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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Do say de detiv agency.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Be sweetheart, I've been tasting the better with the sweet
at missus Wigginson School for Girls sort of a special
course in homicidal apriculture. Apriculture aid, Effie, where is your
Latin APIs hey? Be honest over pertaining to bees?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh bees, christ, it was a bee caper.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It was a bee keeper caper. That's a honey, Effie.
Put these words down in your little book, honey, sweetness, hives, combs,
et cetera.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Never mentioned them again.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Keep things humming, sweetheart, Nobby right down and throwing my
way through my rapport on the Queen Bee Chamber. Dash
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Speaker 5 (02:26):
To Be or Not to Be Human?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Hyosam's chicks.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh fie, really this jargon, this pestois. Don't you think
it's about time we spoke like educated people. You know
that every time I visit one of our institutions of learning,
I found out something I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh that's incredulous.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You just know everything.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I guess I do when you come right down
on the bee. For instance, these are a genus of
insects of the Hymnoplus order Hymnopolis. Living in society is
composed of one queen or perfect females, a few males
or drones, and an indefinite number of undeveloped females or immuters, which.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Are the workers.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
What me, I suppose a neoter?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Well that's for you to say, Hey, you know what
else about the bee?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
What dam?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Confidentially it stings?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Date July tenth, nineteen forty nine to Miss Elizabeth Colley,
Miss Wigginson School for Girls, Seacliff Drive, San Francisco. I
wonder about girls sometimes, and that's bad every bad. From
Samuel SpeI Licensummer went to seventy five nine six, subject
the Queen Bee Caper, Dear Miss Collie. I was singing
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a medley of sorority drinking songs as I opened the
wrought iron gate, walked up the garden path, passed those
cast irons deer, and presented myself at the big.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Brass bell pull beside that massive.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Panel door that stands god between the outside world and
you're sheltered inmate Hellotle housemaid wearing vimoity. Let me in
and let me into your office. I sat on your
chintz covered sofa and looked at your drepes for their
thriving beehive motif and waiting for you at.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
My back half. Turn to the open door. Hello, all.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
M hmm right, all right, all right, girls breaking up?
Breaking up? Haven't you ever seen a man before?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Hold?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now you'll be laid the physical.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Head one, Miss Collie.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I'm not Miss.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
College No, of course not.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I'm just hoping you.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Missus Stade, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Orrie Thomas I, miss Collie's assistant.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
A nice day, Yeah, don't bother.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And move Allen over you put this report on.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Her desk, Mis Callie, you'll be here in just a minute. Thanks. Yeah,
so warm in here.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Next time we'll alman's uniform and a fifty year olds too.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You'll fire.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
The temperature is exactly right? Yeah, I mean yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
He did you do?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Then?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh glory, there seems to have been a misplacement of
some of the hockey. Would you check on it please?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh Shirley, Now I can meet you at Sade.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm Elizabeth Cawley. You made it down, Yes, ma'am and
mister Steed, I'll be painfully frank with you. A thief
is at large in my school.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh well, you probably have a good answer, but I'll
ask it anyway. Why not call him the poet?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I have a good answer, mister Speed. My girls come
from San Francisco's finest and wealthiest families. Miss Wigginson's has
had an untinyed reputation for more than three generations. As
head mistress, I must handle this matter with the utmost discretion. Frankly,
I already know the thief. Are there any questions?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Only one?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Tenig one? Who is it?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I regret to say if faculty member is to blame
Glory Thomas, she was in here a minute.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Or two ago. Oh really, Well, Uh, why miss Thomas
you find any of the lute stashed away in her room?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Well no, no, not exactly. I haven't recovered any of
the stolen intrigles. But I'm sure Glory is responsible. I'm
certain she's the thief.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
You're just sure?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I thought perhaps you might establish doesn't it proof against Glory?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You mean you you want me to framer.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh no, mister Spadey, you misunderstand me.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I don't think so, Miss Cally.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Oh, dear, I was afraid this would happen, I told Ursilla.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
But then, all right, I'll ask who's ursela.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Mister spadey, I think I can trust you. It was
Ursula who instructed me to call you Ursula Kavanaugh.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know the name, the Ursula Kavanaugh had it all
the real estate lives in Kavanaugh Twers Pantis hasn't set
foot out of there in twenty years.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yes, missus Kavanaugh is our school's benefactress. She is, of
course on the board of trustees. She is moreover a
dear personal friend. Oh yes, we were classmates together here
many years ago. Ursula's quite unlike myself, married well, though
we don't know, rather aggressive, frankly, she wishes to have
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Glory Thomas discharged, but her connection with the dismissal was
not benowned. Now I don't suppose I can ask you
to take the assignment.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Now, I'm a detective, Miss Colley, not a frame upartist.
I had to have my name called up from the lobby,
and then two elevator trips later, I faced her on
her Pantis terrace. Ursula Cavanaugh looked like a nineteen ten
stock company laid out of Charlie's hand, smoking a black
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Italian stogie and gripping a cane like a Shelley. Two
men were on the receiving end of her black snake
web of a tongue, a youngish guy Stockbrook at type
and an individual in a morning code or looked practically
nude without a butterfly network.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Oh you're a pool of a ninco book, Jelly. I
lost all patients with you, ages go. Not only are
you incompetent, but you're also dishonest. I'm telling you that
when the board of directors meets on Persey and tend
to missus Kevin Or I've tried not to discommote to
in any way.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I endeavor in every.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Detail to fulfill my responsibilities as manager of this antie.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I think you've got gentlemen and me all wrong.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Now the truth is.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Truth is Gerald, you're both a pair of thieving scoundrels.
Don't get out, Jevinick if are your regel face ruins
by digestion, very.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Well met him.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I remain at Georgia, no, no stunk, and that's how
you might bear Neptli.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I think I'll toddle along, Addie.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I want to get back to the office.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Control your little impulses.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Gerald.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I admire a little larceny and any man.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
But not at my expense.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I was beginning to think I've become invincible on that
rallified pent Haa's atmosphere. You haven't even blinked at me.
While Jelamax slunk back to the lobby and Gerald toddle
along the Way's office. The terrors was a riot of bloom.
I don't know much about flowers, but you must have
had them all there. At the one side, A little
man in a blue smock putted around a wouldn't structure
on a stand. I've become aware of bees hunting amidst
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the flowers.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
When she finally spoke to them, Tom Spade, aren't you Sam.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Man, the fun loving Spade?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Pick your photograph out of the other detectives. Look like
you got spoke. Why do you come here, curiosity?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I met Glory Thomas out of Miss Wigginson that I
liked it. I wanted to see the type that would
strong armor out of a job from a safe distance.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Spoky, come over here with a spade. I want to
show you something, Tiggot, Yes, that would do for now
work at the other end of the garden for the
time being. Yes, oh, tikets my garden and bee keeper,
most taciturn individuals. You know what this is?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well I didn't, but now I can see. It's a bee.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yes, my own bee, hive, fish, honey for the tea
and fruit take every afternoon.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Final old tradition.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Observe this hive, young man. Honey bees are the most
intelligent of all insects, passing even the and why because
one female controls a community of many, many thousands.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I am against it, Yes, mister Shade.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Between the vein supremes, the males are drones, quite useless.
The female workers perform all necessary labor, no wasteltion, no dissention.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, some of my.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Best friends are drones, and.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I just can't stand.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Will you understand me, mister Spade, I wish Gloria Thomas
removed from San Francis spoke for an excellent reason. My nephew,
Gerald Long, the young man who just left here, has
developed it so romantic notions about me.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, so you want the romance busted up. But if
you try to break it up openly and nephew might
get stubborn. And even marry her. I mean o I
am by climing her as the faith you warred off
the affair, and then you can figure out some other
dirty traits.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I knew you got just tanned me, mister Stade. I
admire bluntness in moderation. Well, what do you say to
joining crosses with me?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Just one thing, missus Kavanaugh nuts. Next morning I put
to a call and Miss Wigginson School for Girls. And
had been my intent to talk to you, Miss Colley,
to tell you I left my hat in your office.
But somehow I found myself talking to Glory Thomas, and
somehow I talked with other than a cocktail day at
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the ten o'clock scholar bar and lies. I shouldn't have come,
of course, Oh, exam favors the grade.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
No, I'm stacks and stacks.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
So velvet type hands.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Now what's this on, then, Dane, I teach out girls chemistry,
among other things.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'll I'll be taking on a night school class for
the other things.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You're crazy, you don't need any education.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well I can always use a postgraduate course. You're really crazy, Sam,
I needed this.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
We'll make a line of it.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Baby Gerald won't object.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Then, what's that mean? Who you been talking to?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
That hateful old woman, missus Cameron. I wants to put
the boots to you, Glory, she called me, and to Framian.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I couldn't kip off, don't talk to me. I thought
I could take it. I thought I could be patient
and wait while Jerry ironed everything out. But now though
I hate that selfish doveneering old woman.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I hate her nephew, and I hate you. Well, I'll
do the start with her.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I mean, I lets go down my list, I hate.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Let me go. I had all I can take for
one night.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Wait a minute, gras you forgot your very hate. She
disappeared around the corner as I came out into the
street and was starting the rain. As I stepped off
the curve, I slept and turned my ankle. As I
lived on the Montgomery Street, I saw her disappearing in
one of the tall buildings on my side of the street.
It could have been the Kavanaugh Towers. I stepped and
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a half into the lobby thereup a few minutes later.
As I came in, Jelly Neek, the manager was getting
off the elevator. He swatted himself several times in the
neck and then went into a door.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Marked private, no place of blurry in the lobby.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I looked in the bar. She wasn't there, but Albert Pickett,
the beekeeper, was having a stinger.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Who now, I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Beginning to feel good.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
He who's this?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
I know that? Why it's Christ's page down.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't have time just now, mister, tell me easy.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I'm I'm fired.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Have you heard?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I'm fired? Just a worker out of work turned out
by the queen bee.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, I'm sorry, mister Piggott. Imagine missus Cavanaugh wasn't too easy.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
To work for.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
I cold her to keep away from the bees when
I wasn't there. Well, she's gone, and this obeyed me.
One of the workers must have stung her. She's gotta temper,
you know. Oh why mustter smash the eye with her stick? Bees?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Wherever?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
We're all over? And then she fired me?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
When was this? And why did she fire?
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Oh? God? Oh just now?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Maybe half an hour ago?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
I knocked and then there wasn't any answer, and then.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I let myself in.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
It's all dark.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
I couldn't even see her hurt the bees, of course,
but couldn't who I say? And I said, missus kaware
you disobeyed me, and in this voice, this awful voice,
she said, mister pigget your fire, get out this awful
voice in the dark, and mister piggot, mind you never.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Before just.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
A hey, where are you going? I didn't bother to
stop at the desk to get myself announced. I took
the passenger elevator and operated the panos, levated myself no hands,
and going to answered my ring. The door was unlocked
on the inside. Crossed to the empty apartment of the terrace.
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The rain had just stopped in the sunset. Got a
sudden shop. First I heard it by humming and swarming
bees when I saw the overturned bee hive. Then I
saw Ursula Kavanaugh scrawled back in a chair a sticking
Italian stogie, and the floor of the bees clustered greatly
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over the pint cake and honey sat out on the table.
I wondered if those most intelligent of all insights, I
had the answer to Shakespeare's question, oh death, whereas I
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Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade, Miss Wigginson's mis comic speaking,
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Sam Spade.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Oh, oh, yes, you shouldn't have gone to see missus Kavnaugh.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I didn't make any promises.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Man, quite upset by your visit. Call me after you
left her quite angry about.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It, mister Spade.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
She wanted to see me today our weekly half day holiday,
you know, but I simply couldn't face her. I'm sorry
if I found that. Finally managed to doze off after
everyone left for the afternoon.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Have you called before? Now?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
This is the first time I'm at this is Kavanaugh's
place right now?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Indeed, does Ursula wish to talk to me?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
She can't.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It might be a good idea if you'd come over here,
miss Callie. This is Kavanaugh's dead.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
This is Kavanaugh's dead, and since you're her oldest and
closest friend, Yes.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Missus Spade, I'll come immediately.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, you came on over, miss Callie. But meanwhile, nephew
Gerald long arrived. Also Pickett, whom I called down at
the bar and who saw it up with remarkable rapidity.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
On hearing the news, Gerald was.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Shaken up with his right hands to the mies. We
waited for the family doctor to arrive and watch Picket
and finds the bees back into the hive. You turned
up soon after and tried to sue Gerald's nerves. The
hotel manager, Jelinek, also flooded in. The doctor diagnosed cause
of death a shock from formic acid the secretion.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Bees, and checked into the bloodstream.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
With our singers, we all sit around thinking our various
thoughts as the doctor voiced this verdict. Pickett was the
one who voiced an epithet.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
She really knew nothing about bees, you know. The queen
bee was all important, she thought, But there's always a
rebel in every hive.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
The queen bee is always the poll sooner or later.
The worker bees go on and on.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
But the queen bee can't ring forever.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
After that, we all left and went out various ways.
Poor old Pickets shouldn't have said that. But he must
have been a lot drunker than he sing, because he
was found next morning in his garden in Marine County,
beside his own turn be high, a victim like his
late employer of fatal beast things.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
If you think you'll get away with this, you don't strendon.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Me, mister Long.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I've been bullied long enough. I don't intend to lose
my position here now missus Kevanough's gone. I've taken all
our good stand from her, and I don't intend to
let you walk over.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'll do whatever I big means to be done.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Jell Nick, So if you're trying to sing, you.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
As much trouble as you caught me, maybe more with
what I found out about you now here.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh I did it for pie, But.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
How did you get in here?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Spade?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Door was open?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
If you're head of collecting any kind of bill, I
want to know what services you rendered. Nothing's rendered yet.
I figured you might like to know that Anne Ursler
was murdered murdered?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Are you you?
Speaker 8 (19:45):
You can't say that?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Not mine?
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Who?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
You need proof to back that? Upstate? I've got it, Piggot,
What Biggot's dead?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
How do you know?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
His doctor just called me?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, Well that's why I know your aunt was murdered.
I've just been at the Marie. I had quite a
session with that doctor.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Where's your proof?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Man? Who'd want to kill her?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh, stop it? Practically everybody you'll know her.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I really know.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I must protest this disrespect to the.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Miss go on, Spade, go on, start getting specific well,
specifically Ticket's doctor because of what I suggested. Examined the
dead man again found the mark of a hypodermic, Plus
the fact that a concentrated solution of formic acid killed
picket tickets next door neighbors, that he'd been stunging as
often as ten and twelve times a day, that many
built up a certain immunization the basting. Are you suggesting
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that someone murdered him with an injection of the commercial
formic acid? I thought I'd made that fairly clear. And
what would the motive be to keep him from talking about.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
His employer's murdered I see, well is that all?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah? Except that his neighbor told me somebody answering your
description called on him this afternoon night. Oh but yes, Spade,
look here I can explain allow me. Hello, Yeah, hello, darling.
I've been about an hour.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Just got check supplies kim La. Then I'll be home
and show you what a cook I am you're going
to be.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I'm sorry, just a second. Here's Gerald for you. Gerald,
your wife.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Oh hold on the second, honey, Spade, Look kit, you
can't drag her into this thing.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Once you get married. Yesterday afternoon husband and wife no
testifying her. Well, I don't think i'll need your testimony.
Jella Neex's face fell four inches into his ascot ties.
He heard himself lose exclusive hush money right for the
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above information, pausing only to enjoy a hoty laugh at
this discoverture. I went on to my next and final
port of call, MS Wigginson School for Girls. This time
there was no girlish tittering, as I added, Miss Cally,
no do a young amazon's cutching hockey sticks and their
grubby little hands for a very good reason that you told.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Me my girls are just missed for the game. He's
just paid because of cour first. Look, yours really disrupts
our routine. First, our weekly half day holiday, yesterday and
now today.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, I'd like to talk to miss Thomas in the
chemistry lab.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
She is anything very well, I'll take you to her.
She knows nothing about first meeting.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I've talked to her.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Oh well in.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Here, yes, Oh what do you want?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Probably might talk nothing. We talk about, Well, we could
talk about this hypodermic cut down.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I'm using it for an experiment.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Or how about a formula hco H or c H
two O two.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
That's formic acid.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Miss Colley, you said yesterday was a half day holiday.
Did miss Thomas stay here in school?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, I know she rarely doesn't. We're in the day afternoon.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
That's why missus Kavanaugh had a visitor, didn't she, Glory?
Did she after you ran away from me?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
All right?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I did go up to see her. I was so
mad about what you told me. I intended to hand
in my resignation and give her a piece of my mind.
And I said, but she was dead when I got there.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Oh, Glory, No, I just got panic stricken and ran.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yeah, murders a pretty scary thing. Murder. What do you mean,
mister Spade, missus.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Kavanaugh died from a hypodoes of formic acid. Somebody familiar
with chemistry would.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Use that in other then then that could mean.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The acid could be made up in this lab. The
hypodermic could be this one here.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I didn't kill her, I didn't you say?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
You were scared? You were so scared you.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Ran all the way to city hall and married her nephew.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
So you found out, Jelly.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And I found out first he intended to squeal the
old lady, but she was dead when he got back.
He knew her will doesn't hurt of jail if he
married without her Auntie's approval while she was still alive.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
We married after she was dead, but that didn't matter.
After I saw you, I told Jelly if he was
any sort of man, he'd marry me will or no will.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He did, And yet this morning he drove over to
Marine Connie to see the old Piggott.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You'd think he was trying to shield me. I tell you,
she was dead when I got into that room. I
don't know any thing about Piggott.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
One moment, I believe I recall it mister Piggott's, and
Ursula spoke to him when she discharged him. Glory, you
must be mistaken about the time you entered that room.
She couldn't have already been dead, because yes, she could have.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Then was the killer, was almost caught by Piggott. She
hid behind the curtain in the dark and spoke to him.
Miss Kavanaugh was already dead.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
But I see mister Piggott thought it was Ursula's voice,
But it was yours, Glory.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
No, it was yours, Miss Cally. You committed both murders.
You had access to the murder weapon. You had the
half day holiday to do it in. Even at that moment,
the finishing school school man had to say, mister Piggott, I'm.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Not sorry for it and misused her power shamefully.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And now the queen Bees deposed again.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
You're brighter than most men, mister Spade, you too understood
the significance of mister Piggott's remarks last night.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, I could have been a little brighter, a little sooner.
You helped give yourself away when you asked me if
i'd called you earlier yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
After the why Sam, how could she?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Well? Cavanaugh bullied her since childhood, and then you came
on the staff and your ability scared it. The Queen
Bee being opposed and whatnot. When Kavanaugh wanted to frame,
she saw a chance to get rid of both of you.
She hoped her murder would look like an accent, but
if it was recognized as murder, you would be.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
The logical suspect.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
You're much too clever, mister Speed. Let's get it over with.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, let's it's up to those drones and homicide from
here on in perd On a report, Yes.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
How come? Joe went out the scene as the pigot well.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Jerald didn't care about the will, but he didn't want
to boot of fortune out the window either. Glory hadn't
told him she'd seen his aunts, so he called on
Pigot to find out. When ticket last saw Andy alive,
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Oh bees, christ, it was a bee caper.
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It was a bee keeper caper. That's a honey, Effie.
Put these words down in your little book, honey, sweetness, hives, combs,
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Speaker 4 (00:59):
Never mentioned them again.
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Speaker 5 (02:26):
To Be or Not to Be Human?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Hyosam's chicks.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh fie, really this jargon, this pestois. Don't you think
it's about time we spoke like educated people. You know
that every time I visit one of our institutions of learning,
I found out something I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh that's incredulous.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You just know everything.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I guess I do when you come right down
on the bee. For instance, these are a genus of
insects of the Hymnoplus order Hymnopolis. Living in society is
composed of one queen or perfect females, a few males
or drones, and an indefinite number of undeveloped females or immuters, which.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Are the workers.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
What me, I suppose a neoter?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Well that's for you to say, Hey, you know what
else about the bee?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
What dam?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Confidentially it stings?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Date July tenth, nineteen forty nine to Miss Elizabeth Colley,
Miss Wigginson School for Girls, Seacliff Drive, San Francisco. I
wonder about girls sometimes, and that's bad every bad. From
Samuel SpeI Licensummer went to seventy five nine six, subject
the Queen Bee Caper, Dear Miss Collie. I was singing
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a medley of sorority drinking songs as I opened the
wrought iron gate, walked up the garden path, passed those
cast irons deer, and presented myself at the big.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Brass bell pull beside that massive.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Panel door that stands god between the outside world and
you're sheltered inmate Hellotle housemaid wearing vimoity. Let me in
and let me into your office. I sat on your
chintz covered sofa and looked at your drepes for their
thriving beehive motif and waiting for you at.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
My back half. Turn to the open door. Hello, all.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
M hmm right, all right, all right, girls breaking up?
Breaking up? Haven't you ever seen a man before?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Hold?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now you'll be laid the physical.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Head one, Miss Collie.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I'm not Miss.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
College No, of course not.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I'm just hoping you.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Missus Stade, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Orrie Thomas I, miss Collie's assistant.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
A nice day, Yeah, don't bother.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And move Allen over you put this report on.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Her desk, Mis Callie, you'll be here in just a minute. Thanks. Yeah,
so warm in here.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Next time we'll alman's uniform and a fifty year olds too.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You'll fire.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
The temperature is exactly right? Yeah, I mean yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
He did you do?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Then?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh glory, there seems to have been a misplacement of
some of the hockey. Would you check on it please?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh Shirley, Now I can meet you at Sade.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm Elizabeth Cawley. You made it down, Yes, ma'am and
mister Steed, I'll be painfully frank with you. A thief
is at large in my school.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh well, you probably have a good answer, but I'll
ask it anyway. Why not call him the poet?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I have a good answer, mister Speed. My girls come
from San Francisco's finest and wealthiest families. Miss Wigginson's has
had an untinyed reputation for more than three generations. As
head mistress, I must handle this matter with the utmost discretion. Frankly,
I already know the thief. Are there any questions?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Only one?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Tenig one? Who is it?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I regret to say if faculty member is to blame
Glory Thomas, she was in here a minute.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Or two ago. Oh really, Well, Uh, why miss Thomas
you find any of the lute stashed away in her room?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Well no, no, not exactly. I haven't recovered any of
the stolen intrigles. But I'm sure Glory is responsible. I'm
certain she's the thief.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
You're just sure?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I thought perhaps you might establish doesn't it proof against Glory?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You mean you you want me to framer.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh no, mister Spadey, you misunderstand me.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I don't think so, Miss Cally.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Oh, dear, I was afraid this would happen, I told Ursilla.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
But then, all right, I'll ask who's ursela.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Mister spadey, I think I can trust you. It was
Ursula who instructed me to call you Ursula Kavanaugh.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know the name, the Ursula Kavanaugh had it all
the real estate lives in Kavanaugh Twers Pantis hasn't set
foot out of there in twenty years.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yes, missus Kavanaugh is our school's benefactress. She is, of
course on the board of trustees. She is moreover a
dear personal friend. Oh yes, we were classmates together here
many years ago. Ursula's quite unlike myself, married well, though
we don't know, rather aggressive, frankly, she wishes to have
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Glory Thomas discharged, but her connection with the dismissal was
not benowned. Now I don't suppose I can ask you
to take the assignment.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Now, I'm a detective, Miss Colley, not a frame upartist.
I had to have my name called up from the lobby,
and then two elevator trips later, I faced her on
her Pantis terrace. Ursula Cavanaugh looked like a nineteen ten
stock company laid out of Charlie's hand, smoking a black
(07:43):
Italian stogie and gripping a cane like a Shelley. Two
men were on the receiving end of her black snake
web of a tongue, a youngish guy Stockbrook at type
and an individual in a morning code or looked practically
nude without a butterfly network.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Oh you're a pool of a ninco book, Jelly. I
lost all patients with you, ages go. Not only are
you incompetent, but you're also dishonest. I'm telling you that
when the board of directors meets on Persey and tend
to missus Kevin Or I've tried not to discommote to
in any way.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I endeavor in every.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Detail to fulfill my responsibilities as manager of this antie.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I think you've got gentlemen and me all wrong.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Now the truth is.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Truth is Gerald, you're both a pair of thieving scoundrels.
Don't get out, Jevinick if are your regel face ruins
by digestion, very.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Well met him.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I remain at Georgia, no, no stunk, and that's how
you might bear Neptli.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I think I'll toddle along, Addie.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I want to get back to the office.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Control your little impulses.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Gerald.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I admire a little larceny and any man.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
But not at my expense.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I was beginning to think I've become invincible on that
rallified pent Haa's atmosphere. You haven't even blinked at me.
While Jelamax slunk back to the lobby and Gerald toddle
along the Way's office. The terrors was a riot of bloom.
I don't know much about flowers, but you must have
had them all there. At the one side, A little
man in a blue smock putted around a wouldn't structure
on a stand. I've become aware of bees hunting amidst
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the flowers.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
When she finally spoke to them, Tom Spade, aren't you Sam.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Man, the fun loving Spade?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Pick your photograph out of the other detectives. Look like
you got spoke. Why do you come here, curiosity?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I met Glory Thomas out of Miss Wigginson that I
liked it. I wanted to see the type that would
strong armor out of a job from a safe distance.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Spoky, come over here with a spade. I want to
show you something, Tiggot, Yes, that would do for now
work at the other end of the garden for the
time being. Yes, oh, tikets my garden and bee keeper,
most taciturn individuals. You know what this is?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well I didn't, but now I can see. It's a bee.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yes, my own bee, hive, fish, honey for the tea
and fruit take every afternoon.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Final old tradition.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Observe this hive, young man. Honey bees are the most
intelligent of all insects, passing even the and why because
one female controls a community of many, many thousands.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I am against it, Yes, mister Shade.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Between the vein supremes, the males are drones, quite useless.
The female workers perform all necessary labor, no wasteltion, no dissention.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, some of my.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Best friends are drones, and.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I just can't stand.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Will you understand me, mister Spade, I wish Gloria Thomas
removed from San Francis spoke for an excellent reason. My nephew,
Gerald Long, the young man who just left here, has
developed it so romantic notions about me.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, so you want the romance busted up. But if
you try to break it up openly and nephew might
get stubborn. And even marry her. I mean o I
am by climing her as the faith you warred off
the affair, and then you can figure out some other
dirty traits.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I knew you got just tanned me, mister Stade. I
admire bluntness in moderation. Well, what do you say to
joining crosses with me?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Just one thing, missus Kavanaugh nuts. Next morning I put
to a call and Miss Wigginson School for Girls. And
had been my intent to talk to you, Miss Colley,
to tell you I left my hat in your office.
But somehow I found myself talking to Glory Thomas, and
somehow I talked with other than a cocktail day at
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the ten o'clock scholar bar and lies. I shouldn't have come,
of course, Oh, exam favors the grade.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
No, I'm stacks and stacks.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
So velvet type hands.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Now what's this on, then, Dane, I teach out girls chemistry,
among other things.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'll I'll be taking on a night school class for
the other things.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You're crazy, you don't need any education.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well I can always use a postgraduate course. You're really crazy, Sam,
I needed this.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
We'll make a line of it.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Baby Gerald won't object.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Then, what's that mean? Who you been talking to?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
That hateful old woman, missus Cameron. I wants to put
the boots to you, Glory, she called me, and to Framian.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I couldn't kip off, don't talk to me. I thought
I could take it. I thought I could be patient
and wait while Jerry ironed everything out. But now though
I hate that selfish doveneering old woman.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I hate her nephew, and I hate you. Well, I'll
do the start with her.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I mean, I lets go down my list, I hate.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Let me go. I had all I can take for
one night.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Wait a minute, gras you forgot your very hate. She
disappeared around the corner as I came out into the
street and was starting the rain. As I stepped off
the curve, I slept and turned my ankle. As I
lived on the Montgomery Street, I saw her disappearing in
one of the tall buildings on my side of the street.
It could have been the Kavanaugh Towers. I stepped and
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a half into the lobby thereup a few minutes later.
As I came in, Jelly Neek, the manager was getting
off the elevator. He swatted himself several times in the
neck and then went into a door.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Marked private, no place of blurry in the lobby.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I looked in the bar. She wasn't there, but Albert Pickett,
the beekeeper, was having a stinger.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Who now, I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Beginning to feel good.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
He who's this?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
I know that? Why it's Christ's page down.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't have time just now, mister, tell me easy.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I'm I'm fired.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Have you heard?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I'm fired? Just a worker out of work turned out
by the queen bee.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, I'm sorry, mister Piggott. Imagine missus Cavanaugh wasn't too easy.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
To work for.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
I cold her to keep away from the bees when
I wasn't there. Well, she's gone, and this obeyed me.
One of the workers must have stung her. She's gotta temper,
you know. Oh why mustter smash the eye with her stick? Bees?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Wherever?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
We're all over? And then she fired me?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
When was this? And why did she fire?
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Oh? God? Oh just now?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Maybe half an hour ago?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
I knocked and then there wasn't any answer, and then.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I let myself in.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
It's all dark.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
I couldn't even see her hurt the bees, of course,
but couldn't who I say? And I said, missus kaware
you disobeyed me, and in this voice, this awful voice,
she said, mister pigget your fire, get out this awful
voice in the dark, and mister piggot, mind you never.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Before just.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
A hey, where are you going? I didn't bother to
stop at the desk to get myself announced. I took
the passenger elevator and operated the panos, levated myself no hands,
and going to answered my ring. The door was unlocked
on the inside. Crossed to the empty apartment of the terrace.
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The rain had just stopped in the sunset. Got a
sudden shop. First I heard it by humming and swarming
bees when I saw the overturned bee hive. Then I
saw Ursula Kavanaugh scrawled back in a chair a sticking
Italian stogie, and the floor of the bees clustered greatly
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over the pint cake and honey sat out on the table.
I wondered if those most intelligent of all insights, I
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Speaker 4 (16:53):
Oh, oh, yes, you shouldn't have gone to see missus Kavnaugh.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I didn't make any promises.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Man, quite upset by your visit. Call me after you
left her quite angry about.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It, mister Spade.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
She wanted to see me today our weekly half day holiday,
you know, but I simply couldn't face her. I'm sorry
if I found that. Finally managed to doze off after
everyone left for the afternoon.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Have you called before? Now?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
This is the first time I'm at this is Kavanaugh's
place right now?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Indeed, does Ursula wish to talk to me?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
She can't.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It might be a good idea if you'd come over here,
miss Callie. This is Kavanaugh's dead.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
This is Kavanaugh's dead, and since you're her oldest and
closest friend, Yes.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Missus Spade, I'll come immediately.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, you came on over, miss Callie. But meanwhile, nephew
Gerald long arrived. Also Pickett, whom I called down at
the bar and who saw it up with remarkable rapidity.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
On hearing the news, Gerald was.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Shaken up with his right hands to the mies. We
waited for the family doctor to arrive and watch Picket
and finds the bees back into the hive. You turned
up soon after and tried to sue Gerald's nerves. The
hotel manager, Jelinek, also flooded in. The doctor diagnosed cause
of death a shock from formic acid the secretion.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Bees, and checked into the bloodstream.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
With our singers, we all sit around thinking our various
thoughts as the doctor voiced this verdict. Pickett was the
one who voiced an epithet.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
She really knew nothing about bees, you know. The queen
bee was all important, she thought, But there's always a
rebel in every hive.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
The queen bee is always the poll sooner or later.
The worker bees go on and on.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
But the queen bee can't ring forever.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
After that, we all left and went out various ways.
Poor old Pickets shouldn't have said that. But he must
have been a lot drunker than he sing, because he
was found next morning in his garden in Marine County,
beside his own turn be high, a victim like his
late employer of fatal beast things.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
If you think you'll get away with this, you don't strendon.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Me, mister Long.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I've been bullied long enough. I don't intend to lose
my position here now missus Kevanough's gone. I've taken all
our good stand from her, and I don't intend to
let you walk over.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'll do whatever I big means to be done.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Jell Nick, So if you're trying to sing, you.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
As much trouble as you caught me, maybe more with
what I found out about you now here.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh I did it for pie, But.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
How did you get in here?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Spade?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Door was open?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
If you're head of collecting any kind of bill, I
want to know what services you rendered. Nothing's rendered yet.
I figured you might like to know that Anne Ursler
was murdered murdered?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Are you you?
Speaker 8 (19:45):
You can't say that?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Not mine?
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Who?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
You need proof to back that? Upstate? I've got it, Piggot,
What Biggot's dead?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
How do you know?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
His doctor just called me?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, Well that's why I know your aunt was murdered.
I've just been at the Marie. I had quite a
session with that doctor.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Where's your proof?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Man? Who'd want to kill her?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh, stop it? Practically everybody you'll know her.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I really know.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I must protest this disrespect to the.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Miss go on, Spade, go on, start getting specific well,
specifically Ticket's doctor because of what I suggested. Examined the
dead man again found the mark of a hypodermic, Plus
the fact that a concentrated solution of formic acid killed
picket tickets next door neighbors, that he'd been stunging as
often as ten and twelve times a day, that many
built up a certain immunization the basting. Are you suggesting
(20:33):
that someone murdered him with an injection of the commercial
formic acid? I thought I'd made that fairly clear. And
what would the motive be to keep him from talking about.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
His employer's murdered I see, well is that all?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah? Except that his neighbor told me somebody answering your
description called on him this afternoon night. Oh but yes, Spade,
look here I can explain allow me. Hello, Yeah, hello, darling.
I've been about an hour.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Just got check supplies kim La. Then I'll be home
and show you what a cook I am you're going
to be.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I'm sorry, just a second. Here's Gerald for you. Gerald,
your wife.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Oh hold on the second, honey, Spade, Look kit, you
can't drag her into this thing.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Once you get married. Yesterday afternoon husband and wife no
testifying her. Well, I don't think i'll need your testimony.
Jella Neex's face fell four inches into his ascot ties.
He heard himself lose exclusive hush money right for the
(21:37):
above information, pausing only to enjoy a hoty laugh at
this discoverture. I went on to my next and final
port of call, MS Wigginson School for Girls. This time
there was no girlish tittering, as I added, Miss Cally,
no do a young amazon's cutching hockey sticks and their
grubby little hands for a very good reason that you told.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Me my girls are just missed for the game. He's
just paid because of cour first. Look, yours really disrupts
our routine. First, our weekly half day holiday, yesterday and
now today.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, I'd like to talk to miss Thomas in the
chemistry lab.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
She is anything very well, I'll take you to her.
She knows nothing about first meeting.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I've talked to her.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Oh well in.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Here, yes, Oh what do you want?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Probably might talk nothing. We talk about, Well, we could
talk about this hypodermic cut down.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I'm using it for an experiment.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Or how about a formula hco H or c H
two O two.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
That's formic acid.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Miss Colley, you said yesterday was a half day holiday.
Did miss Thomas stay here in school?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, I know she rarely doesn't. We're in the day afternoon.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
That's why missus Kavanaugh had a visitor, didn't she, Glory?
Did she after you ran away from me?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
All right?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I did go up to see her. I was so
mad about what you told me. I intended to hand
in my resignation and give her a piece of my mind.
And I said, but she was dead when I got there.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Oh, Glory, No, I just got panic stricken and ran.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yeah, murders a pretty scary thing. Murder. What do you mean,
mister Spade, missus.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Kavanaugh died from a hypodoes of formic acid. Somebody familiar
with chemistry would.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Use that in other then then that could mean.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The acid could be made up in this lab. The
hypodermic could be this one here.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I didn't kill her, I didn't you say?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
You were scared? You were so scared you.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Ran all the way to city hall and married her nephew.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
So you found out, Jelly.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And I found out first he intended to squeal the
old lady, but she was dead when he got back.
He knew her will doesn't hurt of jail if he
married without her Auntie's approval while she was still alive.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
We married after she was dead, but that didn't matter.
After I saw you, I told Jelly if he was
any sort of man, he'd marry me will or no will.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He did, And yet this morning he drove over to
Marine Connie to see the old Piggott.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You'd think he was trying to shield me. I tell you,
she was dead when I got into that room. I
don't know any thing about Piggott.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
One moment, I believe I recall it mister Piggott's, and
Ursula spoke to him when she discharged him. Glory, you
must be mistaken about the time you entered that room.
She couldn't have already been dead, because yes, she could have.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Then was the killer, was almost caught by Piggott. She
hid behind the curtain in the dark and spoke to him.
Miss Kavanaugh was already dead.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
But I see mister Piggott thought it was Ursula's voice,
But it was yours, Glory.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
No, it was yours, Miss Cally. You committed both murders.
You had access to the murder weapon. You had the
half day holiday to do it in. Even at that moment,
the finishing school school man had to say, mister Piggott, I'm.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Not sorry for it and misused her power shamefully.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And now the queen Bees deposed again.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
You're brighter than most men, mister Spade, you too understood
the significance of mister Piggott's remarks last night.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, I could have been a little brighter, a little sooner.
You helped give yourself away when you asked me if
i'd called you earlier yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
After the why Sam, how could she?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Well? Cavanaugh bullied her since childhood, and then you came
on the staff and your ability scared it. The Queen
Bee being opposed and whatnot. When Kavanaugh wanted to frame,
she saw a chance to get rid of both of you.
She hoped her murder would look like an accent, but
if it was recognized as murder, you would be.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
The logical suspect.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
You're much too clever, mister Speed. Let's get it over with.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, let's it's up to those drones and homicide from
here on in perd On a report, Yes.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
How come? Joe went out the scene as the pigot well.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Jerald didn't care about the will, but he didn't want
to boot of fortune out the window either. Glory hadn't
told him she'd seen his aunts, so he called on
Pigot to find out. When ticket last saw Andy alive,
go type that up. I am completely well, and when
you return we shall indian rastle certainly. And now listen
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of Sam Spade are written for radio by Bob Tolman
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