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Speaker 1: ahead and take a listen today's episode of the Adventures
Speaker 1: of Philip marlow The original air date May the announced
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty and the tunnle is the hiding place.
Speaker 2: Get this, get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Speaker 2: Those who travel it wind up in the gut of
Speaker 2: the prison of the grave. There's no other end. But
Speaker 2: they never learn.
Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime
Speaker 3: fiction comes his most famous character in the Adventures.
Speaker 2: Of Philip marlow.
Speaker 3: Now, with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
Speaker 3: you tonight's exciting story The Hiding Place.
Speaker 4: Missus Bryan's gip Shop. Oh yes, yes, mister Waltman, the
Speaker 4: book ends. Well, let me see now that was the
Speaker 4: little Dutch figurines, wasn't it? The boy and the girls?
Speaker 4: All right, fine, Well, I'll have to. Oh, hold hold
Speaker 4: the line a minute, mister Waltman, mister Marlow, you you're back, Yes,
Speaker 4: Missus Bryant, did you find him? Mister Marlow, did you
Speaker 4: find Chipper?
Speaker 2: Chipper is dead, Missus Bryant. Oh, take easy, Missus Brian. Maybe,
Speaker 2: but I sit down here.
Speaker 4: No, I'm all right. There's a customer waiting on the phone.
Speaker 4: I'll finish that.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 4: I want you to tell me everything you found out
Speaker 4: about my son. Sure, sure, I'll long be a moment.
Speaker 2: As Martha Brian went to the telephone, I braced myself
Speaker 2: for the story I had to tell her. I tried
Speaker 2: to figure some last minute way of making hard facts
Speaker 2: a little softer for a sweet, brave, gray haired lady.
Speaker 2: I deserved a better break. I first thought about what
Speaker 2: had happened, brought the whole ugreat business rushing back at
Speaker 2: me again, turned my mind back like a clock to
Speaker 2: where it had all begun yesterday morning in my office.
Speaker 2: And that's say Martha Brian, full of hope and quiet courage.
Speaker 2: He walked up to my desk, handed me a letter
Speaker 2: and asked me to find her son.
Speaker 4: His name is Chip, mister Marlowe, or rather Chip now
Speaker 4: that he's a grown man and he's twenty two, he
Speaker 4: laughed suddenly, without a word. Six months ago, I've heard
Speaker 4: nothing until this morning when that letter they addressed a
Speaker 4: Chip came in the.
Speaker 2: Mail, post mark Saint Louis obispo Oh, sit down, won't you?
Speaker 2: Missus Brian?
Speaker 4: Thanks you. Maybe I shouldn't have opened it, but well,
Speaker 4: you see, it's the first indication I've had and all
Speaker 4: that time that he's eaten alive.
Speaker 2: Good ship. It's been a long drag with the waiting.
Speaker 2: Is finally over, Darling. Time is now meet me at
Speaker 2: eleven thirty Monday night at the House with the Big wheels.
Speaker 2: Signed Toby House with the big wheel What does that mean, missus.
Speaker 4: Brian, I have no idea, but for some reason it
Speaker 4: flattens me.
Speaker 2: Oh, eleven thirty Monday night, Monday night, that must be
Speaker 2: to night. Who is this Toby?
Speaker 4: Toby Padler. She's a very very beautiful young woman, platinum blond,
Speaker 4: oh Chip. I believed he was in love with her.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid. Oh please don't miss understand me, mister Marlowe.
Speaker 4: I'm not a possessive mother. I knew i'd give Chipper
Speaker 4: up some day only I hoped it would be too
Speaker 4: nice and see.
Speaker 2: A girl Toby Packler isn't.
Speaker 4: She's much too fast. The kind of us is too much, Masscara,
Speaker 4: and wears things like those little anklet chains they called
Speaker 4: slave bracelets. I tried to find her after Chip left,
Speaker 4: but she was gone too.
Speaker 2: Oh tell me, did you and your son argue about Toby, Missus.
Speaker 4: Bryant, No, no, I only saw her once. He knew
Speaker 4: I didn't think much of her. But that didn't drive
Speaker 4: him away. Mister Marlow, what did I've never been able
Speaker 4: to understand. After his father died, Chip became irresponsible and
Speaker 4: a little while, perhaps especially since I had to spend
Speaker 4: all my time running our gift shop on Ivar. But
Speaker 4: but he was a good boy.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 4: I've tried to convince myself that he left just to
Speaker 4: prove his independence, to taste his wings, you know.
Speaker 2: But now now what, Missus Brian, Now.
Speaker 4: I'm worried. That letter puzzles me. I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Well, it may mean nothing more than you're getting a
Speaker 2: daughter in law. Uses too much, mass car.
Speaker 4: I hope you're right. I want you to be happy,
Speaker 4: to settle down. I want to turn my business over
Speaker 4: to him, and will you try to locate him for me? Here?
Speaker 4: I have this picture here in my wallet.
Speaker 2: See the chip looks a lot like his mother, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: Please find out if my son is all right.
Speaker 2: Sure, I'll do my best. My office window I watched
Speaker 2: to leave the building. So I stopped politely and answer
Speaker 2: a question for an oily sidewalk passive and a black
Speaker 2: pinstriped suit, and moved quietly on down the street toward
Speaker 2: a shop. And I've a neat gentle, very lonely woman.
Speaker 2: I hoped I'd find a happy story for her in
Speaker 2: San Luis Obispo. She had one coming. I was still
Speaker 2: hoping five hours later when I pulled into a mobile
Speaker 2: gas station in the little town at the foot of
Speaker 2: the Santa Lucia Mountains, two hundred miles up the coast.
Speaker 2: I filled up, asked a few questions, and found out
Speaker 2: that there were only four good hotels, five not so good,
Speaker 2: and two or three dozen motor corts, and that ran
Speaker 2: the gamut. So even with nothing but the name Toby
Speaker 2: to go on, the job wasn't completely impossible. By the
Speaker 2: time I'd worked my way down into the motor courts,
Speaker 2: the sun was sneaking off between the rocky hills toward
Speaker 2: the ocean, and I was still collecting negative answers until
Speaker 2: I tried to mirror neon combination bar, restaurant and motel
Speaker 2: called Pinkies on the north edge of tom Sorry, mister,
Speaker 2: not Tooby Packler registered here. I wait a minute, You
Speaker 2: sure she's a lovely platinum blonde about me? About what? Huh?
Speaker 2: I never mind skipped pinky Maybe this is better. When
Speaker 2: I glanced across the lobby at the bar, i'd caught
Speaker 2: a man watching me. It was the same Oily character
Speaker 2: in a black pinstriped suit that I'd seen stop missus
Speaker 2: Bryant on the street outside my office back in la.
Speaker 2: He ducked away and I beat it into a bar,
Speaker 2: just in time to see him slip out of side door.
Speaker 2: So I followed him outside a gravel path, where him,
Speaker 2: through a groove of dejected pepper trees, wound up in
Speaker 2: a lonely walled patio. And when I got there, Oily
Speaker 2: was out of sight. The reason was simple. The nose
Speaker 2: of his gun in my back said he was behind me.
Speaker 5: I don't move my low well, well name and all,
Speaker 5: sure I've been telling you every inch of the way
Speaker 5: since old Lady Bryant went to see you this morning.
Speaker 2: That's connection oily.
Speaker 5: Exactly six long months of watching him waiting for what
Speaker 5: for a move, I knew two skunks that'd have to
Speaker 5: make some time. From the way you've been working. You
Speaker 5: don't know enough to do yourself, and you go to
Speaker 5: me any harm. So take some advice, go back to
Speaker 5: leave it alone, Leave what alone. That's none of your business.
Speaker 2: People. I'll take over from the here.
Speaker 5: But just in case you're running the Chip Bryant or
Speaker 5: tob me on your way out of town, tell them
Speaker 5: from me. They're not cutting Lou Race out of his
Speaker 5: share of one hundred and ten grand. I'm gonna get
Speaker 5: it one way or another. And Soldier won't forget your
Speaker 5: rest for a right mind.
Speaker 2: When the brick floor of the patio finally stopped pushing,
Speaker 2: I was alone except for my ugly thoughts. I knew
Speaker 2: I was on the right track, but from the sound
Speaker 2: of things, Chip O'Brian was much less a mama's boy
Speaker 2: than his mama believed, and made sure Lou Race was
Speaker 2: nowhere around the motel, and I went into the bar
Speaker 2: again to see what a double Scotch would do for
Speaker 2: my headache. The bar tender, obviously was the type of
Speaker 2: got around, so I took a chance and asked him
Speaker 2: about Toby Packby. It was no good when I described
Speaker 2: Toby as a beautiful platinum blonde. A girl sitting alone
Speaker 2: two stools down, a girl with a short, ragged mouse
Speaker 2: brown hair and extremely flat, misformed face, dropped her eyes
Speaker 2: and looked away. I suddenly felt very cheap. I flipped
Speaker 2: the silver buck on the bar and got up. You know,
Speaker 2: it was a kind of dumb stunch. You can't apologize for.
Speaker 2: You just leave. I was halfway to my cop before
Speaker 2: I realized that the girl had followed me out. Are you?
Speaker 2: I turned and watched to come toward me. The garish
Speaker 2: neon light her face was jarringly unreal, the color and
Speaker 2: texture of hard putty.
Speaker 4: I heard you inside when you asked about Toby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you had. Do you know her, miss, Yeah?
Speaker 6: I know her.
Speaker 4: She's one of my few friends. What do you want
Speaker 4: with Toby?
Speaker 2: Well, my name is Marlow and I'm from LA. I
Speaker 2: want to talk to her about a fellow named Chip Bryan.
Speaker 2: She's my only lead.
Speaker 7: Chip Bryant. Yeah, she never mentioned that name of lead. Anyway,
Speaker 7: you're too late, mister Marlow. What do you mean Toby
Speaker 7: left town this morning. No, she's going up north to Seattle.
Speaker 4: I think on some kind of personal business.
Speaker 2: I listen. Did she ever say anything new about a
Speaker 2: house with a big wheel where it was what it means.
Speaker 4: House with a big wheel? Yeah, no, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, mister Mordow. I guess I'm not much help.
Speaker 4: I oh, good.
Speaker 2: Night, thanks anyway, and good night miss miss Yeah, yeah, Palmer,
Speaker 2: good night. As the girl walked back to the bar,
Speaker 2: the little gold chain I'd spotted around her ankle glinted
Speaker 2: in the brittle light. It was like an echo of
Speaker 2: her memory. A slave bracelet on her was as out
Speaker 2: of place as a morning glory and a bit of toadstools.
Speaker 2: But that gave me a crazy hunch, a hunch that somehow,
Speaker 2: in the last six months, a gorgeous blond named Toby
Speaker 2: Packer had become a drab brown head with a flat,
Speaker 2: stiff face. So I didn't chase wild geese to see
Speaker 2: atl Instead, I got in my car and I waited.
Speaker 2: Now all went by, and it was almost dark before
Speaker 2: she finally came out again, stepped down into a sleek
Speaker 2: new convertible and drove north out of town. I followed
Speaker 2: that she turned off a neglected side road and for
Speaker 2: eight miles twisted through jagged rocky hills toward the mountains.
Speaker 2: Then suddenly, from the crest of a small rise, I
Speaker 2: saw what she'd been heading for, an old stone house
Speaker 2: squatting in a grove of eucalyptus trees. The girl, I
Speaker 2: figured to be Toby Packler, had slowed almost to a stop.
Speaker 2: I watched the creep along until she was out of sight.
Speaker 2: When I got out of my car and I went
Speaker 2: down for a closer look. Round, brown shingled couplers reared
Speaker 2: proudly out of choking overgrowth, and on a huge rusty
Speaker 2: iron gate in front was the name Escobar. Put in
Speaker 2: the trees. Behind the house, I saw more turning slowly
Speaker 2: in the stream. There was a giant water wheel, a
Speaker 2: big wheel rod fast back to town and stop. It
Speaker 2: the only place I could figure for a quick answer.
Speaker 2: The opposite of the San Luis Obisco Daily Eagle, the
Speaker 2: night editor was strictly old school and green ice shaded
Speaker 2: a sleeve goddess, but still very much on the ball.
Speaker 8: Sir, you want to see the issues of exactly six
Speaker 8: months ago?
Speaker 2: His head?
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that'd be November about the eighth, nineteen ten.
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks, thanks a lot. I'm right the sort of sentire.
Speaker 8: In care for that rip those copies. So, by the way,
Speaker 8: what stir? Are you looking for?
Speaker 2: A small something on a party named Toby Packway? It's
Speaker 2: not here. Wait a minute, maybe it'll be in Yeah, sure, sure,
Speaker 2: this is it. On page three, a woman identified as
Speaker 2: Toby Packer of Los Angeles suffered severe injuries they head
Speaker 2: and face today when the car she was driving skidding
Speaker 2: into a bridge. I bought my two miles north of here,
Speaker 2: so that's how come to face. This packless condition was
Speaker 2: announce as critical by Clark Emergency Hospital at ten. Yeah
Speaker 2: is that all you want? That's enough?
Speaker 8: If that answers your question, young man, I put these
Speaker 8: copies away.
Speaker 2: Had to be careful that headline, Eh, what was that?
Speaker 2: Let's see that Santa Barbara jewelry store, rob caring thieves
Speaker 2: escapable gems valued it AE hundred and ten thousand, one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten grand.
Speaker 8: I remember that two men and a woman got away
Speaker 8: clean too. Never caught a one of them. You don't
Speaker 8: mean there's a connection between these stories, dude.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Ask me again after I've checked in
Speaker 2: at the old Eskebar place, Evan Escabar's place.
Speaker 8: Out in the hills before you are jokings And what
Speaker 8: in the world could that crack pot possibly have to
Speaker 8: do with the jewel robber and the car wreck six
Speaker 8: months ago?
Speaker 2: It beats me, But the some time you can count
Speaker 2: on it. I think you're crazy.
Speaker 6: But if you're going off.
Speaker 2: There, he should be. What's that supposed to mean?
Speaker 8: You have something in common with that? He's living his
Speaker 8: own private dream world for so long he's forgotten what
Speaker 8: the real world's all about. Goodbye, son, I'll see you later,
Speaker 8: I hope.
Speaker 3: In just a moment. The second act of Philip Marlowe.
Speaker 3: But first, the fun is always fresh and furious. When
Speaker 3: Graucho Marx takes over on CBS Wednesday Nights with his
Speaker 3: wonderful quiz you bet your life, Groucho the master of
Speaker 3: ad lib, teams up pairs of opposites and then goes
Speaker 3: to work with his quips and questions, very very solid
Speaker 3: with laughter. This Groucho Mark show here at this Wednesday
Speaker 3: and every Wednesday and most of the same CBS stations,
Speaker 3: now with our star Gerald Moore, the second actor Philip Marlowe,
Speaker 3: and Tonight's story The Hiding Place.
Speaker 2: From the Road. I had thought of Adam Escaba's place
Speaker 2: as just another one hundred year entry home, you know,
Speaker 2: the kind bigger loop frinkle, like an aging nobleman who
Speaker 2: had retired long ago with his memories. But now that
Speaker 2: I was there and at the rusted iron gate, it
Speaker 2: resented my intrusion out loud. I changed my mind. I
Speaker 2: saw now it had to be a degenerate nobleman. Also,
Speaker 2: a nobleman had to be flat broke. I saw it everywhere.
Speaker 2: An am escabar on the gate, and copper lettering had
Speaker 2: turned a sickly spotted green. The scuff faded family crest
Speaker 2: in laden tile, and the cement walk was cracked and crumbled.
Speaker 2: The exquisite stained glass door was cracked all the way
Speaker 2: down the middle. Only the engraved card in the slot
Speaker 2: under the knocker that sat adamsco Bia Squire was neat
Speaker 2: new Landed Gentry's last ditch stand. I was about to
Speaker 2: knock one.
Speaker 9: You need not bother knocking sirt. I saw you coming
Speaker 9: up the walk. I am Adam Ascobald.
Speaker 2: He was a small, slight man of maybe sixty plus,
Speaker 2: with a large head held high in spite of the
Speaker 2: frayed cuffs, the pattern of the slippers that were cracked
Speaker 2: and pealing. I introduced myself and followed the meadow a
Speaker 2: musty living room there while he apologized for no longer
Speaker 2: having any servants and forts each some brandy mccut plastic cande,
Speaker 2: I told them all about my search for Chip Bryan,
Speaker 2: complete with Toby and little Race.
Speaker 9: Frankly, mister Marlowe, I am puzzled. Your drink, sir, oh confused?
Speaker 9: What does all this have to do with me?
Speaker 2: Or maybe nothing, mister escobarb But the only guess around
Speaker 2: is that the jewels were hidden here on your property,
Speaker 2: the house for the big water wheel, and I had
Speaker 2: the robbery six months ago.
Speaker 6: Why for what reason, sir?
Speaker 2: The police probably Treyo wouldn't want to be picked up
Speaker 2: with the staff on him, salut and do yours sir
Speaker 2: thig you.
Speaker 9: Then, then, mister marlow soon after they did that hit
Speaker 9: the jewels. I mean, the girl, the one with the
Speaker 9: injured face, had that accident.
Speaker 2: Those are the circumstances, oh more or less, and if
Speaker 2: I've ad it right, companies coming by eleven thirty. It's
Speaker 2: ten thirty now. It might be a good idea if
Speaker 2: he left the home grounds for a while.
Speaker 9: Me leave my own home because of some thieves, because
Speaker 9: of three commons.
Speaker 2: You get to Reska. It's that or the police. And
Speaker 2: I'd rather not have a minute for a while. I
Speaker 2: still owe my client a slight benefit of the doubt
Speaker 2: that's left.
Speaker 6: You think I am afraid that's what you are doing to.
Speaker 2: Say, No, of course not. But I don't see why
Speaker 2: you should stake your neck out. These people have nothing
Speaker 2: to do with you.
Speaker 6: You are wrong, sir.
Speaker 9: Every onnest man has something to do with every criminal
Speaker 9: his duty.
Speaker 6: I know that now, mister Marlowe.
Speaker 9: If I had known it many years ago, I might
Speaker 9: still have both my wealth and my property intact.
Speaker 2: Okay, who knows when I come back at my b back?
Speaker 6: But where are you going?
Speaker 2: So in a town it's still like to catch up
Speaker 2: the chip Bryan before the reunion. I don't think there's
Speaker 2: going to be the time or place for conversation.
Speaker 6: Conversation with that Brian hoodlum about what.
Speaker 2: Sort about a mother? Mister Escobar, A nice old lady
Speaker 2: who doesn't deserve a kick in the teeth. Back in
Speaker 2: San Luis Obispo, I returned to the missing person door
Speaker 2: to door canvas for the third time that night. Only
Speaker 2: now I can find myself to the wrong side of
Speaker 2: the tracks exclusively, and the deeper the dive, the better.
Speaker 2: I didn't figure the Chip Ryan would show anywhere else,
Speaker 2: and after a half a dozen quick stops, number seven
Speaker 2: proved lucky. It was a cramped, greasy bar with a
Speaker 2: sawdust and cigarette butt floor and a single customer. I
Speaker 2: hadn't found Chip, but I was close to the depth
Speaker 2: of mister lou Race, the bar keep, a ball of
Speaker 2: fat wearing a sweatshirt the size of a tent at
Speaker 2: his back to me. When I ended, so did Race.
Speaker 2: So when I tapped the tricky man on his padded
Speaker 2: shoulder and he turned surprised to see me. Sweet, that's
Speaker 2: like I was an old dad. I cat got your tongue.
Speaker 2: I'll get up, get ready to answer a few simple questions.
Speaker 2: What do you think you're doing? Your buster much head?
Speaker 2: I'll play you for it unless you want to be
Speaker 2: up ther rolling chins in trouble with the Lawdsjun, you
Speaker 2: don't try to help the client tell the cops. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: why didn't you say so? I don't know nothing about
Speaker 2: this guy and I don't know enough. Now come on,
Speaker 2: race you talk or eat sawt uSwitch. No, no, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 6: What do you want?
Speaker 2: One? You Chip Brian Untilby packed my stock up at
Speaker 2: Santa Barbara jewelry store six months ago.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, yeah, well we did it, but they crossed
Speaker 5: me up and it was one of the cops were
Speaker 5: coming and we.
Speaker 2: Split the splitter. You played hoorray filu race and ran
Speaker 2: without worrying about the others. What's the difference? A reason
Speaker 2: Toby and Chip Brian won't tell you where they hit
Speaker 2: the jewels. That's a difference.
Speaker 6: Nuts. You're standing on one of ear people.
Speaker 5: Toby had a different reason for crossing like what ah like,
Speaker 5: I've fallen in love with that lous Bryant.
Speaker 6: The kit she baited and they're coming along with us,
Speaker 6: but flapping.
Speaker 2: The baby blues.
Speaker 6: The kit was supposed to the car period.
Speaker 2: That's how she crossed me. Anyone else, Yeah, that's happened.
Speaker 2: Where's Brian now?
Speaker 10: One of two places either with Toby Pakla with good
Speaker 10: Knight Sweetheart.
Speaker 2: By the time I made it to the door of
Speaker 2: the second company, Sam Spade was across the street behind
Speaker 2: a park car and streaking for an alley in the
Speaker 2: middle of the block. Just as I thought I was
Speaker 2: gonna lose, and became the breast of a dark doorway,
Speaker 2: and I saw it, and I'm raised quickly, the grint
Speaker 2: of a knife played, the arm dropped sharply. Whoever had
Speaker 2: done it slid away in the dark as suddenly as
Speaker 2: he appeared. When I was next to a race, there
Speaker 2: was only the caller's card, the black ivory handled knife
Speaker 2: driven to the hilt in between the dapper man's shoulders.
Speaker 2: He was going out fast.
Speaker 6: Holy car, How it happened?
Speaker 2: Mantrace? Race? Do you know who got you? Yeah? Dark
Speaker 2: black eye every handle? Yeah? Why? Why? What was it mean?
Speaker 2: Who's belonged to race?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 2: Kid? Ryan?
Speaker 6: He's dead? Huh?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And so we're all the prayers of one missus
Speaker 2: Martha Bryant. Oh she never mind, never mind. Listen, call
Speaker 2: the cops telling. My name is Philip Marlow. I'm a
Speaker 2: private detective, and I may be able to explain all
Speaker 2: this later. Right now, I'm doing a house with a
Speaker 2: water wheel and explain that later too, if I'm lucky.
Speaker 9: Oh, mister Marlow, I'm glad you're here, sir. It is
Speaker 9: almost eleven.
Speaker 2: I know, have you seen anyone? Miss ask and I have.
Speaker 6: Been watching very close. Ready nice, my father owned these pistols.
Speaker 2: Oh, I hope it's been oil since Now look I
Speaker 2: didn't locate chip right. Wait a minute, isn't that a car?
Speaker 2: They're turning off a row without any lights on, Yes.
Speaker 6: And going along the side of my property line.
Speaker 9: But Tody, what would we could you a woman, mister Malone.
Speaker 2: No doubt, named Tony Peckler. Now look, you stay here,
Speaker 2: mister Escobar, and keep that blunder bus ready. Don't forget
Speaker 2: ship Bryan's due out here, Tony, he said, killer, keep
Speaker 2: your eyes open. We'll stand a better chance meeting him
Speaker 2: one at a time. I went around to the side
Speaker 2: of the house quickly, then kept close into a long
Speaker 2: line of eucalyptus trees that ended at a crumbling building
Speaker 2: that had once been servants quarters. After that, it was
Speaker 2: only twenty yards the water wheel, twenty open yards the
Speaker 2: huge ancient circle of hand hewn wood that complained against
Speaker 2: the side of a dreary squad stone mill that had
Speaker 2: long ago died of old age. There in the faint
Speaker 2: half light of a hazy moon, I saw Toby Packler
Speaker 2: kneeling at the corner of the building with both hands
Speaker 2: working curiously to loosen a stone the size and shape
Speaker 2: of a football. There was a gun on the ground
Speaker 2: next to her. I moved close to my hand, tight
Speaker 2: on the thirty eighth of my pocket. Then I waited
Speaker 2: till she had the stone out, and that baby hands
Speaker 2: a six months old secret. It wasn't bad, Aim, just
Speaker 2: a warning, Toby.
Speaker 4: How do you know my name?
Speaker 2: I read your mail. I get back over to your
Speaker 2: homespun safety deposit box there and take the jewels out.
Speaker 1: Go on, all right?
Speaker 4: Why shouldn't I soldier?
Speaker 7: You won't go any place with them. Chip will see
Speaker 7: to that.
Speaker 2: Hell they're God, get back, they're up here.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: You understand the God God. I'll tell me. Is this
Speaker 2: why you hit them? Nobody else knew? Raise the chip, Bryan.
Speaker 4: Race didn't even know about this place?
Speaker 6: And a d up your gun?
Speaker 2: Do it? Miss Peckler? Mister Adam esca bar es quiet, quiet,
Speaker 2: so cheap?
Speaker 6: Brian? How's the jewels all the time? What do you
Speaker 6: know about jewels.
Speaker 9: You'll see the Speckler that night six months ago when
Speaker 9: you stood over there on the other side of the
Speaker 9: water wheel and told Bryan that you had hiden the
Speaker 9: jewels and would tell him where later on.
Speaker 2: I was listening, you know they were here. I don't
Speaker 2: tell anything to anybody.
Speaker 9: It was, of course, quite by chance that I overheard you.
Speaker 9: But after you had that accident with your car, I
Speaker 9: searched as diligently as though a partner, searched Miss Peckler
Speaker 9: for money.
Speaker 6: That could mean so so much to me that I
Speaker 6: found naughty.
Speaker 4: Where are they?
Speaker 2: You really tell me?
Speaker 4: Well, do you know.
Speaker 6: That I see this?
Speaker 9: I think place is it was where Chip Bryan stood
Speaker 9: there for the jewels and not not buried.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: I think, Toby, that he killed Chip Bryan almost six
Speaker 2: months ago, and that he buried him here on these grounds,
Speaker 2: without knowing that Shep had already found the jewels.
Speaker 6: Why ship then quite there? I killed him two days
Speaker 6: after your accident. I found him searching for the jewel.
Speaker 3: Now, no, you're lying.
Speaker 4: She was supposed to go back a lost Andrews.
Speaker 9: Wait until I was.
Speaker 7: Well, wait for my leadder.
Speaker 2: Didn't Toby come out here, found the jewels and was
Speaker 2: killed by our host.
Speaker 9: No one that I couldn't find them these months type
Speaker 9: search daydn't day.
Speaker 6: I'll scratch them dog and Corning and Rain.
Speaker 2: I buried him, but you didn't burry his knife? Did you? That?
Speaker 2: You captain news down a little race tonight? Why so
Speaker 2: you can shoot me then him? Or so that if
Speaker 2: I'd very lucky, I can run away to live some more?
Speaker 2: A smashed face.
Speaker 4: To face, one.
Speaker 2: Escabar turn around point that gun at me? Missed them
Speaker 2: my lord, now it's self defense. Toby.
Speaker 4: Toby is bad, real bad. I had so much once
Speaker 4: wet face, a guy name.
Speaker 11: Chip, jewels, everything, I was a big wheel.
Speaker 2: It was nice.
Speaker 4: Uh yes, yes, mister workman. The book ends will be
Speaker 4: sent out to you this afternoon at the lady. Thank
Speaker 4: you for calling. Goodbye. I'm sorry to have kept you.
Speaker 4: Mister Marlow. Well, it may be hard for you to believe.
Speaker 4: In the minute I was on the phone, and even
Speaker 4: while I talked, I think I saw Chipper's whole life
Speaker 4: before me.
Speaker 2: I know what you mean. Well, missus, Bryan, I found
Speaker 2: out that.
Speaker 4: Your son Chip, Yes, you found out what mister Marlow?
Speaker 4: What are you staring at.
Speaker 2: Oh I had showcase there.
Speaker 4: Oh, our mother's stayed displayed. It's attractive, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very missus. Bryan Chip was killed in a
Speaker 2: storm at sea a week a week after you saw him.
Speaker 2: It was off San Francisco. His body was never recovered.
Speaker 2: I was told that he was on his way to
Speaker 2: a new job Canada at the time. And incidentally, that
Speaker 2: letter from San Luis Obispo that that was all a mistake.
Speaker 2: That girl never saw a chipping outside. I left my
Speaker 2: car where i'd pocket and walked through the busy city street.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a funny thing. Lies can cause more
Speaker 2: trouble in this world than almost anything else they say,
Speaker 2: and at the same time can sometimes bring them most happiness.
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Speaker 2: It started at down in the Los Angeles taxi and
Speaker 2: wound up that night on a cliff in the middle
Speaker 2: of the Pacific, all because of a Dutchman with five
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars, a corpse in a lily pond, and
Speaker 2: an Oriental with a chow fore who wanted a cloak
Speaker 2: may have nothing but feathers.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Obviously, in the episode itself, the his referencing Sam Spade
Speaker 1: was because the thug had told him good night, sweetheart,
Speaker 1: which was one of Sam Spade's key catchphrases from the
Speaker 1: nineteen forties and fifties radio. This was a really well
Speaker 1: done episode. There are few radio programs that really when
Speaker 1: they are written with that intent. A detective show that
Speaker 1: can really break your heart is Philip Marlowe. It's definitely
Speaker 1: a very well done, but downbeat ending that ends with
Speaker 1: marlow a very out of character not telling the client
Speaker 1: the full story. But it's hard to blame him too
Speaker 1: much in this particular instance. Well, we turned out a
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Speaker 1: for posting these classic old time radio programs for people
Speaker 1: like me to appreciate. I'm twenty seven year old and
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Speaker 1: to this podcast each night. I give it ten out
Speaker 1: of ten. Well, thanks so much, Lewis, and I appreciate
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Speaker 1: All right, Well tomorrow, Nick Carter. Next Wednesday, another episode
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