The Maltese Falcon Parts

The Adventures of Sam Spade was first heard on ABC July 12, 1946, as a Friday-night summer series. The show clicked at once, and went into a regular fall lineup on CBS September 29, 1946. From then until 1949, Sam Spade was a Sunday-night thriller for Wildroot Cream Oil, starring Howard Duff in the title role. With Duff's departure, NBC took the series, leaving it on Sunday for Wildroot and starring Stephen Dunne as Spade. This version lasted until 1951, the last year running as a Friday sustainer.

Episode Transcript

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The following program has brought to youcourtesy of the BBC. We presented Dashall
Hammett's The Maltese Fulton gramatized by MichaelBakeman in the role of Sam Spade,
Tom Wilkinson, bridget O'Shaughnessy, JaneLapotaire, Mister Gutman, Peter Baulan and
as Joel Cairo Nicholas Grace, SanFrancisco nineteen twenty years. Thought you'd like

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a capacaci. Thank you, sweetheart? Put it down when you what are
you reading? Celebrated criminal cases ofAmerica. In default of anything coming my
way, anything new, say nomissing husbands or unfaithful wives who need Taylor.
You should be grateful for that atleast. Where is Miles anyway?
Oh? He went out a coupleof hours ago. Didn't say we was

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going. Oh I expect that's himnow. Oh hello, My name is
is slarer than like that? Agirl wants to see you. Her name's
Wonderley Customer, so you don't wantto see her anyway. She's a knockout.
Sure end, darling, Sure end. Will you come in this Wonderley?

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Oh? Thank you, thank you, sweetheart. Won't you sit down?
Miss Wonderley. Thank you. Now, what can I do for you,
mister Spade? Could you? Ithought, well, that is,
I suppose you tell me about itfrom the beginning, and I we'll know

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what needs doing begin as far backas you can. Oh, that was
in New York. Yes, Idon't know where she met him. I
mean, I don't know where inNew York. She's five years younger than
I am, only seventeen, andwe didn't have the same friends. I
don't suppose we've ever been as closeas sister should be. Mama and Papa

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are in Europe. It would killhim. I've got to get her back
before they come home. Yes,and they're coming home on the first of
the month. I didn't know whatshe had done until her letters came.
There wasn't anyone I could go tofor advice. I didn't know what to
do and what could I do?And I send her telegram to general Delivery
at the post office here. Iwaited a whole week, but no answer

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came. So I came to SanFrancisco to get her. I wrote her
I was coming. I shouldn't havedone that, should I? Maybe not?
It's not always easy to know whatto do. You haven't found her,
No, I haven't. I wroteher that I would go to the
Saint Mark and I begged her tocome and let me talk to her,
even if she didn't intend to gohome with me. But she didn't come.

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She didn't even send a message.It was horrible. I wrote her
another letter to General Delivery, andyesterday afternoon I went to the post office.
I stayed there until after dark,but I didn't see her. I
went there again this morning and Isaw Floyd Thursby. He wouldn't tell me

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where Karen was. He wouldn't tellme anything except that she was well and
happy. But that's what he'd tellme anyway, isn't it sure? But
it might be true. He wouldn'ttake me to see her. He said
she didn't want to see me.I can't believe that. He promised to
tell her he had seen me andto bring her to see me if she
would come this evening at the hotel. He promised to come himself if she

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wouldn't, he says, ah,excuse me. I didn't realize. All
right, Myles, come in,miss Wonderley. This is Myles Archer,
my partners Wonderley. Hello, misswonderley sister ran away from New York with
a fellow named Floyd Thursby. They'rehere in tom Miss Wonderley is seeing Thursby
and has a date with him tonight. Maybe he'll bring the sister with him.

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The chances now he won't. MissWonderley wants us to find the sister
and get her away from him andback home. Right, Yes, that's
right, mister Spade. Oh well, they're always happy to help a lady
in distress, always see him.He shouldn't have any trouble with it.
It's simply a matter of having aman at the hotel this evening to shadow
him away when he leaves, andshadow him until he leads us to your

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sister. Yeah, let me canmanage that for him, Miss Wonderley.
Oh, oh, but you mustbe careful. He's a dangerous man.
I honestly don't think he'd stop atanything. I don't believe he'd hesitated kill
Karene if he thought it would savehim. You're sure he hasn't married her.
Oh he has a wife and threechildren in England. Oh, they

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usually do, though not always inEngland. What does he do for a
living? I don't know. Ihaven't the faintest idea. What time is
he coming to see you? Oh? After eight o'clock? All right,
miss Wonderley, we'll have a manthere. It'll help if you could,
mister Spade, could you or misterArcher, could either of you look after

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it personally? I mean, Idon't mean that the man you'd send wouldn't
be capable, but I'm so afraidof what might happen to Kareen. Could
you I'd expect to be charged,of course, two hundred dollars? Would
that be in that? Yeah?It would, And I'll look after it

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myself. Oh would you, misterArcher? Thank you, thank you mister
Stade at all. It will helpsome if you either meet Thursby downstairs or
let yourself be seen in the lobbywith him at some stage. I will,
and don't look out for me.I'll see you all right, Thank
you, mister Archer. Goodbye,goodbye, Miss Wonderley, goodbye, Effie.

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Would you show miss Wonderley out?I'm so good dollars, they're right
enough. They had brothers in abag. Well, don't dynamiter too much?
What do you think of her?Sweet? Think you're telling me not
the dynamiter. Maybe you saw herfirst time, but I spoke first,

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and you'll play hell withhe her,you will. You got brains, but
go easy on her. Hello,Yeah, Spade on about Miles Bird Street?

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Where the hell's that off Bush Street? Sure? I know it'll take
me fifteen minutes, m five minutesafter two? Stop right there? What

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do you want, Sam? Spade? Tom Polehouse on me. Sure you
are. I didn't know you atfirst. They're back there, bad business
and hello Sam. He didn't wasteany time. Oh Tom, I figured
you're one of sea Miles before wetook him away. Where is he?
He's down there on the boulder.The shot must have knocked him right through

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the fence. He took a stretchof it. Will him. It's that
the gun? Uh huh, WebleyEnglish, ain't it? Yeah? Webley
Fossburg automatic revolver. They don't makehim anymore? How many gun out of
it? One pill. He musthave been dead when he cracked the fence,
and he was standing just about whereyou are now. Right, it's
back to the fence. Yeah,that's right. The man that shot him
stood about here and let some habit. Miles goes back, taking the top

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of the fence and going on throughand down to the rock catches him right,
I'd see it. The blast burnedhis coat. Who found him?
The man on the beach shilling Hewas coming on Bostion. Just as he
got here, a car turning throughheadlights up here. He saw the top
was off the fence, so hecame up to look at it. Found
Miles. What about the car thatwas turning round? A damn thing about
it, Sam, she'lling didn't payany attention to it, not knowing that

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anything was wrong. Then he says, nobody didn't come out of here while
he was coming down from pol alreadyjust seeing him. The FOG's got the
ground saggy, and the only markswhere Miles slid down and where this here
gun rolled. Anybody here the shot? For the love of god, Sam,
we only just got here coming downfor I'll look at Archer before we're
moving. No, you're sure you'veseen him. You'd see everything I could.

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His gun was stucked away on hiship, hadn't been fired. His
overcoat was buttoned. There's one hundredand sixty one bucks in his clothes.
Was he working, Sam? Yeah, he was well, he was supposed
to be tailing a fellow named FloydThursley. What for? He was an
Englishman? Maybe I don't know whathis game was exactly. We were trying

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to find out where he lived.But don't crowd me, Tom, I'm
going to break the news now toMiles's wife. It's stuff him getting it
like that. Myles had his fault, same as the rest of us.
But I guess he must have hadhis good points too, I guess.
So good night, Tom, Happy. Now listen, Myles has been shot.

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Yeah, he's dead. Now,don't get excited. Yeah, you'll
have to break it to either.No, I'm damned if I will.
You'll have to do it. That'sa good girl. And tell her to
keep away from the office. Tellher I'll be round to see her.
But don't tie me to anything.That's the stuff you're an angel by.

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Oh Jesus, for God's sake,Tom, it's four thirty. Just you
let us in, Sam. Isee you brought your keeper with you.
Hello, Dundee, Hello, wellyou better come in. Take a seat.

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I'm drinking Bacardi that dude. That'llbe fine, sine success to crime.
Sam. Did you break the news? Tomlagor's wife? Uh, huh,
how did she take it? Idon't know anything about women. Tom?
The hell you done? What kindof a gun do you carry?
Spade? I don't carry a gun. I don't like him very much.

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Of course there are some in theoffice. I'd like to see one of
'em. Do you have to haveone here? No? Are you sure
of that? Look around? Turnthe dump upside down if you want.
I won't squawk if you got awarrant. And what the hell what do
you want? Dundee? Talk turkey? Who the hell do you think you
are coming in here in the middleof the night and trying to rope me?
All right, set Donald, lestI'll sit or stand as I damn
well, please, I've warned youyour foot was gonna slip one all these

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days, everybody's foot slips, sometimesthis is yours. I don't like this,
Dundee. What are you sucking aroundfor? Tell me or get out
and let me go to bed.Who's Thursday? I told Tom all I
knew you told Tom dat I knew, damn little Why were you telling him?
I wasn't. Miles was for theswell reason that we had a client
who was paying good United States moneyto have him. Take who's the client?

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You know, I can't tell youthat until I've talked it over with
the client. Talk tell me oryour toming court. Let's just murder and
don't forget. I'll tell it ornot as I damn well, please be
reasonable, Sam. How can wetell him anything? On miles? Who's
going? If you won't give uswhat you've got, you needn't get a
headache over that. I'll bury him, my dad. I thought you would.
That's just exactly why we came tosee you. There's not Tom,
that's hitching your boyfriend now. JusticeThursbay was shot down in front of us

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hotel. You're thirty five minutes afteryou left Burrett Street. Goddamn paws off.
Tom says you weren't too much abouthurry to even stop for a look
at your partner, and you didn'tgo to Archer's house to tell his wife.
We called up and that girl inyour office was there and she said
you said her, Okay, Igive you a ten minutes to get to
a phone and do your talking tothe girl. I give you a ten
minutes to get the Thursby's hotel.You could do it easy in that time

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and that gives you a ten orfifteen minutes are waiting before he showed up.
So what time did you get home? Twenty minutes to four? I
walked around thinking things over. Wheredid you do your walking out Bush Street
waying back? Did you see anybody? No? No, no witnesses.
Ah, sit down, Dundee,you haven't finished your drink? Get your
glass? Ton No, thanks,Sam, I'm sorry I got on my

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hind legs. But you birds comingin and trying to put the works on
me make me nervous. Having Milesknocked off bothered me. That's all right
now, I know what you're upto. Forget it thursby die Tell me
how did I kill him? Iforget here out four times in the back
with a forty four or a fortyfive from across the street when he was

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going out of the hotel. Nobodyshow it, but that's the way I
figures. And he was wearing aluga in a shoulder whole state hadn't been
fired. What did the hotel peopleknow about him? I think, except
it had been there a week alongalone. What did you find on him
or in his room? What doyou think we'd find? Something? To
tell you? Who he was,what his store was. We thought you
could tell a shot. I've neverseen Thirsty, dead or alive. We've

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asked what we came to us.We've told you more than you've told us.
You know me, Spade. Ifyou're dirty, you didn't till him,
you'll get a square d alot ofme. I don't know that I
blame you, however, a lot, but that wouldn't keep me from nailing
you fair enough. But i'd feela whole lot better about it if you
drink your drink. Morning, sweetheart, I've seen you. She's in there.

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I'm afraid so I thought I askedyou to keep her away. You
asked, but you didn't tell mehow. Don't be clanky, Sam,
I had her own knife. I'msorry, Angel. I haven't had much
sleep either, and I've drawn ablank with a wonderly woman. She's checked
out of her hotel. She lefta fearding address the Ambassador Los Angeles.
You might give it a try.You never know, I will, Sam,

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Well, here we go, Hello, Iva, Damn, I must
talk to you, I know,I know or darning. Look, I
don't have much time, sad didyou kill him? And who put that
bright idea into your head. Ithought it was possible. Be kind to

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me there you killed my husband,Sam, Be kind to me, Jesus
Christ. Now i'va don't. Heshouldn't have come here today, Precious,
It wasn't wise. You can't stay. You ought to be home. You'll
come tonight, not to night.Yeah, as soon as I can.
Goodbye? IV? Did you killhim? Jesus Christ? Well, how

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did you in the widow make out? She thinks I shot Miles so you
could marry her. The police thinkI shot Thursby. Who do you think
I shot the guy Myles was supposedto be tailing? Did you try the
ambassador? Yes, they have noreservation for a miss Wanderley. Are you
going to marry Iva? Don't besilly. She doesn't think it's silly.

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Why should she? The way youplayed around with her. I wish to
god i'd never seen her. Oh, maybe you do now, But there
was a time I never know whatto do or say to women except that
way, And then I didn't likeMiles. Do you suppose she could have
shot him? You're an angel,a scatter brained angel? Oh am?

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I well suppose I told you thatyour Iva hadn't been home many minutes when
I arrived to break the news atthree o'clock this morning. Are you telling
me she kept me waiting at thedoor while she undressed. I saw a
clothes where she dumped him on achair. Her singlet was still warm.
You're a detective, darling, butshe didn't kill him. That louse wants

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to marry you, Sam. Didyou see her last night? Sam?
No, honestly, honestly, don'tact like dundee sweethearts. Look at me,
Sam, Oh, you worry me. You always think you know what
you're doing, but you're too slickfor your own good, and someday you're
going to find that out. I'llget it, Spade, it's about time.

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Where are you a coronet? Onethousand and one? What did he
say? Le Blanc? I'll beright over. That was our miss wondering
or le Blanc because she not callsherself. Huh? Have the Spade and

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Archer taken off the door and SamuelSpade put on? Don't you think it's
a bit soon? That's the wayit is, dear, Good morning coming,

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mister Spade. I'm sorry everything isn'tsuch a mess. I haven't finished
some packing. Oh please sit down. So, mister Spade, I've a
terrible, terrible confession to make.The story I told you yesterday was all

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a story, all that we didn'texactly believe your story. You didn't,
then why do you believe your twohundred dollars? I don't know what you
mean. I mean that you paidus more than if you'd been telling the
truth, and even now you'd stillbe willing to help me. That depends
the hell of it is. Missis your name wonder Ley or LeBlanc.

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It's really O'Shaughnessy, brigid O'Shaughnessy.The hell of it is miss O'Shaughnessy.
That a couple of murders coming togetherlike this makes the police all stirred up,
makes everybody hard to handle, anexpensive missus, Spade, tell me
the truth. Am I to blamethe last night? Not unless there are
things I don't know about. Youwarned us that Thursby was dangerous, Thank

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you, But I'll always blame myself. Mister Archie was so alive worrying about
that. Now out there a flockof policeman and district attorneys are running around
with their noses to the ground.What do you want to do? I
want you to save me from fromit all, missus Spade? Do they
know about me? Not yet?That's why I've been stalling until I could

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see you. But must they knowabout me at all? I think I'd
rather die than that, mister Spade. I can't explain now, But can't
you somehow manage so that you canshield me from them so I won't have
to answer their questions? Maybe,but I'll have to know what it's all
about. I haven't lived a goodlife. I've been bad, worse than

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you could know. But I'm notall bad. Look at me, mister
Spade. You know I'm not allbad? Don't you? Then? Can't
you trust me a little? I'vegot nobody to help me if you won't
help me. I know I've noright to ask you to trust me if
I won't trust you, But Ican't tell you. I don't mean I

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don't trust you, but I trustedFloyd, and I've nobody else, mister
Spade. If I hadn't believed youcould save me, I would have run
away instead of sending for you.If I thought anyone else could save me,
would I be I don't on myknees like this, Be generous,
mister Spade. Don't ask me tobe fair. I've no right to ask

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you to help me blindly, butI do. You can't help me,
help me. You won't need muchof anybody's help. You're good, You're
very good. It's cheap of youreyes. I think in the frob you
get into your voice when you saythings like be generous, mister Spade.
I deserve that. I deserve it. But oh I did want your help

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so much, And the lie wasin the way I said it not at
all, And why I said,it's my own fault. If you can't
believe me now now you're dangerous,then you won't help me. What happened
last night? Floyd came to myhotel at nine o'clock and we went out

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for a walk. I suggested thatso mister Archer could see. We stopped
at a restaurant in Geary Street.I think it was for supper and to
dance, and came back to thehotel at about half past twelve. Floyd
left me at the door and Istood inside and watched mister Archer follow him
down the street on the other side. Do you know what they'd be doing

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in the neighborhood of Bush and Stocktonwhere Archer was shot isn't not where Floyd
lives. No, it was nearlya dozen blocks out of his way.
What did you do after they'd gone? I went to bed, and this
morning, when I went out toBrixast, I saw the headlines in the
papers. I hired an automobile andwent back to the hotel for my luggage.

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After I found my room had beensearched yesterday, I knew I would
have to move, and I hadfound a place yesterday afternoon, so I
came up here and then I telephonedyour arficing your room at the Saint Mark
was searching, yes while I wasat your office. I didn't mean to
tell you that that means I'm notsupposed to question you about it. I'm

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afraid, sir. I've got nothingagainst trusting you blindly, except that I
won't be able to do you muchgood if I haven't got some idea of
what this is all about. Forinstance, I've got to have some sort
of line on your Floyd Thursby Imet him in the Orient. We came
here from Hong Kong last week.He had promised to help me. He

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took advantage of my helplessness and dependenceon him to betray me, betray you.
How why did you want him shadow? I wanted to find out where
he was staying. I wanted tofind out what he was doing, whom
he was meeting, things like that. Did he kill Archer? Yes,
certainly he had a luger in hisshoulder Hoster Archer wasn't shot with a luger.

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He had a revolver in his overcoatpocket. Oh, I've seen it
often. I didn't see it lastnight, but I know he never wears
an overcoat without it. Why allthe guns? Well, he lived by
him. There was a story inHong Kong that he had come out there
to the Orient as bodyguard to agambler who had to lead the States,
and that the gambler had since disappeared. I don't know. I do know

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that he always went heavily armed,and that he never went to sleep without
covering the floor around his bed withcrumpled newspaper so nobody could come silently into
his room. You picked a nicesort of playmate. How bad a hole
are you actually? Is that ascould be physical danger? I'm not heroicness
to Spade, I don't think there'sanything worse than death. That it's that,

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it's that as soon as I'm sittinghere, unless you help me,
I'm not God. I can't workmiracles out of thin air. Who killed
Thursday? I don't know how ishe supposed to be helping you? Why
did you bring him here from HongKong? Ah, this is hopeless.

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I can't do anything for you.I don't know what you want. I
don't even I don't even know ifyou know what you want. It's no
use. You won't go to thepolice. Them maybe running me ragged.
Since four o'clock this morning, I'vemade myself God knows how much trouble standing
them off for what? For somecrazy notion that I could help you.
Well, I'll tell them what Iknow, and you'll have to take your

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chances. It is hopeless and useless. I suppose I'll have to take my
chances. How much money have yougot? I've got about five hundred dollars
left? Give it to me.There's only four hundred years I have to
keep some to live on. Can'tyou get any more? No, you

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must have something you can raise moneyon. I've got some rings, a
little jewelry. You'll have to howkthem. The remedia is the best place.
Mission and fifth, then here's thewrecked. It's all I have.
Thanks. I'm going out to seewhat I can do for you. I'll
be back as soon as I canwith the best news I can manage.
I'll ring four times, long,short, long short. You needn't go

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to the door with me. Ican let myself out. I've got mister
Wise on the line through you there. Thank you, sweet Eye say yeah,
I think I'm gonna have to tella coroner to go to hell.
Can I hide behind the sanctity ofmy client's secrets and whatnot? Huh good,

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I'll let you have the details.Dundee's getting snotty and maybe it is
a little thick this time. There'sa man wants to see you. Here's
his card, Joe Cairol. Sheeprah. This guy is queer and one.
Okay, mister Carrol, thank you. I sit down, mister Cairol.

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Thank you. What can I dofor you? Mister Cairol? Me a
strange your offer? Condolences for yourpartner's unfortunate deaths. May I ask mister
spit if there was, as thenewspapers inferred, a certain relationship between that
unfortunate happening and the death a littlelater of the man Thursby. I beg

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your pardon, mister Spit. Morethan idle curiosity made me ask that I
am trying to recover an ornament thathas been shall we say, miss late,
I thought and hoped that you couldassist me. The ornament is a
statuette the black figure of a bird. I am prepared to pay, on

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behalf of the figure's rightful owner thesum of five thousand dollars for its recovery.
Five thousand dollars is a lot ofmoney. Come in, is there
anything else? No? Good night? Lock the door when you go out.
Well, yeah, sure, goodnight, good night. If you

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will please clasp your hands together toback off your nick I intend to search
your offices, mister Spit. Iwarned you that if you attempt to present
me I should certainly shoot you.Go ahead, I shall first have to
make sure that you are not armed, as you wish. He's still got

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a lot to learn. Let's seewhat you got on you wallet containing three
hundred dollars and five pounds Greek passport, a page of Hotel Belvetere writing paper

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with my name and apartment address.You're feeling better. I could have shot
you, mister spit. You couldhave tried. I did not try.
I know then Why did you strikeme after I was disarmed? Sorry?
But imagine my embarrassment when I foundthat five thousand dollars after was just WHOI?

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You are mistaken? Mister Spade?That was and is a genuine offer.
What the hell? I am preparedto pay five thousand dollars for the
figures to return. You have it? No? If it is not here,
why should you have risked serious injuryto present my searching for it?
I should sit around and let peoplecome in and stake me up. You

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got my apartment address? You've beenthere? Yeah, yes, mister Spade.
I am ready to spend five thousanddollars for the figures to return,
but surely it is natural that Ishould try first to spend the honor that
expense, if possible. Who isit? You will have to forgive me
for not answering that question. Well, I, if you wish some expression

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of my sincerity, I could offera retainer with that serve and my you
will take say one hundred dollars.I'll take two hundred. Here's your wallet
back. Oh, your first guesswas that I had the bird. There's
nothing in that. What's your secondthat you know where it is, or
if not exactly that you know itis, where you can get it.

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What sort of proof can you giveme that your man is the owner?
Very little, unfortunately, but nobodyelse can give you any authentic evidence of
ownership at all. It might bebetter all around if we put our cards
on the table. I do notthink it would be better. Right,
So, you're not hiring me todo any murders or burglaries for you,
but simply to get the black bird, if possible, in an honest and

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lawful way, if possible, andin any event, with discretion. I
confidently expect the greatest mutual benefit fromour association. Mister spit, May I
have my pistol? Sure I've forgottenit here? Now you will peace,
keep your hands on the top ofthe desk. I intend to search your

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offices. I'll be damned all right, go ahead, I won't stop you.

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This is Do you have any goodnews? Let me take your coat.
We won't have to make anything publicthat hasn't already been made public,
so please will have to know aboutme. However, did you manage it?
Most things in San Francisco can bebought or taken and you won't get

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into trouble. Oh, do sitdown. I don't mind a reasonable amount
of trouble. You aren't exactly thesort of person you pretend to be,
are you. I'm not shore.I know what you mean, schoolgirl manner,
stammering and blushing and all that.I told you this afternoon that I've
been bad, worse than you couldknow. That's what I mean. You

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told me this afternoon in the sameword, same tone. It's a speech
you practiced very well, then,mister Spade. I'm not at all the
sort of person I pretend to be. I'm eighty years old, incredibly wicked,
and an iron molder by trade.But did you suppose it's one I've
grown into? So you won't expectme to drop it entirely? Well,

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Oh, it's all right, Onlyit wouldn't be all right if you actually
were that innocent. We never getanywhere. I won't be innocent. I
saw Joe Cairo to night, youknow him. I saw him tonight.
It's chilly, I'll put another logon the fire. M Oh diigaread.

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You're good, You're very good.What did you say? What about me?
Nothing? Well, what did hesay? He offered me five thousand
dollars for a black bird. You'renot gonna go around making up the fire
and strengthening the room again, areyou? I won't. What did you

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say? Five thousand dollars is alot of money. Oh, surely you're
not really considering it. Mister Spade. You promised to help me. I
trusted you. You can't don't.Let's try to figure out how much you've
trusted me. I promised to helpyou. Sure, but you didn't say
anything about any blackbird. But youwon't. You can't treat me like that.

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Five thousand dollars is a lot ofmoney. There's far more than I
could ever offer you. If Imust bid for your loyalty, that's good
coming from you. What have yougiven me besides money? If you give
me any of the truth, anyhelp in helping you. If I'm peddling
my loyalty, why shouldn't I letit go to the highest bidder. I've
given you all the money I havewithout your help. I'm utterly lost.

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What else is there? Can Ibuy you with my body? I'll think
it over. Christ, there's nosense in this. I don't care what
kind of tricks you're up to,but I gotta have something to show me
that you know what you're doing.Can't you trust me just a little longer?

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How much is a little? Andwhat are you waiting? I must
talk to Joel Cairo. You cansee him tonight. You can get him
on the phone with the velvet here. You can't come here. I can't
let him know where I am.I'm afraid my place. Do you think
he'd go there? He'd go?All right? Shall we go? Now?

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That's him? There's a boy outthere watching the house, mister spit.
What am I to understand from that? I came here in good faith,
with no thoughts of tricks or traps. You're asking good faith? But
I ought to have guessed he'd haveshowed up. Where is he outside in
the shop doorway? A kid who'sbeen trying to tell me around town all

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evening? Carol thought I put himthere. Come in. There's no use
standing here talking to all the neighbors. This boy, did he follow you
to my apart? No? Ishook him off for that, and I
suppose he came back here to tryto pick me up again. I am

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delighted to see you again, MissileShaughnancy. I was sure you would be.
Joe Sam told me about your offerfor the falcon. How soon can
you have the money ready? Itis ready in cash. I can be
quite prepared to give you this moneyat say, half past ten in the
morning. Would that suit you?But I haven't got the falcon? Then
why I'll have it in a weekat the most, though, where is

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it? Where Floyd hit it?And do you know where that comes?
Think I do? And why mustwe wait a week? Well, perhaps
not a whole week? Whom areyou buying it for? Joe? I
told mister Spit for its owner.You went back to him, naturally,
I did. I should have likedto have seen that exactly what's happened to
Floyd? Gee? I see ishe here? I don't know what difference

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does it make. It might makea world or difference to let us say
to mister Spit or me, ohyou exactly? And shall we say most
certainly the boy outside? Yeah,unless he's the one you had in Constantinople
the one you couldn't make. Oh, stop that Cairo and drop the gun.

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This is the second time you putyour hands on me. Yeah,
when you're slapped, you'll take andlike it. How should I know?
Keep quiet? I'll go see whatit's all about. I love Sam.
You thought you wouldn't have gone tobed yet. We want to talk to

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your spade. Well, I'll goahead and talk. We don't have to
do it standing here. You can'tcome in. ED would pay you to
play along with a spade. Yougot away with plumpy, but you can't
keep it up forever. Stop mewhen you can, That's what I'll do.
There's talk going around but you andArcher's wife were cheating on him.
That sounds like something you thought upyourself. What talk is? That's why
he was put on the spot.He oughtn't to try to pin more than

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one murder on me at a time. Your first idea that I knocked Thursby
off because he killed Miles falls apart. If you blame me for killing Miles
too. You haven't heard me toshow you that you're killed anybody. You're
the one that keeps bringing that up. I hope you got something better to
do. Besides, pop in hereearly every morning and ask me damn fool
question and get damn lying answers.Hey, kid, eap you shay.
There's nothing between you and Archer's wife. You're a liar and I'm culling you.

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So is that the hot tip thatbrought you here at this on godly
hour of the night. That wasone of them and the others? No
chance? All right, spade,we'll be under see you now, and
then maybe you're writing bucking us thinkit over. I guess we're going in.
I guess you are. Please allright, Larry, drop the gun?

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What are you up to? Shescratched my this you do that?
I had to. I was allalone in here with him. When do
you at tap me? Couldn't makemyself shoot you filthy ly? She's lying,
awfully. I came here in goodpat I was attacked by both of
them, and when you came,he went out to talk to you,
leaving her here with this pistol.And then she said they were going to

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kill me up to your left,and I called for help so you wouldn't
leave me to be murdered. Andthen she struck me with the pistol.
Last straight what are you doing here? He sent for me. He called
me on the telephone and asked meto come here. What did he want
you for? He said, hewanted to They wanted to see me.
I don't know what about. Well, what happened? Then they attacked me.

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She struck me first, and thenhe choked me up and took two
pistol out of my pocket. Idon't know what they would have done if
you hadn't arrived. You make himtell a trull that now she's impassed.
What do you want us to affect? The truth says no, he said
not anything. He said right,don't look at me. I was out
in the kitchen mixing an armored whenit happened. Well, Tom, I

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don't think we'll go wrong pulling themall. Don't be in a hurry.
Everything can be explained. Oh,but miss O'Shaughnessy, may I present Lieutenant
dundee in Detective Sergeant Polehouse. MissO'Shaughnessy is an operative in. My employee
tired her recently yesterday. As amatter of fact, this is mister Joel
Cairo, a friend, an acquaintanceat any rate of Thursby's. He came

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to me this afternoon and tried tohire me to find something Thursby was supposed
to have on him when he wasbumped off. It looked funny the way
he put it to me, soI wouldn't touch it anyway. After talking
it over with miss O'Shaughnessy, Ithought maybe we might get something out of
him about Miles and Thursby's killing.So I asked him to come up here.
Maybe we put the questions to hima little rough, but he wasn't
hurt any Well, what you gotto say to that? I don't know

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what I should say. Try tellingthe facts, the fact quite stalling.
All you gotta do a swell acomplaint that they took a pull catch you.
I had Cairo tell him you'll doit. Then we'll swear to one
against you and he'll have the lotof it. Get your hats, well,
boys and girls, we put itover a nice Get your hat.
Don't you know when you're being kidded? Huh? I dare you to take
us in. Dundee will laugh atyou in every newspaper in San Francisco.

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When the bell rang, I said, it's those damn bulls again. They're
getting to be a nuisance. Let'splay a joke on them. When you
hear them going, one of youstart to scream, and we'll see how
far we can string it along.Its same. Where did the cut on
his hat and mouth come from?Ask him? Maybe you cut himself shaving.
I feel we were pretending to strugglefor the pistol. Marsh father,

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you can't get a where you willlaugh your bouch for help when you gotta
take it, Lusa, it wasa jewels. I'll take your lawn for
a pack on our gun. Anyway. Don't be a sat dundee. It's
part of the plant. It's oneof mine. Too bad, it's only
a thirty two, or you couldfind it was one of the Thursby and
Miles were shot with bastard. Whyyou just try it, just try,
I'm for goode saying, get himout of here quick. I've had enough

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of this. Take it easy,Sam, Is that all lieutenants? I'm
going to if mister Spits will bekind to enough to give me my coat.
So it was all in fun.But you're afraid to be left here
with fun? No, not atall. But it's quite and I hope
that God. You know what you'redoing saying you're absolutely the wildest person I've

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ever met. Do you carry onso high handed? Didn't I? Oh?
Yeah, but a place of fishthat it was then in losing his
head and slugging me overplayed his hand. Well you've had your talk with Cairo,
now you can talk to me.Well, I'm listening. Oh,
just look at the time. It'sbeen a busy evening. I must go.

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This is terrible, not until you'vetold me about it. Besides,
there's the kid outside. Let's talk. You're the most insistent person. What's
this bird, this falcon that everyoneseems so steamed up about. Oh,
I'm so tired of it, andI do hate having to talk about it.
Wouldn't it be just as well towait and let you learn about it?

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I don't know. My way oflearning's to heave a monkey wrench into
the machinery. It's all right withme, if you're sure none of the
flying pieces will hit you. I'mafraid of you, and that's the truth.
That's not the truth. It is. I know two men I'm afraid
of, and I've seen both ofthem tonight. I can understand you being
afraid of Cairo. He's out ofyour reach, and you aren't not in

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that way. It's a black figure, as you know, smooth and shiny
of a bird, a hawk orfalcon, about a foot high. What
makes it so important? I don'tknow. They'll never tell me. They
promised me five hundred pounds if Ihelp them, help them, help them

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to get it from the man whohad it, a Russian named Kemedoff.
This was in Constantinople, in MoMA. Go ahead, what happened then?
Oh, that's all. We foundthat Cairo meant to desert us, taking
the falcon with him, so wedid exactly that to hear first. But
then I wasn't any better off thanI had been before because Floyd hadn't any

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intention of paying me. He saidwe would go on to New York where
he would sell it and give memy share. But I could see he
wasn't telling me the truth. Andthat's why I came to you to help
me to learn where the falcon was. And I suppose you'd got it.
What then then they've been in aposition to talk to hims. That makes
it worth all the money that's itmade on porcelain or black stone. I'd

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know. I've only seen it oncefor a few minutes. Floyd showed it
to me when we first got holdof it. You are a liar.
I am a liar. I've alwaysbeen a liar. Don't brag about it.
It's childish. Was there any truthat all in that yard? Some?
How much? Not? Very much? Well, we've got it all

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night. I'll put some more brandyin, some more coffee, and we'll
try again. Oh I'm so tired, so tired of it, all of
myself. I was lying and thinkingup lies out of not knowing. What

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is a lie? What truth?I wish? I will kiss me?
M M, don't tell? Which? Would you have to watch some day?

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Is mister Joe Cairo in room sixthirty five? No, sir,
he's not in the hotel. Anyidea? What time he left? He
didn't return last night? Sir?I see sorry, I can't help purely
further. That's all right. Ijust about it. Somebody who can?
You're awesome? Where is he?But where is he? Whoop? But?

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Very What do you think you're doing? Jack, Don't pretend you don't
know what I'm talking about. You'vebeen tailing me all over town. Shove
off. You'll have to talk tome before you're through, Sonny, son
of you will and you can tellGee I said, So you keep basking
forward, Chicken, I get it. I told you I shove off and

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I shove up people loose teeth talkinglike that. Now you'd just be a
good boy and run along to Geand tell him what I said. I
won't forget you, spade Ah,Just miss Cairo, there was a man
looking for you morning, Carol.What happened to you is still looks like

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he slept in it? Because morning, mister spid, let's go someplace we
can talk. You would leave.Excuse me, mister spit. Our conversations
in privates have not been such thatI'm anxious to continue them. Pudding me
speaking bluntly, but it is thetruth. You mean last night? What
else in hell could I do?I thought you'd see that if you pick
a fight with miss O'Shaughnessy or lether pick one with you, I gotta
throw in with her. I don'tknow where that damn bird is. You

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don't either, she does. Howin the hell are we gonna get it?
If I don't play along with her? You have always I must say,
A smooth explanation Ludy, When doyou want me to do? Carol
learned to stutter. Let's go overthere with the top clients. Nah,
tell me what happened. Did Dundeetake you down to the hall? Yes?

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How long did they work on you? Until a little while ago?
And very much against my will?I still certainly pick the batter up with
the Consulate General of Greece and withan inturn you go ahead and see what
it gets you. Why did youlet police shake out of you? Not
a single words, mister Space.I adhere to the course you indicated earlier
in your rooms, though I certainlywish to had devised a more reasonable story.

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I felt decidedly ridiculous for a peatingshure, But it's goofiness is what
makes it good. He's sure youdidn't give him anything. You may rely
upon this, mister Space. Idid not. You'll be hearing from Dundee
again. Stay dummied up on him, and you'll be all right. And
don't worry about the story's goofiness.A sensible one would have had us all
in the cooler. You may beright and not, mister Spake. You'll

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be wanting sleep if you've been standingup under a police storm all night.
See you later, Carol. No, no, not yet. No,

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I'll haven't called you as he getsthere. If that's the third time she's
called this morning, she sounds frantic. Huh, your missile shaughness isn't there?
What else? A man called Gcalled up? He said, when
he comes in, when you pleasetell him that G who got his message
phoned and we'll phone again. Thankyou, Darning. Somebody has been in

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my apartment. It's all upside down. Anything taking. I don't think he's
so. I don't know. Iwas afraid to stay. He must have
let that boy follow you, ohangel, But he was watching your place
when we were there. There's noreason to think he's working alone. But
we've got to find a new homefor you. I won't go back there.

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Thought of a way and wait herea minute? Happy? Huh?
How is your woman's intuition today?What? Why do you think of miss
O'Shaughnessy? Oh, I'm for Ithink no matter what kind of trouble she's
gotten into, she's all right.Are you strong enough for her to give
her a lift? How could youput her up for a few days?
What do you mean at home?Yeah? Her joint's been broken into.

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It'd be better for her if shewasn't alone. It would help me a
lot if you could take her in. Well, she really endanger them,
I think she is. Oh,that would scare her mind to a green
hemorrhage. I'll have to tell herif she's a surprise witness or something you're
keeping under cover here at Darling.I'm better take her out there Noway,
No, you ought to be seenleaving together. You take a taxi home

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and I'll send her out another ina little while, making sure she isn't
followed. Don't worry. I'll lookafter the office after you've both gone.
Hello. Yeah, this is Spade. I've been waiting to hear from you,

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mister Gutman. No, all thesooner the better. Twelve se right,
Sam, I'm a honey. Hello, Sam, forgive me, forgive

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me, I forgive me what for? I sent those policemen around last night.
I was sitting in the car waitingoutside your apartment when you went in
with that woman. I was mad, crazy with jealousy, and I phoned
them that if they'd go there,they'd learn something about Myles's murder. Did
you tell them who you were no. No, but I told them you
were having an affair with Miles's wife. It was a dumb trick, but

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it's dumb. Now you better runalong home. I'm sorry. I know
you won't forgive me. There's justone man, Yes, Sam, Where
were you the night? Myles wasshocked? Oh no, I know you
weren't. Effie Perene told you thatI saw her looking at my clothes and
snooping around. Where were I wasfollowing Myles Jesus. He told me he

(51:08):
had a date with a girl.If I wanted to get a divorce,
now was my chance. I followedhim to the Saint Mark's and saw he
was shadowing a man and a girl, the one you were with last night.
I realized he was just kidding.I went round to your apartment,
but you weren't there. Was thataround ten thirty, ma'am. I couldn't
go home. I didn't want tobe there when Myles got back. I

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went to a movie that there's aplace in Powell Street that's opened till one.
Then I went and had a meal, and then I went home.
But Myles wasn't there. It's stupid, but I was mad he wasn't home.
First, So I took the carout of the garage again and went
back to your place, by whichtime I was looking at Myles's body.
Jesus, what a swell lot ofmerry go round driving. Then then I

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went home again. I was justundressing when Effie arrived. Oh do you
believe me? Sure? I do? Now run along, I've got an
a point beat it. Spade,Nice to see you against Sonny. Thank

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you will know you can leave usnow, mister Spade, how do you
do? Mister Gutnan, I sitdown, let me get you a drink
whiskey. Thanks. Will you beginwell, sir? I distrust a man
that says when maybe he's got tobe careful not to drink too much,

(52:45):
it's because he's not to be trustedwhen he does or else. High here's
two plain drinking and clear understanding.You're a close mouth man, all alaw
I like to talk better and better. I distrust a close mouth man.

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He generally picks the wrong time totalk and says the wrong things. Talking
something you can't do judiciously unless youkeep in practice. We'll get along,
sir, that we will cigars.Thank you now, sir. We'll talk

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if you like, and I'll letyou know right out that I'm a man
who likes talking to a man thatlikes to talk as well. When we
talk about the blackbird, will wewe will? You're a man for me,
Sarah Man cut along my own linesnow beating about the bush, but
straight to the point. I likethat way of doing business. Let us

(53:49):
talk about the blackbird. But first, sir, answer me a question.
Please, you're here as mister Shawnessis represent to do? It depends,
It depends on what. If Iknew what it depends on, I could
say yes or no. Maybe itdepends on Joe Cairodeed. You could say
then that the question is which ofthem you'll represent? You could put it

(54:09):
that way. It will be oneor the other. I didn't say that.
Who else is there? Where's me? That's wonderful, so wonderful.
I do like a man that tellsyou right out he's looking out for himself.
I don't trust a man that sayshe's not. Let's talk about the
blackbird. Let's mister spade, haveyou any conception of how much money it

(54:30):
can be made out of that blackbird? No? Oh? Else? If
I told you about God, ifI told you half you'd call me a
liar, No, not even ifI thought it. But if you won't
take the risk, just tell mewhat it is and I'll figure out the
profits. You mean you don't knowwhat it is or how I know what
it's supposed to look like. Iknow the value you people put on it.
I don't know what it is.She didn't tell you. Oh no,

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lovely girls, she must know,and Cairo didn't eether. Cairo is
kg. He's willing to buy it, but he won't risk telling me anything.
I don't know already. How muchis he willing to buy it?
Four ten thousand dollars, not evenpounds? That's the Greek for you.

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And what did you say to that? I said, if I turned it
over to him, I'd expect theten thousand, nicely put sir. They
must know? Do they know whatthe bird is? So what's your impression?
There's not much to go by.Cairo didn't say he didn't. He
didn't say didn't. She said shedidn't, But I took it for granted
she was lying that twas not aninjudicious thing to do. Maybe they don't,

(55:37):
or if they don't, I'm theonly one in the whole sweet wide
world. Who does. I'm gladI came to the right place by that,
sir, God glasses empty. Ah, sir, it's kind of medicine,
will never hurt you. Here's theplain speaking and clear on understand Ah.

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Well, sir, it's surprising,but it may be affected. Nobody
in this whole sweet white world knowswhat it is saving and accepting, your
humble servant, kaspad gutten baness class. Wow, and when you've told me,
there'll only be two of us mathematicallycorrect, sir, But I don't
know for a certain that I'm goingto tell you. Don't be a damned
fool. You know what it is. I know where it is. That's

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why we're here. Well, sir, where is it? You see?
I must tell you what I know, but you will not tell me what
you know. That is hardly equitable, sir. No, No, I
do not think we can do businessalong these lines. I think again,
and you think fast. I toldthat punk of yours you'd have to talk
to me before you got through.I'll tell you now that you'll do your

(56:46):
talking today or you are through.What are you wasting my time for you
and your lousy secret. Maybe youcould have got along without me if you'd
have kept clear of me. Youcan't now in San Francisco. You'll come
in or you'll get out, andyou'll do it today. He and another
thing. I don't want you keepthat gunsl away from me while you're making
up your mind. He makes menervous. I'll kill him the first time

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he gets in my way. Iwon't give him an even break. I
won't give him a chance. I'llkill him. Shut, I must say,
you'll have a most violent temper.Temper you think it over and think
like hell, you've got till fivethirty to do it in and you're either
in or out for keeps five thirty? Then the curtain, Sam, what

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happened? What happened? Where it'sso sewnacy? Why didn't she come?
She didn't get there. I waitedand waited and she didn't come. I
couldn't get you on the phone,so I came back here. Did you
send her out in a tack?Of course I did? And you sure
someone must have followed? Nobody followedher? What do you think? I
am a goddamn school boy. I'mgoing out to talk to the taxi drivers,
I'll find her if I have todig up sewers. Stay here till

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I'm back, or you hear fromme. Yeah, sure, I remember.
I told you to take her toa ninth Avenue number. Where did
you take her? I took itto the Ferry building, but I told
you to take her. When wegot the polk, she wrapped on the
glass and said she wanted to geta newspaper. So I stopped on the
corner and whistled for a newsboy.Which paper? Did she get the call?

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Then we went to Sacramento, andjust after we crossed the van less
she knocked on the glass again andsaid to take it to the ferry building.
Anybody waiting for her there? Ididn't see them. If there was,
did she take the newspaper with her? She tore a sheet out.
Do you have the rest? Yeah? I kept it. It's here.
Thanks, get yourself a smoke.Thanks, mister Spade. Oh, let's

(58:51):
missing thirty five and thirty six.That's Berth's marriages. Come on, Spade,
Gutmann once yet, Well, well, I didn't expect to hear from
you till five twenty five. Youkeep on writing me, and you're gonna
be picking iron out of your navel. The cheaper, the crook, the
gaudier, the pet. Well,let's go, it's wright an. I'm

(59:22):
gonna cover this spade, you know, the way you have to keep on
poking that thing in my back?Hey, how long you've been off the
Gooseberry Lake? Kids? Look hereyou, I'll take the gun any other
one, Come on, This willput you in solid with your boss.

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Kid. Well, well, what'sthis? You shouldn't let him run around
with these. He'll get himself hurt. Cash, I shut her chap Worth
now, an amazing character. Comein, Come in, sit down,

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give me a hat. You mayleave us Wilma a drink, sir,
Thanks, No, sir, Ihope you'll let me apologize. I remind
that. Let's talk about the blackbirdovery well, sir, let's here.
Thanks. What do you know,sir about the Order of the Hospitalist John

(01:00:30):
of Jerusalem later called the Knights ofRhodes and other things? Not much?
When I remember from history in school, crusaders or something very good. Now
you'll remember that saw a man theMagnificent chase them out of Rhodes in fifteen
twenty three. No a, well, sir, he did, and they
settled in Crete, and they stayedthere for seven years until fifteen thirty,

(01:00:52):
when they persuaded the Emperor Charles thefifth to give the Malta, Gozo and
Tripoli. Yeah, yes, sir, but with this condition they were to
pay the Emperor each year the tributeof one falcon, in acknowledgement that Malta
was still under Spain, and ifthey ever left it, it was to
revert to Spain. Understand. Yeah, have you any conception of the extreme

(01:01:15):
the immeasurable wealth of the order atthat time, if I remember, and
they were pretty well fixed, prettywell, sir, is putting it mildly,
and they were rolling in wealth.Share. You've no idea, none
of us is any idea. Foryears they'd preyed on the Saracens had taken.

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Nobody knows what spoils of gems,precious stones, silks, ivory.
Well, now, what could bemore natural than for these immeasurably wealthy knights
to look around for some way ofexpressing their gratitude to the Emperor. Well,
so that is exactly what they did, and they hit on the happy
thought of sending Charles not an insignificantlive bird, but a glorious old and

(01:02:00):
falcon encrusted from head to foot withthe finest jewels in their coffers. Well,
sir, what do you think ofthat? I don't know, for
those are facts, historical facts,not school book history, not mister Wells's
history, but history. Nevertheless,the bird was sent in a galley commanded

(01:02:22):
by a French knight named Commiers orCorvert, a member of the Order.
It never reached Spain. You knowof Barbarossa Redbeard Kaira dinn No, a
famous admiral of buccaneers. Sir,he took the galley and he took the
bird. The bird went to Our'syears, that's a fact. And there

(01:02:43):
it remained for a hundred years untilit was carried away by an English adventurer
who was with the buccaneers for awhile. Sir Francis Verney, there's nothing
said about the bird in Lady FrancisVerney's memoirs of the Verney family during the
seventeenth century. I looked, andVerney didn't have it with him when he
died in Messina in sixteen fifteen.He was stonily broke. But Sir,

(01:03:04):
it did go to Sicily. Accordingto Caruti, the author of Storia del
Regno di Vittorio Amadeo the second.It was one of Victor Amadeus's wedding gifts
to his wife. It turned upnext in the possession of a Spaniard who
had been with the army that tookNaples in seventeen thirty four, and there's

(01:03:28):
nothing to show that it didn't stayin his family. Monino Eredondo until the
Carlist was when it turned up inParis during the Carlist troubles. It had
been painted or enameled over to looklike nothing more than a fairly interesting black
statuette. And in that disguise,Sir, it was, you might say,

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ticked around Paris for seventy years byprivate owners and dealers too stupid to
see what was under the skin havefootball and the gutters of Parrits until nineteen
eleven, when a Greek dealer namedKarilaus Constantinis found it in an obscure shop.

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He recognized it for what it was, and it didn't take him long
to acquire it. I got windof it and finally forced most of the
history out of him. But foronce in his life, he wasn't in
a hurry to convert his find intomoney. But your class is empty.

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You begin to believe me a little. I amn't said I didn't here,
Thanks Welshan. One year till thevery day after he had acquired it,
I picked up the Times in Londonand read that his establishment had been burglarized
and he murdered. I was inParis next day. The bird was gone

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back cats, and I was wild. A great quantity of stuff had been
stolen. That made me think thatthe thief had simply taken the bird along
with the rest of his planner,not knowing what it was. Well,
sir, it took me seventeen yearsto locate that bird, but I did

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it. I wanted it, andI'm not a man that's easily discouraged when
he wants something. I traced itto the home of a Russian general when
kmidoff in a Constantinople suburb. Hedidn't know what it was, but his
natural contrariness kept him from selling itto me when I made him an offer.
Perhaps, in my eagerness, Iwas a little unskillful, though not

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very so. I sent some agentsto get it. Well, sir,
they got it, and I haven'tgot it. But I'm going to get
it your glass, and the birddoesn't belong to any of you but to
General Cameda. Well, so youmight say it belonged to the King of

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Spain, but I don't see howyou can honestly grant anybody clear title to
it except I write a possession.Then it's Missile Shaughnessy's now, no,
sir, except as my agent.There's no doubt she's got it now,
not much where. I don't knowexactly, but you said you did.
I mean, I know where toget it when the time comes. Where

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is that when I'm ready? MissusSpade? Where is Missus Shawnessy now in
my hands? Safely tucked away?Trust you for that, sir. Well,
now, sir, before we sitdown to talk prices, answer me
this. How soon can you orhow soon are you willing to produce the
folka a couple of days? Thatis satisfactory that we forget our nourishment.

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Thanks well, sir. Here's toa fair bargain and profits large enough for
births. And what's your idea ofa fair bargain? I have two proposals
to make, and either is fair. I will give you twenty five thousand
dollars when you deliver the Falcon tome, and another twenty five thousand as

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soon as I get to New York, or I will give you one quarter
twenty five percent of what I haverealized on the Falkland there was an almost
immediate fifty thousand dollars or a vastlygreater sub within say a couple of months.
How much greater? What would yousay, sir? To half a

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million? Do you think the dingsis worth two million? In your own
words? Why not? As howa lana dog? And that's the absolute
rock bottom minimum, a minima.How much is the mashion? How much
is the mashion? The maximum?If you get you fix the drink?

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God damn you. Welma, okay, s Spade, let's see if you
can make it to the door.Get out of my way. Bastard,
bastard, bastard, bastard, GentlyWilma, A gentleman never hits a man

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when he's down. What the hellI thought you were a hitman? I

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saw the light under the door,so you finally go ba, oh god,
what time is it? Six o'clock? What are you doing here?
Well, you told me to staytill you got back. He phoned.
So you've been here all night.You're the sister with the boy stood on
the burning day. You're ahead.What happened? I don't know whether a
fellow was slugged. I went visiting, was fed knockout drops, and came

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to twelve hours later, all spreadout in a man's floor. You'll have
to get a doctor. You can'twalk around with the headlights. Not as
bad as it looks, except forthe headache, cold water on a hell
anything turned off after I left.Yeah, the District Attorney's office phones.
He wants to see you himself.That's the way I understood it. I

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think he means business. Sam.When Tom polehouse Rang wants to have lunch
at the State to half brown anythingelse. A boy came with a message
from mister Gutman. I got it. That's how I got this. Well,
then what's it all about? No, sweetheart, he didn't slip me
the drops until after I told himhe'd have to wait for a couple of
days for what he wanted. Maybehe figured he could get it without my

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help. In that time. Hedidn't get any word from the O'Shaughnessy.
No, Sam, nothing has itgot anything to do with her something.
Look, sweetheart, I'm going backto freshen up, and you better go
home and get some sleep, andi'd better drop in on the DA.
Did you buy the call yesterday?No, Sam, Why just a thought.

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I'll call in at their business officesee you later. Can I have
a copy of yesterday's call? Please? Thanks? Thirty five births, marriages,

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deaths, Whether it could be anything? Shipping arrivals five seventeen am Tahiti
from Sydney and to Pete six ohfive Admiral People's from my Storia eight oh
five La Paloma from Hong Kong.That's it. It's got to be Bridget
and Thursby came from Hong Kong.Is there a phone I can use?

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Sure? Right there? Thank you? Hello, Shipping office. Can you
tell me where the palomas ducked?They came from Hong Kong yesterday morning?
Uh huh, it's what Jesus?So that's where all the right? Stop?

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Tell me one thing whatever you like. How is it whenever we eat
together we always eat pickle picks people. I guess it's because we always come
here, Sam, what else wouldwe eat? Dundee send you? You
know he didn't, Sam, ain'tyou ever going to grow up? What
have you got to beef about?We didn't hurt you. What's the sense
of making a grudge of it?You see the boat on fire in the

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bay, I saw the smoke.Now, be reasonable, Sam. Dundee
was wrong and he knows it.Now, Why don't you let it go
at bay? Well? You thinkI ought to go around and tell him?
I hope my chin didn't hurt hisfist. Take carry it out.
Dundee didn't think he shot Miles,But what else would he accept? Brown
bullied down? You'd have done thesame thing in his place, and you
know it. Yeah, what madehim think I didn't do it? What

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makes you think I didn't do it? Or don't you know Thursday shot Miles?
Do you think he did? Hedid the slugging Miles came out of
a wibbley and a billboy at Thursday'shotel. He's seen it in his room
that morning, and that leaves thursbythe only one I killed. Nope,
Nope, critic, Ain't you evergoing to get that? I'll tell you
one thing, Tom, I'm gladI'm not that pig stock. Dundee knows

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it's out. How does he knowwe dug out a record on Thursday.
Yeah, it was he. Ohyou mean to tell me that I wish
to dot I knew half as muchabout this business as you smart guys to
think I do. Oh, Iwish we all did. He was a
Saint Louis gun when the first wehear of him. He was picked up

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a lot of times back there forthis and that, but he belonged to
the Egan mob, so nothing muchwas ever done about any of it.
They got him once in New Yorkfor knocking over Rose Stus Games, and
he did a short hitchin Joliet forpistol wiving a quiz that had given him
a needle. But after that hetook out with Dix Monahan and didn't have
any trouble getting out whenever he happenedto get in. Dixie was almost as

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big as Shot as Nick the Greekin Chicago. This Thursday was Dixie's bodyguard,
and he took the run out withhim when Dixie got in wrong with
the rest of the boys. Therewas some gambling decks. Oh, that
was true. A couple of yearsback. This is the first time Thursday
has been seen. Thanks and Dixie. Nobody's seen away less you know something.

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This is all new stuff to me. Oh, I guess it is.
Where did you pick up all thisnews about Thursday? Some of it's
on the records. The rest,well, well we get it here and
there from Cairo first, not aword of it. You poisoned that guy
for us? You mean a coupleof high class sleuths like Ellen Dunne worked
on that Lily of the valley allnight and he couldn't crack him. What

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do you mean all night? Weworked on him for less than a couple
of hours. We saw we wentgetting nowhere, and we let him goes
that souh get the check. Igot a date with the DA this afternoon.
Huh he sent you. Yeah,you won't be doing me any favored

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by telling him I've told you youabout this. Well, mister Spade,
I hear that you and the policehaven't been hitting it off too well lately.
Nothing serious. Dundee gets too enthusiastic. Now, if you had prefer
out having a stenographer here, wecan dismiss him. He's here simply as
a matter of convenient I don't mindhim a damned bit. I'm willing to

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have everything I say put down,and I'm willing to sign it, but
I don't intend to asking you tosign anything. I wish you wouldn't regard
this is a formal inquiry at all. And please please don't think I've any
belief in those theories the police seemto inform. I'm glad of that.
So who killed Thursday? I don'tknow. Wow, perhaps you don't know,

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but you could certainly make an excellentguess. Maybe, but I wouldn't,
not even in an informal talk.Well why shouldn't you if you've got
nothing to conceal. Everybody has somethingto conceal, and you have. My
guess is for one thing? What'syour theory? Well, you tell me
the name of the client archer wasshadowing Thursby before, and I'll mighty soon

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know who killed Thursby. I don'texactly get that. You don't. Well,
then suppose I put it this way? Where is Dixie Monahan? Putting
it that way doesn't help much?Who in the hell is Dixie Monahan?
Look, we know Thursday was Monahan'sbodyguard. He was with him when Monihan
vanished from Chicago, leaving something liketwo hundred thousand dollars worth of bets that

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he'd welshed one. And we allknow what's likely to happen to a gambler
who welshes him to his bodyguard whenhis creditors find them. It's happened before.
Well, what do you think?Did I kill him for his creditors
or just find him for them todo their own killing. No, no,
no, you misunderstand me. Ihope I do. No. I
only mean that, Well, youmight have been involved in it without knowing

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what it was. Oh, Isee. You don't think I'm naughty.
You just think I'm dumb. You'rewrong. Nobody ever hired me to do
anything about Dixie Monahan. But byyour own admission, somebody did hire you
to do something about his bodyguard,Thursby, his ex bodyguard. You mean
he was no longer associated with Monahan. You know that positively. I don't
know anything positively except that my clientwasn't interested in Monahan, has never been

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interested in Monahan, And that opensanother angle. Monahan's friends could have knocked
Thursby off for ditching Monahan. Deadgamblers don't have any friends. It narrows
down to three things. Number oneThursby was killed by the gamblers. Monahan
had Welsh down in Chicago. Numbertwo he was killed by friends of Monahan.

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Or number three he sold Monahan outto his enemies and then fell out
with him and they killed him.Or number four he died of old age.
You're not serious, are you?In one of those three categories lies
the solution, and you can giveus the information that will enable us to
determine. In the category, youwouldn't want the kind of information I could
give you, Brian, you couldn'tuse it. It'll poop the gambler's revenge

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scenario for you. You're not thejudge of that right or wrong. I
am, nonetheless, the district attorney. I thought this was an informal talk.
I am a sworn officer of thelaw, twenty four hours a day,
Spade, and neither formality nor informalityjustifies your withholding from me evidence of
crime except the cars on certain constitutionalgrounds. You mean, if it might

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incriminate me, Well, I gotbetter grounds than that. Are grounds that
suit me better. My clients areentitled to a decent amount of secrecy.
Maybe I can be made to talkto a grand jury or even a coroner's
jury. But I haven't been calledbefore either yet, and it's es since
I'm not going to advertise my client'sbusiness until i have to. Then again,
you and the police have both accusedme of being mixed up in the
other night's murders. I've had troublewith both of you before. As far

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as I can see, my bestchance of clearing myself the trouble you're trying
to make for me is my bringingin the murderers all tied up. And
my only chance of ever watching themand tying them up and bringing them in
is by keeping away from you andthe police, because neither of you show
any signs of knowing what the hellthis is all about. Here getting this
down all right? Son? AmI going too fast for you? Oh?

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No, sir, I'm getting itall right. Good work now,
Brian. If you want to godown to the board and tell them that
I'm obstructing justice and ask them torevoke my license, hop to it.
You've tried it before and you didn'tget anything but a good laugh all around.
Now look here, Spain, andI don't want any more of these
informal talks. I've got nothing totell you or the police. And I'm
goddamn tired of being called names byevery crackpot on the city payroll. If

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you want to see me, pinchme or subpoena me or something, and
I'll come down with my lawyer.I'll see you at the inquest. Maybe.
How did it go? The districtattorney, Well, we didn't kiss

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when we parted. He got snotty, But so did I. He means
trouble. Have you found out?Where's so? Shown? Did you say?
I know where she went? Where? She went down to a boat
in the harbor, the Paloma.She went there, but that was the
boat that caught fire. They hadto tow it out from the pier.
Was she She's all right? Atleast she left the boat before the fire

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started. What happened? She wentstraight there after leaving the cab at the
ferry building, but she had tohang round till early evening because the captain,
a guy named Jacoby, wasn't around. When he came back, she
ate with him in his cabin.After the meal. There were three more
visitors, Gutman, Cairo, andthe kid who delivered Gutman's message to you
yesterday. It's hard to get anythingout of the crew, but they had

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a row and somewhere around eleven o'clocka gun went off in the captain's cabin.
The captain told the watchman and everythingwas all right. Shortly after midnight,
the captain and the four of themleft the boat. Captain hasn't been
back since. Well. What caughtthe fire? I don't know. It
was discovered in the hold late thismorning. The chances are, what the

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hell spade? Spade? Yeah,you know, bridget I saw it lock
the door. He yeah, yeah, he shot through the chest maybe a

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dozen times. Odn't wait to that'stoo late for a doctor. Now,
I gotta think before we do anything. Let's have a look at the bundle.
He was going, that's heavy enough. That is that what they were?

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A great black bird. We've gotthe damn thing. Angel get it?
Hello, yes, who oh yeah, get a whol Hello, Hello,

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Hello, Miss O'Shaughnessy. She's indanger. Her voice was it was
awful, Sam twenty six ancho.She said, a burling game. How
the hell is that? Well,you gotta help her, gonna help the
care of this fella her, No, you gotta go to her, don't
you say? He was helping orsomething killed him, and now she you

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gotta go all right? As soonas I gone phone the police tell it.
Does it happen? But forget hehad a bundle and you don't know
anything about anyone else having any connectionwith this fellaw Ya? Do you know
who he is? I guess hewas Captain Jacoby, master of the Paloma.
What are you gonna do with abird? Leave it where nobody can

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get hold of it, But you'dbetter not know where it is. You're
a damned good man, sister.Nowhere Ancho Avenue or road or boulevard is
in Burlingame? Nope, But ifshe's there, we can find her.

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Let's do that hop in, misterSpade. We must be pretty near it
now, third or fourth house onthe other side. Okay, drop me
here and keep the engine running.We may have to leave in a hurry.

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Six her sailor rent kid at thirtyone, good evening. I'd like
to get the key to twenty six. Juice is none. You can't see
anything. I got a flashlight,detective, we got a tip there might

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be something hidden there. Nobody's beento me for the key for a couple
of months. I'll get it foryou? Nothing, not a thing,
a plant, something like that.Where to now, mister Spade? Home,

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I've had enough. Your partner gotknocked off, didn't he? Uh
huh, she's a tough rocket.You can have it for mine. Well,
hack drivers don't live forever. Maybethat's right, but just the same,
it'll always be a surprise to meif I don't bridget Sam. I

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saw he's never come. He's getinside and waiting for me. Yeah,
in the doorway up the street.Can you make it to the elevator?
Shall I carry you? Oh?You're right, well, I can get
where you sit down. Just holdon. I wouldn't try to run followed

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if I were your Wilma has yourcover. So have I missed the spit?
Well, sir, as you cansee, we're all here. Why
don't we sit down and be comfortableand talk. Sure, we'll talk just
a minute, Spade in a way. You're not gonna frisk me, stand
still, but you're shut on me, and I'm gonna make you use the
gun. Ask your boss I whowants me shot before we talk? Never

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mind, Wilma, you are sucha near most headstrong individual man. Let's
be seated. I told you.I didn't like that punk sit by me,
sweetheart, Well happen, let's getdown to business. Let's do that.
How soon are you ready to makethe first payment and take the falcon
off my hand? Let's the restof that? Yeah, ten thousand dollars.

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We were talking about more money thanthis, Yes, there we were,
But this is genuine coin of therealm, and there are more of
us Spit taken care of now.In short, sir, the situation has
changed. Sure you and Cairo togethernow that I've got the falk, I
shouldn't think it would be necessary throughthe mind to mister Spit that though you

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may have the falcon, we certainlyhave you. I'm trying not to let
that worry me. We'll come backto the money later. There's one other
thing I want to have taken careof. We've got to have a fall
guy. I don't think I understandyour The police have got to have a
victim, somebody they can stick forthose three murders. Two only two murders,
mister Spit, Thursby undoubtedly killed yourpartner, all right too, What

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difference does it make? The pointis we've got to toss the police of
victim, somebody that can hang theworks well. So that may be the
way you worked in the past,and it's the way I intend to go
on the first time. I can'tmarch in the headquarters pushing a victim in
front of me, saying here youare, you chumps, here's your criminal.
My name's much. But this justhappens to be a case where your
system, and it's got a lotto recommend it, sir, just isn't

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possible. And I don't mind tellingyou that. I think you're being very
well paid for making an exception.You'll manage it. You're not a man
that's afraid of a little bit oftrouble. I know what I'm talking about.
This is my city and my game. I could manage to land on
my feet, sure this time,But the next time I tried to put
over a fast one, they'd stopme so fast i'd swallow my teeth.
You birds will be in New York, Constantinople or someplace. I'm in business

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here, But surely you listened,Gutman. We've absolutely got to give them
a victim. There's no way outof it. Let's give them the punk.
He actually did shoot both of them, Thursby into Kobe, didn't he
That's been the necessary evidence on himand turn him over to You're a character,
that's you are, yes, sir. There's never any telling what you'll

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do or say next, except it'sabout to be something astonished. There's nothing
funny about it. It's our bestbet with him in their hands, the
police, My dear man, can'tyou see? I feel towards Wilma just
as exactly as if he were myown son. I really do. But
if I even for a moment thoughtof doing what you propose, what in

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the world would keep Wilma from tellingthe police every last detail about the falcon
and all of us. If wehad to, we could have him killed
resisting arrest. But we won't haveto go that far. Let him talk
his head off. I promise you. Nobody will do anything about it.
It's easy to fix. How whatdo you think of this? Will mur's

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funny? Get up on your feetand gop your heat. I take it
all the bride I'm gonna take toget up and shoot it out. If
you've got the gunner, will No, we can't have any of that.
You shouldn't let yourself attach so muchimportance to these days? Would you play
off? Then I'll put a fogumibe kins it up and there won't be
anything that will stop me from thesore out. Nah, will Man,

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your plan is not at all practical. Let's not say anything more about it.
Let's get this straight. Am.I wasting my time talking to you.
I thought this was your show.Should I do my talking to the
punk? I know how to dothat. No, Shay, you're quite
right in dealing with me. Allright, I got another suggestion. It's
not as good as the first,but it's better than nothing. You want
to hear it, mister Shoulder.Let's give them Cairo to dip the police.

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Cairo fuck cats. Suppose we givethem you, mister Spade, Oh,
miss O'Shaughnessy, how about that?If you're so set on giving them
somebody? You people want the falcon, I've got it. A fall guy
is part of the price. I'masking ask for miss O'Shaughnessy. If you
think she can be rigged for thepart, I'm perfectly willing to discuss it.
G you are a character. Justa minute, mister Gutman, seple

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manage to give them two to one. They're selling you out. Kids.
Hey, gutman, I hope you'renot letting yourself be influenced by the guns
these pocket edition desperadoes are carrying.I practice taking them away from both of
them so there will be no troublethere. The punk all right, no,
no, give me the gun,get your hands off. Crap his

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other on. Don't do that.MC, don't inside you hut you big
colt. Jesus, you're a pip. Let's look at the punk. Nothing
cracked. We'll spread him on thesofa. Give me a handbridge. Okay,

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there's your fall guy. Now you'lleither say yes right now or I'll
turn the falcon and the whole goddamnlot of you in. I don't like
that. So you don't like it, well you can have him. Please
don't do these things to go tomy don like it either, but we
can't help ourselves. Now, whatare you doing? Cairo? In or
out? Can I choose? Youcan? But he ought to know that

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if the answer is out, we'llgive you to the police with your boyfriend.
Come missus space which you give meno choice? I come in?
Good? Then we can all sitdown. It's two o'clock. I can't
get the falcon until daylight. Wegot plenty of time to arrange everything.
I think it would be best forall concerned if we did not get out

(01:31:30):
of each other sight until our businesshas been transacted. You have the envelope,
I think miss O'Shaughnessy has it.Yes, I have it. I
picked it up while you were allright. We won't have to lose sight
of each other. I can havethe falcon brought here. That's would be

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excellent, then, sir, inexchange for the ten thousand dollars in Wilma,
you will give us the falcon andan hour or two of grace.
We won't be in the city whenyou surrender him to the authority. I
can hold him here all day ifyou want. Let's get the details fixed.
Why did he shoot Thursby? Andwhy and where and how did he

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shoot Jacoby? Now come, sir. You can't expect that. I do
expect it. A fall guy iswhat I asked for, and he's not
a fall guy unless he's essential totake the fall. You are an uncommonly
difficult person to get the best of. I begin to think we made a
mistake in not letting you alone fromthe very first by gad I do I
haven't done so bad. You're stayingout of jail and you're getting the falcon.

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Why did he kill Thursby? Thursbywas a notorious chiller, and mister
Shauness's ally his removal might make usstop and think that perhaps it would be
best to patch up our differences withus. After all, you didn't think
he might have the falcon. Wehad the advantage of knowing, but so
Shaunessy far too well for that.Though we didn't know then that she had
given the falcon to Captain Jacoby inHong Kong to be brought over in lap

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A Loma while they took a fasterboat. He didn't try to make a
deal with before he gave him thework. We certainly did. Wilma brought
him over to see me, presumablyafter he had killed her partner, but
we could do nothing with him.He was quite determinedly loyal to miss O'Shaughnessy.
Well, Sir will followed him backto his hotel and did what he

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did. Sounds all right, now, Jacoby. Captain Jacoby's death was entirely
miss O'Shaughnessy's fault. That's a lie, tell me what happened. Well,
Cairo, as you know, gotin touch with me after his encounter with
Missus Shaughnessy and yourself. He'd seenthe notice of the arrival of Lapaloma,
and being a man of nice judgment, he guessed just what had happened that

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miss O'Shaughnessy had given the bird toJacoby to bring here for her. Jacoby
did not know what it was.Of course, mister Cairo and Wilma and
I called on Jacoby and were fortunateenough to arrive while miss O'Shaughnessy was there.
In many ways it was a difficultconfidence, but by midnight we had
persuaded miss O'Shaughnessy to come to termsor thought. We set off for my

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hotel where I was to pay MissusShaughnessy and received the bird. But en
route she and Captain Jacoby and thebird slipped through our fingers. How did
the boat catch fire? That,Sir, is something of a mystery.
Wilma had been trying to find thefalcon while we were talking in the cabin.
No doubt he was careless with matches. Something was left smoldering all right.

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Now about the shooting, well,eventually, so we allocated Miss O'Shaughnessy's
apartment. They were talking together,but Jacoby got wind of us and left
with the falcon by the fire escaped, where he ran into Wilma. He
shot jacobim on once, but Jacoby'stoo tough to other fall or dropped the
falcon. He knocked Wilma down andran on. So much for Wilmer go

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on. We persuaded that is theword miss O'Shaughnessy to tell us that she
had told Jacoby to take the birdto you. It seemed unlikely that he
lived to that far, and sowe will persuaded Miss Shawnsy to phone your
office in an attempt to draw youaway before Jacoby got there. Unfortunately,

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it had taken so long to persuadeMiss O'Shaughnessy to cooperate with us, that
you had the falcon before we couldcontact you. Oh she's coming around,
will my dear, it's you.Now. Listen kid, if you come
over here and start cutting up,I'm going to kick your face and well,
will man, I'm sorry indeed tolose you. I couldn't be fonder

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of you if you are my ownson. But well, if you'll lose
your son. It's possible to getanother, but there's only one maltese fulk
when you're young. You don't stand, Bridget. I think it will be
swell if you can see what youcan find us to eat in the kitchen
with plenty of carpet. Will youdo that? I don't like to leave

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my guests at just a moment,my dear, hadn't you better leave?
The envelope been here? You don'twant to get grease spots on it.
It's still here here, Sit onit if you're afraid of losing it.
Oh, you misunderstand me. It'sjust that business should be transected in a
business like manner. For instance,there are only nine bills here now why

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there were ten when I hand itto you. Well, Bridget, what
do you mean? Miss O'Shaughnessy andI are going in the bathroom, and
remember I've got the guns. Thedoor will be open, and unless you
want a three story drop, there'sno way out of here except past the
bathroom door. Don't try to makeOh you must know so if not the
least desire to leave, I'll knowa lot when I'm through. It won't

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take long. Come on, Idid not take that bills in. I
don't think he did. But I'vegot to know. Take your clothes off.
You won't take my word for it. No, take your clothes off,
I won't. All right, we'llgo back to the other room and

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I'll have them taken off. Youwould, I will. I'm not going
to be held up by anybody's maidand modesty. It isn't. I'm not
ashamed to be naked before you,but I can't you see, you got
to know what happened to that bill? Take them off very well? Can't

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you see that you're killing something?Keep going? You shouldn't make me do
this. Then I've got to know. Well nothing, thanks, No,
I know, get dressed. Findit? No, I didn't find you

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palmed it? I pommed it.You want to admit it? Do you
want to stand for a frisk?There's no third way, But that's happy
if you'd actually such, I reallydo your character, sir, If you
don't mind my saying, so,you palmed it? Hey, yes,
sir, that I did here.Yeah, I must have my little joke

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every now and then. And Iwas curious to know what you'd do in
a situation of that sort. Imust say that you passed the test with
flying colors. It never occurred tome that you'd hit on such a simple
way of getting at the truth.That's the kind of thing i'd expect from
someone. The punk said gently,Now, don't let him ray you such
a face. But Wilma, I'myour friends. You keep away, of

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course, a true. How's thefood coming along, mister shawnas I'll see
it? Now, let's talk aboutmoney willingly, sir, with all my
heart, but I might as welltell you that ten thousand is every cent
I can raiy. I ought tohave twenty. I wish you could.
I'd give it gladly if I could, of course, sir, you understand

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this is simply the first payment.Later fifteen, mister Spade, I tell
you on my honor as a gentleman, that's not any too good. But
if it's the best you can do, give it to me very well.
And now we wait for our supperand for the dawn. Have you anything

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I can read, sir? Howabout the history of Alcatraz? It's good
for a laugh, is it?Kind? Can you get it now?

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Seven o'clock? I guess it's time. Hello, Angel I'm sorry to get
you up. Here's the plot.In our Holland box at the post office,
you'll find an envelope addressed in myscribble. There's a Pickwick Stage Parcel

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room. Check in it for thatlittle bundle we got yesterday. Would you
get the bundle and bring it tome at my place PDQ? Yeah,
that's the girl he enjoying the book. Heady stuff side head is stuff?
You got time for another chapter?I guess that's sir. You don mind

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if I go with you. He'sscared I'll run off with your precious bird.
Just a precaution. Oh, here'sa past. It's a lot,
lady. I'm sorry to spoil yourday of rest. Not the first one
you've spoiled anything else? No thanks, bye, bye, bye, Okay,

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here we go. Not the punk. He stays on the sofa.
Go ahead, gutman, it's allyours. I've seventeen years to actually hold
it in my hand. This wouldn'tme? Make sure you need that?

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It's the real thing. That's You'reright if I scrape a little of the
enamel off of the night m hm. Lead it's a friend. Just a

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minute. Let go with me.If you've had your little joke, said,
no, that is the one Igot in camerarather. I swear that
it was the Russian. I shouldhave known me, poot of us.
Oh you bungled it, you fatfool you, and you're stupid attempt to
buy it from him because you lethim know it was valuable, and he
found out how valuable, and midthis this think, Oh no, wonder

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we had some little trouble. Stillyou in the steel you polluted in you
to go on like everybody as achild. And you're may be sure that
it is every bit of severe ablow to me, it's to anybody else,
it's the Russians had, There's nodoubt of it. Well show what

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do you say? Guest? Shallstand here shed tears and call each other
names? Or shall we go toConstantinople? Constantinople? For seventeen years I've
wanted that little item. If Imust spend another year on the quest,
well, sir, that will bean additional expenditure in time of only five

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and fifteen seventeen percent. I gowith you. I go with you to
Constantinople. Just a minute, where'sthe punk you must have skip while you
were Shall it got clean away.There goes your fall, guys, sir,

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Well, sir, I must say, you're a fine lot of thieves.
So we've little enough to boast about. And that's a fact, sir.
But well, when none of usdead yet, and there's not a
bit of use thinking the world's cometo an end just because we've run into
a little setback, I'll have toask you for that envelope, mister Spade,
I held up my end. Yougot your dingis it's your hard luck,

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not mine that it wasn't what youwanted. Come now, so we've
all failed, and there's no reasonfor expecting any one of us to bear
the blunt of it. I hateto have to threaten violence, but I
must ask you, sir, toreturn my ten thousand dollars on a dinky
little pistol. Okay, I'll keepone bill that'll take care of my time

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and expenses. Very well, sir, Very well, and now we'll take
our leave of your unless you careto undertake the Constantinople expedition with us.
You don't, well, sir,Frankie, I'd like to have your long
you're a man to my liking.I'm sure you'll somehow manage the police without

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Wilma. I'll make an away.Well sir, shortest farewells are the best
at you and to you, missusshaughnessy, adieu. I leave you the
Rara Avis on the table as alittle memento. Come Cairo, good bye.

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Mister Spit is that Tom, Pohaus, Tom, It's Sam. I
got something for you. Don't talk, just listen. Thursby and Jacoby were

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shot by a kid named Wilmer Cookaround twenty years old, five foot five,
fair haired, blue eyes. He'sworking for a man named Caspar Gutman,
a great fat guy dressed like anEnglishman. At the races at Fellow
Cairo. You met this with himtoo. Gutman staying at the Alexandria Sweet
else. They just left here andthey're blowing town, so you'll have to
move fast. But I don't thinkthey're expecting a pinch. Watch out for

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the kid. He's dangerous. Andone more thing. I think I got
the guns he used. That's rightnow, step on it. But aren't
they going to talk? We're sittingon dynamite. We only got minutes to
get set for the police. I'llgive me all of it fast Gutman sent
you and Cairo to Constantinople. Goddamn you talk. Yes, he sent

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me. I met Joe Cairo thereand asked him to help me get the
bird from Canada. No. Not. Then we thought we could get it
for ourselves, all right. ThenI was afraid that Joe wouldn't play fair.
I got Floyd Throughsby to help man. He did well. Well,
we got it and went to HongKong. Cairo. We left him in

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jail in Constantinople. Something about it, yea, something you fixed? Yeah?
So you and Thursby are in HongKong with the bird. Yes,
And I didn't know whether I couldtrust Floyd. I met Captain Jacoby and
I asked him to bring the birdback with him. He didn't know what
it was. You and Thursby caughta faster boat than what. Then I

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was afraid of Gutman. I knewhe'd find out what we'd done. I
thought he might find me, orfind Floyd and buy him over. That's
why I came to you and askedyou. That's a lie. You had
Thursby hooked, and you knew it. He was a sucker for women.
You wanted to get him out ofthe way before Jacoby came with the loop.
What was the scheme? I knewhe'd left the States after some trouble

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or other. I don't know whatit was. I thought if he saw
a detective watching him, he'd thinkit was on account of the old trouble
and would be panicked into going away. I didn't think you told him that
he was being shadowed. Miles didn'thave many brains, but he wasn't clumsy
enough to be spotted on the firstnight. Yes, I told him.

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When we went for a walk thatnight, I pointed Archer out to Floyd.
Dam You must believe me. Iwouldn't have done it if I had
thought Floyd would kill him. Ijust wanted to frighten him. I didn't
think for a little he'd shoot himif you thought he wouldn't You were right,
Angel, What do you mean Thursbydidn't shoot him, but he must

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have. Miles didn't have many brains, but christ he'd work too many to
be caught up a blind alley withhis gun tucked away on his hip and
his overcoat buttoned. Thursby couldn't havetricked Miles into the alley like that,
But there was someone who could,Sam, he'd have gone up there with
you, sweetheart. He was justdumb enough for that. He'd have looked
you up and down and licked hislips and gone grinning from ear to ear.

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And then you could have stood asclose to him in the dark as
you like and put a hole throughhim with the gun you got from Thursby
that evening. Dude, don't talkto me like that, Sam, You
don't know. I couldn't a terriblething. Stop it. This isn't the
spot for the schoolgirl act. Thepair of us are sitting under the gallows.
Now talk. Why did you shoothim? I didn't mean to.

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I didn't really, but when Isaw Floyd couldn't be frighten. Nice though,
that's a lie. You asked modelsand me to handle it ourselves.
You wanted to be sure the shadowor was someone you knew and who knew
you, so they'd go with you. Yes, it was a lie.
I can't look at you and saythis, Sam. I knew Floyd wouldn't

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be easily frightened, but I thoughtthat if you knew somebody was shadowing him
either, he'd I. Oh,I can't say it, Sam thought Floyd
would tackle him and one or theother would go down. If Thursby was
the one, then you'd be ridof him. That it's something like it.
And when you found that Thursby didn'tmean to tackle him, you borrowed

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the gun and did it yourself.Right, Yes, but exactly. And
you thought Floyd would be nailed forthe killing. I thought they'd hold them
at least until after Captain Jacobe hadarrived with a falcon and there, and
you didn't know that until you heardthat Thursby had been shot. Then you
knew you needed another protector. Soyou came back to me. Right.
Yes, but oh, sweetheart,it wasn't only that I would have connected

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you sooner or later from the firstinstant I saw you. If you get
a good break, you'll be outof San Quentin in twenty years and you
can come back to me. Thenwhat do you mean, I hope to
christ they don't hang your precious bythat sweet neck. You're not going.

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I'm going to send you over,sweetheart, one of us has to take
it. After the talking, allthose birds will do. They'd hang me.
Sure you're likely to get a betterbreak. If they do hang you.
I'll always remember you. But thenyou can't. I'm not after what
we've been to one another. Youcan't now, I can't. You knocked

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off Miles, you double crossed GutmanCairo Thursday. You know Sam down in
your heart, But I love you. I don't care who loves who.
You've never played square with me forhalf an hour to stretch since i've known
you. You've killed Miles, andyou're going over for it. I can't
help you now, and I wouldn'tif I could. Stn't help me then,
But don't hurt me, let me, let me go away now.

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No, I'm sunk if I haven'tgot you to hand over to the police
when they come. You won't dothat for me. I won't play the
sap for you. Did you dothis to me? Sam? Surely Artier
wasn't as much Miles the son ofa bitch. But when a man's partner
is killed, you're supposed to dosomething about it. It doesn't make any
difference what you thought of him.He was your partner and he's supposed to
do something about it. Then,as it happens, we were in the

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detective business, and when one ofyour organizations gets killed, it's bad business
to let the killer get away withit. Also, I'm a detective,
and expecting me to run criminals downand then let them go, it's like
asking a dog to catch a rabbitand then let it go. You're not
serious. You don't send me tobelieve these things a sufficient reason to send
me again until I'm true, andthen you can talk. No matter what

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I wanted to do, I couldn'tlet you go without being dragged to the
gallows with the others next. Ihave no reason in God's world to think
I could trust you. You've gotsomething on me that you could use whenever
you wanted to. And since I'vegot something on you, I couldn't be
sure you wouldn't decide to put ahole in me someday. And what if
we got on the other side,Oh, we've got It's the fact that

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maybe you love me, and maybeI love you. You know, whether
you do or not, suppose Ido? What? Then maybe next month
I won't. If I send youover, I'll be sorry as hell.
I'll have some rotten nights, butthat'll pass. Listen, If that doesn't
mean anything to you, forget it, and we'll make it. This I
won't because all of me wants towants to say to hell with the consequences

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and do it, And because Goddamn you, you've counted on that with
me, the same as you've countedon that with the others, Sam,
and tell me the truth. Wouldyou have done this to me if the
falcon had been real and you hadbeen paid your money, well, a

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lot of money, would have atleast been one more item on the other
side of the scales. If youloved me, you'd need nothing more on
that side. I won't play thesap for you. Kiss me, Sam,

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this is it, sweetheart. Hello, Tom Dunny, he get them,
got them, Swell, here's anotherfor you. She killed Miles,
and I got some exhibits, theboys guns, the black statuette that all

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the hell was about, and athousand dollars bill that I was supposed to
be bribed with. And what thehell's the matter with your little playmate?
Tommy looks heartbroken. I bet whenhe heard Gutman's story he thought he had
me at last. We got thestory from Cairol. Gutman's done. The
kettas just funny shooting him when wegot there. It looks like you're in
the clear, Spathe. Come on, lady, let's go. Goodbye,

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Sam, goodbye, Angel Corning,sweetheart, Good morning Sam. I was

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reading in the papers. That's whatthey say, right, Yes, ma'am,
so much for your woman's intuition.And it was you that sent her
over. You did that to her, Sam, that's right. She did
kill myles, sweetheart, off handlike that. Oh come on, Angel,

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don't touch me, Sam, please. I know you're right, you're
right, but just don't touch menow. Please. Look, Angel sounds
like a customer. I'll see toit. I uh huh, Well,

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what shall I do? Send herin, DIY, Send her in the
Maltese falcon by dash, you'll haveit. Dramatized by Michael Bakewell. Sam
Spade was played by Tom Wilkinson,ridget O'Shaughnessy, Jane Lappeteer, Mister Gupman,

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Peter Vaughan, Joel Cairo, NicholasGrace, Wilma, Peter ricker Ffie,
Mere Seterieu, Miles Archer, WilliamHope, Either Liza Ross, Tom
Polhouse, Norman Jones, Lieutenant Dundee, Harry Tarr, District Attorney Bryan Don
Fellows with Keith Edwards, Robin Summersand Arnold Diamond. Technical presentation by David

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Greenwood, David Chiltern and Anthony Cherry. The play was directed by Jane Morgan