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net. Well, now it's time for

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today's episode of the Adventures of Philip
Marlowe. The original air date September the

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eighth, nineteen fifty one, and
the title is The medium was rare most

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Saturdays at this time. We spent
an exciting half hour of adventure in action

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with America's public hero number one,
Hopalong Cassidy. Well, even two fisted

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call boys take summer vacations when they
can, and Hoppy is no exception.

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But hop along in Topper. We'll
be back with us riding the CBS air

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trails again two weeks from tonight,
September twenty second. Get this and get

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it straight. Crime is a sucker's
road, and those who travel had wind

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up in the gut of the prison
of the grave. There's no other end,

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but they never learn. From the
pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author

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of crime fiction, comes his most
famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

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Now with Gerald Moore start as Philip
Marlowe, we bring you tonight's transcribe

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story. The medium was rare.
Let me out of here. I've got

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to get away. This is the
time, a time when all I can

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think of as trout streams trails through
tall mountains where every man is hop along,

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Cassidy. I was sitting in my
favorite restaurant telling Mary my favorite hashling

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are all about it? Oh,
it all sounds a wonderful phil Yeah,

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but that's not the half of it. There are waterfalls so high it seems

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the cascade comes from Heaven itself.
Going alone, you bet your sweet life.

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I'm going alone. In the words
of the poet, I'm going to

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commune with nature. I'm the most
natural thing you ever saw, Darling a

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beautiful your charms so many, But
you want me to be honest? Yeah,

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you don't compare to a trout?
Why you worm? I don't get

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mad, baby, it's the season
seasonerat. I don't like being compared to

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a fish. Not a fish,
baby, the queen of them all,

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a mountain trub. Do you ever
hear the Feather River country, Mary?

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If it's out of Los Angeles County, I've never been there. So northern

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California, northern fringe of the mother
loads. It's your coffee mother. Who

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Hey, you know something? If
I started right now, I could make

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it perform moaning a quick cup of
coffee and doll I'll drop everything. Whow

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if it ain't the clean living type, Hi Mollo. Hi, Cookie,

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I thought they had you stashed away. Not no more parole last week?

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No Kidden, Yeah, no Kiden, it was your bum wrap. It

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sure was. If you're oute this
son anything else? Yeah? When do

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you get off a lot later than
you do? Because you're getting off now?

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Touchhet girl. Yeah, what kind
of a crack is that? That's

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French from on your team? Good
dames. You try to say something nice

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to him? And where did you
get you? Yeah? Well, I

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gotta go, Cookie, I'm sorry
to say. Wait, wait, wait,

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I'll go with you. Thanks Mary. Yeah, you're back. Bill,

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give my regards to the fish.
I leave your nickel doll. Better

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keep it. The other buffalo will
miss you. Well, you gotta face

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it, Cookie, she's crazy about
you, you think so. No,

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Well, my car's in a lot
here. I'm in a hurry, so

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a lot too. Listen, Molow, I was just wondering you get around.

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You've got any idea where Chiza is
Chisana? Do you know any decent

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people? Hey, Chaisano's my pal. He's as decent as I am.

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You made the point. Cookie.
Seems to me there was talk he had

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something to do with you taking that
rap in the first place. Huh,

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listen, you don't think I'm trying
to find him to knock him off or

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anything like that could be, or
about that bright It doesn't really matter.

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I don't know where he is.
I don't care. I don't want to

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know where you are either. Well
it suits me good? Oh, I

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don't know what you're so kissed off
about. I've done nothing to you,

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neither, is Chasano make my taxes
higher? Never mind? Oh you kill

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me? Mollow? You talk about
taxes? Yeah, I would you like

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to pay taxes on this job?
It's your heat? Yeah, one of

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them? Barring things right and dry
baby blue? Yet bat my eye?

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Would you do it? San Quentin? Learn a trade good and a good

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one. You decent people go right
on paying takes. Is mollow? I

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stayed right. Punks will get along. I watched Cookies Baby Blue convertible cut

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out into the traffic, and in
my own con drove away in the opposite

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direction. Yeah, cookie sinched it. I was going to knock off for

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a while, head for the Feather
River country. Now. By the time

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I reached my apartment, I could
almost smell the pine trees. While I

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tossed a few things into a bag. I saw myself every inch a modern

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Isaac Walton. Oh you're Philip Moho, that's right. Oh, I'm so

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glad you're here. I've been calling
you. Oh I'm Lillian. Coins Are

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you well? I told Pat not
to waits Pat the taxi driver? Oh

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him may coming? Well, yeah, I guess so, thank you.

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Oh you're you're packing? Or are
you unpacking? Oh? I'm packing.

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I'm going to the feather of Why
you can't be going anywhere? I need

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your help, mister Morrow, I
really do desperately. Yeah. Well,

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I just thought i'd take a few
days off. I'll pay you whatever's customary.

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I just don't know where to turn
it. Somehow. We've got to

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locate them quickly. Leonard should be
home with an wait a minute, wait

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a minute, sit down, Missus
Collins. Is it, yes, Lilian,

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Leonard's my husband. He's back east
on business. Just what do we

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have to locate quickly? By jewelry? It was stolen last night? Oh

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well, stolen jewelry is out of
my line, Missus Collins. That's a

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police charge. Oh no, oh, that is it. It can't be

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why I thought about the police right
away, of course, but I can't

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call them in Leonard would hear about
it? I know it. It would

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be in the papers. And you
understand, don't you? Oh, I

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don't understand. Well, I just
couldn't. That's all, Missus Collins.

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Right now, I like fishing poles
better than I do. You can't.

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I mean you can, of course, but I do need your help so

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much. Why can't I resist names? All right? But chats a level

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with me? What jewelry? When
did it happen? Who knew you had

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it? Everything? Well, it
was a necklace, diamonds and a diamond

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bracelet. I had them in my
jewel box last night. I'd only just

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taken them from our safe deposit box
in the afternoon. You took a mine.

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No one, No one knew.
Well, how did it happened?

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The robbery? I mean well,
I was in my bedroom, That's where

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the jewel box was. I was
dressing for dinner. The doorbell rang.

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I had to answer it. Letty's
on vacation now that mister Collins is in

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the east. It was Sylvia,
a friend of mine. We were to

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have dinner together. I fixed a
drink for us and then went back to

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my bedroom for my wrap. That's
when I noticed the jewelry was missing her

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You had heard anything anyone in the
hearse? No, of course the radio

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was on music. You know.
How would anyone get into the bedroom?

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Well, the French doors opened onto
a little terrace right by the bedroom.

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I'd rather presumed whoever it was came
in that way. How much would you

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say? This jewelry is worth ten
thousand dollars? Oh, that's what it's

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insured for. Anything else taken?
No, not a thing. Do you

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wear this necklace and bracelet often?
Oh? No, not really. When

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Leonard gave them to me, he
said they were for state occasions. Last

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night was a state occasion? Oh
my goodness, No, well that is

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I if you didn't intend to wear
them last night, why did you take

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them out of the safe deposit box? I suppose you'll have to know I

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needed the money, mister Malow,
I have a debt. Leonard knows nothing

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about if I wrote a check for
ten thousand dollars, he'd ask questions,

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I don't blame them. Well,
there's just no need worrying him with it,

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that's all. He doesn't know.
You gamble, Huh. I didn't

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say you didn't have to have you
ever pawned anything before, Missus Collins.

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No, no, I haven't.
Well I got news for you. You

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probably couldn't get ten grand for him, But if they're insure, it doesn't

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matter unless you made a deal.
I have them stolen so you could get

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the insurance money. Really, mister
mah, really, Missus Collins. Okay,

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let's try to your place in the
Koran. Yeah, these doors have

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been jimmied, all right. Didn't
it bother you to stay here last night

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after it happened? Oh? I
didn't. I stayed with Sylvia and Westwood

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told her about the robbery. No, no I didn't. I started too,

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but then I I was afraid I'd
have to tell her too much.

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You stay there last night and then
come over to my apartment by cab this

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morning? Well, I came here
first, then to your apartment. I

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wanted to be sure nothing else was
missing, and then I decided to get

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in touch with you. When head
Pat drive me over. That's the taxi

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driver. He's practically my juffer.
He stand is right out in front of

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our building here, one of those
native born New Yorkers who never learned to

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drive. Missus Collins, are you
sure that you're telling me everything you know

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about this. I believe me,
I am mister Morrow. It wouldn't be

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so stupid of me, not too, Yes, it wouldn't. I've got

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to have that jewelry back before Landard
comes. You'll just never understand the gambling

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and awe. Well, he's gone
so much and we have no children.

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There just wasn't anything else to do. Can you understand that, mister Morrow.

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No, I'll try. Missus Collins. There was something tragic about him.

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A woman of means, an advantage. He was husbandless part of the

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time and childless all at the time. I suppose that isn't an easy life,

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but surely there must be other ways
to fill the emptiness. Well,

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Lilian packed a small bag and asked
me to drive it as Sylvia's. As

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we walked toward my car, a
grinning taxi driver leaned out of his cab.

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Thank you somewhere, Missus Garlands this
time. Thanks Peth. I'm freeloading,

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okay, but don't make it a
habit. I gotta make a limited

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I know, see you later,
Peth. He's awfully nice. Mister Mark,

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Yeah, it seems to be.
Tell me about your friend Sylvia.

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Oh well, there isn't much to
tell. She's a nice person, a

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widow. Oh, she just lives
a block or so from here. Turn

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on Wilshire to your left. Okay, tell me, does Sylvia have money?

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I guess so. She seems to
anyway, as a lovely apartment,

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a nice car symbols anyway, why
I just want Oh, by the way,

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if you don't want her to know
you've hired me, maybe you better

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tell her I'm a business friend of
your husband. Just drop by as you

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were leaving the house something like that. Oh, oh, yes, that's

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a good idea. Oh it's in
this block, the big green apartment building

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on the ride. Okay, that's
funny, is it. Yeah? Oh,

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here's a parking place. I wonder
what Cookie is doing around here?

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A friend of yours? No,
no, not possibly a car park there

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fearing job, baby blue cookies.
All right, Sylvia's apartment. Who's the

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first one on the side. You
really don't have to come in, mister

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mah names Murphy, Remember old friend
of your husband. Yes, yes,

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it's right. I'll commend to carry
your bag and to meet Sylvia very partially

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wealthy widows. Really, mister,
do you think you will find my jewelry.

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Okay, one idea so far,
Missus Collins. If that doesn't work,

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do you leave it up to me? Yes, yes, of course.

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Oh oh here we are, oh
little darling. I'm so glad you're

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there. Oh hello, hello Sylvia. This is mister Murphy. Oh yes,

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of course, mister Murphy. Sylvia
Jennings. How do you do.

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How are you welcome? In?
Come in, both of you. I

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was just getting ready for a swim. Sounds wonderful. Maybe I could scare

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up the fair of trunks for you, mister Murphy. Oh thanks, No,

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I've got to run along. I
just stopped buying Missus Collins looking for

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a husband. Mister Murphy's from out
of town. Don't let it. For

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years, I was all packed ready
to come over here. Well all right,

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you know you two don't have to
explain anything to me. As a

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matter of fact, I can go
down to the pool alone and you two

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can stay here and talk about all
times. Sylvia relaxed, Bill, and

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forgive me, mister Murphy. I've
told stories like that myself so many times.

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I know them by I'll bet you
do it that you know I do.

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No, I just won't have you
thinking. Oh no, don't be

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silly, darling. It's not important, but it is. Let you both

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gout down to the pool and talk
it all of I really have business to

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tend to. Oh I'm sorry,
I'm really sorry. Yeah, we'll just

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keep it that way. But will
we be hearing from you, Bob,

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anything or anything you know? Oh? Sure, sure, sure you will

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about anything about that, Silvia.
All the case was beginning to have its

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compensations. But I didn't think it
Lilian Cullens at all. Sometimes I thought

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she lied in her teeth, and
sometimes I knew that she was just a

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bewildered dame would have her jewels lifted. I passed Cookie's car again as I

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left, and still no sign of
him. I had told Lily, and

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I had one idea. He was
still at the taxi stand in front of

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her a popping You really, Philip
Marlowe, Yeah, it really am need

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proof. No, No, that's
okay. Missus. Collins wouldn't have been

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with you if you weren't the right
guy. You say, I can help.

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Yeah, maybe so. Look,
you drive her almost everywhere she goes.

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Now, how about telling me just
where she goes? Huh? Regulation

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places, saxes, magnets, places
for lunch, stuff like that. This

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morning I took her over to a
Hollywood address. Well, oh, hey,

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there is one place she goes a
couple of times a week. For

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the last three or four weeks,
I placed on top of one of the

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hills up off a cold water canyon
a friend of her. Well maybe she

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usually asked me to wait though between
fifteen minutes and a half hour. That's

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all the longer she stays. When
was the last time he took her there?

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Let me see, day before yesterday, I think, yeah, yeah,

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this day before yesterday, I followed
pets instructions through every devious curve to

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the top of coal Water Canyon.
The thing that interested me most was not

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what was ahead, but what a
who was behind me? In the big

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expensive car. The sun was hitting
the windshield just right to obscure the driver.

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I slowed at the isolated to dress
noticed another big car parked in front.

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When I stopped, the car behind
me stop, A well dressed woman

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got out and went into the house. As she did, she passed another

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well dressed woman coming out. It
looked like a change of shifts. As

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she drove away, I got out
of the car. I went up to

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the door. Someone somewhere I was
watching me. I could feel it.

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Yes, oh hello, I do
not believe you have an appointment, sir,

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Oh no, I didn't think to
make one. Excuse me please at

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one moment, what a creep and
what a joint? You were well coming?

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Please? Yeah? Thanks? May
I enquie who referred you here?

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I have to have a reference,
Madame mustin cist references, She insists.

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Yeah, well, I'm a friend
of Missus Collins Lilian Collins. Oh,

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yes, yes, Missus Collins.
Yes, you will follow me, then

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Madame will see you. Now more
to the point, I will see Madame.

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I followed the Peter laure character down
a dark in the hallway. As

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far as I could tell, it
was no door. I head. It

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looked like a blind alley. Even
in the darkness, I sensed that someone

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could see me. I didn't have
long to think about it. Just when

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we reached what looked like an impast
little man ahead of me pulled some heavy

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drapes aside and nodded for me to
enter. I walked into a room that

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was heavily draped on all sides,
pungent with the smell of incense, and

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studying me from across the room,
a Grecian robe woman seated beside, So

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help me a crystal ball. You
will come in, please and be seated.

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Yeah, I will, you see, I am. You will remain

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silent. It is so necessary your
silence. Run you will go. Yes,

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he very clever. Those drapes and
they're closed. You can't tell where

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the door is. I must insist
your silence is very important. You are

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in need of help, much help, or you would not be here.

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Yeah, well you could say that. You make it very difficult for me

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to see what is in store for
you. Crystal is cloudy, very cloudy,

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aw quid breathing on it. Please
excuse me. Now you are seeking

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something, probing, searching out and
this is not a good thing. Some

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thing's won must knock assume. I
regret to say for you, I seem

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much trouble, great trouble, and
day. You are in need of rest,

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my friend, rist and sleep along. Sleep. Bruno will help you.

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Bruno will help you to sleep.
In just a moment we will return

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to the second act of Philip Marlowe
at first. Through the years, Red

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Cross has helped the victims of disaster, brought comfort to servicemen and camps and

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hospitals, and to their families.
Today, with the country rising to meet

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the challenge of aggression, the Red
Cross has been asked by the government to

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undertake tremendous tasks. By giving generously
to the Red Cross, you will help

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mobilize for the defense of your families, your community, and the nation.

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Give as much as you can,
and now with our star Gerald Moore.

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The second act of Philip Marlowe and
Tonight's story, The medium was rare.

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Madam's prediction was suffocatingly accurate. Runo
helped me sleep all right with a strong

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assistance a sponge full of ether.
My watch said. It was two hours

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later when I came out of the
anesthetic, a long way from the house

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on the top of Colwater Canyon.
I was in my own car, parked

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on a strand of beach north of
Santa Monica. Ten minutes in a blast

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of bourbon later, I ended Sylvia
Jennings a popping again. This time there

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was no sign of cookies, baby
blue car. I don't think Lillian would

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belong. She remembered some shopping she
had to do, did she. You

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don't look as if you felt very
well. Mister Marlow. Oh, I

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feel just fine. I just woke
up from a long sleep. And by

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the way, Missus Jennings, you
really shouldn't call me mister Mallow. Oh.

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Oh, yes, where on earth
do you suppose I got the name

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mallow? I really wouldn't know.
Okay, where's Lilian? Huh? I

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told you she went shopping without a
purse? Well? What that blue bag

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there? She was carrying it when
I brought her here. Now, isn't

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that all? Yes, isn't it? Oh? At the door? Excuse

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yes, I wanted to see Jad. Oh you must be mistaken. There's

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no one here about that name.
He was, dear, I m wait

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for him. No, you can't
come in here. Oh, Cookie,

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Hello? What sallow? Oh it's
one of those happy coincidences. Cookie,

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for the first time in my life. I'm glad to see you. I'll

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close the door. Missus Jennings,
make yourself at home. I'm afraid I

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don't understand this, mister Marlow.
Yeah, well I was afraid I wouldn't

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for a while. But stick around. I think things are going to clear

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up in a hurry. Listen to
Mollow. What's the pitch here? You

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noticed him? Not as well as
I'm going to you show you so Chisano

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here, Cookie, I'm sure he'll
leave here about an hour ago with another

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day blowing white dress. Yeah,
she didn't seem too happy about going with

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Jason's hell him sure to a house
up at the top of Cold Water Canyon.

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That's fine, Cookie, Then what
happened? You wouldn't believe it.

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I'm all set to move in talk
to Jaisano when some jake jumps me and

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stuffs my face full of a sponge
thing. It was loaded, you pasted,

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huh yeah for a while. When
I wake up, I'm sitting in

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my car big as you please don't
at the bottom of the canyon. I

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thinkur Jaisono started from here. He'd
be coming back, so I come back

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and you. Interesting story is in
missus Jennings. None of it's true,

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of course not. How'd you get
a line on Chisano? Cookie? It's

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talking ton He's got a new racket, got something to do with a rich

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dog. You know who this thing
is? Tell me she's right out of

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a blowbook, that's who. I
don't figure her with Chaisana shirt. I

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gotta believe what I say. Yeah, Cookie, me too, and maybe

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you two will believe this gun if
you see it where you are and keep

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the hands up. I know,
I get to know you better. Missus

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Jennings, stop me if I'm wrong. You're set up suckers, wealthy females.

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Condiment of visiting madame who tells fortunes
based on what you've told crazy and

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you're in no position to talk.
Maybe then the madame predicts some trouble for

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him. I warned him of dangers
ahead. Shut up, like, maybe

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your jewelry isn't safe where it is, take it out of the bank,

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keep it at home where you can
watch it, Lilian. And when the

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poor stoop does that, you come
in the front door on Jisana comes in

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the back the cup of jewels.
I said, shut up, you think

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that's the deal. I think that's
the deal. Cookie breaking my arm.

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Only if I have to baby,
get the gun, crack and bring missus

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along. Cookie, the three of
us are gonna have our fortunes. Told.

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Oh fuck that Jaisano. What a
sweet deal he's got. I didn't

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figure him for so smart. He's
a big brain, all right, And

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waitily here is we're cutting in on
him, sharing the take h this way

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everybody makes though me you Jaisano,
even the little doll here leave me alone?

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Easy? Does it? Cookie?
You pretty smart yourself? How do

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you figure out it was gonna make
a business deal with Chisano? Yeah,

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no, chimp mollow. I got
every shameless figure you're all looking for that

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one big sweet deal like Jisana has
got them moving on. It's a natural.

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Yeah, you're right, Jizo will
never go for him. He's got

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no choice. Dog. Hey,
watch it, Morlow. There's a kiek

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in a proud color ahead of you
having watching him. Why's missus Jenny's gun?

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Cookie right here giving them a minute. You ain't gonna plug, come

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on, come on, give it
me? Okay, but I don't get

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you. Thanks you hidden? Yeah, and that's not all. You ran

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right into that police cause to where
I played at. Honey, Hey,

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that wasn't very bright. Oh got
a couple of customers for you, oppice.

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I had to move quick, sure, sure, Oh yes, we

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do. The Lively one's got a
great racket. I'll tell you about it

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later. Cookie over there, I
wants to see his parole off. You

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want me to take them in?
I should do and tell your brother.

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And it come to sixty nine fifty
six canyon rim top of Coal Water Canyon,

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right away, where there must gets
loaded. The house at the top

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of the canyon had the empty look
that only occupied houses can have. Cookie

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had tipped his hand just in time. I was better off traveling light.

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I knew I'd have no trouble getting
in Schisannah was probably expecting me. Was

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so right, you're late, Marlow. Well, some days it takes me

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longer to come out of ether than
others. And you must have done a

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good job. Bruno, I always
try, mister chisa Oh, believe me.

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Chissano's under promotion. Get the business
over with. Well, Madam,

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I didn't recognize you without your crystal
ball. Never mind that mollow okay,

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I won't. Where's Lilian she's she's
arresting A look at Chissano. You're a

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nasty little racket Here is one thing, but kidnapping is another. Yeah,

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yeah, and murder something else.
Again. You forced us, mister Marlow.

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I want you not to pro Chisano. Listen and not kitten. If

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you've done anything Lilian, I'll take
you. He's perfectly safe. She's not

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been harmed yet, that's right,
not yet. She'd better not be she

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Oh, there you are, Lilian. She can't be. There's no one

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there. It's an old gag.
Chisano gives me a chance of my gun.

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Now, the three of you stand
up there by the windows. Now

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look, ma, Now you look, you and Bruno and Madame take a

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good look out the window, and
let me know when the law arrives.

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You know, Madame, even without
your crystal ball, I can see trouble

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for you, much trouble. Lilian
had been given the ether treatment too.

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We found her when the police arrived. She was okay, just thoroughly frightened.

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She wasn't all we found when we
searched the place. Chissano hadn't fenced

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the jewelry as fast as they stole
it. The parade of women who came

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to claim it all later read like
the social register, Yeah, social register,

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the elite, the four hundred.
Yeah, well, I know a

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place where the four hundred give way
to four thousand, luscious lovely mountain trucks,

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all the forest primeval, the murmuring
pines in the Yeah, you know

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what, I don't think I'm gonna
make it. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe

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Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most famous character, Star Gerald Moore, was produced and

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transcribed tonight by Cliff Howell and written
for radio by Kathleen Hight. The cast

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included Gloria Blondell, ed Max gen
Bates, Harry Bartell, Betty lou Gerson,

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Leuke Krugman, Eda Rehese Merron,
and Jane Avello. Gerald Moore may

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currently be seen in the Santana production
Sirocco. The special music for Philip Marlowe

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is composed by Pierre Garagank and conducted
by Wilbur Hatch. Be sure to listen

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again next week at the same time
when Philip Marlowe save this time strained sounds

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came from a bungalow court, or
did they An old woman thought so,

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but she had quite an imagination.
A crack in the wall held a secret,

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A couple of guys held guns,
and a nice guy held on for

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dear life. Just as systematic exercise
builds a strong body, so to systematic

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saving build a strong future. Save
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future. With the United States defense
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safe, sure, profitable. The
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bonds is through the payroll savings plan
where you work. So for the defense

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of your future, for the fans
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share regularly systematically of United States Defense
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Adam Graham. Now let's get back
into the show. Welcome back well Um,

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another great episode. Loved it,
you know, right from the title.

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I also like how hump Along Cassidy
actually got worked into Philip Marlowe's monologue.

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That was an, you know,
very cute touch. Um. I

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also liked the idea of marlow linger
um hungering for a vacation away from the

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city. Uh. You know when
you read some of the later marlow books,

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such as The Long Goodbye and particularly
Playback, Uh, the literary marlow

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definitely could have used getting Away from
the City. I was kind of interesting

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where they used an obvious Peter Laura
character, but Marlow kind of just you

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know what I lad knowledge, Yeah, it's a Peter Laura character. You

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will hear attempts to impersonate him on
all sorts of old time radio programs.

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The story felt very appropriately chand Loress
the Fortune Teller bed kind of call to

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mind an element of Farewell, My
Lovely, which became the movie Murder My

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Suite. So a fine episode and
I am really gonna miss this one as

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we next week is our last episode
with Gerald Morris Philip Marlow even though we

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do have one more marlow related episode
the next week, but we'll talk more

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about that then. A few listener
comments are really quickly, and we have

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Julie and Linda both I say they
love Philip Marlow and I'm glad they're enjoying

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the series, and I hope they'll
enjoy what's to come. Well Tomorrow it's

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Boston Blackie, and then on Monday, the New Adventures of Michael Shane really

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this time, and then join us
back here next Wednesday for one more episode

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of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe in
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