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episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original Aireday,

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July fourteenth, nineteen fifty one, and the title is The

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Dear Dead Days.

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Speaker 3: Most Saturdays of this time, we spent an exciting half

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hour of adventure in action with America's hero number one

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hop along Cassidy Well even two fisted cowboys take summer

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vacations when they can, and Hoppy is no exception. Hop

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Along and Topper will be back with us riding the

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CBS air trails again ten weeks from tonight, September twenty second.

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Speaker 4: Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road,

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and those who travel had wind up in the gut

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of the prison of the grave. There's no other r

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in They never learn.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring

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you tonight's exciting story, The Dear Dead Days.

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Speaker 4: I stood at the window and looked down at the

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Saturday morning traffic, A thousand inch worms playing follow the

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Leader to the beach, to the mountains, to add millies

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to any place. I had time a book. There was

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food in a refrigerator and a coffee cup in my hand.

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Across the room, there was an easy chair, cigarettes on

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the table beside it. The clock said it was nine

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point fifteen. I hadn't shaved, and I wasn't going to

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It was Saturday all day and it was mine. Yeah,

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let's see see where it was? I oh, yeah, here

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it is. She was the most breathtaking thing he'd ever seen.

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She lay back on the divan, stretched, smiled languishly.

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Speaker 5: Up.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, okay, okay, hello, mister.

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Speaker 6: Moallow, mister Philip Mondow spa. You don't know me, mister Mordo.

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Speaker 7: My name is Phoebe Cardwell, missus Phoebe Cadwell. Yeah, but

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I thought perhaps the name would mean something to you.

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Speaker 4: God. Well, no, I'm afraid not.

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Speaker 8: Well, no matter.

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Speaker 7: You do help people, don't you. I mean, if someone

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is missing, you find them.

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Speaker 4: Well sometimes, missus codd Well, it all depends if you

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check the police.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, my dear, No, I wouldn't think of that,

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you see it. Steven's my chauffeur. Well, now I must

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mislead you. Strictly speaking, he is not my chauffeur.

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Speaker 4: But strictly speaking, he is missing.

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Speaker 7: Yes, at least he seems to be. And I don't

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trust phones entirely, mister Morrow. I couldn't even have called

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you except Matilda went to a friend's and I do

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need your health.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I see, Well, come out right away.

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Speaker 7: It's most important to me. I live in Venice. Mister Morrow,

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if you drive down Suppolvin in Washington.

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Speaker 4: Line, well, what do you do? Maybe I thought about

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my grandmother. Maybe I thought at twenty five bucks a day.

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I don't know. Whatever it was. I joined the inch

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worm anonymity that was the traffic line of the beach cities.

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Now Venice is not as to which I normally gravitate.

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But there was something in missus. Phoebe Codd was distinguished

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old voice that told me this was not a Saturday

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for normalcy. A house was what used to be called

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a bungalow, and a ramrod little figure waiting for me

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in the doorway was what used to be called beautiful.

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Phoebe cord Well, for all her seventy five years, had

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worn well and knew it.

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Speaker 9: It's just possible that I didn't make myself entirely clear

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on the phone, mister Marlowe about Stephens.

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Speaker 4: Well, he's your chauffriend. He's missing, and he was my chauffeur.

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Speaker 9: It seemed like a very long time ago since I've

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seen him. You see, after Horace died in nineteen forty eight,

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Horace was my husband.

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Speaker 6: You see.

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Speaker 9: After Horace died, Stephen stayed on to drive for the

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family who took our pasadeen a house.

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Speaker 6: Oh oh, he did this with my blessing. Of course,

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Horace rested him left me very little.

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Speaker 9: Really, I say this with no malice, mister Marlowe, merely

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to point out that for me to retain Stephen's was

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quite out.

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Speaker 6: Of the question.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I suppose so.

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Speaker 9: So I moved in with my sister Matilda, and she's

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visiting a friend at the moment. I wouldn't want Matilda

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to share my concern over Stephens. And I'm sure you'll

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respect that.

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Speaker 4: Oh, of course, missus. Godwill thank you.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: Look, so far as you know, Stephen's still driving for

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the family who took your house.

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Speaker 8: Oh, I'm sure he is.

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Speaker 7: He must be.

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Speaker 9: It's just that well, on Thursdays, his day off, he

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always brought the limousine over to take me for rides

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and run my little errands. Oh understand now, the Brands

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are fully.

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Speaker 6: Aware of this. That's the family works for who have

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my home in Pasadena.

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Speaker 4: And Stevens hasn't been to see you in some times

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in weeks and not.

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Speaker 6: A word, you understand.

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Speaker 9: I find it difficult to tell you precisely how I

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feel about this. Mister Marlowe Stevens is like a son

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to me. Perhaps he's here or troubled. Oh, i'd want

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to know that I might be able.

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Speaker 8: To help you.

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Speaker 4: Phoned, I suppose I'm.

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Speaker 9: Embarrassed to say how many times? But no answer, none

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at all. Oh, I've a writing desk in my room.

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Mis to morrow, i'll write the Pasadena address and phone

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number for you, my number two.

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Speaker 6: I shan't be a moment.

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Speaker 4: I'd seen the ring when I first sat down opposite her,

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First because it was big, almost massive, on a tiny

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right hand, then because it didn't fit the rest of

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the lavender and old lace picture that she presented, a

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massive jade and gold cord with oriental figures, a foreboding

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thing that Greek quality of its kind and value. After

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she left, the vases jumped out at me from the mantel,

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small gold and jade again and is incongressly out of

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place as Phoebe Cadwell and Sister Matilda's bungalow.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, now that didn't take long, did it?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Not long at all?

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Speaker 10: Oh, I like.

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Speaker 6: You, mister Mallow. You find Stephens for me?

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Speaker 4: I know, well, I hope so, missus Cadwell and if

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I do well, I tell him that I want.

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Speaker 6: To see him or hear from him. Stevens will understand.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I don't dear.

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Speaker 6: That's Matilda. Dear, so I see my dear mister Ballow.

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May I present my sister, Miss.

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Speaker 11: Reed with an eye like Wallace Reid. I'm sure, mister Oh,

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maybe you don't remember Wally Well.

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Speaker 9: I tell you I had to dabble in theatricals at

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one time, mister Marlowe.

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Speaker 11: Theatricals eye was in pictures in the golden e room,

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mister Marlow, when silence was golden.

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Speaker 4: Oh, that Wallace Reed you have.

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Speaker 9: Mister Marlow was an insurance Fightea and some younger than

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we did.

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Speaker 11: You see the covered wagon Ernst Torrance. I had a

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big scene with him on the prairie, right by one of.

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Speaker 6: The wagon wheels.

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Speaker 4: No, not first run. I'm waiting for it to come

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to my neighborhood theater. Matilda was a doll, real live

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cubie doll. But her role in this thing was strictly

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comedy or relief. The drama, if there was any was

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Phoebe Cadwell. I'm missing chauffeur. It wasn't hers anymore. And

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the glaring memory of jade and gold that didn't seem

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to fit anywhere well. I missed the house on Orange

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Grove Avenue by two numbers, parked the car and walked back.

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The old Cardwell place was set well back in the street,

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and a solid red brick looked big, important and empty.

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Speaker 12: Nobody home, nobody home.

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Speaker 4: At first, I thought there were three honeycolored Afghans on

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the lawn next door, but the one in the middle

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was talking to me, and as I walked closer, I

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could see she was by far the prettiest and undoubtedly

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something more than man's best friend.

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Speaker 12: The brands are at Emerald Bay for the summer, I thought,

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I told everyone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm the one who forgot to ask you

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if my name is Marlow.

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Speaker 12: I'm Kip Parker Margaret really kIPS for the reserve section. Hello, Kip,

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I've never seen you before.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well believe me. I'm sorry, I believe you. I

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got a first name.

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Speaker 6: I like Marlow.

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Speaker 12: Forget about the brands. Come on and play on this side.

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Speaker 5: Of the HDGE.

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Speaker 4: I don't know the Pasadena.

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Speaker 5: Rules same as Texas.

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Speaker 4: Looks like we're gonna have to move over.

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Speaker 12: I'll give Stevens A raised for this.

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Speaker 4: Or just said nobody was home.

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Speaker 12: Stevens doesn't count.

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Speaker 4: He does with me. Don't move. I want to remember

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you like this, always this, you know. Hey, Hey, Stevens, Stevens,

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wait a minute, I'd like to see you. I'd like

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to talk to you about missus Cardwell.

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Speaker 5: Is something wrong?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, no, she's fine. I'm Philip Marlow. Stevens says,

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someplace we can have a visit.

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Speaker 5: Upstairs, over the garage in my quarters. Come along, missus

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cord will isn't to do alien, she's oh no, look

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fine when I left it less than an hour ago.

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I'm glad to hear that. Here we are. Come inside, sir.

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Speaker 4: A nice place you've got here, Stevens.

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Speaker 5: It's a bit stuffy in here. I'm afraid I've been

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closed up a few days.

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Speaker 4: Sit down, sir, Thanks, say Stevens. Missus Cardwell misses you,

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and you can drop the show with me. Marlow will do.

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Speaker 5: I'll try, sir, mister Morrow. But the habit of twenty

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years or so, you know?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 5: Now, Missus Cardwell, misses me. Is that what you've come

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to tell me?

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Speaker 13: Oh?

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Speaker 4: It's about all she told me. Stevens I understand you

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skipped a few of your regular Thursday visits with her,

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and well, she's concerned about you.

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Speaker 5: I must say that's generous of her. Of course, it's

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not been a few visits. A told mister Monroow, I've

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missed the last two Thursdays and for a quite legitimate reason,

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my employers, the branch have opened their Emerald Bay place.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, Keip told me the miss Harcourt, I.

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Speaker 5: Mean, missus Harcourt.

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Speaker 4: Sir. Oh really that's too bad, is it? Yeah? Well, look,

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missus Cadwell seems like a nice old lady. You know

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what you mean to her. It's not just you she misses.

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You understand, it's a way of life, something she was

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part of and enjoyed status. I think they call it.

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You know, it can be pretty important, Stephens.

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Speaker 5: I understand that's sure you do.

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Speaker 4: You'll give her a break, I know, calling out at

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you back in town, you know, keep in touch. Yes,

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I oh, excuse.

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Speaker 5: Me, sure, don't leave. So please, there's something I'd like.

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Speaker 4: To ask you. Stevens seemed like a right guy anyway.

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I was wondering about Kip, missus Harcourt. I had a figure,

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all right, but not for married. I dismissed it at

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the back of my mind and started casing Stephen's little palace.

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It was nice enough in the brown, the gray motif,

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neat tidy like Stevens, except except for a bunch of

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packing boxes grouped in the corner behind the divan, and

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on top of them three items. It stopped me cold.

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A large bowl, a smaller one in a long oblong box,

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all a mass of jade and gold carved with oriental figures.

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Speaker 5: You admire oriental art, mister Marlow, not specially Hugh Stevens,

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not specially sir you.

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Speaker 4: He said, you'd like to ask me something.

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Speaker 5: Yes, And if I may say, I'd appreciate a straight answer.

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Speaker 4: All my answers are straight, Stephens. It's my questions that

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get tricky.

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Speaker 5: I'll remember that you. Are you certain you've told me everything,

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missus cud Will said about me, Very certain. It doesn't

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strike you as oddswer that she'd hire a man of

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your particular capabilities to deliver the simple message that she

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misses me.

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Speaker 4: Matter of fact, it does, Stevens strikes me as very odd.

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I couldn't tell Stevens anymore because I didn't know anymore.

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It was my turn to ask questions, but I didn't

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have any yet. I was closing in on a pretty

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good one as I started down to drive again, but

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it got lost.

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Speaker 5: In the shuffle.

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Speaker 12: I knew you would be back.

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Speaker 4: Mother. You always arrive unannounced, don't you, Missus Harcourt, Henry's

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and Bellbo. You're here, Henry's out of his mind?

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Speaker 12: Don't you want to drink or something?

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Speaker 4: Yes, kid, there is something I want? Well, come on

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at the moment, a telephone?

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Speaker 12: Come on anyway? You know, Marlow, you're an odd one. Yeah,

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everybody says, so you're really coming into the house to

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use the phone, aren't you?

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Speaker 4: Well, Like I said, I'm an odd one. Where is

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it to the right in the library? Thanks?

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Speaker 12: Are you a friend of Stephens?

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Speaker 4: Why?

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Speaker 12: Because you're not a friend of the brands.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm really a friend of missus Cardwell's, Phoebe's.

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Speaker 12: Why didn't you say so?

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Speaker 4: Little?

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Speaker 12: I lived next door to Phoebe and Horrace for years.

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Here it's my house. Henry married my money. Poor Phoebe

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Horrace didn't leave her a thing. No one understood. It

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leans against the estate as big as a.

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Speaker 4: House, big as the Cardwell house.

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Speaker 12: That's how the brands got it. Is she still interested

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in art or do you know?

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Speaker 4: Oh? I think so only and maybe not such big scale.

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Speaker 12: Beautiful wings she donated to the museum. I guess she

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never gets over here anymore.

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Speaker 4: No, not much so, you know, I forgot the name

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of that museum. She mentioned it.

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Speaker 12: Live Oapen Museum on California Street. Oh yeah, I like

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Phoebe Teller, Gip says, Hi, when you see it, yeah,

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I will you still want to use the phone, Marlow?

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Speaker 4: I used the phone. I called Phoebe Codwell, explained Stephen's absence,

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and gave a Kipp's best and the case was closed.

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All I had to do was wait for a check.

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But all of a sudden I didn't feel very good

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about any of it. It was like a hangover, you know.

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I felt something should make sense, but nothing did. The

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jade and golded Phoebe's, the stuff in Stephen's quarters that

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looked just like it was it hers? Did she give

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it to him? Did he take it? Questions I had,

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but no answers. I stood there at the window in

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Kip's library and watched the cob pull to a stop

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in front of the old Codwell place. Watched the thick

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little man get out and start to walk up the

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gravel driveway. I wasn't sure until he walked right past

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the library window. Then I knew I had the beginnings

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of all the answers. The thick little man was Fritziat,

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one of the better fences around town, and he was

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on his way to see Stephen's. A minute later, Kip

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told me of empty servants quarters over her garage. Another

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minute later and I was there. The two garages weren't

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six feet apart, and there was lots to hear if

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you listened. I listened.

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Speaker 14: But look, Stevie boy, you don't have it all.

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Speaker 5: It's not quite the point. Now, can you dispose of me?

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Speaker 14: I don't know two things, Stevie boy.

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Speaker 5: One.

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Speaker 14: Collection is a tough defense, real tough. Two. This isn't

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the whole deal.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't understand.

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Speaker 13: This isn't the whole deal. Some pieces missing. I've seen

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pictures of the same cool collection. Some pieces are missing, you,

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But this isn't a.

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Speaker 5: Ring to be exactly. Yeah, you're right, you got them,

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not exactly. I might be able to get to Look.

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Speaker 13: I'm trying to tell you, Stevie boy one, I'm not

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even sure I can fence the whole collection. But two,

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I ain't got a prayer of doing it if it's incomplete.

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Speaker 5: Are you with me there? Do you understand that? Yes, yes,

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I understand it. It might take time to obtain the

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other pieces, and.

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Speaker 13: You better spend some time, Stevie boy, or we got

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no arrangement whatsoever. I tell you, I'll those around see

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what's the best deal I can get, providing you deliver

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the full treatment.

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Speaker 14: You see what you can do about getting it, and we'll.

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Speaker 5: Meet here tomorrow at noon. But I really don't think it. Oh,

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never mind that I've got to have the money all

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right tomorrow at noon.

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Speaker 4: He didn't have to hang any signs on it. It

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was all there. Most of it was a singhkup collection

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meant very little to me, but it meant money to

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Stevens in Fritziacht. I had an idea. It meant something

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else again to Phoebe Codwell. And I had another idea,

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a live Oak museum on California Street in the wing

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that Phoebe had donated to it. I couldn't risk the

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delay of a Texas rules about with kIPS, so I

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skirted the house and ran through the dust to my car.

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Five minutes later, I stood in front of the words

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Live Oak Museum, Percival Wallace, Director, opened to visitors nine

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to five weekdays, nine to twelve Saturdays, twelve to five

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Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 15: Well, nuts, not interested in our day mis tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: We've done that bit, Stevens. My answer was not specially.

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Speaker 5: I just liked dissuading you in this manager. But I'm

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a quite accurate shot.

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Speaker 4: You know. I believe that, Stephens.

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Speaker 5: If I can't suite you with this warning, I'll not

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hesitate to use this gun. I'll not hesitate at all, sir.

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Speaker 3: In just a moment, we will return to the second

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act of Philip Marlowe. But first, now that vacation time

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is here, our streets and the highways are more crowded

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than ever. Don't take chances, obey the traffic rules and

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drive carefully.

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Speaker 4: The life you save may be your own.

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Speaker 3: And now with our star Gerald Moore, the second act

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of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The Dear Dead Day.

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Speaker 4: Stevens had a dominant personality for a chauffeur. He could

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give orders as well as take them. And I'm not

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a man who's at his best, tearing down the nose

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of an automatic. Now we told each other a very

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proper good evening, and he left me with my thoughts,

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which were several and urgent. I bundle him together and

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headed for the Times office in downtown La.

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Speaker 5: Note.

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Speaker 4: There's just one thing mustier than an old newspaper file.

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That's the man who files it.

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Speaker 10: Nineteen forty eight was a big year news wise, Philip.

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The files are heavy.

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Speaker 4: How was it? Obituary wise belting that you'd lighten it?

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Speaker 8: Local? National or international?

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Speaker 4: Local? Pasadena name address, Horace Cardwell, Orange Grove Avenue, Oh god, well, horrs,

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that's it, that's it.

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Speaker 10: January thirty, nineteen forty eight, Page one, Part two.

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Speaker 8: That's a good spot.

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Speaker 10: Page one, Part two, best local little bit spot in

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the paper.

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Speaker 4: Well bet Horace was proud like anything. Let's see and

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the oh here it is here it is. Mister Cardwell

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is by his wife, Phoebe Reid cod Well at home.

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Period nothing. Hey Beldon, you got one for her. Phoebe Codwell.

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Speaker 8: When she goes, she hasn't she's somebody.

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Speaker 4: She's somebody Codwell, missus Horace parenthesis Phoebe read clothes parentheses

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tryat Beldon.

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Speaker 10: She could be more. She'll never make part two page

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one at this rate.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's too bad, but read it anyway.

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Speaker 10: Huh Born, Waterloo, Iowa, June seventh, eighteen seventy six.

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Speaker 8: She's Gemini, Phillip.

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Speaker 4: That's what will you just read? Oh?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, married Horrace Carwell, Old California.

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Speaker 8: James so and so and so and so and so

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and so.

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Speaker 10: Oh, Chairman of Art and Culture Committee, Live Oak Museum, Pasadena.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 10: Go ahead, travel extensively all over the world, brought back

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many valuable paintings and objects the art. Yeah, it's reasonable

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to the museum, most famous of which is sing Wu

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collection of jade.

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Speaker 8: And that's about it, Philip.

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Speaker 4: I love your Belden. Thanks so. Phoebe had brought the

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sing Woo jade collection the Live Oak Museum in the

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first place. Now she had some of it, Stevens had more,

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and Fritziat was even now nosing around for a takea

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where did that leave the museum? Nowhere? So far as

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I knew, except close till noon tomorrow Sunday, and noon

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Tomorrow's Sunday would be too late. Fritzy and Stevens would

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be together by that time. Note Percival Wallace is a

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quiet little man who doesn't like to talk to private

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eyes about museum business at home or anywhere.

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Speaker 16: The museum has operated for thirty years, mister Morrow, and

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not one shread of notoriety, not one trade.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think we can keep the record clean, mister Wallace.

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All I want to know is when the sing Woo

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collection was stolen from the museum.

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Speaker 16: I didn't say it was stolen. I said we no

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longer had it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you no longer have it? How long have you

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no longer happy it was?

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Speaker 16: Since Christmas Week nineteen forty seven?

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Speaker 4: Do you notify the police?

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Speaker 5: Certainly?

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Speaker 16: Not why, mister Marlowe. I tried to tell you, not

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one shred of notoriety in thirty years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's a valuable collection and it's Missingbordive.

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Speaker 16: Director did subscribe to a reward, mister Marlowe, only a

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fraction of the singh Wu's real worth of court, a

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mere twenty thousand dollars. But of course this was done

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very quietly, very quiet.

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Speaker 4: So quietly nobody knows about it. All right, tell me

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did missus Codwell contribute to the reward?

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Speaker 16: I don't recall.

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Speaker 4: And you wouldn't say if she did. Thanks, mister Wallace,

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you're just downright bully. I got the Phoebe cod while

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small bungalow in Venice, and time to see a liveried

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limousine pull away from the curb a two minutes after

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I got lost with the rest of the inch worms.

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They light up at night variety. Missus Cadwell ushered me

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into the living room. When she turned on the lights,

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everything in the room jumped out at me again. The

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pink dogs, the blue cats, the souvenir pillows. But the

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most notable things in the room were the jade and

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gold vases that were gone from the metal and the

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jade and gold ring that was missing from Phoebe Cardwell's

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old hands.

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Speaker 9: This is delightful, mister Marlowe, genuinely delighted.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I was afraid it might be a little

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too late to.

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Speaker 6: Call ordinarily, yes, but not tonight. Well you just missed him, Stephens.

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He came back and took me for a drive. I

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just dismanted. Got hold.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's fine.

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Speaker 6: Oh, thanks to you, mister Marlowe.

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Speaker 9: I am so grateful he hadn't forgotten about me, you know, no,

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he'd been busy.

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Speaker 4: Oh sure, yeah, but.

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Speaker 9: I'm embarrassed not to have mentioned it sooner. But I

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have your money for you your fee.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's no hurry, and in fact I've done so

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little that I am no, no.

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Speaker 6: No, and I won't hear that. I'll pay you in

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full of course.

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Speaker 4: All right, Say, this morning I was admiring your ring

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and the vases on the mantel.

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Speaker 6: Were you in feed Yeah, I'm glad. They're quite nice, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, yes they were? Did you give them the Stephens?

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Speaker 5: Missus Cardwell, I beg your pardon.

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Speaker 4: Did you give them the Stephens?

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Speaker 6: Why? Really, mister Marlowe, fash me. That is none of

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your affair.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm a curious fellow.

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Speaker 6: I secured your services to perform a specific task.

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Speaker 8: You've done that.

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Speaker 9: I certainly do not contend to discuss Stephen's or anything

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pertaining to him with you.

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Speaker 6: Mister Marlowe.

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Speaker 4: All right, we'll leave it that way.

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Speaker 6: I'm not a word of any of this to Matilda. Now,

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mister marlow.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I was just leaving the girls at the club

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all about you, And I am right, Ora and I

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you are Julia Marlow's son.

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Speaker 4: Julia Marlowe are the actress.

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Speaker 6: She played Barbara pretty for years.

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Speaker 4: She did well. I'm sorry, but there were no Fritchees

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in our families for years either side.

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Speaker 6: Really, mister Marlowe's busy. He was just leaving.

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Speaker 4: Yes, wasn't I really?

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Speaker 6: Fritchie marlow a beautiful name.

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Speaker 4: The lights in Kip Harcourt's house were off. When I

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got back to Pasadena, those and Stephens quarters above the

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garage were still on. It was better that way. I

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wasn't worried about Stevens automatic anymore. There was a very

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good chance he wouldn't use it. Hey, Stevens, it's marlow

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Open up.

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Speaker 5: Apparently I didn't make myself clear, mister Molows.

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Speaker 4: If you still want to try your aim when I

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finished talking, I'll be a willing target.

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Speaker 5: Come in, sir.

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Speaker 4: It's almost midnight. You're meeting Fritzy at noon tomorrow. We're

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gonna have to work fast.

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Speaker 5: I warned you to stay out of it, mister Mallison.

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Speaker 4: Stevens, hear this. I know about a lot of it,

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and I got some good guesses on the rest. Let's

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make a deal. I'll tell you what I know and

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what I guess. If I am right. You can get

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in touch with Fritzy tonight.

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Speaker 5: And if you're wrong, I know.

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Speaker 4: If I'm wrong, one of us deserves to be killed.

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Go ahead, okay. Horace cod Well was a wealthy man,

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a very wealthy man. He was a good business man,

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and he loved his wife very much. That's right. When

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he died there was almost no money, A small amount

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maybe for Phoebe, but the house everything in at the cause,

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everything went to playoff debts leans against the estate. What

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else do you know that Phoebe cod Well contributed a

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wing to the Live Oak Museum that she brought our

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treasures from all over the world to put in it,

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including the sing Wo jade collection. That the collection's been

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missing from the Cardwell wing since Christmas nineteen forty seven.

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Harris died of a cerebral hemorrhage in January nineteen forty eight,

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and nobody wants to talk about who took the collection,

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least of all the people at the Live Oak Museum.

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Speaker 5: And what do you guess from all this, sir, That.

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Speaker 4: A man, even a very wealthy man, can run out

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of money, especially he has a wife was a wonderful

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woman with an eye and a hand for expensive ye

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Treasures Byby's six Stevens cleptomania as an illness.

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Speaker 5: I know, sir, it's it's been such a well guarded

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se could it. It took all mister Harris's head to

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pay for the things she She took people to watch

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or keep track of her, you know, mer, sir, he

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couldn't bear to get help for him psychiatrical. No, she

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needs money just to live on.

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Speaker 4: She has so little, and you love her very much, dancer, Yes, yes,

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I do. Well now she can't have too many more years, Stevens,

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and twenty thousand dollars is a lot of money.

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Speaker 5: Twenty dollars, mister money.

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Speaker 4: Now, look, Stevens. You call it a well guarded secret.

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Believe me it was, and it is. Even those of

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you who have been protecting Phoebe all these years haven't

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leveled with each other. How she moved the collection out

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of there, I'll never know, but the museums had a

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twenty thousand buck reward for its return for several years.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know that, sir.

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Speaker 4: I know you didn't. And it suddenly dawns on me

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that Phoebe's been handing you this single collection bit by

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bit ever since she well came by it. Maybe an

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appreciation for your years of faithful service.

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Speaker 5: Huh, she said, it might come in hand you, sir,

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if I ever needed money. If I needed money, mister Morrow, Yeah,

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I know, Stevens.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you've got a conflict tomorrow. You can't be here

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meeting Fritzy and be at the Live Oak Museum when

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it opens at noon too.

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Speaker 5: I'll call Fritzier tell him our arrangement is all.

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Speaker 4: And Steven's can't you just see Percival Wallace's face tomorrow

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when he eyes the single collection again footnote to a

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happy ending. By twelve thirty Sunday afternoon, the museum had

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the collection, Stevens had a certified check for twenty thousand dollars,

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and we had an understanding that Phoebe Cadwell would suddenly

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discover that Horace had left us some money after all,

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twenty thousand in a checking account that had somehow been

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overlooked till now. Oh well, the rest of Sunday was

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all mine. I stood at my window and looked down

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on a thousand inch worms playing follow the Leader back

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from the beach, the mountains, from Aunt Millie's, from anywhere,

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all kinds of people, nice people, not so nice people.

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Dames like Kip whose husbands took trips, sweet harmless, old

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ladies who took collections. Oh well, where's that book? Oh yeah?

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However was hi, Yeahardy. She was the most breathtaking thing

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he'd ever seen. She laid back on the divan, stretched

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and smiled blancuously up.

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Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most

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famous character, Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by

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Norman McDonald and was written for Radio Tonight by Kathleen

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Hight and Adrian john Doe. Featured in the cast were

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Verna Felton, Bill Johnstone, and Lynn Allen, with Anne Morrison,

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Ralph Moody, Jerry Hausner and Sidney Miller. Gerald Moore may

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soon be seen in the Santana production Sia Rocco. The

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special music is composed by Pierre Garrigank and conducted by

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Wilbur Hatch.

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Speaker 4: Be sure and listen.

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Speaker 3: Again next week at the same time when Philip Marlowe sells.

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Speaker 4: This time, A pair of green eyes held a promise.

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A house on bet for drive held a murder, A

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Malibu motel held a secret. I almost held the Sack songbird.

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Speaker 3: Evelyn Knight, a favorite CBS singing star, helps out vocally

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on the Mario Lunza Show tomorrow evening on most of

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the same CDs stations. Stay tuned now for Gangbusters, which

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follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations. Roy

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Rowan speaking, This is CBS here, Horace Hyatt every Sunday

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I have to admit I got taken up

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for a surprise by the ending, because at the end

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of the story, Marlowe sat down and I was expecting

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him to be rudely interrupted by another phone call. But

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instead our hero got what he wanted. He achieved his

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dream of being able to spend the day reading a book.

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I can definitely empathize with the goal. And it's pretty

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usual on these detective programs to basically just end with

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he sits down to read or to cook his dinner

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and the phone rings and it's back to the grind,

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or he gets home he's so tired he has to

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go to bed. But here they tried something revolutionary and

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actually gave Marlow what he wants. Way to keep us

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on our toes. All right, well, that will actually do

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it for today. Remember I do encourage to support our

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