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Great Detectives dot net. But now
it's time for today's episode of the Adventures

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of Philip Marlowe. The original air
date is August eighteenth of nineteen fifty one,

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and there was one episode missing between
last week's showing this week's. But

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let's go ahead and we will take
a lesson get this and get it straight.

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

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gut of the prison of the grave. There's no other end. But they

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never learned. 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 Marlowe. Now with

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Gerald Moore start as Philip Marlowe.
We bring you tonight's transcribe story The young

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Man's fancy with another scorcher, would
smart get The angels that flapped their wings

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over the sleepy little Pueblo of Los
Angeles were taking a summer hiatus. I

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thought about the Blue Pacific, some
fifteen miles to the west, where the

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friendly waves will snap your back if
you happen to hit the undertow just right.

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So I decided on some three part
harmony instead part one vodka. I

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had that, but no parts two
and three, the limes and ginger beer.

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So before you could say Moscow Mule, I was heading for the shopping

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district that's about a five minute walked
from the apartment. I made it quicker.

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I drove Alex's fruit stall gets all
my lime business, partly because the

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limes are good, but mostly because
of Alex. All that's kind and gentle

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is housed in the square frame of
Alex Lesnevich, his tanned old faces,

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creased around the mouth, and eyes
from smiling, deep set dark eyes that

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look out at your manda, bushy
gray brows and laugh. Yeah that's Alex

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all the time, except this particular
morning. Oh mister mall well, hello,

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hot day is hot day. Is
he got you Alex? Oh no,

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no, no that he I think. I go to my chair,

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coet you fine, what do you
want? Hey? Wait a minute,

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wait a minute? You sec are
you six some? Yeah? Alex sick

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fellow? Have you seen the darker? No? No, no doctor Alex

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is seeking the heart? No doctor
can fix mister Morrow. Someone else could

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fix, but no. Doct want
to tell me about it? Eli?

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I will go to my chair and
o and seeing you fine? What do

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you want? Yeah? Hey the
times look good? Yeah? Yeah?

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How much time? Yeah? I
guess it does. Hey does it get

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this hot in Yugoslavia? Oh?
Maybe it's no time since I was there

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thirty Oh maybe he's not changed there
now maybe yeah maybe Dominic? Where have

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you been? Hi? Mister?
All night love Dad? Let's not start

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that all over again, will Yeah, I'm as maybe the only big fellow.

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Don't give me that stuff. I'm
sick of it. Just came back

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to get some things and some money. See you might as well get the

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cash. Draw. No, that's
enough. You do not come here just

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when suits you and tell your father
what he needed to do and what he

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will not do. Look, dam
I'm tired of fighting with you come out

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of the back of the store.
We don't have to drag anyone else into

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this. I was pretty much of
a third wheel. I didn't get it.

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I didn't want it to Alex's son, Dominic box. The next few

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rounds, almost out of ear shot, I heard old Alex muther something.

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Finally, go to the cash where
I just don't get down the money.

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Shortly after that, Dom shot past
me and down the street. I stood

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there like a fool, squeezing at
half a dozen lines. You did you

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find what you want? Yeah?
Yeah, Alex, he'sably fine. Thank

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you, Thank you, Emma Alex. Yeah, well, if you need

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any help, you know where to
find me. Huh, thank you very

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much. If Alex has probably Alex
work claim, I'm sure sure you would.

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I'll see. Well, that was
quite a conversation I had, mister

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Marlowe. How are you? Yeah
fine, how are you miss Gabrielle.

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I'm boiling over, that's how I
am. Yeah, Well, it's hot.

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Oh that's not what I mean.
My blood's boiling when I got left,

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that is, doctor says. I'm
a namick. You know, no,

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I didn't know. I just want
to get some ginger beer time.

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I was in for a checkup.
I thought it never was going to find

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any red corporal, white corporal.
I'mloaded with it. But red corpuscles.

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Corpuscles, that's the word, not
corporals. Oh well, I don't see

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it makes much difference. I don't
have any red ones, no matter what

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you call them or how you spell
them. Yeah well, I thought maybe

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about six bottles of ginger beer.
If you have a cold, please,

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I saw your next door to Alex's. Yeah well, I got limes,

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and if I could just have the
ginger beer, roses got into that dumb

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I don't know really well company has
I heard Alex I plain his day.

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Dam hadn't been home all night.
And I'll tell you one thing, that's

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not the time this has happened,
been going on all the live long.

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I wouldn't know about that. I
just another thing that's our standard is you

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know the one he used to run
right there in the front of alex Is

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to all wars. It's gone six
bottles of I'll tell you where the wreck

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and ruin and first to the summer
he's running. It's like, oh he's

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doing a nice little trade too,
And don't get so he's not coming home,

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and the flowers are wilting, and
dial not smelling to refresh, and

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neither please go. One morning I
see all Alex Carton the whole kitten can

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boodle out to the incinerator by Alley, and that's and of the flower,

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Isn't you know? I know it
was going to be hot when I first

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woke up this morning, and I
thought that about six bottles of ginger beer

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would help a lot. Oh one
ginger bit world by, didn't you say

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so? I'm just shy. I'm
shy. Oh you're going to make up

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a bet Moscow mules. Oh well
that's ninety three. I'm giving you credit

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for the bottles I know you've got, which you never take the trouble to

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return. Thank you. I got
to bring him back. Thanks. You

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know what, I think I have
a pretty good idea. I think Alex

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has had his shared couple and now
I'm acting for all. We're like one

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of them the link ones you read
about. Here's to me, the nearest

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thing to a blessing that Alex can
count as Helena. Helena. Oh yeah,

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I don't suppose you remember her?
Do you? Miss Marla Welsa as

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beautiful a girl who did ever cared
to see lovely, and I mean lovely

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in every way. You went to
that secretarial school, you know, took

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a nice job out in San Francisco. I understand she's just doing real well

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to write to Alex, just as
regular and it's just a lovely person.

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I mean. Yeah. I remembered
Helena, no red blooded man who had

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all his corporals whatever, forget her
quiet little things, doc radiant with Alex's

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deep set, black eyes, a
kind of lad Yeah. I remember her

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voice too soft, just the right
amount of huskiness. It's been about three

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years, I guess since I've seen
it. That would make us somewhere in

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her early twenties now, and that
would make her even lovely. By the

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time I got to my car,
I'd half forgotten about old Alex and dumb.

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I pulled out of the parallel parking
spot, and before I reached the

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corner, I was in the proper
lane, minding my own business. I

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work all the idiots all I need. Didn't you see that, mister Marlow?

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He didn't even stop, Yeah that
much, I noticed. Glad you

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keep your service station so handy,
Nick, Yeah, yeah, you know

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who it was. Don't you.
Yeah, yeah, I think so.

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The dartful card right in front of
it from the wrong lane. I'll show

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be a witness for you, mister
Marlow. Thanks. Nick, tell me

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was that Alex's card? Dam was
driving? Yeah? I don't take a

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look at the heap here. You
think he can fix it up? Yeah?

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Sure I can. Looks like you
just sc along the side. Offender's

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curling and there. But I think
we can knock that out for you.

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No time, Oh good, of
course if you want that paint touch stuff,

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that's gonna take some time. No, no, skip the paint for

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now. Huh. And Nick,
you and Dom are pretty good friends,

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aren't you? Oh? I used
to think so. I don't see much

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of Dom anymore. He's I don't
know, he's screwing or something. What

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do you mean, wold like that
trick he just pulled running inny and driving

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on. He didn't used to be
like that. Yeah. What do you

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think has happened to him? Or
do you know? Well, whatever it

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is, it's happened since we got
out of school last spring. All of

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a suddenly doesn't come around anymore.
Nobody in a gang sees him, and

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when we do, you know,
we meet him on the street or something.

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He just sort of looks down.
He says, high and it keeps

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on going. Art there. I'll
pay you what I can fire. Are

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you ready? There's Tom's friend,
mister Marlow. Only got sees anymore that

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truck driving. Yeah, I'm making
his daily delivery. I see delivering himself

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to all these bar half the time
Tom goes there with him, he does.

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Yeah, yeah, well you see
what you can do with the carn

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just so I can drive it.
Okay, show, mister Marlow. But

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the other day between us, we
can fix it in a hurry. Okay,

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I'll be back in a few minutes. See how you're doing. Wow?

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Oh and Nick? Yeah yeah,
man, I'm gonna tell Alex it

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was my fault. I don't want
him worrying about it, so I'll make

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a liar out of me. Huh, I should not, mister Marlow.

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Only Tom doesn't deserve it, maybe
not, but Alex does. But I

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don't care about the car. The
car, don't It's all right? He's

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not. Oh no, damn's fine, Alex. He was well, he

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was in a hurry, drove on
to wherever he was going. Oh oh

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yeah, I just thought I'd tell
you it was my fault. And whatever

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damages there are, you let me
know. Huh oh if anything I left,

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you know you don't dlly, mister
Marlow. You I'm more carefully next

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time. No, yeah, yeah, I will have Oh look please look

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look look what is just coming?
You know the appligement? I almost it's

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letter from Helene. Oh, swell, how is she? Oh it's fine,

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really fine. It's work very hard, she said, feel very good

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and he's fun day. Maybe soon
come down. Oh that's fine. She's

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still in San Francisco. Yeah,
it'slike the very mad but missus a papa

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and dumb and papa and um musical. Yeah, but oh Helene comes everything

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again. I can't letter almost day
two three times a week. Oh that's

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swell. Well, I gotta see
about my car, Alex, and remember,

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let me know what I did to
yours. Yes, it is anything

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I shall and you remember. Now
you try much more carefully, miss Tomorrow.

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You've got a little funfability to all
the fellow He's right, he's right.

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Alex was feeling better. Helena has
letter given him something else to think

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about for a while. On the
way back to next service station, I

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ignored Miss Gabrielle's nose, which was
pressed flush with a free ice cube sign

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in a window. You know,
with very little effort. I could have

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no use for that type female.
Well, Nick said the car would take

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about ten minutes. I figured a
beer was just about take as long.

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The sign said Salty's Bar, No
dogs alive, bottle of beer any kind,

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just so it's cold. Okay,
here you go. Thanks. I'll

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pay you as soon as I can
see you. Keep it pretty dark in

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here, like calling me. Tell
them all booze that way. Don't ask

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me why I won't. Anybody mentioned
the jukebox is a little loud. Yeah,

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I have either can here. They
like it that way. They he'll

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see him when youays get used to
the place. The guys played the record

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nine times now he's still not sold. Yeah, well some days you get

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nowhere another person only, Yeah,
sure, call call the truck driver.

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And Nick pointed out he was seated
two stools down at the bar. I

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noticed him for the first time just
before he ordered the beer. It's a

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big guy, even sitting down.
He had a prist looking face, the

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kind you can never tell anything about. He looked at me for a moment,

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and then over to the couple in
the booth by the jukebox. The

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expression on his face didn't change as
he calmly slid off the bostool, went

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over to the jukebox, reached around
to the back and turned down the polume.

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Hi, what's there? It's too
lod? How about it my nickel?

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Right, it's Nickel. Sit down? Well I will that he fella.

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Yeah, okay, yeah, I
wondered where you were. I trouble,

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but I got what kind of trouble? You're dead? I well,

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if it is an old snooper himself, Look, mister Marlow, I don't

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need any assist from you. I
wouldn't be too sure that maybe you thought

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it was a bright idea of blabbing
that fancy story to my dad. Well,

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I don't go for it, you
see, Okay, you don't go

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for it. You you wing the
kid to hear a bad time. Mister.

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It's a professional snooper. This guy
already shot his face off to my

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dad. A bobby, you should
have done that. Hey, you guys,

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take it easy, no brawling in
here. Take your hands off me.

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Oh let's go all right? So
what was your first I don't break

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it up. In just a moment, we will return to the second act

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of Philip Marlowe. But first,
the flood that swept the Midwest swept thousands

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from their homes, businesses, and
farms. The Red Cross asked your contribution

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now through your local Red Cross chapter. The relief and rehabilitation job will take

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months, perhaps years. Now with
our star Gerald Moore, the second act

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of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The
young Man's Fancy with a wild dream.

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My head was a punching bag and
fighters would plate glass fists with taking turns,

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cracking my skull like fury. Scabrielle
was pubbing me with free ice cubes.

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The band played Come out of my
house, and someone started mopping my

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face with a cool damn thought.
It smells of beer in Bourbon. It's

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coming around. I don't know why, though, I'm really count him.

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How are you, mister Marlow there's
a stupid question. Oh Nick, how'd

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you get here? Well, they
came and got the truck Carlin dom I

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saw him, an I figured something
that happened. Hey, I'm sure,

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sorry, mister Marlow. Yeah,
so my Hey, Nick, that's the

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name of the company. Carl drives
for the Inner City produce company Alex buy

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stuff on him. I guess that's
how Dom knows him. Are you Are

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you gonna tell a police, mister
Marlow? Oh not yet, Nick.

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That's two counts on Dom today.
You sure let them get by with murder.

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No, nicky boy, I draw
the line there. Oh here,

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have a drinking. Oh thanks,
I thought it was. We are taking

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out right out now you think of
it. You have a real stylish clientele,

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salty, real stylish. You're feeling
good enough to crack wise, you're

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feeling good enough to get out of
here. Hey, wait a minute,

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I get easy, Nick Salti's right. I just don't want no trouble.

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I got no trouble. Come on, Nick, I couldn't have walked better

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if I had the bends. I
managed to get into my car at nick

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service station. He checked all ninety
six Los Angeles area phone directories for me,

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and Carl wasn't listed naked. Finally, remember Karl's last name. It

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was Medora. I took one last
look at the limes and ginger beer not

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quite warm in the car seat beside
me. I did something sensorable and drove

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off. Was even hotter down in
the produce district, and then not on

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my head. Hurt even more as
I told Karl's boss, a big fat

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lie wealth servester Marlow, I'm glad
our Carl was a healthy out on the

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ridge route. Yeah, yeah,
I'd like to thank him personally, if

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you don't mind, Oh, don't
mind at all. The thing is he

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won't be in anymore day. He
got in early this morning from San Francisco,

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brought his load in. It won't
be in here again to Lamarrow morning.

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Oh he's going back to San Francisco. Huh yeah, that's his run

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up to frist going back, lays
over a night, both places, loads

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up, starts out again. Sounds
like fun. He say, tell you

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what I could do. I could
give you his home address. Most likely

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that's where he is now. Don't
know, of course, if you want

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to go to that much trouble just
to thank, Oh yeah yeah I would.

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After all he's done for me.
I'd really like to look him up.

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As a poppling building needed paint and
better ventilation. It was near downtown

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LA, in an area that should
have been cleared for the freeway, but

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it hadn't been. There was no
answer to Poppin three. There wasn't even

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any sound behind the door, but
I had the feeling that somebody was there

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the corner drug store. I called
the phone number Carl's boss pential under his

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address. I let a ring a
long time, no answer. Now my

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head wasn't he only thing it was
giving me a rough time. When I

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got back to Hollywood, my car
developed a regular list of the starboard side

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where dumb it ram me. I
limped him and knicks, and he spotted

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the trouble right away. Yep,
that's it all right. Your front wheel

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a linement is not silly. I
know just how it feels. Wake at

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Sextu out Kape. You can leave
the car with us a while. You're

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gonna have it a week. I
want to take my head home and bury

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it. Yeah, yeah, I
bet you got everything out of the car

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you want. Wait a minute,
let me see limes, ginger beer,

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everything with a down payment. Hello. What do you think? Oh?

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Hello, Nicko? What do you're
thinking too much? I don't know you

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got me, Alex, You don't
got phone call. It's Helena from San

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Francisco. No, no, no, right here, hell fight jeliu.

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Oh he's coming soon. Hey,
that's great. Fine new Nick, Nick,

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I hear it to fight dome for
Heleno. You come. No,

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no, no, Alex, I
haven't seen him. Oh if you'll see

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him, I tell him, tell
him please to come for Hella. Yeah

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we will, Alex, sure if
we see him. Oh yeah, I'm

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going home, Nick. You see
dam A Carr. Let me know.

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I sure will. Mister mama,
you're a long time getting home, Snooper,

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well a bottle baby. I've been
waiting to tell you something. Something

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maybe you missed when I said it
in salty Look. All of a sudden,

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I'm getting sick of you. Dam
You better quit while you're at here.

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Better listen, I told you to
stay out of my business, and

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now I'm telling you the same thing. For Carl. You're doing nobody any

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favors going to his boss, poking
around when you're not wanting. Hell,

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Carl, I come here and tell
me that he comes, you'll really flatten

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you. Get out of here.
Will didn't get rid of that gin smell

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before you go home? That's something
else that's my business. Listen, a

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little punk, slare silly and I
may I get this. Helen isn't time

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what she just called Alex, she's
coming to see him. No, I'll

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go home and get cleaned up and
behave yourself. Oh no, ran down

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the hall like he didn't pay it
on And like I said, I was

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sick of it, the whole thing, dumb call whatever they were up till

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I'd had it, excite the pop
and I left the lines and ginger beer

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on a chair, the vodka straight. I don't know how long I was

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sprawled on the couch. Okay,
okay, okay, that might be cal

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I'm waiting to see that boy.
Oh. I didn't think you'd remember me,

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how one of the things, Elena, Do you remember me? I

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think you would, sure, Sure, I remember you in it. But

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a long time, yeah, long
time, A long time. I haven't

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changed. Have I missed him?
No? No, Helene, you haven't.

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The man always have to lie.
No, Helene, you haven't changed.

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You make me sick, mister tomorrow, man, make me sick.

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You see your father yet, jalop, No, haven't howls do we here?

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I'm sick of Carl telling me what
to do. What can the bottle

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again? No, it's fucking tell
me about your job, thank you,

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that's my job. Tomorrow you can
forget anything. H take an easy kid,

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will you sure? Helamalla, oh
fine, you gotta here. Yeah,

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she has stop Silvana couch, come
on cock Yeah, okay, don

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let us sleep at all? Yeah? What else? Well, mister Marlow

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beginning to get the idea. I
guess I am how long has she been

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like this? Oh? I don't
know. Quite a while. I guess

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I thought something was cot guide when
she was homelized Christmas. Oh late this

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spring, I let us to Dad
got to reading kind of funny though she

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sent him. I hope the ride
with Carl Hume went up to Frisco found

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her. How could she hold a
job like this job? You've got a

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drink a wholesome jobs, mister Mollo. Oh, I see mind about her

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job? J sick. We brought
her down here, Carldon, No,

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no, we don't know what to
do. She can't see Dad like this.

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Now, you're right, domin to
kill him and her too. She's

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in state of my apartment. I
haven't sleeping in my truck when I was

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in town. I'm stated a lot
of Dom's been writing the letters to Alex

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for her, and you've been mailing
him from San Francisco. Ye that way

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and Alex didn't know. You see
now that she's calling them, said she

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was a dom's had a pretty tough
time with it through a glass of gin

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all over the day. Yeah,
no, it's not her fault. Well,

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we've got to do something. We
will, We will done. I

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think maybe I can help you with
that. I called a friend of mine

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and m D with a small sanitarium
in the Glendale Hills. He specialized in

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Helena's kind of sickness. We made
a deal, and a half hour later

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we took her there. It's going
to take some time, but it was

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good building time. Don and I
had our story pretty well rehearsed, and

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we get back to Alex. But
I don't ustand why she told you this?

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Why did she not call anything?
Oh? Look, dam told you

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she was pretty disappointed in herself,
but she had to go right back to

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San Francisco. She was afraid if
she called you she'd cry and get you

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all upset. Oh that's right,
Dad. She thought it'd be easier for

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you this one. Oh nice Helena
to think of her papa. It's nice.

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She comes as soon as she can, Alex. I don't think it'll

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be very many more weeks. To
you then. Oh no, no,

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she'll be back before we know it. The Dominican. She looks good.

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Oh she well, you just wait
till you see her. She'll look great,

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just great, Alex, I've gotta
how she'll be staying home quite a

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while after this. Oh hello,
No, it's true, Oh very true?

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What No, you can buy fresh
cut flowers again in front of Alex

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Lesnevitch's fruit stall. They throw the
smiles in for free. Even Miss Gabriels

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changed their mind about Dominic being one
of those delinquents you read about. I

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learned something about him the other day
myself. That kid can really paint a

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car. Well, so much for
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of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's
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are produced and transcribed by Norman McDonell
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daughter I didn't quite know what to
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