October 22, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade,
Detective Sasservation Me, sweetheart, would you mind telling me where
you are? Not at all, Fie, not at all. Let's see,
(00:25):
I'm at the eel rigg deny Rabbi tiles. See God, I.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Don't understand it's time, but I think I caught the
word ground all your shrewd Fie.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You see, I'm on the inside and the lettering is
printed on the outside. If you'll wait, I'll go outside
and read it the right way and then come inside.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And never mind, I've already guessed you're a judge of
a neat bar and grill crash. Say answer me.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You promised me you wouldn't me?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I promised me.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You did, Sam, You promise faithfully to stay away from dies?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Do you know how hard television is on your eyes?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Have you got your glasses?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
One in each hand? George?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh, Sam, I heard that?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
What will people think?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
They'll never know?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Fie.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I always drink here under another name. Oh, just a
little of the hair of the dog that fit me, Efe.
But don't worry about me, although it's true I have
been dogging it and have been hounded from tree to tree.
I am frisky as ever and will be in to
unleash my canine chronicle, namely the dog bed Caper or
he who lies down with dogs gets up with murder,
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or condensed or easy reading Who. For NBC, William Spear,
Radio's outstanding producer director of History and crime drama, bring
you the greatest private detective of them all In the
Adventures of Sam Saye Here I am Sam, Here, I
(01:55):
am Sam. Effie, did you ever write poetry in school?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Man?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was known as Emily Dickinson of Central High.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I thought you had a touch of internal rhyme scheme there.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I didn't a little storm about you today?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Really well readoodle.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There was a detaching in Stade with urdub brains in
his head.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Clever clever.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
When he took up drinking, he forgot about thinking.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Now give me the punchline.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And Effie has stayed quite unpaid, well a little rough,
but you do you get the ideas that never couldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Make any sense out of poetry? Ready getting close to Christmas,
Semini and use my last pencil.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I don't really have enough money to pay Jeffie.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I have no head for figures, all right. I guess
from Samuels paid license number one three seven, five nine six,
subject the dog bed Caper.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, Sam, I hope this is going to be all
about dogs. I belong to the tail wagons. I've read
all the books by Jacket.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah. How strangely enough, you will not meet a single
dog in this story. Actually, this narrative as little and
need to do with our four footed friends or their beds.
And I changed the title now, except that it's already
gone out for publicity. Dear Dundee. It all started with
a phone call to my sector in this Effie Parene
(03:12):
a doll, requesting my inimitable services at the investment consoling
firm of Cameron Incorporated. Clearing everything off my desk. Two
shoes with feet in them, my own. I went over.
The firm of Cameron Incorporated was obviously not for the
push cart set. It was plush ankle, deep runs, imported grapes,
and the receptionist she had a plushness all of her own.
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I said hello in my plushiest voice. She liked it,
she said, so, oh, I like the rea you've said that.
Said again, life is too short to go back, even
for a moment the past is a dead thing, the
present dying, only the future alive and vibrant. However, hello,
is there something there is? Could I ask a question?
(03:58):
I will rephrase the question. What time do you stop
working to see me? There's a little bar around the corner? Okay,
why not? Why not? Indeed, bring your own money, will
come anyway. Your name mind, Sam Spade? Who's mister Briggs?
He called?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Why are chief a county?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I just happened to have my door open? Did I
hear someone inquiring about me? How do you do? Major?
It's a prasure'll meet you in person, mister Spade. I'm
the man who called you. You know I am grateful, sir.
Now what is it I can do for you? And
mister Cameron? Who it is not for me that I called.
I haven't a worry in the world. And it's Miss Cameron.
Old Cameron's been dead for many years now. I see
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whatever she wants. Mister Spade, do a good job. We
are all counting on you. Will you please announce mister Spade,
Miss Roberts, if you'd excuse me, nice to have met you, Major,
Miss Cameron.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yes, it's stay here.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Sam, have fun.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Think I am I Why must that girl had the
most beautiful double entendre in town. Well they get on.
Adela Cameron was a career woman. I'm twenty nine. Although
the tailored suit made fine detective work difficult, no makeup,
severe hairdo. And in spite of all this chic in fact,
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as we shook hands in a most businesslike manner, I
had the feeling that something war might well spring up
between us, something like a warm mutual dislike baby, but.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Something most men simply cannot be told anything inconfident.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
They gossip.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's a switch.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't appreciate your human misscass.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I accept your apology.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I will tolerate you because of your reputation. Why I'm
going to give you a very difficult job to do,
Miss Hermon, What did it make?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm sorry to interrupt you, but Courtney Pierces.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
On the phone, mister Spade, this is major Briggs are.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Chief of company. We've already met, mister speed. Now, Adela
Pierce wants us to unload his short term governments and
by American cattle. He's divvid in crazy am cats, declaring
one in January, and he wants it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Let him do it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh, I just want to protect your interests. You know
what will happen to Amcat after February. That'll drop ten
points and he'll blame us. I went through this with
your father when you and Greg were.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's right, Major, Well tell him we advise against it.
But if he persists asking for a release night.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
That's what I thought you'd do, That's the way your
father would have handled it. I just want to protect
your interest, I hear, that's all. I just want to
protect your interest.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Don't worry about us. You're not children anymore, my dear.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh you were giving me a difficult job.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh yes, here is the business address of mister I. J. Barco.
He's a wealthy manufacturer client of ours.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I want you to find out everything about him, especially
and unsavory.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Sorry, I don't do divorce or blackmail case.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Missus sabe. This is not a divorce investigation.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
All right? What is it? Then?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Why do we want a client shadowed? I believe his
excussion that's it, because we believe he is investing money
through us for some racketeers. If that for true, we
would of course have to drop him.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
But we don't want to lose.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
His business just on suspicion.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I see find out anything you can about him. And
because she's done it a day in expenses one week guarantee,
will you consider the job.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I have considered an taken the job. By the time
I had reached the door, she had already forgotten me
and was part at work on some papers outside. I
planned to dally a few moments an idle chit chat
with Celeste, but before I had the chance, I was
accusted by a husky young chap whom I'm afraid was
a Princeton man. What were you talking about in es, babe,
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who you had the advantage? Sir? Oh you Gregory Cameron?
Now come on? Or was Adella telling him if you
step to one side, you can walk around me and
ask her. Look, don't pull that Kji private detective routine
on me. I pack a little weight myself. We'll pack
it somewhere else. Son. I asked her a question, I
expect an answer. He's your answer. Any more questions. He
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didn't feel much like talking then, and I was so
irritated I walked out without saying goodbye to the least.
When I reached the space, a white haired old gentleman,
Major Briggs hurried out behind me. Mister Spain. Please don't
think too badly of that boy. I've known him from
the cradle. He's in the difficult emotional staatey. Yes, sure, sure, sure,
As far as I'm concerned, Major had never happened. You're
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a kind man, mister State. I could tell that when
I first saw you. You're just the sort of man
Miss Cameron. Mean well, I hadn't looked at it that way.
If you require anything, don't hesitate to ask me. I'd
been with this company forty years before those two children
and there were born, and I know how difficult life
can be at times. I just want things to go
well for us. I'll do my little part. Major. Bless
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you some bless you. I started the work. The card
a Dulla Cameron had given me revealed that my quarry
and mister I. J. Barcaur was, of all things, a
manufacturer of dog beds. I sat down on a hydrant
to think this over, and then followed the scent of
horse meat on over to his factory on South Dolores.
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It was building the shape of a large doghouse, and
outside stood a billboard with a message A survey of
independent dog tracks, kennels and canine core proves that dogs
choose Barco beds two to one. I had to get
a look at Barco himself, and so, ruffling up the
hair on the back of my neck, I trotted into
the building, snipping and wagging my tail in a very
friendly manner. It was very easy to see mister Barco
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after I lied a little about my connection. What was
that name again, say, or Don Jose mat nets Sida Morales,
because you may call me Sam and you represent a
group of retail outside in Calamerica. Oh I do. Indeed,
we have our eye on your dogbeds. Mister Barker. Well
now let's take a look at our catalog here. Now
I say you had a great day. You'd want hunting
regal like this Louis fourteeth, Never see them more beautiful beds,
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not lately. But mister Barker, brown boy down. Now here's
a number that's very big. This Seasu with English bulldog
that shed it to net twal woodfit. He's lovely and
of course if it's an Irish terrier, he's a purity
gag present for his states of huber A Murphy. Get
it them Irish terrier. See, of course we would we
wouldn't ask a dog sleep in a murphy for mister Blacko.
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I'm afair. I don't see anything here. I like, what
do I understand you? Sir? You are refusing this small
speck of comfort to the one unselfish friend that man
can have in this selfish world. I'm not refusing anything.
I just don't unselfish friend who if fortune drives you
forth an outcast into the world homeless, will ask no
higher privilege than to be a choice hide to guard
against dame of birth. The black pull onto guests. There
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by your grave side will be found the noble dog
his head between his paws, his eyes head but walked
for faithful. We shook pause and I felt his nose
to be sure it was cold. It was, and I left.
I ranted the car and took up a station outside
the Barco factory. About four o'clock. He hurried out, jumped
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into a long, low vehicle shaped like a ducksum. Then
Mushaw I followed. An hour later, I was phoning my
first report to Adella Cameron's secretary. So let's he went
to the city hall.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
What did you hear, missus?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
License Bureau marriage not dog?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Really ready?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Go? The grocery store where he bought one bottle of olives,
one bottle of removeth and one bottle of gin. I
wonder what he's going to make. What recipe is that? Well,
now he's in an apartment house on Postry, just across
from the drug store I'm in, and, judging from the groceries,
intends to stay a while he has laid in pro vision.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Well, I guess that's all we wanted to know. What
Miss Cameron just told me to call you off the case.
You'll still get your guarantee, though, Major Briggs all sings check.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well it doesn't make sense, all right, all right, what
about tonight?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I'm some other time?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You mean you mean it's all over the half daring,
half shy kisses on the Oakland Ferry, that the warm,
passionate spring nights at Fisherman's warlf eating abaloney. Hello, well
puzzles as who wouldn't be? I walked slowly back to
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my car, But before I had a chance to get in,
I saw I J Barco hurry out of his apartment house.
But he wouldn't enter his car. He came right for me.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Hey, Hey, so sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
My name is Don Jose's out of morally yet, don't
kid me spade. I'm not a stupid diector today. Look,
I know why Adella Cameron is following me, and you don't.
And you'll never find out any more than the other
four detectives did. I was the fifth choice. What I
shall speak with my agents about this. I'm going to
tell her in person that this foolish list has to stop.
If it doesn't, she lives, he regret it. I one
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more thing. I presume you're going to follow me, Well,
I'm turning right on Market and heading out to twelve
seven go to Wood Place. You shouldn't have any trouble.
And with that, he spun on one heel and trotted
to his car. He took off, But when I went
to my car, it wouldn't turn over. And when I
lifted the hood, I found out why my spark plugs
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were gone. I picked up a new set at the
service station, looked up Adela Cameron's address in the phone book.
It was twelve seventeen Ridgewood Place, and a good half
hour later I got there. Barco's car was out in front.
No one answered the door, but it was open. Adela
Cameron was a crumpled heap on the living room sofa.
Help me me all right, all right, miss Cameron, let
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me look at you. You hurt? No? No, him? All right?
Him where bar I hurried into the bar and was
met with a strong odor of scotch. A bottle of
it had been broken, And holding the neck of a
bottle in one hand was I j Barco. He was
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on the floor. His hand slowly opened, the glass rolled out,
and he died. You are listening to the weekly adventure
of radio's most famous detective Stampain, Act two of tonight
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dog Bed Caper Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade. It took
three bullets in the chest to finish off by J Barco.
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He'd apparently been standing there pouring a drink. Barco broke
the bottle as he fell. I couldn't find any other
signs of violence or any gun, so I went back
to Adela Cameron. She was beginning to calm down.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I don't know who did it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I just don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It couldn't have happened more than a minute ago. And
you were in the house, weren't you. No, No.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
After I left my office, I stopped in the Store
of the Things, then came home.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
When I was driving down Bridgewood, I heard some.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Sound and you thought they were a car backfiring.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
How did you know?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I've heard this script before.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Don't you dare accuse me of killing name?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
It's not what I think that counts, but what the
police accused you.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Of, Sam, I heard those sounds came in the house
when I went into the bar.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You didn't notice Barko's car out?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And oh, I suppose I did. I don't know, I
don't remember.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Huh, what do you call the homicide?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Tame? Wait a minute, just to please wait for what
I want to tell you something? All right, go on,
I kind of get the feeling I was hired to
put a finger on the dog's best friend.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
That's not the way it was. The last thing in
the world I wanted was for him.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
To be killed.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Murdered any all right, what did you want?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I don't want to tell you the truth. Why I
really had you watching Baker?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I'd be curious.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We handled his investment account, my brother, Gregory.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We ran into each other.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I heard, well, greg took one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars the Burker's money and invested it without my knowledge
in a television company.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I hear that medium is making money.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
But it turned out this company was just a front
for some men who wanted to build a gambling syndicate.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Hup, norse, You mean your brother didn't know that he
knewed it.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
There was supposed to be big money in it. He
was going to give Barker a good profit and take the.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Rest of himself.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And Barco found out and threatened suit or something.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
He never would have known that. The deal fell through,
and the gamblers said the money was gone, and he
asked about the investments.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
What could Gregory and I tell him?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
What did you?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Unfortunately the truth who said did make up the money
with interest, but he only gave us ninety days. We
couldn't get us I vance.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So you didn't shoot him your brother? Didn't you know,
sam Zo, he couldn't have.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I know, greg you'd have more sense.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
In my brief meeting with him, I didn't think he
had any sense. Just one more thing before I call
the police.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I don't call him. Help me get him out of
here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh dice, samdl in my whole life, stop it, stop it.
You set me on Barco to find some blackmailing material. Yes, yes,
And then why did you suddenly call me off the
job to night?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Your secretary said you did.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I didn't tell her anything of the source.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Can I have that phone now? So I called you
Dundee before you arrived. I looked through Barco's pockets for
something to do, and came up with a picture of
him and a girl taken outside the marriage chapel in
Las Vegas. The girl was Celeste Cameron, Incorporated, Plushy's secretary,
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several years younger and two shade less voluptuous. He address
six two seven Finley was supplied by a now hysterical
at Della Cameron. No one answered ce Let's stor but
I heard a shower going inside, so I took the
liberty of entering persona non dresser there is. Come out
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and see no false moves. Now keep that toll right
where it is. Am I doing here detective work? And
I must say I've already found out a great deal.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah I've not. I did express the interest in you.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But if you recall I told him not to night
it's my only night off.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Please, I don't want you difficult, sup.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
All right, we knock off the two touches and get
down to business. You were married to I J. Barco,
right or wrong?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Wrong?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Wrong? It's right. You were married in Las Vegas at
the chapel of the Flamingo Hotel, at the towel.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I was only married one day. My parents had a
null that was under age.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well you don't have to worry about him anymore. He's dead, Yeah,
shot three times at close range in Adela Cameron's house.
Not by you, of course, although on the other hand,
as you would say, why not, I didn't do it?
Suppose you spill she wanted me to marry him again?
Why I know all about the money that Cameron's misused.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He found out greg and I were in love.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I should have known, he said.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
He forget about the entire one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
If I'd marry him for six years twenty five thousand
a year, that's a good price.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Can you talk like that?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Fact said ye, So Gregory had another good reason for
killing he didn't stand. I know he didn't anything. It
would stand up in court. Suppose we say you called
me off Barco's tails so Gregory could get it.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I didn't. I called her office.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
If I was supposed to meet IJA's apartment tonight and
give him his answer, I couldn't do it with.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You there flimsy flimsy, but it might hold the truth.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I was going to see him, but I changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Any particular reason.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
You saw, would he be the kind of man, I've
married you did once?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Well, it looks bad for Greg. I got someone at
Cameron Incorporated. I knew Barco was going to be at
Adela's house.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
How many do your favor?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Maybe give me an hour, then I'll go wherever you want.
I'll tell you anything you want to know. Why A now,
just why I'm going to live with myself is something
i have to do?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Please him? If you do, I'll give you some informations
night warrant.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
For example, there was someone at Tamman Incorporated and knew
that Barker was going to Adela's house.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
She must have known I was going to wait outside
and tailor, but she didn't, because without once looking over
her shoulders, she emerged from her apartment house, slithered into
her car, and led me directly down to the railroad station.
She met a man in the waiting room, threw her
arms around him, whispered something in his ear, and they
hurried out to Track seven. There was a transcontinental train
getting up steam. She kissed him and he climbed quickly
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up into a pullman named Aurora Fall, and almost as
quickly I climbed in the other end. We met in
the middle.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I came to take you off the train, Greg before
you made a bit big mistake and let time. Look,
let's not go through the intercollegiate tough talk again. Are
you coming off or am I gonna carry you off?
You're gonna carry me off? And I did. Celest was
gone and he revived when he hit the cool air.
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I let him out of the station as unobtrusively as possible.
Then we went down a side street to where my
car was parked. That's where he began to show signs
of life.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Spade, Look, we're all wrong. Guy's gonna right to leave
Tom when he wants to. I'm gonna sue you from
here to the city, hauling back that up and get
in a car. So let's just tell me about Barko.
You don't think I did that to you?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
As I geted, you and Celest we're leaving Tom together, right, Yeah,
she told me to go on and she come later.
That was unwise of both of you. Come on, get in, Spade,
I didn't kill part. Nobody said you did. If you'll
kindly get in the car and give me an address
I want, and you know, we'll go see who did
kill I j Barco. He gave me the address I wanted,
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said I was crazy. I told him why I wasn't,
and he began to see the reason of him. Never
have I gone to pick up a murderer with more distaste.
When we knocked at the door, I had a gun
in my hand, but it wasn't necessary. Oh, come in,
mister Spade. I knew you'd be a lot sooner or later.
I don't like what I have to do. Major. Major
can't be true. It just can't be. Come in, Gregory,
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I will come in a little madeira first before we
start to talk, Deira, How can you talk about wine
when a man's accusing you of murdering I don't think
it's so unreasonable, Greg, After all, I did kill the
unfortunate mister Barco, and this might be the last Madeira
I shall ever have. Mister Spade, thank you, sir, Greg.
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I don't want any wine. Spadey's out of his mind,
and so are you. I'm afraid not, Gregor. Oh that
was a vintage nineteen hundred Madeira. You wasted Greg twice
as old as you stop at stopping. I'm sorry about
what happened, Greg. I would have spared you and your sister.
This unhappiness, if I could have, destiny was against us. All.
You knew he was going to Miss Cameron's house, didn't you. Yes.
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Just before I left for the bank with the weekly deposit,
he called for Miss Cameron and I took the call.
I told him she was gone, and he said he
was going to her house. It was to be an ultimatum,
the money in twenty four hours on exposure. But should
it didn't have to kill him, certainly not. It was
a crime of passion. I take the weekly deposits of
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the bank every Friday, and I always carry a gun.
Silly me carrying a gun, never had to use it,
but the bonding company requires I carry it. Well, I
went directly from the bank to Miss Cameron's house. I
wanted to help her face Barko. Was she there, Oh, no,
mister stage. She'd apparently stopped downtown to do some shopping.
So I faced Barko alone. I asked him point blank
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to give these young people more time, but he just
laughed at me. He said the only time they'd get
would be in jail. So it happened. Well, I hadn't
intended to, but I became angry, suddenly found the gun
in my hand, and the thought crossed my mind. My
life is just about over, and yours, greg is just beginning.
It was easier to pull the trigger than I would
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have realized. Oh Lord, murmured jailer, mister Spade, thank you major,
but no, well, allow me to present the bottlety as
a gift. I'll get my head and coat. Greg my boy,
I'm sorry, You're sorry, No joy, I wish i'd never
been born period end of report. I wish I hadn't
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hadn't what been born?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
That poor poor man.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, our reckon, it is it is?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
And poor Gregory, do you have to go to jail
for one thing?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
He will a will. I'm about typing it up.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I hate to alright, I guess it's my beauty.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Three chimes mean good times on NDC. There's no cover
charge at Duffy's Tavern. Just keep your dial on this
NDC station this evening as Archie, the manager played by
Ed Gardner, and his remarkable friends serve up another blue
plate special of grilled English language, fresh laughs and whimsy
all the mode. Another Friday Fun favorite is the Delightful
Life of Riley starring William Bendix as the beleaguer Chester A. Riley.
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Let me see huh murders all in place, gunshots indicating
Dundee's grammar editor maya suitness emphasize you've learned your job
well fin Oh, I'm glad you're please. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, what's this? Ps? Dondee hands off Celeste
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Robert she's mine, Effie. What's the meaning of that?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Well, when you are going back to see her, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
That's the way she threw herself at you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Do you think she's my type of woman? Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Sam, I think every woman's your type. Every woman me.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, Effie, come here? Would I have you working in
this office? If you weren't my type? Does not? Well,
then let that thought be your comfort. The world can
have all the celest Robert said wants five. Oh, I
can't go through with it.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You see, Sam, you can have if you want to.
But in the end, I know you'll come back to me.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I never doubted it once.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Oh you don't know how much you mean?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yes, I do, Effie. Three weeks back, salar Oh you
good night, sweetheart. The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited,
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and directed by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by
Stephen Dunn. Thereen title is Effie. Script Fortnite's Adventure by
John Michael Hayes and Dick Powell, Musical scoring by Lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbruster. Join us again next week, same
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time for another adventure with Sam Spade here the Magnificent Montague.
Then visit Duppy's Tavern on NPT
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade,
Detective Sasservation Me, sweetheart, would you mind telling me where
you are? Not at all, Fie, not at all. Let's see,
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I'm at the eel rigg deny Rabbi tiles. See God, I.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Don't understand it's time, but I think I caught the
word ground all your shrewd Fie.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You see, I'm on the inside and the lettering is
printed on the outside. If you'll wait, I'll go outside
and read it the right way and then come inside.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And never mind, I've already guessed you're a judge of
a neat bar and grill crash. Say answer me.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You promised me you wouldn't me?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I promised me.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You did, Sam, You promise faithfully to stay away from dies?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Do you know how hard television is on your eyes?
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Have you got your glasses?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
One in each hand? George?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh, Sam, I heard that?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
What will people think?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
They'll never know?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Fie.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I always drink here under another name. Oh, just a
little of the hair of the dog that fit me, Efe.
But don't worry about me, although it's true I have
been dogging it and have been hounded from tree to tree.
I am frisky as ever and will be in to
unleash my canine chronicle, namely the dog bed Caper or
he who lies down with dogs gets up with murder,
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or condensed or easy reading Who. For NBC, William Spear,
Radio's outstanding producer director of History and crime drama, bring
you the greatest private detective of them all In the
Adventures of Sam Saye Here I am Sam, Here, I
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am Sam. Effie, did you ever write poetry in school?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Man?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was known as Emily Dickinson of Central High.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I thought you had a touch of internal rhyme scheme there.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I didn't a little storm about you today?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Really well readoodle.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There was a detaching in Stade with urdub brains in
his head.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Clever clever.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
When he took up drinking, he forgot about thinking.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Now give me the punchline.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And Effie has stayed quite unpaid, well a little rough,
but you do you get the ideas that never couldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Make any sense out of poetry? Ready getting close to Christmas,
Semini and use my last pencil.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I don't really have enough money to pay Jeffie.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I have no head for figures, all right. I guess
from Samuels paid license number one three seven, five nine six,
subject the dog bed Caper.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, Sam, I hope this is going to be all
about dogs. I belong to the tail wagons. I've read
all the books by Jacket.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah. How strangely enough, you will not meet a single
dog in this story. Actually, this narrative as little and
need to do with our four footed friends or their beds.
And I changed the title now, except that it's already
gone out for publicity. Dear Dundee. It all started with
a phone call to my sector in this Effie Parene
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a doll, requesting my inimitable services at the investment consoling
firm of Cameron Incorporated. Clearing everything off my desk. Two
shoes with feet in them, my own. I went over.
The firm of Cameron Incorporated was obviously not for the
push cart set. It was plush ankle, deep runs, imported grapes,
and the receptionist she had a plushness all of her own.
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I said hello in my plushiest voice. She liked it,
she said, so, oh, I like the rea you've said that.
Said again, life is too short to go back, even
for a moment the past is a dead thing, the
present dying, only the future alive and vibrant. However, hello,
is there something there is? Could I ask a question?
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I will rephrase the question. What time do you stop
working to see me? There's a little bar around the corner? Okay,
why not? Why not? Indeed, bring your own money, will
come anyway. Your name mind, Sam Spade? Who's mister Briggs?
He called?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Why are chief a county?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I just happened to have my door open? Did I
hear someone inquiring about me? How do you do? Major?
It's a prasure'll meet you in person, mister Spade. I'm
the man who called you. You know I am grateful, sir.
Now what is it I can do for you? And
mister Cameron? Who it is not for me that I called.
I haven't a worry in the world. And it's Miss Cameron.
Old Cameron's been dead for many years now. I see
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whatever she wants. Mister Spade, do a good job. We
are all counting on you. Will you please announce mister Spade,
Miss Roberts, if you'd excuse me, nice to have met you, Major,
Miss Cameron.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yes, it's stay here.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Sam, have fun.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Think I am I Why must that girl had the
most beautiful double entendre in town. Well they get on.
Adela Cameron was a career woman. I'm twenty nine. Although
the tailored suit made fine detective work difficult, no makeup,
severe hairdo. And in spite of all this chic in fact,
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as we shook hands in a most businesslike manner, I
had the feeling that something war might well spring up
between us, something like a warm mutual dislike baby, but.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Something most men simply cannot be told anything inconfident.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
They gossip.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's a switch.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't appreciate your human misscass.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I accept your apology.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I will tolerate you because of your reputation. Why I'm
going to give you a very difficult job to do,
Miss Hermon, What did it make?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm sorry to interrupt you, but Courtney Pierces.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
On the phone, mister Spade, this is major Briggs are.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Chief of company. We've already met, mister speed. Now, Adela
Pierce wants us to unload his short term governments and
by American cattle. He's divvid in crazy am cats, declaring
one in January, and he wants it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Let him do it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh, I just want to protect your interests. You know
what will happen to Amcat after February. That'll drop ten
points and he'll blame us. I went through this with
your father when you and Greg were.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's right, Major, Well tell him we advise against it.
But if he persists asking for a release night.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
That's what I thought you'd do, That's the way your
father would have handled it. I just want to protect
your interest, I hear, that's all. I just want to
protect your interest.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Don't worry about us. You're not children anymore, my dear.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh you were giving me a difficult job.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh yes, here is the business address of mister I. J. Barco.
He's a wealthy manufacturer client of ours.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I want you to find out everything about him, especially
and unsavory.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Sorry, I don't do divorce or blackmail case.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Missus sabe. This is not a divorce investigation.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
All right? What is it? Then?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Why do we want a client shadowed? I believe his
excussion that's it, because we believe he is investing money
through us for some racketeers. If that for true, we
would of course have to drop him.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
But we don't want to lose.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
His business just on suspicion.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I see find out anything you can about him. And
because she's done it a day in expenses one week guarantee,
will you consider the job.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I have considered an taken the job. By the time
I had reached the door, she had already forgotten me
and was part at work on some papers outside. I
planned to dally a few moments an idle chit chat
with Celeste, but before I had the chance, I was
accusted by a husky young chap whom I'm afraid was
a Princeton man. What were you talking about in es, babe,
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who you had the advantage? Sir? Oh you Gregory Cameron?
Now come on? Or was Adella telling him if you
step to one side, you can walk around me and
ask her. Look, don't pull that Kji private detective routine
on me. I pack a little weight myself. We'll pack
it somewhere else. Son. I asked her a question, I
expect an answer. He's your answer. Any more questions. He
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didn't feel much like talking then, and I was so
irritated I walked out without saying goodbye to the least.
When I reached the space, a white haired old gentleman,
Major Briggs hurried out behind me. Mister Spain. Please don't
think too badly of that boy. I've known him from
the cradle. He's in the difficult emotional staatey. Yes, sure, sure, sure,
As far as I'm concerned, Major had never happened. You're
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a kind man, mister State. I could tell that when
I first saw you. You're just the sort of man
Miss Cameron. Mean well, I hadn't looked at it that way.
If you require anything, don't hesitate to ask me. I'd
been with this company forty years before those two children
and there were born, and I know how difficult life
can be at times. I just want things to go
well for us. I'll do my little part. Major. Bless
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you some bless you. I started the work. The card
a Dulla Cameron had given me revealed that my quarry
and mister I. J. Barcaur was, of all things, a
manufacturer of dog beds. I sat down on a hydrant
to think this over, and then followed the scent of
horse meat on over to his factory on South Dolores.
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It was building the shape of a large doghouse, and
outside stood a billboard with a message A survey of
independent dog tracks, kennels and canine core proves that dogs
choose Barco beds two to one. I had to get
a look at Barco himself, and so, ruffling up the
hair on the back of my neck, I trotted into
the building, snipping and wagging my tail in a very
friendly manner. It was very easy to see mister Barco
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after I lied a little about my connection. What was
that name again, say, or Don Jose mat nets Sida Morales,
because you may call me Sam and you represent a
group of retail outside in Calamerica. Oh I do. Indeed,
we have our eye on your dogbeds. Mister Barker. Well
now let's take a look at our catalog here. Now
I say you had a great day. You'd want hunting
regal like this Louis fourteeth, Never see them more beautiful beds,
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not lately. But mister Barker, brown boy down. Now here's
a number that's very big. This Seasu with English bulldog
that shed it to net twal woodfit. He's lovely and
of course if it's an Irish terrier, he's a purity
gag present for his states of huber A Murphy. Get
it them Irish terrier. See, of course we would we
wouldn't ask a dog sleep in a murphy for mister Blacko.
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I'm afair. I don't see anything here. I like, what
do I understand you? Sir? You are refusing this small
speck of comfort to the one unselfish friend that man
can have in this selfish world. I'm not refusing anything.
I just don't unselfish friend who if fortune drives you
forth an outcast into the world homeless, will ask no
higher privilege than to be a choice hide to guard
against dame of birth. The black pull onto guests. There
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by your grave side will be found the noble dog
his head between his paws, his eyes head but walked
for faithful. We shook pause and I felt his nose
to be sure it was cold. It was, and I left.
I ranted the car and took up a station outside
the Barco factory. About four o'clock. He hurried out, jumped
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into a long, low vehicle shaped like a ducksum. Then
Mushaw I followed. An hour later, I was phoning my
first report to Adella Cameron's secretary. So let's he went
to the city hall.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
What did you hear, missus?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
License Bureau marriage not dog?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Really ready?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Go? The grocery store where he bought one bottle of olives,
one bottle of removeth and one bottle of gin. I
wonder what he's going to make. What recipe is that? Well,
now he's in an apartment house on Postry, just across
from the drug store I'm in, and, judging from the groceries,
intends to stay a while he has laid in pro vision.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Well, I guess that's all we wanted to know. What
Miss Cameron just told me to call you off the case.
You'll still get your guarantee, though, Major Briggs all sings check.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well it doesn't make sense, all right, all right, what
about tonight?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I'm some other time?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You mean you mean it's all over the half daring,
half shy kisses on the Oakland Ferry, that the warm,
passionate spring nights at Fisherman's warlf eating abaloney. Hello, well
puzzles as who wouldn't be? I walked slowly back to
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my car, But before I had a chance to get in,
I saw I J Barco hurry out of his apartment house.
But he wouldn't enter his car. He came right for me.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Hey, Hey, so sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
My name is Don Jose's out of morally yet, don't
kid me spade. I'm not a stupid diector today. Look,
I know why Adella Cameron is following me, and you don't.
And you'll never find out any more than the other
four detectives did. I was the fifth choice. What I
shall speak with my agents about this. I'm going to
tell her in person that this foolish list has to stop.
If it doesn't, she lives, he regret it. I one
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more thing. I presume you're going to follow me, Well,
I'm turning right on Market and heading out to twelve
seven go to Wood Place. You shouldn't have any trouble.
And with that, he spun on one heel and trotted
to his car. He took off, But when I went
to my car, it wouldn't turn over. And when I
lifted the hood, I found out why my spark plugs
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were gone. I picked up a new set at the
service station, looked up Adela Cameron's address in the phone book.
It was twelve seventeen Ridgewood Place, and a good half
hour later I got there. Barco's car was out in front.
No one answered the door, but it was open. Adela
Cameron was a crumpled heap on the living room sofa.
Help me me all right, all right, miss Cameron, let
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me look at you. You hurt? No? No, him? All right?
Him where bar I hurried into the bar and was
met with a strong odor of scotch. A bottle of
it had been broken, And holding the neck of a
bottle in one hand was I j Barco. He was
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on the floor. His hand slowly opened, the glass rolled out,
and he died. You are listening to the weekly adventure
of radio's most famous detective Stampain, Act two of tonight
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every Saturday evening on NBC. And now back to the
dog Bed Caper Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade. It took
three bullets in the chest to finish off by J Barco.
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He'd apparently been standing there pouring a drink. Barco broke
the bottle as he fell. I couldn't find any other
signs of violence or any gun, so I went back
to Adela Cameron. She was beginning to calm down.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I don't know who did it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I just don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It couldn't have happened more than a minute ago. And
you were in the house, weren't you. No, No.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
After I left my office, I stopped in the Store
of the Things, then came home.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
When I was driving down Bridgewood, I heard some.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Sound and you thought they were a car backfiring.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
How did you know?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I've heard this script before.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Don't you dare accuse me of killing name?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
It's not what I think that counts, but what the
police accused you.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Of, Sam, I heard those sounds came in the house
when I went into the bar.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You didn't notice Barko's car out?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And oh, I suppose I did. I don't know, I
don't remember.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Huh, what do you call the homicide?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Tame? Wait a minute, just to please wait for what
I want to tell you something? All right, go on,
I kind of get the feeling I was hired to
put a finger on the dog's best friend.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
That's not the way it was. The last thing in
the world I wanted was for him.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
To be killed.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Murdered any all right, what did you want?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I don't want to tell you the truth. Why I
really had you watching Baker?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I'd be curious.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We handled his investment account, my brother, Gregory.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We ran into each other.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I heard, well, greg took one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars the Burker's money and invested it without my knowledge
in a television company.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I hear that medium is making money.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
But it turned out this company was just a front
for some men who wanted to build a gambling syndicate.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Hup, norse, You mean your brother didn't know that he
knewed it.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
There was supposed to be big money in it. He
was going to give Barker a good profit and take the.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Rest of himself.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And Barco found out and threatened suit or something.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
He never would have known that. The deal fell through,
and the gamblers said the money was gone, and he
asked about the investments.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
What could Gregory and I tell him?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
What did you?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Unfortunately the truth who said did make up the money
with interest, but he only gave us ninety days. We
couldn't get us I vance.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So you didn't shoot him your brother? Didn't you know,
sam Zo, he couldn't have.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I know, greg you'd have more sense.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
In my brief meeting with him, I didn't think he
had any sense. Just one more thing before I call
the police.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I don't call him. Help me get him out of
here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh dice, samdl in my whole life, stop it, stop it.
You set me on Barco to find some blackmailing material. Yes, yes,
And then why did you suddenly call me off the
job to night?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Your secretary said you did.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I didn't tell her anything of the source.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Can I have that phone now? So I called you
Dundee before you arrived. I looked through Barco's pockets for
something to do, and came up with a picture of
him and a girl taken outside the marriage chapel in
Las Vegas. The girl was Celeste Cameron, Incorporated, Plushy's secretary,
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several years younger and two shade less voluptuous. He address
six two seven Finley was supplied by a now hysterical
at Della Cameron. No one answered ce Let's stor but
I heard a shower going inside, so I took the
liberty of entering persona non dresser there is. Come out
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and see no false moves. Now keep that toll right
where it is. Am I doing here detective work? And
I must say I've already found out a great deal.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah I've not. I did express the interest in you.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But if you recall I told him not to night
it's my only night off.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Please, I don't want you difficult, sup.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
All right, we knock off the two touches and get
down to business. You were married to I J. Barco,
right or wrong?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Wrong?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Wrong? It's right. You were married in Las Vegas at
the chapel of the Flamingo Hotel, at the towel.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I was only married one day. My parents had a
null that was under age.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well you don't have to worry about him anymore. He's dead, Yeah,
shot three times at close range in Adela Cameron's house.
Not by you, of course, although on the other hand,
as you would say, why not, I didn't do it?
Suppose you spill she wanted me to marry him again?
Why I know all about the money that Cameron's misused.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He found out greg and I were in love.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I should have known, he said.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
He forget about the entire one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
If I'd marry him for six years twenty five thousand
a year, that's a good price.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Can you talk like that?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Fact said ye, So Gregory had another good reason for
killing he didn't stand. I know he didn't anything. It
would stand up in court. Suppose we say you called
me off Barco's tails so Gregory could get it.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I didn't. I called her office.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
If I was supposed to meet IJA's apartment tonight and
give him his answer, I couldn't do it with.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You there flimsy flimsy, but it might hold the truth.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I was going to see him, but I changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Any particular reason.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
You saw, would he be the kind of man, I've
married you did once?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Well, it looks bad for Greg. I got someone at
Cameron Incorporated. I knew Barco was going to be at
Adela's house.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
How many do your favor?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Maybe give me an hour, then I'll go wherever you want.
I'll tell you anything you want to know. Why A now,
just why I'm going to live with myself is something
i have to do?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Please him? If you do, I'll give you some informations
night warrant.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
For example, there was someone at Tamman Incorporated and knew
that Barker was going to Adela's house.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
She must have known I was going to wait outside
and tailor, but she didn't, because without once looking over
her shoulders, she emerged from her apartment house, slithered into
her car, and led me directly down to the railroad station.
She met a man in the waiting room, threw her
arms around him, whispered something in his ear, and they
hurried out to Track seven. There was a transcontinental train
getting up steam. She kissed him and he climbed quickly
(20:48):
up into a pullman named Aurora Fall, and almost as
quickly I climbed in the other end. We met in
the middle.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I came to take you off the train, Greg before
you made a bit big mistake and let time. Look,
let's not go through the intercollegiate tough talk again. Are
you coming off or am I gonna carry you off?
You're gonna carry me off? And I did. Celest was
gone and he revived when he hit the cool air.
(21:16):
I let him out of the station as unobtrusively as possible.
Then we went down a side street to where my
car was parked. That's where he began to show signs
of life.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Spade, Look, we're all wrong. Guy's gonna right to leave
Tom when he wants to. I'm gonna sue you from
here to the city, hauling back that up and get
in a car. So let's just tell me about Barko.
You don't think I did that to you?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
As I geted, you and Celest we're leaving Tom together, right, Yeah,
she told me to go on and she come later.
That was unwise of both of you. Come on, get in, Spade,
I didn't kill part. Nobody said you did. If you'll
kindly get in the car and give me an address
I want, and you know, we'll go see who did
kill I j Barco. He gave me the address I wanted,
(22:00):
said I was crazy. I told him why I wasn't,
and he began to see the reason of him. Never
have I gone to pick up a murderer with more distaste.
When we knocked at the door, I had a gun
in my hand, but it wasn't necessary. Oh, come in,
mister Spade. I knew you'd be a lot sooner or later.
I don't like what I have to do. Major. Major
can't be true. It just can't be. Come in, Gregory,
(22:22):
I will come in a little madeira first before we
start to talk, Deira, How can you talk about wine
when a man's accusing you of murdering I don't think
it's so unreasonable, Greg, After all, I did kill the
unfortunate mister Barco, and this might be the last Madeira
I shall ever have. Mister Spade, thank you, sir, Greg.
(22:42):
I don't want any wine. Spadey's out of his mind,
and so are you. I'm afraid not, Gregor. Oh that
was a vintage nineteen hundred Madeira. You wasted Greg twice
as old as you stop at stopping. I'm sorry about
what happened, Greg. I would have spared you and your sister.
This unhappiness, if I could have, destiny was against us. All.
You knew he was going to Miss Cameron's house, didn't you. Yes.
(23:05):
Just before I left for the bank with the weekly deposit,
he called for Miss Cameron and I took the call.
I told him she was gone, and he said he
was going to her house. It was to be an ultimatum,
the money in twenty four hours on exposure. But should
it didn't have to kill him, certainly not. It was
a crime of passion. I take the weekly deposits of
(23:26):
the bank every Friday, and I always carry a gun.
Silly me carrying a gun, never had to use it,
but the bonding company requires I carry it. Well, I
went directly from the bank to Miss Cameron's house. I
wanted to help her face Barko. Was she there, Oh, no,
mister stage. She'd apparently stopped downtown to do some shopping.
So I faced Barko alone. I asked him point blank
(23:49):
to give these young people more time, but he just
laughed at me. He said the only time they'd get
would be in jail. So it happened. Well, I hadn't
intended to, but I became angry, suddenly found the gun
in my hand, and the thought crossed my mind. My
life is just about over, and yours, greg is just beginning.
It was easier to pull the trigger than I would
(24:10):
have realized. Oh Lord, murmured jailer, mister Spade, thank you major,
but no, well, allow me to present the bottlety as
a gift. I'll get my head and coat. Greg my boy,
I'm sorry, You're sorry, No joy, I wish i'd never
been born period end of report. I wish I hadn't
(24:45):
hadn't what been born?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
That poor poor man.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, our reckon, it is it is?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
And poor Gregory, do you have to go to jail
for one thing?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
He will a will. I'm about typing it up.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I hate to alright, I guess it's my beauty.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Three chimes mean good times on NDC. There's no cover
charge at Duffy's Tavern. Just keep your dial on this
NDC station this evening as Archie, the manager played by
Ed Gardner, and his remarkable friends serve up another blue
plate special of grilled English language, fresh laughs and whimsy
all the mode. Another Friday Fun favorite is the Delightful
Life of Riley starring William Bendix as the beleaguer Chester A. Riley.
(25:46):
Let me see huh murders all in place, gunshots indicating
Dundee's grammar editor maya suitness emphasize you've learned your job
well fin Oh, I'm glad you're please. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, what's this? Ps? Dondee hands off Celeste
(26:06):
Robert she's mine, Effie. What's the meaning of that?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Well, when you are going back to see her, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
That's the way she threw herself at you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Do you think she's my type of woman? Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Sam, I think every woman's your type. Every woman me.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, Effie, come here? Would I have you working in
this office? If you weren't my type? Does not? Well,
then let that thought be your comfort. The world can
have all the celest Robert said wants five. Oh, I
can't go through with it.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You see, Sam, you can have if you want to.
But in the end, I know you'll come back to me.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I never doubted it once.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Oh you don't know how much you mean?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yes, I do, Effie. Three weeks back, salar Oh you
good night, sweetheart. The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited,
(27:17):
and directed by William Spears. Sam Spade was played by
Stephen Dunn. Thereen title is Effie. Script Fortnite's Adventure by
John Michael Hayes and Dick Powell, Musical scoring by Lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbruster. Join us again next week, same
(27:49):
time for another adventure with Sam Spade here the Magnificent Montague.
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