August 9, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Sam Stay Detective Agents from all the Sea.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh it's Sam, who was it?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
At the same as always a foggy Did you go in?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I was up to my neck from the first rumble.
If you mean that I call in the water?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I did?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Is it cool?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I didn't notice. I was too busy landing a corpse.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
What a coincidence.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
I was just reading my new library book and it's
all about a body in the water who'shed over a cliff,
and there's the strangest girl in it with a strange mother,
and she drinks the girl and runs away with a chauffeur.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
That rich people, they can't do that.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
They're stealing my material.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Stand No, it's my own did season.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
He's very well thought of.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Mother always understands.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
His not not to night, she will stay. We are
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Speaker 1 (01:17):
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Speaker 1 (02:15):
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come on, and let's get.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
This over, finish this chapter.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
The page to go.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The detective was just found this girl in a sort
of roomy hut.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
He had this fight with her boyfriend and boy him
and now Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
But iow, fester, what's the land of the board.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
His last was a Stinley stiff. That was about this
new rotic nurse who was in love with her employees.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Everywhere you have been reading this kind of trash.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Sam What do you mean to make his characters live?
And I love his detective. He's real, hard boiled, like
a dashall hammet.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Mike, your places come ready?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yet?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Then I can wait.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
That's the way I like you eager.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Then he's the chapter.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I mean, I wonder what she's up to. She's guilty,
of course, of course, but what you can read it
when I'm finished. Oh my goodness, We've got a report
to get out, and here we are chattering about books.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Date August.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I will give the date, uh date, delive it. Two
Missing Persons Bureau, San Francisco Police attention. The size of
schwartz from Samuel's bay lists ever one whos five six?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Subject Gabrielle like it good? Dave.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I should have handed it over to here at the start,
but you know me, I'm greedy. I cashed the checks
she'd sent me as a retainer. Well, I'm consulting my
better judgment. Gave the money to Effie to pay bills
without batting an eye, borrowed a name carfair from the
corner newsboy without collateral, and arrived in front of the
LEGGEDT mansion on knob Hill without the foggiest notion of
what I had been retained for.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm going to leg it, mister Spade.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
It's about my stepdaughter, Gabrielle. She's been missing since the funeral.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Whose funeral was That was his legging, my.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Husband, Gabrielle's father. That was nearly three weeks ago. She
came to me afterwards and said she was going down
to Kisstada, to our country place for a few days,
that she wanted to be alone with her grief.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But I discovered that she never arrived at Kissada.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Do I make myself clear, mister Spate, except for one thing.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Why do you want to back.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
First, she may do something to disgrace me. She'll undoubtedly
try her best to do so. Secondly, unless I get
her signature to some papers in accordance with her father's will.
I can't go on living in this house.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Further, mist It's okay. You've convinced me now when she left,
But did you take with.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
It just one piece of light luggage and her thicker case?
Of course she drinks. You know that it's not my
place to disapprove. I merely thought it might help you
to know.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Well, we could case all the bars in time, but
it'll take a lot of time and a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Besides them on the wagon.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Well you might talk to Eric, my chauffeur. He drove
her to the station, or says he did.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Where do I find him?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Let's see ten o'clock.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
He'll be loitering down the hall, somewhere in the neighborhood
of the linen closet, helping the upstairs maid fold the sheets.
I'd knock first of fire with you and avoid embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Nice for oh mind, if I have a look at
your stepdaughter's room, Eric.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Will give you the key.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
I'm not allowed one alive me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, myrtle any time?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And yes see you, Eric Collinson. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'd like the key to missus Gabrielle's room. You the law,
Why you're expecting.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Some The old lady's been threatening the yelk cop.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
She decided to whisper instead. Oh private dick, you catch
on fast, love o boy, Okay, I'll let you in
her room. Come on, missus. Leggatt says, you drove Gabrielle
to the station. She says, that does She doesn't that
what you told her.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I'm not telling you what I told anyone.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's yourself after you.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
What's eating you?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Nothing at all? Just went some privacy on.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'll wait a minute. I'm responding to help myrtle. Give
me those keys. Oh listen, you keep me alright, let
me in. Don't have your lights. Her room was, shall
we say, untidy? The mirror dressing table was chipped around
the edges of rains held a.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Scoume across it.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Between two polo pony book ends was a mess of books,
three odd volumes of the Harvard five foot shelf, a
horse Breeders conzette, and a bunch of detective novels. I
picked one up and open looked at the title page.
It was called Mordfruit and it was by Owen Fitzstephen,
author of the corpulent cadaver, the Stiny Stiff, and the
kiss Off. It was autographed of the author's great and
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good friend, the late Edgar Leggett. The signature looked familiar,
but it didn't look like a lead either than anything
else in the room. I started to unlock the door
with a key on the ring. I grabbed away from Eric,
and the light caught the smooth side of the Christopher metal.
It was engraved for Eric, Forever Gabby. When Forever Eric
went off duty that night, he went across town. The
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trail ended at a crummy, broken down rooming house out
in the film. He let himself in with a key
and climbed the stairs. I waited until he was out
of sight. In more time than it takes to tell,
the door cracked open, and a nose that could only
belong to a landlady raise it out at me. She
was gumming a sensin. What do you want they get
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settled in?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
All right?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Nobody's shutting in on me.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Never touched me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You got me wrong, mom, I met the Lily West.
Did they raise the rent money?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
All right? Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Damn raised it and spend it.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
He's a dick.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Smither coops up all day and throws the dead shoulders.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Out the window, and they call it honeymoon. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm her ex husband, Dolly, and I came to pare
the back alimony.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well give it to me. I'll get you.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Don't no, no, don't you come pushing in here?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Why after hours? Don't love callers in here after ten o'clock.
I was ruled, well, I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
What's their room? No, I'll give it to me, or
I'll shake it out of here. Bollin to twelve.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
If a look for these new uffers, should let you
try it?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Thank you, grand That is Marie smart Ally, No, only
you can't.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Dang on, cool woman.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It's all right over, I did not he shows that
for you.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Western Union.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Let me Hey, I told you to stay away and
I'll beat it.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Look, Eric, I don't want any trouble, but I'm coming
in over my dead body. Get back in her room, Gabby. Look,
I won't let you hurt her. So I love comments. Okay,
I'm sorry, nothink.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm a buck of the cold water. Can't cure sod on.
I want to talk to you. Who are you, Sam Spain?
I'm a private detective. Your step mother hired me to
find you.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
Oh you know why she wants to find me? Do
you She wants to kill me, to kill my father.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now she kill me?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Can you prove that.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
My father never had a day's illness in his life?
He could drink three quarts of brandy in any evening.
Do you believe a man like that to die of
heart failure?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Frankly, I could.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Talk about me.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Wants the railroad me to.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Do?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I seem crazy to you, No, a little nervous.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Maybe this idea you have about your father's death talk
some Morley.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
All right, I'll tell you the whole thing.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
I gotta have a drink first, Okay, I can't get
the top off, Give me.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
A hand with it.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Sure you need a corkscrew for this one?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (10:21):
I think there's one down there in the cupboard.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I don't see one.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Back in the corner.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, father there, No, there's nothing at hey.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I dreamed I was a character and the detective story.
The title of the story was.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Mordfruit, and the author, a man named Fitz Stephen, was
trying to figure out a way to turn me into
a red herring before knocking off his number one suspect.
I tried to tell him it's against the rules to
make your detective a red herring, but he said it
was a new kind of murder yarn and it didn't
matter anyway, because there wasn't even a victim.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's what he thought.
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came to and it came to dawn, and I was
still a character of the detective story, and I felt
more like a red herring than I had in my dream.
I had dragged myself across my own trail and wound.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Up no place.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
My quarry had fled, leaving nothing behind but empty bottles
with fingerprints on them. I left the field and hustled
over to the Bureau of Identification.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Half an hour later I got.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The report Mine all mine. I wondered what a detective
novelist to make of that. I decided to find out.
I had met Owen Fitzstephens several years back in Seattle
when I was digging dirt on a chain of fake medians.
He was plowing the same field for literary material, and
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we pulled forces. I got more out of the combination
than he did. Since you know the spoop ragget inside out.
I cleaned up my job in a couple of weeks
and we parted friends. His San Francisco apartment was on
the sixth floor of the Saint Mark. He was standing
at its door, holding out a lean hand to greet
me when I got there.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Well, you're looking fit, Sam, a little red in the face.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's a red herring. I atee last night. How's the
literary grip? Though you haven't been reading me?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
No, where'd you get that funny idea?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Oh? It was something in your tone, as in the
voice of one who has bought.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
An author over a couple of dollars.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
I suppose you're still hounding the unfortunate evil doer.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, that's how I happened to look up. Uh you
autographed the book for Edgar Leggett.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Oh yes, yes, mog fruit expressingly prophetic.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
What do you know about that family? Oh? What have
they been up to? Now?
Speaker 7 (14:04):
How well you know the girl like Gabrielle quite well,
since she's a duplicate of her father. She has brains,
but there's something black in her, something she doesn't want
to think about but can't forget. She's a neurotic who
keeps her body sensitive and ready. I don't know what
for while she drugs her mind with drink and lunatic notions,
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and she's cold and she's sae. I had something I
wanted to forget. I'd anesthetize my mind directly leave. My
body stays strong and ready.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I hope you don't think any of the stuff means
anything to me.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Oh, yes, I remember you now.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You were always like that.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Tell me what's up while I try to find one syllable.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Words for you. You were another fellow that drives for
him erk Well.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
He was released from Folsom and legg It's custody when
he was eighteen years old, murdered his father. Nice kid,
what about him?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Missus?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Leggett hired me to find gabrielle I found her with
Eric and a rooming house out in the filmore. She
begged me to say her her stepmother's murderous games. Then
she knocked me cold.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Hmm, that's trivial. Oh, I've been thinking of the legged
family in terms of Dumont. You bring me a piece
of Jim crackery out of O Henry. I were writing this,
Gabriel would kill her stepmother or do beticans doing it
for her. No, that won't do not sufficient motive. Murder
has to have a motive. You know why she's insane,
isn't she? I wonder are you saying that carelessly? Or
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do you really think she's off?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
She's got a kind of a wild look about her.
Eyes shift from green to brown and back without ever
settling on one color.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
How much have you turned up on her? And you're
snooping around on? Are you who make your living snooping?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Sneering at my curiosity about people and my attempts to
satisfy it.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now, what wasn't different on?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I do mine with the object of putting people in jail,
and I get paid.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
For it, though not as much as I should.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
I do mine with the object of putting people in books,
and I get.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Paid for it. No, not as much as I should. Yeah,
but what good does that? Though?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
What good is putting them in jail?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Do relates? Congestion?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You put enough paper in jail and said he s
wouldn't have it traffic the problems?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Well, then all you have to do is to wait
till one of them kills the other and put the
survivor in jails.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Simple, yeah, but who's gonna kill who?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Perhaps they both have plans, both Gabrielle and her stepmother.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Looks as if you have to guard both of them.
I think I'll settle for my client. As far as
Gabrielle's concerned her husband, I'll be able to watch.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Out for her. What husband see and Eric got married.
Now there you are. You didn't tell me anything about that.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Lord knows how much else is you haven't told me.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I don't go away, Aligram.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Sign here, thank you, Thank you, sir. I wonder what
good Lord?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
This is positively corny. Listen to this, mad I appeal
to you as a friend of my dead husband. Come immediately,
sunset hotel O. Case had a trouble danger, Do not
communicate Gabrielle must not know Sign good to.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Leg it speed. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Did you have this wire sent to me as a prank?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I was just going to ask you, if you send
it to yourself as a prank, I have it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
The key to the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It's a red hearring.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I didn't think that Steven would be able to hold
out very long against his professional curiosity, and I didn't
imagine any thought I would I caught the.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Next bus for Casana.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Casana is a one hotel town pasted on the rocky
side of a young mountain that slopes into the Pacific Ocean,
some eighty miles from San Francisco. I got there at
the eleven something that night, stepped down from the bus
and crossed the street to the Sunset Hotel. I'd keep
your shut up, missus. Leggett registered here. What's your name,
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Owen fitz Stephen.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Oh, she left the message for you, said for you
to wait right here and don't leave till she gets back.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yeah, she say where she was going.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh, it's probably over.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Visiting with her daughter and new son in law. Knew
over through the cove. How do you get there, Well,
you never be able.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
To find it at night, unless you you went all
the way round by the east road.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Then I'm sure unless you knew the country. Well, how
do you get there in the daytime?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Well, you go.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Down the street, you take the fork on the ocean
side there and follow that up along the cliff.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
It's easily enough found in the daytime.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
But you never, never, never in the world.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, heard you the first time. So I
waited until morning, stupid me. I found the road out
at the point, but I've never really been a road.
The sign of the ledge became staper and staper, until
the path was simply a narrow shelf on the face
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of the cliff, the cliff that shared off one hundred
and fifty feet on more to ravel out into the ocean.
A braze from the general direction of China was pushing
fog over the top of the cliff, making a.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Noisy ladder of sea water at the.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Bottom, rounding a corner with a plus of steepness. I
checked my cigarette over the edge and washed it spin downwards,
and that's when I saw it.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I had to go wast steep into the Pacilica left
the body. I got my hands under the.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Arm that's found solid ground for my feet and dragged
it up beyond the high sidemark. It was good through
a legging. Somebody came staggering down the beach. Tomatoes she did, Yeah, Gabriel,
she's dead.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Poor old the witches dead. They take me back to.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Town with you.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Buy me a dream. Sit down there, Sitan, what's the
big idea? Don't you know?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I was sick somehow. I don't think you're that's sick.
I think it could make some sense, since that's a laugh.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
You don't know me.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I've never been able to think clearly the way other
people do.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
No matter what I try to think about, there's a
fog that tries to get.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Between me and it. You understand how horrible it can
become going through life like it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Nobody thinks clearly, no matter what they pretend thinking. It's
a dizzy business.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No matter of catching as many of those foggy glimpses
as you can and fitting them together. The best you
can trouble with you is you've been enjoying your misery.
You've been so busy trying to prove that you're nuts.
It's a wonder you haven't really droven yourself nuts?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
How do you know I haven't.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Because you're too anxious to admit it.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
All right, I'm saying, if you want it that way,
I'm just evil.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
There's something black inside me?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
What was that again?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Something black?
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Everybody knows that about my.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Family, My father too, Who told you that? I always
knew it.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
They say my real mother killed herself, but I know better.
I know how to open the drawer where she keeps
the gun.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Every day.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Gertrude lies on mother's bed and we played killing the Witch. Yeah,
and she comes in in the night and bends over
my crap, and she's changed herself so she looks like
mother instead of the witch. But I know better, and
I hold up the gun with both hands.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's very hard to pull with both hands. It's very
hard to pull the ticket, but I must do it.
Her the witch will eat me up.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
And then there's a big noise and read all over out.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I listen to me. We're beginning to make some sense.
I don't run away from it. Gertrude was lying on
your mother's bed. That's your stepmother.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Yeah, she was my nurse.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
She married father.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
How old were you when your mother died?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Four four and a half.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Did your father know about the game of the gun?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I don't think so that anybody.
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Gertrude said, I must never tell anyone because they'd sent
me away, and I.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Never did, not till I grew up. I was with
Owen fit Stephen. I had a lot to drink.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I told him.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
After that, he began seeing Gertrude, and finally my father died.
But it didn't do her any good because Owen really
loved me.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I'll watch it. Oh, let's get this straight.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You don't have to straighten it out again later on
with the doctor to help you.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
This is to help me.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
When you were a little child, Gertrude taught you that
killing the witch game to use.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You as a murder weapon. I guess your mother. Then
she filled you.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Full of ideas of guilt and fear so you'd keep
quiet about it. When you told the story to Owe
and he blackmailed your stepmother and they knocking off your father,
that made.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You feel responsible for his death? Does that you ran away?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, Gertrude did? I killed her.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Too, You might, but I got it, how I try
and remember?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Was alling up here tonight.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
I thought I heard his voice, but I hear voices sometimes.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I'm hearing it again. Listen, do you hear anything?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I didn't hear anything but the wind and the beat
of the cirt at first. But when I did hear
the voice, I sent Gabby for a doctor before I investigated.
He was pretty badly mangled in the rocks. He'd fallen
nearly as far as he'd pushed.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Gridford was still alive.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I made him as comfortable as I could, and finally
he opened his eyes. Oh, Sam, you mess yourself up.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Good.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, no more rocks for me, not unless you make algatrize.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
You know, I had half an idea when you came
to see me in San Francisco, But you were secretly
nursing some exceptional idiotic theory.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Thanks Owen, But I never had any theory. Oh, thing
dropped into my lap.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I'll be too sure of that, under stand. At present,
I admit nothing. Later on, if I'm forced to, the
very number of my crimes will be to my advantage
on the theory that nobody but a lunatic could have
committed so many.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh, there's not so many. Only Gertrude, you're a co
author the Murder of the lad.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I'd geta like.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
It nonsense crimes and crimes dating from the cradle. Even
literature should help me, not your own books. Why not?
Didn't the critics agree that the Spindley Stiff bore all
the marks of authorial degeneracy? Evidence some to say, my
sweet neck, and I shall wave my mangled body at them,
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A ruin whose crimes and high Heaven have surely brought
sufficient punishment upon me.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, you'll probably make a go of it. Legally, you're
entitled to beat the jumper. Never anybody wasn't it legally?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You mean insane?
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Tell me the truth, same am I?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I think that's what they'll say.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
What that spoils everything? It's no fun if I'm really crack,
no fun.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
At all, period.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And a report just goes to show, doesn't he.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
I mean, if anything like that happened in real life,
you wouldn't believe it.
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You mean, if anything like that happened infection?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Oh no, the author is never the guilty party. Well,
but that's not there. The author is never supposed to
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When you find out, don't let me know.
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At the same as always a foggy Did you go in?
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Well?
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I was up to my neck from the first rumble.
If you mean that I call in the water?
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I did?
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Is it cool?
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I didn't notice. I was too busy landing a corpse.
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What a coincidence.
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I was just reading my new library book and it's
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That rich people, they can't do that.
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They're stealing my material.
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This over, finish this chapter.
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The page to go.
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The detective was just found this girl in a sort
of roomy hut.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
He had this fight with her boyfriend and boy him
and now Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
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But iow, fester, what's the land of the board.
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His last was a Stinley stiff. That was about this
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Speaker 1 (02:59):
Everywhere you have been reading this kind of trash.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Sam What do you mean to make his characters live?
And I love his detective. He's real, hard boiled, like
a dashall hammet.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Mike, your places come ready?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yet?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Then I can wait.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
That's the way I like you eager.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Then he's the chapter.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I mean, I wonder what she's up to. She's guilty,
of course, of course, but what you can read it
when I'm finished. Oh my goodness, We've got a report
to get out, and here we are chattering about books.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Date August.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I will give the date, uh date, delive it. Two
Missing Persons Bureau, San Francisco Police attention. The size of
schwartz from Samuel's bay lists ever one whos five six?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Subject Gabrielle like it good? Dave.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I should have handed it over to here at the start,
but you know me, I'm greedy. I cashed the checks
she'd sent me as a retainer. Well, I'm consulting my
better judgment. Gave the money to Effie to pay bills
without batting an eye, borrowed a name carfair from the
corner newsboy without collateral, and arrived in front of the
LEGGEDT mansion on knob Hill without the foggiest notion of
what I had been retained for.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm going to leg it, mister Spade.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
It's about my stepdaughter, Gabrielle. She's been missing since the funeral.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Whose funeral was That was his legging, my.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Husband, Gabrielle's father. That was nearly three weeks ago. She
came to me afterwards and said she was going down
to Kisstada, to our country place for a few days,
that she wanted to be alone with her grief.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But I discovered that she never arrived at Kissada.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Do I make myself clear, mister Spate, except for one thing.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Why do you want to back.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
First, she may do something to disgrace me. She'll undoubtedly
try her best to do so. Secondly, unless I get
her signature to some papers in accordance with her father's will.
I can't go on living in this house.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Further, mist It's okay. You've convinced me now when she left,
But did you take with.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
It just one piece of light luggage and her thicker case?
Of course she drinks. You know that it's not my
place to disapprove. I merely thought it might help you
to know.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Well, we could case all the bars in time, but
it'll take a lot of time and a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Besides them on the wagon.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Well you might talk to Eric, my chauffeur. He drove
her to the station, or says he did.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Where do I find him?
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Let's see ten o'clock.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
He'll be loitering down the hall, somewhere in the neighborhood
of the linen closet, helping the upstairs maid fold the sheets.
I'd knock first of fire with you and avoid embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Nice for oh mind, if I have a look at
your stepdaughter's room, Eric.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Will give you the key.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
I'm not allowed one alive me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, myrtle any time?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And yes see you, Eric Collinson. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'd like the key to missus Gabrielle's room. You the law,
Why you're expecting.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Some The old lady's been threatening the yelk cop.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
She decided to whisper instead. Oh private dick, you catch
on fast, love o boy, Okay, I'll let you in
her room. Come on, missus. Leggatt says, you drove Gabrielle
to the station. She says, that does She doesn't that
what you told her.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I'm not telling you what I told anyone.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's yourself after you.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
What's eating you?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Nothing at all? Just went some privacy on.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'll wait a minute. I'm responding to help myrtle. Give
me those keys. Oh listen, you keep me alright, let
me in. Don't have your lights. Her room was, shall
we say, untidy? The mirror dressing table was chipped around
the edges of rains held a.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Scoume across it.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Between two polo pony book ends was a mess of books,
three odd volumes of the Harvard five foot shelf, a
horse Breeders conzette, and a bunch of detective novels. I
picked one up and open looked at the title page.
It was called Mordfruit and it was by Owen Fitzstephen,
author of the corpulent cadaver, the Stiny Stiff, and the
kiss Off. It was autographed of the author's great and
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good friend, the late Edgar Leggett. The signature looked familiar,
but it didn't look like a lead either than anything
else in the room. I started to unlock the door
with a key on the ring. I grabbed away from Eric,
and the light caught the smooth side of the Christopher metal.
It was engraved for Eric, Forever Gabby. When Forever Eric
went off duty that night, he went across town. The
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trail ended at a crummy, broken down rooming house out
in the film. He let himself in with a key
and climbed the stairs. I waited until he was out
of sight. In more time than it takes to tell,
the door cracked open, and a nose that could only
belong to a landlady raise it out at me. She
was gumming a sensin. What do you want they get
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settled in?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
All right?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Nobody's shutting in on me.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Never touched me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You got me wrong, mom, I met the Lily West.
Did they raise the rent money?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
All right? Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Damn raised it and spend it.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
He's a dick.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Smither coops up all day and throws the dead shoulders.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Out the window, and they call it honeymoon. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm her ex husband, Dolly, and I came to pare
the back alimony.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well give it to me. I'll get you.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Don't no, no, don't you come pushing in here?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Why after hours? Don't love callers in here after ten o'clock.
I was ruled, well, I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
What's their room? No, I'll give it to me, or
I'll shake it out of here. Bollin to twelve.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
If a look for these new uffers, should let you
try it?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Thank you, grand That is Marie smart Ally, No, only
you can't.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Dang on, cool woman.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It's all right over, I did not he shows that
for you.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Western Union.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Let me Hey, I told you to stay away and
I'll beat it.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Look, Eric, I don't want any trouble, but I'm coming
in over my dead body. Get back in her room, Gabby. Look,
I won't let you hurt her. So I love comments. Okay,
I'm sorry, nothink.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm a buck of the cold water. Can't cure sod on.
I want to talk to you. Who are you, Sam Spain?
I'm a private detective. Your step mother hired me to
find you.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
Oh you know why she wants to find me? Do
you She wants to kill me, to kill my father.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now she kill me?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Can you prove that.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
My father never had a day's illness in his life?
He could drink three quarts of brandy in any evening.
Do you believe a man like that to die of
heart failure?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Frankly, I could.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Talk about me.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Wants the railroad me to.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Do?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I seem crazy to you, No, a little nervous.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Maybe this idea you have about your father's death talk
some Morley.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
All right, I'll tell you the whole thing.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
I gotta have a drink first, Okay, I can't get
the top off, Give me.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
A hand with it.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Sure you need a corkscrew for this one?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (10:21):
I think there's one down there in the cupboard.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I don't see one.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Back in the corner.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
No, father there, No, there's nothing at hey.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I dreamed I was a character and the detective story.
The title of the story was.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Mordfruit, and the author, a man named Fitz Stephen, was
trying to figure out a way to turn me into
a red herring before knocking off his number one suspect.
I tried to tell him it's against the rules to
make your detective a red herring, but he said it
was a new kind of murder yarn and it didn't
matter anyway, because there wasn't even a victim.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's what he thought.
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came to and it came to dawn, and I was
still a character of the detective story, and I felt
more like a red herring than I had in my dream.
I had dragged myself across my own trail and wound.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Up no place.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
My quarry had fled, leaving nothing behind but empty bottles
with fingerprints on them. I left the field and hustled
over to the Bureau of Identification.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Half an hour later I got.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The report Mine all mine. I wondered what a detective
novelist to make of that. I decided to find out.
I had met Owen Fitzstephens several years back in Seattle
when I was digging dirt on a chain of fake medians.
He was plowing the same field for literary material, and
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we pulled forces. I got more out of the combination
than he did. Since you know the spoop ragget inside out.
I cleaned up my job in a couple of weeks
and we parted friends. His San Francisco apartment was on
the sixth floor of the Saint Mark. He was standing
at its door, holding out a lean hand to greet
me when I got there.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Well, you're looking fit, Sam, a little red in the face.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's a red herring. I atee last night. How's the
literary grip? Though you haven't been reading me?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
No, where'd you get that funny idea?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Oh? It was something in your tone, as in the
voice of one who has bought.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
An author over a couple of dollars.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
I suppose you're still hounding the unfortunate evil doer.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, that's how I happened to look up. Uh you
autographed the book for Edgar Leggett.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Oh yes, yes, mog fruit expressingly prophetic.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
What do you know about that family? Oh? What have
they been up to? Now?
Speaker 7 (14:04):
How well you know the girl like Gabrielle quite well,
since she's a duplicate of her father. She has brains,
but there's something black in her, something she doesn't want
to think about but can't forget. She's a neurotic who
keeps her body sensitive and ready. I don't know what
for while she drugs her mind with drink and lunatic notions,
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and she's cold and she's sae. I had something I
wanted to forget. I'd anesthetize my mind directly leave. My
body stays strong and ready.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I hope you don't think any of the stuff means
anything to me.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Oh, yes, I remember you now.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You were always like that.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Tell me what's up while I try to find one syllable.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Words for you. You were another fellow that drives for
him erk Well.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
He was released from Folsom and legg It's custody when
he was eighteen years old, murdered his father. Nice kid,
what about him?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Missus?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Leggett hired me to find gabrielle I found her with
Eric and a rooming house out in the filmore. She
begged me to say her her stepmother's murderous games. Then
she knocked me cold.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Hmm, that's trivial. Oh, I've been thinking of the legged
family in terms of Dumont. You bring me a piece
of Jim crackery out of O Henry. I were writing this,
Gabriel would kill her stepmother or do beticans doing it
for her. No, that won't do not sufficient motive. Murder
has to have a motive. You know why she's insane,
isn't she? I wonder are you saying that carelessly? Or
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do you really think she's off?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
She's got a kind of a wild look about her.
Eyes shift from green to brown and back without ever
settling on one color.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
How much have you turned up on her? And you're
snooping around on? Are you who make your living snooping?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Sneering at my curiosity about people and my attempts to
satisfy it.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now, what wasn't different on?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I do mine with the object of putting people in jail,
and I get paid.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
For it, though not as much as I should.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
I do mine with the object of putting people in books,
and I get.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Paid for it. No, not as much as I should. Yeah,
but what good does that? Though?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
What good is putting them in jail?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Do relates? Congestion?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You put enough paper in jail and said he s
wouldn't have it traffic the problems?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Well, then all you have to do is to wait
till one of them kills the other and put the
survivor in jails.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Simple, yeah, but who's gonna kill who?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Perhaps they both have plans, both Gabrielle and her stepmother.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Looks as if you have to guard both of them.
I think I'll settle for my client. As far as
Gabrielle's concerned her husband, I'll be able to watch.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Out for her. What husband see and Eric got married.
Now there you are. You didn't tell me anything about that.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Lord knows how much else is you haven't told me.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I don't go away, Aligram.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Sign here, thank you, Thank you, sir. I wonder what
good Lord?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
This is positively corny. Listen to this, mad I appeal
to you as a friend of my dead husband. Come immediately,
sunset hotel O. Case had a trouble danger, Do not
communicate Gabrielle must not know Sign good to.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Leg it speed. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Did you have this wire sent to me as a prank?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I was just going to ask you, if you send
it to yourself as a prank, I have it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
The key to the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It's a red hearring.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I didn't think that Steven would be able to hold
out very long against his professional curiosity, and I didn't
imagine any thought I would I caught the.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Next bus for Casana.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Casana is a one hotel town pasted on the rocky
side of a young mountain that slopes into the Pacific Ocean,
some eighty miles from San Francisco. I got there at
the eleven something that night, stepped down from the bus
and crossed the street to the Sunset Hotel. I'd keep
your shut up, missus. Leggett registered here. What's your name,
(17:55):
Owen fitz Stephen.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Oh, she left the message for you, said for you
to wait right here and don't leave till she gets back.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yeah, she say where she was going.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Oh, it's probably over.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Visiting with her daughter and new son in law. Knew
over through the cove. How do you get there, Well,
you never be able.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
To find it at night, unless you you went all
the way round by the east road.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Then I'm sure unless you knew the country. Well, how
do you get there in the daytime?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Well, you go.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Down the street, you take the fork on the ocean
side there and follow that up along the cliff.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
It's easily enough found in the daytime.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
But you never, never, never in the world.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, okay, okay, heard you the first time. So I
waited until morning, stupid me. I found the road out
at the point, but I've never really been a road.
The sign of the ledge became staper and staper, until
the path was simply a narrow shelf on the face
(18:48):
of the cliff, the cliff that shared off one hundred
and fifty feet on more to ravel out into the ocean.
A braze from the general direction of China was pushing
fog over the top of the cliff, making a.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Noisy ladder of sea water at the.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Bottom, rounding a corner with a plus of steepness. I
checked my cigarette over the edge and washed it spin downwards,
and that's when I saw it.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I had to go wast steep into the Pacilica left
the body. I got my hands under the.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Arm that's found solid ground for my feet and dragged
it up beyond the high sidemark. It was good through
a legging. Somebody came staggering down the beach. Tomatoes she did, Yeah, Gabriel,
she's dead.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Poor old the witches dead. They take me back to.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Town with you.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Buy me a dream. Sit down there, Sitan, what's the
big idea? Don't you know?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I was sick somehow. I don't think you're that's sick.
I think it could make some sense, since that's a laugh.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
You don't know me.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I've never been able to think clearly the way other
people do.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
No matter what I try to think about, there's a
fog that tries to get.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Between me and it. You understand how horrible it can
become going through life like it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Nobody thinks clearly, no matter what they pretend thinking. It's
a dizzy business.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No matter of catching as many of those foggy glimpses
as you can and fitting them together. The best you
can trouble with you is you've been enjoying your misery.
You've been so busy trying to prove that you're nuts.
It's a wonder you haven't really droven yourself nuts?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
How do you know I haven't.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Because you're too anxious to admit it.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
All right, I'm saying, if you want it that way,
I'm just evil.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
There's something black inside me?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
What was that again?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Something black?
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Everybody knows that about my.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Family, My father too, Who told you that? I always
knew it.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
They say my real mother killed herself, but I know better.
I know how to open the drawer where she keeps
the gun.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Every day.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Gertrude lies on mother's bed and we played killing the Witch. Yeah,
and she comes in in the night and bends over
my crap, and she's changed herself so she looks like
mother instead of the witch. But I know better, and
I hold up the gun with both hands.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's very hard to pull with both hands. It's very
hard to pull the ticket, but I must do it.
Her the witch will eat me up.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
And then there's a big noise and read all over out.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I listen to me. We're beginning to make some sense.
I don't run away from it. Gertrude was lying on
your mother's bed. That's your stepmother.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Yeah, she was my nurse.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
She married father.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
How old were you when your mother died?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Four four and a half.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Did your father know about the game of the gun?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I don't think so that anybody.
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Gertrude said, I must never tell anyone because they'd sent
me away, and I.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Never did, not till I grew up. I was with
Owen fit Stephen. I had a lot to drink.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I told him.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
After that, he began seeing Gertrude, and finally my father died.
But it didn't do her any good because Owen really
loved me.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I'll watch it. Oh, let's get this straight.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You don't have to straighten it out again later on
with the doctor to help you.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
This is to help me.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
When you were a little child, Gertrude taught you that
killing the witch game to use.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You as a murder weapon. I guess your mother. Then
she filled you.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Full of ideas of guilt and fear so you'd keep
quiet about it. When you told the story to Owe
and he blackmailed your stepmother and they knocking off your father,
that made.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You feel responsible for his death? Does that you ran away?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, Gertrude did? I killed her.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Too, You might, but I got it, how I try
and remember?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Was alling up here tonight.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
I thought I heard his voice, but I hear voices sometimes.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I'm hearing it again. Listen, do you hear anything?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I didn't hear anything but the wind and the beat
of the cirt at first. But when I did hear
the voice, I sent Gabby for a doctor before I investigated.
He was pretty badly mangled in the rocks. He'd fallen
nearly as far as he'd pushed.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Gridford was still alive.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I made him as comfortable as I could, and finally
he opened his eyes. Oh, Sam, you mess yourself up.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Good.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, no more rocks for me, not unless you make algatrize.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
You know, I had half an idea when you came
to see me in San Francisco, But you were secretly
nursing some exceptional idiotic theory.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Thanks Owen, But I never had any theory. Oh, thing
dropped into my lap.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I'll be too sure of that, under stand. At present,
I admit nothing. Later on, if I'm forced to, the
very number of my crimes will be to my advantage
on the theory that nobody but a lunatic could have
committed so many.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh, there's not so many. Only Gertrude, you're a co
author the Murder of the lad.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I'd geta like.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
It nonsense crimes and crimes dating from the cradle. Even
literature should help me, not your own books. Why not?
Didn't the critics agree that the Spindley Stiff bore all
the marks of authorial degeneracy? Evidence some to say, my
sweet neck, and I shall wave my mangled body at them,
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A ruin whose crimes and high Heaven have surely brought
sufficient punishment upon me.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, you'll probably make a go of it. Legally, you're
entitled to beat the jumper. Never anybody wasn't it legally?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You mean insane?
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Tell me the truth, same am I?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I think that's what they'll say.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
What that spoils everything? It's no fun if I'm really crack,
no fun.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
At all, period.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And a report just goes to show, doesn't he.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
I mean, if anything like that happened in real life,
you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You mean, if anything like that happened infection?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Oh no, the author is never the guilty party. Well,
but that's not there. The author is never supposed to
be guilty. You're right, you're right, you shouldn't be even assessed.
That maybe a red herring, but type that up all right?
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