 It started at dawn in a Los Angeles taxi and wound up that night on a cliff in the middle of the Pacific All because of a Dutchman with $50,000 a corpse and a lily pond and an oriental with a chauffeur who wanted a cloak Made of nothing but feathers From the pen of Raven Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe With Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story the cloak of Kamehameha The message that a repulsively wide-awake boy was missing a tooth front row center at delivered at 6 in the a.m Had come in two parts the first crawled in black ink on a wrinkle piece of paper said Marlowe get hold of a taxi cab Poses the driver yourself and at exactly 8 o'clock this morning come past 8840 North Ogden Drive Signed Pollard Schindler The second half made more sense It was printed in neat letters on need a green paper and under an engraving of Benjamin Franklin Red 100 silver dollars payable to the bearer and the man So at exactly 8 o'clock. I was behind the wheel of a hired cab Leather jacket peak cap toothpick and all and within hey taxi distance of number 8840 Mr. Pollard Schindler round man in square clothes with haircut to match was not late Yes, sir Oh to the municipal airport you understand the municipal airport at Englewood. Okay, okay Englewood municipal airport it is Marlowe the meter quick put the flag down every minute. I'm being watched. Oh, yeah Watched by who mr. Schindler. I do not know now listen carefully Marlowe later You are to go to the Halema Anna hotel and wait for a young lady named Lonnie Collier Then at the hour she designates you go to her house number 44 diamond head circle and pick up the Oh, wait a minute. Holly Moana diamond head all those places this hotel isn't by any chance in Hawaii Didn't I mention this in my note? No, you didn't know did you mention picking up a cloak? That just proves I haven't been myself ever since yesterday when I received this anonymous letter. That's postmark on the Lulu All it says is camea mayors cloak of golden feathers will bring no less than death Marlowe have you ever been to the islands? Yeah twice once business once pleasure then surely you've heard people speak of King Oh, sure. He was back in the 1780s, right? Yeah, big organizer conqueror who by driving the defenders over that cliff that divides the island Yeah, yeah, that's it. Marlowe the feather cloak that camea may I was about a hundred square feet and every inch of it A golden yellow feather and value that more than half a million dollars. Really? How come? Well, the feathers. Oh, yeah, they are from the now extinct black Marmo bird Marlowe And there was only one yellow feather on each bird. I could explain why they're now extinct Don't tell me this is all a game of call you tomorrow to Schindler with a cloak that belongs to the museum Oh, no, no Marlowe. No, it isn't there with the cloak you speak of but Lonnie Carlyer has another one less valuable Of course, it's one quarter the size, but it also belonged to the king and it also is made of the priceless feathers And is this a property they haven't a whole legal like yeah, yeah, yeah, Lonnie is wealthy young. Oh, yeah About 25. Oh You went to a fashionable schools here in California and as a result cares more about fun and furs from IJ Fox than she does priceless heirlooms So for $50,000 I have bought the cloak to resell to a New York millionaire for almost twice that some it's a lot of loot Well, yes, he loves island law and figures Marlowe. I was right. I am still being followed. Don't look back Just drive fast. No, no, no, nothing. This is exactly as I want it Whoever it is will follow me not you and when I am in Honolulu, they will still follow me well I take care of the business on hand. Yeah. Yes. Yes, there is a reservation for you on the next plane So after you leave me and collect your cab fare, which will be $500 you drive away And then later Marlowe get back here board your plane and Underway and tonight when I've got the cloak take it back to your hotel room at the Alemuana and sit on it hard Because unless I am a complete success as a decoy You will have your share of trouble too. I'm sure but Marlowe from which specific direction it will come. I Do not know I Got the 500 bucks, which was the cover expenses for my Honolulu trip and I was told to keep the change So after I'd returned both cab and costume to their owner I added 10 to the original hiring price and had him drive me back to my apartment and wait while I pack Then I got into the cab again rear seat said municipal airport Inglewood and settled back to think about the crossroads of the Pacific Lovely hula hands and what shouldn't be too rough a job But there I was wrong because in the next minute and those that followed everything was done the hard way First we ran out of gas then got tied up in a traffic jam and after that got stopped for speeding All of which added up to me at the airport just in time to watch my plane take off without me But then when I told a cherubic clerk and a great flannel and insipid smile that my name was Phillip Marlowe that I wanted a reservation on the next flight, which was leaving in an hour Things got even worse, but you can't be Phillip Marlowe sir That is not the Phillip Marlowe who was on flight 21 that just left You have a reason for saying that Certainly do there were 36 seats on that plane sir and when she took off all 36 were full now I know I checked to myself and I don't make mistakes well bully for you boy But I happen to be both Phillip Marlowe and the man who was supposed to be on that plane Also, buster. I'm out of patience now. I get the next plane or don't I come on I can't stand in decision. Well, I am you're what well I think it could be arranged mr. Marlowe as a matter of fact. I know it can well in that case my friend Thank you when we took off my frame of mind left me ready and waiting for at least a crack up at sea But an hour later the last of California. It slipped over the horizon and there was only clear sky ahead I began to relax my mind drifted pleasantly the flavor of the lime lifesaver in my mouth made me think of tall wondrous frosted Hawaiian punches And the sinuous grace of lovely And I open my eyes again Diamond head was in front of us and majestic in the red glow of evening Sun It gave all of the lush Moana Valley. I could see the texture of thick velvet We landed like the airport was made of marshmallows The half hour later. I was in the lobby of the Halimoana hotel It was cushioned right tan in Filipino mahogany of a cool tile and everywhere laughing sunburned faces wearing bright splashes of color So smiling both inside and out I walked briskly to the reservation desk and told a good-looking Hawaiian and white flannel that I was Philip Marlowe That is reply. I stopped smiling both inside and out, but sir your reservation was taken two hours ago There must be some mistake. I doubt it, but you are Philip Marlowe of Los Angeles, sir That's right. And I've been through this before today because of what I thought was an error due to a You too what sir? Hmm. Nothing. No, I'll talk to you later There was a large circle of mirror on the wall behind the clerk And even as we had talked I caught the reflection of a beautiful tan girl in a cocoa brown suit white pearls and no stockings With the mention of my name had done a take that had made a long blonde hair whip straight out When she saw me watching as she pivoted sharply on a spiked heel and hurried total and I under a banyan tree Where there was Hawaiian music and a lot of different looking people drinking a glass top tables under a three-quarter moon I Stayed near the reservation desk long enough to light a cigarette and then I followed her She was seated away from the lobby entrance and honor hunched that she might be Lonnie Kalyah I started for an empty table next to hers But a middle-aged Chinese and great gabardine and Panama to match slipped into the chair that I was after So I forgot about being subtle and addressing hers miss Kalyah Introduced myself as an old and dear friend of Pollard Schindler's One Leland done. Well, this is a pleasant surprise mr. Dunn But tell me how did you know what I looked like? Well, Pollard Schindler's accent doesn't hamper his vocabulary miss Kalyah He used the right adjectives believe me I'd love to believe you But I can't mr. Dunn because Pollard Schindler never saw me in his life. All our business was done by telephone Okay, my mistake. I'm Philip Marlowe Lonnie and I want to know when we rendezvous at 44 diamond head circle for the cloak of Kamehameha You are no more Philip Marlowe than you are Leland Dunn And if you need a reason it's that I just left Philip Marlowe upstairs. Oh, wait a minute, baby. There's only one Marlowe That's me. I can prove it. I'll bet you can forged papers and all I've already been warned to watch for imposter. So quit wasting both your time and mine and get out of my way I've got things to do. Wait Lonnie. I for what proof that you're neither done nor Marlowe But Kamehameha himself no thanks and goodbye If there had been a door she'd have slammed it Well, now I had two clues one an obvious party who would assume the name of Philip Marlowe and the other Lonnie Kalyah less obvious but more intriguing So figuring the road company Marlowe would keep I followed Lonnie who by this time was getting into a new yellow Nash convertible Before I got to where she stepped on the gas threw her lights on and lurched from the curb So I ran across the street to what I thought was a taxi But I was wrong because it turned out to be a chauffeur limousine and being helped in by a small Swarthi item of dubious lineage in a wrinkled cotton uniform Was the chinese and greg gabardine and panamata match would have been sitting near us on the lanai What counted more was that he obviously sensed my problem. You wish to follow the girl, sir Yeah, it's a lovers spat. You know what I mean? I think so. But Jollo quickly. Yes, sir You know where she's going I'm not sure maybe diamond head circle lady is gaining sir Let's make a diamond head circle. Is there a faster way there a shortcut? There is Which means what means never mind diamond head circle drive fast to the factory instead and do not move mr. Marlowe Oh Comes the heavy artillery, huh Okay, full man. Sure. What's with the factory you out of the way until the cloak of kamehameha is mine Which won't work because believe it or not clever one There's another philip malo who at the moment is a lot closer to that collection of fancy feathers than either of us You lie stupid bit for freedom. I mean, they will not get you. Jollo the truck. Look out It was my chance as we hit I thought that his gun and then jerked the handle of the door and jumped when I got to my feet I was on the sidewalk and bruised but better off than china boy It was draped over the back of the front seat and shouting dirty words in a half a dozen oriental dialects At both jollo and the driver of the pineapple truck that it sideswiped us a crowd that included a towering hawaiian policeman Who promptly told my hostess shut up gathered in a hurry? So I ran for a taxi gave the driver 10 bucks the address. I wanted and took off The street on which lani kaya lived was a neat curving strip that rose sharply from sea level up to the shadow of diamond head itself And we were there in less than 10 minutes But finding number 44 was something else and another 30 minutes disappeared before we finally parked away from the place Which was glass conor wood and you can't find the front door without a blueprint tucked deep behind a thick grove of date palms I told the driver to back down the hill without using his motor Then I slipped into the grounds and carefully moved toward the house Until what I thought was the trunk of another palm tree stepped into my path fast. Stop where you are At the top which was over six and a half feet There was a shock of flaming red hair the whole frame was half covered in dirty yellow shirt once upon a time White ducks and battered brown sandals And broad daylight it would have looked worse you Who are you? Eh someone with an appointment to see miss kalia. Why you belong to this place? Yes, and this place belongs to me as well all of it Miss kalia included she's mine to protect you understand that malahini Malawitch malahini greenhorn tourists the kind that I hate Kind that's ravaging all this beautiful Stealing the islands from those to whom they belong Take it easy red. I'm not here to ravage or stick your pretty island into my pocket when you're not looking All I want is words with lani kalia You are like the rest of them trying with cunning a deceit to turn her head away from these shores and toward the mainland where you come from I won't stand for it. Look, why don't we break this round table up and get to the house? I'm in a hurry. All right But i'm sure that lani will be on my side So sure in fact that we really shouldn't disturb the flowers should we Should we Malahini In just a moment the second act of phillip marlowe, but first if mystery and detection are your dish Don't forget you can get more of the same over cbs Tomorrow for instance is the day when two unique and widely differing sleuths make their weekly appearance One is that well-known character sam spade dashill hammits hard-boiled private eye The other sleuth whose adventures are yours every sunday is danny clover an old hand on that gaudy street called Broadway broadway is my beat says danny clover and it's a beat where anything can happen Both broadway is my beat and the adventures of sam spade come to you over most of these same cbs network stations Now with our star jerald more we return to the second act of phillip marlowe and tonight's story the cloak of kamehameha A red-headed lunatic with a slow soft voice and fast hard fist took me by surprise and i wound up flat on my back Before i realized he's so much as moved At the time i got to my feet and took after me was sprinting for a bamboo thicket And had a 30-yard lead which was all he needed to lose me completely When i finally untangled myself in the jungle i came out on the road But then i heard a motor behind me so i dove for the underbrush again just as a heavy car roared by I'd seen it before in fact i'd been in it It was the limousine that belonged to the china man The back seat was empty but the half-care chauffeur jollo was crouched behind the wheel drove out of sight like his life depended on it As i walked back toward the house I saw that a door was standing open and spilling a shaft of yellow light across the dark grounds And started up the walk when it came Then a second later lani calia burst into the path of light and ran for the open door I went after a quarter by one arm and spun her around. No. No. Let me go. What happened. Why'd you scream lani? I'm back there in the pond. Yeah I heard a noise and When i came outside i i found him found who come on show me I talked to him just a few minutes ago I gave him the cloak. Yeah Now it's gone and He's dead with a knife in his back. What? There Look there in the water Oh brother Who is it lani? Do you know her? Yes That's philip marlowe Skinner my neck crawls lani tagged the thing in the lily pond with my name It was face down in the shallow water and three inches of crooked steel The ugly carved handle of a crisp stuck straight up between his shoulder blades Somebody had made a very grim mistake But it took five minutes of argument and a thorough checking of all the credentials i carried to convince the badly frightened lani I dragged the body out of the water and up onto the grass And then i went through his pockets What did you find a card? Yeah From the hawaiian island art products company limited Number 12 harbour street Mean anything? No, i've never heard of it What's that on the back flight number and departure time of the plane i was supposed to take out of los angeles Over years he's been one jump ahead of me all the time Right up to your lily pond here Was anyone with him when you gave him the cloak a half cast in the chauffeur's uniform for us? No, no he was alone I I gave him the cloak just as schindler had instructed me to and listen lani There was a down at the heel redhead here just before you came out He claimed to be a friend of yours. Oh, that was laurence cocker in the poet that guy's a poet Yes, at least he was going to be He wrote one great poem years ago about two lovers who leaped to death over the poly To keep from being separated and their souls turned into birds It's still very popular here on the island. What happened then? Oh, then he got the habit of drowning himself in gin Now the natives call him papuli the crazy one that's closer Oh, he's always hanging around. I suppose he still believes he's in love with me. He's not so crazy My mother wanted me to marry him at one time now that she's dead. He thinks he should look after me Okay, lani let him keep thinking so What do you mean? Well, I mean you can use a good watchdog right now So when cocklin comes back you make him park on your doorstep and you stay inside and be careful With guy's name philip mollo getting knives in their backs. I've got a few things to do myself But fast I'd like to borrow that souped up convertible of yours. Where are you going? number 12 harbour street and the hawaiian island art products company limited Harbour street was a narrow twisting alley two blocks below king street A kind of social sargasso where the derelicts of the pacific quietly founded and dives built into the damp crevices between warehouses However, number 12 turned out to be practically a blank wall There was one small window high up a door with a heavy iron grill over the glass On which hawaiian island art products limited ik lee president was painted in small black letters And a thin passageway blocked by an iron gate at the side of the building A light burned inside but the door was locked So after I'd ruined my shoe shine and skinned all my knuckles I managed to climb over the gate and edge down the passageway to the rear Where I could hear water run It was a marble fountain playing in the center of a walled garden as oriental is a forbidden city I eased across its rigid dainteness to an open door peaked in and then Reached for my gun because sitting inside at a sleek white mahogany desk Was the china man in the gray panamar Where where This is a somewhat unexpected ton of events Please be careful with that gun. Won't you you'll be careful lee and you won't have to worry about the gun Now tell me something. Why'd you break your neck to get kamehameha's cloak anyway? You know, it'll happen if you ever try to sell it. Oh by good man I can sell that cloak every day for the rest of my life A few feathers at a time. Yeah, the world must be full of feather collectors. But it is I manufacture the beautiful feather lays islanders wear on the heads And while the bird is extinct the desire for its gleaming feathers is not One or two golden mambo feathers in each lay and instead of a mere hundred dollars a piece I can get double that triple that Now do you understand mr. Malo? You um, you've got things a little mixed up, haven't you lee? Mixed up household. Yeah, your boy malo is dead up at lani kalya's place all that No, that was a mr. Blake and easily accessible gentleman. I hired on main street in trough angeles He only pretended to be you For obvious reason to intercept the feather cloak, huh? Oh, yes I've known all about pilot chindler's plans since their inception. I followed every move he made in fact It was I who caused all the other over on the way to the airport this morning By means of a bribe to your driver. Yeah, aren't you the one? Yes Too bad you won't be able to keep your nest lined with kamehameha's bathrobe after all lee Because i'm gonna walk out of here with it or big chunks of your puss now name it. Where's the cloak now? I'm together from this. You don't have it malo Shrewd observation and the chindler as I suspect it has tricked us. You're stalling lee. I'm warning you start talking All I wanted to find out go ahead jollo Oh That is judo mr. Malo almost like magic isn't it jollo can break your back if I tell him to malo So you behave Shindler has the cloak no doubt about it. So I must find him at once with no interference from you So jollo, you have his gun. Yes Lock him inside keep malo until I call. I may need him later I'm something that have casted down to my spine With the edge of his hand my legs were paralyzed I felt like the practice dummy in a school for chiropractors Every joint in my body ached when I moved So I didn't move until a feeling owes back into my legs And then I wobbled to my feet and looked around There was the small high window I'd seen from the street The heavy chair at desk with a lamp and something like a picture framed in bamboo on the wall I glanced at it and then And I looked back And kept looking hard for a long long time until I finally realized what it meant The answer to the whole thing was contained in that bamboo frame. I had to get out and get out fast I unplugged the lamp plastered my back against the wall next to the door and tapped on the lampshade to intrigue jollo into coming in It worked When the knob turned slowly I threw the lamp up at the window A crash brought the door open with a jerk and jollo stepped in with my gun in his hand What is going on here mr. Martin answer right here jollo Come on get up. I've got some magic to show you now a trick I learned in kansas called a haymaker And on the hold of the street door and out to the car There was no traffic problem at that Oh, I saw I jammed the gas pedal of the floor and held it there right through the heart of hannolulu and up the Twisting road that led to the mountains back of the city The echoing roar of the motor is a tunnel through the forest lining the road was finally replaced by another roar wind The unending gale that shrieks through a precipitous pass three thousand feet above the city the poly I swung the car to the side of the road and ran the rest of the way out to where the rocks rose to a knife edge That dropped a sheer thousand feet to the valley floor Then I spotted them lani lying stunned at the cliff's edge and standing over her His red hair ripped by the wind was the mad island poid drunk as a lord And flapping around his shoulders like a pair of huge gold wings was the cloak of kamehameha Harkin must have lost it as he fell The wind brought it back here to me and touch it ever again. I know what you mean Come on, baby I'll carry it for you. Let's get out of here There's nothing like hammering eggs and put black coffee in the morning sun to make one forget an ugly night Right my friends. Absolutely right mr. Schender more coffee. Thanks, lani. So lee was picked up on the hannolulu police You're sure I had it all set up. He'll spend some time in prison and that cholo too By the way, he was still unconscious when we got to him. What in the world did you hit him with? Enthusiasm mostly That's when you got away and came up to the poly Yeah, but feel how did you know it was lauren said and where he'd be Well, it all tied in with that one popular poem. Cochran had written lani that anonymous letter you got in los angeles Mr. Schindler was a lion from that poem. Yeah Kamehameha's cloak of golden feathers will bring no less than death How did you find that out marlowe? Well when I was locked up in lee's factory I saw a full copy of that poem on the wall and a little bamboo frame Oh when I came to the line you just quoted it stuck out like it was printed in neon That peg Cochran is the killer once I had that I tried to look at things from his angle He was a murderer sure to be caught Desperately in love insanely possessive of everything he thought belonged here in the islands And he was an unbalanced lush as well. So the rest of it figured that's all and when he was cornered He went back to the one important thing he'd ever done. Exactly baby. He was lost So he identified himself with the hero of his poem and took that as the only way out Amazing truly an amazing thing and a terrible thing too, mr. Schindler. Yeah, who knows We all got what we went after didn't we each of us even laurence cochran After schindler left to catch a plane for the mainland And lani said aloha and left to get ready for our date I sat on the lani of the hotel And watched the sweep of the pacific from diamond head to the hills across the harbor From the white sands of wiki-ki And the green shallows over the reef To the purple depths beyond And as a warm wind whispered through the palms And the native strummed the ukulele under a banyan tree I heard lani whisper aloha. What does aloha really mean? Adventures of philip marlowe created by raymond schindler star jerald moore and are produced and directed by norman mcdonnell Script is by melden l. A robert mitchell and gene levitt featured in the cast was barry kroger with laurette philbrant john daner paul frieze byron cain and clark gordon the special music is by richard oran Be sure and be with us again next week when philip marlowe says The thick fog that clung to los angeles made searching for the girl who was going to kill herself slow and easy But in the end i'd have settled for that and more because Murder happened twice before i found the lady in mink 52 000 a nice pocket full of chains to have around isn't it well the chance to win it comes your way again Just a little later tonight when cbs's giant one-hour quiz show sing it again comes to you over most of these same stations This is roi roan speaking Now stay tuned for gangbusters which follows immediately over most of these same stations This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system