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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Very important, sweetheart, write this down.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, sare that to day for.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Already ingredients colin sucuational ingredients.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Then oh, oh, what is.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
It sound a recipe? One pound of fennel.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Oh, that's liquid.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You put that in light, not funnel fiddle. It is
not liquid. It grows a fairy pines.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
It's fairly watt.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
One road of Saint John's war.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Who's wart?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Not what wart?
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Some new size, a couple of pounds out of being enough.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
One ounce of past one add or fork that is
not a utensil.
Speaker 7 (01:03):
One filet of Finney's snake, some lizards, legs, one hemlock
root digged in the dark directions and.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The poisoned entrails. Throw told the under coldstone.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Days and nights has thirty won And if anyone drops
in for tricker trade, effy leave him have it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh stand now I get us halloweens. It's a witch's brute,
you roly bully.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's what you think, sweetheart?
Speaker 7 (01:25):
Cannot your call, run your poisoned pen and your book
of malefactions. I'll be right down to dictate my report
on the fairly pride Caper or I should have stood
in bed and ducked for apples.
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Speaker 9 (02:38):
Or is that the wind dying?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh no, it's only two devils that blow through a
murderer's bones and throw in the coasts moonshine, they got.
Speaker 10 (03:04):
That ridiculous mask.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You look about as much like a demon as a demon.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Check fly your browman to the adjoining office system. We'll
weave a few spells. Date, effie, what is this thing
at my desk? Looks like a pumpkin?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It is a dumptyin I made it this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (03:23):
Here, I'll light it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Isn't that cute?
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Isn't that cute?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Eyes and nose and not looks like Lieutenant Dundee a homicide.
Thank you? Well, I guess everyone knows it's Halloween, even
if they don't listen to the radio. Shall we we
shall date all Hallow's Eve nineteen forty eight to Hillary
Bright Esquire number thirteen, Black Place City from Samuel Spade Licens,
number one of the seven five ninety six subject the
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Fairly Bright Caper. It was a fairly bright afternoon for
the fog bob Bay area. There was no frost upon
the pumpkin. In fact, there is yet no pumpkin. But
I did see a black cat and several attracted wolf
girls and broomstick skirts. During the bus ride down the
pininsula to your client's ancestral estate, Fairly Pines, A bat
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flew out of a hollow tree. As I mushed up
a road through some pine woods to the house. In
the gathering dust. I also observed the toad, a lizard,
and a hooty owl, which, if memory says, the staple
ingredients for a witch's broom. Then I observed hobbling out
of the forest an authentic hag. She was wearing a
dusty black robe, a peach black hat, and her matted
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gray hair coiled serpent brack around her evil outenance. She
leaned on a narrow staff of mlock, fixed me with
her yellow, glittering eyes, and said.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh you know, yes' which ways a house?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Which house dairy fine losh my bears did?
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I was looking for some fillows.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I got the bats wool riding open noots inge, couldn't
find no letters for but then this here, copperhead, we'll
do with a drink.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
What are you gonna do with all that stuff?
Speaker 8 (05:04):
It's for the room.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I'm the witch.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
They hired for the night names Gude, Orange shall Fire.
But of course I don't have no Christian name anymore
since I sold out the old scratch.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Make me done on a price?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He did too, put it that water on my nose?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
What nots are the houses up that way?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Mind?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
If I wolong wi you pretty boy?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I don't like girls, huh, not at all, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
No need to be a third.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
But the sunge ep, there.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Are they and me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
They'll be lucky if I've give him a whistle broomster.
But I did promise one manifestation and the.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Scream of a soul in Tormans.
Speaker 10 (05:43):
The Witch and hour.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Yeah wait.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sure, hey sir, Where do I find mister Hillary Bright? Oh?
The other detectives? Is a spade right on, Homer Langdon
attorney for the fairly Estate.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Hold on, I'll take you to it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Sorry for that challenge. Just now the mailing strange noises
around the ground. Do you notice anything peculiars who came
up the road? Well, there was an old lady I
used the term loosely looking for penel. Yeah, that's the witch.
Mister Bride hired her for the party tonight. It takes
her work kind of seriously, does.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
She well, you know how it is seasonal work.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
What does she throw between halloweens?
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Claims she hibernates.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, they's Feelia, missus Fairley Spade, she's in centric. Don't
let her know.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
What bad that you wanted?
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Oh it's the.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Name from Oh Feel. This is mister Spade, the detective
that mister bradenployed.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh about that recipe, pay the aspect. Cook says she's
never heard of putting center and Lazard's claws in a
tomato aspect, and mister Brad says, hemlock is pos.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You've got a messed up a figure. That's the recipe
for the witch is broke.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well, anyway, the grocery says, he doesn't stop it, so
you'll have to garnish it with pis hell Hedia.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He's not the caterer, he's the detective.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Oh, we'll keep your eye on those thumpkins.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Nice you know.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Mice, you know mie dumpkins.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
That witch.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I've got to tell you about the price.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Oh wish.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Sad case.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But Thomas, sure we will.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
Yeah, watch his jaw bone willna.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh you've already broken his neck.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh why don't you hire an assistance.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I don't like hanging him in the house anyway.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
We don't even know who he is.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, now, Halloween times someone once heard. Oh it's a
scalloping the part of the decoration.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
All right. Oh yes, I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Find the witch, but here's the detective. Oh well, you're
gonna have the witch.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I'll take him.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
What sorry, this just about completes the arrangements. Oh, this
is miss Wilma Fairley, for whom I'm.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Managing this naughtiest ball.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Sam Spade, Hillary, Is that any way to speak about
a girl's fifth engagement party?
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Forgive me if I'm guilty of understatement?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Oh fix that wire, Wilma.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
At the top of Frankenstein's head's caving in, and look
at that. The boles are coming out of his neck already.
Oh well, come along, Spade, and I'll tell you how
you will put into this mess.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You have the party in here, Spade, Priva say, oh,
I don't think we're quite alone a way.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Ninety nine percent? This is fairly fiance Number five Ralph
cram By name, Oh wake up, Ralph.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Oh, don't bother.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He started the party a little.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
Early before lunch.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
But can you blame him?
Speaker 10 (08:47):
If I want a teetotal I'd be out staggering around
the woods with that witch.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Uh huh. Now, what exactly is my assignment, mister Bright?
Speaker 10 (08:54):
I want you to be present at this miserable party
tonight and pretend to have a good time.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Why don't you hire an actors?
Speaker 10 (09:00):
This is a new kind of masquerade ball even I
have a unique problem here, a Halloween party combined with
a party announcing the engagement of a socially prominent young woman. Well,
naturally the press will be on hand. They always are
at my parties, but I doubt if any of the
invited guests will show up.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's where you come in.
Speaker 10 (09:17):
You are one of the uninvited guests.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I don't get.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
It's very simply this. I have a reputation to day, Kaine.
I'm sure you have better things to do than read
the society base, or I'll explain. I believe some ill
informed columnists have referred to me as the male Elsa Maxwell.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
That's not true.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
She is the male Hillary Bride, a female that is.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Anyway, you're a professional party giver is exactly what's the
matter with Wilma? Why won't anybody kind of a party?
Speaker 10 (09:43):
Because everyone on the guest list is either a relative
or a friend of some poor sway she has gilted
on the very steps of the altar.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh no, I get it exactly.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
Now as to the party masquerade, natch, what else can
you have on Halloween? Yes, if anyone came, they'd probably
be dressed as witches or pumpkins, which is dull enough
in itself. But the fairlies and their immediate circle will
undoubtedly trot out their moth eaten Bozart's costumes o langed
in the zoo with the fourteenth Wilma and her mother
trying to look like Greek goddesses, and some old rape
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from a fanshion and Marco.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Ideas what about the boyfriend here?
Speaker 10 (10:16):
And you can see how hideous it's all going to be,
And Life magazine has promised to cover it. Well, I
simply had to do something about. I think it's the
party idea of the year. There's twenty uninvited guests who
will come at themselves.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Who's date?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Who isn't she riceless?
Speaker 8 (10:30):
You know?
Speaker 10 (10:31):
I thought of burning her at the stake is the
grand climax of the evening.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I've got masses.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
No, I decided against it. It's too messy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well it sounds like louds of farmers to bride that.
I'm afraid you call the wrong attective.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
Wit a minute, please hear me out. Now there's method
in my madness. I believe I mentioned twenty uninvited.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Guests overcoming as themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
Well, I've gone to a great deal of trouble and
expense getting together a really colorful group, all authentic types
against her. A shrimp fisherman, a swami, three bubble dancers,
a gypsy, a parole.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Axemedra, sand hog.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Oh, different minds me. I must see whether the blubber
arrived for that escible they're flying down from.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, well, what I'm.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Getting, our spade, is that with a collection of people
like that Quio, anything might happen.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, well, why didn't you invite the local police force.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
Well, they're coming in costume.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Of cold goud.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Then you won't need me. Soee as I get eight
hundred dollars.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
A datage sensive, mister Spade, at the last part of
our local chief of police attendant the guests were held
up and robbed a fifty thousand dollars worth of duel,
including the chief's gold bag.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
So you see, we do need you.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Go back to sleep round.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
It's only the guests arriving.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I get a thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You were right, you dead made a defective. In fact,
you're gonna use several others. First the pickpocket, you'll invite it.
Let the police chiefs wallet, the action red chase to
witch up at free and the gangstering the cowboy try
to shoot it out of one of the bubble dancers.
After I'd foiled the safe cracker and the act of
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blowing up a bold in the library, things quieted down
and everybody formed a circle around a bonfire.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
All right, quietly?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Why why?
Speaker 10 (12:09):
Missus Fairley has a very important announcement to make opedia.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
She was here just a few moments ago.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Have you seen her around.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Langdon a few minutes ago?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
She said she had a headache, and one of up
stairs against.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
The master, sam, I'm worried about mother. Would you mind
growing upstairs to see what she's up to. She's been
behaving so strangely tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
She's been behaving strangely sure well, mob be right back.
Come on, let's get off with it.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
A which do you stand over here?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Come on, I'll bring you a broom. And don't look
so pleasant.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
You're supposed to be evil.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Beware, No, not worryin'.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
To Dane, dugging to warch there's evil in this place tonight.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Glood on the stone?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Where is the falling?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I hated to miss the manifestation, and I hope i'd
get back in time for the screen of the soul
and torment the witchard flounce. Earlier in the evening, I
kissed the rooms in the second floor. Wilma's fiance, Ralph
Kram was in one of them asleep. Ophelia wasn't in
any of them. But in one of the bedrooms I
found something that puzzled me. A rope made out of
bed sheets dangle out of the window, but the window
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was closed.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I walked over and opened the.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The witch was still added. I couldn't see the merry
little group around the bonfire, but where the firelight glowed
against the tree trunks at the edge of the woods,
I saw a white robe figure crashing in the shadows.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Then I heard it, heard them all in the house hand.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Don't let any of them get away, all right, folk,
it's Wilma's said he's dead.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Somebody shut her. She was sprawl on her face at
the foot of a big pine with the edge of
the clearing. A single slug at entered the bodies just
below a left shoulder blade. If this was part of
mister Bryce's Halloween production, I've already over done it just
below because she was dead. As nearly as I could reconstructed,
Wilma had been standing outside the circle of people grouped
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around the fire, as if somebody in the woods had
called her, and she'd left the group to investigate. She'd
been facing the fire when she was shot, And what
about the two shots that had missed him to the
killer of the naming and her and Missy couldn't have
avoided hitting somebody else in the crowd. I went back
to the house to check the guests. All there unwounded
and accounted for, except the witch. According to the local
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chief of police, it was rapidly turning into a toad.
She had flown away in her broom. I checked my
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Fairly Bright Keeper. A night's adventure with Sam Speed. By
dawn the next morning, Aloishes becker Boy police chief still
hadn't sweated anything out of his twenty odd suspects, but
yawned the family lawyer Langton had an old gun permit
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no gun, then he canvased the town for Wilma's eighteen
Sheoldren's suitors.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
They were all alibied by their.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Wives and children, which knocked that angle out. She carried
no insurance, nobody stood to gain anything financially by her death,
and nobody but you, mister Bright, actively disliked her about them.
She Becker put a figure back on the griddle.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
I'll look here, necess fairly, you still aren't coming clean.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
With us, king Oh tweet, I'll call me, come.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Back here, I'll sit down, missus Fairley. Let's go over
the part of your story where we found the bed
sheets hanging out your window. Yes, why did you tie
the bed sheets together and hang them out the window
for a rope? So you'll admit that you use that
rope to snake out?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I did no such steam, I always go out that
ring nice.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Can you admit that tip?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Oh? I give up, missus fair Oh.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Do mister Stein.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I want to thank you for gotting the pumpkins were
I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
A mouse or eating. Thank you, missus Fairley.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I only did what Oh, why are sheeticker so angry?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I think what's worrying him? Missus Fairley is why you
closed the window behind you when you went out on
your rope, so no one would know.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We'll worries about me.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You won't tell her.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Ah, it's as plain as a nose on your face
what she's doing, working up to an insanity Please ingenious theory.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Seet, But look, can I talk to you a minute outside?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Could use a little air?
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Get more here my hands.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Look she finished the layoff, That poor old dame. She's
too vague disorganized. It took a marksman the way the
wound was no point of exit, just punching the wall
to hot and stop the low velocity impact. Sure, oh
what it had been fat from about the maximum range
of the thirty eight pistol. You'd have to figure on
the dropping trajectory as the bullet slowed down. It was
either a twick shot or one that just connected accidentally.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
By the way, we only have your word for it
that you were upstairs in the house when those shots
were flying. You carry a thirty eight, don't you stay?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
What kind of gun do you carry?
Speaker 10 (18:34):
You?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Well, we'd better wait till ballistics. In fact, the report
on the slug.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Gotcha.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
If we could only figure out where she hit the gun.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Don't look now sheas but that witch's back again. What
did he fly?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Where you did?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I've been looking all over you.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
You're gonna have a good deal of explaining to the
lady why did you fly away like that? Last night?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I had to seat of light cold and that good
thing I did too would have found in it. No
wonder my manifestation didn't work.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Base metal in the bru Mmmm, thirty eight caliber too.
Three bullets fired.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Gee, that settles it.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You're under arrest, Oh me, yes, no her?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh no you those I'll put her still on you,
I will.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
I'll turn you into a toad.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Look see where's that gun permits? If I got a
Langon's room, Oh.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I forgot forgot about that.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Here, it's in my pocket.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Let's see that cereal number. Well, same match, it's Langan's gun.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Holy old boy. Then it settled.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's what you think, boy, old boy, don't forget he's
a lawyer. I headed for the woods. I found a
spot where i'd seen the figure in white crouching just
before the shots were fired. A little way back in
the woods, I found footprints French heeled, short, mincing stride.
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Falling along behind them was another set flat soles, long,
manly stride. The manny's footprint followed the feminine footprints almost
to the clearing, and then stopped. The feminine footprints went
on straight to the spot where Wilna had fallen. I
know that no woman had been over this trail since
the murder, except the witch, who probably had cloven hoofs
were called an ad vanished, but the fire was still smoldering.
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I kicked through the ashes. I didn't know what I
was looking for, but I found it. I raked it
out with a stick and prodded it. The blackened outer
layers crumbled away. It had been a raging bonfire. But
there are a few things hoarded, a burn and a
telephone book. The middle pages were yellow from the heat,
and see it around the edges, but they were still intact.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
There was a hole punched in.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The middle of each page, feminine footprints right up to
the exit mark. The spot in the phone book through
which a bullet had been fired. I had a high
steat ballistics report, but proved that Langdon's gun did not
fire the fatal bullet. I was right, but for the
wrong reason. You can't get around it. Cheap ballistics, don't lye.
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You can see here you don't even need a magnifying gass.
Take a look hand, don't we ought to be able
to fail it. Two big ridges and the test slide.
The other one's almost smooth Rustits wouldn't make a ridge
like that, would they? Now? He figured they must have
used a faulty cutter. The factly when they riffled the barrel.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Well, that settles it. That those women's footprints and that
phone book all point to missus fairlely.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
What's about a phone book? Whoever shot? He fired the
slige through a phone book to make it look like
a long range job. It was a low velocity hit,
all right, but it was tearing through that phone book
that slowed it down.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
That proves the killer didn't have to be a marksman
stood right next to her. What's so funny the picture
in the morning paper?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
You and those bubble dan geez, let me see that?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Why that's liveless?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It's more than that, huh. They're in the background. Langdon
and missus Fairley at about them, the shoes, Langdon's dress
is slowly the fourteenth French heels, Missus Fairley and that
Greek goddess, get up sandals, flap heels.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
It's Langdon's gun. Then it's not Langdon's gun. It's a
long range shot.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Then it's through a seed catalog phone book.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Now it's a man in woman's shoe. An attorney at
that Hannahn. Get me some fingerprints, something I could work with.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I didn't blame the chief. My somersault in clues were
getting me busy too. So far. Langdon, like the good
lawyer he was, and kept his mouth shut, which meant
nothing one way or the other. That was smart. But
he disposed of his gun by throwing it in the
witches called and which was stupid, A because it was
sure to be found, and b because there was no
reason for hiding it anyway. But too stupid sometimes make
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a smart. If he wanted it to be found, he
must have had a story ready in case he had
to talk. If I were in that spot, my story
would have been that I fired those shots into the
woods after the fleeing killer. But I didn't know how
I would explain the fact that only three shots were heard,
one of which killed Wilna. Then I thought of those
two ridges on that test slug two ridges, two shots
into the woods. This time I did know what I
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was looking for. They were very deep in the soft
trunk of a pine tree near the ground. I dropped
to my knees and dug. I got the first one
out and was looking at it. It was a misshapen
hunk of worthless lid. Something embedded in the side of
it glittered in the sun like a diamond. In fact,
it was a diamond, and it stopped glittering. Something behind
me had come between it and the sun. I flopped
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on my side and rolled over. I grabbed his legs
and kripped him. Then I saw his face. It was Langer.
I was half way to my feet when he flick
caught me where it hurt. My legs sumbled up. I
tried to keep moving and get my gun out at
the same time. He was on his feet again before
I was, so I fired without aiming from flatting my
back and only scrouched his coat.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But it stopped in a second.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He swung his gun up and I got ready to
jump him. But I didn't have to. A pointed. Black
hat rose up out of the brush behind him. Something
flashed in the sun and he collapsed.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
What a fellon him?
Speaker 10 (23:47):
I didness?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Was this here?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Maggie clashed gun in through you.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Sonny, thank you, thank you, thank you, missus witch God
his andles and which is my prosision?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That was a close call.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Put the cuffs on in my hand.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Hey, what are you don't know?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Mana hem, I'm spade langed in there been following him
since I found out he was wearing women's shoes.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well that's settled, today's spade.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
Yeah, but you'll need this.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
A jeweled bullet, a slug with a diamond set in it.
It's the master clue of this caper.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Oh yeah, the master clue. You better come along too,
lady for questioning little booker for a vagrant.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Say if we need it?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Oh no, you don't.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
I'll turn you into a toad.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
You don't believe me, do you? Happy?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Don't? Happy? Doll's war te and green.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Do anything?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well?
Speaker 8 (24:38):
On second fought? I reckon see timeless, poor old soul soul.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Indeed ain't got any I showed out old scratch thirty
years ago.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Come next to Halloween.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Heere them for me, Gorman goggle period, end of reports.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
That's damn. What was the significance of the jewel bullet?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Oh? Well, after he shot Wilma, Langdon fired two shots
into the woods. Remembered those two bullets had diamond insets
so placed that they would godge the inside of the
gun barrel. All bullets fired from the guns thereafter would
have markings different from the one fighting the Wilma's body.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Oh, he was wrong, of course, but it was noble loving.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
You want to cover up the port necessarily.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
What of it?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Well, she chilled her daughter, of course, because she was
just out of patience with her getting engaged, none engaged
all the time. That they hadn't a friend in the world.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
That was the movie, wasn't it? Saying?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
That's fairly bright?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Sweethehunt, Except that missus Fairley did not kill her daughter
Langdon did.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
She means she was his daughter too by a previous Mary.
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Speaker 3 (26:24):
Of course, you know best that mississ Lli was the
only one with the movies, and that.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Mister Bright was secretly in love with her and wanted
to marry himself.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
So he killed it. That was Fairly Bright, Oh her fiancee.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
What happened to he?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
He woke up and went home?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Oh, when I guess he didn't have a motive.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Pay attention to Sweetheim Langdon, as trustee of the Fairly estate,
had embezzled large sums of money which he would have
to account for on the community property law if she
got married. He had already broken up many of her romances,
but when the old lady went soft in the head,
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Speaker 8 (27:05):
Sam? What does she do between halloweens the witch.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
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Speaker 8 (27:15):
He made the joke too small, Good sight, Sam, good
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, sare that to day for.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Already ingredients colin sucuational ingredients.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Then oh, oh, what is.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
It sound a recipe? One pound of fennel.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Oh, that's liquid.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You put that in light, not funnel fiddle. It is
not liquid. It grows a fairy pines.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
It's fairly watt.
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Some new size, a couple of pounds out of being enough.
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One ounce of past one add or fork that is
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Speaker 7 (01:03):
One filet of Finney's snake, some lizards, legs, one hemlock
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Speaker 2 (01:09):
The poisoned entrails. Throw told the under coldstone.
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Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh stand now I get us halloweens. It's a witch's brute,
you roly bully.
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That's what you think, sweetheart?
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Speaker 9 (02:38):
Or is that the wind dying?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh no, it's only two devils that blow through a
murderer's bones and throw in the coasts moonshine, they got.
Speaker 10 (03:04):
That ridiculous mask.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You look about as much like a demon as a demon.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Check fly your browman to the adjoining office system. We'll
weave a few spells. Date, effie, what is this thing
at my desk? Looks like a pumpkin?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It is a dumptyin I made it this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (03:23):
Here, I'll light it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Isn't that cute?
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Isn't that cute?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Eyes and nose and not looks like Lieutenant Dundee a homicide.
Thank you? Well, I guess everyone knows it's Halloween, even
if they don't listen to the radio. Shall we we
shall date all Hallow's Eve nineteen forty eight to Hillary
Bright Esquire number thirteen, Black Place City from Samuel Spade Licens,
number one of the seven five ninety six subject the
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Fairly Bright Caper. It was a fairly bright afternoon for
the fog bob Bay area. There was no frost upon
the pumpkin. In fact, there is yet no pumpkin. But
I did see a black cat and several attracted wolf
girls and broomstick skirts. During the bus ride down the
pininsula to your client's ancestral estate, Fairly Pines, A bat
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flew out of a hollow tree. As I mushed up
a road through some pine woods to the house. In
the gathering dust. I also observed the toad, a lizard,
and a hooty owl, which, if memory says, the staple
ingredients for a witch's broom. Then I observed hobbling out
of the forest an authentic hag. She was wearing a
dusty black robe, a peach black hat, and her matted
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gray hair coiled serpent brack around her evil outenance. She
leaned on a narrow staff of mlock, fixed me with
her yellow, glittering eyes, and said.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh you know, yes' which ways a house?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Which house dairy fine losh my bears did?
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I was looking for some fillows.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I got the bats wool riding open noots inge, couldn't
find no letters for but then this here, copperhead, we'll
do with a drink.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
What are you gonna do with all that stuff?
Speaker 8 (05:04):
It's for the room.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I'm the witch.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
They hired for the night names Gude, Orange shall Fire.
But of course I don't have no Christian name anymore
since I sold out the old scratch.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Make me done on a price?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He did too, put it that water on my nose?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
What nots are the houses up that way?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Mind?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
If I wolong wi you pretty boy?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I don't like girls, huh, not at all, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
No need to be a third.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
But the sunge ep, there.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Are they and me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
They'll be lucky if I've give him a whistle broomster.
But I did promise one manifestation and the.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Scream of a soul in Tormans.
Speaker 10 (05:43):
The Witch and hour.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Yeah wait.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sure, hey sir, Where do I find mister Hillary Bright? Oh?
The other detectives? Is a spade right on, Homer Langdon
attorney for the fairly Estate.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Hold on, I'll take you to it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Sorry for that challenge. Just now the mailing strange noises
around the ground. Do you notice anything peculiars who came
up the road? Well, there was an old lady I
used the term loosely looking for penel. Yeah, that's the witch.
Mister Bride hired her for the party tonight. It takes
her work kind of seriously, does.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
She well, you know how it is seasonal work.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
What does she throw between halloweens?
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Claims she hibernates.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, they's Feelia, missus Fairley Spade, she's in centric. Don't
let her know.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
What bad that you wanted?
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Oh it's the.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Name from Oh Feel. This is mister Spade, the detective
that mister bradenployed.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh about that recipe, pay the aspect. Cook says she's
never heard of putting center and Lazard's claws in a
tomato aspect, and mister Brad says, hemlock is pos.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You've got a messed up a figure. That's the recipe
for the witch is broke.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well, anyway, the grocery says, he doesn't stop it, so
you'll have to garnish it with pis hell Hedia.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He's not the caterer, he's the detective.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Oh, we'll keep your eye on those thumpkins.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Nice you know.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Mice, you know mie dumpkins.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
That witch.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I've got to tell you about the price.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Oh wish.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Sad case.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But Thomas, sure we will.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
Yeah, watch his jaw bone willna.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh you've already broken his neck.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh why don't you hire an assistance.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I don't like hanging him in the house anyway.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
We don't even know who he is.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, now, Halloween times someone once heard. Oh it's a
scalloping the part of the decoration.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
All right. Oh yes, I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Find the witch, but here's the detective. Oh well, you're
gonna have the witch.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I'll take him.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
What sorry, this just about completes the arrangements. Oh, this
is miss Wilma Fairley, for whom I'm.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Managing this naughtiest ball.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Sam Spade, Hillary, Is that any way to speak about
a girl's fifth engagement party?
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Forgive me if I'm guilty of understatement?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Oh fix that wire, Wilma.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
At the top of Frankenstein's head's caving in, and look
at that. The boles are coming out of his neck already.
Oh well, come along, Spade, and I'll tell you how
you will put into this mess.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You have the party in here, Spade, Priva say, oh,
I don't think we're quite alone a way.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Ninety nine percent? This is fairly fiance Number five Ralph
cram By name, Oh wake up, Ralph.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Oh, don't bother.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He started the party a little.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
Early before lunch.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
But can you blame him?
Speaker 10 (08:47):
If I want a teetotal I'd be out staggering around
the woods with that witch.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Uh huh. Now, what exactly is my assignment, mister Bright?
Speaker 10 (08:54):
I want you to be present at this miserable party
tonight and pretend to have a good time.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Why don't you hire an actors?
Speaker 10 (09:00):
This is a new kind of masquerade ball even I
have a unique problem here, a Halloween party combined with
a party announcing the engagement of a socially prominent young woman. Well,
naturally the press will be on hand. They always are
at my parties, but I doubt if any of the
invited guests will show up.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's where you come in.
Speaker 10 (09:17):
You are one of the uninvited guests.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I don't get.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
It's very simply this. I have a reputation to day, Kaine.
I'm sure you have better things to do than read
the society base, or I'll explain. I believe some ill
informed columnists have referred to me as the male Elsa Maxwell.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
That's not true.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
She is the male Hillary Bride, a female that is.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Anyway, you're a professional party giver is exactly what's the
matter with Wilma? Why won't anybody kind of a party?
Speaker 10 (09:43):
Because everyone on the guest list is either a relative
or a friend of some poor sway she has gilted
on the very steps of the altar.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh no, I get it exactly.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
Now as to the party masquerade, natch, what else can
you have on Halloween? Yes, if anyone came, they'd probably
be dressed as witches or pumpkins, which is dull enough
in itself. But the fairlies and their immediate circle will
undoubtedly trot out their moth eaten Bozart's costumes o langed
in the zoo with the fourteenth Wilma and her mother
trying to look like Greek goddesses, and some old rape
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from a fanshion and Marco.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Ideas what about the boyfriend here?
Speaker 10 (10:16):
And you can see how hideous it's all going to be,
And Life magazine has promised to cover it. Well, I
simply had to do something about. I think it's the
party idea of the year. There's twenty uninvited guests who
will come at themselves.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Who's date?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Who isn't she riceless?
Speaker 8 (10:30):
You know?
Speaker 10 (10:31):
I thought of burning her at the stake is the
grand climax of the evening.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I've got masses.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
No, I decided against it. It's too messy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well it sounds like louds of farmers to bride that.
I'm afraid you call the wrong attective.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
Wit a minute, please hear me out. Now there's method
in my madness. I believe I mentioned twenty uninvited.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Guests overcoming as themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
Well, I've gone to a great deal of trouble and
expense getting together a really colorful group, all authentic types
against her. A shrimp fisherman, a swami, three bubble dancers,
a gypsy, a parole.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Axemedra, sand hog.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Oh, different minds me. I must see whether the blubber
arrived for that escible they're flying down from.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, well, what I'm.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
Getting, our spade, is that with a collection of people
like that Quio, anything might happen.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, well, why didn't you invite the local police force.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
Well, they're coming in costume.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Of cold goud.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Then you won't need me. Soee as I get eight
hundred dollars.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
A datage sensive, mister Spade, at the last part of
our local chief of police attendant the guests were held
up and robbed a fifty thousand dollars worth of duel,
including the chief's gold bag.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
So you see, we do need you.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Go back to sleep round.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
It's only the guests arriving.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I get a thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You were right, you dead made a defective. In fact,
you're gonna use several others. First the pickpocket, you'll invite it.
Let the police chiefs wallet, the action red chase to
witch up at free and the gangstering the cowboy try
to shoot it out of one of the bubble dancers.
After I'd foiled the safe cracker and the act of
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blowing up a bold in the library, things quieted down
and everybody formed a circle around a bonfire.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
All right, quietly?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Why why?
Speaker 10 (12:09):
Missus Fairley has a very important announcement to make opedia.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
She was here just a few moments ago.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Have you seen her around.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Langdon a few minutes ago?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
She said she had a headache, and one of up
stairs against.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
The master, sam, I'm worried about mother. Would you mind
growing upstairs to see what she's up to. She's been
behaving so strangely tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
She's been behaving strangely sure well, mob be right back.
Come on, let's get off with it.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
A which do you stand over here?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Come on, I'll bring you a broom. And don't look
so pleasant.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
You're supposed to be evil.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Beware, No, not worryin'.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
To Dane, dugging to warch there's evil in this place tonight.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Glood on the stone?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Where is the falling?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I hated to miss the manifestation, and I hope i'd
get back in time for the screen of the soul
and torment the witchard flounce. Earlier in the evening, I
kissed the rooms in the second floor. Wilma's fiance, Ralph
Kram was in one of them asleep. Ophelia wasn't in
any of them. But in one of the bedrooms I
found something that puzzled me. A rope made out of
bed sheets dangle out of the window, but the window
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was closed.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I walked over and opened the.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The witch was still added. I couldn't see the merry
little group around the bonfire, but where the firelight glowed
against the tree trunks at the edge of the woods,
I saw a white robe figure crashing in the shadows.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Then I heard it, heard them all in the house hand.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Don't let any of them get away, all right, folk,
it's Wilma's said he's dead.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Somebody shut her. She was sprawl on her face at
the foot of a big pine with the edge of
the clearing. A single slug at entered the bodies just
below a left shoulder blade. If this was part of
mister Bryce's Halloween production, I've already over done it just
below because she was dead. As nearly as I could reconstructed,
Wilma had been standing outside the circle of people grouped
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around the fire, as if somebody in the woods had
called her, and she'd left the group to investigate. She'd
been facing the fire when she was shot, And what
about the two shots that had missed him to the
killer of the naming and her and Missy couldn't have
avoided hitting somebody else in the crowd. I went back
to the house to check the guests. All there unwounded
and accounted for, except the witch. According to the local
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chief of police, it was rapidly turning into a toad.
She had flown away in her broom. I checked my
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Fairly Bright Keeper. A night's adventure with Sam Speed. By
dawn the next morning, Aloishes becker Boy police chief still
hadn't sweated anything out of his twenty odd suspects, but
yawned the family lawyer Langton had an old gun permit
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no gun, then he canvased the town for Wilma's eighteen
Sheoldren's suitors.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
They were all alibied by their.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Wives and children, which knocked that angle out. She carried
no insurance, nobody stood to gain anything financially by her death,
and nobody but you, mister Bright, actively disliked her about them.
She Becker put a figure back on the griddle.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
I'll look here, necess fairly, you still aren't coming clean.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
With us, king Oh tweet, I'll call me, come.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Back here, I'll sit down, missus Fairley. Let's go over
the part of your story where we found the bed
sheets hanging out your window. Yes, why did you tie
the bed sheets together and hang them out the window
for a rope? So you'll admit that you use that
rope to snake out?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I did no such steam, I always go out that
ring nice.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Can you admit that tip?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Oh? I give up, missus fair Oh.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Do mister Stein.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I want to thank you for gotting the pumpkins were
I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
A mouse or eating. Thank you, missus Fairley.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I only did what Oh, why are sheeticker so angry?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I think what's worrying him? Missus Fairley is why you
closed the window behind you when you went out on
your rope, so no one would know.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We'll worries about me.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You won't tell her.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Ah, it's as plain as a nose on your face
what she's doing, working up to an insanity Please ingenious theory.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Seet, But look, can I talk to you a minute outside?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Could use a little air?
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Get more here my hands.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Look she finished the layoff, That poor old dame. She's
too vague disorganized. It took a marksman the way the
wound was no point of exit, just punching the wall
to hot and stop the low velocity impact. Sure, oh
what it had been fat from about the maximum range
of the thirty eight pistol. You'd have to figure on
the dropping trajectory as the bullet slowed down. It was
either a twick shot or one that just connected accidentally.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
By the way, we only have your word for it
that you were upstairs in the house when those shots
were flying. You carry a thirty eight, don't you stay?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
What kind of gun do you carry?
Speaker 10 (18:34):
You?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Well, we'd better wait till ballistics. In fact, the report
on the slug.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Gotcha.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
If we could only figure out where she hit the gun.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Don't look now sheas but that witch's back again. What
did he fly?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Where you did?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I've been looking all over you.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
You're gonna have a good deal of explaining to the
lady why did you fly away like that? Last night?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I had to seat of light cold and that good
thing I did too would have found in it. No
wonder my manifestation didn't work.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Base metal in the bru Mmmm, thirty eight caliber too.
Three bullets fired.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Gee, that settles it.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You're under arrest, Oh me, yes, no her?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh no you those I'll put her still on you,
I will.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
I'll turn you into a toad.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Look see where's that gun permits? If I got a
Langon's room, Oh.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I forgot forgot about that.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Here, it's in my pocket.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Let's see that cereal number. Well, same match, it's Langan's gun.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Holy old boy. Then it settled.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's what you think, boy, old boy, don't forget he's
a lawyer. I headed for the woods. I found a
spot where i'd seen the figure in white crouching just
before the shots were fired. A little way back in
the woods, I found footprints French heeled, short, mincing stride.
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Falling along behind them was another set flat soles, long,
manly stride. The manny's footprint followed the feminine footprints almost
to the clearing, and then stopped. The feminine footprints went
on straight to the spot where Wilna had fallen. I
know that no woman had been over this trail since
the murder, except the witch, who probably had cloven hoofs
were called an ad vanished, but the fire was still smoldering.
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I kicked through the ashes. I didn't know what I
was looking for, but I found it. I raked it
out with a stick and prodded it. The blackened outer
layers crumbled away. It had been a raging bonfire. But
there are a few things hoarded, a burn and a
telephone book. The middle pages were yellow from the heat,
and see it around the edges, but they were still intact.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
There was a hole punched in.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The middle of each page, feminine footprints right up to
the exit mark. The spot in the phone book through
which a bullet had been fired. I had a high
steat ballistics report, but proved that Langdon's gun did not
fire the fatal bullet. I was right, but for the
wrong reason. You can't get around it. Cheap ballistics, don't lye.
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You can see here you don't even need a magnifying gass.
Take a look hand, don't we ought to be able
to fail it. Two big ridges and the test slide.
The other one's almost smooth Rustits wouldn't make a ridge
like that, would they? Now? He figured they must have
used a faulty cutter. The factly when they riffled the barrel.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Well, that settles it. That those women's footprints and that
phone book all point to missus fairlely.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
What's about a phone book? Whoever shot? He fired the
slige through a phone book to make it look like
a long range job. It was a low velocity hit,
all right, but it was tearing through that phone book
that slowed it down.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
That proves the killer didn't have to be a marksman
stood right next to her. What's so funny the picture
in the morning paper?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
You and those bubble dan geez, let me see that?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Why that's liveless?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It's more than that, huh. They're in the background. Langdon
and missus Fairley at about them, the shoes, Langdon's dress
is slowly the fourteenth French heels, Missus Fairley and that
Greek goddess, get up sandals, flap heels.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
It's Langdon's gun. Then it's not Langdon's gun. It's a
long range shot.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Then it's through a seed catalog phone book.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Now it's a man in woman's shoe. An attorney at
that Hannahn. Get me some fingerprints, something I could work with.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I didn't blame the chief. My somersault in clues were
getting me busy too. So far. Langdon, like the good
lawyer he was, and kept his mouth shut, which meant
nothing one way or the other. That was smart. But
he disposed of his gun by throwing it in the
witches called and which was stupid, A because it was
sure to be found, and b because there was no
reason for hiding it anyway. But too stupid sometimes make
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a smart. If he wanted it to be found, he
must have had a story ready in case he had
to talk. If I were in that spot, my story
would have been that I fired those shots into the
woods after the fleeing killer. But I didn't know how
I would explain the fact that only three shots were heard,
one of which killed Wilna. Then I thought of those
two ridges on that test slug two ridges, two shots
into the woods. This time I did know what I
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was looking for. They were very deep in the soft
trunk of a pine tree near the ground. I dropped
to my knees and dug. I got the first one
out and was looking at it. It was a misshapen
hunk of worthless lid. Something embedded in the side of
it glittered in the sun like a diamond. In fact,
it was a diamond, and it stopped glittering. Something behind
me had come between it and the sun. I flopped
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on my side and rolled over. I grabbed his legs
and kripped him. Then I saw his face. It was Langer.
I was half way to my feet when he flick
caught me where it hurt. My legs sumbled up. I
tried to keep moving and get my gun out at
the same time. He was on his feet again before
I was, so I fired without aiming from flatting my
back and only scrouched his coat.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But it stopped in a second.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He swung his gun up and I got ready to
jump him. But I didn't have to. A pointed. Black
hat rose up out of the brush behind him. Something
flashed in the sun and he collapsed.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
What a fellon him?
Speaker 10 (23:47):
I didness?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Was this here?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Maggie clashed gun in through you.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Sonny, thank you, thank you, thank you, missus witch God
his andles and which is my prosision?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That was a close call.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Put the cuffs on in my hand.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Hey, what are you don't know?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Mana hem, I'm spade langed in there been following him
since I found out he was wearing women's shoes.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well that's settled, today's spade.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
Yeah, but you'll need this.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
A jeweled bullet, a slug with a diamond set in it.
It's the master clue of this caper.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Oh yeah, the master clue. You better come along too,
lady for questioning little booker for a vagrant.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Say if we need it?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Oh no, you don't.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
I'll turn you into a toad.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
You don't believe me, do you? Happy?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Don't? Happy? Doll's war te and green.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Do anything?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well?
Speaker 8 (24:38):
On second fought? I reckon see timeless, poor old soul soul.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Indeed ain't got any I showed out old scratch thirty
years ago.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Come next to Halloween.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Heere them for me, Gorman goggle period, end of reports.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
That's damn. What was the significance of the jewel bullet?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Oh? Well, after he shot Wilma, Langdon fired two shots
into the woods. Remembered those two bullets had diamond insets
so placed that they would godge the inside of the
gun barrel. All bullets fired from the guns thereafter would
have markings different from the one fighting the Wilma's body.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Oh, he was wrong, of course, but it was noble loving.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
You want to cover up the port necessarily.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
What of it?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Well, she chilled her daughter, of course, because she was
just out of patience with her getting engaged, none engaged
all the time. That they hadn't a friend in the world.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
That was the movie, wasn't it? Saying?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
That's fairly bright?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Sweethehunt, Except that missus Fairley did not kill her daughter
Langdon did.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
She means she was his daughter too by a previous Mary.
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Speaker 3 (26:24):
Of course, you know best that mississ Lli was the
only one with the movies, and that.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Mister Bright was secretly in love with her and wanted
to marry himself.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
So he killed it. That was Fairly Bright, Oh her fiancee.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
What happened to he?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
He woke up and went home?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Oh, when I guess he didn't have a motive.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Pay attention to Sweetheim Langdon, as trustee of the Fairly estate,
had embezzled large sums of money which he would have
to account for on the community property law if she
got married. He had already broken up many of her romances,
but when the old lady went soft in the head,
he decided to end the danger once and for all.
He could explain matters any way he wanted too, and
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He made the joke too small, Good sight, Sam, good
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