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You're two pistons.
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Well fiks ivy and that ain't all I me. I
was actually mistaken for a convolutional melancholiac.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh say are you all right now?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Wrong diagnosis angel?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It turned out to be melancholia catatonica.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh you poor darling.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
What is that?
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fixed eyes and indifference the surroundings. Unquote.
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What's happened to you?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
What help?
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Did I?
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Where are you? Why is it so dark in here?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Why had you put the lights out? The blind stuck.
I couldn't get it down.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The heats off. Effy, let there be light.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh oh, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean you'll catch you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Don't look at me like that and stop quisper. Oh Sam, did.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You get me all upset like that?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Just for a joke.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
There's no jokes. Rader sick and just sick of some
of the types I made in this business.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Oh uh.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Date July twenty five, nineteen forty eight, too Detective Lieutenant
Dundee homicide detailed San Francisco Police from Samuel spate Lys's
number one thirty seven, five ninety six, subject the mad
scientist Caper. Why so, dear Dundee? He looked like a
mad scientist, and that's exactly what he was. His eyes
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had a wild gleam in them, his hair was a
wild tangle, and he was wearing a wild assortment of
clothing that looked as if they had been slept in
and shifts. He leaned across the desk at me and said, they.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Have stolen my secret formula.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
They have Gee, that's too bad.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Oh you think I'm crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I don't know yet. I just met you.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
My name is Raymond Fox. Did that mean anything?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To you, Raymond Fox. Yeah, I think it does, but
I don't quite remember.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
What I invented, the helioscope.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Helioscope, No, that wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I also synthesized high doux lamma potocneton. That was it, Yes,
but unfortunately production car were prohibitive.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Ah, but you didn't like that discourage?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Oh no, no, no, no, indeed you see, after a
brief illness, I was back in my laboratory perfectly. My
greatest contribution to science, what may prove to be the
greatest contribution of science to humanity. I call it penetron.
That is what they have stolen the secret formula, call
penetron panatron.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Huh, Now what exactly is panetron, mister Fox? And who
are they?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Penetron is a plastic with a molecular structure which repels
a comic radiation more efficiently than lead, yet weighs less
than aluminium.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh that do you real the significance of this?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I imagine imagine a motor no larger than a cigar box,
with a power potential that even I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
What they do?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
The greatest and enterprisers. How do I know this? When
I applied to the Patent Office to protect my discovery.
I received this letter.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Create it for yourself, Commissioner of Patterns. Wasn't they say,
Dear mister Fox, your application for patent on formula designated
under the trade name Penetron is hereby rejected. A formula
and trade name, together with the script of material identically
yours have been registered by mister Albert Grierson Grierson Enterprises,
San Francisco, very truly yours, George Sherman, Acting Deputy Assistant
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commission See. Yes, you don't need a detective, mister Fox,
but you need as a good patent lawyer.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Lawyer, I have won.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
A legal ball of fire named Ruscoe Manning. You know
this scoundrel.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, he's got an okay reputation.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
And I am paying for it three thousand dollars in retainers.
And now he tells me he can do nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Insufficient evidence, he says.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
What is this outfit Grierson Enterprises?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Yeah, a snare in the delusion with rented furniture and
scientific ventilation and dirty work at the switchboard.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
How did they get hold of your formula?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well it must have been while I was ill. They
came and took it away.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Are your laboratory?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
What did it matter? Where?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I've got to start someplace.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Start with the man. I promise you he's a cook.
If he steals from me, he's stolen from others.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
We can that.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Then I have to keep well. I can't promise anything,
mister Fox, but I don't see what I can do.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Will one hundred dollars be enough for your tat.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Out so much? Twenty five now on the balance, if
I can do anything for you. I doubted if I
could even earn the twenty five, but if he wanted
to gamble, it was okay with me. The officers of
Greys and Enterprises were pretty much, as he described them,
a beautiful front, especially at the switchboard.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Chris Enterprise is good afternoons. No, mister Grison's out of town,
so I don't know when you expect it.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I'll be right with us.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's good now, Grief's enterprises. No, he is not. No,
I do not and he That's what's up to you.
In any case, mister Manning, Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
With just uh, can't you shut it off?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I might as well.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Nobody seems to believe me anyway. You've got looking for
him too. I hope, oh, pleeze. Just tell me you're
selling magazines, are collecting tobbies or just anything.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
My card detectives.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Mister Grierson hasn't done anything.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Has he. That's what I want to find out. My
client says he swiped his secret formula.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Oh not that man yet.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You don't look the time.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I'm mad, don't you?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Maybe no? Personally I'm crazy about money, mad money, pin
money for dirty money. Your employer didn't happen to leave
any lane around it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, but he had to charge your car to buy
downstairs in the building when it's nearly five o'clock. Could
you cat examine me there?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I thanked her as gallantly as I could under the circumstances.
She said, wait here, I want to be a minute,
and while she was gone, I made a quick risk
of the office. The file cabinet was empty. Gryerson's desk
contained nothing but two unshotened pencils, tobacco crumbs of rubber vands,
some rusty paper clips, an old gas bill, a glass ampuol,
broken labeled sodium denna drain for intravenous injection, and a
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business card from one Roscoe Manning, Attorney, at law, I
stucked the card in my pocket, went back to the switchboard.
In the less time than it takes to tell I
was calling her Lois and she was calling me Sam
over cocktails. But two, that's all I know about it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I didn't think anything about his taking his correspondence out
of the files.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
He also took work.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Home with him. When was the last time he saw him?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Oh, it's been nearly six weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You haven't heard from him. And all that time he
was with mister Foxcus.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Before he left, they had a terrible call, but then
mister Greyson managed to get him calmed down and they
left glasses together.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And that's the last time he saw Greyson.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yes, and it's all very strange.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
What did that mean? I tell you that Grayson's slightest invention?
Do you believe that I didn't even believe in the invention?
Now I'm beginning to think it was worth standing.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh, mister Grison wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
He's a brilliant man.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You know what else is he invented?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
He always had a lot of projects.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But course he never took me into his confidence.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Just exactly what is your job?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's quite something, really I just tell people using them.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, look, sweetheart, you really mean to tell me it
never occurred to you that there might be something slightly
fishy about gress and enterprises. I know I because it's
a smell of red herring up there. It's in the air.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Do you mean look it in the crook? Well?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What does that make me? Worry? That out on his
time drink up? She looked as if she were telling
the truth, though with women, especially blue eyed women, that
doesn't always mean anything. If she had anything more to tell,
she obviously wasn't ready yet to tell it. I asked
her to come up and listen to my herb Jeffrey's records.
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She said, in my apartment me to the woman's touch.
I handed her a broom. She hit me on the
head with it and left. And so to bed up
the times and phoned my client. He wasn't Then. Then
I phoned a guy I know who sometimes knows about
things and asked him what sodium dinner dream was. He
said it was a sedative and or a truth sir,
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a mental type drug. I wondered what Grierson has been
using it for during office hours. I also wanted what
else he'd been spending money for I phoned another guy
who knows about other things, and he called me back
with the name of Grierson's Bank, Golden Gate Crust and
I'll later am I surprise. I actually had something to
go on because in the past six weeks, checks totaling
fifty thousand bucks had been deposited the Grierson's account, all
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drawn on the simpless Exchange Bank of Sanamselmo, and all
bearing the signature of one Carl Birdwell, MD. He wasn't
hard to find. There was a big place in the outskirts,
and the sign on the gate said Mary F. Hotchkiss
Hospital for the mentally Braine. Doctor Birdwell's cottage was one
of five without bars on the window. He was spraying
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his roses.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
A go that Sisterdictamy, doctor Colviz, how convuls? What nation?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I can't complain?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Got these are your fingers back? Good? Pick up their shears.
I went to all those vaggon edges, cut off the.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Hedges, Well, why don't you hire a gardener that those
checks to Grierson use up all? You are ready catched. Hey,
I thought you were the sister Dictamy.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Good lord, you'e that convolutional melancoliac.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You're not allowed out on the ground. God, Wait a minute, doctor.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I'm taking back guys said for the sister dicta me.
This is the wrong man. You're crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Come on, go of me. I'm not a patient here,
I'm a detective. Yeah, I'm sure I called.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Come on, I'm back to the violent war.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Come on, layoff. I got an office in San Francisco.
I have proved one, three, seven, five mints. Okay, doctor Walton,
but come on, come on, and in more time than
it takes the tell. Due to the God's ju jitsu,
I was this robe, straight jacketed and rolled into a
wet sheet, a full fledged inmate of the Mary F.
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Hotchkiss Hospital for the Mentally Deranged, which is exactly where
I belong for having taken mister Fox's twenty five bucks.
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have been shot, stabbed, slashed pistol with and sapped into unconsciousness.
But Ninten, you have spent a night rolled up in
a wet sheet. Dundee, you don't know what punishment is.
You feel hot and cold at the same time, too
miserable to sleep, too exhausted to stay awake, and after
four hours of it, you just give up and join
the crazies. Pushing up the dazes. There's only one thing
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I can say in favor of the Mary F. Hotchkiss
Hospital for the mentally Deranged. They get the patients up early.
By six thirty in the am. I have been rolled
out of the sheet by quarter of seven. I have
fought out enough to be taken out of the straight
jacket by an orderly. I was glad to be out
of it because it was very heavy, and that gave
me an idea. I picked it up and swung it. Oh,
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in less time than it takes to tell I was
in the orderly's uniform, out of the violent wing and
shuffling up the walk through Doctor Birdwell's rose garden and
throw his cottage door. Good morning, doctor Birdwell, Good lord?
Who let you in here? What do you want? I
was trying to tell you yesterday when I was so
rudely interrupted. Hey, oh, yes, the detective.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Did you say Grierson sent you?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
I'm a thid. You'll have to be absolutely specific or
I can't help you, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
My client is an inventor who claims that mister Greerson
stole a formula from him, got a pattern on it,
and stands the profit of the tune of about a
million bucks. The last two items check. I don't know
whether Gerson's a crook or not. He's in a youth
for fifty thousand bucks, so you might know this.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Invtter, pale eyes, contracted pupils, big mup of hair.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's a fair description.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Fox, Raymond Fox. He's a patient escape from this hospital.
That man, mister Spade, is a homicidal maniac. If you
jog your memory, you may recall the case Sacramento nineteen
thirty five.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Wait a minute, chemistry professor lab explosion.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
That's the case two of his colleagues whom he irrationally
suspected of stealing the formula for the explosive he used
to blow them up.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You sure they didn't.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
The man was a judged hopelessly insane. You must be
returned to us. He may murder Grison, He may murder you,
but he will commit a murder if he remains at large,
perhaps more than one murder.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He must help us. Spade, like you, doctor, I can't
help unless you're absolutely specific about a couple of things.
Your connection with Greerson. For instance, I invested in Grierson's firm. U.
How did Fox make Geryson.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
He was allowed a certain degree of freedom here during
his rational period. I guessed that he went through my
papers or overheard one of my conversations with mister Grierson.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Do you know he retained a lawyer? Hmm, Manning, smart
patent lawyer. You must think Fox has a case. Oh
surely not Greyson, thanks so too.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
You've talked to Grayson no.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Home, and I've examined his bank statements. The bank allowed
that I told him I was Gerson's attorney. The point
is Greyson has broke because he's paid out every penny
you gave him to the order of Roscoe Manning, attorney
at law. And you know what I think, Doctor Yeah,
I think Raymond Fox is crazy like a fox. I
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had the same idea about doctor Birdwell that I didn't say.
So I didn't fail up to spending another night in
a wet sheet. I also didn't fail up to the
interview that was awaiting me outside the gates. A limousine
only a little longer than a hearse was standing at
the curb around pink Head with a gray Hamburger on it.
Bobbed out at me from the driver's seat and said, yeah,
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Roscoe Manning, how'd you do about forty nine and seventy
five bucks less than you've done in the caper so far?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
The law is a lucrative profession, my boy, Hey, get.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
In, I'll drive you back to out no change.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, I'll even.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Give you some free advice.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Sans ritiner. Where's you weren't in Lucy Chap? I've had
the devil's own.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Time s up with you. How did you?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I won't ask why that I am not without resources
Now well, as to our mutual client, mister Fox, obviously
you've learned a good deal about him.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Doctor Birdwell says he's cocoa, and that's only a toss
up which one of us is gonna blow up first,
And just.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
About what you'd expect from a medical man. If you've
listened to as much conflicting medical testimony in court as
I have, you take them all with a grain of
salt or should I say soda.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Mint or sodium dena drain.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That's a mysterious remark.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I was just trying it, emphasize it and fed Welcha.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Here is my proposition as to Fox's sanity.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
It's of no importance.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
He has money, and I think he has a case.
We can always get a doctor to say he's back
in his right mind.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Where do wife in the escheme? You just keep looking
for Grierson?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And what's that secretary of his?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I don't trust her anything else.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Oh, I almost forgot.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Here's five hundred dollars, and here's your ticket to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I don't know why, but somehow I got the impression
that mister Manning was trying to get rid of me.
He should have used that ticket to Chicago. And so
we stopped at Saucer, laid over for breakfast, and the
condemned man ate a hoty meal. We drove the last
mile through the Marina district and pulled up in front
of his house.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, chair, have a nice trip, or take the car,
miss speed, I pick it up at the depot.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Goodbye, it's been charming. Goodbye. He backed across the sidewalk, waving,
and I waved back, and he went up three steps,
put a key in his door and opened.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
It.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Didn't do much damage to the house, but all the
King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Rascal
Manning back together. I got out of the car and
just made it up the steps when it happened again.
I hated the look, but I did emmouzine has been
parked with me in it with a smoking heap of
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scrap metal. I then had it for the nearest phone booth,
and pausing only to inspect it from mines and booby traps,
s dials, a number of grais, amount of prizes, enterprises,
Lois sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And I'm going thank you for the present?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
What present?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I haven't had a chest, don't yet, but I think
I can guess what it is?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
A traveling clock. You mean a package arrived in a text.
I throw it out the window. Now, don't do that, pedestrians, avice. Man,
have you got a metal waste basket there?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I think so here, we'll fill it up.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
With water and throw the package into it. Clock. It
is not a lovely clock. It's a lovely booby trap.
Go on, I'm serious. Manning just got one of them,
and what's left for him is on the way to
the morgue.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I think, I'm say, Lowis Lewis, wake up, pour some
water on yourself.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Hello, Hello, let me through here, come on, let me
throw Lois Lais.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh you're okay, glad of that all right.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
She's all right.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Now you people, come on get out of here. He's
all right, come on, get up. You're not hurt. What
happened exploded in the water. At least you had sense
enough to do what I told you to.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh this is a new dress.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
No, look at it looks fine here with this codorang.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I don't think that was a very funny joke.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Neither do I. Now try and forget your clothes from
minute and try and answer a few questions for me.
There's much time. What is it? I want you to
be very sure of this lowis? Try and remember accurately.
How many people has grass and scenes as he opened
this office?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Not very many? Which idea brand ex strenge, Not that
I think of it. I don't even remember too, mister
Manning and that mad scientist, mad mister Fox.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, did you hear any of the conversation between Gresson
and Fox?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh he did. Screamed at mister Greyson about how his
invention has been thrown from him? Did it sound as
if they scuffled, and all of a sudden mister Fox
calmed down when he came out in aries. Look funny,
has it he been hypnotized.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, what does Gerson look like?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Oh, he must have been quite handsome at one time.
He's sort of like Gregory Peck with a mustache, only
satter and bolder. Snolder.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I wouldn't put it exactly like that, but I can
see what you mean.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But you've never seen him.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Don't make book on it, but I think I have.
I made three phone calls Wonder, a crime reporter I
don't like very well, giving him a false story on
the death of Lois Gerson's secretary. Another of my client,
the mad scientist alias Raymond fox And won the doctor Birdwell.
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Then I went to my apartment and waited. My client
arrived five minutes before the doctor. When Birdwell came in,
my client said.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Ah, that she she's still my secret formula.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Oh now, Raymond, you're getting confused again.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh I'm the doctor.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Don't you remember?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
That's not true? Your name is Grierson.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh, he's much worse. He's identification. You must try to remember, Raymond.
Nobody's going to hurt you, but you'll be much sicker
if you don't remember. But I do remember.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I remember everything.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
You remember setting the bombs at Manning's house and the
one you sent to mister Grierson's office.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
No, no, no, no, no, Brisin isn't dead.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You're Grierson.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Oh, Grierson isn't dead. Only that poor girl.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No, no, no, she didn't steal my formula.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Indeed was you.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You're trying to mix me up.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I'm trying to help you.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Now, roll up your sleeve.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I'll give you something to your nerves, and we'll go
back to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Put it away. Doctor, you've helped the run up.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Eh. Now look here, this man is my patient. He
needs medical attention.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I won't argue with you, but I think you'd better
get it from some other doctor. Right now, he's making
more sense than you are. Huh.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Just keep on the way you're going, Spade, and I'll
have you back in that wet sheet. I did it
once and I can do it again.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So down you got delusions are grander? Stop shaking, Raymond.
I said, you're making more sense than he is, and
I can prove it.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
You think your verystew, don't you?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now? I'm stoven, But I'm lucky. I should have tumbled
the whole caper when I found that you'd invested fifty
thousand smackers and Grayson enterprises. When I found out that
Raymond was an escape patient, I should have tumbled what
that dinner dream vole was doing in Greerson's desk. I
should have known then that you and Gererson were one
and the same person. I told you when I discovered
that you had paid Manning all that shakedown money, I
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should have known you were planning to knock him off
and everybody else who could identify you. But it didn't
work out that way. I got out of the car
before it blew up, dumb luck, And you can identify
me as Grierson, I don't have to. Oh God, surely
you're not cutting on raymond sanity to that extent. He
can't even remember that I was his doctor, can you? Raymond?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You're trying to mix me up?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Did you stole my formula?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I didn't kill them, mister spade Lye down on the
couch and relax, Raymond, don't worry about a trend. Well, doctor,
what now you relaxed too? Okay?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Loss?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Come on in Joys, Why mister Gerson, have you been sick?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I'll dare you run home my pants like this?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You stupid say that's en? Come on, get back there,
get back sorry, sweetheart, I didn't mean to let him
get that close to you. What are you trying to do?
It was an experiment, just to see what would happen.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
It did, So that's the way you scientific dictactors work
for a hard boiled chap. You're the vaguest way of
doing things I ever heard of.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Well, plans are all right sometimes doctor, and sometimes just
stirring things up as all right if you tough enough
to survive and keep your eyes open so you see
what you want when it comes to the top or something. Spade, Dunny,
I'm at home. I've got two homicidal characters here, one
sane and one insane. Now if you can tell the difference,
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I'll let you give the story to the papers. And
that Lieutenant Day is the crop you picked the wrong
one things. It's as simple as this, Raymond Fox, this
was the loney, but Birdwell alias Grierson, conceived and executed
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the whole scheme, including the explosions. Don't worry about Fox.
He's now back at the hospital working on a new
secret formula. I don't know what it is, but it
might be an anti truth serum serum, because that's how
Birdwell got the penetron formula by using truth serum. I'm
a mad scientist to make him talk anyway. You figured
he's crazy like a fox, His enemies are all dead,
are on their way, and he's as snug as a
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rug and a bug house. Period. End of loney tune,
Well of hose.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well just imagine. Well it takes all stocks to make
a world.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I guess no, I guess you never spoke a true word, afy,
But don't forget us. Stitch in time saves nine.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Don't feel too badly about it. Stand better way than never.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You took the words right out of a horse's mouth.
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Sam, then sending the application for my old age pensionam I.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Won't let you talk that way. You're just tired, nervous.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And run down.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, back aches, stay up nights, sour records.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You're just getting sorry for that, mister Fox. I wouldn't
worry you about him had you pointed out he's safer
where he is for all concerns. Natural necessity is the
mother of invention.
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What's that guy to do with anything?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
All that? All?
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Where are you? Why is it so dark in here?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Why had you put the lights out? The blind stuck.
I couldn't get it down.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The heats off. Effy, let there be light.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh oh, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean you'll catch you.
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Don't look at me like that and stop quisper. Oh Sam, did.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You get me all upset like that?
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Just for a joke.
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There's no jokes. Rader sick and just sick of some
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Speaker 5 (02:59):
Oh uh.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Date July twenty five, nineteen forty eight, too Detective Lieutenant
Dundee homicide detailed San Francisco Police from Samuel spate Lys's
number one thirty seven, five ninety six, subject the mad
scientist Caper. Why so, dear Dundee? He looked like a
mad scientist, and that's exactly what he was. His eyes
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had a wild gleam in them, his hair was a
wild tangle, and he was wearing a wild assortment of
clothing that looked as if they had been slept in
and shifts. He leaned across the desk at me and said, they.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Have stolen my secret formula.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
They have Gee, that's too bad.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Oh you think I'm crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I don't know yet. I just met you.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
My name is Raymond Fox. Did that mean anything?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To you, Raymond Fox. Yeah, I think it does, but
I don't quite remember.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
What I invented, the helioscope.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Helioscope, No, that wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I also synthesized high doux lamma potocneton. That was it, Yes,
but unfortunately production car were prohibitive.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Ah, but you didn't like that discourage?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Oh no, no, no, no, indeed you see, after a
brief illness, I was back in my laboratory perfectly. My
greatest contribution to science, what may prove to be the
greatest contribution of science to humanity. I call it penetron.
That is what they have stolen the secret formula, call
penetron panatron.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Huh, Now what exactly is panetron, mister Fox? And who
are they?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Penetron is a plastic with a molecular structure which repels
a comic radiation more efficiently than lead, yet weighs less
than aluminium.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh that do you real the significance of this?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I imagine imagine a motor no larger than a cigar box,
with a power potential that even I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
What they do?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
The greatest and enterprisers. How do I know this? When
I applied to the Patent Office to protect my discovery.
I received this letter.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Create it for yourself, Commissioner of Patterns. Wasn't they say,
Dear mister Fox, your application for patent on formula designated
under the trade name Penetron is hereby rejected. A formula
and trade name, together with the script of material identically
yours have been registered by mister Albert Grierson Grierson Enterprises,
San Francisco, very truly yours, George Sherman, Acting Deputy Assistant
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commission See. Yes, you don't need a detective, mister Fox,
but you need as a good patent lawyer.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Lawyer, I have won.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
A legal ball of fire named Ruscoe Manning. You know
this scoundrel.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, he's got an okay reputation.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
And I am paying for it three thousand dollars in retainers.
And now he tells me he can do nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Insufficient evidence, he says.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
What is this outfit Grierson Enterprises?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Yeah, a snare in the delusion with rented furniture and
scientific ventilation and dirty work at the switchboard.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
How did they get hold of your formula?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well it must have been while I was ill. They
came and took it away.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Are your laboratory?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
What did it matter? Where?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I've got to start someplace.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Start with the man. I promise you he's a cook.
If he steals from me, he's stolen from others.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
We can that.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Then I have to keep well. I can't promise anything,
mister Fox, but I don't see what I can do.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Will one hundred dollars be enough for your tat.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Out so much? Twenty five now on the balance, if
I can do anything for you. I doubted if I
could even earn the twenty five, but if he wanted
to gamble, it was okay with me. The officers of
Greys and Enterprises were pretty much, as he described them,
a beautiful front, especially at the switchboard.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Chris Enterprise is good afternoons. No, mister Grison's out of town,
so I don't know when you expect it.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I'll be right with us.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's good now, Grief's enterprises. No, he is not. No,
I do not and he That's what's up to you.
In any case, mister Manning, Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
With just uh, can't you shut it off?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I might as well.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Nobody seems to believe me anyway. You've got looking for
him too. I hope, oh, pleeze. Just tell me you're
selling magazines, are collecting tobbies or just anything.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
My card detectives.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Mister Grierson hasn't done anything.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Has he. That's what I want to find out. My
client says he swiped his secret formula.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Oh not that man yet.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You don't look the time.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I'm mad, don't you?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Maybe no? Personally I'm crazy about money, mad money, pin
money for dirty money. Your employer didn't happen to leave
any lane around it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, but he had to charge your car to buy
downstairs in the building when it's nearly five o'clock. Could
you cat examine me there?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I thanked her as gallantly as I could under the circumstances.
She said, wait here, I want to be a minute,
and while she was gone, I made a quick risk
of the office. The file cabinet was empty. Gryerson's desk
contained nothing but two unshotened pencils, tobacco crumbs of rubber vands,
some rusty paper clips, an old gas bill, a glass ampuol,
broken labeled sodium denna drain for intravenous injection, and a
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business card from one Roscoe Manning, Attorney, at law, I
stucked the card in my pocket, went back to the switchboard.
In the less time than it takes to tell I
was calling her Lois and she was calling me Sam
over cocktails. But two, that's all I know about it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I didn't think anything about his taking his correspondence out
of the files.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
He also took work.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Home with him. When was the last time he saw him?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Oh, it's been nearly six weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You haven't heard from him. And all that time he
was with mister Foxcus.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Before he left, they had a terrible call, but then
mister Greyson managed to get him calmed down and they
left glasses together.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And that's the last time he saw Greyson.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yes, and it's all very strange.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
What did that mean? I tell you that Grayson's slightest invention?
Do you believe that I didn't even believe in the invention?
Now I'm beginning to think it was worth standing.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh, mister Grison wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
He's a brilliant man.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You know what else is he invented?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
He always had a lot of projects.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But course he never took me into his confidence.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Just exactly what is your job?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's quite something, really I just tell people using them.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, look, sweetheart, you really mean to tell me it
never occurred to you that there might be something slightly
fishy about gress and enterprises. I know I because it's
a smell of red herring up there. It's in the air.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Do you mean look it in the crook? Well?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What does that make me? Worry? That out on his
time drink up? She looked as if she were telling
the truth, though with women, especially blue eyed women, that
doesn't always mean anything. If she had anything more to tell,
she obviously wasn't ready yet to tell it. I asked
her to come up and listen to my herb Jeffrey's records.
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She said, in my apartment me to the woman's touch.
I handed her a broom. She hit me on the
head with it and left. And so to bed up
the times and phoned my client. He wasn't Then. Then
I phoned a guy I know who sometimes knows about
things and asked him what sodium dinner dream was. He
said it was a sedative and or a truth sir,
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a mental type drug. I wondered what Grierson has been
using it for during office hours. I also wanted what
else he'd been spending money for I phoned another guy
who knows about other things, and he called me back
with the name of Grierson's Bank, Golden Gate Crust and
I'll later am I surprise. I actually had something to
go on because in the past six weeks, checks totaling
fifty thousand bucks had been deposited the Grierson's account, all
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drawn on the simpless Exchange Bank of Sanamselmo, and all
bearing the signature of one Carl Birdwell, MD. He wasn't
hard to find. There was a big place in the outskirts,
and the sign on the gate said Mary F. Hotchkiss
Hospital for the mentally Braine. Doctor Birdwell's cottage was one
of five without bars on the window. He was spraying
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his roses.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
A go that Sisterdictamy, doctor Colviz, how convuls? What nation?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I can't complain?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Got these are your fingers back? Good? Pick up their shears.
I went to all those vaggon edges, cut off the.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Hedges, Well, why don't you hire a gardener that those
checks to Grierson use up all? You are ready catched. Hey,
I thought you were the sister Dictamy.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Good lord, you'e that convolutional melancoliac.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You're not allowed out on the ground. God, Wait a minute, doctor.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
I'm taking back guys said for the sister dicta me.
This is the wrong man. You're crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Come on, go of me. I'm not a patient here,
I'm a detective. Yeah, I'm sure I called.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Come on, I'm back to the violent war.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Come on, layoff. I got an office in San Francisco.
I have proved one, three, seven, five mints. Okay, doctor Walton,
but come on, come on, and in more time than
it takes the tell. Due to the God's ju jitsu,
I was this robe, straight jacketed and rolled into a
wet sheet, a full fledged inmate of the Mary F.
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have been shot, stabbed, slashed pistol with and sapped into unconsciousness.
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You feel hot and cold at the same time, too
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By six thirty in the am. I have been rolled
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in less time than it takes to tell I was
in the orderly's uniform, out of the violent wing and
shuffling up the walk through Doctor Birdwell's rose garden and
throw his cottage door. Good morning, doctor Birdwell, Good lord?
Who let you in here? What do you want? I
was trying to tell you yesterday when I was so
rudely interrupted. Hey, oh, yes, the detective.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Did you say Grierson sent you?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
I'm a thid. You'll have to be absolutely specific or
I can't help you, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
My client is an inventor who claims that mister Greerson
stole a formula from him, got a pattern on it,
and stands the profit of the tune of about a
million bucks. The last two items check. I don't know
whether Gerson's a crook or not. He's in a youth
for fifty thousand bucks, so you might know this.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Invtter, pale eyes, contracted pupils, big mup of hair.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's a fair description.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Fox, Raymond Fox. He's a patient escape from this hospital.
That man, mister Spade, is a homicidal maniac. If you
jog your memory, you may recall the case Sacramento nineteen
thirty five.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Wait a minute, chemistry professor lab explosion.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
That's the case two of his colleagues whom he irrationally
suspected of stealing the formula for the explosive he used
to blow them up.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You sure they didn't.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
The man was a judged hopelessly insane. You must be
returned to us. He may murder Grison, He may murder you,
but he will commit a murder if he remains at large,
perhaps more than one murder.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He must help us. Spade, like you, doctor, I can't
help unless you're absolutely specific about a couple of things.
Your connection with Greerson. For instance, I invested in Grierson's firm. U.
How did Fox make Geryson.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
He was allowed a certain degree of freedom here during
his rational period. I guessed that he went through my
papers or overheard one of my conversations with mister Grierson.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Do you know he retained a lawyer? Hmm, Manning, smart
patent lawyer. You must think Fox has a case. Oh
surely not Greyson, thanks so too.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
You've talked to Grayson no.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Home, and I've examined his bank statements. The bank allowed
that I told him I was Gerson's attorney. The point
is Greyson has broke because he's paid out every penny
you gave him to the order of Roscoe Manning, attorney
at law. And you know what I think, Doctor Yeah,
I think Raymond Fox is crazy like a fox. I
(16:15):
had the same idea about doctor Birdwell that I didn't say.
So I didn't fail up to spending another night in
a wet sheet. I also didn't fail up to the
interview that was awaiting me outside the gates. A limousine
only a little longer than a hearse was standing at
the curb around pink Head with a gray Hamburger on it.
Bobbed out at me from the driver's seat and said, yeah,
(16:36):
Roscoe Manning, how'd you do about forty nine and seventy
five bucks less than you've done in the caper so far?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
The law is a lucrative profession, my boy, Hey, get.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
In, I'll drive you back to out no change.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, I'll even.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Give you some free advice.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Sans ritiner. Where's you weren't in Lucy Chap? I've had
the devil's own.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Time s up with you. How did you?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I won't ask why that I am not without resources
Now well, as to our mutual client, mister Fox, obviously
you've learned a good deal about him.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Doctor Birdwell says he's cocoa, and that's only a toss
up which one of us is gonna blow up first,
And just.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
About what you'd expect from a medical man. If you've
listened to as much conflicting medical testimony in court as
I have, you take them all with a grain of
salt or should I say soda.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Mint or sodium dena drain.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That's a mysterious remark.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I was just trying it, emphasize it and fed Welcha.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Here is my proposition as to Fox's sanity.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
It's of no importance.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
He has money, and I think he has a case.
We can always get a doctor to say he's back
in his right mind.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Where do wife in the escheme? You just keep looking
for Grierson?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And what's that secretary of his?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I don't trust her anything else.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Oh, I almost forgot.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Here's five hundred dollars, and here's your ticket to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I don't know why, but somehow I got the impression
that mister Manning was trying to get rid of me.
He should have used that ticket to Chicago. And so
we stopped at Saucer, laid over for breakfast, and the
condemned man ate a hoty meal. We drove the last
mile through the Marina district and pulled up in front
of his house.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, chair, have a nice trip, or take the car,
miss speed, I pick it up at the depot.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Goodbye, it's been charming. Goodbye. He backed across the sidewalk, waving,
and I waved back, and he went up three steps,
put a key in his door and opened.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
It.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Didn't do much damage to the house, but all the
King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Rascal
Manning back together. I got out of the car and
just made it up the steps when it happened again.
I hated the look, but I did emmouzine has been
parked with me in it with a smoking heap of
(19:02):
scrap metal. I then had it for the nearest phone booth,
and pausing only to inspect it from mines and booby traps,
s dials, a number of grais, amount of prizes, enterprises,
Lois sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And I'm going thank you for the present?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
What present?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I haven't had a chest, don't yet, but I think
I can guess what it is?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
A traveling clock. You mean a package arrived in a text.
I throw it out the window. Now, don't do that, pedestrians, avice. Man,
have you got a metal waste basket there?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I think so here, we'll fill it up.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
With water and throw the package into it. Clock. It
is not a lovely clock. It's a lovely booby trap.
Go on, I'm serious. Manning just got one of them,
and what's left for him is on the way to
the morgue.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I think, I'm say, Lowis Lewis, wake up, pour some
water on yourself.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Hello, Hello, let me through here, come on, let me
throw Lois Lais.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh you're okay, glad of that all right.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
She's all right.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Now you people, come on get out of here. He's
all right, come on, get up. You're not hurt. What
happened exploded in the water. At least you had sense
enough to do what I told you to.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh this is a new dress.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
No, look at it looks fine here with this codorang.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I don't think that was a very funny joke.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Neither do I. Now try and forget your clothes from
minute and try and answer a few questions for me.
There's much time. What is it? I want you to
be very sure of this lowis? Try and remember accurately.
How many people has grass and scenes as he opened
this office?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Not very many? Which idea brand ex strenge, Not that
I think of it. I don't even remember too, mister
Manning and that mad scientist, mad mister Fox.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, did you hear any of the conversation between Gresson
and Fox?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh he did. Screamed at mister Greyson about how his
invention has been thrown from him? Did it sound as
if they scuffled, and all of a sudden mister Fox
calmed down when he came out in aries. Look funny,
has it he been hypnotized.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, what does Gerson look like?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Oh, he must have been quite handsome at one time.
He's sort of like Gregory Peck with a mustache, only
satter and bolder. Snolder.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I wouldn't put it exactly like that, but I can
see what you mean.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But you've never seen him.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Don't make book on it, but I think I have.
I made three phone calls Wonder, a crime reporter I
don't like very well, giving him a false story on
the death of Lois Gerson's secretary. Another of my client,
the mad scientist alias Raymond fox And won the doctor Birdwell.
(21:40):
Then I went to my apartment and waited. My client
arrived five minutes before the doctor. When Birdwell came in,
my client said.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Ah, that she she's still my secret formula.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Oh now, Raymond, you're getting confused again.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh I'm the doctor.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Don't you remember?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
That's not true? Your name is Grierson.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh, he's much worse. He's identification. You must try to remember, Raymond.
Nobody's going to hurt you, but you'll be much sicker
if you don't remember. But I do remember.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I remember everything.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
You remember setting the bombs at Manning's house and the
one you sent to mister Grierson's office.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
No, no, no, no, no, Brisin isn't dead.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You're Grierson.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Oh, Grierson isn't dead. Only that poor girl.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No, no, no, she didn't steal my formula.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Indeed was you.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You're trying to mix me up.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I'm trying to help you.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Now, roll up your sleeve.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I'll give you something to your nerves, and we'll go
back to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Put it away. Doctor, you've helped the run up.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Eh. Now look here, this man is my patient. He
needs medical attention.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I won't argue with you, but I think you'd better
get it from some other doctor. Right now, he's making
more sense than you are. Huh.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Just keep on the way you're going, Spade, and I'll
have you back in that wet sheet. I did it
once and I can do it again.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So down you got delusions are grander? Stop shaking, Raymond.
I said, you're making more sense than he is, and
I can prove it.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
You think your verystew, don't you?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now? I'm stoven, But I'm lucky. I should have tumbled
the whole caper when I found that you'd invested fifty
thousand smackers and Grayson enterprises. When I found out that
Raymond was an escape patient, I should have tumbled what
that dinner dream vole was doing in Greerson's desk. I
should have known then that you and Gererson were one
and the same person. I told you when I discovered
that you had paid Manning all that shakedown money, I
(23:15):
should have known you were planning to knock him off
and everybody else who could identify you. But it didn't
work out that way. I got out of the car
before it blew up, dumb luck, And you can identify
me as Grierson, I don't have to. Oh God, surely
you're not cutting on raymond sanity to that extent. He
can't even remember that I was his doctor, can you? Raymond?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You're trying to mix me up?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Did you stole my formula?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I didn't kill them, mister spade Lye down on the
couch and relax, Raymond, don't worry about a trend. Well, doctor,
what now you relaxed too? Okay?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Loss?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Come on in Joys, Why mister Gerson, have you been sick?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I'll dare you run home my pants like this?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You stupid say that's en? Come on, get back there,
get back sorry, sweetheart, I didn't mean to let him
get that close to you. What are you trying to do?
It was an experiment, just to see what would happen.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
It did, So that's the way you scientific dictactors work
for a hard boiled chap. You're the vaguest way of
doing things I ever heard of.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Well, plans are all right sometimes doctor, and sometimes just
stirring things up as all right if you tough enough
to survive and keep your eyes open so you see
what you want when it comes to the top or something. Spade, Dunny,
I'm at home. I've got two homicidal characters here, one
sane and one insane. Now if you can tell the difference,
(24:42):
I'll let you give the story to the papers. And
that Lieutenant Day is the crop you picked the wrong
one things. It's as simple as this, Raymond Fox, this
was the loney, but Birdwell alias Grierson, conceived and executed
(25:04):
the whole scheme, including the explosions. Don't worry about Fox.
He's now back at the hospital working on a new
secret formula. I don't know what it is, but it
might be an anti truth serum serum, because that's how
Birdwell got the penetron formula by using truth serum. I'm
a mad scientist to make him talk anyway. You figured
he's crazy like a fox, His enemies are all dead,
are on their way, and he's as snug as a
(25:25):
rug and a bug house. Period. End of loney tune,
Well of hose.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well just imagine. Well it takes all stocks to make
a world.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I guess no, I guess you never spoke a true word, afy,
But don't forget us. Stitch in time saves nine.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Don't feel too badly about it. Stand better way than never.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You took the words right out of a horse's mouth.
But it's later than you think. Angel. Type that up, Angel,
and while you're at it, see if you can think
up a way to teach an old dog new tricks.
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Speaker 3 (26:36):
Thinking over what you said, which about teaching an old
dog newstics. Your only is old as you feel.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Sam, then sending the application for my old age pensionam I.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Won't let you talk that way. You're just tired, nervous.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And run down.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, back aches, stay up nights, sour records.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You're just getting sorry for that, mister Fox. I wouldn't
worry you about him had you pointed out he's safer
where he is for all concerns. Natural necessity is the
mother of invention.
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Speaker 3 (27:01):
All that? All?
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