Sam Spade - The Adam Figg Caper

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1:01A bankbook Sam? Well, you must advertise in the lost and found right away, if you find the owner, there might be sickness in the family. But if you're a bankbook Sam? What? Uh-huh, have your name on it. Samuel Spade, account number four? It's a luxury, somebody's trying to pin something on me. Lock it up and don't touch it until I get there. All right, did you make a lot of money on this one too? Got the check right in my pocket, 500 bucks. Oh Sam, we're making more money than a movie star. Well almost. And all honestly too. 600 last week and 500 this week. Yeah, all about that. Life just a three-page spread to I. Spy, molten. But we mustn't let it turn our heads, Abby. No. We gotta stay in there pitching. I'll be right down to pitch my report on the Adam Fig Caperd. Disho Hammett, America's leading detective fiction writer and creator of Sam Spade, the hard-boiled private eye and William Spear, radios outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama, join their talents to make your hair stand on end with the adventures of Sam Spade.

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3:02Oh, you're going to love it. Well, we got to watch these expenses, heavy. You know, there's always something. Mr. Pizz will be saving. It saves confusion and saves fretting. No, this gadget here. What is it? It's a mineral robot. What a butt? It's for busy men like yourself, Sam, so you don't have to burden your mind with steady details. You see, it has this dial on it, right here. And you drop these little cards in this slot. You don't have to worry about that. That's for me to take care of. Oh, good. Then, when you come into the office and supposing you have an appointment with Mr. Jones at two o'clock, and you forgot about it, you just dial to a clock and the little card pops out. And it says Mr. Jones. How do I remember to dial to a clock? Oh, well, maybe it's in the instruction book. But anyway, now go ahead, Sam. Please. The card right in there. Now, dial to a clock. Go on, Sam. I want to say, uh... It's like a telephone, Sam. Now, what do I do? I'll give it time, Sam. Thank you. You must have forgotten. Uh, Jones. Mr. Jones.

4:03Wooo! Fee, do you think it's dead? Sam, I don't understand it. It was working perfectly. Well, I'll take a straight back first thing in the morning. You don't have to. It'll never find a way itself. You've got your books, we've got. Yes, Sam. I don't understand. It was working perfectly. Well, that's all we got. That doesn't matter. Date, October 5, 1947. Two Hillary X on S-Quire from Samuel Spade, license number 1375. No, it's... Oh, honey, it's only a memo robot. Subject, the Adam Big Paper. Dear Mr. Exxon. October 2nd in San Francisco was one of those days that you see blown off the calendar by a gust of wind in the movies to denote the time as passing. It was a day for scraping off the minutes with a fingernail file and wondering whether the display had, I'd paid for, and the classified section of the phone book wasn't just a waste of money. It certainly wasn't the day I'd expect a leprechaun to walk into my office.

5:05He said his name was Adam Fake. He said he was the butler at Exxon Manor and Los Nados. The limousine, Mr. Spade, is waiting to take you away. We mustn't keep them waiting, must we? Of course we mustn't. Who mustn't we? I, Mr. Hillary, of course, sir. Oh, Mr. Hillary. And old, Mr. Exxon. The origin of the Veryl. Dr. Feige's office is down the hall, turned to your right, second door. I assure you, sir, that Mr. Exxon is the best of medical care. Your duty will be simple to prevent his death. Do I donate blood or just frighten away the evil spirits? It isn't quite that, sir. Someone is trying to kill Mr. Exxon. He's a very sick man, and I'm sure he'd prefer dying for natural causes. I get $25 a day in expenses. He'd as an ample amount in advance. $200 a day. The old man is a match. He can tankless, villainous, crooked, and keep him in the house. $500, please, Fake, you're talking about the man I love. Los Needos was at least an overnight cavern, so on my way out my lovely and charming secretary, Miss Carine,

6:08handed me a brown paper bag which contained a one pair of socks, darned, the one shirt, ironed, and see the apple which he always polishes for me the night before. We arrived at your large southern style mansion two hours later. Fake! How fake were the devil of you being? I can't find the keys for the liquor closet where I rolled the maids. What happened to that cook we hired yesterday? Who is this man, and why is he wearing that necktie? This is Mr. Spade, sir, the detective. Oh, oh, I'm Hillary Exxon. Come in, come in, please. Go on upstairs, Fake, see what that girl is doing to my father. I don't believe she's in there, sir. That's a good, sir. In here, Mr. Spade, probably the condition of the house the old man has been firing the servants again. Your father, you mean? Yes, yes, every time he gets shot at, he fires all the servants. He gets shot at pretty often? About once a year, in the fall. You always hire a detective? No. Oh dear.

7:08I'm not keeping you up, Emma. No, no, excuse me, please. It's much worse this time. I can't get any sleep guns going off in the middle of the night, the whole household is disturbed. When and where was he last shot at? Yesterday morning at about half past one. I dug the bullet out of the woodwork myself, a 38-colour bar, embedded in the doorframe that leads to Miss K. Woods' room. Oh, oh, that's his nurse. Is she with him at the time? No. No dad sleeps like a baby full of sedatives. She sees to that. Shot come from outside? Yes, yes, but we found nobody on the grounds. No traces of anybody. I don't know whether dad knows who shot at him or not. He's such a closed, mavil, deaf. You don't care very much for your father, Ian. Thank Mr. Spade, if hating weren't such an effort, I would despise him. He is without a doubt. Well, listen. Listen. There, there. That's just a sample. Well, come on, come on. Let's see what's eating him now. Oh, my God. Get out. I can't. I don't stand for it. Where you going to have to stand? Or take that silly face and say that on my side. Don't you dare. Get out. Oh, my God.

8:08I'm quitting, I'm quitting, Mr. Exile. I can't stand another minute yelling, screaming, throwing things. You must have done something to set him off. I didn't, I can't. Oh, this is Mr. Spade and Miss K. Wood. Oh, I'll detect you. Oh, well, I make you happy, I don't know that I'm a private detective, Miss K. Wood. Oh, Mr. Spade, I only hope you can put that in murder. If there's any way at all that I can help, I... Thanks, I'll see you downstairs after I've talked to the old man. You'd better go in the lone spade. Oh, Miss K. Wood. Do you have a float spray downstairs? I seem to be congested. Oh, go away. Go away! Go away! Well, wasting ammunition. Who are you? If you're a total stranger, come on in. Don't be a braid, son. Come on over where I can look at you. It's hard to keep my eyes open. Oh, I mustn't do that, I mustn't do that, ma'am. Oh, so you're the detective, eh? That's right, Pop. You want to take a little nap or something, I'll come back later.

9:11Oh, what did I say just now? Come back later? No, no, no, no. There's no reason for you to come back later. I'll say everything I have to say right now. The shot woke me. I didn't see anything. I don't know anything. I've got a million enemies. I can't remember the names of any of them. Why don't you try to remember? I gotta have a check. Wasting your time, sonny. In my day, I've wiped out a hundred men and I'll outlive anybody who's gunning for me now. You must be proud of your past, huh? Sonny, a past like mine is the finest thing an old man can have. I've swindled my partners and betrayed my friends. I've turned state evidence just to see my associate get sent up for 20 years. And they say my wife died under peculiar circumstances and I got rich offer insurance. Now I'm done talking. Oh, do me a favor, son, please. I've got to get a half hour, 20 minutes sleep around. You'll keep them out, everybody. Please, will you? Sure, sure, pop. Go ahead, go on, sleep. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

10:16He closed his eyes, rolled over and fell into a heavy sleep. I stood there a moment, looking down at the frail, wasted old body. And I cased the room and digging the bullet out of the door. Hillary had done a good job of ruining any chance there might have been approving the direction that comes from. I sprawled out on the balcony. It was a pretty night. I let a cigarette and took it in. And I heard a door open and closed softly behind me. Nurse K. was at your father's bedside. She was filling out hyperdermic from a small violet, a blueish liquid. It had an awakening when she jabbed it into his arm. And she saw me standing in the doorway. She hastily dropped the medicine violent to her uniform pocket and came around to bed to meet me. Oh, Mr. Stade, oh, thank heaven, why, when I saw you standing there in the half-night, I thought you might be. Thought I was who? Why, the man who fired the shot. It was a man? Well, I don't know. I didn't see it happen. I just assumed it. You shouldn't have done it. I warned you of her. Eleanor. But if we're disturbing him, let's talk outside.

11:16Okay. It's a good breathe, something besides sick room air. And what you got used to things like that in your profession. Why are you so unfriendly, Mr. Stade? Nurses are humans, aren't detected. Try me, sweetheart. I know what you're thinking of me. But after a week in this horrible house, that poor man, he's frightened. He's really frightened. What does? By either shots. 38 caliber or hyperdermic. Surely you don't think that I... He's supposed to be under sentence, but the doctor's order is... Sorry, sweetheart. It's my job. I suspect everybody. Oh. Can't you forget your job, even for a moment? Sure. Sure. If you don't mind the fact that I know you're a liar, that I'd make book you didn't come here primarily as a nurse, and what's worse, your axe not even convincing. Oh. You look that bad, Sam. Yeah. Almost bad enough to be good. Come here.

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13:20I'm going to go to the next section for your father. It was labeled sodium fanatol and it was dispensed by a firm called Ibus Chemicals Limited in Cairo, Egypt. The screen filled the house high and frenzy. I started running toward Barbara K. It was room. I slammed the terrace door open and found a light switch. Barbara was sitting upright in the center of a bitch. Her face jerked up so abruptly that it seemed a naked snap. She clutched both hands to a chest. She fell face down among the bedbos, staining them with her blood. I don't know whether I went through or around the screen that stood between her room and the old man. I circled X-Sons bed. He lay on the floor on his side facing the window. I went outside. A 38-automatic lay on the ground a few yards away from the building. I put that in the my pocket and listened. I was shadowed moving. Nothing. Then he was on me before I could be sure he wasn't a medium-sized tree.

14:21I have a pleasure back to be delighted. I'm stuffing my cheek might have been the thing's blood or mine. It gathered me up and bent me back and tore it my throat. Then I remember the hands are stronger than fingers. I started with his thumbs. Oh! He lay there for a moment, then his huge body began to twitch. He was holding his fingers and sobbing like a baby. I pulled him up to his feet, poking him in the back for the flat of my hand. I followed him through an opening in the hedges and down a long, catch-dark lane for the lights of a squat brick house, seven atop of a slight rise. As we approached the door open, and lights screamed out under the porch. The tall man framed him a doorway was the last person in the world I expected to see. Oh, Marcus, you brought the mustard very delights for service but have much pain in your face. Oh, you always complaining, Marcus. Welcome, Mr. Spade. Come in, my dear fellow. Come in. I've been expecting you.

15:24The lost family fortune by me, by me, by me, by me. And if you don't, Romet AXON can have you booked for forgery, Blackmail, definition of character. Oh, my, my, my dear, please. This is the most painful. But if I had but the original letter, I could destroy it and go back to the field. Oh, the field. What happened to it? That's big. That's stinking. He burgleth my home. Are you taking part in all AXON? Well, don't be a fool, man. I'm a Dixon of their lives. I'm spied out some part of his life, which will have an exchange value that will cancel out what he has on me. By the way, Oping, you met Miss Keward. At the present moment, she's milking me for $150 a day. Oh. She's supposed to go to the old man by whatever means necessary and to talking about his past. And that information's used to bring to me. Well, that ought to be easy. AXON brags about his past. So far, I have landed Hillary AXON, stole two heffers of the livestock show in Abelene in 1906.

16:28I feel for you, Captain. I wouldn't get much on the current market, would it? My dear fellow, I've a, I've a, a proposition to make to you. I showed you fell it out anything, that would be a value to me. I reward you handsomely. Well, maybe something can be arranged, Captain. Good, excellent. May I have your word on that? Well, there isn't much time, Captain. I'd better try it on back. No, show you the door, sir. And let me warn you, Mr. Spade, if you're ungood, should you ever have a son of Ibus Wings? Run. Flea. I assure you that I would hear his warning, bat him good night, and start it back down the lane in the direction of AXON MANA. Business was going on as usual. No, no, no, no, no. I was shot this time, only the screen. When I got to Barbara's room, you and Adam were standing at a bedside, trying to quiet it down. Well, Mr. Spade, is this the way you've got the house against intruders? Where have you been? Ask Adam. What does he mean by that thing? I'm sure I don't know, sir. I've not left the house. What happened here?

17:28Oh, she woke up screaming. She said someone had come into the room and tore off her damages. A nightmare call. Please, Lord, talk to Mr. Spade Lord of Pleas, please go. Adam, you go to. Please, Adam, you go to. Good. Some questions I want to ask you, sweetheart, hello. Yes, but look here, Spade, look here. She just had a tour with the truck. She shouldn't be quick. Well, a question. The code of detective, Hans-Sen, better than medical, Mr. Hillary. Perhaps he should have a few minutes alone with Ms. K. Wood. Oh, very well, very well. I think I, I suppose, is no best. I remember what the doctor said, Ms. Barbara. Not too much, sir. I should be. What happened, Barbara? It could have been a dream. Somebody was standing over me in the darkness and peering down at me. And then he started to rip off my damages and I screamed. And when things came into the room and he turned on the lights he was gone. And he could have been a dream, Sam, and I could have been crying at the banish myself and in my sleep. But you weren't. It wasn't a dream. And I'm talking to Captain Sherry. And then I thought, oh, how much do you know? That you've been feeding the old man truth, sir. I'm beginning to talk in his sleep. Oh.

18:28And I'm not talking as he'd done. Well, plenty. How much you told Sherry? Well, that is little as possible. Why? Because, Sam, if we can keep that old man alive and out of jail long enough to sell with we know to Sherry for what it's really worth, we'd be fools not to do it. But make sure you'll stay alive, loyal enough to collect, sweetheart. Well, because you're going to help me, aren't you, Sam? So I helped her, but not for the reason she fought. I made a lot of noise leaving her room and going to mine. Going back, I didn't wear any shoes. I slipped into a clothes press in her room, sequitly, that even she didn't hear. I left the door slightly ajar and waited. Time passed and I was stiff from standing still. It happened at about 3 a.m. The crazy feverish glare of his eyes told me the front of the gun in my hands meant nothing to him.

19:32I jumped to his side, pushed the knife away from him, picked him up in my eyes and carried him, kicking, crying, and swearing back to his bed. He lay there breathing hard, then he smiled. Hey, you're a smart one, sonny. You had me figured out the first time you came in here, didn't you? Not quite, Mr. Rexon. The gun under your window was the clincher. I'd gun, sure. I had it under my pillow all the time. I got tired of shooting into the door for you. You're dying, Mr. Rexon. There's no use trying to make up stories now. You're right, sonny. I knew that, and I was what'd sit up in bed after I fired tonight. And then I let it have it right through the screen. Why? You know why, well, not. She was doping me up and sneaking in here at night, listening to what I was babbling about. Maybe you weren't saying anything important, Mr. Rexon.

20:32I might have, sonny. I might have 14 years ago. I killed my wife. I wanted you to carry this sister to my grave. You're nearly married, is that? Hey, what happened? Is he dead? Is he dead? Did he say anything? How did he confess it? You must tell me if he said anything. I didn't hear him say a word. Well, hmm. Yeah, Mr. Spade. Charge with a certain texture to significant quality. There's a certain smile, yes. No, and oh, man. You can inhale it, son. Johnny, thou two now, roby on the felt. Carry seven days, and you will collect the fabulous golden skull of his army, King of the Bojamas. Ah, Marcus! Yes, Master. Unhook the hooker. Peck the marmalade. We are off to the felt.

21:40Just then a flock of birds broke across the horizon, screaming. There must have been thousands of them, but not ibis, Mr. Rexon. Vultures. I suppose if you're going to pay any attention to almonds, it's a good thing to know your birds. Period. End of report. Right now, I have something to say to every man who doesn't use a hair tonic. To every man who says, I don't believe in it or I don't need it. That all depends on what you mean when you say hair tonic. If you mean the old-fashioned greasy kind that leaves your hair smelling like a perfume factory, you're absolutely right. But remember, wildrood cream oil hair tonic is nothing like that. Wildrood cream oil is an entirely new kind of hair grooming preparation. There's not a drop of alcohol in wildrood cream oil, and it contains soothing ladlein that's like the oil of your skin. Most important, wildrood cream oil grooms your hair the right way, neatly and naturally. Never leaves your hair sticky or greasy. Get the big economy-sized bottle and the handy new tube that's economical, easy to pack when you travel,

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