August 7, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Detective Sam Sativagency Me, sweetheart, would you.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Mind telling me where you are?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Not at all, Ethie, not at all. Let's see, I'm
at the eel rigged deny Rabbi tile see gras.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I don't understand it's time, but I think I caught
the word gras all your shrewd Efie.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You see, I'm on the inside and the lettering is
printed on the outside. If you'll wait, I'll go outside
and read it the right way and then come inside.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And never mind, I've already guessed you're a judge of
anak bar and grill crash.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Say answer me. You promised me you wouldn't me.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I promised me you did.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Sam, You promise faithfully to stay away from bars. You
know how hard television is on your eyes?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Have you got your.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Glasses one in each hand?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
George? Oh, Sam, I heard that? What will people think?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
They'll never know?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Fie.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I always drink here under another name.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Oh, just a little of the hair of the.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Dog that fit me, Efe. But don't worry about me,
although it's true I have been dogging it and have
been hounded from tree to tree. I am frisky as
ever and will be in to unleash my canine chronicle,
namely the dog bed Caper or he who lies down
with dogs gets up with murder or Condensed or Easy Reading.
(01:38):
For NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of History
and Crime Drama brings you the greatest private detective of
them all, in the Adventures of Sam Spade. Here I
am Sam, Here, I am Sam. Effie. Did you ever
write poetry in school?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Man?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well? I was known as Emily Dickinson of Central.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
High I thought you had a touch of internal rhyme
scheme there.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I didn't a little farm about you today?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Really well readoodle.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There was a jacking in Stave with urdu the brains.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
In his head, clever clever.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
When he took up drinking, he forgot about sinking.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Now give me the punchline.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And Effie has stayed quite unpaid.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, a little rough, but you do you get the
ideas there never couldn't make any sense out of poetry.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Ready getting close to Christmas, Samuri, I'm so use my
last pencil, and I don't really have enough money.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
To buy Jeffie, I have no head for figures. All right,
I guess from Samuel Spaide license number one three seven,
five nine six, subject the dog bed Caper.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, Sam, I hope it's going to be all about dogs.
I belong to the tail wagons. Yeah, I've read all
the books by Jackie.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, how did the Strangely enough, you will not meet
a single dog in this story. Actually, this narrative as
little and need to do with our four footed friends
or their beds. And I changed the title now, except
that it's already gone out for publicity, Dear Dundee. It
all started with a phone call to my sector in
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this Effie Parene a doll, requesting my inimitable services at
the investment counseling firm of Cameron Incorporated, clearing everything off
my desk. Two shoes with feet in them, my own.
I went over. The firm of Cameron Incorporated was obviously
not for the push car set. It was plush, ankle,
deep runs, imported rapes, and the receptionist she had a
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plushness all of her own. I said hello in my
flushiest voice. She liked it, she said, so.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Oh, I like the red again.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Life is too short to go back, even for a moment.
The past is a dead thing, the present dying, only
the future alive and vibrant. However, Hello, is there something
there is? Could I ask a question? I will rephrase
the question. What time do you stop working to see me?
(04:05):
There's a little bar around the corner? Okay, why not?
Why not? Indeed, bring your own money, will come anyway.
Your name mind, Sam Spade? Who's mister Briggs? He called
a cheap county. I just happened to have my door open.
Did I hear someone inquiring about me? How do you do? Major?
(04:25):
It's a pleasure to meet you in person, mister Spade.
I'm the man who called you. You know I am grateful, sir.
Now what is it I can do for you and
mister Cameron? Or it's not for me that I called.
I haven't a worry in the world. And it's miss Cameron.
Old Cameron's been dead for many years now, I see
whatever she wants. Mister Spade, do a good job. We
are all counting on you. Will you please announce mister Spade,
(04:46):
Miss Roberts, if you'd excuse me, nice to have met.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You, Major, Miss Cameron.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Yes, it's stayed here, Sam, have fun.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Think I am I I must that girl had the
most beautiful double entendre in town. Well they get on.
Adela Cameron was a career woman. I'm twenty nine. Although
the tailored suit made fine detective work difficult, no makeup,
severe hairdo. And in spite of all this chic in fact,
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as we shook hands in a most businesslike manner, I
had the feeling that something warm might well spring up
between us, something like a warm mutual dislike baby.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
But something most men simply cannot be told anything in confidence.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They gossip. That's a switch.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't appreciate your humor, mister Spake.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I accept your apology.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I will tolerate you because of your reputation. Ah, I'm
going to give you a very difficult job to do,
Miss Hermon.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
What does it make? I'm sorry to interrupt you, but
Courtney Pierces on the phone, mister Spaid, this is Major Briggs,
our chief of company. We've already met, mister speed. Now,
Adela Pierce wants us to unload his short term governments
and by American cattle. He's divvid in crazy am Cat's
declaring one in January and he wants it. Let him
do it. Oh, I just want to protect your interests.
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You know what will happen to Amcat after February. That'll
drop ten points and he'll blame us. I went through
this with your father when you and Grave were that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Major will tell him we advise against it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But if he persists asking for a release night, that's
what I thought you'd do. That's the way your father
would have handled it. I just want to protect your interest,
my dear, that's all.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I just want to protect your interest.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You're not children anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
My dear. Oh, you were giving me a difficult job.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh yes, here is the business address of mister I J. Barco.
He's a wealthy manufacturer client of ours.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I want you to find out everything about him, especially
and I'm savory.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Sorry. I don't do divorce or blackmail case.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
This is sabe.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
This is not a divorce investigation, all right? What is it? Then?
Why do we want.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
A client shadowed?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Good?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Leave his discussion? That's it because we believe he's investing
money through us for some racketeers. If that were true,
we would of course have to drop him, but we
don't want to lose his business.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Just on suspicion, I see.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Find out anything you can about him. And because she's
done of the day in expenses one week guaranteed, will
you consider the job.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I have considered and taken the job. By the time
I had reached the door, she had already forgotten me
and was part at work on some papers. Outside. I
planted dally a few moments an idle chit chat with Celeste.
But before I had the chance, I was accusted by
a husky young chap whom I'm afraid was a Princeton man.
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What are you talking about in es, babe? Who you
had the advantage? Sir? Oh you Gregory Cameron? Now come on?
Or was Adella telling him, well, if you step to
one side, you can walk around me and ask her. Look,
don't pull that Caji private detective routine on me. I
pack a little weight myself. We'll pack it somewhere else. Son.
I asked her a question, I expect an answer. May's
your answer? Any more questions? He didn't feel much like
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talking then, and I was so irritated I walked out
without saying goodbye to the least. When I reached the spath,
a white haired old gentleman Major Briggs hurried out behind me.
Mister Spade, please don't think too badly of that boy.
I've known him from the cradle. He's in a difficult
emotional state. Yes, sure, sure, sure, As far as I'm concerned, Major,
it never happened. You are a kind man, mister State.
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I could tell that when I first saw you. You're
just the sort of man. Miss Cameron me well, I
hadn't looked at it that way. If you require anything,
don't hesitate to ask me. I'd been with this company
forty years before those two children and there were born,
and I know how difficult life can be at times.
I just want things to go well for us. I'll
do my little part. Major, Bless you some bless you.
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I started the work. The card a Dulla Cameron had
given me revealed that my quarry and mister I. J. Barkow, was,
of all things, a manufacturer of dog beds. I sat
down on a hydrant to think this over, and then
followed the scent of horse meat on over to his
factory on South Dolores. It was building the shape of
a large doghouse, and outside stood a billboard with a
message A survey of independent dog tracks kennels and canine
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core prouves that dogs choose Barco beds two to one.
I had to get a look at Barco himself, and so,
ruffling up the hair on the back of my neck,
I protted into the building, sniffing and wagging my tail
in a very friendly manner. It was very easy to
see mister Barco after I lied a little about my connection.
What was that name again? Say or down, Josse Matess,
s Adam Moralis, because you may call me Sam and
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you represent a group of retail outfit teens have America,
Oh I do. Indeed, we have our eye on your dogbeds.
Mister Barker. Well, now let's take a look at our catalog.
Care Now, say you had a great day and you'd
want something regal like this Louis fourteenth. Ever see a
more beautiful beds? Not lately, but mister Barker, brown boy down.
Now here's a number that's very big this season with
English bulldog that shed it in next two wood fit.
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It's lovely and of course if it's an Irish terrier,
he's a purit gag present for his saints of huber
A Murphy. Get it, Sam, Irish terrier. Of course, we
wouldn't ask a dog sleep in a murphy. Mister Blacco,
I'm afair. I don't see anything here. I like, what's this?
Do I understand you?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You are refusing this small spec of comfort to the
one unselfish friended man could have in this selfish world.
I'm not refusing anything. I just don't un selfish friend
who if fortune drives you forth, an outcast into the
world homeless, will ask no higher privilege than to be
a choice hide to guard against Dame Gerda back full
onto guests. There By your grave side will be found
the noble dog, his head between his paws, his eyes head.
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But what for faithful? We shook paws and I felt
his nose to be sure it was cold. It was,
and I left. I raned the car and took up
a station outside the Barco factory. About four o'clock. He
hurried out, jumped into a long, low vehicle shaped like
a dutsum, then mush up. I followed. An hour later,
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I was phoning my first report to Adela, Cameron's secretary.
So let's he went to the city Hall. What do
you do there, miss License Bureau? Marriage not dog really
ready goes the grocery store, where he bought one bottle
of olives, one bottle of remouth, and one bottle of gin.
I wonder what he's going to make. What recipe is that? Well,
now he's in an apartment house on Postry, just across
from the drug store I'm in, and judging from the groceries,
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intends to stay a while he has laid in provision.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Well, I guess that's all we wanted to know. What
Miss Cameron just told me to call you off the case.
You'll still get your guarantee, though major brigs of things
you'd check.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, it doesn't make sense, all right, all right? What
about tonight? Some of the time you mean you mean
it's all over the half daring, half shy kisses on
the Oakland Ferry, that the warm passionate spring nights at
Fisherman's wolf eating abaloney. Hello, well, puzzles as who wouldn't
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be I walked slowly back to my car, but before
I had a chance to get in, I saw ij
Barco hurry out of the department house. But he wouldn't
enter his car. He came right from me. Hey, hey,
so said, my name is don jose ants out of
morally yet don't kid me spade. I'm not a stupid
diector today. Look, I know why Adela Cameron is following me,
and you don't, and you'll never find out any more
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than the other four detectives did. I was the fifth choice.
What I shall speak with my agents about this. I'm
going to tell her in person that this foolish list
has to stop. If it doesn't, she lives, He regretted.
I want more things. I presume you're going to follow me. Well,
I'm turning right on Market and heading out to twelve
seven Bridgewood Place. You shouldn't have any trouble. And with that,
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he spun on one heel and trotted to his car.
He took off, but when I went to my car,
it wouldn't turn over. And when I lifted the hood,
I found out why my spark plugs were gone. I
picked up a new set at the service station, looked
up Adela Cameron's address in the phone book. It was
twelve seventeen Ridgewood Place, and a good half hour later
I got there. Barco's car was out in front. No
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one answered the door, but it was open. Adela Cameron
was a crumpled heap on the living room sofa. Do
help me all right, all right, miss Cameron, let me
look at you. You hurt? No? No, him, him where
the I hurried into the bar and was met with
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a strong odor of scotch. A bottle of it had
been broken, and holding the neck of the bottle in
one hand was I j Barco. He was on the floor.
His hand slowly opened, the glass rolled out, and he died.
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
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famous detective Samain, Act two of tonight. Sam's fade in
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And now back to the dog Bed Caper Tonight's adventure
with Sam Spade. It took three bullets in the chest
to finish off by J Barco. He'd apparently been standing
there pouring a drink. Barco broke the bottle as he fell.
I couldn't find any other signs of violence or any gun,
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so I went back to Adela Cameron. She was beginning
to calm down.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
I don't know who did it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I just don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It couldn't have happened more than a minute ago. And
you were in the house, weren't you.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
No, No. After I left my office, I stopped in
the store of some things, then came home.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
When I was driving down Ridgewood, I heard some sound.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And you thought they were a car backfiring.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
How did you know?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I've heard this script before.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Don't you dare accuse me of killing that name.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
It's not what I think that counts, but what the
police accused you of Sam.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I heard those sounds came in the house when I
went into the barn.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You didn't notice Barco's car out?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And oh, I suppose I did.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I don't know, I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Huh, what do you call it? Homicide? Sam?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Time?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Wait a minute, please wait for what I want to
tell you something? All right, go on, I kind of
get the feeling I was hired to put a finger
on the dog's best friend.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
That's not the way it was. The last thing in
the world I wanted was for him to be killed.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Murdered any all right? What did you want?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I don't want tell me the truth?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Why I really had.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You watching Barker, I'd be curious.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
We handled his investment accounts, my brother, Gregory.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We ran into each other.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I heard, well, greg took one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars the Burker's money and invested it without my knowledge
in a television company.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I hear that medium is making money.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
But it turned out this company was just a front
for some men who wanted to build a gambling syndicate.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Hup, norse, You mean your brother didn't know that he
knew it.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
There was supposed to be big money in it. He
was going to give Barker a good profit and take
the rest for himself.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And Barco found out and threatened sued or something.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
He never would have known that the deal fell through
and the gamblers the money was gone, and he asked
about the investments.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
What could Gregory and I tell him?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
What did you?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Unfortunately the truth?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
We said to make up the money with interest, but
he only gave us ninety days.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
We couldn't get us.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I danced, So you didn't shoot him? Your brother didn't? He?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
No Sam, so he couldn't have.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I know, greg you'd have more sense.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
In my brief meeting with him, I didn't think he
had any sense. Just one more thing before I call
the police and him help.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Me get him out of here.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Someway, Oh dice, Samdal in my whole life, stop it,
stop it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You set me on Barco to find some blackmailing material. Yes, yes,
And then why did you suddenly call me off the
job tonight?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Your secretary said you did.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I didn't tell anything of the source.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Can I have that phone now? So I called you,
Dundee before you arrived. I looked through Barco's pockets for
something to do, and came up with a picture of
him and a girl taken outside of a marriage chapel
in Las Vegas. The girl was Celeste Cameron, Incorporated, Plushy's secretary,
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several years younger and two shade less voluptuous. He address
six two seven Finley was supplied by a now hysterical
at Deela Cameron. No one answered Celeste's door, but I
heard a shower going inside, so I took the liberty
of entering persona non gressa there is, Come out and
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see no false moves. Now keep that toll right where
it is. Am I doing here detective work? And I
must say I've already found out a great deal.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah I've not.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I did express the interest in it. But if you
recall I told him.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Not to night it's my only night off.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Please, I don't want me difficult.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Set all right, we knock off the two touches and
get down to business. You were married to I J.
Barco right or wrong?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Wrong?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Wrong? It's right. You were married in Las Vegas at
chapel of the Flamingo Hotel.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
On the towel, I was only married one day. My
parents had it a null that was under age.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, you don't have to worry about him anymore. He's
dead shot three times at close range in Adela Cameron's house.
Not by you, of course, although on the other hand,
as you would say, why not, I didn't do it?
Suppose you spill he wanted me to marry him again.
Why I know all about the money that Cameron's misused.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
He found out greg and I were in love.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I should have known.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
He said he'd forget about the entire one hundred and
fifty thousand to five marry.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Him for six years, twenty five thousand a year. That's
a good price.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
How can you talk like that?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Practice said ye, So Gregory had another good reason for
killing he didn't stand. I know he didn't anything. It
would stand up in court. Suppose we say you called
me off Barco's tails so Gregory could get it.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I called her office as I was supposed to meet
IJA's apartment tonight, and given't his answer, I couldn't do
it with you.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
There flimsy, flimsy, but it might hold the truth.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
He was going to see him, but I changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Any particular reason.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
You saw him, would he be the kind of man i'd.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Married you did once. Well, it looks bad for Greg.
I got someone at Cameron Incorporated. I knew Barco was
going to be at Adela's house.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
How many do your favor? Maybe give me an hour,
then I'll go wherever you want. I'll tell you anything
you want to know.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Why an now, just why.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I'm going to live with myself is something i have
to do? Well, please Sam, If you do, I'll give
you some informations night warrant. For example, there was someone
at Tamman Incorporated and knew that Barker was going to
Adela's house.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
She must have known I was going to wait outside
and tailor, but she didn't, because without once looking over
her shoulders, she emerged from her apartment house, slithered into
her car, and led me directly down to the railroad station.
She met a man in the waiting room, threw her
arms around him, whispered something in his ear, and they
hurried out to Track seven. There was a transcontinental train
getting up steam. She kissed him and he climbed quickly
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up into a pullman named Aurora Fall, and almost as
quickly I climbed in the other end. We met in
the middle. What are you doing here. I came to
take you off the trains, Greg before you made a big,
big mistake and let time. Look, let's not go through
the intercollegiate top talk again. Are you coming off or
am I gonna carry off? You're gonna carry me off?
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And I did. Celeste was gone and he revived when
he hit the cool air. I let him out of
the station as unobtrusively as possible. Then we went down
a side street to where my car was parked. That's
where he began to show signs of life. Spade, Look,
you're all wrong. Guy's gonna write to lead Tom when
he wants to. I'm gonna sue you from here to
the city, hauling back that up and get in a car.
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So let's just tell me about Barko. You don't think
I did that to you? As I get at you
and Celest we're leaving town together, right, Yeah, she told
me to go on and she come later. That was
unwise of both of you. Come on, get in, Spade,
I didn't kill part. Nobody said you did. If you're kindly,
get in the car and give me an address I want,
and you know we'll go see who did kill I
j Barco. He gave me the address I wanted. He
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said I was crazy. I told him why I wasn't,
and he began to see the reason of him. Never
have I gone to pick up a murderer with more distaste.
When we knocked at the door, I had a gun
in my hand, but it wasn't necessary. Oh, come in,
mister Spade. I knew you'd be a lot sooner or later.
I don't like what I have to do. Major. Major
can't be true. It just can't be. Come in, Gregory,
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will come in a little madeira first before we start
to talk, Deira. How can you talk about wine when
a man's accusing you of murdering I don't think it's
so unreasonable, Greg, After all, I did kill the unfortunate
mister Barco, and this might be the last Madeira I
shall ever have. Mister Spade, thank you, sir, Greg. I
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don't want any wine. Spadey's out of his mind, and
so are you. I'm afraid not, Greg. Oh, that was
a vintage nineteen hundred madeira. You wasted Greg twice as
old as you stop at stop. I'm sorry about what happened, Greg.
I would have spared you and your sister. This unhappiness,
if I could have, destiny was against us. All. You
knew he was going to Miss Cameron's house, didn't you. Yes.
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Just before I left for the bank with the weekly deposit,
he called for Miss Cameron and I took the call.
I told him she was gone, and he said he
was going to her house. It was to be an ultimatum,
the money in twenty four hours on exposure. But should
it didn't have to kill him, certainly not. It was
a crime of passion. I take the weekly deposits of
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the bank every Friday, and I always carry a gun.
Silly me carrying a gun. Never had to use it,
but the bonding company requires I carry it. Well, I
went directly from the bank to Miss Cameron's house. I
wanted to help her face Barko. Was she there, Oh, no,
mister Stage. She'd apparently stopped downtown to do some shopping.
So I faced Barko alone. I asked him point blank
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to give these young people more time, but he just
laughed at me. He said the only time they'd get
would be in jail. So it happened. Well, I hadn't
intended to, but I became angry suddenly found the gun
in my hand, and the thought crossed my mind. My
life is just about over, and yours, greg is just beginning.
It was easier to pull the trigger than I would
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have realized. Oh Lord, murmured dear mister Spade, thank you, Major,
but no will allow me to present the bottle toy
as a gift. I'll get my head and coat. Greg
my boy, I'm sorry, You're sorry. Major. I wish i'd
never been born. Period ends of report.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Oh I wish I.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Hadn't, hadn't what been born?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
That poor poor man.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, our reckon it is it is.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And poor Gregory, do you like to go to jail
for some things?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
He will will. I'm about typing it up.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I hate to alright, this is my beauty.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Three chimes mean good times on NBC. There's no cover
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A Riley. Let me see huh murders all in place,
gunshots indicating Dundee's grammar. Editors maya suitness emphasize you've learned
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your job well fin.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Oh, I'm glad you're please.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what's this? Ps? Donee?
Hands off, Celeste Robert she's mine, Effie, what's the meaning
of that?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Well, when you are going back to see her, aren't
you ask the way she threw herself at you?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No? Do you think she's my type of woman?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Sam, I think every woman's your type, every woman me.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, Effie, come here? Would I have you working in
this office? If you weren't my type?
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Does not?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Well? Then let that thought be your comfort. The world
can have all the celest Robert said, wants as far. Oh,
I can't go through with it.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
You see that you can have if you want to.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
But in the end, I know you'll come back to me.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I never doubted it once.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
You don't know how much you mean?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yes, I do, Effie. Three weeks back sea. Oh you
good night, sweetheart. The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited,
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and directed by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by
Stephen Dunn. Thereene Tuttle is Effie. Script Fortnite's Adventure by
John Michael Hayes and Dick Powell, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbruster. Join us again next week, same
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Then visit Duppy's Tavern on NBC.
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Detective Sam Sativagency Me, sweetheart, would you.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Mind telling me where you are?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Not at all, Ethie, not at all. Let's see, I'm
at the eel rigged deny Rabbi tile see gras.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I don't understand it's time, but I think I caught
the word gras all your shrewd Efie.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You see, I'm on the inside and the lettering is
printed on the outside. If you'll wait, I'll go outside
and read it the right way and then come inside.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And never mind, I've already guessed you're a judge of
anak bar and grill crash.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Say answer me. You promised me you wouldn't me.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I promised me you did.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Sam, You promise faithfully to stay away from bars. You
know how hard television is on your eyes?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Have you got your.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Glasses one in each hand?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
George? Oh, Sam, I heard that? What will people think?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
They'll never know?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Fie.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I always drink here under another name.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Oh, just a little of the hair of the.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Dog that fit me, Efe. But don't worry about me,
although it's true I have been dogging it and have
been hounded from tree to tree. I am frisky as
ever and will be in to unleash my canine chronicle,
namely the dog bed Caper or he who lies down
with dogs gets up with murder or Condensed or Easy Reading.
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For NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of History
and Crime Drama brings you the greatest private detective of
them all, in the Adventures of Sam Spade. Here I
am Sam, Here, I am Sam. Effie. Did you ever
write poetry in school?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Man?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well? I was known as Emily Dickinson of Central.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
High I thought you had a touch of internal rhyme
scheme there.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I didn't a little farm about you today?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Really well readoodle.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There was a jacking in Stave with urdu the brains.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
In his head, clever clever.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
When he took up drinking, he forgot about sinking.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Now give me the punchline.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And Effie has stayed quite unpaid.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, a little rough, but you do you get the
ideas there never couldn't make any sense out of poetry.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Ready getting close to Christmas, Samuri, I'm so use my
last pencil, and I don't really have enough money.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
To buy Jeffie, I have no head for figures. All right,
I guess from Samuel Spaide license number one three seven,
five nine six, subject the dog bed Caper.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, Sam, I hope it's going to be all about dogs.
I belong to the tail wagons. Yeah, I've read all
the books by Jackie.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, how did the Strangely enough, you will not meet
a single dog in this story. Actually, this narrative as
little and need to do with our four footed friends
or their beds. And I changed the title now, except
that it's already gone out for publicity, Dear Dundee. It
all started with a phone call to my sector in
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this Effie Parene a doll, requesting my inimitable services at
the investment counseling firm of Cameron Incorporated, clearing everything off
my desk. Two shoes with feet in them, my own.
I went over. The firm of Cameron Incorporated was obviously
not for the push car set. It was plush, ankle,
deep runs, imported rapes, and the receptionist she had a
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plushness all of her own. I said hello in my
flushiest voice. She liked it, she said, so.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Oh, I like the red again.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Life is too short to go back, even for a moment.
The past is a dead thing, the present dying, only
the future alive and vibrant. However, Hello, is there something
there is? Could I ask a question? I will rephrase
the question. What time do you stop working to see me?
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There's a little bar around the corner? Okay, why not?
Why not? Indeed, bring your own money, will come anyway.
Your name mind, Sam Spade? Who's mister Briggs? He called
a cheap county. I just happened to have my door open.
Did I hear someone inquiring about me? How do you do? Major?
(04:25):
It's a pleasure to meet you in person, mister Spade.
I'm the man who called you. You know I am grateful, sir.
Now what is it I can do for you and
mister Cameron? Or it's not for me that I called.
I haven't a worry in the world. And it's miss Cameron.
Old Cameron's been dead for many years now, I see
whatever she wants. Mister Spade, do a good job. We
are all counting on you. Will you please announce mister Spade,
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Miss Roberts, if you'd excuse me, nice to have met.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You, Major, Miss Cameron.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Yes, it's stayed here, Sam, have fun.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Think I am I I must that girl had the
most beautiful double entendre in town. Well they get on.
Adela Cameron was a career woman. I'm twenty nine. Although
the tailored suit made fine detective work difficult, no makeup,
severe hairdo. And in spite of all this chic in fact,
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as we shook hands in a most businesslike manner, I
had the feeling that something warm might well spring up
between us, something like a warm mutual dislike baby.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
But something most men simply cannot be told anything in confidence.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They gossip. That's a switch.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't appreciate your humor, mister Spake.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I accept your apology.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I will tolerate you because of your reputation. Ah, I'm
going to give you a very difficult job to do,
Miss Hermon.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
What does it make? I'm sorry to interrupt you, but
Courtney Pierces on the phone, mister Spaid, this is Major Briggs,
our chief of company. We've already met, mister speed. Now,
Adela Pierce wants us to unload his short term governments
and by American cattle. He's divvid in crazy am Cat's
declaring one in January and he wants it. Let him
do it. Oh, I just want to protect your interests.
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You know what will happen to Amcat after February. That'll
drop ten points and he'll blame us. I went through
this with your father when you and Grave were that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Major will tell him we advise against it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But if he persists asking for a release night, that's
what I thought you'd do. That's the way your father
would have handled it. I just want to protect your interest,
my dear, that's all.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I just want to protect your interest.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You're not children anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
My dear. Oh, you were giving me a difficult job.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh yes, here is the business address of mister I J. Barco.
He's a wealthy manufacturer client of ours.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I want you to find out everything about him, especially
and I'm savory.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Sorry. I don't do divorce or blackmail case.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
This is sabe.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
This is not a divorce investigation, all right? What is it? Then?
Why do we want.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
A client shadowed?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Good?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Leave his discussion? That's it because we believe he's investing
money through us for some racketeers. If that were true,
we would of course have to drop him, but we
don't want to lose his business.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Just on suspicion, I see.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Find out anything you can about him. And because she's
done of the day in expenses one week guaranteed, will
you consider the job.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I have considered and taken the job. By the time
I had reached the door, she had already forgotten me
and was part at work on some papers. Outside. I
planted dally a few moments an idle chit chat with Celeste.
But before I had the chance, I was accusted by
a husky young chap whom I'm afraid was a Princeton man.
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What are you talking about in es, babe? Who you
had the advantage? Sir? Oh you Gregory Cameron? Now come on?
Or was Adella telling him, well, if you step to
one side, you can walk around me and ask her. Look,
don't pull that Caji private detective routine on me. I
pack a little weight myself. We'll pack it somewhere else. Son.
I asked her a question, I expect an answer. May's
your answer? Any more questions? He didn't feel much like
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talking then, and I was so irritated I walked out
without saying goodbye to the least. When I reached the spath,
a white haired old gentleman Major Briggs hurried out behind me.
Mister Spade, please don't think too badly of that boy.
I've known him from the cradle. He's in a difficult
emotional state. Yes, sure, sure, sure, As far as I'm concerned, Major,
it never happened. You are a kind man, mister State.
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I could tell that when I first saw you. You're
just the sort of man. Miss Cameron me well, I
hadn't looked at it that way. If you require anything,
don't hesitate to ask me. I'd been with this company
forty years before those two children and there were born,
and I know how difficult life can be at times.
I just want things to go well for us. I'll
do my little part. Major, Bless you some bless you.
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I started the work. The card a Dulla Cameron had
given me revealed that my quarry and mister I. J. Barkow, was,
of all things, a manufacturer of dog beds. I sat
down on a hydrant to think this over, and then
followed the scent of horse meat on over to his
factory on South Dolores. It was building the shape of
a large doghouse, and outside stood a billboard with a
message A survey of independent dog tracks kennels and canine
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core prouves that dogs choose Barco beds two to one.
I had to get a look at Barco himself, and so,
ruffling up the hair on the back of my neck,
I protted into the building, sniffing and wagging my tail
in a very friendly manner. It was very easy to
see mister Barco after I lied a little about my connection.
What was that name again? Say or down, Josse Matess,
s Adam Moralis, because you may call me Sam and
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you represent a group of retail outfit teens have America,
Oh I do. Indeed, we have our eye on your dogbeds.
Mister Barker. Well, now let's take a look at our catalog.
Care Now, say you had a great day and you'd
want something regal like this Louis fourteenth. Ever see a
more beautiful beds? Not lately, but mister Barker, brown boy down.
Now here's a number that's very big this season with
English bulldog that shed it in next two wood fit.
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It's lovely and of course if it's an Irish terrier,
he's a purit gag present for his saints of huber
A Murphy. Get it, Sam, Irish terrier. Of course, we
wouldn't ask a dog sleep in a murphy. Mister Blacco,
I'm afair. I don't see anything here. I like, what's this?
Do I understand you?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You are refusing this small spec of comfort to the
one unselfish friended man could have in this selfish world.
I'm not refusing anything. I just don't un selfish friend
who if fortune drives you forth, an outcast into the
world homeless, will ask no higher privilege than to be
a choice hide to guard against Dame Gerda back full
onto guests. There By your grave side will be found
the noble dog, his head between his paws, his eyes head.
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But what for faithful? We shook paws and I felt
his nose to be sure it was cold. It was,
and I left. I raned the car and took up
a station outside the Barco factory. About four o'clock. He
hurried out, jumped into a long, low vehicle shaped like
a dutsum, then mush up. I followed. An hour later,
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I was phoning my first report to Adela, Cameron's secretary.
So let's he went to the city Hall. What do
you do there, miss License Bureau? Marriage not dog really
ready goes the grocery store, where he bought one bottle
of olives, one bottle of remouth, and one bottle of gin.
I wonder what he's going to make. What recipe is that? Well,
now he's in an apartment house on Postry, just across
from the drug store I'm in, and judging from the groceries,
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intends to stay a while he has laid in provision.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Well, I guess that's all we wanted to know. What
Miss Cameron just told me to call you off the case.
You'll still get your guarantee, though major brigs of things
you'd check.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, it doesn't make sense, all right, all right? What
about tonight? Some of the time you mean you mean
it's all over the half daring, half shy kisses on
the Oakland Ferry, that the warm passionate spring nights at
Fisherman's wolf eating abaloney. Hello, well, puzzles as who wouldn't
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be I walked slowly back to my car, but before
I had a chance to get in, I saw ij
Barco hurry out of the department house. But he wouldn't
enter his car. He came right from me. Hey, hey,
so said, my name is don jose ants out of
morally yet don't kid me spade. I'm not a stupid
diector today. Look, I know why Adela Cameron is following me,
and you don't, and you'll never find out any more
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than the other four detectives did. I was the fifth choice.
What I shall speak with my agents about this. I'm
going to tell her in person that this foolish list
has to stop. If it doesn't, she lives, He regretted.
I want more things. I presume you're going to follow me. Well,
I'm turning right on Market and heading out to twelve
seven Bridgewood Place. You shouldn't have any trouble. And with that,
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he spun on one heel and trotted to his car.
He took off, but when I went to my car,
it wouldn't turn over. And when I lifted the hood,
I found out why my spark plugs were gone. I
picked up a new set at the service station, looked
up Adela Cameron's address in the phone book. It was
twelve seventeen Ridgewood Place, and a good half hour later
I got there. Barco's car was out in front. No
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one answered the door, but it was open. Adela Cameron
was a crumpled heap on the living room sofa. Do
help me all right, all right, miss Cameron, let me
look at you. You hurt? No? No, him, him where
the I hurried into the bar and was met with
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a strong odor of scotch. A bottle of it had
been broken, and holding the neck of the bottle in
one hand was I j Barco. He was on the floor.
His hand slowly opened, the glass rolled out, and he died.
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
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famous detective Samain, Act two of tonight. Sam's fade in
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And now back to the dog Bed Caper Tonight's adventure
with Sam Spade. It took three bullets in the chest
to finish off by J Barco. He'd apparently been standing
there pouring a drink. Barco broke the bottle as he fell.
I couldn't find any other signs of violence or any gun,
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so I went back to Adela Cameron. She was beginning
to calm down.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
I don't know who did it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I just don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It couldn't have happened more than a minute ago. And
you were in the house, weren't you.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
No, No. After I left my office, I stopped in
the store of some things, then came home.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
When I was driving down Ridgewood, I heard some sound.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And you thought they were a car backfiring.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
How did you know?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I've heard this script before.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Don't you dare accuse me of killing that name.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
It's not what I think that counts, but what the
police accused you of Sam.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I heard those sounds came in the house when I
went into the barn.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You didn't notice Barco's car out?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And oh, I suppose I did.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I don't know, I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Huh, what do you call it? Homicide? Sam?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Time?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Wait a minute, please wait for what I want to
tell you something? All right, go on, I kind of
get the feeling I was hired to put a finger
on the dog's best friend.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
That's not the way it was. The last thing in
the world I wanted was for him to be killed.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Murdered any all right? What did you want?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I don't want tell me the truth?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Why I really had.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You watching Barker, I'd be curious.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
We handled his investment accounts, my brother, Gregory.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We ran into each other.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I heard, well, greg took one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars the Burker's money and invested it without my knowledge
in a television company.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I hear that medium is making money.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
But it turned out this company was just a front
for some men who wanted to build a gambling syndicate.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Hup, norse, You mean your brother didn't know that he
knew it.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
There was supposed to be big money in it. He
was going to give Barker a good profit and take
the rest for himself.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And Barco found out and threatened sued or something.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
He never would have known that the deal fell through
and the gamblers the money was gone, and he asked
about the investments.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
What could Gregory and I tell him?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
What did you?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Unfortunately the truth?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
We said to make up the money with interest, but
he only gave us ninety days.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
We couldn't get us.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I danced, So you didn't shoot him? Your brother didn't? He?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
No Sam, so he couldn't have.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I know, greg you'd have more sense.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
In my brief meeting with him, I didn't think he
had any sense. Just one more thing before I call
the police and him help.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Me get him out of here.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Someway, Oh dice, Samdal in my whole life, stop it,
stop it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You set me on Barco to find some blackmailing material. Yes, yes,
And then why did you suddenly call me off the
job tonight?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Your secretary said you did.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I didn't tell anything of the source.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Can I have that phone now? So I called you,
Dundee before you arrived. I looked through Barco's pockets for
something to do, and came up with a picture of
him and a girl taken outside of a marriage chapel
in Las Vegas. The girl was Celeste Cameron, Incorporated, Plushy's secretary,
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several years younger and two shade less voluptuous. He address
six two seven Finley was supplied by a now hysterical
at Deela Cameron. No one answered Celeste's door, but I
heard a shower going inside, so I took the liberty
of entering persona non gressa there is, Come out and
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see no false moves. Now keep that toll right where
it is. Am I doing here detective work? And I
must say I've already found out a great deal.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah I've not.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I did express the interest in it. But if you
recall I told him.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Not to night it's my only night off.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Please, I don't want me difficult.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Set all right, we knock off the two touches and
get down to business. You were married to I J.
Barco right or wrong?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Wrong?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Wrong? It's right. You were married in Las Vegas at
chapel of the Flamingo Hotel.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
On the towel, I was only married one day. My
parents had it a null that was under age.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, you don't have to worry about him anymore. He's
dead shot three times at close range in Adela Cameron's house.
Not by you, of course, although on the other hand,
as you would say, why not, I didn't do it?
Suppose you spill he wanted me to marry him again.
Why I know all about the money that Cameron's misused.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
He found out greg and I were in love.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I should have known.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
He said he'd forget about the entire one hundred and
fifty thousand to five marry.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Him for six years, twenty five thousand a year. That's
a good price.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
How can you talk like that?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Practice said ye, So Gregory had another good reason for
killing he didn't stand. I know he didn't anything. It
would stand up in court. Suppose we say you called
me off Barco's tails so Gregory could get it.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I called her office as I was supposed to meet
IJA's apartment tonight, and given't his answer, I couldn't do
it with you.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
There flimsy, flimsy, but it might hold the truth.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
He was going to see him, but I changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Any particular reason.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
You saw him, would he be the kind of man i'd.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Married you did once. Well, it looks bad for Greg.
I got someone at Cameron Incorporated. I knew Barco was
going to be at Adela's house.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
How many do your favor? Maybe give me an hour,
then I'll go wherever you want. I'll tell you anything
you want to know.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Why an now, just why.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I'm going to live with myself is something i have
to do? Well, please Sam, If you do, I'll give
you some informations night warrant. For example, there was someone
at Tamman Incorporated and knew that Barker was going to
Adela's house.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
She must have known I was going to wait outside
and tailor, but she didn't, because without once looking over
her shoulders, she emerged from her apartment house, slithered into
her car, and led me directly down to the railroad station.
She met a man in the waiting room, threw her
arms around him, whispered something in his ear, and they
hurried out to Track seven. There was a transcontinental train
getting up steam. She kissed him and he climbed quickly
(20:48):
up into a pullman named Aurora Fall, and almost as
quickly I climbed in the other end. We met in
the middle. What are you doing here. I came to
take you off the trains, Greg before you made a big,
big mistake and let time. Look, let's not go through
the intercollegiate top talk again. Are you coming off or
am I gonna carry off? You're gonna carry me off?
(21:12):
And I did. Celeste was gone and he revived when
he hit the cool air. I let him out of
the station as unobtrusively as possible. Then we went down
a side street to where my car was parked. That's
where he began to show signs of life. Spade, Look,
you're all wrong. Guy's gonna write to lead Tom when
he wants to. I'm gonna sue you from here to
the city, hauling back that up and get in a car.
(21:33):
So let's just tell me about Barko. You don't think
I did that to you? As I get at you
and Celest we're leaving town together, right, Yeah, she told
me to go on and she come later. That was
unwise of both of you. Come on, get in, Spade,
I didn't kill part. Nobody said you did. If you're kindly,
get in the car and give me an address I want,
and you know we'll go see who did kill I
j Barco. He gave me the address I wanted. He
(22:00):
said I was crazy. I told him why I wasn't,
and he began to see the reason of him. Never
have I gone to pick up a murderer with more distaste.
When we knocked at the door, I had a gun
in my hand, but it wasn't necessary. Oh, come in,
mister Spade. I knew you'd be a lot sooner or later.
I don't like what I have to do. Major. Major
can't be true. It just can't be. Come in, Gregory,
(22:22):
will come in a little madeira first before we start
to talk, Deira. How can you talk about wine when
a man's accusing you of murdering I don't think it's
so unreasonable, Greg, After all, I did kill the unfortunate
mister Barco, and this might be the last Madeira I
shall ever have. Mister Spade, thank you, sir, Greg. I
(22:42):
don't want any wine. Spadey's out of his mind, and
so are you. I'm afraid not, Greg. Oh, that was
a vintage nineteen hundred madeira. You wasted Greg twice as
old as you stop at stop. I'm sorry about what happened, Greg.
I would have spared you and your sister. This unhappiness,
if I could have, destiny was against us. All. You
knew he was going to Miss Cameron's house, didn't you. Yes.
(23:05):
Just before I left for the bank with the weekly deposit,
he called for Miss Cameron and I took the call.
I told him she was gone, and he said he
was going to her house. It was to be an ultimatum,
the money in twenty four hours on exposure. But should
it didn't have to kill him, certainly not. It was
a crime of passion. I take the weekly deposits of
(23:26):
the bank every Friday, and I always carry a gun.
Silly me carrying a gun. Never had to use it,
but the bonding company requires I carry it. Well, I
went directly from the bank to Miss Cameron's house. I
wanted to help her face Barko. Was she there, Oh, no,
mister Stage. She'd apparently stopped downtown to do some shopping.
So I faced Barko alone. I asked him point blank
(23:49):
to give these young people more time, but he just
laughed at me. He said the only time they'd get
would be in jail. So it happened. Well, I hadn't
intended to, but I became angry suddenly found the gun
in my hand, and the thought crossed my mind. My
life is just about over, and yours, greg is just beginning.
It was easier to pull the trigger than I would
(24:10):
have realized. Oh Lord, murmured dear mister Spade, thank you, Major,
but no will allow me to present the bottle toy
as a gift. I'll get my head and coat. Greg
my boy, I'm sorry, You're sorry. Major. I wish i'd
never been born. Period ends of report.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Oh I wish I.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Hadn't, hadn't what been born?
Speaker 6 (24:47):
That poor poor man.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, our reckon it is it is.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And poor Gregory, do you like to go to jail
for some things?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
He will will. I'm about typing it up.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I hate to alright, this is my beauty.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
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(25:34):
A Riley. Let me see huh murders all in place,
gunshots indicating Dundee's grammar. Editors maya suitness emphasize you've learned
(25:57):
your job well fin.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Oh, I'm glad you're please.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what's this? Ps? Donee?
Hands off, Celeste Robert she's mine, Effie, what's the meaning
of that?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Well, when you are going back to see her, aren't
you ask the way she threw herself at you?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No? Do you think she's my type of woman?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Sam, I think every woman's your type, every woman me.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, Effie, come here? Would I have you working in
this office? If you weren't my type?
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Does not?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Well? Then let that thought be your comfort. The world
can have all the celest Robert said, wants as far. Oh,
I can't go through with it.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
You see that you can have if you want to.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
But in the end, I know you'll come back to me.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I never doubted it once.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
You don't know how much you mean?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yes, I do, Effie. Three weeks back sea. Oh you
good night, sweetheart. The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited,
(27:17):
and directed by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by
Stephen Dunn. Thereene Tuttle is Effie. Script Fortnite's Adventure by
John Michael Hayes and Dick Powell, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbruster. Join us again next week, same
(27:49):
time for another adventure with Sam Spade here the Magnificent Montague.
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