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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam Spey Detective Agency. Hello, Hello, Hello Sam, at this
hour on this network. You were expecting maybe Mary Margaret mcbrine,
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Expecting anything, Sam, After all that have you dropped out
of site like that?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Needing not a ripple on the surface.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Before whole days?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Mister livingstone is Sandy, that's a livingstone.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The man you rented the car from me, he's.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Ready to stand on a search party, Sammy and Livingstone
with a reverse twist.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's no joke, Sam, nothing.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
You have no right to worry me.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
License, it's not fare. Where are you to the only
spot on Earth as yet unvisited by the National Geographic Society, sweetheart,
the Veil of Takoloma, And don't try to find it
on a map because it isn't set yourself for my
saga of a crooks tour of the Hitterlands with just
a touch of mysticism, which is why I call it
(01:08):
the rowdy Dowser Caper. All right, Murgatroyd, these will do.
Why are you calling Sos Taylor shop I believe without
my pants or NBC.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
William Spear Radio is outstanding producer director of mystery and
crime drama brings you the Greatest Private Detective of mal
starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures of Sam.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Spaith Dumb Dam dumb Tom.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
When you and we're young, Effie, who else decent?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You said you lost your pants?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Oh? How do they look?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Isn't it early for Halloween? Ooh you made a joke?
You ready?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Woman?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We say they fill it in two Constable Ali Shuttle
North Takhoma, California, from Samuel's Fade, license number one three, seven, five,
nine six, subject the Rowley Dowser Caper. Dear Ali on Wednesday.
It was when I returned to my office of a
fine spring morning.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
To find a note lying on my desk.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Like a big juicy piece of cheese and a mouse trap. Quote,
mister Spade, call North Taca Takaloma three. Unquote North Ta Coloma.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Where have I long distance?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
North Tacolhoma three?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yes the one moment?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Would you repeat the number players.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
North Taklhoma three, North Takahoma three.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Nice diction that is North Taklhoma.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm not kidding, looking up, girl, look it up?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes, said North Tacalhomae.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, she must have found it in the book, because
soon we had encouraging buzzes and clicks. Six operators later
we had punched our way north to the farm at
Slattery Flat. Then we knocked off for lunch while Slim
Slattery repaired the windmill that made the juice. For the
last lap at two o seven pm, victory was in sight.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, damn, this is operated at nine for the tenth time.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh fine are we doing Millie Sambi?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I am actually ringing at North Taklhoma City, A good girl.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hello, Hello, this is the same space. I have a
note here too.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Es.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Yes, mister Spad, you were out of town when I came.
Perhaps you remember me Windle Wisby of Oak Tree Lane, North.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Takalhoma, California, Wendles.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
I employed you a year ago to find.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
A girl who vanished the magician. You made the girl
disappear and couldn't bring her back.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
You may well ask mister Spade how anything could be
worse than that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, this this is.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Ah there, Wendell.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Therefore take it easy talk. I just can't talk about it. Fine, fine,
then write me a nice long letter. This is a
long distance call, and I do no.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
No, no.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
I am sorry, mister Spade, but this has affected me
very deeply.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Look, you promised you'd lay off the magic, Wendell, had
you do misplaced half a woman this time?
Speaker 8 (04:31):
No, I have given up magic, mister Spade. I am
currently employed as third vice president of the second National
Bank of North Taklahoma. All that, yes, sir, all my
star was rising, my future seemed assured. But now a
shadow has fallen over my good name.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Booted along, will you, Wendell? This is costing me money.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I cannot tell you more on the phone, mister Spade.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You must come at once.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
It is extremely urgent.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I see well, prankly, Wendell, I have a feeling I'll
be tied up. The chances are I'll Why was that
I just said, there's one hundred dollars under your desk,
Plotter for a retainer.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
I left it when I came with the note. But
if you have a collection to make.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Supports, O Wendyl, that is the collection. And so it
befell that. Shortly before lunch on the following day, I
guided my rented hack across the ford at.
Speaker 10 (05:23):
Carbor Creek up the high road through Possum Notch and
down into the vale of Takoloma, where I muscled my
way through a flock of geese in the main street
and tied up before the.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Imposing stone facade of the second National Bank. Inside, sitting
in front of the door marked Urban Root President sat
a secretary whose facade looked colder and even more imposing
than the banks. She was shriveling one of the customers
a meek little milk toast in a salt and pepper soup, as.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I infhoned you, my good man President, who was extremely
tied up at the moment.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh, I'm quite aware of that, miss.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I wouldn't bothering for the world.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
But you see, I know I don't see.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
And since you refuse to take the nature of your business,
I refuse you most certainly, dear me.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I didn't mean to refuse anything. It's just that it's
sort of personal and it may I go in.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
You may sit down until I tell you to go in.
Is that clear?
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, I don't I understand.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I don't mind waiting, don't.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Mind at all.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
And now you, sir, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I have an appointment with Wendell Wisby and.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Mister Whisby's in conference with the President Route.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Thanks if you sit down just a minute there, and
you must.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Understand, President Route, this is a matter of family honor.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I shall do, oh I Wendell.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
From mister Spade.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh sorry, I couldn't get here sooner, but it's a
long haul.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
While uh, mister Spade is a friend of mine, President Route,
from my solid days as a magician, A very confident detective.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
By my dad. No, thank you, Wendell. Hey see we uh, we.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Are indeed fortunate to happen with us in this matter.
Speaker 11 (06:57):
Good good, Please sit down, mister Speed. Thanks you are
away of mister Speed. This matters to be held in
strictest confidence. Word must be kept from the depositors at
all cost until.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
But remember President Route, remember the code of the Whisby's.
Should worst come to worst, I shall make good. I
shall make good if it takes.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I understand Wisby, I understand.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Well, mind if I admit I don't, what is it?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Wendough snatcher snatch whom uncle perth our format cash here,
mister Speed, purse snatcher.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Whisby's uncle purse snatcher? What about him?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Everything he has disappeared. Absconded.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
That is a harsh word, President Route. I would prefer
to say he disappeared until we have further.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Proof that money's gone, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
How much money?
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Fifty three thousand dollars from Uncle Purse's accounts?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Huh it?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Maybe he has absconded, President Route. But we must remember
that despite the snatcher surname, uncle Purse is a Wisby,
and the Wisby never lived. Who got away with fifty
three thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
All right, Wisby? He disappeared?
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
May I ask when he disappeared.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Last Friday night about nine o'clock?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Anyone see him go?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Almost everyone his car stall at main and for simmon,
several people saw him trying to start it. He was
acting very strangely.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh how is that? Wendell Well, Clem.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Clobber and Charity Fied and several others spoke to him
from the curb, but he wouldn't answer them. He didn't
say a word to anyone, which is not at all
like uncle Purse snatcher.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Wisby man to me, would you feel sociable with a
setchel full.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Of stolen money on the seat beside you?
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
There you have a point, President rul I can't blame
you for the way you feel, President Rude, but I
must continue to believe the best of uncle person until
mister Spade discovers the worst. And in that dismal eventuality,
please know I intend to pay off the fifty three
thousand dollars plus interest on the installment plan five dollars
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and thirty seven cents per week for forty eight years.
You have my word on it, sir, the word of a.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Wisbye, with which solemn pronouncement Wendell marched out, closely followed
by me Salt and pepper, soup milk. Toast was still
fingering his hat ram looking hopefully at Miss ice Water
for the sign. At Wendell's suggestion, I hustle out to
the Snatcher homestead for a word with Percy's wife, a
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timid little woman with her heart and her eyes known
from one end of the valley to the other, is
ants wistful.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I can hardly think straight these days, mister Spain, so
full of puzzlement this thing.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Has left me, of course, an wistful have.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Another dippers Spain, get down, not you, no thanks. Sam
first was hisself since the well run dry. We had
a pescel of dry windows here in the valley, you know,
but never before. This is the well run dry first,
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and now which way to turn Piper? And he's two
miles down the road. Couldn't afford to bring it in here,
I see. He took to muttering to hisself, saying strange things,
coming home from his work at the bank with a
frown on his face. Stayed there all evening.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What do you mean, strange thing?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I don't recollect very well? He wrote a law book
home one night though out of a clear sky, he
says to me, wistful, honey, didn't you know the punishment
for embezzlement is five to ten years in prison. I
asked what he meant by that, and he said he
thought it might be a good thing for a banker.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And no, well he had something there was The night.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
After that he come home all cheerful, said he thought
he'd figured a way out, found a fellow to help
her get down. I had no idea what purse was thinking,
what fellow rude? I suppose it's Urban's bank he was
(11:03):
fixing to steal from. But then I got word from
my sister ailing over to fog to grove. So Thursday
I left, and when I got back Saturday, he'd gone.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Why did he take his things?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Funny? He did one strange thing for this time of year.
He left his corn.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Teeth behind corn teeth.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
A spare pair of store teeth were corn on the cob.
Pursonal missing Novice. Summer coming on, Yes, blessing, you know
ever since spring I'm gonna have to pierce to spit
up my flower bed by the window. He did it
for a left now that there's no water to go
things with. I loved him so much, mister speed in
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this awful way for marriage too.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I started at Maine and for Simmons Streets and worked
south farm by farm. Everyone seemed to have been sitting
on his front stool Friday night, because all remembered Purse
Snatcher driving out on the south road in his nineteen
nineteen went in six up to a point that is
somewhere between North Takolhoma and Fogerty Glove. I ran out
of witnesses and in piney Crotch. Of all places the
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town beyond, they could guarantee Purse didn't pass through because
the main drag was roped off all Friday night for
the square dance, and thus matters stood. On the third day,
when I limped back to the bank for some reason,
a crowd had gathered in the alleyway next door, riding
it off as a floating crap game. I walked inside,
bobed formally the miss ice Water, then plunked myself down
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at Wendell's desk.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Oh Shaw, I just found I miscalculated in at five
dollars and thirty seven cents per week. I won't have
this paid off until I'm one hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Who knows by then you may even have a wife
and children to support. Look, don't you think you were
a little impetuous with that retainer?
Speaker 7 (13:13):
What retainer?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Mine? One hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
One hundred dollars, Wendell, the one hundred dollars you're stuck
under my desk, Boddy.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
When you hired me, I hired you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You came to my office when I was out of town.
Window you left a note for me to call you.
I talked to you on the telephone.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Well didn't I, mister Spade, Something is very wrong. I
did not talk to you on a telephone at all.
What I thought you were employed by President Rute.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well where is President Ruth?
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
He stepped out some time ago, and there's someone waiting
for him in his office.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Oh you do need to do him, Miss Icewater, Oh
tell me, Prudy mean out there anymore?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Don't like you.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You'll eat toast, but with a difference. The salt peppers
suit had gone very full time plaid spot jacket with
a racing form sticking out of the pocket, my room,
plus fours and wool socks with tassels. He took one
of the president wrote cigars out of his pocket, bit
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off the end and lit it. Then smiled or rather
leered at Miss ice Water.
Speaker 12 (14:19):
Well, honey, I'm sorry twenty three skeedo swuf.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
It happened to be back shortly.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
If you don't be a back number, beautiful popol.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Old mama, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Learn tell cookie, I'll be back.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Live a little baby, live a little.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Golly golly indeed. Uh, Miss ice Water, Hey, Oh what
was that? I don't know his name? A friend of
peasant roots here, he's rather a checked do you think
only now as I went outside in his wig, did
(15:03):
I see what had caused the crowd in the alleyway,
the first sport model convertible into Lokoma Valley since Wally
Reid came through on location, and the first pink one
I'd ever seen.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Wondering the new mill post, I walked into the.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Drug store, found a phone book and checked all twenty
five names. North Takoloma three belonged to the Automic Auto
Courts and Restaurant charity FID proprietress. She was riding herd
on a griddle full of lamb chops when I pulled
up at.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
The count How was that again?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Sunny short to say?
Speaker 9 (15:39):
He's short and scouped on top with a cringe of
hair like sould.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, on a wicked leer in his eye. That's my man.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Well, he wasn't wearing no Barrick Hapner plaid code when
I see him, salt pepper suited wise.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, I know who is he?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Well, he didn't register, but they say his dowser dowser.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Don't know his first name, do youp.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
So where he come from? Satan room six till two
days ago? Ain't seen him around since?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
When did he come here? Eh?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Let me see a codfish ball?
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
That'll be Friday night late the sunny thing. Now think
of it.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
He'd come afoot.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Not by the road but po grit rove, mind you,
but by the trail over the ridge.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Where does it go to, Aunt Charity?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Wind up the old clover place.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
Bandon now, thanks, I'll be you mean nothing.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
We're just ride down where you are and your records
cover around this.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Ain't no growing boy.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Going hiking over the ridge without shupper.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Clean it up now, every scrap, yes small. It had
been dark about two hours when carrying one of Aunt
Charity's best coal oil lanterns, I topped the ridge and
looked down on Clem Claverer's abandoned barn, nestling in a
grove of ancient oaks at the very foot of the hill.
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The moon was bright enough to show up a pair
of grassy ruts leading from the rear of it down
the gully toward the road the Fogerty Grove, a couple
of miles away. On general principles, I blew out the lantern,
then scrambled down on the side heel and up to
the barn door. I couldn't make out anything inside at first,
and then finally something took shape a dark hulk in
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the middle of the floor.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Stupid me.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I lit a match. It was an automobile to the
exact it was Perse Snatcher's nineteen nineteen Went and six.
This hat in the tweet overcoat everyone saw him wearing
Friday Night, were lying across the front seat. I held
the match higher and bent over for a closer look,
whereupon Spade and the match went out together.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade. Three times mean Good Times on NBC.
(18:00):
There's fun for you Sunday with two of your favorite families,
The Blandings and the Harrises. Mister and Missus Blandings stars
Carry Grant and Betsy Drake in the title roles as
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The Phil Harris Alis Fay Show stars Phil and Alice
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William and delivery boy Julius.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes there laughs.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
This Sunday and every Sunday with The Phil Harris Alis
Fay Show and Mister and Missus Blandings. And now back
to the Rowdy Dawser Caper Tonight's Adventure with Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I must apologize constable for succumbing once again to the
traditional nemesis of the private eye. But the ball facts
are simply that I bend over for a closer look
at the went and six and was struck a dastardly
blow on the rear of the head. How long I
remained in communicato, I know not, but I awoke presently,
and with good reason. My pants were on fire. As
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a matter of fact, the entire barn was on fire,
and I was lying in the tonneau the Winton six
swearing purse snatcher's overcoat. The door i'd come in was
a wall of plane likewise the stalls on both sides,
but at the rear were a few square feet of
rotten siding that hadn't caught yet.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
I ordinarily I had have thought twice, but when.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Your pants are a fire, you only think once. So
I ran right through it and took a flying header
into the creek behind the box. It was just as
well I only thought once, since at this moment the
flames reached the Winton's gas tank.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
A good laws, I'm mighty, what have you been up to?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Boys?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Smoking corn? Silk behind Clawbery's barn. Match got away from me?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Well stay right there, left hind magoose squeen.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No one on a later aunt charity. How about the
keta six.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
The dowserfella, Yeah, won't need no keys hunting door open
if he left it open. He's in there now there
it half flat coat and twenty five cents cigar. Help yourself.
Speaker 12 (20:13):
Well, well, hey, mister s right in your dolls dowd business. Yes, yeah,
that's right, Dowser, And you can call me Alonzo.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Sit down, No, no, I'll stand.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
Oh you're lucky you caught me.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
I was just just leaving, so I see.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I was detained, as you probably know over at Klopper's Barn.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Detained.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, Dowser, we'll let that do for the preliminaries. Now,
why'd you just try to kill me?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Kill you?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Well, good heavens man, I.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Did not get careless at a weenie baked Dowser. I
just woke up in the middle of a three alarm fire,
and I don't like it. As a matter of fact,
I'm a little burnt up to use the phrase loosely,
and I just might kick your teeth in I believe me.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
I haven't been near Klopper's barn since Friday.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I had nothing to do with with whatever happened.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Sure, and you had nothing to do with a hundred
buck retainer in the phone call from Wendell Wisby.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
As a matter of fact, you figured with a curious
city fellow like me, on the premises urban roots might
shake down easier bigger apples from the same old tree.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Right, All I did was negotiate a personal.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Lord, if it will you. Rude had his hand on
the tail at the bank, a big hand fifty three
thousand dollars worth, and Snatcher found out about it. What
about you? How'd you get into the angle, the loan,
the shakedown? Where's Uncle Purce Salonzo out of town somewhere?
Speaker 8 (21:28):
I suppose he?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Look, I can't tell you, mister Spain first got as
far as the road to Clem Clubber's barn last Friday night?
Or did he?
Speaker 10 (21:37):
No?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
No, he didn't get that far.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You know, I'd begun to suspect as much. How far
did he get?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I'm sorry, I can't tell you anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Rupe killed him, didn't he?
Speaker 10 (21:47):
No? You?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
How come?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I don't know any more?
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Please?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
What did he do with the body?
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Root wore the coat and.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Dope purses, car out of town so everyone had to
see him. Now, where's the body?
Speaker 9 (21:56):
Let he go? Let me go?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Thusard, he squirted out of my hands like a watermelon sea,
leaving me with a plaid coat, and took off down
the line of automic cavens toward the Automic Restaurant. A
nice high knee action for a little guy. And what
with my burns and contusions, I'm forced to admit he
was widening the gap between us when he rounded the
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corner of the Automic Restaurant, making possibly the gravest era
of his career. Aunt Charity was rounding the same corner,
coming the other way with an.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Onload of wood. Who you don't reckon? He got hisself
a brain conclusion, do you, honey?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know, but he's a weak witness, and Charity
a week witness. What you got there, oh, shoe box?
Fifteen hundred dollars, a few odds and m's and this well,
it looks like an oversized sling shot for slemshot.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
What do you mean slingshot?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Zoey Whittles, where'd you get the idea. His name was
Dowser h driver's license in his wallet. Alonzo P.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Scoggins, who said his.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Name was Dowser, you did. I never said his name
was Dowser. I said he was a dowser.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Oh oh, and then what's a dowser and charity?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
A guy who finds water for people?
Speaker 9 (23:20):
That's what?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, that's nice if you could finds water.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, how well, I'm no experts, soney. But as near
as I can recollect to take this here sling top
port soho, and.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Mister Spade, I can't go through it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And hold yourself, Wendell, remember the cold of the wisby.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
But this sinister revelation has virtually prostrated me, mister Spade.
And you must remember it is now over a year
since my solid days as a magician.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Tut Wendel stout fellow, stiff upper.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
And further, even at the peak of my career, I
was only sketchily acquainted with the feel of dowser.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Hold it.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
There they are, Aunt wistful is sitting on the back
porch with President Rut mister Spade.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
The cold of the wisbees Wendell, Yes, sir, let's go.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I just can't tell you.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I'll pull up with gratefulness.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Iah.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
No, no, Whishful, don't take on show. It's nothing at all.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
It's uh you remember mister Spade, President.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Rut He, of course, of course, hardly seems any time
and all since we met President Route.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Mister Spade, President Root's going to buy the farm.
Speaker 11 (24:38):
Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Touching?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
And he's allowing me ten thousand on it against the
money purse Stow.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That's a generous offer, I thought so, considering there's no
water on the farm.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
He said many times it wouldn't be worth thirty dollars
naked for that water.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, did you say something, Wendell?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Yes, Aunt Whistful, I have great news for you. It
may not be necessary to sell the farm.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
What do you mean, Wendell, we made a deal here.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Maybe the signals are off for now.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
President Rude you recall on a person he'd found a
man to solve his problem. Ant Whistful, I am now
ready to step forward and bring it into the open.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I am that man you what do you mean window.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Since entering the banking field, I divorced myself from magic
and the Allied Dark Arts. Aunt whisful, So I wish
to keep my other talent sub rosa.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
What are you talking about? Wisby?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
President Rude.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
I am a part time dowser.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And he just happens to have his dozing rod along, right, Wendell.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Right, I have reason to believe there is water here
if I can just douse it out window, You're out.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Got shut up, dows away, Wendel, dows away very well.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Now I hold the dowsing fork before me. Thus, then
I turn.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Thus, where does your point, Wendell?
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Let me see toward Aunt Whistle's flower beds.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Ridiculous shut up.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Proceed, wend Though, proceed with the dowsery one step, two,
three four, all the rods pointing down.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Right in the middle.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Flower listens.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
I'll make that twenty thousand, twenty thousand dollars for the
time cash, see not quit it cash, hold.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Out twenty five.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
It's thirty right here is where we day.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
He's thirty five thirty five thousand.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
It has already been dug up.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Looks as if Uncle Purce had dug a hole and
then fill it back up.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Last Friday night, just before nine o'clock. Right, President Route,
you came down for a showdown on those shortages. He
turned up, found him digging the well here and got
a better idea. No, I've talked to the guy who
saw you.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Do it, all right, all right, I killed him.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Right here, right, which is where you came in, Constable,
And since you can take it from here, I shall close,
as always with period and the report.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Right another trial, Sam, another new sphere of everything.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No feel is safe from my talent. Sweetheart, you will
please preserve it for posterity. During the following fifteen second announcement, Scoot.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
School three times Mean Good Times on NBC. This Sunday,
the Glamorous and Unpredictable Tallula brings you another hour and
a half broadcast of The Big Show starring Fred Allen,
Judy Holiday, Joan Davis, Frank One and many more. And
this Sunday's Theater Guild on the Air production is The
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Broadway Comedy the first Year. Starring in this Theater Guild
presentation are Richard Woodmark and Catherine Grayson.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Here it is Friend ah e Fishing Girl.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, yeah, Ellie, this is Sam Boy.
Speaker 8 (28:06):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh oh?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
I thanks Melly?
Speaker 7 (28:13):
What did it saying?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
They just relayed a message from Fogerty grovef. Wendell is
being installed as second vice president tomorrow night at the
Moose Hall.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Oh, he wants me to come, Oh and bring a girl?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Are you game, little one?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
That one way to get the reported Constable Ali Shuttle.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'll do it, Sam, good girl, pack up an emergency
ration of sorghum and hominy grit Sall pull up at
your doorstep in the.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Morning at Aircock Wait, I'll wear my son done it,
and mother hulberts.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Oh, good night, Sam, good night, sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The Adventures of Sam Space are produced, editor and directed
by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn,
Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also in the cast were Peggy Weber,
Berna Felton, Sydney Miller, Alice Wellman, Charles Smith, and Master Piva.
Script Formaite's Adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical scoring by lud Dluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbuster. Join us again next week, same
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time for another adventure with Sam Spade. Tomorrow, Your Hip
Parade plays the Hip Tunes on NBC
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam Spey Detective Agency. Hello, Hello, Hello Sam, at this
hour on this network. You were expecting maybe Mary Margaret mcbrine,
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Expecting anything, Sam, After all that have you dropped out
of site like that?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Needing not a ripple on the surface.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Before whole days?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Mister livingstone is Sandy, that's a livingstone.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The man you rented the car from me, he's.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Ready to stand on a search party, Sammy and Livingstone
with a reverse twist.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's no joke, Sam, nothing.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
You have no right to worry me.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
License, it's not fare. Where are you to the only
spot on Earth as yet unvisited by the National Geographic Society, sweetheart,
the Veil of Takoloma, And don't try to find it
on a map because it isn't set yourself for my
saga of a crooks tour of the Hitterlands with just
a touch of mysticism, which is why I call it
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the rowdy Dowser Caper. All right, Murgatroyd, these will do.
Why are you calling Sos Taylor shop I believe without
my pants or NBC.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
William Spear Radio is outstanding producer director of mystery and
crime drama brings you the Greatest Private Detective of mal
starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures of Sam.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Spaith Dumb Dam dumb Tom.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
When you and we're young, Effie, who else decent?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You said you lost your pants?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Oh? How do they look?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Isn't it early for Halloween? Ooh you made a joke?
You ready?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Woman?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We say they fill it in two Constable Ali Shuttle
North Takhoma, California, from Samuel's Fade, license number one three, seven, five,
nine six, subject the Rowley Dowser Caper. Dear Ali on Wednesday.
It was when I returned to my office of a
fine spring morning.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
To find a note lying on my desk.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Like a big juicy piece of cheese and a mouse trap. Quote,
mister Spade, call North Taca Takaloma three. Unquote North Ta Coloma.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Where have I long distance?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
North Tacolhoma three?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yes the one moment?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Would you repeat the number players.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
North Taklhoma three, North Takahoma three.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Nice diction that is North Taklhoma.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm not kidding, looking up, girl, look it up?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes, said North Tacalhomae.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, she must have found it in the book, because
soon we had encouraging buzzes and clicks. Six operators later
we had punched our way north to the farm at
Slattery Flat. Then we knocked off for lunch while Slim
Slattery repaired the windmill that made the juice. For the
last lap at two o seven pm, victory was in sight.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, damn, this is operated at nine for the tenth time.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh fine are we doing Millie Sambi?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I am actually ringing at North Taklhoma City, A good girl.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hello, Hello, this is the same space. I have a
note here too.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Es.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Yes, mister Spad, you were out of town when I came.
Perhaps you remember me Windle Wisby of Oak Tree Lane, North.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Takalhoma, California, Wendles.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
I employed you a year ago to find.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
A girl who vanished the magician. You made the girl
disappear and couldn't bring her back.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
You may well ask mister Spade how anything could be
worse than that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, this this is.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Ah there, Wendell.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Therefore take it easy talk. I just can't talk about it. Fine, fine,
then write me a nice long letter. This is a
long distance call, and I do no.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
No, no.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
I am sorry, mister Spade, but this has affected me
very deeply.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Look, you promised you'd lay off the magic, Wendell, had
you do misplaced half a woman this time?
Speaker 8 (04:31):
No, I have given up magic, mister Spade. I am
currently employed as third vice president of the second National
Bank of North Taklahoma. All that, yes, sir, all my
star was rising, my future seemed assured. But now a
shadow has fallen over my good name.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Booted along, will you, Wendell? This is costing me money.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I cannot tell you more on the phone, mister Spade.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You must come at once.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
It is extremely urgent.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I see well, prankly, Wendell, I have a feeling I'll
be tied up. The chances are I'll Why was that
I just said, there's one hundred dollars under your desk,
Plotter for a retainer.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
I left it when I came with the note. But
if you have a collection to make.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Supports, O Wendyl, that is the collection. And so it
befell that. Shortly before lunch on the following day, I
guided my rented hack across the ford at.
Speaker 10 (05:23):
Carbor Creek up the high road through Possum Notch and
down into the vale of Takoloma, where I muscled my
way through a flock of geese in the main street
and tied up before the.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Imposing stone facade of the second National Bank. Inside, sitting
in front of the door marked Urban Root President sat
a secretary whose facade looked colder and even more imposing
than the banks. She was shriveling one of the customers
a meek little milk toast in a salt and pepper soup, as.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I infhoned you, my good man President, who was extremely
tied up at the moment.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh, I'm quite aware of that, miss.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I wouldn't bothering for the world.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
But you see, I know I don't see.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
And since you refuse to take the nature of your business,
I refuse you most certainly, dear me.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I didn't mean to refuse anything. It's just that it's
sort of personal and it may I go in.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
You may sit down until I tell you to go in.
Is that clear?
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, I don't I understand.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I don't mind waiting, don't.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Mind at all.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
And now you, sir, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I have an appointment with Wendell Wisby and.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Mister Whisby's in conference with the President Route.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Thanks if you sit down just a minute there, and
you must.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Understand, President Route, this is a matter of family honor.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I shall do, oh I Wendell.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
From mister Spade.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh sorry, I couldn't get here sooner, but it's a
long haul.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
While uh, mister Spade is a friend of mine, President Route,
from my solid days as a magician, A very confident detective.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
By my dad. No, thank you, Wendell. Hey see we uh, we.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Are indeed fortunate to happen with us in this matter.
Speaker 11 (06:57):
Good good, Please sit down, mister Speed. Thanks you are
away of mister Speed. This matters to be held in
strictest confidence. Word must be kept from the depositors at
all cost until.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
But remember President Route, remember the code of the Whisby's.
Should worst come to worst, I shall make good. I
shall make good if it takes.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I understand Wisby, I understand.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Well, mind if I admit I don't, what is it?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Wendough snatcher snatch whom uncle perth our format cash here,
mister Speed, purse snatcher.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Whisby's uncle purse snatcher? What about him?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Everything he has disappeared. Absconded.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
That is a harsh word, President Route. I would prefer
to say he disappeared until we have further.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Proof that money's gone, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
How much money?
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Fifty three thousand dollars from Uncle Purse's accounts?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Huh it?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Maybe he has absconded, President Route. But we must remember
that despite the snatcher surname, uncle Purse is a Wisby,
and the Wisby never lived. Who got away with fifty
three thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
All right, Wisby? He disappeared?
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
May I ask when he disappeared.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Last Friday night about nine o'clock?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Anyone see him go?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Almost everyone his car stall at main and for simmon,
several people saw him trying to start it. He was
acting very strangely.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh how is that? Wendell Well, Clem.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Clobber and Charity Fied and several others spoke to him
from the curb, but he wouldn't answer them. He didn't
say a word to anyone, which is not at all
like uncle Purse snatcher.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Wisby man to me, would you feel sociable with a
setchel full.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Of stolen money on the seat beside you?
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
There you have a point, President rul I can't blame
you for the way you feel, President Rude, but I
must continue to believe the best of uncle person until
mister Spade discovers the worst. And in that dismal eventuality,
please know I intend to pay off the fifty three
thousand dollars plus interest on the installment plan five dollars
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and thirty seven cents per week for forty eight years.
You have my word on it, sir, the word of a.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Wisbye, with which solemn pronouncement Wendell marched out, closely followed
by me Salt and pepper, soup milk. Toast was still
fingering his hat ram looking hopefully at Miss ice Water
for the sign. At Wendell's suggestion, I hustle out to
the Snatcher homestead for a word with Percy's wife, a
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timid little woman with her heart and her eyes known
from one end of the valley to the other, is
ants wistful.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I can hardly think straight these days, mister Spain, so
full of puzzlement this thing.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Has left me, of course, an wistful have.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Another dippers Spain, get down, not you, no thanks. Sam
first was hisself since the well run dry. We had
a pescel of dry windows here in the valley, you know,
but never before. This is the well run dry first,
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and now which way to turn Piper? And he's two
miles down the road. Couldn't afford to bring it in here,
I see. He took to muttering to hisself, saying strange things,
coming home from his work at the bank with a
frown on his face. Stayed there all evening.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What do you mean, strange thing?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I don't recollect very well? He wrote a law book
home one night though out of a clear sky, he
says to me, wistful, honey, didn't you know the punishment
for embezzlement is five to ten years in prison. I
asked what he meant by that, and he said he
thought it might be a good thing for a banker.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And no, well he had something there was The night.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
After that he come home all cheerful, said he thought
he'd figured a way out, found a fellow to help
her get down. I had no idea what purse was thinking,
what fellow rude? I suppose it's Urban's bank he was
(11:03):
fixing to steal from. But then I got word from
my sister ailing over to fog to grove. So Thursday
I left, and when I got back Saturday, he'd gone.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Why did he take his things?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Funny? He did one strange thing for this time of year.
He left his corn.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Teeth behind corn teeth.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
A spare pair of store teeth were corn on the cob.
Pursonal missing Novice. Summer coming on, Yes, blessing, you know
ever since spring I'm gonna have to pierce to spit
up my flower bed by the window. He did it
for a left now that there's no water to go
things with. I loved him so much, mister speed in
(11:53):
this awful way for marriage too.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I started at Maine and for Simmons Streets and worked
south farm by farm. Everyone seemed to have been sitting
on his front stool Friday night, because all remembered Purse
Snatcher driving out on the south road in his nineteen
nineteen went in six up to a point that is
somewhere between North Takolhoma and Fogerty Glove. I ran out
of witnesses and in piney Crotch. Of all places the
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town beyond, they could guarantee Purse didn't pass through because
the main drag was roped off all Friday night for
the square dance, and thus matters stood. On the third day,
when I limped back to the bank for some reason,
a crowd had gathered in the alleyway next door, riding
it off as a floating crap game. I walked inside,
bobed formally the miss ice Water, then plunked myself down
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at Wendell's desk.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Oh Shaw, I just found I miscalculated in at five
dollars and thirty seven cents per week. I won't have
this paid off until I'm one hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Who knows by then you may even have a wife
and children to support. Look, don't you think you were
a little impetuous with that retainer?
Speaker 7 (13:13):
What retainer?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Mine? One hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
One hundred dollars, Wendell, the one hundred dollars you're stuck
under my desk, Boddy.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
When you hired me, I hired you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You came to my office when I was out of town.
Window you left a note for me to call you.
I talked to you on the telephone.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Well didn't I, mister Spade, Something is very wrong. I
did not talk to you on a telephone at all.
What I thought you were employed by President Rute.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well where is President Ruth?
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
He stepped out some time ago, and there's someone waiting
for him in his office.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Oh you do need to do him, Miss Icewater, Oh
tell me, Prudy mean out there anymore?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Don't like you.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You'll eat toast, but with a difference. The salt peppers
suit had gone very full time plaid spot jacket with
a racing form sticking out of the pocket, my room,
plus fours and wool socks with tassels. He took one
of the president wrote cigars out of his pocket, bit
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off the end and lit it. Then smiled or rather
leered at Miss ice Water.
Speaker 12 (14:19):
Well, honey, I'm sorry twenty three skeedo swuf.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
It happened to be back shortly.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
If you don't be a back number, beautiful popol.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Old mama, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Learn tell cookie, I'll be back.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Live a little baby, live a little.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Golly golly indeed. Uh, Miss ice Water, Hey, Oh what
was that? I don't know his name? A friend of
peasant roots here, he's rather a checked do you think
only now as I went outside in his wig, did
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I see what had caused the crowd in the alleyway,
the first sport model convertible into Lokoma Valley since Wally
Reid came through on location, and the first pink one
I'd ever seen.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Wondering the new mill post, I walked into the.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Drug store, found a phone book and checked all twenty
five names. North Takoloma three belonged to the Automic Auto
Courts and Restaurant charity FID proprietress. She was riding herd
on a griddle full of lamb chops when I pulled
up at.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
The count How was that again?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Sunny short to say?
Speaker 9 (15:39):
He's short and scouped on top with a cringe of
hair like sould.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, on a wicked leer in his eye. That's my man.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Well, he wasn't wearing no Barrick Hapner plaid code when
I see him, salt pepper suited wise.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, I know who is he?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Well, he didn't register, but they say his dowser dowser.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Don't know his first name, do youp.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
So where he come from? Satan room six till two
days ago? Ain't seen him around since?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
When did he come here? Eh?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Let me see a codfish ball?
Speaker 10 (16:05):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
That'll be Friday night late the sunny thing. Now think
of it.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
He'd come afoot.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Not by the road but po grit rove, mind you,
but by the trail over the ridge.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Where does it go to, Aunt Charity?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Wind up the old clover place.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
Bandon now, thanks, I'll be you mean nothing.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
We're just ride down where you are and your records
cover around this.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Ain't no growing boy.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Going hiking over the ridge without shupper.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Clean it up now, every scrap, yes small. It had
been dark about two hours when carrying one of Aunt
Charity's best coal oil lanterns, I topped the ridge and
looked down on Clem Claverer's abandoned barn, nestling in a
grove of ancient oaks at the very foot of the hill.
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The moon was bright enough to show up a pair
of grassy ruts leading from the rear of it down
the gully toward the road the Fogerty Grove, a couple
of miles away. On general principles, I blew out the lantern,
then scrambled down on the side heel and up to
the barn door. I couldn't make out anything inside at first,
and then finally something took shape a dark hulk in
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the middle of the floor.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Stupid me.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I lit a match. It was an automobile to the
exact it was Perse Snatcher's nineteen nineteen Went and six.
This hat in the tweet overcoat everyone saw him wearing
Friday Night, were lying across the front seat. I held
the match higher and bent over for a closer look,
whereupon Spade and the match went out together.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade. Three times mean Good Times on NBC.
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There's fun for you Sunday with two of your favorite families,
The Blandings and the Harrises. Mister and Missus Blandings stars
Carry Grant and Betsy Drake in the title roles as
the proud but somewhat bewildered owners of the famous dream House.
The Phil Harris Alis Fay Show stars Phil and Alice
of course, plus ever helpful Frank You, Remley by the
William and delivery boy Julius.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes there laughs.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
This Sunday and every Sunday with The Phil Harris Alis
Fay Show and Mister and Missus Blandings. And now back
to the Rowdy Dawser Caper Tonight's Adventure with Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I must apologize constable for succumbing once again to the
traditional nemesis of the private eye. But the ball facts
are simply that I bend over for a closer look
at the went and six and was struck a dastardly
blow on the rear of the head. How long I
remained in communicato, I know not, but I awoke presently,
and with good reason. My pants were on fire. As
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a matter of fact, the entire barn was on fire,
and I was lying in the tonneau the Winton six
swearing purse snatcher's overcoat. The door i'd come in was
a wall of plane likewise the stalls on both sides,
but at the rear were a few square feet of
rotten siding that hadn't caught yet.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
I ordinarily I had have thought twice, but when.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Your pants are a fire, you only think once. So
I ran right through it and took a flying header
into the creek behind the box. It was just as
well I only thought once, since at this moment the
flames reached the Winton's gas tank.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
A good laws, I'm mighty, what have you been up to?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Boys?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Smoking corn? Silk behind Clawbery's barn. Match got away from me?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Well stay right there, left hind magoose squeen.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No one on a later aunt charity. How about the
keta six.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
The dowserfella, Yeah, won't need no keys hunting door open
if he left it open. He's in there now there
it half flat coat and twenty five cents cigar. Help yourself.
Speaker 12 (20:13):
Well, well, hey, mister s right in your dolls dowd business. Yes, yeah,
that's right, Dowser, And you can call me Alonzo.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Sit down, No, no, I'll stand.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
Oh you're lucky you caught me.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
I was just just leaving, so I see.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I was detained, as you probably know over at Klopper's Barn.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Detained.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, Dowser, we'll let that do for the preliminaries. Now,
why'd you just try to kill me?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Kill you?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Well, good heavens man, I.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Did not get careless at a weenie baked Dowser. I
just woke up in the middle of a three alarm fire,
and I don't like it. As a matter of fact,
I'm a little burnt up to use the phrase loosely,
and I just might kick your teeth in I believe me.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
I haven't been near Klopper's barn since Friday.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I had nothing to do with with whatever happened.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Sure, and you had nothing to do with a hundred
buck retainer in the phone call from Wendell Wisby.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
As a matter of fact, you figured with a curious
city fellow like me, on the premises urban roots might
shake down easier bigger apples from the same old tree.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Right, All I did was negotiate a personal.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Lord, if it will you. Rude had his hand on
the tail at the bank, a big hand fifty three
thousand dollars worth, and Snatcher found out about it. What
about you? How'd you get into the angle, the loan,
the shakedown? Where's Uncle Purce Salonzo out of town somewhere?
Speaker 8 (21:28):
I suppose he?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Look, I can't tell you, mister Spain first got as
far as the road to Clem Clubber's barn last Friday night?
Or did he?
Speaker 10 (21:37):
No?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
No, he didn't get that far.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You know, I'd begun to suspect as much. How far
did he get?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I'm sorry, I can't tell you anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Rupe killed him, didn't he?
Speaker 10 (21:47):
No? You?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
How come?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I don't know any more?
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Please?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
What did he do with the body?
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Root wore the coat and.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Dope purses, car out of town so everyone had to
see him. Now, where's the body?
Speaker 9 (21:56):
Let he go? Let me go?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Thusard, he squirted out of my hands like a watermelon sea,
leaving me with a plaid coat, and took off down
the line of automic cavens toward the Automic Restaurant. A
nice high knee action for a little guy. And what
with my burns and contusions, I'm forced to admit he
was widening the gap between us when he rounded the
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corner of the Automic Restaurant, making possibly the gravest era
of his career. Aunt Charity was rounding the same corner,
coming the other way with an.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Onload of wood. Who you don't reckon? He got hisself
a brain conclusion, do you, honey?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know, but he's a weak witness, and Charity
a week witness. What you got there, oh, shoe box?
Fifteen hundred dollars, a few odds and m's and this well,
it looks like an oversized sling shot for slemshot.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
What do you mean slingshot?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Zoey Whittles, where'd you get the idea. His name was
Dowser h driver's license in his wallet. Alonzo P.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Scoggins, who said his.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Name was Dowser, you did. I never said his name
was Dowser. I said he was a dowser.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Oh oh, and then what's a dowser and charity?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
A guy who finds water for people?
Speaker 9 (23:20):
That's what?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, that's nice if you could finds water.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, how well, I'm no experts, soney. But as near
as I can recollect to take this here sling top
port soho, and.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Mister Spade, I can't go through it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And hold yourself, Wendell, remember the cold of the wisby.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
But this sinister revelation has virtually prostrated me, mister Spade.
And you must remember it is now over a year
since my solid days as a magician.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Tut Wendel stout fellow, stiff upper.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
And further, even at the peak of my career, I
was only sketchily acquainted with the feel of dowser.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Hold it.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
There they are, Aunt wistful is sitting on the back
porch with President Rut mister Spade.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
The cold of the wisbees Wendell, Yes, sir, let's go.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I just can't tell you.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I'll pull up with gratefulness.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Iah.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
No, no, Whishful, don't take on show. It's nothing at all.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
It's uh you remember mister Spade, President.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Rut He, of course, of course, hardly seems any time
and all since we met President Route.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Mister Spade, President Root's going to buy the farm.
Speaker 11 (24:38):
Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Touching?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
And he's allowing me ten thousand on it against the
money purse Stow.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That's a generous offer, I thought so, considering there's no
water on the farm.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
He said many times it wouldn't be worth thirty dollars
naked for that water.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, did you say something, Wendell?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Yes, Aunt Whistful, I have great news for you. It
may not be necessary to sell the farm.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
What do you mean, Wendell, we made a deal here.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Maybe the signals are off for now.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
President Rude you recall on a person he'd found a
man to solve his problem. Ant Whistful, I am now
ready to step forward and bring it into the open.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I am that man you what do you mean window.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Since entering the banking field, I divorced myself from magic
and the Allied Dark Arts. Aunt whisful, So I wish
to keep my other talent sub rosa.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
What are you talking about? Wisby?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
President Rude.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
I am a part time dowser.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And he just happens to have his dozing rod along, right, Wendell.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Right, I have reason to believe there is water here
if I can just douse it out window, You're out.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Got shut up, dows away, Wendel, dows away very well.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Now I hold the dowsing fork before me. Thus, then
I turn.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Thus, where does your point, Wendell?
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Let me see toward Aunt Whistle's flower beds.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Ridiculous shut up.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Proceed, wend Though, proceed with the dowsery one step, two,
three four, all the rods pointing down.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Right in the middle.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Flower listens.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
I'll make that twenty thousand, twenty thousand dollars for the
time cash, see not quit it cash, hold.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Out twenty five.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
It's thirty right here is where we day.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
He's thirty five thirty five thousand.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
It has already been dug up.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Looks as if Uncle Purce had dug a hole and
then fill it back up.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Last Friday night, just before nine o'clock. Right, President Route,
you came down for a showdown on those shortages. He
turned up, found him digging the well here and got
a better idea. No, I've talked to the guy who
saw you.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Do it, all right, all right, I killed him.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Right here, right, which is where you came in, Constable,
And since you can take it from here, I shall close,
as always with period and the report.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Right another trial, Sam, another new sphere of everything.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No feel is safe from my talent. Sweetheart, you will
please preserve it for posterity. During the following fifteen second announcement, Scoot.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
School three times Mean Good Times on NBC. This Sunday,
the Glamorous and Unpredictable Tallula brings you another hour and
a half broadcast of The Big Show starring Fred Allen,
Judy Holiday, Joan Davis, Frank One and many more. And
this Sunday's Theater Guild on the Air production is The
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Broadway Comedy the first Year. Starring in this Theater Guild
presentation are Richard Woodmark and Catherine Grayson.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Here it is Friend ah e Fishing Girl.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, yeah, Ellie, this is Sam Boy.
Speaker 8 (28:06):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh oh?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
I thanks Melly?
Speaker 7 (28:13):
What did it saying?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
They just relayed a message from Fogerty grovef. Wendell is
being installed as second vice president tomorrow night at the
Moose Hall.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Oh, he wants me to come, Oh and bring a girl?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Are you game, little one?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
That one way to get the reported Constable Ali Shuttle.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'll do it, Sam, good girl, pack up an emergency
ration of sorghum and hominy grit Sall pull up at
your doorstep in the.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Morning at Aircock Wait, I'll wear my son done it,
and mother hulberts.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Oh, good night, Sam, good night, sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The Adventures of Sam Space are produced, editor and directed
by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn,
Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also in the cast were Peggy Weber,
Berna Felton, Sydney Miller, Alice Wellman, Charles Smith, and Master Piva.
Script Formaite's Adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical scoring by lud Dluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbuster. Join us again next week, same
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time for another adventure with Sam Spade. Tomorrow, Your Hip
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