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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
State Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
The Raven nevermore?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, this is me? Is this mister Pray?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yes? But Christmas Parine?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Why are you eating a peanut butter sandwich.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
At this time of night?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Why are you allusion to Paul's raven? Didn't we do
assignment among the middle rounds?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It certainly was. There was rowing it from Ivan Hall,
a Loss Leonora and no Place Ralph, and a Horrs.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
From the car off of the same name, distinguished.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Have you got a call that?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Well, then there was a carnavorous plant, a hideous meat
eating specimen of the botanical world, trying to take two
fingers off me.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Well I've got three fingers here.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm pretty half I can see you and Santa me
terribly amusing tonight. But even so, I intend to come
right down.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
And dictate my report on the stopped Watchcaper or Time
Stood Still.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
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looking over.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That's a mighty sharp routine.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
You give a poene on the phone.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Who are you, Sam?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Don't you remember me? Huffy?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Certainly not Buffy Buffy. Wait a minute, do I sense
a certain family resemblance? No, you can't be Effy's little sister, Buffy.
Yees the girl?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Now the thanks anyway for the tinker toys you.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Sent me last Christmas.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I intend to start having children of my own, just
as soon.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
As it's practical.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Where's that Buff?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
She had to go to La to visit a sixth.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Friends a likely story, well really chapter and first place Saint.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Joseph's Hospital in Burbeck. They went to school together. And
her name is Loreen Cattle.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
She's an actress.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yes, I know, a very fine actress. Is it serious?
Speaker 7 (03:14):
I hope not?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
For Rety's sake.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
They're very close.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah. Well what now? You take shorthand Buff sort spoiling
to get trooperen come on in.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, I hope it's good and gruesome.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I take it back.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I meant the caper, not what your dreams are.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, Buff, you win? Ready?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Date April Tien, nineteen forty nine to WDY Sheriff Bill Woodington,
Marin County Sheriff's Harvest Sandra Fell, California, from Samuel Spade
license number. Oh, steady listener, subject they stopped watch caper
there Bill, here's ya turned out? And if I have
a phone you for advice again, I'll take it because
you were right. She was loaded.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
About those threatening letters, Sam, don't give him another thought.
Old lady Raven's had me up there a dozen times
the last six weeks. Got threatening letters, she got prowlers.
But when I got there, she can't find the letters.
And the way that house is tucked away in the woods,
I don't think a prowler could find it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
How do I find it though?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Either gray line buscle right by the gate Mountea Fellot
rode about three miles out.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Of a rock spring.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh, that sign's pretty ragged. You say she's a crank,
but you've got money, Sam, Oh, the poor old saw.
And you got a niece. Huh, yeah, over twenty three.
But she's stacked the old lady's letter. The niece is stacked.
Who else lives that?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, there's a butler.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Somebody blatting his head when he was young. He wears
his bangs to call attention to it. Go to shuffles
around the house. Do you want to see him out
of the what's chasing them?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Over?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Brown? The squirrels quick as a deer?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Huh yeah, and never mind, never mind, you saw me
all these marbles I have got to see. It was
only three and the PM, and I skulped in through
the gates of Raven's Wood. But it was so dark
that who the owls hadn't gone to bed yet. The
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fog snaked in and out through the dripping trees, long
chill ribbons of ghastly fog born on a sobbing wind.
I much sign into the deepening gloom of the forest primetle.
After ten minutes of then it again, I wonder if
there was any house there. When I saw it, I
still wanted it looked more like a fungus broke. Yeah, eh,
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speak of the English.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
It is cheer yount it sir? Won't you come in?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Uh? Sure? Why not? Yeah? Yes, I expected that.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
If you'll be so kind as to wait here, sir
and form mister Roreena, you're arrival.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Thank you, Jimmy Steward Boris.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Who's out there?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
The matter for headlock?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Also? Were your brute? Oh where's it? Did you say? Hemlock?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Oh you must be my aunt's detective Spade, It is right,
I'm Ralph raising Come along with me, Spa'd off something
interesting to show you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Ralph Raven was the one member of the household you
hadn't described to me, and no wonder the wasted. The
figure that looked up at me from the wheelchair was
more like a ghost than a man. His face was
chalk white, so white it seemed almost luminous, and the
skin clung so close to his scar I seemed to
be no flesh beneath it, and his wide staring eyes
looked like two cups of black coffee and a snow
white tablecloth. I followed him. There were a glass and
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closed room only slightly larger in the garden court of
the plaza. The humidity was several points higher than the
dripping woods, and the temperature were several degrees lower, but
the plants he had going the f one. As I
edged nervously through the dense, quivering foliage, I noticed the
strange looking yellow green pod, not the size of a
milk bottle, at the end of a long tubular stem.
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It leaned over, opened as rapt in my mouth, and said,
what is that thing?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh? That's my sound? Senior gigantosa meat eating carnivorous plants.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Don't be frightened.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I just said it. Don't tell me you know what
it eats. Actually, it means that it does a by card.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
No, perfectly healthy. It's merely part of the digestive process.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Even as you and that not me, but over here
you're a detective. These pasta interest. You don't touch that
man Drake.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Never thought of it.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It won't cry out no vocal cords. Very sensitive and
deadly poisonous. And see here these pretty purple blossoms. Yes,
very source of an alkaloid poison favored by the porges
and the white helliboy. I use it in compounding veratria poison.
So ancient it would probably go on detected in the
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police laboratories of today. And here's a charming one, both
a killer and a medicine belladonna or deadly night shade
sort of acrophy. And this is commonly known as nux
vomica produce. Is not one but two deadly poisonous, the
well known stripnine and the rare and not easily detectable brucie.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, well it's quite a hobby.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's not a mere hobby, mister Spade, it's a practical science.
All the plants in this conservatory have their fatal properties,
and all played a role in the great kinds of history?
Did my act get another threatening letter? So she says,
odd that she should fear death at her age, and
odd that she should hire a bodyguard. How does she
know how it'll come?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
It might be poisoned?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Speaking of prisons. Rather, there, it's time for your medicine,
o Spade, my sister.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
The last Lenora?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Are you do?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Missus?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Spain?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Here? Alfh think?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Why does it always have to be in milk?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
And look here?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
It's not time anyway? Oh, it's confounded.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Watch is stopped again, Spait.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What time did you have? Why it's three? Uh, that's funny.
My watch has stopped too. I didn't know then what
that meant. In fact, if you work on the last
page of this report, devity, there you'll see that the
stop watch was the key of a whole puzzle. I
protested my failure to realize the significance at that moment,
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and absolutely nothing. As ever, the fact that my clients
may is Leonora Raven was it's use so rougeously, But
it stack about there Boris the buckler bobbed up and
beckoned me on the balustrade. I followed them upstairs and
was hushing into the austere and regal presence of my
client Roweno Ravens Bors.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yes, math four bars I just remembered, Yes, madam, they're
on the occasional table. My watch or why don't you
take it around the watchmakers in the morning. It's on
the fritz against this man there's the Spade, and must
apologize for keeping you waiting. That's sorry, my watch hasn't
been keeping proper time every since those threatening letters started.
Would that be a clue, mister Spade?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Uh, maybe we'd better started a letter.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Missus rain, I can't find them anywhere. I think that
young man from the chairs office must.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Have pinched him.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Bill Wedington, we're all the same.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's very odd every time he comes here he can't
find them.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Well, where did you put him, missus Ravens, Right there
on the occasional table?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, well, Missus Ravens. Sometimes people have very father dreams.
Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with their minds or anything
like that.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Top just like doctor Slawser that young sawbones my knee
sent around, looks my tiatica siatic is nothing but a pain?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
How can you look at it?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's a lot of ball. Yeah, I warned a lot
of say missus Raven.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's why I wondered about my watch, whichispade. The letters
always contained some reference to time. Your time is running out.
Beware when time moves slowly, soon it may stop all together.
That's sort of things you think there could be a connection.
I mean, has there's someone been tampering with my watch?
Repair man doesn't know what's causing.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
It to lose.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Did he think it might have been tampered?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, no, he thought it was something in the moment,
magnetism or something.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Well, that sounds like a lot of hooey.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I lived here forty years. My wife's never lost a minute.
Something in the mouth, my eye, something in this house
more like or somebody he ask me, he's not half
so sick as he pretends to be your nephew.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, I think he's a very sick man.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I wonder sitting in that damn conservatory day after day,
pattering over those fiendish poisonous plants, you see, the one
that eats mice and hamburgers.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yes, I did what's supposed to be the matter with
your nephew, Missus ravens Oh, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
In an auto accident, injured his neck. They had to
remove part of a gland or something, But doctor Flosser
says it's in good condition aside from that, and if
he takes his medicine faithfully, there's no reason why he
should come in.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Ah, Missus Gray, but how is that's paid?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
This as worse?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Thank you doctor's loss?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Spade?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Yes, the detective you engaged to investigate those letters you've been.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Mister Spade is an inside job, don't you miss this?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Spabe?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Well, I have the pens on what you mean by
an inside inside that romantic imagination of yours, My dear
old still.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Now give your shot?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I love being jam No, that wasn't so bad? Can
I work?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
How Ralph getting on? Doctor?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Not well?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I'm afraid he doesn't seem to be responding to the Ah,
Missus Raven, what.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Is it you?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The cry she had it was only half as terrible
as the expression on her pain contorted face. She fetched
forward on her chair with both clinched and shaking as
at an anger. The doctor standing before her, he put
down the empty hypodermic on the occasional table he carried
to the Yeah, sure, take me that pillow.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
She was fly pubfectly fat. There that's better. Now she's
relative time, missus raven.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It was only savage to make you sleep.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Running out the poor.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Woman malignant condition, only a matter of time, as you
know that she has only a short time to live. Oh, yes,
there I have another call.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Do you have the time?
Speaker 6 (13:31):
My watch seems to stop. No, no, I beg your problem.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Nothing, I left my watch at home.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Oh said something terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You want to sleep, you better come down to the conservatory.
Ride away. Ralph is in terrible pain.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
What kinds of pain?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
He keeps saying he's been poisoned?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Well, come along, you take that hype into the kitchen,
law and sterilized.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Where is on the table?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
There he stopped on his tracks. His mouth fell open,
and he gave the table, got way, put down the
hyper and this place that appeared two items an old
fashioned lady's watching a note written in green ink. Then
out said time must have a stop. I think up
the watching hellets in my ear. You guess it it
wasn't ticking. I had a hunch my client wasn't either,
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Speaker 2 (15:59):
Well, well, where are you.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Heyway over here, oh Spade, keep them away from me.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah, I came as soon as I call it. Tell
me your symptom.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
No, I'm phone for another doctor. He's on his way now, Spade,
my aunt.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Take me to her. I must tell her, tell her
what I'm afraid. We have some bad news for you round.
Your aunt is dead.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh so you poisoned her too, Ralph, you're sick. You
don't know what you're saying. She's been to every specialist
in the country. They all said the same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
We all said she was good for another three months.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
My dear boy. In these cases, any doctor's guess he
is as bad as Nick.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Please, Ralph, you're very sick. Please let Goo Big examine you.
If it's what you think. The other doctor may be
too late?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Why not? Why should I fear death?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
That's better?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Now let me see your eyes so so open the mouth.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So what is it?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
He's right, it is poison.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yes, And you stillize that needed for Ralph shops this
small and did you pick up the wrong bottle?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Not strange day straight, But don't worry about there's a
very simple actitude.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You should, my dear, Indeed you shoot And that was that,
deputy dear, two doctors and the country part. It's but
one look at my late client's medical history and decided
on death, build a natural causes. I didn't think so,
and neither the jew.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
So they really were threatening letters.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I saw him? You sure not, Sam, Sure, I'm sure?
What'd you say? It was on the occasional table? What
was you doing when it wasn't a table? Not occasionally occasional?
Oh just any old table, no bill, now, belle, get this,
it's real deep. An occasional table is a table that
a woman flicks up at a bargain and puts into
a room, and of a mistaken and price that may
come in handy someday. Missus Raven used hers as a
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catch off for her unanswered correspondence. Threatening letters included don't
what happened to one you saw? I don't know. I
put it right here in my coat pocket along with
a watch. It just disappeared. Yeah, that might be tampering
with evidence. Listen, well, thanks for disappearing from that table
almost as fast as other things showed up. Sounds like
pack rat. You follow that up, Bill, I'm gonna pack
up and right out of here. Now, look same, My
client's dead. It's officially okay. I haven't made a penny
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out of the cable, and now I'm not likely to. Sorry,
Do you give me a lift back of the toll gator?
Do I hitchhi? There's your answer?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
When we reached the second bedroom, once the screen had come,
we found the lost Lenor looking well, found in something comfortable.
She's standing set of stage, reguiding herself with horror at
a full length mirror. She looks uncle crail joone. You
gotta get downstairs and get some nice water, she might think,
You think, so, yeah, hurry up. I'll stay here and
keep up a circulation in case anything happens. Yeah, you're right,
beat it, you thought, what?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Look? I found these on my pillow.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
One watch, one threatening letter, Who's what mine?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I left it on the dressing table when I went
into cream my face. I came out. Somebody had slipped
this under on the dressing table under my pillow.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You said, an your pillow.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I meant under, I mean on, I don't know what
I mean. What are you trying to do to me?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He was trying to get things straight.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But a note. Look at it. It's exactly the same
as the one he left in my arms.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Green.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Why do you say he do?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yes, I don't. It's because I don't trust Ludwick, doctor Slusson.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That is, he doesn't trust you either.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
But he pretended to think I might have picked up
the wrong bottle while he was acting.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Couldn't you see you've done a bad job yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I'm not acting, not anymore. Listen to me. Listen. He's
acted strangely ever since I foolishly said I'd marry him.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I wouldn't myself.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Then, Darling, don't joke.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I don't mean like that made him.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He he got me out of a jam one the
accident whom my brother was hurt. I went for a
doctor and he happened to be the nearest one. I'd
been drinking, and he took over and he sent me
home before the police arrived at the scene. Didn't Ralph
know he blinded out? He doesn't know to this day.
Ludwig never forgot. He forced me to recommend him to
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my aunt. He got into a good grace's practically moved
into the house. Then he pretended to make love to me,
pretended he didn't care about me till he found out
about my aunt. Didn't have long to live. He knew
half the money would come to me. Sam, Do you
think he poisoned my aunt?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Offessional? As he died from natural causes?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But you said she spoke about being poisoned and Ralph too.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
What's that medicine you give him in the milk?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I don't know. It's this a prescription, just some drops
that come in a in a metal container.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Where do you keep those drops? Here?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
There in my room?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I have to hide them.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
They make Ralph feel so much better. He used to
overdose when the doctor trusted him to dose himself.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Let me see that medicine.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's just here in this cabinet. Here it is.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Don't tell me it's empty.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
There was a glass bottle inside the container.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Mmm, small but heavy? Lad? Yet, Hey, what are you
doing with that? Guide? The thame of the dials and
this phaenomenon said, that's.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Something medical life have to make a test on Ralph
every day to see how he's getting along.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You know what that actually is, Yes, I do it.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It detects anemia.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, I wouldn't know about that, but a Geiger counter
is generally used to detect something else.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I'm going prospecting for that missing medicine. Ah, there you are.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I'd been looking everywhere for you. I'm afraid I have
bad news for you. In all, Ralph, my diagnosis was correct,
nicias ademia. Well it's that you are carrying, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh and I think special doctor is just an old
Geiger counter? Then all? Did you let him take it?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
He said he was going to use it to find
Ralph's medicine.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
What happened to Ralph's medicine?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
It's just gone, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That machinery is my property.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
I'm start you to haunts it over.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
No gun necessary, doctor here, take your gun too, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Then all carries a machine this way walk ahead of us.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
First we try the conservatory. It was a en amateur
with a gun, but I didn't jump on for it
because I'm an ameter. The geiger I did notice that
the indicator and the dryer got nervous and then we
walked into the conservatory. Ralph Raven's body was still in
a wheelchair. No paler in depth and in life. His
sightless eyes were fixed on that obscene plant. The plant
looks thick too. It was grooving, and his red mouth
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was hanging open. He walked past the wheelchair, the indicator
and the drying of the Geiger counter moved forward and
then slipped back again. Then it took a sudden, big jump.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
So that's was his hiding case. The Mars got disgusting,
condiguous plant.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
This is not pleasant.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
That's only one way to get it. Don't move either,
one of you. My eye is on you, Yes, yes,
it's here.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
At first I thought the planet at bitten him.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
And then he pulled his hand out and I saw
what had happened. There was a hypodermic god lets stuck
in the heel of his hand, a surprised mean no end,
but he still managed to hold ond of that gun.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
He swinging away from the was houlding an eleonora.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
You knew no, no, I didn't. You must have dropped you.
You must have told you no, I swear he didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Let's use to die and leave you behind to enjoy
some money I got for you, so you will come
with me.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
No, you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Are you looking at what's behind me?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Don't bother Russ and Sam?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm God hold it though. Yeah, how's that for shooting Sam? Yeah?
You find a bullet haul in him, Dell and I'll
call it good man, That deputy. There is the crop
and it's all carnivorous. In case you're still wondering what
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dropped him when your shots missed, it was the poison
in that hypodermic neddle, which Rouse had planted there for
that very purpose, and then baited the trap of the
all important missing medicine. Later on, I learned that what
the doctor had been feeding him the right medicine for
what ailed him, and isotope of iodine. It seems it's
radioactive like uranium, but it could take too much of
it get die. Not a poisoning, but a pernicious anemia,
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which is how the doctor planned for Ralph to die.
It also magnetizes watches so they don't keep the right time,
and of the cheap ones like mine, they may stop
all together. Period and a report got all right, Buffy,
I got Buffy people have studied all their lives to
learn about atomic stuff like isotopes, and you expect me
to teach you everything in one easy lesson.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh no, Sam, I know about that. But who killed who?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Whom? Dear? The doctor killed everyone, but Ralph loaded the
needle and they were a competition. No buff get this
is real, shallow. Ralph knew there was no way in
the world to prove that the doctor was killing him
and hastening his hands to mind, so he saw to
her that she got a dose of detectable poison and
did himself the same. Favorite. Oh like a good girl,
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And I certainly hope that Butler was brought to justice,
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Hey, brilliant introduction. How did you deduce Sam?
Speaker 6 (25:44):
That's the chit?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Because Ralph was too ill to walk and somebody had
to push him upstairs.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
In a wheelchair.
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It wouldn't have been easier just to carry him.
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How he did it? Er?
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Uh, just go up himself? What possibly? And then again
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The Raven nevermore?
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At this time of night?
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It certainly was. There was rowing it from Ivan Hall,
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From the car off of the same name, distinguished.
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Have you got a call that?
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No?
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Well, then there was a carnavorous plant, a hideous meat
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looking over.
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That's a mighty sharp routine.
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You give a poene on the phone.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Who are you, Sam?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Don't you remember me? Huffy?
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Certainly not Buffy Buffy. Wait a minute, do I sense
a certain family resemblance? No, you can't be Effy's little sister, Buffy.
Yees the girl?
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Now the thanks anyway for the tinker toys you.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Sent me last Christmas.
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I intend to start having children of my own, just
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Speaker 6 (02:58):
As it's practical.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Where's that Buff?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
She had to go to La to visit a sixth.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Friends a likely story, well really chapter and first place Saint.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Joseph's Hospital in Burbeck. They went to school together. And
her name is Loreen Cattle.
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She's an actress.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yes, I know, a very fine actress. Is it serious?
Speaker 7 (03:14):
I hope not?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
For Rety's sake.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
They're very close.
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Yeah. Well what now? You take shorthand Buff sort spoiling
to get trooperen come on in.
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Well, I hope it's good and gruesome.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I take it back.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I meant the caper, not what your dreams are.
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Okay, Buff, you win? Ready?
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Why not?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Date April Tien, nineteen forty nine to WDY Sheriff Bill Woodington,
Marin County Sheriff's Harvest Sandra Fell, California, from Samuel Spade
license number. Oh, steady listener, subject they stopped watch caper
there Bill, here's ya turned out? And if I have
a phone you for advice again, I'll take it because
you were right. She was loaded.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
About those threatening letters, Sam, don't give him another thought.
Old lady Raven's had me up there a dozen times
the last six weeks. Got threatening letters, she got prowlers.
But when I got there, she can't find the letters.
And the way that house is tucked away in the woods,
I don't think a prowler could find it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
How do I find it though?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Either gray line buscle right by the gate Mountea Fellot
rode about three miles out.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Of a rock spring.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh, that sign's pretty ragged. You say she's a crank,
but you've got money, Sam, Oh, the poor old saw.
And you got a niece. Huh, yeah, over twenty three.
But she's stacked the old lady's letter. The niece is stacked.
Who else lives that?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, there's a butler.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Somebody blatting his head when he was young. He wears
his bangs to call attention to it. Go to shuffles
around the house. Do you want to see him out
of the what's chasing them?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Over?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Brown? The squirrels quick as a deer?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Huh yeah, and never mind, never mind, you saw me
all these marbles I have got to see. It was
only three and the PM, and I skulped in through
the gates of Raven's Wood. But it was so dark
that who the owls hadn't gone to bed yet. The
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fog snaked in and out through the dripping trees, long
chill ribbons of ghastly fog born on a sobbing wind.
I much sign into the deepening gloom of the forest primetle.
After ten minutes of then it again, I wonder if
there was any house there. When I saw it, I
still wanted it looked more like a fungus broke. Yeah, eh,
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speak of the English.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
It is cheer yount it sir? Won't you come in?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Uh? Sure? Why not? Yeah? Yes, I expected that.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
If you'll be so kind as to wait here, sir
and form mister Roreena, you're arrival.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Thank you, Jimmy Steward Boris.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Who's out there?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
The matter for headlock?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Also? Were your brute? Oh where's it? Did you say? Hemlock?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Oh you must be my aunt's detective Spade, It is right,
I'm Ralph raising Come along with me, Spa'd off something
interesting to show you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Ralph Raven was the one member of the household you
hadn't described to me, and no wonder the wasted. The
figure that looked up at me from the wheelchair was
more like a ghost than a man. His face was
chalk white, so white it seemed almost luminous, and the
skin clung so close to his scar I seemed to
be no flesh beneath it, and his wide staring eyes
looked like two cups of black coffee and a snow
white tablecloth. I followed him. There were a glass and
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closed room only slightly larger in the garden court of
the plaza. The humidity was several points higher than the
dripping woods, and the temperature were several degrees lower, but
the plants he had going the f one. As I
edged nervously through the dense, quivering foliage, I noticed the
strange looking yellow green pod, not the size of a
milk bottle, at the end of a long tubular stem.
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It leaned over, opened as rapt in my mouth, and said,
what is that thing?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh? That's my sound? Senior gigantosa meat eating carnivorous plants.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Don't be frightened.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I just said it. Don't tell me you know what
it eats. Actually, it means that it does a by card.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
No, perfectly healthy. It's merely part of the digestive process.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Even as you and that not me, but over here
you're a detective. These pasta interest. You don't touch that
man Drake.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Never thought of it.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It won't cry out no vocal cords. Very sensitive and
deadly poisonous. And see here these pretty purple blossoms. Yes,
very source of an alkaloid poison favored by the porges
and the white helliboy. I use it in compounding veratria poison.
So ancient it would probably go on detected in the
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police laboratories of today. And here's a charming one, both
a killer and a medicine belladonna or deadly night shade
sort of acrophy. And this is commonly known as nux
vomica produce. Is not one but two deadly poisonous, the
well known stripnine and the rare and not easily detectable brucie.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, well it's quite a hobby.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's not a mere hobby, mister Spade, it's a practical science.
All the plants in this conservatory have their fatal properties,
and all played a role in the great kinds of history?
Did my act get another threatening letter? So she says,
odd that she should fear death at her age, and
odd that she should hire a bodyguard. How does she
know how it'll come?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
It might be poisoned?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Speaking of prisons. Rather, there, it's time for your medicine,
o Spade, my sister.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
The last Lenora?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Are you do?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Missus?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Spain?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Here? Alfh think?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Why does it always have to be in milk?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
And look here?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
It's not time anyway? Oh, it's confounded.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Watch is stopped again, Spait.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What time did you have? Why it's three? Uh, that's funny.
My watch has stopped too. I didn't know then what
that meant. In fact, if you work on the last
page of this report, devity, there you'll see that the
stop watch was the key of a whole puzzle. I
protested my failure to realize the significance at that moment,
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and absolutely nothing. As ever, the fact that my clients
may is Leonora Raven was it's use so rougeously, But
it stack about there Boris the buckler bobbed up and
beckoned me on the balustrade. I followed them upstairs and
was hushing into the austere and regal presence of my
client Roweno Ravens Bors.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yes, math four bars I just remembered, Yes, madam, they're
on the occasional table. My watch or why don't you
take it around the watchmakers in the morning. It's on
the fritz against this man there's the Spade, and must
apologize for keeping you waiting. That's sorry, my watch hasn't
been keeping proper time every since those threatening letters started.
Would that be a clue, mister Spade?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Uh, maybe we'd better started a letter.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Missus rain, I can't find them anywhere. I think that
young man from the chairs office must.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Have pinched him.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Bill Wedington, we're all the same.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's very odd every time he comes here he can't
find them.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Well, where did you put him, missus Ravens, Right there
on the occasional table?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, well, Missus Ravens. Sometimes people have very father dreams.
Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with their minds or anything
like that.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Top just like doctor Slawser that young sawbones my knee
sent around, looks my tiatica siatic is nothing but a pain?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
How can you look at it?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's a lot of ball. Yeah, I warned a lot
of say missus Raven.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's why I wondered about my watch, whichispade. The letters
always contained some reference to time. Your time is running out.
Beware when time moves slowly, soon it may stop all together.
That's sort of things you think there could be a connection.
I mean, has there's someone been tampering with my watch?
Repair man doesn't know what's causing.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
It to lose.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Did he think it might have been tampered?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, no, he thought it was something in the moment,
magnetism or something.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Well, that sounds like a lot of hooey.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I lived here forty years. My wife's never lost a minute.
Something in the mouth, my eye, something in this house
more like or somebody he ask me, he's not half
so sick as he pretends to be your nephew.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, I think he's a very sick man.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I wonder sitting in that damn conservatory day after day,
pattering over those fiendish poisonous plants, you see, the one
that eats mice and hamburgers.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yes, I did what's supposed to be the matter with
your nephew, Missus ravens Oh, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
In an auto accident, injured his neck. They had to
remove part of a gland or something, But doctor Flosser
says it's in good condition aside from that, and if
he takes his medicine faithfully, there's no reason why he
should come in.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Ah, Missus Gray, but how is that's paid?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
This as worse?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Thank you doctor's loss?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Spade?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Yes, the detective you engaged to investigate those letters you've been.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Mister Spade is an inside job, don't you miss this?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Spabe?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Well, I have the pens on what you mean by
an inside inside that romantic imagination of yours, My dear
old still.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Now give your shot?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I love being jam No, that wasn't so bad? Can
I work?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
How Ralph getting on? Doctor?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Not well?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I'm afraid he doesn't seem to be responding to the Ah,
Missus Raven, what.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Is it you?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The cry she had it was only half as terrible
as the expression on her pain contorted face. She fetched
forward on her chair with both clinched and shaking as
at an anger. The doctor standing before her, he put
down the empty hypodermic on the occasional table he carried
to the Yeah, sure, take me that pillow.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
She was fly pubfectly fat. There that's better. Now she's
relative time, missus raven.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It was only savage to make you sleep.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Running out the poor.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Woman malignant condition, only a matter of time, as you
know that she has only a short time to live. Oh, yes,
there I have another call.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Do you have the time?
Speaker 6 (13:31):
My watch seems to stop. No, no, I beg your problem.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Nothing, I left my watch at home.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Oh said something terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You want to sleep, you better come down to the conservatory.
Ride away. Ralph is in terrible pain.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
What kinds of pain?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
He keeps saying he's been poisoned?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Well, come along, you take that hype into the kitchen,
law and sterilized.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Where is on the table?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
There he stopped on his tracks. His mouth fell open,
and he gave the table, got way, put down the
hyper and this place that appeared two items an old
fashioned lady's watching a note written in green ink. Then
out said time must have a stop. I think up
the watching hellets in my ear. You guess it it
wasn't ticking. I had a hunch my client wasn't either,
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Speaker 2 (15:59):
Well, well, where are you.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Heyway over here, oh Spade, keep them away from me.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah, I came as soon as I call it. Tell
me your symptom.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
No, I'm phone for another doctor. He's on his way now, Spade,
my aunt.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Take me to her. I must tell her, tell her
what I'm afraid. We have some bad news for you round.
Your aunt is dead.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh so you poisoned her too, Ralph, you're sick. You
don't know what you're saying. She's been to every specialist
in the country. They all said the same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
We all said she was good for another three months.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
My dear boy. In these cases, any doctor's guess he
is as bad as Nick.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Please, Ralph, you're very sick. Please let Goo Big examine you.
If it's what you think. The other doctor may be
too late?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Why not? Why should I fear death?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
That's better?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Now let me see your eyes so so open the mouth.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So what is it?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
He's right, it is poison.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yes, And you stillize that needed for Ralph shops this
small and did you pick up the wrong bottle?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Not strange day straight, But don't worry about there's a
very simple actitude.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You should, my dear, Indeed you shoot And that was that,
deputy dear, two doctors and the country part. It's but
one look at my late client's medical history and decided
on death, build a natural causes. I didn't think so,
and neither the jew.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
So they really were threatening letters.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I saw him? You sure not, Sam, Sure, I'm sure?
What'd you say? It was on the occasional table? What
was you doing when it wasn't a table? Not occasionally occasional?
Oh just any old table, no bill, now, belle, get this,
it's real deep. An occasional table is a table that
a woman flicks up at a bargain and puts into
a room, and of a mistaken and price that may
come in handy someday. Missus Raven used hers as a
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catch off for her unanswered correspondence. Threatening letters included don't
what happened to one you saw? I don't know. I
put it right here in my coat pocket along with
a watch. It just disappeared. Yeah, that might be tampering
with evidence. Listen, well, thanks for disappearing from that table
almost as fast as other things showed up. Sounds like
pack rat. You follow that up, Bill, I'm gonna pack
up and right out of here. Now, look same, My
client's dead. It's officially okay. I haven't made a penny
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out of the cable, and now I'm not likely to. Sorry,
Do you give me a lift back of the toll gator?
Do I hitchhi? There's your answer?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
When we reached the second bedroom, once the screen had come,
we found the lost Lenor looking well, found in something comfortable.
She's standing set of stage, reguiding herself with horror at
a full length mirror. She looks uncle crail joone. You
gotta get downstairs and get some nice water, she might think,
You think, so, yeah, hurry up. I'll stay here and
keep up a circulation in case anything happens. Yeah, you're right,
beat it, you thought, what?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Look? I found these on my pillow.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
One watch, one threatening letter, Who's what mine?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I left it on the dressing table when I went
into cream my face. I came out. Somebody had slipped
this under on the dressing table under my pillow.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You said, an your pillow.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I meant under, I mean on, I don't know what
I mean. What are you trying to do to me?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He was trying to get things straight.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But a note. Look at it. It's exactly the same
as the one he left in my arms.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Green.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Why do you say he do?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yes, I don't. It's because I don't trust Ludwick, doctor Slusson.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That is, he doesn't trust you either.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
But he pretended to think I might have picked up
the wrong bottle while he was acting.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Couldn't you see you've done a bad job yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I'm not acting, not anymore. Listen to me. Listen. He's
acted strangely ever since I foolishly said I'd marry him.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I wouldn't myself.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Then, Darling, don't joke.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I don't mean like that made him.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He he got me out of a jam one the
accident whom my brother was hurt. I went for a
doctor and he happened to be the nearest one. I'd
been drinking, and he took over and he sent me
home before the police arrived at the scene. Didn't Ralph
know he blinded out? He doesn't know to this day.
Ludwig never forgot. He forced me to recommend him to
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my aunt. He got into a good grace's practically moved
into the house. Then he pretended to make love to me,
pretended he didn't care about me till he found out
about my aunt. Didn't have long to live. He knew
half the money would come to me. Sam, Do you
think he poisoned my aunt?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Offessional? As he died from natural causes?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But you said she spoke about being poisoned and Ralph too.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
What's that medicine you give him in the milk?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I don't know. It's this a prescription, just some drops
that come in a in a metal container.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Where do you keep those drops? Here?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
There in my room?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I have to hide them.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
They make Ralph feel so much better. He used to
overdose when the doctor trusted him to dose himself.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Let me see that medicine.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's just here in this cabinet. Here it is.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Don't tell me it's empty.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
There was a glass bottle inside the container.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Mmm, small but heavy? Lad? Yet, Hey, what are you
doing with that? Guide? The thame of the dials and
this phaenomenon said, that's.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Something medical life have to make a test on Ralph
every day to see how he's getting along.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You know what that actually is, Yes, I do it.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It detects anemia.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, I wouldn't know about that, but a Geiger counter
is generally used to detect something else.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I'm going prospecting for that missing medicine. Ah, there you are.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I'd been looking everywhere for you. I'm afraid I have
bad news for you. In all, Ralph, my diagnosis was correct,
nicias ademia. Well it's that you are carrying, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh and I think special doctor is just an old
Geiger counter? Then all? Did you let him take it?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
He said he was going to use it to find
Ralph's medicine.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
What happened to Ralph's medicine?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
It's just gone, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That machinery is my property.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
I'm start you to haunts it over.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
No gun necessary, doctor here, take your gun too, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Then all carries a machine this way walk ahead of us.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
First we try the conservatory. It was a en amateur
with a gun, but I didn't jump on for it
because I'm an ameter. The geiger I did notice that
the indicator and the dryer got nervous and then we
walked into the conservatory. Ralph Raven's body was still in
a wheelchair. No paler in depth and in life. His
sightless eyes were fixed on that obscene plant. The plant
looks thick too. It was grooving, and his red mouth
(22:15):
was hanging open. He walked past the wheelchair, the indicator
and the drying of the Geiger counter moved forward and
then slipped back again. Then it took a sudden, big jump.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
So that's was his hiding case. The Mars got disgusting,
condiguous plant.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
This is not pleasant.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
That's only one way to get it. Don't move either,
one of you. My eye is on you, Yes, yes,
it's here.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
At first I thought the planet at bitten him.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
And then he pulled his hand out and I saw
what had happened. There was a hypodermic god lets stuck
in the heel of his hand, a surprised mean no end,
but he still managed to hold ond of that gun.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
He swinging away from the was houlding an eleonora.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
You knew no, no, I didn't. You must have dropped you.
You must have told you no, I swear he didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Let's use to die and leave you behind to enjoy
some money I got for you, so you will come
with me.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
No, you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Are you looking at what's behind me?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Don't bother Russ and Sam?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm God hold it though. Yeah, how's that for shooting Sam? Yeah?
You find a bullet haul in him, Dell and I'll
call it good man, That deputy. There is the crop
and it's all carnivorous. In case you're still wondering what
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dropped him when your shots missed, it was the poison
in that hypodermic neddle, which Rouse had planted there for
that very purpose, and then baited the trap of the
all important missing medicine. Later on, I learned that what
the doctor had been feeding him the right medicine for
what ailed him, and isotope of iodine. It seems it's
radioactive like uranium, but it could take too much of
it get die. Not a poisoning, but a pernicious anemia,
(24:09):
which is how the doctor planned for Ralph to die.
It also magnetizes watches so they don't keep the right time,
and of the cheap ones like mine, they may stop
all together. Period and a report got all right, Buffy,
I got Buffy people have studied all their lives to
learn about atomic stuff like isotopes, and you expect me
to teach you everything in one easy lesson.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh no, Sam, I know about that. But who killed who?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Whom? Dear? The doctor killed everyone, but Ralph loaded the
needle and they were a competition. No buff get this
is real, shallow. Ralph knew there was no way in
the world to prove that the doctor was killing him
and hastening his hands to mind, so he saw to
her that she got a dose of detectable poison and
did himself the same. Favorite. Oh like a good girl,
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Speaker 2 (25:33):
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Speaker 5 (25:34):
And I certainly hope that Butler was brought to justice,
what for his dialect oh for helping to deliver the
threatening letters and then skining off the occasional table.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Hey, brilliant introduction. How did you deduce Sam?
Speaker 6 (25:44):
That's the chit?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Because Ralph was too ill to walk and somebody had
to push him upstairs.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
In a wheelchair.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It wouldn't have been easier just to carry him.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
How he did it? Er?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Uh, just go up himself? What possibly? And then again
we may never know? But do we care? Yes? I
hate don't keep it up. Good night Sporgan like a
true parene, so I'll say to your good night sweet.
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