WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:33.280 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:36.920 This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, 3 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:41.640 email it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 4 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:45.840 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one 5 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:50.799 of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash Radio Detectives. 6 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:53.200 Before we do get started, I do want to let 7 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.039 you know this program is brought to you by the 8 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.479 financial support of our listeners, and I particularly want to 9 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:03.039 thank Desiree for her support. 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Let's go 27 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:13.159 ahead and take a listen today's episode of the Adventures 28 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.800 of Philip marlow The original air date May the announced 29 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.319 in nineteen fifty and the tunnle is the hiding place. 30 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.879 Get this, get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road. 31 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:29.000 Those who travel it wind up in the gut of 32 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.000 the prison of the grave. There's no other end. But 33 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:32.840 they never learn. 34 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:37.360 From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime 35 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:41.919 fiction comes his most famous character in the Adventures. 36 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:42.639 Of Philip marlow. 37 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:55.360 Now, with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring 38 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.919 you tonight's exciting story The Hiding Place. 39 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:28.479 Missus Bryan's gip Shop. Oh yes, yes, mister Waltman, the 40 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.360 book ends. Well, let me see now that was the 41 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.000 little Dutch figurines, wasn't it? The boy and the girls? 42 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:43.199 All right, fine, Well, I'll have to. Oh, hold hold 43 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:51.560 the line a minute, mister Waltman, mister Marlow, you you're back, Yes, 44 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:56.599 Missus Bryant, did you find him? Mister Marlow, did you 45 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:57.319 find Chipper? 46 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:04.599 Chipper is dead, Missus Bryant. Oh, take easy, Missus Brian. Maybe, 47 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:05.520 but I sit down here. 48 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.719 No, I'm all right. There's a customer waiting on the phone. 49 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:12.439 I'll finish that. 50 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:13.719 Then. 51 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:15.840 I want you to tell me everything you found out 52 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:19.839 about my son. Sure, sure, I'll long be a moment. 53 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.519 As Martha Brian went to the telephone, I braced myself 54 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.399 for the story I had to tell her. I tried 55 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.759 to figure some last minute way of making hard facts 56 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:34.800 a little softer for a sweet, brave, gray haired lady. 57 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:39.480 I deserved a better break. I first thought about what 58 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.120 had happened, brought the whole ugreat business rushing back at 59 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.160 me again, turned my mind back like a clock to 60 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.399 where it had all begun yesterday morning in my office. 61 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.120 And that's say Martha Brian, full of hope and quiet courage. 62 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:53.680 He walked up to my desk, handed me a letter 63 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:54.879 and asked me to find her son. 64 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:59.000 His name is Chip, mister Marlowe, or rather Chip now 65 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.240 that he's a grown man and he's twenty two, he 66 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:06.279 laughed suddenly, without a word. Six months ago, I've heard 67 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.720 nothing until this morning when that letter they addressed a 68 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:09.560 Chip came in the. 69 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:13.639 Mail, post mark Saint Louis obispo Oh, sit down, won't you? 70 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:14.160 Missus Brian? 71 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:19.199 Thanks you. Maybe I shouldn't have opened it, but well, 72 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.399 you see, it's the first indication I've had and all 73 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:23.000 that time that he's eaten alive. 74 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:28.079 Good ship. It's been a long drag with the waiting. 75 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.800 Is finally over, Darling. Time is now meet me at 76 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.439 eleven thirty Monday night at the House with the Big wheels. 77 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:38.480 Signed Toby House with the big wheel What does that mean, missus. 78 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:42.399 Brian, I have no idea, but for some reason it 79 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:43.120 flattens me. 80 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:47.160 Oh, eleven thirty Monday night, Monday night, that must be 81 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:48.879 to night. Who is this Toby? 82 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:54.360 Toby Padler. She's a very very beautiful young woman, platinum blond, 83 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:56.720 oh Chip. I believed he was in love with her. 84 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:01.360 I'm afraid. Oh please don't miss understand me, mister Marlowe. 85 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:05.160 I'm not a possessive mother. I knew i'd give Chipper 86 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.360 up some day only I hoped it would be too 87 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:09.639 nice and see. 88 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:11.160 A girl Toby Packler isn't. 89 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:16.079 She's much too fast. The kind of us is too much, Masscara, 90 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:19.680 and wears things like those little anklet chains they called 91 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:23.439 slave bracelets. I tried to find her after Chip left, 92 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:24.639 but she was gone too. 93 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:28.079 Oh tell me, did you and your son argue about Toby, Missus. 94 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:32.360 Bryant, No, no, I only saw her once. He knew 95 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:35.680 I didn't think much of her. But that didn't drive 96 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:40.240 him away. Mister Marlow, what did I've never been able 97 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:46.399 to understand. After his father died, Chip became irresponsible and 98 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.959 a little while, perhaps especially since I had to spend 99 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.560 all my time running our gift shop on Ivar. But 100 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:54.839 but he was a good boy. 101 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:55.319 Really. 102 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.000 I've tried to convince myself that he left just to 103 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:03.839 prove his independence, to taste his wings, you know. 104 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.920 But now now what, Missus Brian, Now. 105 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.759 I'm worried. That letter puzzles me. I don't like it. 106 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:15.279 Well, it may mean nothing more than you're getting a 107 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:16.959 daughter in law. Uses too much, mass car. 108 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.600 I hope you're right. I want you to be happy, 109 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.680 to settle down. I want to turn my business over 110 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:31.199 to him, and will you try to locate him for me? Here? 111 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.839 I have this picture here in my wallet. 112 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:38.879 See the chip looks a lot like his mother, doesn't it. 113 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:43.920 Please find out if my son is all right. 114 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:54.160 Sure, I'll do my best. My office window I watched 115 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:56.959 to leave the building. So I stopped politely and answer 116 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:00.639 a question for an oily sidewalk passive and a black 117 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:04.519 pinstriped suit, and moved quietly on down the street toward 118 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:09.519 a shop. And I've a neat gentle, very lonely woman. 119 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.279 I hoped I'd find a happy story for her in 120 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:17.560 San Luis Obispo. She had one coming. I was still 121 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:19.759 hoping five hours later when I pulled into a mobile 122 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:21.519 gas station in the little town at the foot of 123 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:25.079 the Santa Lucia Mountains, two hundred miles up the coast. 124 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:27.920 I filled up, asked a few questions, and found out 125 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.519 that there were only four good hotels, five not so good, 126 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:33.200 and two or three dozen motor corts, and that ran 127 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.039 the gamut. So even with nothing but the name Toby 128 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:47.159 to go on, the job wasn't completely impossible. By the 129 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.320 time I'd worked my way down into the motor courts, 130 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.879 the sun was sneaking off between the rocky hills toward 131 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:55.960 the ocean, and I was still collecting negative answers until 132 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.159 I tried to mirror neon combination bar, restaurant and motel 133 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:03.159 called Pinkies on the north edge of tom Sorry, mister, 134 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.559 not Tooby Packler registered here. I wait a minute, You 135 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:11.840 sure she's a lovely platinum blonde about me? About what? Huh? 136 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:18.440 I never mind skipped pinky Maybe this is better. When 137 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.320 I glanced across the lobby at the bar, i'd caught 138 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:23.159 a man watching me. It was the same Oily character 139 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.399 in a black pinstriped suit that I'd seen stop missus 140 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:27.639 Bryant on the street outside my office back in la. 141 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:30.679 He ducked away and I beat it into a bar, 142 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:34.399 just in time to see him slip out of side door. 143 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:38.120 So I followed him outside a gravel path, where him, 144 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:40.919 through a groove of dejected pepper trees, wound up in 145 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:43.879 a lonely walled patio. And when I got there, Oily 146 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:47.399 was out of sight. The reason was simple. The nose 147 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.480 of his gun in my back said he was behind me. 148 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:53.000 I don't move my low well, well name and all, 149 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.080 sure I've been telling you every inch of the way 150 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.120 since old Lady Bryant went to see you this morning. 151 00:09:58.320 --> 00:09:59.559 That's connection oily. 152 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.399 Exactly six long months of watching him waiting for what 153 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:04.399 for a move, I knew two skunks that'd have to 154 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:06.639 make some time. From the way you've been working. You 155 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.120 don't know enough to do yourself, and you go to 156 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.840 me any harm. So take some advice, go back to 157 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:13.759 leave it alone, Leave what alone. That's none of your business. 158 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:14.960 People. I'll take over from the here. 159 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.679 But just in case you're running the Chip Bryant or 160 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:19.399 tob me on your way out of town, tell them 161 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:21.320 from me. They're not cutting Lou Race out of his 162 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:23.720 share of one hundred and ten grand. I'm gonna get 163 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:28.600 it one way or another. And Soldier won't forget your 164 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.720 rest for a right mind. 165 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:43.159 When the brick floor of the patio finally stopped pushing, 166 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:49.120 I was alone except for my ugly thoughts. I knew 167 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:50.720 I was on the right track, but from the sound 168 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:52.919 of things, Chip O'Brian was much less a mama's boy 169 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.360 than his mama believed, and made sure Lou Race was 170 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.320 nowhere around the motel, and I went into the bar 171 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.240 again to see what a double Scotch would do for 172 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.600 my headache. The bar tender, obviously was the type of 173 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.879 got around, so I took a chance and asked him 174 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:12.080 about Toby Packby. It was no good when I described 175 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:15.840 Toby as a beautiful platinum blonde. A girl sitting alone 176 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:19.559 two stools down, a girl with a short, ragged mouse 177 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:23.919 brown hair and extremely flat, misformed face, dropped her eyes 178 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:28.879 and looked away. I suddenly felt very cheap. I flipped 179 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:30.759 the silver buck on the bar and got up. You know, 180 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.159 it was a kind of dumb stunch. You can't apologize for. 181 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.919 You just leave. I was halfway to my cop before 182 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:40.519 I realized that the girl had followed me out. Are you? 183 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:46.080 I turned and watched to come toward me. The garish 184 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.720 neon light her face was jarringly unreal, the color and 185 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:50.799 texture of hard putty. 186 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:54.799 I heard you inside when you asked about Toby. 187 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:01.039 Yeah, I thought you had. Do you know her, miss, Yeah? 188 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:01.480 I know her. 189 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:04.279 She's one of my few friends. What do you want 190 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:04.799 with Toby? 191 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.039 Well, my name is Marlow and I'm from LA. I 192 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:08.840 want to talk to her about a fellow named Chip Bryan. 193 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:10.279 She's my only lead. 194 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:14.519 Chip Bryant. Yeah, she never mentioned that name of lead. Anyway, 195 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:18.519 you're too late, mister Marlow. What do you mean Toby 196 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.000 left town this morning. No, she's going up north to Seattle. 197 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.679 I think on some kind of personal business. 198 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:26.879 I listen. Did she ever say anything new about a 199 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:30.440 house with a big wheel where it was what it means. 200 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.080 House with a big wheel? Yeah, no, I'm afraid not. 201 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.840 I'm sorry, mister Mordow. I guess I'm not much help. 202 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:41.919 I oh, good. 203 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:48.720 Night, thanks anyway, and good night miss miss Yeah, yeah, Palmer, 204 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:54.399 good night. As the girl walked back to the bar, 205 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:56.759 the little gold chain I'd spotted around her ankle glinted 206 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:58.960 in the brittle light. It was like an echo of 207 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:02.000 her memory. A slave bracelet on her was as out 208 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:05.320 of place as a morning glory and a bit of toadstools. 209 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.480 But that gave me a crazy hunch, a hunch that somehow, 210 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.440 in the last six months, a gorgeous blond named Toby 211 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.559 Packer had become a drab brown head with a flat, 212 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:16.600 stiff face. So I didn't chase wild geese to see 213 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:18.399 atl Instead, I got in my car and I waited. 214 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.080 Now all went by, and it was almost dark before 215 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.519 she finally came out again, stepped down into a sleek 216 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:26.759 new convertible and drove north out of town. I followed 217 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:29.200 that she turned off a neglected side road and for 218 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.159 eight miles twisted through jagged rocky hills toward the mountains. 219 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:34.799 Then suddenly, from the crest of a small rise, I 220 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:37.519 saw what she'd been heading for, an old stone house 221 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.840 squatting in a grove of eucalyptus trees. The girl, I 222 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:43.600 figured to be Toby Packler, had slowed almost to a stop. 223 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:46.720 I watched the creep along until she was out of sight. 224 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:48.960 When I got out of my car and I went 225 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:53.159 down for a closer look. Round, brown shingled couplers reared 226 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.840 proudly out of choking overgrowth, and on a huge rusty 227 00:13:55.879 --> 00:14:00.799 iron gate in front was the name Escobar. Put in 228 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.519 the trees. Behind the house, I saw more turning slowly 229 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.639 in the stream. There was a giant water wheel, a 230 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:16.240 big wheel rod fast back to town and stop. It 231 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.039 the only place I could figure for a quick answer. 232 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:21.080 The opposite of the San Luis Obisco Daily Eagle, the 233 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.679 night editor was strictly old school and green ice shaded 234 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:27.159 a sleeve goddess, but still very much on the ball. 235 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.519 Sir, you want to see the issues of exactly six 236 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:30.000 months ago? 237 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:30.559 His head? 238 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:34.559 Yeah, and that'd be November about the eighth, nineteen ten. 239 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:40.679 Yes, thanks, thanks a lot. I'm right the sort of sentire. 240 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.200 In care for that rip those copies. So, by the way, 241 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:46.679 what stir? Are you looking for? 242 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.879 A small something on a party named Toby Packway? It's 243 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:55.120 not here. Wait a minute, maybe it'll be in Yeah, sure, sure, 244 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.519 this is it. On page three, a woman identified as 245 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:02.320 Toby Packer of Los Angeles suffered severe injuries they head 246 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.200 and face today when the car she was driving skidding 247 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.279 into a bridge. I bought my two miles north of here, 248 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.200 so that's how come to face. This packless condition was 249 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:13.440 announce as critical by Clark Emergency Hospital at ten. Yeah 250 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:15.759 is that all you want? That's enough? 251 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:18.799 If that answers your question, young man, I put these 252 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:19.399 copies away. 253 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:23.120 Had to be careful that headline, Eh, what was that? 254 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:27.519 Let's see that Santa Barbara jewelry store, rob caring thieves 255 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:30.759 escapable gems valued it AE hundred and ten thousand, one 256 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:31.879 hundred and ten grand. 257 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.559 I remember that two men and a woman got away 258 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:38.480 clean too. Never caught a one of them. You don't 259 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:41.279 mean there's a connection between these stories, dude. 260 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:43.240 I don't know. Ask me again after I've checked in 261 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.200 at the old Eskebar place, Evan Escabar's place. 262 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:49.200 Out in the hills before you are jokings And what 263 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:51.720 in the world could that crack pot possibly have to 264 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:53.480 do with the jewel robber and the car wreck six 265 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:53.960 months ago? 266 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.000 It beats me, But the some time you can count 267 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.320 on it. I think you're crazy. 268 00:15:58.600 --> 00:15:59.600 But if you're going off. 269 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.720 There, he should be. What's that supposed to mean? 270 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.600 You have something in common with that? He's living his 271 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:09.360 own private dream world for so long he's forgotten what 272 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:15.799 the real world's all about. Goodbye, son, I'll see you later, 273 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:50.480 I hope. 274 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:39.039 In just a moment. The second act of Philip Marlowe. 275 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.240 But first, the fun is always fresh and furious. When 276 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.679 Graucho Marx takes over on CBS Wednesday Nights with his 277 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:49.919 wonderful quiz you bet your life, Groucho the master of 278 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:52.240 ad lib, teams up pairs of opposites and then goes 279 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.600 to work with his quips and questions, very very solid 280 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:58.720 with laughter. This Groucho Mark show here at this Wednesday 281 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.960 and every Wednesday and most of the same CBS stations, 282 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.519 now with our star Gerald Moore, the second actor Philip Marlowe, 283 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:08.799 and Tonight's story The Hiding Place. 284 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:20.920 From the Road. I had thought of Adam Escaba's place 285 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:22.759 as just another one hundred year entry home, you know, 286 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.359 the kind bigger loop frinkle, like an aging nobleman who 287 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:28.400 had retired long ago with his memories. But now that 288 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:30.200 I was there and at the rusted iron gate, it 289 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.599 resented my intrusion out loud. I changed my mind. I 290 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.079 saw now it had to be a degenerate nobleman. Also, 291 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.200 a nobleman had to be flat broke. I saw it everywhere. 292 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:42.759 An am escabar on the gate, and copper lettering had 293 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:46.759 turned a sickly spotted green. The scuff faded family crest 294 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:50.160 in laden tile, and the cement walk was cracked and crumbled. 295 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:53.440 The exquisite stained glass door was cracked all the way 296 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.960 down the middle. Only the engraved card in the slot 297 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.319 under the knocker that sat adamsco Bia Squire was neat 298 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:05.839 new Landed Gentry's last ditch stand. I was about to 299 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:06.319 knock one. 300 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.920 You need not bother knocking sirt. I saw you coming 301 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.359 up the walk. I am Adam Ascobald. 302 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.960 He was a small, slight man of maybe sixty plus, 303 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:17.799 with a large head held high in spite of the 304 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.720 frayed cuffs, the pattern of the slippers that were cracked 305 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:23.799 and pealing. I introduced myself and followed the meadow a 306 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:27.119 musty living room there while he apologized for no longer 307 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.559 having any servants and forts each some brandy mccut plastic cande, 308 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:32.960 I told them all about my search for Chip Bryan, 309 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:34.960 complete with Toby and little Race. 310 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:41.519 Frankly, mister Marlowe, I am puzzled. Your drink, sir, oh confused? 311 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:43.559 What does all this have to do with me? 312 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:46.279 Or maybe nothing, mister escobarb But the only guess around 313 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:48.319 is that the jewels were hidden here on your property, 314 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:50.160 the house for the big water wheel, and I had 315 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:51.279 the robbery six months ago. 316 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:53.000 Why for what reason, sir? 317 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.119 The police probably Treyo wouldn't want to be picked up 318 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:59.200 with the staff on him, salut and do yours sir 319 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:00.319 thig you. 320 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:06.000 Then, then, mister marlow soon after they did that hit 321 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:08.680 the jewels. I mean, the girl, the one with the 322 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:10.759 injured face, had that accident. 323 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.440 Those are the circumstances, oh more or less, and if 324 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:17.440 I've ad it right, companies coming by eleven thirty. It's 325 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:19.119 ten thirty now. It might be a good idea if 326 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:20.599 he left the home grounds for a while. 327 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.799 Me leave my own home because of some thieves, because 328 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:25.160 of three commons. 329 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:26.559 You get to Reska. It's that or the police. And 330 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:28.160 I'd rather not have a minute for a while. I 331 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:30.039 still owe my client a slight benefit of the doubt 332 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:30.599 that's left. 333 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.440 You think I am afraid that's what you are doing to. 334 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:35.359 Say, No, of course not. But I don't see why 335 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:37.519 you should stake your neck out. These people have nothing 336 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:38.119 to do with you. 337 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:38.839 You are wrong, sir. 338 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:42.119 Every onnest man has something to do with every criminal 339 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:43.160 his duty. 340 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:45.279 I know that now, mister Marlowe. 341 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:49.680 If I had known it many years ago, I might 342 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:52.640 still have both my wealth and my property intact. 343 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:56.799 Okay, who knows when I come back at my b back? 344 00:19:57.200 --> 00:19:58.240 But where are you going? 345 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.880 So in a town it's still like to catch up 346 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.759 the chip Bryan before the reunion. I don't think there's 347 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:06.200 going to be the time or place for conversation. 348 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.799 Conversation with that Brian hoodlum about what. 349 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:13.079 Sort about a mother? Mister Escobar, A nice old lady 350 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:23.000 who doesn't deserve a kick in the teeth. Back in 351 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:25.400 San Luis Obispo, I returned to the missing person door 352 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:28.359 to door canvas for the third time that night. Only 353 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:30.359 now I can find myself to the wrong side of 354 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:32.839 the tracks exclusively, and the deeper the dive, the better. 355 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:35.799 I didn't figure the Chip Ryan would show anywhere else, 356 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:39.079 and after a half a dozen quick stops, number seven 357 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:42.039 proved lucky. It was a cramped, greasy bar with a 358 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:45.720 sawdust and cigarette butt floor and a single customer. I 359 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:47.839 hadn't found Chip, but I was close to the depth 360 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:50.680 of mister lou Race, the bar keep, a ball of 361 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:52.720 fat wearing a sweatshirt the size of a tent at 362 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.240 his back to me. When I ended, so did Race. 363 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:58.160 So when I tapped the tricky man on his padded 364 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:03.359 shoulder and he turned surprised to see me. Sweet, that's 365 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.599 like I was an old dad. I cat got your tongue. 366 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:10.400 I'll get up, get ready to answer a few simple questions. 367 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:13.119 What do you think you're doing? Your buster much head? 368 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:14.599 I'll play you for it unless you want to be 369 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:16.359 up ther rolling chins in trouble with the Lawdsjun, you 370 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:20.039 don't try to help the client tell the cops. Okay, okay, 371 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:22.400 why didn't you say so? I don't know nothing about 372 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:24.559 this guy and I don't know enough. Now come on, 373 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:28.000 race you talk or eat sawt uSwitch. No, no, I'll 374 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:28.279 tell you. 375 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:29.599 What do you want? 376 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:31.920 One? You Chip Brian Untilby packed my stock up at 377 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:33.680 Santa Barbara jewelry store six months ago. 378 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.720 Right, yeah, yeah, well we did it, but they crossed 379 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:38.440 me up and it was one of the cops were 380 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:39.039 coming and we. 381 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:41.160 Split the splitter. You played hoorray filu race and ran 382 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.799 without worrying about the others. What's the difference? A reason 383 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:45.680 Toby and Chip Brian won't tell you where they hit 384 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:46.799 the jewels. That's a difference. 385 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:48.920 Nuts. You're standing on one of ear people. 386 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:52.599 Toby had a different reason for crossing like what ah like, 387 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:54.400 I've fallen in love with that lous Bryant. 388 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:57.000 The kit she baited and they're coming along with us, 389 00:21:57.240 --> 00:21:58.200 but flapping. 390 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:58.799 The baby blues. 391 00:21:58.839 --> 00:22:01.240 The kit was supposed to the car period. 392 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:04.759 That's how she crossed me. Anyone else, Yeah, that's happened. 393 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:06.119 Where's Brian now? 394 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:15.400 One of two places either with Toby Pakla with good 395 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:17.200 Knight Sweetheart. 396 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:20.279 By the time I made it to the door of 397 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:22.759 the second company, Sam Spade was across the street behind 398 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:24.359 a park car and streaking for an alley in the 399 00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:26.720 middle of the block. Just as I thought I was 400 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:28.640 gonna lose, and became the breast of a dark doorway, 401 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.079