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Oh Sam do you really Fushy and how windy was it Cyclonic Effie we had to close every window in the house If you will just contain your natural feminine curiosity for a few moments I'll be right down to dictate my report on the bow window Okay Dashel Hammett America's leading detective fiction writer and creator of Sam spade the hard-boiled private eye and William Spear Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama join their talents to make your hair stand on end with the adventures of Sam spade Presented by the makers of Wild Root cream oil for the hair To every man who says I don't use a hair tonic or I don't believe in a hair tonic I say this Decide for yourself, but don't decide until you've tried Wild Root cream oil the entirely different hair tonic There's not a drop of alcohol in Wild Root cream oil and it contains soothing lanolin What's more it grooms your hair the right way neatly and naturally So get the big economy-sized bottle and the handy new tube at your drug or toilet goods counter Wild Root cream oil hair tonic again and again the choice of men who put good grooming first Now with Howard Dove starring a spade Wild Root brings to the air the greatest private detective of them all in the adventures of Sam spade Window a bow window Bow window is a bay window that you look into instead of out it Get your book Panther girl and slink on in I mean whose house was it her own Just goes to show you darling what some women will stoop to mm-hmm. It was a low window Well, whenever you're ready Sam Date November 10 9th 9th, uh, correct 1942 Dr. Helmut Reese I was right for once yeah from Samuel spade license number one three seven five nine six subject the bow window caper Dear dr. Reese. I know that this report will not make pleasant reading for you, but you've paid for it. So here it is As far as I was concerned it all started on Thursday morning when you called at my office From your story, I gathered it had been going on for some time You you will say these are merely the actions of a jealous woman mr. Spade But I assure you there's more to it than that It is it must be a carefully thought-out plan to ruin my career my my whole life in there What way dr. Reese she spies on my private consultations Insults my women patients again no longer even keep a nurse for more than a week at a time Scenes hysterics she outbursts of violence. I cannot continue my work under such conditions Why don't you give her a divorce? No, no, this is not her desire that were it would be to it would be simple No, she wants to bring me to ruin. She wants to see me on my knees in front of the pop. Why? That is what I want to find out. Why doctor? I think you ought to take this case to her head doctor No, I have consulted a psychiatrist Examiner she's perfectly competent mentally for you'll see there is here already some mystery for which one comes to a detective How long since been going on back to race since three months only but in this time She has reduced me to utter destination dr. Reese was a very good divorce lawyer right down the hall from my Oh, no, no, no, I discussed the matter of a divorce with her a few days back. This was her answer Yeah, you see a receipt for the purchase of a gun and This note in a hand like I hope you will not force me to use this Esther. Yes What do you think she has in mind murder or suicide she refused to discuss it But one thing I have noticed Since she has bought this gun a new development a strange man watches my house several times I have caught him following well She might have hired a detective to check on whether you visit a lawyer perhaps perhaps perhaps it is very simple But it is all too strange to be harmed. I I Half-heartedly agreed that it might be dr. Reese and when you check for 100 bucks didn't bounce. I want to work wholeheartedly. I Reached your house on Pacific Avenue just as the street lights were going on It's a quiet neighborhood so I could hear it before I got close enough to read the number on the door They seem to be slugging their way toward the back of the house so I decided to risk an entrance I found the doorbell and I was about to punch it when I caught sight of your mystery man He was crossing a clump of shrubbery that grew under the bow window at the corner of the house He was still there with his eyes glued to the window when I walked up behind him Hey, let go me let go come on. Come on. You're going inside. I'm not just a stupor I wouldn't say you were I'm just inviting you inside for a better look. I'm warning if you don't let go me I'm squirming. Well, yeah The kick he landed on me wasn't according to the wrestling Association's rules But I let him get away with it mainly because they couldn't move for three or four minutes And by that time he disappeared down the street When I recovered my faculties and staggered back to the door, I didn't bother ringing the bell. I just walked in The hem fight was still going on somewhere in the upper reaches of the house Then a door first opened on the upper landing and a curl in a nurse's uniform ran down the stairs toward me Pursued by a pale little woman with a pink face who was brandishing a pair of brass fires on You brush past me dr. Rason headed off the pursuer Have you gone crazy give me those fireballs give them to me It's a matter here must afraid. I'm more your light of love beauty. What's that it is? I caught her creeping about the kitchen. She's gonna poison my food I explained to you Mrs. Reese the doctor. Oh, don't don't don't bother explaining miss Roberts He's morbid fancies of hers. Don't think I don't know what goes on in that office that office I'm not allowed anymore. That's only because you make the patient so nervous. I know what goes on you and those women That's what it is. Go to your room. Very well, but I won't have that woman in this house another day. Helmuth is that understood? I'm going There are miss Roberts No, don't I can't stand any more doctor. I tell you it's making me nervous wreck I don't have to raise. Oh, oh, Mr. Spade you saw you heard Yeah Coming to my office We'll talk. I think we'd better doctor. There's still one more patient waiting to see you doctor Well, just have our way a little longer This this way Sit down thanks, but I can say what I have to say standing your wife's a very tragic woman I wish I could help her. I wish I could help you too, but I can't you heard a fact against miss Robbins Was that a joke? There's nothing funny about jealous, huh? But there's this man who watches the house The gun she bought I call him outside just now. Oh, what did you get him to talk? No, but I wouldn't worry about him if I were you and about that gun The Constitution says every citizen shall have the right to bear arms even Ponyl Thomas can't miss a spade I've not yet told you all if I Yes, but this patient she's been waiting for more than an hour. Well, who is she Mrs. Cavanaugh, I don't know who well, has she been here before of last week here. Here's her car. Oh Yes, yes I'd better get it over a century. Yes, doctor and and doctor. I'm resigning I'll finish the day of course and and then I'm through on I'm sorry. Yes Yes, well very well miss Robbins. I Can't say that I blame you good luck. Goodbye doctor Well, I'll be going along myself not I know no no no you must hear me out. Mr. Spade. I have not yet told all it now if you just wait until I have seen this patient, please Mr. Spade, please Okay, I'll wait outside. Oh And they give part of your come on in So You're leaving the doctor's employee nurse. I am I am Well, Mr. Spade, how does it look from the grandstand? Messy. Mm-hmm. You don't mind if I finish cleaning out the stairs go right ahead. Thank you What's the matter with Esther anyway? Oh, I Could some the whole thing up in a single five letter word shall I you have? Are you going to walk out on him? Aren't you? Yes Yes, I am. Oh, but Esther isn't jealous of your time if you don't mind my mentioning I feel heartened to think that you noticed I was different. Oh, I did mr. Spade. I really did You don't seem particularly in mercy to me I'm not My You have a fast pulse, Mr. Spade. Yes. I've been feeling very weak the last few minutes. I need care Oh, you know, you don't eat enough apples, Mr. State Well, I guess I finished off. There's that all contact. I wonder Mr. Spade will you tell the doctor I've left and thank him for me again? Aren't you gonna say them before you go? No, no I'm not it only beg me to stay in it But it's simply out of the question. Oh the poor guy. I just don't know what I'd do if I were in this place for you, Mr. Spade I Did and I told her she told me I was a victim of hypertension and left me with my mouth open and no thermometer in it Five minutes after she'd gone out to the front entrance Your wife came down the stairs looking knowingly at me and the door to the doctor's office and left for the same route 10 minutes after that I was halfway through a 1937 National Geographic that was the latest edition on the waiting room table and it raised the third paragraph on the natural beauties of Winona County, Minnesota, but I never finished it First thing I saw when I entered the room was Mrs. Kavanaugh. You're a patient patient You doctor was standing over and nervously twitching off the rubber glove from your right hand Tested her throat for pulse then listened to the stethoscope Was purely a formality one of the 38 caliber slugs that entered the right temple the other and torn through the base of the skull How did it happen? I don't know I had completed the examination and walked over there to put my instruments away when I turn When I turned back she had a gun in the hand but why I could stop her she pulled the trigger Suicide of course why why I just told her the truth that there was nothing I or any other doctor could do for But she had perhaps a month perhaps less She had suffered great pain of course for some time. You saw her shoot herself. You say yes. Yes The gun she took it out of my desk drawer. I'd removed it from my wife's room earlier today. I say Well, doctor, this is the need of suicide. I ever saw No powder burns and from the way she's lying She must have shot herself in the direction of that window at least 10 feet away She screamed before the shots were fired and had time to fire a second bullet into her head and throw the gun across the room before she fell At last it's happened, hasn't it Esther leave this room I told Helmeth one of the husbands would catch up with him Pretty wasn't she I Don't remember this one The expression on your face might have been horror or fear of both ducklings But your wife was smiling My eyes up to face. 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I Decided to let the police worry it out and went on to bed The morning headlines were a bit of a surprise Nurse sought in shooting of mystery woman item the cops had found Celeste Robin's fingerprints all over the murder gun and Item Mrs. Kavanaugh the murdered woman had given a vacant lot as her address and her body was lying Unclaimed at the morgue. I decided to pay her a visit Maxi hey Maxi my boy. Hey, it's good to look on you. How are you Maxwell? Oh fine fine? What brings you here Sam the Kavanaugh woman the Kavanaugh or Kavanaugh, huh? Let's see who's with us today Stiftle Milton Schwartz Kelly I knew him nice guy Fige Aha Kavanaugh Rose Hello Rose. Hey Sam, don't you want to look at Rose? No, I've seen her. Oh Yeah, just check that back in Autopsy say you do collect clear one Sam. How you take her? Why would anybody in the world knock her off in her condition all they needed to do was wait a month a couple of weeks That is that worse Anybody clamor yet? Well that Oh Something we can do for you My name is Kavanaugh Come for my wife We're standing with his back to me and I didn't get a good look at his face until he walked over to the desk with master The voice took me even before I saw the face The man I'd caught outside your office window less than half an hour before the murder He recognized me didn't let it show. I Waited while he went with Maxi when he came out. There were tears streaming down his face I've been waiting for two reasons. I had had some questions to ask him I had wanted to pay back that joltey given me the night before I left without doing either Oh, sweet, aren't any calls the Senate Dundee of homicide Dr. Reese and there's a girl waiting inside wouldn't give any name. So you let her wait in my private office I don't think you mind when you've seen her. She's by way of being a knockout. Well, thank you, Effie That was very thoughtful of you I Please please don't be angry with me for coming here. I had to talk to somebody what you need is a good criminal lawyer nurse Oh, no. Oh, no, do you think I killed that? How did your prince get on that gun? I don't tell me she threatened you with it and you grabbed it out of her hand Oh, no, I didn't I didn't Easy nurse say it easy. Would you like a drink or something? No, thank you. Anyway, I'll I'll be all right Well, she came in from shopping three days ago just as nice as pie She came creeping around, you know how she is and she said I bought something today It's lovely and with that she hauled this gun out of her handbag and so to humor I took it and I looked at it. I was foolish Nicko played it I deal And I remember she was wearing gloves struck me a peculiar at the time, but I'm I'm so stupid. I Didn't think of it until just now everything's a little peculiar about this cave for a woman who was dying anyway Get shot. Nobody even seems to know who she was doesn't make sense. No, no, it doesn't make much sense What should I do Sam? Give myself up. I think you should Yes, I thought you'd say that All right You get a lot of courage Sure, you don't want to drink. No, no, thank you. I'll be all right. I'll be all right Dundee Dundee Sam spade I got the robin's girl here in my office. She wants to check in Reese's wife just made a full confession That tore it my anxiety to see how you were burying up under the shock doctor I blew a buck and a half of your money and a taxi all the way out to your address on Pacific Avenue To my astonishment you were wearing a look of real distress. I I don't understand it mr. Spade this Confessing it's it's not like her It's all too strange to be harmless. Dr. Reed. I'd like to talk to you alone. Do you mind mr. Spade you're right ahead my ears outside your consulting room But all I could hear was a few vague murmurs And for no good reason I decided to have a look at your wife's bedroom upstairs The cops had been there before me so I didn't expect to find much and I didn't I was tapping the woodwork The secret panels or something when I heard a heavy thread on the on the stairway I wheeled around my hands inside my coat a jolly-looking character and cover-alls was standing in the door I beg your pardon. Hey, I'm electronics. I come to take the equipment What equipment at a dictograph? She don't need it no more Ask me she hurt too much. Mrs. Reese had a dictograph installed. Yeah, I'm rather type installation Yeah, this here's a speaker. Yeah, my own design looks like a portable radio. Don't it? Now, where's the other end? Where's the microphone? It's in a doc's private office. You interest today? Yeah, turn the man away. Oh sure Yeah, we'll get it tuned in a minute. Oh feedback. Wait a minute. I'll fix it That's because of the dictograph be regret. Shut up boy. Yeah, that's a nice ain't it. Why don't you turn it up a little more? Get his shirt off with the spin you think shot who shot them you throw the window the same man the one watch the house Oh, hold this turn again Nothing flesh His aim was too bad Kavanaugh still out there You got nothing to worry about he's still alive. I missed him. Give me a hand. Come on I missed him. I was lucky they're taking the rap your wife's murder too if you're a better shot He did it. He killed my wife. I was at the wind. I saw him. I don't understand is why his wife confess You loved him. Mr. Kavanaugh. You should understand that. I guess that's what happens to love when it gets crossed up Why didn't you tell the police what you saw? They'd have hung it on me. She she was a stranger to everyone else I've been quarreling with her suspicious acting like a maniac She never told me She must have been going to one doctor after another trying to find one that would give her one ray of hope Pain all the time so we're never letting off never Even after that first visit she made a racist office. I didn't tumble. I I thought she was meeting up on the sly And I followed her both times at last time I carried a gun I might have killed her what I suspect that had been true I'm very sorry. I didn't realize you're pretty late with your regrets doctor. I Don't quite figure either. The prison psychiatrist can't Dundee tear up mrs. Reese's confession come on over and get the doctor Yeah, oh by the way, he accidentally shot himself in the arm Isn't that right doctor a lot Goal. Yes. Yes accident What didn't she tell? Why didn't she tell me? I don't know Kavanaugh women sometimes they make too much sense, sir. We don't make enough her Maybe we're all crazy And that dr. Reese is the crop the risk of laboring a point That's also the mystery of why a nice girl like Celeste Robbins ever fell for a guy like you You'll have plenty of free time to think it over between now and the trial if you find the answer drop me a line Period and a report, you know Sam that that's the list. I like her. I wish we could do something for her Well, I've already thought of that ever. Oh, what are you gonna do Sam fight that up sweetheart, and I'll write you a happy ending Here's how you can find out whether the hair tonic you're using today is giving you what you ought to get in good grooming Ask yourself does my present hair tonic groom my hair neatly and naturally or does it leave my hair sticky or greasy? And does it relieve dryness and remove loose dandruff too, or does it do just a halfway job? 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