a good man, and he used to be a smart one too.
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Still, he started chasing a jigger of beer with a glass of whiskey.
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I finally found him in the Pied Piper room, arguing with somebody about
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their words to Annie Laurie. Ah, Patsy, a drink from mister Nova,
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something cheap but impression. Stop it, will your jacko? Are you're
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going to be drunk all your life? Yes, it's only a matter of
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willpower, Patsy. I'm probably the only man in the world who intends to
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carry a hangover into etorney. We'll stop long enough to give me a hand
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when I'm in trouble. Of course, you're in trouble. You'll always be
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in trouble because you can't recognize it. Patsy, you're fuzzy jocko. You
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have the social outlook of a bull with a hot foot, and there's no
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hope for you because if from time to time a moral feeling does sweep over
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you, you mistake you for influenza and go to bed. All right.
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Oh, you try hard enough, you go through the motions, Patsy,
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but you ever get anywhere. You go stumbling through life doing a tight wire
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act and a rubber band. You're always in the middle. Will you listen
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to me? It's because there's no variety in your life. You won't allow
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it. You're a broken down banjo, not a very good instrument to begin
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with, and to make matters worse, you will allow everybody to come along
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and pluck the same string. All right, are you all thrown our jackal?
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Yes, you sound angry. I think you have a bad disposition too.
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What kind of trouble. Well, I try to help some guy out
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of prison tonight. You got drunk and thought you were the parole board.
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No, I did it for a good guy, a priest named Lady.
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Here. The guy was already out and father Lady was trying to hurt him
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back without getting shot. But this guy Feldman didn't want to play. I
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never drink. Will clear this up for me. I picked up the wrong
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guy. I took him to a Geary Street hotel. I napped a while,
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and I cut him up like a pisa parceling sounds like a gruesome hotel.
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The dead guy's name is Mike Greeley. I don't even know who he
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is. Well, this is no time to start building a friend anyway.
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Who is in the room. Some girl. She may be Feldman's sister.
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Would she kill a man? If she did, he'd be crushed to death.
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Now I'm sure somebody else came in that room. You better talk to
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Feldman. He's a hard man to reach. A sergeant almost made it tonight.
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Feldman shot his way out of the gold Rice Club. It's one way
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to get out of a nightclub. The helman steamed up, So you gotta
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help me, Jocko. You better look up father. Ladies, you'll probably
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be electrocuted, and if you are, he may have some drag. I
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want you to go down to the chronicle Morgan, pull the clips on Joe
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Feldman. Will you get everything you can and then hit the horse parlors find
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out what they know about him. Huh, maybe he's a heavy drinker.
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I'll check the box jack, I'll wake up and get on there. If
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I don't pay helmet on this thing, I'll be a dead pigeon. What
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am I supposed to do? I don't know. You might start cooing good
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night, Clover. Well. As soon as I left Jocko, I went
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down to the gold Rush Club on O'Farrell Street. Was a little nightclub where
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they charge you eighty cents for a drink of whiskey that had killed her Redwood.
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The floor show is just as bad, and the headliner was an oriental
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dancer whose only talent was a zipper. I sat at the bar and I
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tried to pry some talk loose, but they liked the boss. I finally
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got a hold of a fat waitress who should have been wearing a harness instead
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of slacks. She told me a little. The owner was a guy named
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Charlie Giffen, and he used to make book with Joe Feldman. She told
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me that Joe's sister worked at the gold Rush Club for a while, but
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she got sick a few months ago and quit. I asked the girl if
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tonight's shooting was a police plant. She didn't know, but she said that
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Feldman had been in to see Giffin tonight and on his way out he ran
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into trouble. I gave her five bucks, and she looked hurt, as
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if somebody had given her a plow for Christmas. She showed me where Giffin's
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office was, and I walked back there. Giffin wasn't there, But the
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taboo was do you have the right door, mister Novak? You seem to
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be in all of them? You mind if I lead in the doorway?
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No, but I'll bet you need shoulder pads. By this time, was
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Charlie Giffen. Why I want to ask him a about Joe Feldman? Ask
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me, I'm your sister. I'll ask you about Mike Greeley, who killed
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him. I don't know. Is he dead? Yeah, he couldn't stand
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the bleeding. It was all right when I left. What were you doing
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up there waiting for Joe? My sister and I were going to meet him
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up there. Relax, mister Novak, relax for me. No, when
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people relax for you, they do it on the floor. I was out
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long enough for homicide to catch up. They want me for Mike Greeley.
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But I'm going to send them. You were Joe, you're forgetting my sister
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Norma. Should I for most things? Yes, But she was up in
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that room tonight after me. I'll ask her ask her about the money too.
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Then you're out in front of me on that. You see me better
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that way. Joe had a lot of money on him tonight, but the
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police out. He wouldn't carry it with him, And now the money's gone,
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so's Norma. Mh do you know where it is? No? Well,
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new growl and you bite a new lie. You must have a full
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day sit down and relax. I want to see Giffin. He won't be
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back tonight. I lean back. That's it, Betsy. You really want
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that money? I can split him motive, then you split it ninety ten.
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If you can't, you better get your breath back. I won't need
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it. I don't want to talk anymore. Man made me stop. If
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I get any closer, I'll be on the other side of you. Yeah,
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Patsy, you lot a good time and a half. Darling. Hello,
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I thought you were coming in to curl up with a good book.
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Uh, mister Novak came by full of questions. This is Charlie Giffon Patsy,
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I got some questions for you too, given we'll ask him down the
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bore of this gun. Over to the desk, Novak, did you lose
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that knife? Given by the desk, that's it. Where's the money Novak?
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I gave her the last week. Where's the money Joe gave it?
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Or somebody by the red Cross? Mister, you got a tender face,
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Novak. Now get out of this club. Before I slept on a cover
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chart. I was getting second tonight in three hours. I'd seen more service
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than a mixed master in the school. When I left the gold Rush Club,
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I dropped my headquarters. Hillman had nothing to show but his badge.
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They had a dragnet around the city for Joe Feldman, and they'd lined up
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the record on the dead guy in the hotel. He'd been a friend of
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Joe's before his trip to Alcatraz. There wasn't much I could do if homicide
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couldn't find Joe. I couldn't find him, so I looked up Norma Feldman
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in the phone book. She had an apartment out on the Avenues, but
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when I called, there was no answer. So I tagged by my apartment
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to see if Jocko had left a message. When I opened the door,
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Norma was there and she had a gun to keep her company. Yeah.
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I came up here to kill you. If you're Norma, the rest of
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the family's ahead of you. What's happened to my brother? I don't know.
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Please, what's happened to him? Mister Novak? Well, if he
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killed the copies hiding out, I know he didn't mean to do that.
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Mister nova chose not that way. Somebody told the police she was going to
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do there. That's why I came up here to you. Oh, put
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down my gun. You can't shoot through the tears. Mister Novak didn't know
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where he is telling me. Make him give himself, Make him stop hiding
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like a small flight man. You look big to that copy. Please please
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find him. Yeah, heh this is Jocko. Yeah, you sound ruffle.
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Joe Felvin's sister just walked in to kill me. Joe, doc you
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it's the best offer you've had. What'd you find out? Feldman has two
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sisters. I know they both go to pieces. The Googress cub is owned
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by Charlie Giffen. He owed Joe Feldman two thousand dollars and the horse.
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People say Joe collected it tonight. If it's in, Jocko, everybody in
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town's after that dough. They have to look some more. I'm out to
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knock Well Boulevard. Homicide just fished Joe Feldman out of the gutter. Homicide
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finished second. He was a lucky guy. He didn't have the dough on
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him. No, he dashed it somewhere. Then he left it with a
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woman. Yeah, because he's got a woman's compact in his pocket. You
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were made to hit the sister's please. Oh do we know he got it
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there a woman's compact. He didn't get it there. Alcatraz is getting well
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a minute. Jocko hung up. Things began to fall into place, but
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I knew the last piece was going to pinch somebody hard, if the Feldman
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blood was going to turn bad. The father lady was a good man to
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send in, so I called him. He was off, but I left
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word for him to get out to Norma Feldman's apartment. Norman and I left,
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and on the way we picked up Helman. When we got out to
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her place and started up the stairs, we could hear people moving above.
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There's no point in trying to keep quiet because Hellman was creeping up the stairs
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like a stallion with a broken leg. Yeah, if you got a bomb,
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touch it off too, huh. I'll open at Helman. Hello,
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No, that did you find a dog giving? You mean my stolen dough?
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Yeah? Come on, No, you and Anne better wait. This
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is Helman from homicide. We're leaving. You better move No, that not
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until you the sudden murder wrapped and you pay it off that fast. I
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can do it on the way to the door. Oh wait a minute,
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point the gun at Helman. He's official. I can tag your both,
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So move away, you too, Norma and and I are leaving. Look
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Giffing homicide gobbles up nightclub big shots like you nothing to me, Copper,
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move away. You got the hammer, use it and come on through,
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all right, I will Copper. Hey, yeah, you need a refill,
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Giffen. That's right, Darling, hand him your gun, ma'am.
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And you couldn't have done that. You couldn't have taken him out, all
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right? So they fell out. That are taking for murder, Helman,
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you little I'm not leave you all the money I can spend the darling.
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You better do it fast. Helm Yeah, I got it. You can
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fucking folse murders Mike Grilly and my brother. I'll testify it. I'll ride
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there in a cab on your dough Giffen. Yeah, are you gonna pose
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or take me? Helman if you're anxious? Sorry about you and Norma.
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You get nothing out of this, but that's better than I got, Diane,
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lots of lot. Thank you, darling. You know what kind I
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hope your rough come on, Helmn. I'm achamed of you. Leave me
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alone, Norma. I'm ashamed of you what you did to Joe. I'm
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ashamed. Leave me alone, Norma. I'm sick. You know that I
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didn't know how it was gonna work out. Joe was trying to help you
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when you got greedy. He was trying to help you. That's the only
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reason he came out. And you let this happen. I told you I
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didn't know how it was gonna end. I thought they'd get him and take
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him back again. It's no good in you, and they couldn't find good
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in you anyway. You let that happen to Joe. You stood by and
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watched him walk into something like that. Oh, I stood by? What
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can we do? A debout it howur except a week and that won't help
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him. But hate you will. That will help Joe a little line here.
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At least they hate you for the short time left season, given those
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you defended fast? Were you better? You better stay depended fast? Ask
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him at the hospital If that isn't so, what do you mean? Ask
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him out there what you've got? They don't you asked them what you got?
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Ask him for tearing you the faces. Ask him. They'll tell you.
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I'll tell you you've got cancer. Normal, Please, I'll tell you
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cancer has come. I'll tell you you'll now spend your money. Spend your
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money and see that all laugh as long as you do. Good fine girls.
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Hello, mister Novak, did you miss much? Father? No,
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tell the man Lucky is running kind of bad tonight. It does for some
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people. I guess all they get is unhappiness. They were the same way
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you'd wear a sports code, only they never seem to get a new one.
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I'm sorry about the night, mister Novak. I'm sorry. It's not
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a smoother world. Yeah, but if it were, you'd be out of
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a job. Father, see you later. If you get a bad first
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break, you never run the table. That's what happened to Joe Feldman.
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Charlie Giffon owed him dough and wouldn't pay up, but Joe didn't care until
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Normous showed up. Until him how sick Anne was, so he decided to
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collect from Giffon and divide the dough between the girls. Fatherly, he couldn't
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stop him. All he could do was try and make it work out.
28:45
Joe was going to get the dough and meet the girls in that hotel room,
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but he changed his timetable and sent Mike Greeley up to tell the girls.
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Giffon showed up there and figured that Mike had tumbled to a double cross,
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so he killed him and near the double cross, but she didn't mean
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to go that far. She wanted all the dough and tipped off Giffon.
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He was supposed to turn the dough over to her and then have the police
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pick up Joe, but Joe got there early. He took the door away
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from Giffon and shot the copper on the way out. Giffin followed Joe and
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killed him out of Argulo, but the dough was gone. He finally tumbled
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an enormous place, and that's how her apartment filled up so fast. Well,
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Helman asked only one question, What did I get out of all this?
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Nothing? Father Ly, he offered me fifty bucks, but I didn't
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want it. Jocko was with me, and he offered to give it to
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charity. I guess he did, because what Jacko spent it the drink's not
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Education. Welcome back. This one didn't have as many funny lines, but
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I have to admit I was truly impressed with the powerful verbal pictures painted of
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Father Leahy by Novak. Was really beautifully written and just a great description that
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brings the character to life. All right. Well, on to some listener
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comments and feedback. Dwight says, Adam, seems like when a favorite goes
31:48
away or shortened, another great detective calms along. I'm liking Pat Novac very
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much. I love his hard edge and comments. Thanks for bringing these to
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us all, And another listener says, you can't knock Novak. Well,
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we do actually have some comments not as favorable on Novak. Brian says on
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Facebook, I love the quotes, but I really don't care for the delivery.
32:20
It seems forced. And then we have this from Joel, who says,
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Hi, Adam, normally I enjoy your program in series choices, but
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Pat Novak is an exception. The episodes are cut from the same cloth,
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formulized and hackneyed. The dame, the killing, the confrontation with an overly
32:40
angry Helman, his drunk doctor friend, and the cliched fog horns, the
32:46
fancy dialogue and silly metaphors. We're thin after one episode. I look forward
32:52
to the end of the series. In your next choice, what a shame
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that there were not more Pete Kelly's blues to showcase web Well. I appreciate
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your opinion, Joel, and not every listener's going to enjoy every single show
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we choose. This one to me is nique, and I think they come
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up with a lot of very interesting assemblies. I will admit I'm not certain
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I would enjoy this as much if Pat Novak had been on the air for
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one hundred episodes and we had all one hundred episodes, But at the eighteen
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network broadcast that we have. It provides a nice sampling. Plus I do
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think that they mix it up a little bit in the further episodes, particularly
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the last episode, which I think has some great dramiatic values. So thanks
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so much for the comments and appreciate I appreciate that Pat Novak's at least exciting
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folks's interest. All right, well, we will be back tomorrow with the
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adventures of Philip and then join us back here next Tuesday for another episode of
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