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it's time for today's episode. Of
Philip marlow The original airdate August the fourth,

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nineteen fifty one, and the title
is the long Way Home. Get

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this and get it straight. I
am as a suckers road. Those who

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traveled way definite, the gutter,
the prison of the grave. There's no

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other end. But they never learned. From the pen of Raymond Chandler,

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outstanding author of crime fiction, comes
his most famous character in the Adventures of

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Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore
starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you

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tonight's exciting story, A long Way
Home. The valley flow gave off the

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kind of heat that ate into you
stayed. I wondered why some eight hundred

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thousand people voluntarily made the San Fernando
Valley their home. That was their problem.

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My problem at the moment was to
make a right turn off Riverside Drive,

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and I did four or five blocks
north. I saw the name on

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the redwood post by the driveway,
mister and missus Enus Hopper. Yeah,

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this was it. I drove in
the drive into the cool oasis, an

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orderly wilderness of pepper trees, palms, evergreens, everything else I'd ever seen

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grown in southern California. The house
sat well black on a lot very neat,

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also redwood to match the post by
the driveway. I got out of

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the car and walked across the grass
toward the slightly stooped figure clipping their headge

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on the far side of the lot. I didn't hear you coming yet.

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I'm sorry. I hope I didn't
frighten you. I'm Philip Morlow he mister

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Hopper. Oh, yes, she's
in deep, mister Tomorrow. I'm glad

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you're here here. I'll get it
all right, I've got it now.

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Yeah, yeah, sit down,
mister Morrow. Oh how about you?

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If you don't mind, I'll keep
on cripping the hedge here while we talk.

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I feel better at doing something,
you know. Oh sure, we

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could go into the house. I
guess if you'd rather. I whether it

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bothers me to be in there now, yeah, I expect it does.

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How long you've been gone as the
harbor since? Said Monday morning, about

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nine o'clock. I guess it was. She got the laundry together, said

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she was going to the laundry man, And the last time I saw her

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Monday, that's two days ago.
Just take the car, No, Amy

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doesn't driver. I offered to drive
early. Laundry Man's about five blocks from

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here, in that little community center
on Riverside. You've probably passed it.

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Oh yeah, she said no,
thought the walk would do her good.

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And she hasn't called her anything since. No, no, nothing. Well,

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how about friends? Relative? But
I've been quiet around the neighborhood.

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You see, we haven't lived here
long tomorrow. We're not really what to

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call well acquainted with anyone here.
You mean the valley, Well, in

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California. We're from New Jersey.
Came out here right after the first of

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a year. Amy always wanted to
live in California. Yeah, we moved

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out. Yeah. But about those
relatives you didn't say why, Yeah,

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I had none living. Amy does
have a cousin out here, cousin Beatrice,

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and that's all I've ever heard of
called. She lives in Burbank.

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I've never met her. Seems like
I've always been busy. When Amy's gone

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over there, Cousin Ray usually picks
Amy up. That's a cousin, Beatrice's

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husband, they call us and Samy's
a spirit. Oh yes, yes,

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a number of times, but there's
been no answer. That's odd too,

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How odd? Cousin Beatrice is an
invalid. Amy says, that's why she's

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never come to call on us.
Well, perhaps they were out when I

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called. Maybe, So tell me, mister Harper, you and Amy have

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you and happy together? I mean
you haven't quarreled? Right? Oh no,

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mister Morrow, Amy and I have
never raised our voices to one another.

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We've been very happy. Yeah,
well, there isn't much to go

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on. Or by the way,
if you checked the hospital now, there

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could have been an accident. I
thought of that first. Yes, I

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called him. No, no one
needs fitting Amy's description. Or that's a

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point about that description. You have
a recent picture of your wife? Oh

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yes, yes, of course.
Would you come in the house, mister

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Morrow, I'll get one for you, Okay, sure, Amy dupted him,

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mister Morrow. Flowers, big trees, all those plants you see,

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Amy cared for them. Won't it
cultivated? There? This is her garden,

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mister Morrow. I'm just trying to
keep it nice for her. He

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turned finally, a slight, little
gray man led the way into the house.

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I felt sorry for him. Didn't
take much the figure that his Aimy

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was his whole life, and in
his mild, gentle way, his heart

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was broken inside the house, as
neat and well kept as Zenas Hopper himself.

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I got the first real shock of
the day because the Amy I had

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pictured in my mind Zenas spoke of
her was nothing at all like the potter

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he handed me from the metal.
She's beautiful, listen she mister Mona,

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Yeah, yes, she yes,
she's young, too much, much younger

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than I. Yeah much. I'm
a very lucky man, mister Mura.

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And well about this picture? Do
you have a smaller one one I can

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take with me? Why? Yes, one of these and the death should

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be a much right size. I
should think I hadn't spotted the girl ray

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on the desk across the room,
and Helena started for a quick comp and

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I came up with seven pictures of
Amy carefully arranged along the top ledge of

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the desk, all different, all
beautiful, sensational, it's a better word,

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I think. The tidied one showed
the hair to the ash, blonde,

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the eyes large and brown in the
mouth. O Nus broke the spell

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this one, mister Murray. I
believe it's in his favorite Oh thank this

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a little fine? I do want
it? Thank lead, Oh sure,

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sure, you bet now then,
is there anything more and anything else that

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might be helpful. Let's see,
Oh, yeah, that cousin Beatrice,

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cousin Ray, their address and phone
and burbank and if they have a last

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name, that would help. I
don't have the redress, but I imagine

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it's in the book named Quinlan Ray, Quinlan Burman. Okay. And by

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the way, you said, the
laundromatt your wife patronizes is in the community

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center on Riverside, on the north
side of the street, just a few

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doors easters where you turned to become
a right, I'll be waiting, mister

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Morrow if you found out anything any
Oh, sure, right away. A

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little community had no name, but
it had everything else, a series of

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one of each shops and services all
the way from health foods to a branch

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bank. Well. I parked on
the street in front of the laundry matt

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and studied the picture of Amy Hopper
again. Tried to figure her with a

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laundry bundle and couldn't. Tried to
figure her with enis and decided to go

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back to the laundry bundle made more
sense. I went inside and had a

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smell anything so clean, good morning. Yeah, I'm trying to get a

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line on some of the This is
Harper. Do you know missus Harper,

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missus Zenas Harper. Oh here,
look at this. She looks like this?

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Oh Amy, sure, yeah,
Well when's the last time you saw

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it? Well, let's see,
day are so ago? I guess let

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me check the bundles here I did
tell us? All right? Oh yeah,

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here, here we are Monday.
It was Monday morning, I think.

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Yeah, Well, what i'd like
to put my daughter's double parked out

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in front? Can I pick up
my laundry? You can if you got

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the right tickets? Oh yeah,
yeah, here, dear Banning, I

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just washed. Wasn't missus Banning?
No ironing? Wash? Here we go.

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That's sixty two cents. Well,
for once I had the right change.

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Thank you? Can I take it
out for you, Missus Banning?

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Well, thank you? No,
no, no, I can manage.

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Oh and just thank you for letting
me budge him. Think nothing of it.

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Oh what do you mean you're trying
to get a line on, Amy?

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Oh? Well, just that anyone
ever come in with her? No,

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I can't remember anyone. Well can
you remember if you notice anything special

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about it? When she came in
Monday? Yeah? What you got her

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picture? Yeah, I mean beside
that, No, she was just Amy.

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You want to pick up her laundry. I don't have her ticket.

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I was doing great, huh.
Innis had told me Amy went to the

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laundry mat on Monday morning. And
now I knew as much as he did.

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And I took a picture with me
into all the transportation offices around bus,

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train, plane car rental. Everyone
liked the picture, but no one

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had sold her a ticket on anything. The supermarket, in the drug store

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where every good it's health. And
then I remember her green thumb. Well,

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I must say I've seen her many
times, many times with mister Harper.

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Of course. Well do you think
you might have seen her Monday?

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No, no, not missus Harper. I do believe mister Harper was in

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Monday though. Seems to me it
was about his ginea. Yeah, well

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what a disasters. I really couldn't
say it. I believe it, he's

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asked. Of course, it really
doesn't matter too much. They're the same

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family, you know, Oh,
Gineer's Nast, the same family, the

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compositor, you know, that's a
family name. I'm impressed. But look,

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I want to tell you, can
you imagine they used to be called

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star Wars star Warts. What a
nasty little name for a naster. Have

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you got a burbank phone directly the
party? A Burbank phone directory? Oh,

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I thought we were talking about the
Harpers. I thought we were too

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star Wars. Yeah, Ray Quinlan, I'm Philip Marlow, investigating the possible

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disappearance of Amy Hopper. Come in, thanks, come in. I understand

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that she's your wife's cousin. Oh
Beatrice, yeah, oh thanks? Enis

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hired you? Huh, yeah,
it's right. He says he's tried to

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call here several times and no answer. How long has Amy even missing?

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Since Monday morning? Put some laundry
to the laundry, Matt and that's all

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anybody knows. Have you seen her
since then? Heard from her? No,

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sure it happened. We halfway expected
to hear from Amy Monday too,

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usually do, but he didn't.
Well, how about your wife? Can

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I talk to her? Beatrice isn't
here? She I took her to the

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hospital morning. They're gonna operate later
today. Oh, I hope it.

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That's a train that's right in it
says she's she's nimbling, that's right.

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How about Amy? That's all you
know, Just that she left for the

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Londoner and got there. That's about
it. Crazy Amy wouldn't just disappear,

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wouldn't she. No, No,
by I don't think she wouldn't. Yeah,

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well, I'm in the book,
mister Quinland Central Directory. If you

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get any ideas, call me.
Huh yeah, yeah I will. Oh.

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By the way, what are are
you happy together to happen? Yes,

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far as I know. The late
afternoon sun was just at eye level

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as I headed west again on Riverside
Drive. Cousin Ray was a brown,

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solid man, not fat, but
husky, not too tall five ten maybe

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it must be about thirty five or
so. Inis wasn't home when I got

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back to Amy's natural habitat, so
on a hunch, nothing more, I

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checked with the next door neighbor,
Missus Brownley her name was. Was spawning

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her yogurt straight and propelling how patio
glider like. She was closing in on

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the finish line of the Honolulu Yacht
Races. Well, I saw her coming

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out of the laundromat and offered her
a ride home. Monday was just real

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warm, you may remember, Lulu. Yeah, well, yes, she

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might put it that way. Anyway, I told her I was driving right

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after her, I picked up some
wheat German, some black strap molasses.

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I'd been going home, and that
she was welcome to ride with me.

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And she gave me that nice smile
of hers and says, no thanks,

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Miss Brownley. The walk of doing
me good? Now, just why a

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walk in the hot sun? And
do anyone any good beyond me? But

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I'm not fun to push myself on
to other people. And the ride was

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there, she could take it or
leave it. Yeah, tell me,

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did you see her after that?
Yes? Yes, I did, this

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time from across the street. But
there's no mistaken her for anyone else,

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you know, I don't suppose there
is. Well there, she was going

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into Blinny just a minute, just
a minute plenty the camera shop, Pliny

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granddadis place focus, focus, out
of focus. That's what mister Blown calling

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Fliny. But then they're in the
lodge together, you know, Yeah,

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that makes all the difference. I
really wouldn't know if she was or not.

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Just see Pliny's not here. He
had to go into Hollywood for supplies.

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I don't work here. I'm's white. Yeah, but if missus Hopper

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left some pictures here or picks them
up. They'd be a record of it,

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wouldn't they. Yes, I suppose
there would. I just left the

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door opened the key cool, we're
really supposed to be closed. Yeah,

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I realized that. Well, I
just thought for a member of the lodge,

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you know, plenty might be willing
to work. Why didn't you say

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so? Well, left emblem on
your other's foot out there, pole bind

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He does it all the time,
you man, It's right, I'm in

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the aug Well, now let me
have a look here, Um pictures for

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missus Harper to be here if they're
back Amy, there you are, mister

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Harper. That'll be seventy three cents
including texts. Um seventy three cents mister

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Harper. Oh yeah, well I
want to take it. Two things.

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I think Missus Harper would want to
pick these upp herself, and I'm not

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mister hopper. I slowed to a
walk around the corner. I got in

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my car and thought about what I'd
seen. A cozy selection of pictures taken

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at the beach of Amy, mostly
but one or two of cousin Ray lifting

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weights yet and one of Amy and
Ray together. Who took it? Enis

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cousin Beatrice I don't think so.
I was almost dark now as I used

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the car and the Enis's driveway,
and when I got there it was dark.

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The sky above still held the afterglow
of early evening, but the web

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of compact trees and shrubs that surrounded
the Happer house made patches of blackness all

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around me. I got out of
the car and I saw a light somewhere

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in the back of the house,
and back there too a faint sound I

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couldn't distinguish. There was a sudden
movement from the hedge behind me. Out

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with marlow In just a moment,
we will return to the second act to

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Philip Marlowe, But first, a
crossword puzzle trapped the criminal. Tonight on

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most of these same stations when CBS
Radio brings you Gangbusters. This latest Gangbusters

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thriller, titled The Case of the
Missouri Puzzle, is law enforcement at its

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cleverest. Tonight on CBS Radio Your
COURTSI invit her to sit in as an

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armchair sleuth and enjoy the case confronting
Gangbusters and now with our star Gerald Moore,

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the second act of Philip Marlowe and
Tonight's story, the Long Way Home,

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There was a shot, not a
pain of the top of my spine.

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But the bulldozerho jumped me from behind
wouldn't settle for that. My face

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mashed into the new silk grass,
and I inhale the lung full of wet

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vigoro, while someone with the strength
of ten flailed away at my fact.

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Why I wanted to turn over and
take it head on, I'll never know.

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I kept trying to turn. I
slid it instead, slid along the

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wet grass withou vice on my back, A vice with a voice that kept

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houndically came out of a Morrow hopper. You get a morl popper properly,

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Now go on get over here,
hey hopper, mister Morrow, it's left

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me. Oh, I don't understand, mister Morrow. What happened? Who?

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He guesses? What do you mean? What do you better? Come

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into the house, mister Morla.
There's a lot enough to you to hear

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out back here lording. Oh,
yes, I came running, didn't I?

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Hey should come along now, I'll
take care of you, mister Morla.

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Someone beat you too, it inness, You should feel bitter, should

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I? Hey? Heness? I
like the beach all right to morrow.

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I'm not much of a swimmer anymore
when Amy never came for the beach,

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so we never went. What do
you worsk? I don't know. Why

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do you ask anything, mister Morrow. I know you've been through al right.

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I wouldn't blame you if you'd want
to give up looking for Amy,

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if you get it in us,
I don't give up anything. Well,

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so far the case added up.
It was stiffed black and I head wrapped

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in a tight band of steel with
built in hammer feel quick blasts at the

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point, and the glove to pop
and help. Not at all but something

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roth. The car stop at the
hospital in Burbank could have been for personal

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reasons. They attended at the main
flaw desk looked real surprised when I asked

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what flawed? Cousin Beatrice was on
nearly nine? Are your visiting hours or

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over at eight? To me?
Well, I lost track of time?

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I guess Can you tell me where
she is? Anyway? Welcome back tomorrow?

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What did you say? The name
was Quinlan, Missus Ray or missus

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Beatrice could be on the one,
Quindy, I no, Quinlan? Are

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you sure? I just look?
Are you usual? No? No matter

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of fact than that. Thanks for
asking me oh, row come in,

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Yeah, I will you look only
I'm fine? What hospital is your wife?

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And Quinlan wo the one about three
blocks from here, just up on

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Riverside. Yeah, you made her
up, Quinlan? You were Amy made

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her up. Amy never had a
cousin Beatrice like you never had a wife

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of the same name. You know
that much? Do you know where Amy

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is? No? And may get
another psychic flash any minute now, like

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the one I got when you were
on lacing my spy in a while back.

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You shouldn't have found out about those
pictures more, and that you shouldn't

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have gone to tell Lenis about him. There's a lot you don't know.

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Amy doesn't want to hurt the old
guy. We've been trying to figure out

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how to tell him. You got
any leads on her, had any real

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ones? Hey, wait a minute, you really don't know where she is.

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I knew i'd be with it.
Tell me how'd you meet her at

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a bar over on Riverside near where
she lives. She'd already invented cousin Beatrice

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or by herself to give her someplace
to go. We liked it being together.

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That's kind of brave about it.
After a while, sometimes I got

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right up to a door. For
the rest of the time. We have

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a regular corner where it pick her
up. This corner is a near our

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house, not far. I was
supposed to pick her up Monday, but

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she didn't show up. Yeah,
you know it's funny. I was.

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I set the beat your head and
flat when I came in. All of

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a sudden, I don't feel like
when I got back to the car,

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I thought my head would cave in. Every inch of may screamed with pain.

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And sometimes you got to give into
these things. I tried for home,

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but I only made it to a
motel on Riverside. I was out

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before the light. Wise, I
found a barber, shopping black coffee the

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next morning and the community center near
Hoppers. There was a thick, fuzzy

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ten o'clock when I reeled out onto
the street and headed toward my car.

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That's the one. Hey you there, Hey, wait a minute me,

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Yeah you sure, honey, I'm
sure, all right. What's the trouble?

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I do something wrong with his plenty? Fanny think so well, posing

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as a large brother when you're not
as pretty serious mister, I don't like

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that. Well, I don't think
much of it. Myself now that I

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think of him, but we'll skip
that. What I want to know is,

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what's the deal with those pictures of
missus Harper's no dear, Why everybody's

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looking at him? Nobody's picking them
up? A paying? Wait a minute,

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Wait a minute, wait a minute, do that slow all right?

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First, missus Harper comes in the
Monday. It was Monday, and they're

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not ready yet. She says,
you'll pick him up later that day.

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She don't come back. A guy
does, though, he just looks at

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them, smiles and says she'll get
them. Oh is hed you h,

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I don't know. Only a young
guy, brown hair, got a tan

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well well. In about an hour, another guy comes in and he looks,

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but he don't buy. Then last
evening, you wait a minute.

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In that second guy, Plenty,
he's older, small man, gray,

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about sixty. Now here's my problem. Who wants those pictures? That's your

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problem, Plenty, Oh boy,
it's mine. The house was open,

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so I walked in. Innis was
out in the back pouring something out of

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a sack onto a flower bed along
the back fence and working it into the

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soil around the flowers. I looked
around and found a bedroom that had to

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be Amy's. Everything was neat in
order. I turned and started out of

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the room, and then and I
saw it sticking out from under a cologne

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bottle on our dressing table. I
picked it up, and as I turned

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to go out, three matched pieces
of luggage pointed an accusing finger. Then

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I found my way back into the
garden. Hey, good morning, miss

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Mona. Have you groun't done anything? Yeah? I think I have this

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laundry ticket, Nis, I found
it in Amy's room. Oh, why

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didn't you tell me the truth in
the first place. I don't know what

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Amy was here after she left for
the laundromt to ticket proves it? Well,

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you found out about cousin Rayd and
genius. You look at the pictures

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in the camera shop. Maybe you'd
suspected for a long time in this sensed

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it. So you picked her up
on the corner instead of Ray and you

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came home. Mister had a big
fat fight about Ray, didn't you.

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Yes, yes, we did.
I said some horrible things, mist more

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horrible. Are you sorry? You
want a backcount? Right? I give

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anything to have her backness? I
love him? Yeah, I know Innes,

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I looked through Amy's closet. It's
pretty full of clothes. I luggage.

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It's still lad. Yes. Amy
has a lot of clues. She

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wears them well too. Amy didn't
go very Fariness. No. The man

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in the garden shop says, you're
the gardener. Yeah, not Amy,

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did he? The sack of BlimE
is almost empty, and fifty pounds is

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a lot for Goden, isn't It
depends on what you should put it to.

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Mister Morrow, did you have to
kill her? Nas keep her empty?

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She wanted to leave me go away
with him. I couldn't stand that.

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Did you think I wouldn't figure it
out? I didn't know, But

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I had to find out, didn't
I? Mister morow He came with me

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quietly. Everything about him was quiet
and neat and gray. It was the

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mildest, gentlest man I ever met, And yet it killed the thing he

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loved most. Is Amy? The
oldest reason in the world. She wasn't

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his anymore? What was it?
The old man said? I had to

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find out, didn't I? Mister
Marlowe, Yeah, curiosity killed the Kent.

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It also killed Amy. The Adventures
of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond,

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Chandler's most famous character star Gerald Moore
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written for radio by Kathleen Hype.
Featured in the cast where Bill Johnstone as

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be an eight year old kid.
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