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You can access them right from the
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now we're going to return to the
Adventures of Philip Marlow, and we aren't

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going to start back with the Gerald
Moore series, which is the better known

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and more popular, a series that
continued on for two years and then came

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back as a summer replacement series from
nineteen forty eight to fifty and then summer

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of fifty one. We're going to
start out with the first Philip Marlowe series,

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which was a summer series that starred
Van Heflin and aired over NBC and

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was sponsored by Pepcident. At this
point, Van Heflin was very much a

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big up and coming star in Hollywood, having won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar,

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although these days he's probably best remembered
for his work on Shane, where

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he was not the main character that
honor fell to Alan Land. But at

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any rate, this episode that we're
going to play today was the third episode

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in the series. Original air date
July the first, nineteen forty seven,

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and this one's The Daring Young Day
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Your Smile used Pessident twice a day, See your Dentist twice a year.

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Leaver Brothers Company presents the Pepsident program
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Heflin. Pepsident Presents Philip Marlowe Raymond
Chandler's famous private detective. You've seen him

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on the screen and laid him The
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Dablon, and The Big Sleep.
No Pepsident brings you the Adventures of Philip

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Marlowe on the air and starring MGM's
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Now, families all over America have
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new fresh tasting Pepsident with the new
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one favorite over all other toothpastes.
Yes. In a recent test, families

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from coast to coast compared New Petsident
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an overwhelming vote, by an average
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New Petsident over all other toothpastes.
On all these counts. They said,

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New Pepsident taste better, makes breath
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On all these points, families three
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average of all other toothpaste. They
tried, get it for your family right

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away. There comes a certain time
in the year when I don't want to

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see midget auto races. I want
to see Mitchet's when I prefer sawdust to

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start list and popcorn to all other
kinds of corn available in Hollywood. The

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circus was moving in on the grounds
at Washington Boulevard and Hill Street, and

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I was turning in my usual fine
job as sidewalk supervisor. It was exciting.

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It brought back all of the sounds
and sensations and convictions of childhood.

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And then someone had me firmly by
the wrist, and I turned to look

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into a pair of steady, smoky, dark eyes that could be dangerous.

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Excuse me, sir, but you
are a private detective. I'm a detective,

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but I don't get much privacy.
My name is Ralph Cassanari, who

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told you I was a detective.
My feet aren't that flat. Do you

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know a gentleman named Alfikonolf? Well, I know and Alsikonolf he pointed you

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out. He asked me, what
was the big idea? What was my

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angle hiring a private detective? Give
me an idea? And al Sigonolf he

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had any ideas to spare Miss Camardo. Besides, only one third of the

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very fine little circus. I am
Tosari Cassanari, the Swede and Glorian traffista.

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The most brilliantary election of business.
I own this circus with Gorian and

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the Sweet where there's our second out
he fit in. Now this we get

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drunk and gambles contactic sums of money. The circus is worth a fourt of

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a million dollars already. The Swede
at gambled away much more than he third

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of the circus. And a partner
may sell out his other partner without even

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consulting them. You're afraid the Swede
will sell you out to pay for his

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debts. Yeah, and if he
did that, I should not hit a

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day or watches. Yeah, uh, checking off. We has made it

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plain that the gamblers expect payment immediately. Now, would you consider giving us

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your protection during the days we're going
to be here? What if five dollars

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a day and expenses? That's then
cheap enough. I know, but you

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see, I'm a sucker for a
circus. Yeah? Is it the office

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of Philip Marlow? Better still,
this is Philip Marlow? Go ahead.

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The partner Glorianne. I'm in a
downtown bar with a Swede and he's terribly

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drunk. I know this didn't go
a job, won't you'll come down and

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help me get him? All right, mother, Marlow will be right down.

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I found the main street bar where
Glorianne said i'd find her in the

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Swede. The Swede was potted like
Grandma's Begonia, and with the help of

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the bartender and pour professional loafers,
we got him into my car. I

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told Gloriane to drive. Let me
just take it easy. George the street

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receiving hospital. I'll stay back here
and wrestle a suite for the champions.

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Just let him along for now to
do some shopping. Yeah, I'm telling

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you something, honey girl. At
Tessonari makes any more passes at you,

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I'll beat him Randling, Oh please, don't pay any attention to him.

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The tomorrow he thinks everyone is okay. Back in your seat, yeah yeah,

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and then that doctor so still.
I'm telling you something, honey girl.

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One of these days I'm gonna get
up some money on that trapeze and

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I'm not gonna cut your friend Totsnario. How's that tomorrow? Then tell Muscles

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to let go of my ear.
Perfect crime. Who know was an accident

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on the night and the night on
have a circus instead of just a bird.

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He's drunk, but drunk or sob
he's got one dusy have an idea.

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They're drunk or so. I knew
some interns of Georgia Street Receiving Hospital

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who obliged with some oxygen and a
math. A half hour of breathing that

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oxygen deeply in the Sweden was stone
cold, sober, and back in my

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car again. He was making certain
cage explanations. Er marlow, or you

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don't want to take that stuff.
I was mumbling about. Seriously, you

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know I I was drunk, after
all. Glory and my wife, oh

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naturally, I don't like other guys
giving her the eye. But let's screwy

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talk about me dropping Tessnari accidentally on
purposeful but yet it the perfect crime.

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I was only talking molo. I
wouldn't do that, the Tessnari. Of

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course, now you'd be all broken
up about it, wouldn't he. I

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sat in a field box that evening
with the small neat circus unwound to the

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big act, and the big moment
arrived, with butterflies warming up in my

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stomach and posts something madly my neck. You that's scenaria. The swede came

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bounding into the room and over to
the two spidery ladders that zoomed up into

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the very peak of the big tent, up there where it was hot,

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high and dangerous too magnificently made men
climbing that slim ladder. The brilliant keeps

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flowing behind and growing up higher,
smaller higher, And then they were on

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their tiny platforms, removing their case
manuels. They turned faced each other across

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the board like divers. Not a
voice, not a breath, not a

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sound that I began to perspire.
The net was being gathered back. Then

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suddenly Passinari raised his right arm and
smiled, dropped his arm, and the

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swede shot out into space like a
comet, and the gay waltzing. Somehow

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insane music began. It was all
the announcer said, at least to me,

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daring and terrifying. Whirl and spin
and contact, swings, swings,

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swing and spin, spinning and whirling, contact and break, hands locked to

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ross and hands contact and break,
spin, whirled, cartwheeling, contact,

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swings, swings, swing and leap, split second tiny and the split second

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split again with Happy's bars flying into
place square, and when they were needed.

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I looked away, my head drumming
and swimming, and I looked up

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again. I looked up in the
thing that had been tying my stomach in

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cool, hard nuts. The thing
I was afraid of happened. The music

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played a gate when the clowns poured
into the arena, grinning happily. I

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saw the youngish, handsome doctor race
across the sawdust, followed by Gloriana across

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the arena. I saw al seconalf. They get up and disappear into the

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crowd. I went out too outside
I managed to get a shaking match to

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a quaking cigarette. In my mind, I heard it again and again,

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drunken voice of the flying Swede come
back to me on the days I'm gonna

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get up somebody on that happis,
and I'm not gonna catch your friend.

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Only it was all wrong. It
didn't add because the body that had plummeted

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to the ground hadn't been the body
of Ralph Cassanari, but of the man

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who had plotted the perfect clime,
Gloriana's husband, a flying Swede. What

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oh, oh, you were in
there, Yes, I saw it,

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brilliant. I think I could kill
rout with it. You think Cassonari dropped

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your husband purpose? What do you
think? Look, Land, I took

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this job, you know why?
And well, all this reminded me of

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myself when I was a kid reading
Tom Sawyer and Huck Fan and believing,

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Well, I still believe in me. I felt the same way about the

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circus, the last childish illusions.
A man holds Auntie so he doesn't get

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too hard. You're not tough at
all. If I was gonna like this

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job and then he's happening, do
you know what I'm talking about? Yes,

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I was sales. Look, Glorianne
the Sweet is dead, and you

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think Tessonary killed him. But it's
the perfect crime. You can't prove anything.

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Maybe I didn't love the Sweet,
but it was my husband, and

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I'm the square. Did you love
Tessinary? If I did it all over

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enough, I'm going to prove to
everybody in circus business at least he killed

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my husband. Well, how you'll
tell you a little boys. I watched

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her go back into the biggest tent, and then I drove home and dreamed

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all night about second of If he's
smiling his yellow smile and disappearing into the

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crowd. I got up late and
went down for coffee in a newspaper.

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The story was there on page one. Also a silky lady picture Glorianna beneath

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it. The caption reading, show
must Go on, Dar's High Trapeze and

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Passionary. After Nate falls to death. I looked at my watch. It

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was late, later than I thought
for the daring young dame on the flying

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trapeze. It was almost too late. You are listening to the Adventures of

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Philip Marlowe starring Van Heflin. Yes, families all over America have named their

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crazy about that Pestident flavor. It's
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his teeth. Now, my husband
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the only toothpaste containing irium. Get
it without delay. He continue with

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the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, created
by Raymond Chandler and starring Van Heflin,

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who appears by arrangement with Metro Golden
Mare producers of The Hucksters starring Clark Gables

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the Lion actors going on. When
I arrived at the circus grounds and practically

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ran the Glorianne, she was in
her tights and cloak ready to go on,

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blood, Glorianne, you're you're kidding, this is our gag. You're

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not going up there, Well,
you're out of your mind. I'm going

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up with pass and I to prove
me to kill the scree You add that

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up? My arms are full of
bundles. How can I agree to go

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off? Why? Why? On
his nail shattered after yesterday? Because he

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knows he didn't make a mistake yesterday. He knows he dropped my husband perfectly,

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and not because his time and all
the actions were wrong. To mix

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it up to a point, you're
thinking he may drop like that, you

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won't drop me. What makes you
so sure? I love you? What

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does that make sense? Yeah,
yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

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We'll go to it, little girl. I watched glorian so small and

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slim and fragile as she went up
that thin ladder, and my throat swelled

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tight, and butterflies took off in
my stomach again. She was on the

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platform, removing her silk cape,
folding and carefully over the rail. They

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were facing each other, smiling,
smiling, dead soul free silence. Then

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the minutes I sat there, petrified, watching your cold sweat channel and down

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my back for ten minutes, I
stopped breathing. I died once, only

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once. I had to close my
eyes. And then that second I heard

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the crowd roar. Everyone was standing
up, screaming and goggle eyed. I

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broke to my feet and there she
was bound, laughing and throwing kisses into

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the crowd and a Tassinarian at me. Then she pirouetted and ran up the

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ramp to her dressing tent. I
got there with Taessinary. Her eyes warmed,

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Familia, and then froze again for
Tessinari, come in, little boy,

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and you, tassan I, Cassina, Ralph Folsos and a bear.

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Today I talked to Tssanai. Now
I want miss Molly hear what I have

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to say to you. Just first
that I'm through you, Gloriana. Look,

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not because of the accidence, because
it was not an accident. You

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don't believe that. May I suggest
that maybe Al sick and off he has

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a meaty part in this picture.
No half, and that's not true.

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Ah, Yes, doctor, I
did pass your tent last night after the

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accident. Accident, I heard you
in the cafide unsuccessful doctor speaking together.

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Oh so intimately you're in and I
think together, deciding conveniently, perhaps that

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I killed a Suede should never all, he's the one, Richard. If

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I wanted to murder a man,
it would be easy to take my gun

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from my trunk and show them.
But that wouldn't be the perfect crime.

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Why should I want to kill the
Swede because he might have sold you out

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to pay his debts, because you'd
get half of the share of the circus,

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because you were in love with his
wife. I see you think you're

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ever case. I hope not.
Glorian knows what I mean, only perhaps

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talk to you. Better go now, Yeah, yeah, I'm very sorry,

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Glorian for all of us. Good
day, Good day, mister Morrow,

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and patted out softly like a panther's
resentment, and a hecred smoldering in

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his eyes. It was horrible,
boy, I don't now. I left

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wondering if there'd be a show that
night, tradition or no tradition. I

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walked for half an hour, and
then a police squad car came screaming down

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Washington Boulevard to the circus grounds.
Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the

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noonday sun, but Marlow runs in
it. I found a small colony of

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cops in one of the dressing tents. The man on the cut had taken

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a lot of pulses in his time, but he didn't have a single one

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to show for it, Not even
his own good looking youngish doctor Richard W.

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Stowe was dead. Detective Lieutenant de
Bearer held out a small automatic to

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me, Hello, Marlon, I
hear you've messed the minding things around here?

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Later ever see this gun before?
I may have heard of it.

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A man name Ralph Tessinari, connected
with his show has disappeared. No,

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something about that he was fresh from
a lover's quarrel lasts him, or maybe

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just out walking it off. Possible, but the dead doctor and Tessinari both

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went for a putty little clapis queen
named Glory Anne. There was anything stolen

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here? No, The circus hand
who heard the muffle shot came running before

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anything could have been taken. Were
a gala Glorianne. How does you feel

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about this? She's in her ten
heavily committed to a case of hystories.

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Morrow Divvy's on any information you get
out of her. You can't go on

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right now. Let me get something. Justice said it to settle your nerve.

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Oh, no, we never take
that thing. Bad for going up

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on the track. No, that's
the basic. You can't go up there

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right anyway. Tascenari's missing. I
will see what I can find for you.

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I rumage to doctor Stowe's medical bag
while Liberta watched him across the tent.

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I found a small black book,
at least threw it with my hands.

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Still. Hidden in the bag was
a small case history book with sketchy

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data about these cases, the treatment
given, the medication prescribe. I very

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quietly tore out the last page,
ponded and slipped in my pocket as eye

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creaked you an approximate upright position.
Find anything to quiet the little woman moral?

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No, not a thing. I'll
try a drug store tablets of cyclo

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dome grins, one under her,
one tablet with warm water for nerves or

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asleep. What is it? It's
a common sedative. But I can't sell

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you any without a prescription. What
can you tell me anything about those drugs?

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Some? But you will find a
lot more in doctor Torrel Soulman textbook

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on pharmacology. Pharmacology. It's only
in the main library, I think,

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but it's complete that'll tell you all
you want to know. I'm sure,

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and Druggist was right. The Textbook
of Pharmacology told me all I wanted to

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know. Also, this was a
very limited edition. It was probably the

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only one of its kind that had
on the page devoted to cyclodrome a smudge

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of lipstick in the shape of a
woman's finger. It was all and more

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than I wanted to know, and
all at once. I was old,

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very old. From now on I
was going to leave allusions to high school

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girls and magicians. Hello boy again, I see your dress to work,

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Griana, I return. I wouldn't
know, but I think I do know

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who killed the Swede to night.
I gravely doubt that, Elsey Lorian.

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You're a dainty little thing, and
that's a particular reason why you should break

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yourself a little unsightly habits like touching
your fingers to your mouth to turn back

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pages in books. Are you all
right? Was the Swede all right when

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he went up protestinary last night,
of course? Or was he just slightly

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under the influence of a seditie drug
that calms the nerves, yes, but

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slows up their reaction time. I
don't understand such man. You admitted to

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me to day that it isn't wise
to take such seditudes before your act,

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but you did get a prescription for
such habits from doctor Stowe. You said

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nothing about I needed to. But
according to doctor Stoe's case book, you

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got the tablets before the Swede was
killed, and you left him at the

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bar for an hour yesterday while you
did a little medical research at the main

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library. And that night the swedes
split second timing didn't quite split, did

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it. Of course, you weren't
afraid to go up with Tassinary didating he

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didn't miss the Swede. The Swede
missed him. I hated him. You

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didn't want him. You just wanted
to surface all of it. So you

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killed the Swede with his own perfect
crime. Only it was too perfect.

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You couldn't pin the murder on Taessonary. You had to think of something more

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down to earth. Go on,
my glory and crowd of you. Doctor

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Stow knew that you hated your husband, knew that you had those tablets.

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He knew that the Swede didn't make
mistakes. Last night when Tessonary her view

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and still whispering together in Stow was
telling you what he suspected, wasn't he

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He was a doctor, and he
is furious at the thought of being used

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in a murder. Well, if
you didn't shut up the doctor, he

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talked, So you shot him with
Tessinary's gun. After staging a very nice

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row with Tessinary in front of me. That would paint it on Tessinary.

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You let Stoe take you in his
arms to muffle a shop that was particularly

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pretty. No, no, no, boy, you had a bigger day.

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Well, it's time that I grew
up. Anyway, that's act and

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Glorian, I've sent for the police. Glorian, I'll be here pretty soon.

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Now there arena. She came back. He doesn't even know he's wanted.

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Probably a little boy. I have
let you down. Let me make

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it up a little Let me go
out there. Will you come down again?

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Yes, of course, by the
ladder, I mean I won't let

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you down again, little boy?
Who brought it? We second people wanted

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Toup poach you again? Please?
They're waiting. Well, the show must

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go on, Mercenary. All right, go ahead, lady, they're waiting.

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She ran out, laughing, throwing
kisses, and I walked out after

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stood in the runway, watching I
watched the small, delicate figure going up

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the ladder. Then she was at
the platform, rosin on shoes, rosin

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on the hands and wrists, and
sultry silence, not a voice, not

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a breath, raising her hand in
a gesture of exquisite grace and sureness,

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and smiling and pessinage smiling, And
there it was. This was it.

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The ghost link packs of small fries
in my school days gaped up with me

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and shivered with kid delight. I
was a kid again, walking up at

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the circus guy and the circus lady, the daring young dame on the flying

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trappees, passinary in glory Anne or
positively the last performance anywhere on Earth.

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the King in Yellow. The Night
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on the character of Philip Marlowe,
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by Raymond Chandler. Heard with Van
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The original music was composed and conducted
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Niles inviting you to listen again next
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mystery on the Adventures of Philip Marlowe
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This is NBC, the National Broadcasting
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that were actually in circulation back when
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the podcast were all based on short
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of course, I mainly NBC series
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one are different in that they are
original stories. This one was a pretty

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decent detective program. I did struggle
with a couple of things on here.

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I'm not certain I buy the idea
of Marlow being someone who hasn't been disabused

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of his childish notions about the circus. I also found the whole little boy

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name that's used repeatedly to be a
bit over much. Now. To be

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fair, Chandler stories and chandler Esque
stories often had a characters give somebody a

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nickname and keep, you know,
using it over and over again. But

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for a half hour story, I
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much and came off as too repetitive. While Raymond Chandler characters will often have

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that repeated note, it's not often
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their pet nickname. One other thing
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I am fairly certain that I heard
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