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Now for Philip Marlowe. The original
airdate on Today's program August the twenty fifth

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of nineteen fifty one, and the
title is Air for G Street. Most

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Saturdays at this time we spend an
exciting half hour adventure and action with America's

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public here on number one hop Along
Cassidy. Well, even two fisted cowboys

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take some our vacations when they can, and Hoppy is no exception. But

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hop Along and Topper, we'll be
back with us riding the CBS air trails

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again four weeks from tonight, September
twenty second. Get this and get it

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straight. Crime is a sucker's road. Those who travel had wind up in

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the gut at the prism of the
grave. There's no other end. They

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never learn. From the pen of
Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction

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comes his most famous character in the
Adventures of Philip marlow Now, with Gerald

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Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we
bring you tonight's transcribe story Air for G

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String. There's nothing really wrong with
a hot summer. But if some sadists

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really wanted to bring out the worst
in anybody, particularly me, after a

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steaming day, all he has to
do is expose me to air conditioning.

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Take for instance, the broad View
Hotel, which was on Olive Street in

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downtown LA. It ground out alternating
currents of cold air from what could laughingly

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be called the lobby. I'd revolved
through the usual doors and stood squinting into

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the icy darkness. When my eyes
leveled off again, I made my way

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to the elevators, sinking into the
deep piled carpeting up to my hot and

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cold ankles. By the time I
reached room nine to seven two, I

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was in the first stages of a
chill. Yeah, conditioning is a marvelous

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invention. It guarantees the summer cold
for life. Oh you're mister Marlowe's that

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makes you, mister Alman? Huhan, come in sure, Yeah, you're

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nothing like i'd pictured you. Mister
Alman, sit down please, mister Marlow

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pictured me. I don't understand.
Well, all my life i'd heard about

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Philadelphia lawyers. Somewhere along the line, I drew up a mental eight by

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ten of a Yeah, well it
doesn't matter. You just don't look the

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prototype. Perhaps that's because I'm only
a junior partner in the firm, mister

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marlow Yeah, maybe that's it.
You know, it's an odd thing about

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prototype, mister Marlow. They'll trick
you. Oh. For example, I've

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always had the idea that men in
your well, i'll call it a profession.

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That's nice of you, that men
in your profession always wore trench coats.

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Yeah. Well, let's cause Bogad
looks so good in them. Yes,

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Well, about our business together.
I'll be here in Los Angeles a

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few days, representing the firm in
a number of ways. But while I'm

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here, I hope to locate a
man by the name of Buff Ryan to

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say that first name was Buff.
Yes, odd name, isn't it.

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Yeah, let's beside the point.
This Buff Ryan, it seems, has

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inherited a small amount of money from
a maiden nap who passed away some time

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ago in Philadelphia. According to our
information, my firm's executor of her estate,

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mister Ryan came west about a year
ago, and until approximately six months

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ago he could be reached at a
Waring Street address in care of A.

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C. A. Douglas. But
our corresponds to him there has been returned

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marked unknown at this address. That's
the last record you have on him.

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Yes, that's the last we've written
to this Sir C. A. Douglas,

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but received no answer from him.
I've called him since I arrived in

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town. There's been no answer.
Well, maybe they've both left town moved

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away. No, that's possible,
of course, But but perhaps you'll find

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that out when you get to checking
on mister Ryan. I see, well,

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I'm to find him if I can, and tell him about this inheritance.

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Ah. By the way, how
much is it? Five thousand dollars?

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Just about Misleader's entire estate? Miss
Leader sounds like a comment. Her

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full name, you may want.
That was Julie Leader, Julie Leading.

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I'm sorry I can't show you a
picture of mister Ryan. I'm expecting one

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to be sent out to me while
I'm here, expected at this morning as

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a matter of fact. Yeah,
well maybe a description of him will do.

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Have you ever seen him? No? No, but we were able

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to find out that he's slightly less
than six feet tall, like brown hair,

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straight blue eyes, weighed about one
hundred and eighty pounds when he left

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Philadelphia a year ago. No distinguishing
marks about him, according to our description.

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Oh yes, and he's about thirty
five years old. Oh that's pretty

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complete. Oh you better let me
have the last address you have on Ryan,

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So, of course, yeah,
I've written it down for you with

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the phone number I've been calling.
I'll be handling most of my business affairs

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right here at the hotel, mister
Morlew. I'll appreciate it if you'll check

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in occasionally, let me know your
progress. Oh, sure, be glad

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to stay around three o'clock this afternoon. Okay, tell you everything I know.

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But then yeah, but then it
might not be a thing. I

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know your reputation, mister Marlow.
You'll find him, I'm sure. I

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don't get me wrong. It needs
to be fun. I'll probably find him,

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but I have missed you know.
That's why I should want to rock

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the confidence of a Philadelphia lawyer.
I don't know. Maybe it was because

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Martin Alman, for all his conservative
Brooks Brothers attire, looked too much or

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not enough like what he was supposed
to be. Maybe it was because the

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East Los Angeles address he had handed
me for Buff Ryan was essential to be

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thirty degrees hotter. It was too
wearing. Street was lined with gray little

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houses, surrounded by small gray lawns
dotted with straggling gray trees, a color

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scheme was the direct result of long
years of constant neglect. I knocked a

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long time on the door of the
Cia Douglas residence. A porch was livid

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with old papers, an assortment of
throwaways and leaves. The only response I

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got was muscrawny cat, also gray, who leaped up on the porch rail

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as spit and yowl at me.
I yowled back and walked off the porch

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in the general direction of my car. That's when I noticed a smaller gray

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house behind this one, the same
lot, and I thought I saw a

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curtain at the front window. Moves
slightly. I can't dog my steps back

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to scene. Yeah, oh,
pardon me, but I'm trying to locate

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Sea Douglas. Does he still live
in the house in front of you?

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I don't know. I haven't seen
mister Douglas in quite a while. You

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you think he moved away? Maybe? I don't know. How would I

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know? I don't know. Well, Look, I'm in kind of a

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hurry. I'm getting dressed to go
to work. How long have you lived

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here? What difference does it make? Did you ever know a guy named

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buff Ryan? Of course not?
Why? Of course not? Why not?

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Just know. Listen, I don't
know hardly anybody, and I don't

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know you now it's the phone.
Go away, where do you please?

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Mister? No? No, I
don't think I will. Honey. She

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was told, very blond, very
good to look at, a fresh blue

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housecoat wrapped around just the way it
shouldn't. And even after I entered the

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spotless little living room, the faint
aura of her cologne lingered on. I

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couldn't tell anything about the phone conversation
she was having the next room, but

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I could tell a lot about her
by the several scantily clad pictures of her

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that greeted me from various points of
the room. Yeah, I could tell

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a lot about her. Hey,
what's the idea? You just can't walk

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in here? Do you want me
to call the police? And especially,

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I was just admiring your pictures,
so yeah, you have exceptional handwriting.

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You're pretty nosy, aren't you.
I particularly like this sample, where it

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says for buff darling my love blossom. Listen, mister, I got things

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to do, so run along allong? Have you known? Buff? Honey?

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You think I'm kidding about calling the
cops? Well, I do it

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all right, Only only one,
Only I'm due downtown at work. I

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Oh, honest, mister, I'm
not going to talk to you anymore.

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You've got no right to ask me
questions about anything. Nothing says I got

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to answer. That's right, that's
right. How do you sure don't now?

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Where's buff? I don't know.
Drive it downtown and you can tell

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me all about it. Huh,
you're driving me nowhere but out of my

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mind. I look like a good
news for your boy. You'd want to

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see me get out? Okay,
Blossom, Okay, what time's your first

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show? How did you know?
Yeah? I read the papers, and

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occasionally I've been known to contribute to
the cultural progress of Los Angeles, you

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know, save the burlesque houses.
The pictures sheet autographed the buff have been

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propped up between my sugar bowl and
the Soul Shake of the Sunday Morning Before

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in the theatrical section of the Sunday
Paper. Yeah, I didn't recognize it.

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With a house code on, and
all the way back downtown, I

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reflected on the advantages of being well
read well. I parked in a lot

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on a side street at the north
end of skid Row and stopped for lunch

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at a newspaperman's hangout nearby. It
was almost time for blossoms first show.

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When I felt fortified enough to walk
along the street, past the blank stairs

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of the Winos, the dank air
of the Muscatel Missions, Blossoms flag flew

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above the Marquee Blossom a flower of
burlesque. How many please? One?

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Huh? Thanks? So anything I
can get in to see Blossom. I

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don't see how you can miss the
buying the ticket or all. No,

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no, no, I mean I'd
like to see her personally in addressing room.

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I'd like to talk to her.
Well, I'm sure you have my

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permission. Whether or not to get
Blossoms is strict me between her and her

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moral fiber. You know something,
You're not much help. You know something

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I don't try to be I'll miss
you. I'm about to pass among you

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with these boxes of beating. Don't
forget what eak I beg your yeah,

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thank you very much, with the
practice of every box. So let dealshes

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chocolate candy with the nuts, pick
im very special break? Can you like

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go back? It wasn't gonna make
a killing exactly. There weren't more than

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six guys in the place I wanted
down the side aisle, the border one

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side of the stage and pushed the
road. I found myself on a dark,

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narrow catwalk of the hallway. The
show is gonna be out front.

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Back guys can't come back here.
Let's guy, dude, where can I

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find Blossom out front? About ten
minutes? I'll wait for it back here.

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Thanks. Look, I can make
myself clear if that guy wish you

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would. Your lighting system's very bad
back here? Lights out front where a

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counchmack, Come on, get get
easy, fellow, this is business.

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I don't like being questioned. That
can happen. You won't like you if

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you don't get out of here.
Your cousm too much commotion. I'll get

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out front where you belong. Yeah, yeah, Look, I don't know

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who you are, and I can
clear that up for your quick friend.

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I'm the manager of this theater and
I'll run along like he Where can we

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talk in your office? Why should
I talk to you? Because I'm a

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booking agent. I want to talk
to you about Blossom. She's okay,

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we'll talk about something else. Where's
your office? Look, the show starting.

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We can't stay back here. Follow
me. You sure have a bunch

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of art lovers in the audience.
George, Sure, it's a class show.

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Come on through the store now.
Then you're no booking agents. So

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what's on your mind? Blossom?
And what's your name? Blue? George

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Blue? Would it mean anything to
you if I told you that Buff Ryan's

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aunt Julie died in Philadelphia and left
him five thousand bucks. Wouldn't mean a

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thing, wouldn't That's funny because you're
the first one to fit the picture.

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One picture, slightly under six feet
tall, light brown hair, straight blue

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eyes, about thirty five years old, way about one eating And what are

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you trying to prove that you can
see me? Maybe? So? My

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Philadelphia message doesn't interest you. Nothing
about you interest me except how you got

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in here in the first place.
Bought a ticket. Then go on out

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and see the show. I think
I will. I also think I'll stick

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around and see Blossom after her performance. I wouldn't do that if I were

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you, I'd see the show and
get out. I don't want any trouble

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around here. I don't either.
And if you see Buff before the show's

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over, tell him I'm out front. Would you? I said, I

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don't want any trouble. You're in
a rut I walked down me I would

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let backstage. Of course, I'd
already charted it. Blossom's costume was less

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than ure than her blue House good. It was a school of thoughts surrounding

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me that this was more affective.
Near the door, I stopped a moment

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in silent appreciation. Don't look at
her like that. I didn't know.

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I want. Don't get any more
ideas, but come back to your dressing

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room. I ain't gonna like that. I look, look, go back

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to your seat. Live it up. Blue said it was okay. You

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wouldn't say that, you know,
it's better all I'd go telling me that

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it was better. Yeah, well
you stay here. And there's the same

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voice I met backstage the first time, the same pungent odor of Muscatel.

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Before he'd lurched back up the eyele, I'd had a good look at a

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twisted face and a pair of watery
blue eyes. Backstage. I waited for

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Now with our star Gerald Moore.
The second act of Philip Marlow and Tonight's

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story Here for g Strait, I
couldn't have been out long about eight bars

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of imagination unless I'd missed the full
chorus. At some point I was fuzzily

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aware of being carried sextile somewhere,
then being dropped not too gently out of

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what set of the noisiest springs I'd
ever heard. This music lowed me for

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a while, and then I heard
a door slam. My head rolled off

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on the floor and broke. Come
on, Marlow, you're not dead?

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Is that official? How'd you get
in here? Anyway? You wouldn't believe

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me if I told you. I
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to be I know, I know, I know, I've had that pointed

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out to me several times. Now, yeah, and I didn't think I

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told you my name. Your wallet
was on the floor. I can read.

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Oh good for you? Who hit
me? And with what size sandbag?

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I don't know? You never know
anything? Do you listen, mister

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Marlow? You've been barging in all
day where you're not wanted. Why didn't

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you tell me Buff was a whino? Oh? Hey, look look that's

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what's left of my head. Huh. I hope it hurts. I hope

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it hurt awful? How do you
get your hope it did? I listen?

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You want? Pretty fed up with
you? I'll just how you feel

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below what you told me. You
don't want any trouble. Okay, okay,

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I'm going I'll blossom. What about
Buff? I don't know? Never

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mind, Now, don't tell me
you want another ticket. I'll make kid.

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I've taken the cure. How is
there moral fiber like Gibraltar? You

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know a guy named Buff Ryan for
free? I don't know my own mother?

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You don't see your point? Yeah? Is mine memory getting any better?

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It's um clearing up a little well
when he ain't here, which you

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ain't right now, He's um usually
mother Morris's. That's for one, Mother

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Marris's flop house three doors down,
or for two, try Tillies four doors

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down a saloon. Thank you.
Mother Mars couldn't help me, lovable old

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lush that she was. And a
penetrating search of the twenty five cent bed

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she so revealed a lot of things, but no Buff Ryan Tillies downstairs next

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door didn't look very promising at first, but that was before I saw the

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twisted face with the watery blue eyes
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Beside him, the unofficial dean and
philosopher of skid Roll, Jay Fenton Prentice.

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I started taught them, but a
cordon of winos surrounded me before I

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could reach him. Him. Yeah, Prentice, I'm the one you call

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her brothers here off, make him
breathe in another direction and let me talk

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the buff. We're a close association
here, mister mannow outsiders, twill doc

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come on, Pratish. You know
me well enough, perhaps wish to Marllow,

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but we know each other better my
associates and I. My young friend

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Buff here quite obviously does not wish
to talk with you. We are merely

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respecting his wishes in our the own
way. Oh come on, look,

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this is cockad. Maybe this isn't
the place to say it, but you've

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inherited money. Buff, That's all
I came to tell you. Yeah,

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you're right, Julie. Well i'll
say anymore. Apprentis, don't let him

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get to me. I gotta get
out of here. If you gentlemen will

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restain, mister Marlow are crazy fool
Listen to me. There's a lawyer here,

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Philip to see it. He's like
a broad view. Well, if

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I haven't said it, will Son
day will The lawyer's name is Martin Norman,

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rdiot cosa stupid adults. Yeah,
thanks Prentis and nothing. Buff was

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nowhere to be seen. When I
hit the street. It didn't matter.

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It was three o'clock. I delivered
my message from Martin Norman. Buff could

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take it from there. No,
I may be wrong, but most guys

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liked when herod dough Still, you
can never tell with a wino. Buff

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was, as they say, bona
fide. Martin Orman was glad to see

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me. That was a nice change
of pace. I told him all I

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knew. Didn't take long. I'm
afraid you've had quite a bad experience,

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mister Marlow, I'm sorry. I'm
sorry too. Oh. By the way,

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this picture arrived special delivery from Philadelphia
about an hour ago. This the

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reluctant chap you tracked down. Let
me see that. Oh yeah, yeah,

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that's Buff before Muscatel. You've done
a fine job, mister Morrow.

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I made your checkout for you.
Thanks. So he's going to try to

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get in touch with Buff yourself and
perhaps not personally. Of course, you're

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certain that wearing street or dressed the
little house and back should reach him.

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Yeah, yeah, or I suppose
you could get in touch with him through

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awesome of the Burlos did. Well, We've done all we can for now.

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Unfortunately I've been called back to Philadelphia. I'm taking a plane out in

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an hour. Or what about buffing
the inheritance? Well, now that I

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know he can be reached, will
mail it to him. After all,

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we can force it, I'm now, can we, mister Marlow? Oh

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it doesn't look like we can.
Yeah, well, he's all yours,

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mister Almany what Norman seems satisfied that
we've done our job. So I left

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wishing someone would come up to me
and tell me at what's a name?

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And left me five thousand clams.
When I got back to my car,

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I had it all figured how I'd
go home and forget what Martin had called

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quite a bad experience. One look
inside my card told me it wasn't going

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to work out that way at all. You weren't as long as I thought

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you would be, mister Marlow.
And you get here from skid Row Prentis

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fly I always taxi. How nice
for you? After you left Tillies,

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I fell to thinking, mister Marlow, a fall. It occurred to me

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that perhaps you are telling Buff the
truth. All the time. I was

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It's not important now, isn't?
Oh? Yes, I should say,

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it's quite important. Really, you
mustn't be too hard on Buff, mister

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Marlow. He's like most men on
the road. He probably has his reasons

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for running, running from life,
perhaps running from himself or others. Are

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you trying to tell me something pernice? Now? That would be presumptuous of

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me, mister Marlow, temper justice
with mercy that much I say to you.

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I tell you Buff Ryan is running
and with reason. If his reason

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interests you, then I suggest you
set about finding out what it is.

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I was there any reason why I
should no, No, there isn't,

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but this much I do know.
He has left the role and he is

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running. I saved Jay Fenton Prentiss
taxi fair back to what he affectionately referred

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to was the role. Yeah,
he wouldn't have followed me if he hadn't

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wanted me to know something peculiar about
Buff And yet his odd code kept him

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from telling me himself. And I
knew that code well enough to know that

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it had something to do with the
police. Yeah. Well, like I

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say, I'm a curious fellow.
Oh no, Phil, is this a

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big time or small time crook?
This Ryan? He's pretty small sergeant money

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if he is one, elish No, not that I know him. Well,

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we'll try Ryan just for size.
H Buff's a crazy name. He's

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a crazy guy. You will have
to look for it in the Moniker file.

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Here a hole of here, this
is your guy. Oh yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
it. Let's see that when you take

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it out of that. Yeah,
I've seen that much of a record.

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Suspect um robbery chudges, dropped suspect
extortion chudges. Why they bothered to take

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his picture? I don't know.
Elias ISAs buff Raglan Bob Rutlan to see

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a dog, see a Douglas.
Hello, takes care of one question mine?

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Yeah, I take my word for
it, kid, it does.

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And see last question in connection with
the slang of Julie Leeder Philadelphia. Wait

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a minute, Aunt, Julie.
Holy smoke. I knew I didn't like

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this Martin Norman. I didn't bother
to check his record. I got the

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picture, no wonder. Buff ran
for me like the plague. Martin has

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suck at me into setting buff up
for the kill Mallow the finger man.

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That's great, I like, get
back to the theater and played me nothing.

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Yank Blossom plied the playoff stage,
shoved her into my control like mad

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at the Little Gray House. Behind
the Little Gray House, Prentice said,

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Buffett left skid Row. If he
wasn't on Wearing Street, he might be

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anywhere, including dead. Martin was
paying off a cab driver in front of

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the house. Blossom killed me to
the alley entrance in back. Please God,

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please don't let anything happen to him. Oh right now, honey,

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we'll make it in time if you
just let us say. He's got to

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mister Morrow. He's my husband.
Okay, okay, take it easy,

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baby, stand away from a blossom
roll kill you not listen, Buff,

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Martin's coming in the front. You
can't waste time with us. Don't believe

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you. You're part of the dealer. Hey, what is this? You

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should have listened to me, Buff. I'm sorry, Blossom my head too.

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He's all right, he's just out. Listen. You've got to answer

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that front door. No answer it. I'll be right behind the door.

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He won't do anything too. You're
just letting come in. I'm afraid.

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Oh my, come on, how
do you do I I was looking for

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a gentleman by the name of Buff
Ryan. I'm an old friend of his.

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I understood he lived here. Yes, yes he does. Is he

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at home? Now? Yes?
Won't you come in? Thank you?

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Thank me? I got his gun? Are you all right? Never felt

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better? Go throw some water on
your boy and get him in here.

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Maybe you'll talk now, Maybe I
will. No, Buff, darling,

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you're not hurt any more, Honey, I don't figure you. I guess

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Marlow. I thought you were on
Martin's teen. I was at first when

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I thought the business about you inheriting
the five thousand bucks was legitimate. Les

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he got against you. I saw
it too, much. Once, about

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a year ago, I saw Martin
killed Julie Leader. I was the only

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one who saw it. I knew
he'd give me the same thing if he

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ever got the chance into that.
Now, Kenny, not if you'll talk

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when we get the law here,
Buff, why didn't you tell me?

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Silly question? Honey, sure,
ma, law call the law. It'll

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be almost a pleasure to talk so
much for that. Buff and Blossom are

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doing fine. Every once in a
while we sit in the third row and

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yelled down in front. Yeah,
he's got a good job now, and

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soon they'll have enough for the traditional
vine covered respectability. Or by the way,

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he's taken a wearing Brooks Brothers type
suits. You know what, he

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looks just like a Philadelphia lawyer.
How do you like that? The Adventures

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of Philip Marlowe, Bringing you Raymond
Chandler's most famous character, starring Gerald Moore,

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are produced and transcribed by Norman McDonnell
and written for radio by Kathleen Hite.

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Featured in the cast where Jack Moyles
is Buff, Ryan, Michael lan

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Barrett has Blossom, and John Stephenson
as Martin Allman, with Sidney Miller as

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mister Bullo Norman Field as j Fenton
Prentiss, Grace Leonard as Gloria B.

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Sergeant Mooney is played by Jack Crucian
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Santana production Sirocco. The special music
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and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Be
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time when Philip marlow says, It's
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let's get back into the show. Welcome

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back. I have to say that
the whole Philadelphia lawyer set up screamed phony

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from the start, and Marlow is
kind of suspicious, But then not about

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it, because I think he's had
similar things happen and he should require more

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documentation than just us say so.
But at any rate, I will say

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that I also did like the Philosopher
of skid Row. Well they're pretty interesting,

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Pritter wish they would had used more
of them. All right, well,

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I should let you know that we
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