December 11, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Sam, say detective agency. Ah, Hi, it's made just came
ashore from what the boat? A ship? Effie? A ship?
Anything over four hundred gross tons is a ship. Anybody
knows that. May I enquire what was your portocle Calcutta?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That was a quick trip, Well, Affy.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'll tell you. I got so homesick for you. I
couldn't stand it. So I assembled my gear and jumped
ship way, Sam Hustley, I'm faster a gal. I'll be
right down to dictate my report.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Sam.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Oh, Sam, you are alive.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh, I've been worried sick. Where have you been?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
My way to Calcutta, sweetheart? Where the dawn comes up
like thunder?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Calcutta and the flying fishers? Play? Ready, Effie, why do
you want to go to Calcutta?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Of all play?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I didn't, Effie, I hate Calcutta. I was shanghai to
uh mister Phillip J. Fogg purser s s urene l
you r e n E.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's pretty Sam. How could you be shang hiding this
day and age? I mean, isn't it against the laws?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Stole at Effie, you're pumping bilge water. Sam, I am
not from Samuel Spade license number one three seven, five
nine six, when you have the time regarding the Calcutta
Trunk Caper, Dear mister Fogg. The following report will explain
the enclosed voucher, which is a claim against your company
for the amount of five hundred dollars and no sense.
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It will also answer any questions you might be asked
concerning the recent unpleasantness on board your ship. It all
starts yesterday morning in San Francisco, when my secretary announced
briefly and caustically, and there was a lady outside who
wanted to talk to me. I judged that she was
worth talking to him. She was.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Your secretary left me in.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Oh, I'm glad she did. What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I'm Marsha Hopkins, I see, missus, Marsha Hopkins.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I see.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
However, my husband is dead.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I see.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It's about my sister that I've come to you, mister Spade.
I'm dreadfully worried about her.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Who's your sister, Miss Constance Pendleton?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And she's become involved with a ne'er do will, a
completely worthless scoundrel, and a real foreign bluebeard.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
All three.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's one man mister Spade, a Bulgarian major Andrea Rodnick.
They're going to be married this afternoon, and I'm positive
that his only.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Interest is in her money. I'm convinced that.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He's going to kill her soon out of the ceremony.
He's done it to other wives in Europe. I've worn
constance and pleaded with her, done everything I could to
stop it, but he's completely infatuated with him and refuses
to listen to me.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Prevent the marriage?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
If you can get the truth about Rodnick's background and
face Constance with it, or mister Spain in some way,
you've got to make her realize the seriousness of the situation.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's a ruthless character.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, do what I can, missus Hopkins.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh thank you, mister Spade.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I've felt so lone and helpless until now. But you
will do everything you can, won't you. We've got to
save her life.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
She darted in her eyes with a stamp sized handkerchief,
panted the red gold hair that temples nervously, smiled at
me bravely, and swayed out. By telephone, I learned that
the Vrodnik Pendleton marriage license had been issued four days before,
and that on the same day Constance Pendleton had withdrawn
a savings account of the tune of forty five thousand dollars.
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I'd always wanted to, so I didn't. I called the
Bulgarian Councilor what can I do on you?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Won?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You know about Major Andrea of Rodnick? Ha Andrea Rodnick?
On him?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
We have hate, great sadness, with shame for the ground
that walked under him.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh, Andrea Rodnick? Why is he so popular?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
On the devil? He's driven without horns? Six women, he
has killed six times. He has insulted the police of
Europe by refusing to confess we.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Have proof of the matters.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
But never can we prove the proof on him?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, sometimes goes that way.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Never do we find the budgies of the six women,
only their money in the name of Andrea Rodnick, my.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Pardner, Well, thank nothing about your You're just upset on you,
you're interested on him?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Why you go to Europe?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No Rodnik comes here here on San Francisco. Marri's again.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
So I'm told, ah, oh, by all the means, you
must prevent it. Go to him, brave man, you do
the world a service. Make a wire in front of him.
Even do you hung for it, your name will live.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
For those valiant words goading me on. I left the father,
I got into the caper. The more it looked as
if Marsha's fears for Constance Pendleton were very real and
very well founded. When Constance opened the door of our
hotel suite, I could see three trunks and a number
of smaller pieces of luggage are all locked and ready
to be taken out. Yes, a Constance Pendleton. Yes, I'm
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a detective. My name is Spain detective.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
What do you want.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I want to talk to you about that bluebeard you're
gonna marry. Get out of here. You listen, I'll talk
and then I'll get out of here. I just left
The Bulgarian Constant Rodney has been accused of the murders
of six women in Europe. Each of them were wealthy,
each of them married him, and each time Brodney came
into all their money.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Are you trying to blackmail me because of the lies
about my fiances past?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
If you are, you're wasting your time.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, no matter what I'm doing, I'm wasting my time.
But to put you straight, your sister hired me, and
I am now resigning. She's worried about you, not me.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Then you should spend more time investigating your clients, mister Spade,
you could have saved both of us sometime.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I have no sister.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
This is my wedding day. Goodbye, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
As I left the room, I maintained the stern facial
expression I reserved for moments of great shock. But once
outside the door, I allowed myself to be carried on
the wave of rage and embarrassment for just a minute,
and I kicked over two potted palms. As I leapt
down the corridor, I was overtaken by none other van
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Marsia Hopkins.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Did you see her?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let's talk about you first.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Did you stop the marriage?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Why did you really want that marriage? Stuff? But I
told you. You told me you were her sister. Oh
she said she didn't have any sister.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
All right, Sam, I did lie to you about that.
But I'll tell you who I really am.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't want to know who you are. I don't
ever want to know. All I want from you is
my honestly earned fee and a brief but permanent goodbye.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You know, Sam, please listen to me. We've got to
save that girl. I have five hundred dollars. That's all
I have.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Would it be enough?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
What's your real name.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Marsha Brodnick. Yes, he's my husband. I've been married to
him for ten years. We've traveled all over Europe and
I never knew where the money was coming from. He
left me at times for two weeks or a month,
and then when he'd come back there'd be more money.
I just realized that that's when he must have been
killing who's poor wim and I know that's what he's
going to do this time.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I just can't stand it. You've got to protect her.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That should be easy. We'll let him get married and
meet him at the door of the Begamy one. Then
you will. I might.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
In my bag. There's five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Take it.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
If we can't stop the marriage, then don't let him
out of your sight an important minute.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He's a beast, Sam a beast.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Marcia dropped me in front of the Beasts Hotel and
I climbed some fake marble steps to the second floor
and knocked at his door. The man who opened it
was heavy, handsome and a swarthy course sort of a
way and glowing conceit through two wives, one monacle, one nut.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
You're facing Major Andre of Rodnique, first Bulgarian horse want you.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You were facing sal Fox, the law firm of Fox Smedley,
van Dusen and Grip. You overwhelmed yourself. I came here
to warn you. If you go through the marriage to
Constance Pendleton, you're gonna find yourself tangled with civil law.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
War Andrea of Rodney Quezon led more saber charges.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Then you have teeth in your skull.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Yes, who has personally split, slashed and impaled on his
own blade more men than you have fingers and toes.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You warned me, what is this toll? You're gonna have
a bigamy charge slapped on you five minutes after you
slip fur the ring the warrant signed by missus Marsha
Rodney big me. I laugh, this is not biga me.
Marsh is your wife, isn't she?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
That bigamy was committed when I married her? I had
another wife. Then you call yourself a lawyer. Then you
know that only the second marriage is bigger me. The
ones following that are nating nothing but interload.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, Major, go ahead and have your anelode. I'm just
warning it. We are being.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Married on Redwood City from a justice of the peace
one hour previous. Then they are sailing through the Sslurene
at midnight with our honeymoon already A Droshkia waits for
the baggage and lodgedna before I'm losing my temper.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
If you're ever in Calcutta, look me up. I could say.
The direct approach was getting me nowhere, so I decided
to proceed by stealth. I waited outside the building, and
when he left, I tailed him. He made four stops
at a second hand store, a hardware store, surgical supply house,
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and an undertaker supply house. At these places he purchased
the following items, an oversized steamer trunk black with brass fittings,
a large ball of rope climb, two large lead sash weights,
a set of surgical instruments. And at the fourth and
final stop, the undertaking supply he bought two items, a
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twenty foot length of reverend tubing and a pump. He
returned to the second hand store with the other approaches
and put them inside the trunk in order to send
up the constance's hotel immediately and thereupon it took himself
to the same place. Marsha was waiting in the empty lobby.
When he went in. I crouched behind a pillar, turned
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up my hearing aid and listened.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Did you get now?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Listen, my darling.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
We must walk fast as soon as the trunk arrives
before she has a chance to get to the telephion.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But please, no cutting in the apartment as you wish.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
My darling. Now you know what you have to do. Well,
I'm getting it into the trunk.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
You'll change your clothes, put on air traveling dress to
had with the whip.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Come, you must make haste.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
They made haste to the elevators, and I made haste
to row a house telephone booths around the corner and
called Constance's room. Hello, this is Rodney. Listn't get out
of that room right away. Don't take the elevator, get
down the stairs. Who is it? What are you talking about?
I haven't got time to explain, and you haven't got
time to listen. All those stories about your husband are true.
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He's great. Come on, hello, are you still on the line.
My hand clawed out to the door handle, but I
couldn't reach it. I felt as if the walls were
closing in around me, and just before I got dark,
I had the crazy notion that I was inside Brodnick's
big black trunk with the brass fittings. I could still
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hear Constance's voice way off in the distance, somewhere in
the direction of Calcutta. I tried to shout to it
a warner, and then the lid closed over me. I
shook my head trying to get the bells out, and
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I remembered where I was and what had happened. I
was still wedged into the bottom of the phone booth
where I'd slunk when Brodnick sat me. I got out
of there somehow and grabbed a taxi for the Embarcadero.
The time was eleven fifty five. The SS Lorraine was
scheduled to sail at midnight. I was no center across it,
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and I hauled up the gang plank and the ship
started moving out of the perth. I didn't know where
she was bound from, and I didn't much care. I
checked the passenger list and found that Major and Missus
Andrea V. Vrodnick were in Stateroom twelve, A deck. One
minute later I was hammering on the door of Stateroom twelve.
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A woman in Vrodnick's stateroom was Constance, and she was
not on a trunk.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I thought, I told you to stop interfering in our affairs.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, your husband told me too, but I didn't like
the way he did it. Gettle from you gettle. I
see you got your trunk in hair where it's handy.
Doesn't it make the stateroom kind of crowded?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Why don't you give up, mister Spade? Two times ald
ready you are twice at fool.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Marsha has no.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Money to pay you, neither have I even if she
had the case, And believe Michev.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, why do you even got it talking to him? Andre,
mister Spade, will you go now?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Or will I have to call the steward and make
a complaint against you?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I went. I still thought Marsha Hopkins was somewhere on
that ship. I still didn't like the look of that trunk.
I found the person's office and went in. You looked
at me as if you thought I was a store in,
mister Fogg, and you were right.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
I after Michael Rangeman's fee, a rod back with a pilot.
Mister Spide, you realize the course at you're subject to
a fine.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Look, I don't want to do anything illegal, you know.
It was just an impulsive thing. Couldn't I book a passage?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Oh there's a matter of your passport, could arrange your
visa and so one in Saint Pedro were put in
there in the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Well that's good enough. How much is the fair?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Let me see, that's four hundred and ninety three dollars
in ninety seven cents exclusive attack.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh hey wait, I wasn't thinking of taking quite an
extensive voice, you know, I just wanted to get a
little sea air. And how much the paidro.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I'm afraid you don't understand, mister Spike. This is not
a coast wild Steamer. Our first official portcoll Is Calfcutta.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah I know, but Calcutter, that's in India. Well don't
you have something a little less expensive like steerage.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Or he's only one stit room available number fourteen night deck.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I can okay, okay, Calcutter. After buying my passage to Calcutter,
I had exactly twelve cents left. This I gave to
the steward who showed me to my state role. He
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thanked me, kicked me in the shins, and left out
on deck A tall red nosed old gentleman and knicker
Parker's and a yachting cap was taking a turn around
the deck where there was a face I've seen in
the morning line up down at the Hall of Justice
a dozen times. He was a hotel feet by profession
name of Norman Gorman. He knew me too, but he
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didn't give me a tumble. I fell into step with
ahe nothing like it, am I right? I guess it's okay,
but there's so much of it racing, false pray, not
even like it. I hate it. I hate boats. Suppose
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there was a fire on board. Ridiculous?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
It is your first voyage to the Orange Yeah, Inscruta police,
you've made this strip or form is indeed I've worked
this line.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I mean, indeed, I make.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
This voyage very well.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Business interest out in Injura to you know reruns in
my family surges his golden orange't liokle to yellow package?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Ill it raded? Oh no, I never indogs don't drink
tears commodore. I need a drink. I ain't happy. Suppose
there was a fire on board here, Well, i'd all
have a drink. I suppose, come on, I'll shut you
to a drinker, not me, commodore. I just remembered this
as fire prevention week. The nearest fire alarm of Rodney
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State Room is on the companionway leading the A deck corridor.
It was a glass enclosed box with a small hammer
hanging on a chain. I broke the glass and turned
the key in three seconds flat. The entire population of
a deck were shoving each other up the companion away,
grabbing the life preservers as they went. The steward hammer
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on the door of Stateroom twelve opened. It shouted inside,
and Drodnick and Constance reluctantly came out. I ducked inside,
grabbed the handle the trunk and started dragging it, and
I got it into my stateroom. I broke the lock
and lifted the lid. It was Marshall, all right. There
was just time to see that before the stateroom door
flew open on the ship's officer stuck his head in.
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Why yeah, no, I didn't. What's wrong? Dad? Take the
lot for some get go okay, okay, don't touch me.
It makes me nervous. Twenty minutes later, the captain announced
the mob up in the deck that it was a
false alarm, and the passengers drifted back to their cabins.
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I tried to look casual as I unlocked my stateroom
door and walked in. Then I stopped trying. The trunk
was still there, but the lid was standing open, and
it was empty. I went down to B deck and
found the cabin occupied by Norm and the commodore. That
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door was locked, so I kicked it in. You could
still see the marks on her wrists and ankles with
the cord. It was the girl I had seen in
the trunk. It was Marsha Hopkins, and she was very
much alive.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I thought it was Oh, what am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What am I going to do? You've got to help me?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Sound Why should I help you?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
He's crazy, They're both crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It all depends on Hosen the truck. That's my chef.
When it was conscious, you didn't think he was so crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh don't you understand. I had to pretend that I'd
help him. He was going to kill her right there
in the hotel room. I told him it was too dangerous.
Anybody looked in the trunk that would be saved. She
was in there alive. So he finally agreed and said
he'd wait until we got out to see together her.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And then he was about that.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The idea was so awful I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I started to scream, and then he stuffed the gag
in my mouth and tied me up.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He must have used chloroform or something, because.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
The next thing I knew, I was in the trunk
and that little dark man was leaning over me.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
He and that old man with the nickers he brought
me here.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Oh, they pulled a sweat on you. You were a
fall galol alone.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh you've got to believe me.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
It's the only way I could save her life.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You're the only one I can turn to. Sam.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
That little thief and the old man they'd delivered me
dead if there was an extra twenty five dollars in.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
His holl Say you'll help me, Sam, Please say it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
When you asked me like that, What what else can
I say? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You'll do believe me, darling, You do believe me.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Come on, let's get out of here. I am sorry,
mister Spade. At least they're back inside.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I promised me, associate mister Gorman, that I would not
allow this young lady to risk her life by leaving
this cattle.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You're getting into this cap at the wrong end, Commodore.
It's wound up. They've bungled it. It's not good anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You may be right, but you understand my position, sir.
I can't take any chances. Who spoke to mister Gorman?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Norm, Yeah, I talked to him.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
He took you into his confidence, sat backing with the pistol, Comodo.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You don't know how to use it anyway. Heaven's nor
mill nor Why did he see? What is it? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
He's sick.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Go get a doctor, take her with you, Get out
of here.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I don't want no part of this. You got it bad, No,
I'm sick.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
I tell you the way I had at Size. This
was a clean caper, a snatch. I figured the dame
here's an heiress or something. Maybe they drop her off
in La correct, some connect, some ransom and go on.
I figure there wasn't for all of us. Oh but
that creep, that Brodnick, he's crazy. He's a regular jack.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The ripper's not babbling, Norm telling me what happened exactly
what happened.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
I get a sink and feeling my stomach every time
I think about it. Well, I go in and see
he's very smooth, very business like. He offers me a drink.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I accept it.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
He mixes a couple of highballs from me in the dame,
and then he starts talking. I guess you don't know
all about it before this.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Because she gets just sick as I do.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
First day he's kidding.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Then he drags out this set of cutlery, like a
doctor used to operating on people. Only he's got something
else in mind.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
The portal. You understand.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I don't want to hear anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You know, as it's you he has in mind. I
don't blame you. My stomach a norm norm here. He
is the kipuck. You're not.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Oh, dear minute, what stand away from him? Please help
me get him into the bunk. Sure, take the shade
off that light please?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Ah? Yes he's dead, isn't he? Oh? Yes, he's dead?
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Of course who poisoned him?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I didn't waste any time answering him. I grabb him
by the arm before he get objecked. I was pushing
him up the companion way to atex. It was probably too
late to save Constance's life, and she drunk the same
poison I was pretty sure she had. But if I
was gonna nail him for the murder of Constance, I
had to get there before the evidence vanished. We got
there just in time. I don't need to tell you
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what we saw, and I'd rather not. Frid Nick rose
slowly to his fate, flicked his heels military fashion, and
bowed very low the ship's surgeon, how a fortune.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Perhaps you could advise me, doctor, After all, I am,
in all honesty, even still a mere amateur at this
sort of team.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
After Frida naked been taken into custoday, we took another
turn around the deck. It was daylight and the ship
was lying too off San Pedro. This time, the fresh
air really felt good, and so did Marcia. It's all
over there, yes, sweetheart, it's all over it, but.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Not between us. Say it's them. Say it's not all
over between us?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
How can it be?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I knew you felt the same way all my life before.
It's been like a terrible nightmare, never really happened.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But it did happen, sweetheart, But you.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Can forget it. Darling. Can't you please forget it?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I'd like to Marcia, I really would hold me close.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Them, never let me go.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You're beautiful? Is that all?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Then? Nothing else?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, lots else. That's why I think we'd better say
goodbye right now, because when I feel like this, I
get foolish, And if I get foolish with you, I'm
likely to wake up in a trunk someplace. And that,
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mister Fogg, is the true account of the calcut of
Trunk Caper. Because my voyage was interrupted to no fall
on my own, I trust you will advise your company
to refund my passage minus the one way trip to
San Pedro UH period and the report. Sam Spade is
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played by Howard
Sam, say detective agency. Ah, Hi, it's made just came
ashore from what the boat? A ship? Effie? A ship?
Anything over four hundred gross tons is a ship. Anybody
knows that. May I enquire what was your portocle Calcutta?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That was a quick trip, Well, Affy.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'll tell you. I got so homesick for you. I
couldn't stand it. So I assembled my gear and jumped
ship way, Sam Hustley, I'm faster a gal. I'll be
right down to dictate my report.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Sam.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Oh, Sam, you are alive.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh, I've been worried sick. Where have you been?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
My way to Calcutta, sweetheart? Where the dawn comes up
like thunder?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Calcutta and the flying fishers? Play? Ready, Effie, why do
you want to go to Calcutta?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Of all play?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I didn't, Effie, I hate Calcutta. I was shanghai to
uh mister Phillip J. Fogg purser s s urene l
you r e n E.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's pretty Sam. How could you be shang hiding this
day and age? I mean, isn't it against the laws?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Stole at Effie, you're pumping bilge water. Sam, I am
not from Samuel Spade license number one three seven, five
nine six, when you have the time regarding the Calcutta
Trunk Caper, Dear mister Fogg. The following report will explain
the enclosed voucher, which is a claim against your company
for the amount of five hundred dollars and no sense.
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It will also answer any questions you might be asked
concerning the recent unpleasantness on board your ship. It all
starts yesterday morning in San Francisco, when my secretary announced
briefly and caustically, and there was a lady outside who
wanted to talk to me. I judged that she was
worth talking to him. She was.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Your secretary left me in.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Oh, I'm glad she did. What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I'm Marsha Hopkins, I see, missus, Marsha Hopkins.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I see.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
However, my husband is dead.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I see.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It's about my sister that I've come to you, mister Spade.
I'm dreadfully worried about her.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Who's your sister, Miss Constance Pendleton?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And she's become involved with a ne'er do will, a
completely worthless scoundrel, and a real foreign bluebeard.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
All three.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's one man mister Spade, a Bulgarian major Andrea Rodnick.
They're going to be married this afternoon, and I'm positive
that his only.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Interest is in her money. I'm convinced that.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He's going to kill her soon out of the ceremony.
He's done it to other wives in Europe. I've worn
constance and pleaded with her, done everything I could to
stop it, but he's completely infatuated with him and refuses
to listen to me.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Prevent the marriage?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
If you can get the truth about Rodnick's background and
face Constance with it, or mister Spain in some way,
you've got to make her realize the seriousness of the situation.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's a ruthless character.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, do what I can, missus Hopkins.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh thank you, mister Spade.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I've felt so lone and helpless until now. But you
will do everything you can, won't you. We've got to
save her life.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
She darted in her eyes with a stamp sized handkerchief,
panted the red gold hair that temples nervously, smiled at
me bravely, and swayed out. By telephone, I learned that
the Vrodnik Pendleton marriage license had been issued four days before,
and that on the same day Constance Pendleton had withdrawn
a savings account of the tune of forty five thousand dollars.
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I'd always wanted to, so I didn't. I called the
Bulgarian Councilor what can I do on you?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Won?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You know about Major Andrea of Rodnick? Ha Andrea Rodnick?
On him?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
We have hate, great sadness, with shame for the ground
that walked under him.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh, Andrea Rodnick? Why is he so popular?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
On the devil? He's driven without horns? Six women, he
has killed six times. He has insulted the police of
Europe by refusing to confess we.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Have proof of the matters.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
But never can we prove the proof on him?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, sometimes goes that way.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Never do we find the budgies of the six women,
only their money in the name of Andrea Rodnick, my.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Pardner, Well, thank nothing about your You're just upset on you,
you're interested on him?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Why you go to Europe?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No Rodnik comes here here on San Francisco. Marri's again.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
So I'm told, ah, oh, by all the means, you
must prevent it. Go to him, brave man, you do
the world a service. Make a wire in front of him.
Even do you hung for it, your name will live.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
For those valiant words goading me on. I left the father,
I got into the caper. The more it looked as
if Marsha's fears for Constance Pendleton were very real and
very well founded. When Constance opened the door of our
hotel suite, I could see three trunks and a number
of smaller pieces of luggage are all locked and ready
to be taken out. Yes, a Constance Pendleton. Yes, I'm
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a detective. My name is Spain detective.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
What do you want.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I want to talk to you about that bluebeard you're
gonna marry. Get out of here. You listen, I'll talk
and then I'll get out of here. I just left
The Bulgarian Constant Rodney has been accused of the murders
of six women in Europe. Each of them were wealthy,
each of them married him, and each time Brodney came
into all their money.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Are you trying to blackmail me because of the lies
about my fiances past?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
If you are, you're wasting your time.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, no matter what I'm doing, I'm wasting my time.
But to put you straight, your sister hired me, and
I am now resigning. She's worried about you, not me.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Then you should spend more time investigating your clients, mister Spade,
you could have saved both of us sometime.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I have no sister.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
This is my wedding day. Goodbye, mister Spade.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
As I left the room, I maintained the stern facial
expression I reserved for moments of great shock. But once
outside the door, I allowed myself to be carried on
the wave of rage and embarrassment for just a minute,
and I kicked over two potted palms. As I leapt
down the corridor, I was overtaken by none other van
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Marsia Hopkins.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Did you see her?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let's talk about you first.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Did you stop the marriage?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Why did you really want that marriage? Stuff? But I
told you. You told me you were her sister. Oh
she said she didn't have any sister.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
All right, Sam, I did lie to you about that.
But I'll tell you who I really am.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't want to know who you are. I don't
ever want to know. All I want from you is
my honestly earned fee and a brief but permanent goodbye.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You know, Sam, please listen to me. We've got to
save that girl. I have five hundred dollars. That's all
I have.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Would it be enough?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
What's your real name.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Marsha Brodnick. Yes, he's my husband. I've been married to
him for ten years. We've traveled all over Europe and
I never knew where the money was coming from. He
left me at times for two weeks or a month,
and then when he'd come back there'd be more money.
I just realized that that's when he must have been
killing who's poor wim and I know that's what he's
going to do this time.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I just can't stand it. You've got to protect her.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That should be easy. We'll let him get married and
meet him at the door of the Begamy one. Then
you will. I might.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
In my bag. There's five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Take it.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
If we can't stop the marriage, then don't let him
out of your sight an important minute.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He's a beast, Sam a beast.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Marcia dropped me in front of the Beasts Hotel and
I climbed some fake marble steps to the second floor
and knocked at his door. The man who opened it
was heavy, handsome and a swarthy course sort of a
way and glowing conceit through two wives, one monacle, one nut.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
You're facing Major Andre of Rodnique, first Bulgarian horse want you.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You were facing sal Fox, the law firm of Fox Smedley,
van Dusen and Grip. You overwhelmed yourself. I came here
to warn you. If you go through the marriage to
Constance Pendleton, you're gonna find yourself tangled with civil law.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
War Andrea of Rodney Quezon led more saber charges.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Then you have teeth in your skull.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Yes, who has personally split, slashed and impaled on his
own blade more men than you have fingers and toes.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You warned me, what is this toll? You're gonna have
a bigamy charge slapped on you five minutes after you
slip fur the ring the warrant signed by missus Marsha
Rodney big me. I laugh, this is not biga me.
Marsh is your wife, isn't she?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
That bigamy was committed when I married her? I had
another wife. Then you call yourself a lawyer. Then you
know that only the second marriage is bigger me. The
ones following that are nating nothing but interload.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, Major, go ahead and have your anelode. I'm just
warning it. We are being.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Married on Redwood City from a justice of the peace
one hour previous. Then they are sailing through the Sslurene
at midnight with our honeymoon already A Droshkia waits for
the baggage and lodgedna before I'm losing my temper.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
If you're ever in Calcutta, look me up. I could say.
The direct approach was getting me nowhere, so I decided
to proceed by stealth. I waited outside the building, and
when he left, I tailed him. He made four stops
at a second hand store, a hardware store, surgical supply house,
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and an undertaker supply house. At these places he purchased
the following items, an oversized steamer trunk black with brass fittings,
a large ball of rope climb, two large lead sash weights,
a set of surgical instruments. And at the fourth and
final stop, the undertaking supply he bought two items, a
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twenty foot length of reverend tubing and a pump. He
returned to the second hand store with the other approaches
and put them inside the trunk in order to send
up the constance's hotel immediately and thereupon it took himself
to the same place. Marsha was waiting in the empty lobby.
When he went in. I crouched behind a pillar, turned
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up my hearing aid and listened.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Did you get now?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Listen, my darling.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
We must walk fast as soon as the trunk arrives
before she has a chance to get to the telephion.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But please, no cutting in the apartment as you wish.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
My darling. Now you know what you have to do. Well,
I'm getting it into the trunk.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
You'll change your clothes, put on air traveling dress to
had with the whip.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Come, you must make haste.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
They made haste to the elevators, and I made haste
to row a house telephone booths around the corner and
called Constance's room. Hello, this is Rodney. Listn't get out
of that room right away. Don't take the elevator, get
down the stairs. Who is it? What are you talking about?
I haven't got time to explain, and you haven't got
time to listen. All those stories about your husband are true.
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He's great. Come on, hello, are you still on the line.
My hand clawed out to the door handle, but I
couldn't reach it. I felt as if the walls were
closing in around me, and just before I got dark,
I had the crazy notion that I was inside Brodnick's
big black trunk with the brass fittings. I could still
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hear Constance's voice way off in the distance, somewhere in
the direction of Calcutta. I tried to shout to it
a warner, and then the lid closed over me. I
shook my head trying to get the bells out, and
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I remembered where I was and what had happened. I
was still wedged into the bottom of the phone booth
where I'd slunk when Brodnick sat me. I got out
of there somehow and grabbed a taxi for the Embarcadero.
The time was eleven fifty five. The SS Lorraine was
scheduled to sail at midnight. I was no center across it,
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and I hauled up the gang plank and the ship
started moving out of the perth. I didn't know where
she was bound from, and I didn't much care. I
checked the passenger list and found that Major and Missus
Andrea V. Vrodnick were in Stateroom twelve, A deck. One
minute later I was hammering on the door of Stateroom twelve.
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A woman in Vrodnick's stateroom was Constance, and she was
not on a trunk.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I thought, I told you to stop interfering in our affairs.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, your husband told me too, but I didn't like
the way he did it. Gettle from you gettle. I
see you got your trunk in hair where it's handy.
Doesn't it make the stateroom kind of crowded?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Why don't you give up, mister Spade? Two times ald
ready you are twice at fool.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Marsha has no.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Money to pay you, neither have I even if she
had the case, And believe Michev.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, why do you even got it talking to him? Andre,
mister Spade, will you go now?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Or will I have to call the steward and make
a complaint against you?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I went. I still thought Marsha Hopkins was somewhere on
that ship. I still didn't like the look of that trunk.
I found the person's office and went in. You looked
at me as if you thought I was a store in,
mister Fogg, and you were right.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
I after Michael Rangeman's fee, a rod back with a pilot.
Mister Spide, you realize the course at you're subject to
a fine.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Look, I don't want to do anything illegal, you know.
It was just an impulsive thing. Couldn't I book a passage?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Oh there's a matter of your passport, could arrange your
visa and so one in Saint Pedro were put in
there in the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Well that's good enough. How much is the fair?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Let me see, that's four hundred and ninety three dollars
in ninety seven cents exclusive attack.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh hey wait, I wasn't thinking of taking quite an
extensive voice, you know, I just wanted to get a
little sea air. And how much the paidro.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I'm afraid you don't understand, mister Spike. This is not
a coast wild Steamer. Our first official portcoll Is Calfcutta.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah I know, but Calcutter, that's in India. Well don't
you have something a little less expensive like steerage.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Or he's only one stit room available number fourteen night deck.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I can okay, okay, Calcutter. After buying my passage to Calcutter,
I had exactly twelve cents left. This I gave to
the steward who showed me to my state role. He
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thanked me, kicked me in the shins, and left out
on deck A tall red nosed old gentleman and knicker
Parker's and a yachting cap was taking a turn around
the deck where there was a face I've seen in
the morning line up down at the Hall of Justice
a dozen times. He was a hotel feet by profession
name of Norman Gorman. He knew me too, but he
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didn't give me a tumble. I fell into step with
ahe nothing like it, am I right? I guess it's okay,
but there's so much of it racing, false pray, not
even like it. I hate it. I hate boats. Suppose
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there was a fire on board. Ridiculous?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
It is your first voyage to the Orange Yeah, Inscruta police,
you've made this strip or form is indeed I've worked
this line.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I mean, indeed, I make.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
This voyage very well.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Business interest out in Injura to you know reruns in
my family surges his golden orange't liokle to yellow package?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Ill it raded? Oh no, I never indogs don't drink
tears commodore. I need a drink. I ain't happy. Suppose
there was a fire on board here, Well, i'd all
have a drink. I suppose, come on, I'll shut you
to a drinker, not me, commodore. I just remembered this
as fire prevention week. The nearest fire alarm of Rodney
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State Room is on the companionway leading the A deck corridor.
It was a glass enclosed box with a small hammer
hanging on a chain. I broke the glass and turned
the key in three seconds flat. The entire population of
a deck were shoving each other up the companion away,
grabbing the life preservers as they went. The steward hammer
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on the door of Stateroom twelve opened. It shouted inside,
and Drodnick and Constance reluctantly came out. I ducked inside,
grabbed the handle the trunk and started dragging it, and
I got it into my stateroom. I broke the lock
and lifted the lid. It was Marshall, all right. There
was just time to see that before the stateroom door
flew open on the ship's officer stuck his head in.
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Why yeah, no, I didn't. What's wrong? Dad? Take the
lot for some get go okay, okay, don't touch me.
It makes me nervous. Twenty minutes later, the captain announced
the mob up in the deck that it was a
false alarm, and the passengers drifted back to their cabins.
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I tried to look casual as I unlocked my stateroom
door and walked in. Then I stopped trying. The trunk
was still there, but the lid was standing open, and
it was empty. I went down to B deck and
found the cabin occupied by Norm and the commodore. That
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door was locked, so I kicked it in. You could
still see the marks on her wrists and ankles with
the cord. It was the girl I had seen in
the trunk. It was Marsha Hopkins, and she was very
much alive.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I thought it was Oh, what am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What am I going to do? You've got to help me?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Sound Why should I help you?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
He's crazy, They're both crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It all depends on Hosen the truck. That's my chef.
When it was conscious, you didn't think he was so crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh don't you understand. I had to pretend that I'd
help him. He was going to kill her right there
in the hotel room. I told him it was too dangerous.
Anybody looked in the trunk that would be saved. She
was in there alive. So he finally agreed and said
he'd wait until we got out to see together her.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And then he was about that.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The idea was so awful I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I started to scream, and then he stuffed the gag
in my mouth and tied me up.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He must have used chloroform or something, because.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
The next thing I knew, I was in the trunk
and that little dark man was leaning over me.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
He and that old man with the nickers he brought
me here.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Oh, they pulled a sweat on you. You were a
fall galol alone.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh you've got to believe me.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
It's the only way I could save her life.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You're the only one I can turn to. Sam.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
That little thief and the old man they'd delivered me
dead if there was an extra twenty five dollars in.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
His holl Say you'll help me, Sam, Please say it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
When you asked me like that, What what else can
I say? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You'll do believe me, darling, You do believe me.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Come on, let's get out of here. I am sorry,
mister Spade. At least they're back inside.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I promised me, associate mister Gorman, that I would not
allow this young lady to risk her life by leaving
this cattle.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You're getting into this cap at the wrong end, Commodore.
It's wound up. They've bungled it. It's not good anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You may be right, but you understand my position, sir.
I can't take any chances. Who spoke to mister Gorman?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Norm, Yeah, I talked to him.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
He took you into his confidence, sat backing with the pistol, Comodo.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You don't know how to use it anyway. Heaven's nor
mill nor Why did he see? What is it? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
He's sick.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Go get a doctor, take her with you, Get out
of here.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I don't want no part of this. You got it bad, No,
I'm sick.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
I tell you the way I had at Size. This
was a clean caper, a snatch. I figured the dame
here's an heiress or something. Maybe they drop her off
in La correct, some connect, some ransom and go on.
I figure there wasn't for all of us. Oh but
that creep, that Brodnick, he's crazy. He's a regular jack.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The ripper's not babbling, Norm telling me what happened exactly
what happened.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
I get a sink and feeling my stomach every time
I think about it. Well, I go in and see
he's very smooth, very business like. He offers me a drink.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I accept it.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
He mixes a couple of highballs from me in the dame,
and then he starts talking. I guess you don't know
all about it before this.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Because she gets just sick as I do.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
First day he's kidding.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Then he drags out this set of cutlery, like a
doctor used to operating on people. Only he's got something
else in mind.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
The portal. You understand.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I don't want to hear anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You know, as it's you he has in mind. I
don't blame you. My stomach a norm norm here. He
is the kipuck. You're not.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Oh, dear minute, what stand away from him? Please help
me get him into the bunk. Sure, take the shade
off that light please?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Ah? Yes he's dead, isn't he? Oh? Yes, he's dead?
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Of course who poisoned him?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I didn't waste any time answering him. I grabb him
by the arm before he get objecked. I was pushing
him up the companion way to atex. It was probably too
late to save Constance's life, and she drunk the same
poison I was pretty sure she had. But if I
was gonna nail him for the murder of Constance, I
had to get there before the evidence vanished. We got
there just in time. I don't need to tell you
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what we saw, and I'd rather not. Frid Nick rose
slowly to his fate, flicked his heels military fashion, and
bowed very low the ship's surgeon, how a fortune.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Perhaps you could advise me, doctor, After all, I am,
in all honesty, even still a mere amateur at this
sort of team.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
After Frida naked been taken into custoday, we took another
turn around the deck. It was daylight and the ship
was lying too off San Pedro. This time, the fresh
air really felt good, and so did Marcia. It's all
over there, yes, sweetheart, it's all over it, but.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Not between us. Say it's them. Say it's not all
over between us?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
How can it be?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I knew you felt the same way all my life before.
It's been like a terrible nightmare, never really happened.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But it did happen, sweetheart, But you.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Can forget it. Darling. Can't you please forget it?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I'd like to Marcia, I really would hold me close.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Them, never let me go.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You're beautiful? Is that all?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Then? Nothing else?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, lots else. That's why I think we'd better say
goodbye right now, because when I feel like this, I
get foolish, And if I get foolish with you, I'm
likely to wake up in a trunk someplace. And that,
(24:16):
mister Fogg, is the true account of the calcut of
Trunk Caper. Because my voyage was interrupted to no fall
on my own, I trust you will advise your company
to refund my passage minus the one way trip to
San Pedro UH period and the report. Sam Spade is
(24:38):
played by Howard
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