October 3, 2025 • 29 mins
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring Raymond Chandler as Philip Marlowe. He was a gritty, no nonsense American, hard-boiled detective; however, he was more complex than other hard-boiled detectives of the era. "Hard-boiled" refers to a gritter urban element to the detective genre. Marlowe could handle a gun and take a beating, but he was also college educated. He played chess and appreciated classical music. He had standards too, and he turned down jobs that didn't measure up to those standards.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Those who travel had wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. It could have been perfect
snowbound in the mountain lodge with a girl who was
falling in love, but also present were a widow sick
with rage, a bitter old woman, and a jealous man,
all with reason. They hate me more than anyone else
in the world. It happened like this.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
From the pan of.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Raymond Transver, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most
famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with
Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's
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exciting story The grim Echo.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Hid, Yeah, hung snowstorm man.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, it's pretty thick.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah, Yeah, you're lucky you caught me.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Shun there, you're closing up.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well when you have a better fill it with the
regular okay, Jet mean you're aiming to go on, that's right,
gotta get back to La.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I wouldn't advise you, shun Old Jagger and Shure wouldn't
I would hit ten below day, Shane.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, where are you being skiing? Wake of it up
at Angel's Roost? How's the road ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You've got forty miles or nothing but mountains to the
next town.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You know it's the bound again, drifting over anytime.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Why don't you blow that thing? Eh? What's the tariff?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Call it three bucks even.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You know I've been running this mobile gases near twenty years,
and I know these storms are nests.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Four thanks, yeah, yeah, I'll be all right. That's what y'all.
Jay out on the road, you could freeze the gass.
We are easy, mis plaid shirt. I'm wearing your ripping
meat pop.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
That shirt won't even start to keep you warm on
a deserted.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Highway in this bridget take it from old Jagger and shun.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I know.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Thanks anyway, A long old jaggers a solid nerve wracking
out and make twelve miles, And I began to realize
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just how right Old Jack Earnst, the gas station boy,
had been.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
When the road ahead was lost.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Completely in a constant, racing blur of white transformed every
rise into a treacherous barrier. I had a batter my
way through the chains on all four wheels, chewing at
the drifts. I managed to.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Keep on the road somehow and plow out another five miles,
and then I caught a glimpse of the first lighted
window I'd seen in all that distance, just as I
started down the back side of a short steep hill.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And then it happened. First the help was feeling in
the skid.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Before I could do anything about it, I was off
the road in the ditch, nose first and hood deep
in a covid drifted full of snow. I rsed the
door open and plounded back up to the road. I
knew there was no chance of getting the car out
without helping, lots of it, and the ten below zero
that the weather Bureau had bragged about was setting in.
I looked back through the slashing snow of the lighted
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window I had spotted and saw lantern swinging crazily in
the hands of somebody coming. He told me A minute later,
I could see it was a girl. Oh and ah
you hey, I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
My car stuck. Guy skid it off the road.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
I watch it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Oh my, No chance to get eat out of there.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Tonight's bad. Maybe tomorrow for the visit that's up. We
can get job anytime. You got to come on up
to the lodge.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Mister Lodge, huh, and I slow up the road right
in front of a tourist line.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh boy, how gonna be that lucky?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
YEA, well, maybe it's fat. We're not open for business
and the winter, but on a night.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I I know what you mean. Believe me, I really
appreciate it could get tough staying out here. Oh, by
the way, my name is Marlow, Philip Marlow. I want
to pay you for it?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Did you say, Philip Marlow?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
There's something wrong with your business?
Speaker 8 (04:44):
Mister Marlow?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh well, I'm a private detective from a lab and skiing.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I don't care where you've been at where you're going.
You'll get no help from me. Mister Philip Marlow. You
understand I'd rather get shut into a dirty dog. I
hope you're freeze. Do you hear it? I hope you're freeze.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
She was a thin girl with black, hollow eyes full
of hate for me. She didn't stop or look back
all the way to the door, just ran in and
slammed the chat. Couldn't understand it.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Even on my worst day, my reputation ever was that bad.
I didn't wait around to worry about it because I
was cold. Besides, I wanted to know why the good
name Philip Malo was such poisoned the place I'd never
heard of before. I waited up to the heavy, rustic
door and looked in through a tiny window. All I
could see was one corner of what had to be
a big room. It was log, leather and navajo rugs,
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dominated by an enormous fireplace that filled every nook with
a warm, dancing glow. Poison or no, I wanted in.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
M money in it?
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Ah?
Speaker 10 (05:58):
Huh, Oh you you picked a bad.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Night to job. Well won't you come in?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Sure, sure, I'm done.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
This is ecolage.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
We're not open now. But of course you can't go
on in the storm.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
No I can't. Besides my cousin the ditch.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Well, you'll be spending the night.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'd love to, but there seems to be two schools
of thought on that subject.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
So what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know why, but you know I don't think
I'm very welcome.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Well?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Ill, well, Helen, dear, which one you've been crying?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Do you know who he is?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No, we haven't gotten around with the magic of my
name yet, Helen. But maybe you'll be good.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Does that mean anything for you? Yes, Virgil BAROCKI was
my husband.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Virgil BAROCKI was Donna's brother, and Virgil BAROCKI was.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
The man that you shot down and killed. Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I remember it alright six months ago, trail that led
up a blind Los Angeles sally to a garage where
stolen cars were switched. I remembered the pair of vicious
blue eyes glaring at me over the sights of a
blazing forty five, and I remembered shooting back fast.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
When it was over. I was alive. He was dying,
And later the.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Corner's jury decided that killed in self defense. The savagery
here in the eyes of the woman who had been
virtual Baroki's wife said that that decision meant nothing.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
He is Is this true? Are you the one?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it's true. I shot a man named Virgil Barocki.
I had to or be killed by him.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
There was no choice.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You lie, You killed him in cold blood. Don't get
hold of you. You've got enough to work. Get off.
This is the man who killed Riano.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I've been listening and I heard everything. Go find Ralph
on me, Helen. Then you'd better go off your workshop
for a while.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Did you hear me, I said, I'm married.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Go call Ralph now at once, telling you open the cabin,
then go back to your carving. Can't turn a man
out in this weather, not any man. You'll stay, mister Marlow.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Thank you, missus Burokee, Donna.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Go get some hot food.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Alright, ma'm sir.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
You're Philip Marlowe, the private Detective. You don't look much
like i'd imagined you new people ever, Oh, would you
mind fixing?
Speaker 8 (08:27):
The fire?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Needs another long?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh? No at all?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
You uh were stopped by the storm, mister Morrow.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, my god, get it into the ditch about fifty
yards down the road.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I see almost at our doorstep.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
You might say, a rare coincidence.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Isn't it almost too rare? Missus Barokee, I uh, I'm sorry.
The circumstances are painful for you.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I've grown used to that kind of pain, having lost
both the husband and the sun.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Fate up to now has never been very generous.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Do you believe in fate, mister Marlow?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No? No, Oh, Something's happened for which is no explanation.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Maybe nation who knows.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Perhaps everything happens according to a pre arranged schedule and
for a purpose.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh, come, on.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You don't really think I was deliberately shoved off the
road at exactly this spot for a reason.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Oh, you might admit.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
It's strange though, that there was a house nearby just
when you needed.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
One, and that it was our house. Oh thank you.
Don alight tell me, sir. But it's hot and good
and it's fresh bread.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
I the corfee'll be ready in a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Do ahead, mister Marlow. Sit down.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
It'll do you good.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Thanks. Looks wonderful.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
In the meanwhile, I'll check up on Ralph. He should
have the cabin ready by now. It's small, but you'll
be comfortable. There's a fine, big oil heater in it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I haven't worked one for years.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
You won't have any trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Tell me, uh who is this route?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Ralph? To young fellow who lives near here. Uh, Ralph
wert for us in the summer and looks.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
After us in the winter. He's staying over tonight because
of the storm. He was my son's best friend. Oh,
don't let the soup get cold.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Mister Marlow. The soup was thick and delicious, and the
coffee was rich, black and steaming down. I sat across
the table and watched me eat, and there was no
hatred in her eyes. I looked for it closely.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It wasn't even animuscy, only confusion and for some reason,
shadow of fear.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
About As an hour.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Slipped by and the conversation came easier, the shadow disappeared.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Her eyes even began to smile a little.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
When I'd finished down to the third cup of coffee
and started to help her clear the table, the cup slipped,
the crabbed for it, brought one slim inch from breaking,
and wound up together on the floor.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Her face is close.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
We did it.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The table waited a jug.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
And we can do both and make a fortune.
Speaker 11 (11:04):
Oh well, yeah, Ral, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
We have almost dropped the cup?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Uh huh. That sure would have been too bad. Wouldn't
have done it?
Speaker 11 (11:15):
You only got about fifty like that one.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I don't know why it's so important to you before
it's worth I was the one who dropped it.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
It's not important to me. I guess other things aren't
so important to done it either. I think you can
get it out of the kitchen now without any more help. Donna,
missus Barokie asked me to tell you the cabin's ready Marlow. Thanks,
No thanks necessary, mister. It's just part of my job.
I guess everybody's job has its lousy side, huh. Even
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a private detectives. Some of them get trigger happy.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I heard I'll see you, Donna.
Speaker 11 (11:49):
You better get out there right away, Marlow. Donna's got
four whole dishes to carry out. With the rate she's
been going, you gotta get started, as you'll never make it.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Keep your fat trap shut, busty, you causing a draft.
Tolman walked behind me as far as the door and
pointed through the snow to a tiny square of light
sitting apart from the rest of the buildings that made
up Backo Lodge. Soon as I was outside, he slammed
the door against my back and folded it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And stood on a fortune.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Thought about the setup for a minute while I lit
a cigarette, and I stepped out through the snow and
headed for the cabin. Half Way there, I could see
it clearly. It looked snug and warm under the circumstances.
I knew it was better for everybody that I was
sleeping outside the main lodge. But then I saw a
sudden flash and felt the impact before anything else. Right
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in front of me, the cabin lurch, one entire wall
burst out in the roof collapse.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
A second later. As I ran toward what was left
of it, I could hear the others coming tell me, Yeah, yeah,
I'm okay down.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I don't know, Tolman, but I can't understand. And yeah,
hell and that's the way it looks. But it was
working okay when I left. I guess it's not gonna
burned all the snow put it all out.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
Well, yes, another fifth seconds in you you'd have been
in there.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
You'd have been killed.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, maybe that was Fay too. Huh. Maybe gonna get.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Away from here ahead.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
And if I wish you had been in him, mollow
you I stopped killing.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
He's got no business to you, don't hear me alone,
good Lord? And the way he's done to it, how
can you marry with a look, Helen, come back?
Speaker 11 (13:27):
He'll never go.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
This was an accident, Donna, an accident.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
You're here.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
They happened, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Tomorrow, Oh sure, sure everybody knows accidents will happen, missus Barockie,
of course.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Oh, let's get back into the house before he flees
to this. Then you can have my room. Now I'll
sleep with Donna. Come along all of them.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlow.
But first, Groucho Marx, his famous ad libs, and his
teams of opposites will be back betting their lives.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
On most of these same CBS stations tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You've missed half your life if you haven't bet your
life with Groucho Marx on Wednesday nights this season. Hear
him on this top quiz show tomorrow night on CBS
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
second act of Philip Marlow and tonight's story the Grim Echo.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It was a dreary little procession that trudged back towards
the lodge again from the shedded cabin. I said nothing
and pushed hard against the storm as far as the
front door.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
When they were all.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Inside, I ducked back into the biting glizard and ran
down to my car and the thirty eight. I kept
him the glove from partment there. I figured it would
be a warning comfort through the long cold night I
had until I saw that somebody else had figured the
same way. A lock on the glove compartment had been
sprung and the gun was gone. Now there was no
doubt about the explosion. It had been no less accidental
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than lacretia. Boz, you're working over an after dinner drink.
So I hurried back to the lodge.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I suddenly felt a kind.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Of inside cool. You can't have a blame on the
weather around you. But a moment later, that same cold
began to fall because huddle at the edge of the
lodge steps ahead, was done.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
What have you been doing? Everything's going to be all right.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Please?
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Why did you go down your car?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, I'll tell you, but you're gonna be sorry. I'm sorry,
but she got so upset of but nothing. I wanted
to get some cigarettes out of the glove compartment. It
was fresh out.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
That was your only reason.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Cigarette.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Sure, sure, come on, huh, you gotta worry.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Let's do it where we can both be warm, right
over to the fire. I'm a city boy. You know
this cold isn't doing any Hey, hey, Donna, those tears
in your eyes there.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
If in the wind. It always makes me crying. I
feel quite did things have.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
To be this way?
Speaker 10 (16:17):
An hour ago, when you were eating, everything was so nice,
so friendly, And then suddenly Ralph angry, the explosion, Helen's
screaming and clawing at your mama.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Day. Yeah, yeah, I know what.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You may look look, baby, listen to me hard huh.
You see the things you just spoke of were out
the explosion, Helen, all of it, all the trouble.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
It belongs to the night, like a blizzard out there.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh it's raging now, sure, but tomorrow, or maybe a
little laughter, tomorrow it'll stop. Everything look bright and clean
to you, Hon, It's honey, that's the way it'll be
all the way around.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Believe me, I feel I want to good.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
What but you're talking about tomorrow. I'm worried about tonight.
I'm afraid, phil awfully afraid.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I spent the next ten minutes trying to convince Donna
that there wasn't anything to worry about, and then once
she'd gone to a room, I went to mine and
started all over again, trying to convince myself. They out
of seasoned fireworks in the cabin and a gun stolen
from my car made that a very tough proposition. And
I checked the room, which was on the ground floor
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and close.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
To the kitchen, and then I bolted the door and
looked forward to some much needed sleep.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
After that, I took up my shirt and shoes only
got in the bed waited.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
For sleep, which your weekend of skiing made.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
More important than a cabin full of pate. Suddenly I
was wide awake and sitting straight up in bed. The
footsteps could have belonged, I dreamed. The door of the
closes couldn't have. I scrambled out of bed and ran
to it, but it was still bolding. So I turned
to the single closet in the room and opened it sharply.
It was empty except for a long, thin finger of
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light that streamed.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Through a keyhole, A keyhole that belonged.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
To a door at the rear of the closet that
gave out out of the kitchen. Obviously, the closet had
once been a pantry. I tried the door, but it
was boulted from the kitchen side. I got into my shoes,
grabbed my shirt, and ran out of the room around
of the kitchen and smack.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It was a very surprised Tom Marlow, what are you
doing up and rolling around? I'm asleepwalker, watch your excuse?
Come on, let's have it. I'm stro playing target for.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
The night talk, and I.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Know why you're hearing exactly what's on your mind. I
will not before. Why don't we come to terms?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
All right?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Let go.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
I'm here because my room is on the ground floor,
and I heard somebody cross through the house and come
into this kitchen.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So I decided to investigate. You're a liar.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You're in my room, Tollman, and you know it. You
get in through the door that leads into the closet.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Come on, bust, let's level one keeping each other away. Listen, Marlow.
I don't like you, honest, and I don't like the
way you and done are the way. Well, what come on, boy,
get it up your chest. Remind you that no look
at this wood shaving. So what ye found it.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Near the door of the closet in your room might
also be the answer to who your visitor was. She
left her calling card? What do you mean calling card?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Helen? He's always covered with these shavings. He makes things
out of rough pine. Where is this workshop of hers?
Tom out in the back? Just be on the barn.
What are you gonna do, Marlow?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Not that it's any of your business, but I'm gonna
see the lady and I'll see you. What do you
want conversation, Helen, if you don't mind.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Wait a minute, you would play.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That I will and I will. I get up there
and sit down. We've got a few things to clear up.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
What where you married my husband, Helen law just as you.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Decide to behave your strong blood baby, what are you
gonna be good?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, all right, I'd sit down over there, away from
those shop chisels you work with, and keep your hands
in your lap.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Come on that chair there very well.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Mister Marlow, or anything to accommodate the man who murdered
my husband.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Which brings us right to that point.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Youn you deny that you shut him down.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I fired and self defense, thinking.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Lie, you need to set on your own nest to
be a hero to the police in the newspapers.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You're wrong, Helen. I killed your husband because I had to.
He was on the wrong side.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Or don't make me laugh. You can't trying to get
money for his family for me? You call acting on
the wrong side so much that he should have been killed,
shot down by the likes of you.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Oh, mister Marlow, if you have no idea I'll through
these past six lonely.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Months I've thought of you. I wondered what you looked like.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
What the man who killed Virgil was doing, How you'd
like to meet the same death you brought to my
husband under.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
The brave battle of law and order.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Wait, am, I.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Don't think I didn't plan your death a thousand times over.
Don't think I didn't have.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Told Mama, Barockie, Ralph, even sweet little Donna with a
delicious thought of revenge. No, no, they talk like you talked,
mister Marlon.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Virgil was doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
He was caught.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
It wasn't right or wrong. It was him or me.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Oh, you shut up and listen.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
Sure sure Bertil was stealing, all right, was stealing from
me his wife.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
That's why I left you. That's why I tried so hard.
That's why you had no reason to kill him, and
that's why you should die too.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
That's also why we had an accidental explosion that the
cabin I was supposed to sleep in.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I was clumsy, I was hasty. I won't be the
next time.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You're completely out of your mind, Helen, How.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Cold I am? Did you think this existence is living
without the man I love?
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Good?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Leave the otherwise? Did you think me.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Keene telling me isn't gonna bring him back.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
You go on get out and if you can, mister Marlowe.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Go back to be while you wait for a chance
to get me with my own gun, the gun you
stole from my car.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I'm not going to shoot you with, mister Marta, that
would only further disgrace the Barocie name.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
No, no, I'm not going to shoot.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You, but I am going to get you.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
For a long, chilling moment, I stared into the eyes
of a half crazed woman standing in front of me.
The ice cold, bottomless eyes that a cancerous hate had
destroyed is something human, And as I turned and started
out of the room, I knew that I made a
mistake that night, Virgil Barocki had died in my arms,
the mistake I had to correct before it was too
late and there was nothing left to helen but the
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ruthless machinery of her mind dedicated to murder. Headed back
to the house and talked to I'm a Barockie, which
I think it had to be the first immediate step.
When I'd gone only a dozen yards when the workshop
I stopped.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Well, no, I don what are you doing out here?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Please.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I was too worried about you.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
And then when I started to leave the house from
my window and head for the workshop, till your face.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Oh it was Helen. She she got a little upset
in there, a.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Little could look at you.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Your pocket ripped off your shirt, your.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Face, crab, It's all right, donnah, no, hey he my
pocket gripped the gun.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Did you tell me please hold.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
It on to give me a second? Yeah, yeah, sure,
it adds all right. I look get over there.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Inside the barn and scream long and loud. Huh yeah, yeah,
it's the only chance. Go on, do as I say.
Donna scream all right.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I'll do it whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Second, Donna cut loose. I stepped out of sight behind
a tree that was opposite the barn, and I kept
my eyes glued to the door of the workshop. I
just left.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I waited for the shattering report of the gun.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I was afraid i'd hear.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
But then the door flew open and Helen was running
out toward the barn, and Donna scream my thirty eight,
clenched a handkerchief in the right hand and look up
stock bewildering and stands over her face.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What are you doing there by the bomb.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
What do you mean? You don't know?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I had that gun back without boast discussion. I'll get
back against that wall and don't move an inch. Sure
what it attempted? Murder, honey, she's all right.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Attempted You mean telling here we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Try and kill someone, Yeah, herself?
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Why suicide?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Uh huh? Suicide? That would be called murder and pinned
on me. It's gonna be her way of getting even
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I can't believe she tried to once, Honey, the explosion
of the cabin. When that failed and everybody knew how
she felt about me, a woped mind hit upon this
little plan, and all the pieces would have.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Fit tight too.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
What pieces?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
What do you mean the one we argued?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
So she came to my room tonight and ripped the
pocket off his plaid shirt so that we'd find it
clenched in her hand after.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
She was dead.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You see it free she stole my thirty eight, which
has my fingerprints on it, Or she left an obvious
clue on the floor of the kitchen, a wood shaving
that would bring me out here on the run, so
everybody could find me close by.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
When it happened.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Oh it was tight, all right, tight as a hangman's noose.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
And then she was gonna shoot herself, Phil, just after
you left her. That that's where you made me screech.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, and that's why Now, Dona lady, tonight, I'm gonna
tell her something that I intended to break to her gently,
something I was gonna tell Mama BAROCKI first, Yep, something
I hoped would straighten her.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Oart, what help?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well? Your brother Virgil didn't die the moment.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He was shot down, and he he lived long enough
to ask.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
One thing of me, what a what are you trying
to stay?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Phil? But I never let Helen know.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You people here know about the woman he was in
love with in La, the woman through whom I attracked
him down.
Speaker 10 (25:51):
Oh yeah, that way I gets it.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
It wouldn't be good for her.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I was around too much.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I don't, I mean, not for a while anyway, wouldn't
be good for any of us.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Huh, come on, don't I Let's get her into the house.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Yes, kiss.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well it was the next morning I went into the
kitchen for some coffee and found myself all alone.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Thought I wasn't any place in sight, so I got
my things together and walked slowly down to my car.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And when I got in, I didn't feel like leaving,
not right away, And I was glad that warming up
my motor was the smart thing to do. Gave me
time to light a cigarette and think.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Look around. I taught echo lodge where.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I could see Dona waving goodbye, went upstairs window. I'd
see her again a little while. It's a small world
all right, full of echoes.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
And just think how the web of paths we call coincidence.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It brought me and those whom you were in love
verson together.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It someday maybe Donna and I would be looking for
each other, and those paths would make it a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
and Gene Levitt.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Featured in the.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Cast were Sammy Hill, Betty lou Gerson, Verna Felton, Frank Gerstel,
and Junius Matthews. The special music is composed and conducted
by Richard Urant.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Be sure and be with us again next week when
Philip Marlowe says.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
This time a peddler of pulp paper love, a black
mallow with muscles, south of the Border Chisler, a simpering prude,
and a corpse in a bedroom all had one thing
in common. Each was a woman.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Al Jolson will pay another of those wonderful visits to
Bing Crosby this Wednesday night, and the gags and songs
will again fly thick and fast. Bing and L will
team up to sing waiting for the Robert E Lee
and whispering. And as for the gags, well, just tune
in on most of these same CBS stations. Remember that's
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this Wednesday night, the CBS Bing Crosby Show.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
This is Roy Rowan speaking.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Now stay tuned for Pursuit, which follows immediately On most
of these same CBS network stations.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
This is CBS where.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
You bet you are alive with Bracho Marx every Wednesday.
The Columbia Broadcasting System
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Those who travel had wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. It could have been perfect
snowbound in the mountain lodge with a girl who was
falling in love, but also present were a widow sick
with rage, a bitter old woman, and a jealous man,
all with reason. They hate me more than anyone else
in the world. It happened like this.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
From the pan of.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Raymond Transver, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most
famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with
Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's
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exciting story The grim Echo.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Hid, Yeah, hung snowstorm man.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, it's pretty thick.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah, Yeah, you're lucky you caught me.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Shun there, you're closing up.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well when you have a better fill it with the
regular okay, Jet mean you're aiming to go on, that's right,
gotta get back to La.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I wouldn't advise you, shun Old Jagger and Shure wouldn't
I would hit ten below day, Shane.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, where are you being skiing? Wake of it up
at Angel's Roost? How's the road ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You've got forty miles or nothing but mountains to the
next town.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You know it's the bound again, drifting over anytime.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Why don't you blow that thing? Eh? What's the tariff?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Call it three bucks even.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
You know I've been running this mobile gases near twenty years,
and I know these storms are nests.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Four thanks, yeah, yeah, I'll be all right. That's what y'all.
Jay out on the road, you could freeze the gass.
We are easy, mis plaid shirt. I'm wearing your ripping
meat pop.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
That shirt won't even start to keep you warm on
a deserted.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Highway in this bridget take it from old Jagger and shun.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I know.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Thanks anyway, A long old jaggers a solid nerve wracking
out and make twelve miles, And I began to realize
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just how right Old Jack Earnst, the gas station boy,
had been.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
When the road ahead was lost.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Completely in a constant, racing blur of white transformed every
rise into a treacherous barrier. I had a batter my
way through the chains on all four wheels, chewing at
the drifts. I managed to.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Keep on the road somehow and plow out another five miles,
and then I caught a glimpse of the first lighted
window I'd seen in all that distance, just as I
started down the back side of a short steep hill.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And then it happened. First the help was feeling in
the skid.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Before I could do anything about it, I was off
the road in the ditch, nose first and hood deep
in a covid drifted full of snow. I rsed the
door open and plounded back up to the road. I
knew there was no chance of getting the car out
without helping, lots of it, and the ten below zero
that the weather Bureau had bragged about was setting in.
I looked back through the slashing snow of the lighted
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window I had spotted and saw lantern swinging crazily in
the hands of somebody coming. He told me A minute later,
I could see it was a girl. Oh and ah
you hey, I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
My car stuck. Guy skid it off the road.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
I watch it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Oh my, No chance to get eat out of there.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Tonight's bad. Maybe tomorrow for the visit that's up. We
can get job anytime. You got to come on up
to the lodge.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Mister Lodge, huh, and I slow up the road right
in front of a tourist line.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh boy, how gonna be that lucky?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
YEA, well, maybe it's fat. We're not open for business
and the winter, but on a night.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I I know what you mean. Believe me, I really
appreciate it could get tough staying out here. Oh, by
the way, my name is Marlow, Philip Marlow. I want
to pay you for it?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Did you say, Philip Marlow?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
There's something wrong with your business?
Speaker 8 (04:44):
Mister Marlow?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh well, I'm a private detective from a lab and skiing.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I don't care where you've been at where you're going.
You'll get no help from me. Mister Philip Marlow. You
understand I'd rather get shut into a dirty dog. I
hope you're freeze. Do you hear it? I hope you're freeze.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
She was a thin girl with black, hollow eyes full
of hate for me. She didn't stop or look back
all the way to the door, just ran in and
slammed the chat. Couldn't understand it.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Even on my worst day, my reputation ever was that bad.
I didn't wait around to worry about it because I
was cold. Besides, I wanted to know why the good
name Philip Malo was such poisoned the place I'd never
heard of before. I waited up to the heavy, rustic
door and looked in through a tiny window. All I
could see was one corner of what had to be
a big room. It was log, leather and navajo rugs,
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dominated by an enormous fireplace that filled every nook with
a warm, dancing glow. Poison or no, I wanted in.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
M money in it?
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Ah?
Speaker 10 (05:58):
Huh, Oh you you picked a bad.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Night to job. Well won't you come in?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Sure, sure, I'm done.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
This is ecolage.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
We're not open now. But of course you can't go
on in the storm.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
No I can't. Besides my cousin the ditch.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Well, you'll be spending the night.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'd love to, but there seems to be two schools
of thought on that subject.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
So what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know why, but you know I don't think
I'm very welcome.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Well?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Ill, well, Helen, dear, which one you've been crying?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Do you know who he is?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No, we haven't gotten around with the magic of my
name yet, Helen. But maybe you'll be good.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Does that mean anything for you? Yes, Virgil BAROCKI was
my husband.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Virgil BAROCKI was Donna's brother, and Virgil BAROCKI was.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
The man that you shot down and killed. Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I remember it alright six months ago, trail that led
up a blind Los Angeles sally to a garage where
stolen cars were switched. I remembered the pair of vicious
blue eyes glaring at me over the sights of a
blazing forty five, and I remembered shooting back fast.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
When it was over. I was alive. He was dying,
And later the.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Corner's jury decided that killed in self defense. The savagery
here in the eyes of the woman who had been
virtual Baroki's wife said that that decision meant nothing.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
He is Is this true? Are you the one?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it's true. I shot a man named Virgil Barocki.
I had to or be killed by him.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
There was no choice.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You lie, You killed him in cold blood. Don't get
hold of you. You've got enough to work. Get off.
This is the man who killed Riano.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I've been listening and I heard everything. Go find Ralph
on me, Helen. Then you'd better go off your workshop
for a while.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Did you hear me, I said, I'm married.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Go call Ralph now at once, telling you open the cabin,
then go back to your carving. Can't turn a man
out in this weather, not any man. You'll stay, mister Marlow.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Thank you, missus Burokee, Donna.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Go get some hot food.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Alright, ma'm sir.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
You're Philip Marlowe, the private Detective. You don't look much
like i'd imagined you new people ever, Oh, would you
mind fixing?
Speaker 8 (08:27):
The fire?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Needs another long?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh? No at all?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
You uh were stopped by the storm, mister Morrow.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, my god, get it into the ditch about fifty
yards down the road.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I see almost at our doorstep.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
You might say, a rare coincidence.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Isn't it almost too rare? Missus Barokee, I uh, I'm sorry.
The circumstances are painful for you.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I've grown used to that kind of pain, having lost
both the husband and the sun.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Fate up to now has never been very generous.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Do you believe in fate, mister Marlow?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No? No, Oh, Something's happened for which is no explanation.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Maybe nation who knows.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Perhaps everything happens according to a pre arranged schedule and
for a purpose.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh, come, on.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You don't really think I was deliberately shoved off the
road at exactly this spot for a reason.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Oh, you might admit.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
It's strange though, that there was a house nearby just
when you needed.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
One, and that it was our house. Oh thank you.
Don alight tell me, sir. But it's hot and good
and it's fresh bread.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
I the corfee'll be ready in a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Do ahead, mister Marlow. Sit down.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
It'll do you good.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Thanks. Looks wonderful.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
In the meanwhile, I'll check up on Ralph. He should
have the cabin ready by now. It's small, but you'll
be comfortable. There's a fine, big oil heater in it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I haven't worked one for years.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
You won't have any trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Tell me, uh who is this route?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Ralph? To young fellow who lives near here. Uh, Ralph
wert for us in the summer and looks.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
After us in the winter. He's staying over tonight because
of the storm. He was my son's best friend. Oh,
don't let the soup get cold.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Mister Marlow. The soup was thick and delicious, and the
coffee was rich, black and steaming down. I sat across
the table and watched me eat, and there was no
hatred in her eyes. I looked for it closely.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It wasn't even animuscy, only confusion and for some reason,
shadow of fear.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
About As an hour.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Slipped by and the conversation came easier, the shadow disappeared.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Her eyes even began to smile a little.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
When I'd finished down to the third cup of coffee
and started to help her clear the table, the cup slipped,
the crabbed for it, brought one slim inch from breaking,
and wound up together on the floor.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Her face is close.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
We did it.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The table waited a jug.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
And we can do both and make a fortune.
Speaker 11 (11:04):
Oh well, yeah, Ral, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
We have almost dropped the cup?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Uh huh. That sure would have been too bad. Wouldn't
have done it?
Speaker 11 (11:15):
You only got about fifty like that one.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I don't know why it's so important to you before
it's worth I was the one who dropped it.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
It's not important to me. I guess other things aren't
so important to done it either. I think you can
get it out of the kitchen now without any more help. Donna,
missus Barokie asked me to tell you the cabin's ready Marlow. Thanks,
No thanks necessary, mister. It's just part of my job.
I guess everybody's job has its lousy side, huh. Even
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a private detectives. Some of them get trigger happy.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I heard I'll see you, Donna.
Speaker 11 (11:49):
You better get out there right away, Marlow. Donna's got
four whole dishes to carry out. With the rate she's
been going, you gotta get started, as you'll never make it.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Keep your fat trap shut, busty, you causing a draft.
Tolman walked behind me as far as the door and
pointed through the snow to a tiny square of light
sitting apart from the rest of the buildings that made
up Backo Lodge. Soon as I was outside, he slammed
the door against my back and folded it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And stood on a fortune.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Thought about the setup for a minute while I lit
a cigarette, and I stepped out through the snow and
headed for the cabin. Half Way there, I could see
it clearly. It looked snug and warm under the circumstances.
I knew it was better for everybody that I was
sleeping outside the main lodge. But then I saw a
sudden flash and felt the impact before anything else. Right
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in front of me, the cabin lurch, one entire wall
burst out in the roof collapse.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
A second later. As I ran toward what was left
of it, I could hear the others coming tell me, Yeah, yeah,
I'm okay down.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I don't know, Tolman, but I can't understand. And yeah,
hell and that's the way it looks. But it was
working okay when I left. I guess it's not gonna
burned all the snow put it all out.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
Well, yes, another fifth seconds in you you'd have been
in there.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
You'd have been killed.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, maybe that was Fay too. Huh. Maybe gonna get.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Away from here ahead.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
And if I wish you had been in him, mollow
you I stopped killing.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
He's got no business to you, don't hear me alone,
good Lord? And the way he's done to it, how
can you marry with a look, Helen, come back?
Speaker 11 (13:27):
He'll never go.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
This was an accident, Donna, an accident.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
You're here.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
They happened, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Tomorrow, Oh sure, sure everybody knows accidents will happen, missus Barockie,
of course.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Oh, let's get back into the house before he flees
to this. Then you can have my room. Now I'll
sleep with Donna. Come along all of them.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlow.
But first, Groucho Marx, his famous ad libs, and his
teams of opposites will be back betting their lives.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
On most of these same CBS stations tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You've missed half your life if you haven't bet your
life with Groucho Marx on Wednesday nights this season. Hear
him on this top quiz show tomorrow night on CBS
Now with our star Gerald Moore, we returned to the
second act of Philip Marlow and tonight's story the Grim Echo.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It was a dreary little procession that trudged back towards
the lodge again from the shedded cabin. I said nothing
and pushed hard against the storm as far as the
front door.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
When they were all.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Inside, I ducked back into the biting glizard and ran
down to my car and the thirty eight. I kept
him the glove from partment there. I figured it would
be a warning comfort through the long cold night I
had until I saw that somebody else had figured the
same way. A lock on the glove compartment had been
sprung and the gun was gone. Now there was no
doubt about the explosion. It had been no less accidental
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than lacretia. Boz, you're working over an after dinner drink.
So I hurried back to the lodge.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I suddenly felt a kind.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Of inside cool. You can't have a blame on the
weather around you. But a moment later, that same cold
began to fall because huddle at the edge of the
lodge steps ahead, was done.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
What have you been doing? Everything's going to be all right.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Please?
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Why did you go down your car?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, I'll tell you, but you're gonna be sorry. I'm sorry,
but she got so upset of but nothing. I wanted
to get some cigarettes out of the glove compartment. It
was fresh out.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
That was your only reason.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Cigarette.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Sure, sure, come on, huh, you gotta worry.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Let's do it where we can both be warm, right
over to the fire. I'm a city boy. You know
this cold isn't doing any Hey, hey, Donna, those tears
in your eyes there.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
If in the wind. It always makes me crying. I
feel quite did things have.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
To be this way?
Speaker 10 (16:17):
An hour ago, when you were eating, everything was so nice,
so friendly, And then suddenly Ralph angry, the explosion, Helen's
screaming and clawing at your mama.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Day. Yeah, yeah, I know what.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You may look look, baby, listen to me hard huh.
You see the things you just spoke of were out
the explosion, Helen, all of it, all the trouble.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
It belongs to the night, like a blizzard out there.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh it's raging now, sure, but tomorrow, or maybe a
little laughter, tomorrow it'll stop. Everything look bright and clean
to you, Hon, It's honey, that's the way it'll be
all the way around.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Believe me, I feel I want to good.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
What but you're talking about tomorrow. I'm worried about tonight.
I'm afraid, phil awfully afraid.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I spent the next ten minutes trying to convince Donna
that there wasn't anything to worry about, and then once
she'd gone to a room, I went to mine and
started all over again, trying to convince myself. They out
of seasoned fireworks in the cabin and a gun stolen
from my car made that a very tough proposition. And
I checked the room, which was on the ground floor
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and close.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
To the kitchen, and then I bolted the door and
looked forward to some much needed sleep.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
After that, I took up my shirt and shoes only
got in the bed waited.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
For sleep, which your weekend of skiing made.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
More important than a cabin full of pate. Suddenly I
was wide awake and sitting straight up in bed. The
footsteps could have belonged, I dreamed. The door of the
closes couldn't have. I scrambled out of bed and ran
to it, but it was still bolding. So I turned
to the single closet in the room and opened it sharply.
It was empty except for a long, thin finger of
(18:13):
light that streamed.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Through a keyhole, A keyhole that belonged.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
To a door at the rear of the closet that
gave out out of the kitchen. Obviously, the closet had
once been a pantry. I tried the door, but it
was boulted from the kitchen side. I got into my shoes,
grabbed my shirt, and ran out of the room around
of the kitchen and smack.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It was a very surprised Tom Marlow, what are you
doing up and rolling around? I'm asleepwalker, watch your excuse?
Come on, let's have it. I'm stro playing target for.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
The night talk, and I.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Know why you're hearing exactly what's on your mind. I
will not before. Why don't we come to terms?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
All right?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Let go.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
I'm here because my room is on the ground floor,
and I heard somebody cross through the house and come
into this kitchen.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So I decided to investigate. You're a liar.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You're in my room, Tollman, and you know it. You
get in through the door that leads into the closet.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Come on, bust, let's level one keeping each other away. Listen, Marlow.
I don't like you, honest, and I don't like the
way you and done are the way. Well, what come on, boy,
get it up your chest. Remind you that no look
at this wood shaving. So what ye found it.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Near the door of the closet in your room might
also be the answer to who your visitor was. She
left her calling card? What do you mean calling card?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Helen? He's always covered with these shavings. He makes things
out of rough pine. Where is this workshop of hers?
Tom out in the back? Just be on the barn.
What are you gonna do, Marlow?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Not that it's any of your business, but I'm gonna
see the lady and I'll see you. What do you
want conversation, Helen, if you don't mind.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Wait a minute, you would play.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That I will and I will. I get up there
and sit down. We've got a few things to clear up.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
What where you married my husband, Helen law just as you.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Decide to behave your strong blood baby, what are you
gonna be good?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, all right, I'd sit down over there, away from
those shop chisels you work with, and keep your hands
in your lap.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Come on that chair there very well.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Mister Marlow, or anything to accommodate the man who murdered
my husband.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Which brings us right to that point.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Youn you deny that you shut him down.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I fired and self defense, thinking.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Lie, you need to set on your own nest to
be a hero to the police in the newspapers.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You're wrong, Helen. I killed your husband because I had to.
He was on the wrong side.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Or don't make me laugh. You can't trying to get
money for his family for me? You call acting on
the wrong side so much that he should have been killed,
shot down by the likes of you.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Oh, mister Marlow, if you have no idea I'll through
these past six lonely.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Months I've thought of you. I wondered what you looked like.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
What the man who killed Virgil was doing, How you'd
like to meet the same death you brought to my
husband under.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
The brave battle of law and order.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Wait, am, I.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Don't think I didn't plan your death a thousand times over.
Don't think I didn't have.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Told Mama, Barockie, Ralph, even sweet little Donna with a
delicious thought of revenge. No, no, they talk like you talked,
mister Marlon.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Virgil was doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
He was caught.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
It wasn't right or wrong. It was him or me.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Oh, you shut up and listen.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
Sure sure Bertil was stealing, all right, was stealing from
me his wife.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
That's why I left you. That's why I tried so hard.
That's why you had no reason to kill him, and
that's why you should die too.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
That's also why we had an accidental explosion that the
cabin I was supposed to sleep in.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I was clumsy, I was hasty. I won't be the
next time.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You're completely out of your mind, Helen, How.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Cold I am? Did you think this existence is living
without the man I love?
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Good?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Leave the otherwise? Did you think me.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Keene telling me isn't gonna bring him back.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
You go on get out and if you can, mister Marlowe.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Go back to be while you wait for a chance
to get me with my own gun, the gun you
stole from my car.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I'm not going to shoot you with, mister Marta, that
would only further disgrace the Barocie name.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
No, no, I'm not going to shoot.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You, but I am going to get you.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
For a long, chilling moment, I stared into the eyes
of a half crazed woman standing in front of me.
The ice cold, bottomless eyes that a cancerous hate had
destroyed is something human, And as I turned and started
out of the room, I knew that I made a
mistake that night, Virgil Barocki had died in my arms,
the mistake I had to correct before it was too
late and there was nothing left to helen but the
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ruthless machinery of her mind dedicated to murder. Headed back
to the house and talked to I'm a Barockie, which
I think it had to be the first immediate step.
When I'd gone only a dozen yards when the workshop
I stopped.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Well, no, I don what are you doing out here?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Please.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I was too worried about you.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
And then when I started to leave the house from
my window and head for the workshop, till your face.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Oh it was Helen. She she got a little upset
in there, a.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Little could look at you.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Your pocket ripped off your shirt, your.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Face, crab, It's all right, donnah, no, hey he my
pocket gripped the gun.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Did you tell me please hold.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
It on to give me a second? Yeah, yeah, sure,
it adds all right. I look get over there.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Inside the barn and scream long and loud. Huh yeah, yeah,
it's the only chance. Go on, do as I say.
Donna scream all right.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I'll do it whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Second, Donna cut loose. I stepped out of sight behind
a tree that was opposite the barn, and I kept
my eyes glued to the door of the workshop. I
just left.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I waited for the shattering report of the gun.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I was afraid i'd hear.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
But then the door flew open and Helen was running
out toward the barn, and Donna scream my thirty eight,
clenched a handkerchief in the right hand and look up
stock bewildering and stands over her face.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What are you doing there by the bomb.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
What do you mean? You don't know?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I had that gun back without boast discussion. I'll get
back against that wall and don't move an inch. Sure
what it attempted? Murder, honey, she's all right.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Attempted You mean telling here we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Try and kill someone, Yeah, herself?
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Why suicide?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Uh huh? Suicide? That would be called murder and pinned
on me. It's gonna be her way of getting even
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I can't believe she tried to once, Honey, the explosion
of the cabin. When that failed and everybody knew how
she felt about me, a woped mind hit upon this
little plan, and all the pieces would have.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Fit tight too.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
What pieces?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
What do you mean the one we argued?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
So she came to my room tonight and ripped the
pocket off his plaid shirt so that we'd find it
clenched in her hand after.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
She was dead.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You see it free she stole my thirty eight, which
has my fingerprints on it, Or she left an obvious
clue on the floor of the kitchen, a wood shaving
that would bring me out here on the run, so
everybody could find me close by.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
When it happened.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Oh it was tight, all right, tight as a hangman's noose.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
And then she was gonna shoot herself, Phil, just after
you left her. That that's where you made me screech.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, and that's why Now, Dona lady, tonight, I'm gonna
tell her something that I intended to break to her gently,
something I was gonna tell Mama BAROCKI first, Yep, something
I hoped would straighten her.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Oart, what help?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well? Your brother Virgil didn't die the moment.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He was shot down, and he he lived long enough
to ask.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
One thing of me, what a what are you trying
to stay?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Phil? But I never let Helen know.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You people here know about the woman he was in
love with in La, the woman through whom I attracked
him down.
Speaker 10 (25:51):
Oh yeah, that way I gets it.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
It wouldn't be good for her.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I was around too much.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I don't, I mean, not for a while anyway, wouldn't
be good for any of us.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Huh, come on, don't I Let's get her into the house.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Yes, kiss.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well it was the next morning I went into the
kitchen for some coffee and found myself all alone.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Thought I wasn't any place in sight, so I got
my things together and walked slowly down to my car.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And when I got in, I didn't feel like leaving,
not right away, And I was glad that warming up
my motor was the smart thing to do. Gave me
time to light a cigarette and think.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Look around. I taught echo lodge where.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I could see Dona waving goodbye, went upstairs window. I'd
see her again a little while. It's a small world
all right, full of echoes.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
And just think how the web of paths we call coincidence.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It brought me and those whom you were in love
verson together.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It someday maybe Donna and I would be looking for
each other, and those paths would make it a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most
famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
and Gene Levitt.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Featured in the.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Cast were Sammy Hill, Betty lou Gerson, Verna Felton, Frank Gerstel,
and Junius Matthews. The special music is composed and conducted
by Richard Urant.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Be sure and be with us again next week when
Philip Marlowe says.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
This time a peddler of pulp paper love, a black
mallow with muscles, south of the Border Chisler, a simpering prude,
and a corpse in a bedroom all had one thing
in common. Each was a woman.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Al Jolson will pay another of those wonderful visits to
Bing Crosby this Wednesday night, and the gags and songs
will again fly thick and fast. Bing and L will
team up to sing waiting for the Robert E Lee
and whispering. And as for the gags, well, just tune
in on most of these same CBS stations. Remember that's
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this Wednesday night, the CBS Bing Crosby Show.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
This is Roy Rowan speaking.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Now stay tuned for Pursuit, which follows immediately On most
of these same CBS network stations.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
This is CBS where.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
You bet you are alive with Bracho Marx every Wednesday.
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