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now it's Tom for today's episode of Pat Novak for Hire. Give envelope to
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John Saint John pat Novak. Higher sure, I'm Pat Novak for hire.
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H That's what the sign out in front of my office said, Pat Novak
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for Hire. Down on the water front of San Francisco. You don't get
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for being subtle. If you want to make a living down here, you've
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got to get your hand in the till anyway you can. You robbed Peter
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to pay Paul and then you put it on the cup. Oh. I
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rent the boats and fell a few white lies at the price is right.
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It's a happy life if you don't mind looking up at a headstone, because
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sooner or later you draw trouble a size too big. I found that out
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Tuesday night. It was ringing, when the street was as deserted as a
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warm bottle of beer. Must have been about eleven o'clock when I came out
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of the office and started down the waterfront. As I got me at the
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corner, I stopped, an old man stepped out of the darkness and started
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across the street. It was a short trip because a car started up down
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the street, and the old man couldn't have made it with a pocket full
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of ass. I started over to him. The car slowed down from it
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and turned the corner and disappeared. As it passed under the streetlight. I
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caught a glimpse of the license plate in a dull, surprised way, the
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way you'd grab a feather out of an eagle's wing. I got over the
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old man and rolled him on his back. He didn't seem to be in
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pain. With an old man with a fighting look of a small boy in
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a storm who was beating hard as I cussed his head. Please, can
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you please see me? Not the big order, mister, I must stop
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to If you've got any good coats, you better get him off your chest
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fast in my pocket, inside my pocket, you please put your head.
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Yeah, you're two envelopes, what about him? One is smuggy, so
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you you have the other one. So far's the other one? Please keep
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sealed and you will give it to John Saint John, John Saint John.
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Yeah, where does he live? Don't understand? It's not I want to
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tell you one. Mm hmm, you dog, that's turning. He was
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right on that one. I didn't understand a planing sift. He slipped out
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of my arms and stopped paying taxes. I dragged him over the side and
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I went through his stuff. There was nothing there, no identification, just
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a card was an address out on Hayte Street. I opened the envelope and
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three hundred dollars tumbled into my breast pocket. The other one was sealed.
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There was no name on it, but up in the corner there was some
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kind of marking. It looked like two crosses spliced together. There wasn'tything I
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could do for him except pray and I owe some back dues. So I
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went back to my office and call police headquarters. I told him where the
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old man was, and then I checked in the phone book. There was
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no John Saint John listed, but it wasn't going to be easy to find
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him, and I only had two leads, that license number and the address
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on h Street. So I look at the only honest guy I know,
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a next doctor in a boozer by the name of Jack o'madigan. A good
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guy, but to him, a hangover is the price of being sober.
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I finally found him singing Mason Street Bar today, Little rams it ever fit
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on? Hey, Jacko, I want to talk to you, Ah,
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Patsy, I'm just in time for the counterpoint. I'm singing this song,
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a little sentimental thing from my childhood, or a little keep I got a
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problem. You will always have a problem, Patsy, because you can't keep
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out of trouble. You know that, don't you? You have no self
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control? All right, Jacko, If you have no more self control than
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a bucket of mercury dumped on a marble staircase, all right, Now,
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shall we check the bright talk. I just saw a guy get killed.
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Oh you are like some violent disordering nature, some large but unprofitable storm.
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You keep whirling in circles, Patsy. If you ever go more than ten
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feet in one direction, it's because some woman is nine feet away. Then
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it begins all over again. Are you all through? Yes? Get to
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the point. That's another of your troubles. You never get to the point.
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I just saw a guy killed ten minutes ago. How would I introduced
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me? Are you selling an eyewitness account? Some old guy got killed down
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on the embarca Daryl and checked out fifteen feet away from him. Who killed
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him? I don't know. Why do you care? Professional jealousy? Some
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car came out of nowhere and clicked him. You sure it wasn't an accident?
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Yeah, just like the Berlin blockade when you stopped needing me, Jacko,
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I told you a guy got chilled. He was murdered right in front
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of me. I gotta find a guy called John, Saint John. How
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Saint John? John? Saint John. I don't feel like bad villa night,
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Jacko. The old man gave me three hundred dollars to deliver a letter,
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and I made him a promise. Well, you can break it now
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with only the slightest swiss. I got the license number of the car.
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I want you to hop down and look it up, and then check it
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headquarters to see if the guy's got a record when you I don't like policemen.
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They depressed me. Check it. I gotta go out to Hayte Street.
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What kind of neighborhood is it out there? Well, not exactly a
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neighborhood. It's more like an architectural afterthought, a lingering defense against the early
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California bear. All right, all right, no speeches. Just check on
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that license plate. Huh. Now, if I'm not at my place,
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try this address. Yes, it's always very interesting this time of night.
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Good night lover. Jocko was right about the neighborhood. When I left him,
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I doubled by my place and left the envelope. I put it inside
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another envelope and statched behind some books, and then I hit it out to
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looked up John Saint John. Oh. It must have been about midnight when
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I got there, and it was a kind of a neighborhood where a for
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rent sign reads like a ransom note. I found a place, though it
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was an old rooming house, a third floor apartment. I knocked at the
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door. When she opened it, I knew it was time to wire home
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for money. All blonde, blister with lots of fahrenheit. He stood bailinging
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against the door, smil looking at music. You had gold plated muscle.
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It gave you a weak feeling. Where your dinner out of bay and her
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voice came right out of the oven. Yeah, you had kind of lady.
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Yeah, I'm looking for a guy named John Saint John. Oh,
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why was it coming in? Then? My cop with sure for a spider
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You're nice and chilly, spider man. My name is the note you want
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to write it down. I'm Paton Novak. I'm looking for a guy named
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John Saint John. You seem to be running a temperature on the subject.
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Yeah, the couch you'll do. I'll bet you carry a rainy nurse pocket.
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All right, now, let's get out of the woods. Angel.
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I'm looking for a guy. I know you're wearing out a pair. I
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don't know what John sings. John. A dead man was carrying around your
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address. He was as Yeah, an old guy about sixty. He got
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killed crossing the street. You should have had a boys got in. I
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don't know anything about it, mister Novac, despite occasional temptation, I don't
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like sixty your own name. Well, he was looking around your address.
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Why, I don't know. Maybe he admired me from the fall, like
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the sunset or something. No, he stopped admiring sunsets about twenty years ago.
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I see, what are you? The avenging ange. He gave me
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a sealed envelope, and you were supposed to give it to a man named
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John thing John. That's right. He gave me three hundred bucks to ease
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the pain. I forged that you don't look like the chair. It was
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a nice little guy. So I'm gonna find his boy. Maybe I can
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help you. You've got a clear fast track. Let's so you go.
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I tell you I don't know John Jing John, but I'll do this.
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Yeah. I know you're gonna be big hearted and offer to take that letter
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just in case you ever meet someone named John. Saint John, you brought
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al on your crystal ball. You're hands shaking, baby. Maybe it's the
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wind. You need a handrail, friend, Yeah, what do you plan?
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I'm open minded the bottom m hm. You're a nice spider man.
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Yeah, the wind is getting a little worse, isn't it. Yeah,
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you should actually pist. I'm not. When I walked in, I could
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see you had both arms broken. Did you pay the rent this month?
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Keep the kettle on? How long to be a moment? Hello? Lake?
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If we're early, just give us some magazine. No, come on
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in, just enough for some bread. You're right, you're only gone for
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a moment. Or your friends out because they locked a manhole before they left
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home. Yeah, that's a pretty name. It don't rhyme with anything,
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but it's pretty, I Joe. Yeah, that's all right. Let's have
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the letter. Novak. You've got a hold of a bad rumor fellow,
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the one I got scored. Let's have it. I don't want to strain
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your mind, junior, but try to understand I don't have a letter at
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him again. Go on home, mister. You're not gonna get anything out
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of me. He's just a small tip. Now, if you're a good
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boy, I'll give you a nickel for your front and two. All right,
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jo hold him up? Yeah, he's gonna hold him up. Oh,
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i'd mind that. You know enough? All right? Baby, don't
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look so sorry. You can't have everything. It's easy to sleep if he
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got the White friends. When those two gun ups were through, I hit
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the floor and made rif fanlink and look like an INSU victim. I didn't
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like the floor, but it was in better shape than my face. I
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don't know how long I was there, but it must have been a couple
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of hours. I rode over once and tried to get up, but it
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was like trying to barbecue a cake of ice. It was a sick,
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sweet smell in a ROOMA I tried to place it, but my nose was
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out on strike, so I went to sleep again. The next thing I
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knew, it sounded like New Year's Eve. Here you go up on the
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couch. What's the matter Nothing, If you're you're a kitchen stove, the
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room's full of gas. Would open the window if you're going to turn on
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the gas. Some of my playmates, I guess, well, you went
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at the apartment, So I tried here. Yeah, what time is it?
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Two o'clock? Who got the queen idea of the gash chamber? The
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girlfriend who was love at first sight? I see, it's go home to
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bed. I'm getting used to floors. That old man started a ball name
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Jacko, but I mentioned John saying John of this girl's banker and brought him
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the gunsils. Did she get the letters? I left it at home.
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You're getting smart? Yeah, three hundred dollars worth. They looked at my
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dog. You couldn't have used it where you were going. Yeah, I've
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checked on that hit and run car. It's listed under the name of Sydney
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Bronson. Has he got a record? No, everybody's the beginner. Let's
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go home. Oh, it'll be there, but you'll get uced to it.
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Wait till I wash my hand. Yeah, go ahead, patch Yeah,
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what did you do if it looks like when she's a lively kink?
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Yeah? Why what's the matter because she's not anymore? Yeah? Those gunzels
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playing rough? She's kind of pretty. What did she do besides sending out
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vibrations? I don't know, but she knew what about John Saint John?
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Hey, she picked up a bait like a hungry bass And so look at
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that ring? How'd you get around to that and singing on it? The
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same one that's on that envelope splice crosses. Let's go home, Patchy.
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The police should be here. Yeah, even I know she's dead, Come
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on, we better go on your way. Out the doors. John,
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I'll try it sideways because I think it's a block. I don't know,
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Vac. You look pale. It's my color scheme. What do you carry?
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Helman? None? He looks peaceful. Yeah, I'll be quiet.
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You'll wake her up. I'll tip you always cut her throat before she goes
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to sleep. At leish you no, Vac, I don't know. It's
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a whole cozy here for a bunch of perfect strangers. I don't know every
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dead girl in town. Helman, you'll have to check. You didn't still
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right? Can't you know? Vac. That's all you'll need down the headquarters.
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Come on, get out of a haze. Helman. You don't know
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who's dead yet, but you're gonna bok somebody. Yeah, what are you
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doing up here? At praising the joint? I came up to find a
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guy named John, Saint John. He doesn't look like a guy named John
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Saint John. He was my lead. I came up here to smell out
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a rat. He had a half nelson. Only when two dentals walked in.
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They came up to fix the cash meter, and I think you stay
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out of it. I make every ye foot now if you're smut your fingerprint
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this place, Helman. These boys were cute. They've been in somebody's jail.
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I'll handle my job. You stick the murder and go a long way
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to pin this on me, Heilman, I can go a long way,
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no vac that what you've got to We'll get a call in the middle of
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the night. Come up here and find you standing over a dead girl's right,
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and you want me to sprinkle powder all over? Back up and take
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a better look, Novak hold if he was fine, Helmet, and if
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you'll take a good look, you'll know why you haven't got anything to give
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the the ah up a slow eating a fat hand. You're gonna need help
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none on this one. You need help to find the street. Come on
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back to center, Helmet. Even with both hands, you couldn't care forget
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it, So take the mette to like a good boy. I'm gonna walk
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out and let the two of you tour of the town. I'm gonna book
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one or both of you on a murder chart. All right, book jocko
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here then I love you in a generous mood. You got a stringer in
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Helman. Somebody's gotta find John Saint John, who's going to find Jocko.
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Stop worrying O, bit yell, you haven't got the right siass heart Novak,
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you'll let him die on the vine. Helman. Sometimes you're guilty of
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unexpected wisdom. I know it's reflakes at you, but it's consoling anyway.
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I want you, Novak, I want you bad. I'll take this guy's
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a down payment, but I'm going to close out with you. Remember that
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I will. All right, come on, mister, wait a minute,
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Petch. You're not going to let him lug me off like this? Else
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can I do? A guy likes you. But it was a bum curve
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to throw Jocko. But somebody had the biggest out of a hole. Jacko
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wasn't the boy. He can't shovel dirt with a bar rag Well. I
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had no idea where to start. There were two murders, and they were
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both tied up with this John, Saint John. He didn't look like a
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good guy to know. And there was that insignia too, the one on
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the letter and the one on the girl's ring. Sure it could be a
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coincidence, but that's what they said about Bluebeard. The only thing I could
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do was open that letter, So I went back to the apartment. I
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didn't have to turn on the light. They were running in pairs tonight.
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He was sitting there on the couch, proud of a pair of long silk
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legs and smiling like a guy who knows he's got a million bucks in the
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bank. She was blonde to a little more lemon juice maybe, but blonde
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anyway. She was nice and comfortable, and I got the ideas he'd just
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signed the lease. Good evening, How do you do? Went very well
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so far? A fly remarkless Novak. No, I'm just bringing up the
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date your girlfriend's dead. Yeah, yeah, the guest jets out in the
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kitchen it is I think that's supposed to be mysterious. You clear it up.
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Then find a name for yourself and the reason why you picked up my
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furniture. Oh do you mind living here? I just want to know your
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name before I throw you out in the hall. It's Novack. I'll bet
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you're rowfully slow when it comes to throwing somebody out in the hall. Now,
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if they can bounce as well as I figure you can when you do
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throw me out, throw the letter out too, all right. Now I've
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already had a dress rehearse an sways. No, at least I know where
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you stand. By the way, why are you standing? Can you sit
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down? Who's John Saint John? Don't be rid drumbant, mister news.
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Who is he? If you want that later you know him, don't shout.
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I'd like you better. I don't mean your vote. Who's John Saint
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John? I don't know him. You want that letter because your collect stamps
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I want? You'll have to take my word. I don't know John Saint
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John's worth breaking your heart over. Look, there's a good guy down and
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a clink sweating on a murder rapt for me, So I want John Saint
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John. You've got nice friends? Who Sidney Bunch? It started with a
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waterfront corpse. The leftovers belonged to an old guy that was hit by a
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car. The car is registered in the name of Sidney Bunceon, mister Novac,
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you seemed so intense. It's a picky. The waste is on random
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speculation. Now look, I told you, lady, I got a friend
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of the judg lyild is a nice race. One of you are nicest.
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Yeah, they're a pretty thing. Patsy, let's don't get food in the
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wrapper. Anybody ever brief you on trouble, Y'll have to see that far
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away, someone who's had to focus. Pat scene, No, you're pretty
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patsy. You don't think you have a better sale. I'm a juttle car
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now, vack. I'd just like to break your ribs. Yeah, I
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can get a brace. Come here, Eh, what's on your mind?
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What you're gonna say when you find out about this gun? Huh? That's
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right, sweetheart, And my finger isn't hollow. Back up and take a
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look at the gun you got to that person. That's right. You'll ruin
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my confidence. I'll give you a testimonial in the meantime. I want the
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letter. You go after everything the same way I want the letters in the
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desk. Come on right here in the time. I'm aorry here lady,
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all right, come on, let's throw my arms now that's your version?
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Tell me? Was that I was something in the house and I beat it?
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Yeah? You ruined my confidence. You're lucky going home. You want
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to change your mind about that letter? No, it's yourself. I'll be
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gun, okay. Yeah, I can't help you on John, thank song.
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I wouldn't worry about that, fellow, Sidney Bronson. Why because I'm
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Sidney Bronson, so you do. I let that one sink in for a
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minute, but it got about as far as my brain and ran out of
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gas. She wasn't driving at murdered car, otherwise she wouldn't get that Talkie
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began to look like a big back, well fed, double crossed, and
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John Saint John was holding up his end. I had to find out what
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was in that letter, so I made tracks for the bookcase. All I
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could do was browse because the letter was gone. Whoever took it didn't even
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leave a tip. I thought of the girl, but that didn't make sense,
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and I thought of John Saint John. That made a lot of sense.
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Things didn't look rosy for me or JACKO. I was about to buy
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a file and bake a cake when the phone ended. Yeah, hello know
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that, Oh hellman the corner. I got a report on that dead girl.
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He got at twelve thirty. That's pretty close. What's he got to
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stop watching? Fifteen minutes? Either way? Those fingerprints panned out too.
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Yeah, a couple of Las strong on men. Well that's new for La.
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You got to call out. We already picked him up your favorite name.
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Welcome danglers. I could make a joke. I already got one.
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It set up with a privy gallop life of twelve thirty. That means I
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killed a girl. Nobody's arguing. I got some more news. Yeah,
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I'm out of seal rock. You got the figure for it. We just
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found an envelope floating around the water. It's one of yours. You better
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come on out to find an envelope. So much all the envelope turns out
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to be in some guy's pocket, come on out. Well, I don't
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emember one thing. Whoever took that envelope out of my place got popular.
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It was getting late, so I grabbed the cabin rode out to the beach.
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When I got there, Helman was standing down near the water. He
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had Jacko with him. The surf was rolling in and Jacko wasn't much better.
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Hell no, I had jackohas jail right. Thanks for coming, Novak,
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you're sweet. Where's the envelope? Yeah? Yeah, the same one
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that makes you look good. There was a letter in here. Did you
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take that with a guy's money? Helman? You got all there is.
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This guy on the beach is a third one. It's my opinion. The
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kiswel sorbyself. We're running out of people. Who is the guy named Walder
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Avery? Is this stuff? Yeah? What's left? Well? The splice
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cross really gets around. It keeps bobbing up here. It is on the
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guy's fountain pen. I'm gonna run this guy through the Morgan and I'm gonna
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look you up Novak. Yeah, sure, we want you down with us.
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Night right, Patchy, I'll introduce you to all the best people.
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Good night's lover. It was close to five, so I tagged by my
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place for some sleep. I tossed around like a fish on a living room
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rug. Hellman called about nine to throw more dust in my eyes. He
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said one of the airlines had a passenger to Portland named Walder Avery. Just
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to make it tough, the guy made the twelve o'clock plane and got off
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at Portland. I had left Field all to myself. I got dressed and
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looked up Sidney Bronson's number. There was no answer, so I went over.
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The place was lit, and I looked up the janitor. He wasn't
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gonna let me in, but it turned out his wife had a birthday coming
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up. Sydney's apartment was real high powered. I don't know where she got
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the dough, but I knew I wasn't gonna find a tin cup and pencil,
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But I found it was lots better a card with that same insignia that
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splice crossed. The card said Belcrest Sanitarium, and down in the corner there
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was a guy's name, doctor Amol Shoney, psychiatrist Vienna without the walls.
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The belcrests Sanitarium was down near San Carlos. So I borrowed a new nash
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from a guy I know and hit it down that way. Everything was fine,
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and until I got in the front door, they didn't even let me
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register. I woke up on a couch in Schoenegg's office. Was dark outside.
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In my left arm was throbbing like a love story in a woman's magazine.
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The radiator sitting next to me was Sydney, you're a deep sleeper.
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I think I got help. What happened in my arm? Hypodermic You only
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need one arm anyway. In your case, I need a spare. Who
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did it? Doctor Shoning? He's a darling boy. Where is he out
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on the phone trying to figure out what to do with you? What's that
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making me a patient? That's one way of putting it. You made things
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easy. We were coming to you for the letter. You want to turn
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it over again. We were on our way when you stumbled in. You're
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wrong, I said, somebody's giving you a fast pitch. That letter was
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gone when you were up at my place. I don't want to bum rip,
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Patsy. I want that letter. You're trailing a field angel. I
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told you the letter's gone. My guy the name of Waller Ravery took it
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out of my place. Wall Aravery, that's right, and somebody thanked him.
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They found him this morning, making like a dead seal. Well her
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Avery left for Portland's last night. Oh Peah, sweetheart, you better read
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up on your friends. Yeah, thanks, Patsy. I told you you
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had more shots. What's the difference and none? I suppose? Why don't
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you mix this a drink while I talked to mister Novak, I'll be right
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with you and miss Novako, one of my best patients is because I like
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your needles. You better go easy on that drink. He is you'll get
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drunk and run somebody down. And when you did that guy in the waterfront.
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Oh a book gays. You should be proud. That's a good,
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sensible final emotion. Thank you, my dear. He's to mister Novak.
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Sorry, there's no degreeing for you, mister Novak, and you probably will
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me. Huh, forget it, Emil. I talked to mister Novak before
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you came in. He thinks you're a heel. He does so I can
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stand it. He told me about water Avery. I'm be sorry about that.
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Walter got that letter. You killed him and took it. I was
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supposed to buner around and you got rid of me too. That's a bump
24:41
joke. Amo, you're getting hysterical laughter. Amo, you put one of
24:45
your boys on that plane, only Novak air. The w wash too fast,
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I did. Nobody has to bring you up to Dake Sydney. You've
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been hanging on Polong free right over. Must as well tell you now you
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are true. I can't the whole bunker look at it and true scary amles.
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What's the matter with me? What's the matter with me? Give my
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hand now, Jack, you just had a bad drink. You wouldn't do
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that. I'm full of surprises. You got a stemmard full of poison.
25:12
You got a stoma full of poison. Fifteen second table that I want you
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to Three had the gun, I would It's happened kind of fast. Four
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of us. What's the moise. Yeah, I'll get your pillow. I'd
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rather have your ma. You get mercy, not love baby. Thanks for
25:45
small favors. I know that's so good. That was the three and two
25:52
pitch. Yeah, I had it coming up. I'll tell you about John,
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say Joe, I know there was no sense, that's right. It
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was the name of the group those Splice Crosses found out a little late.
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Only that way w I found out about you. Yeah, I had a
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funny bunch about you. A name found out a little late. I know
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now that day is that help? John? Saint John was the name of
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an organization buying and selling government information. That old man tried to tell me,
26:53
but he checked out too fast. I began to figure something like that
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when those Splice Crosses showing up. Shoenig killed the old man in Sydney's car.
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He couldn't stop because I was around. The two girls and Walter Avery
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were both in on the deal. Shoenik knew who I was when he saw
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me go into my office. He tailed me to my place and left Avery
27:15
there to look for the letter. He killed that girl up in the rooming
27:18
house, and the found out she didn't have the letter. When Avery showed
27:22
up, he took it away from him and threw him to the fish SHOONI
27:26
was trying to shake Sydney by sending her up to my place after he had
27:30
the letter. The scheme went heywire when I showed up at the sanitarium.
27:34
He was trying to work himself out of that one when the payoff came.
27:40
John Saint John all right. From the start. Jacko said he was either
27:44
dead or in the state pen, because anybody with a name like John Saint
27:47
John would have killed his parents as soon as he got old enough to find
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out about It worked out all right. They found the letter out at Schoenig's
27:55
place. There were some plans for guided missiles and a few other trifles.
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Helen asked only one question, how come Shoany didn't kill me before I could
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talk to the girl. That's always that way with the guy who commits murder.
28:10
Either he goes too far or he doesn't go far enough. The arm
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Pausis Radio Service has just brought you pat Novak for Hire, starring Jack Webb.
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At Novak is produced by William V. Russol. Jock O Madighan is
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played by Fudor Owen. Inspector Herman is played by Raymond Burke. Music was
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composed and conductors by Lasso Wesson. Leave with us again next week when over
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most of these same stations, we don't bring you at Novak Ohio at Novak
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for Hire was previously released by ABC, the American Broadcasting Company for listeners in
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the United States and rebroadcast for our men and women overseas. This is the
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United States arm PAUSES Radio Service, the Voice of Information and Education. Welcome
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back. Well, Uh, this episode I think showed a little bit of
30:49
variety. First, there was the early stage at which Jocko came in,
30:56
and this episode Novak is a lot less mercenary focused, and you do kind
31:02
of see the better warmer side of Novak in this episode, even though he
31:07
is, you know, still pretty typical in the ending, a little bit
31:11
a typical just because Hellman wasn't there. So I do appreciate that the little
31:15
ways they mixed it up. Well. We have an email from Joel regarding
31:21
this series. He says, I continue to struggle with this program. Every
31:25
episode is a carbon copy of every other, and Novak gets beaten so many
31:30
times for a tough guy. You have to wonder was this show a success?
31:37
Good question, and it does kind of depend on how you define it.
31:41
The series was extremely popular in its West Coast run. Indeed, that's
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something that I was actually able to confirm from a nineteen forty nine Billboard magazine.
31:56
That's that's why they were even considered bringing this to the nationwide audience was
32:04
because of its success. I have not been able to find any ratings records.
32:09
ABC was always a network that really struggled in the ratings department, but
32:15
also could trust some interesting ideas, such as Pat Novac for hire. I
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will say that the West Coast version of the show was enough to really get
32:27
Jack Webb's career off the ground. In fact, he actually was signed by
32:31
Mutual to do a series that was so much like Pat Novac in its original
32:37
inception that it led to a threat of a suit by ABC for copyright infringement.
32:46
By nineteen forty nine, ABC decided to bring Jack Webb back and take
32:52
the show nationwide. So it had some success, and I think the Mutual
32:58
Program of Johnny Madera shows the level of that success. After all, as
33:04
they say, imitation was sincerest form of flattery. This was not a show
33:07
I think that was ever going to last. And it probably is a bit
33:12
more in terms of radio programs, a bit more of a cult classic,
33:15
an acquired taste that not everybody has. And I can definitely appreciate that,
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and that's why we have programs on six days a week with six different shows.
33:25
But I appreciate you emailing and your support of the program. All right,
33:31
some listener comments and feedback from Canada. Keiky Katz says favorite podcast he
33:39
must hear for anyone who loves old radio. Adam Graham is becoming a great
33:45
host who does his research and passes on interesting facts on the episodes, their
33:49
air dates and how society was in that era. Very well planned and organized.
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And then this from Bear Stearn's excellent podcast, interesting and entertaining material and
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great quality recordings. Awesome that the shows are in sequence makers of all the
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show makes the shows all that more enjoyable. Great host, also fantastic work.
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Thank you well, thank you so much. I do appreciate your con
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comments and that will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with
34:21
the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, and then listen back to us again next Tuesday
34:25
another episode of Patnovack for Hire. In the meantime, send your comments to
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