 Get this and get it straight crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter the prison of the grave It started with an Indian gift of a piece of pottery and led to a brown bear and moccasins an Archaeologist much-slapping water and finally death in an alley But just to make matters worse the Indian giver was a female and 100% genuine hot-blooded Apache From the pen of Raymond Chandler outstanding author of mystery comes his most famous character and crimes most deadly enemy as we present The adventures of Philip Marlowe Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story the Indian giver By day the industrial heart of any city is just so much steel and stone streets Jammed full with a raucous sounds of a thousand and one different machines But by night all of that is gone and there are only endless smooth-sighted lonely canyons That overflow with a steady humming silence that everywhere hangs like a distant echo of the day that's passed Los Angeles was no exception at 9 o'clock at night as I pulled up in park in front of a graced curtain storefront on a deserted downtown street It marked the showroom of the wholesale Curio dealer who would telephone my office an hour earlier and in a Dutch accent Laced tight with worry it urged me to call on him at once Raised gold lettering on a side door that showed a strip of yellow light at the threshold Said Alex van Nordt private in an ornate 18th century script So when I knocked I was ready for something continental with thick bifocal glasses And the door swung open my jaw dropped to my chest But I couldn't help gaping because the huge V of a man in front of me in cheap snug clothes White dark hair dark skin and darker eyes Had to be no less than a full-blooded American Indian Moccasin's and all what you want Mr. Van Nord is Ian name your business. Well, it's personal. What's yours hate for those who would destroy our culture Let me help you up I'm fine. No, are you all right? Oh sure sure. I'm fine Hey an engine he Certainly can hit hard. Yes. I know he also struck me down. Oh, I tell you mr. Marlots terrible. Yeah, it's also a little confusing mr. Van Nord Exactly, why did you call me in the first place? Oh? Well, it began this morning when I received the shipment of Indian Curios for my buyer in Santa Fe, New Mexico Everything in the crate was in order except one extra piece of pottery a bowl Indian ball Yes, it appeared no place on the invoice No, I didn't pay much attention to it till I noticed that the two inch wide band of inscriptions near the top We're not like any others. I'd ever seen inscriptions Yeah, you know you mean those Indian signs broken arrow there with one kind of stuff Yeah, so my curiosity was aroused and I called my representative in Santa Fe However, he knew nothing of the bowl either So finally well, I put it in my display window there and forgot about it Until about known when a frail sandy head man stepped in You know his name. No, no only that he said he was an archaeologist and that he wanted to buy the ball You refuse to sell it, huh? Why for two reasons mr. Marlots one I could see that he was fighting hard to control his enthusiasm and to I had no idea what to charge for the ball Mm-hmm. I told him to come back tomorrow again, and then I removed the ball from the window It wasn't until five o'clock that the second visit or appear other archaeologists No, no beautiful girl named Mona waters. Oh, she was very sophisticated war and expensively tailored white Smart suit no jewelry. She wore whatsoever She described the ball I placed in my storeroom perfectly and then asked if I had seen such a piece of pottery Or if I had one for sale, I said no same reasons more or less Anything else mr. Van on well, there isn't much more the young lady gave me her address the Walker hotel and Wilshire Boulevard Room 515 Walker hotel asked me to call her if I came across a ball like the ones he described then she left Naturally my interest at this time was near the bursting point naturally what you do about it the only sensible thing I knew of at six o'clock I closed my place and I went to the public library to borrow a book and hieroglyphics of the Indians of the Southwest When I got back I found the rear door forced and pull the ball was gone and you called me. Yes Then this Indian shows up. He claims I would rob his people of everything and then he hit me makes perfect sense to him No doubt. Yes. No, will you try to recover the ball for me? Well, if you can answer one question without stumbling Yes, why no police mr. Van Nord? Because objects of art mr. Marlowe aside from their intrinsic worth and and the clay bowl has none are only valuable for resale Create a public disturbance such as the police and the thief will destroy the object and another day steal again No, please please you try Yeah, I'll try all right mr. Van Nord when it comes to our two-fisted brave who's so crazy about the preservation of Indian culture I'll try real hard. Good night, sir Then odds enthusiasm in the hundred bucks He pressed into my hand before I left for encouraging and I drove straight to the Walker Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard Where a moment after I ended the plush lobby encouragement came once more? Because gliding from a travel agency booth taught a cocktail lounge was what my client had described as beautiful girl Expensively tailored smart white suit no jewelry whatsoever But when we were both inside and at adjoining stools at the bar where the soft lights accented their high cheekbones and jet black hair I knew that mr. Van Nord had skipped something important because in spite of a full mouth neatly rouged eyebrows pencil come hither in a coiffure shingled vintage 1949 Mono waters could also be full-blooded American Indian Which is what I was working on when she turned blew a smoke signal in my face and spoke with an accent That was about as Apache as Vassar. Don't let me make you lose your place But you mind telling me why you're staring. I collect the reasons for a harbing You know like some people save stands and others pottery Who are you a ceramics thing named Smith now Mona? Let's talk about you. Why? Because I've already been offered ten thousand dollars for the bowl good enough you have the bowl where? Well, not in my pocket, honey. It's too bulky. I've got it tucked safely away outside my car Oh, yeah, you know you didn't hide it very well after you stole it from Van Nord You've been in my room could be How do we talk business yes or no? Yes What do you want to know well for one thing? What's the bowl to you? everything It's mine all mine via primogeniture, which is Apache for what? Mr. Smith, I'm an Indian all right and an Apache at that, but I was born in a duplex not a TP I drink martini's not fire water and I've got a mills college diploma and an IQ that'll probably make yours look sick So let's clear the air in a hurry. Yeah, well, that's clear enough Now smart boy My late uncle George waters also known as chief laughing waters giggle if you want to own the ball You want ten thousand dollars for so so a long time ago? He willed it to my father However, my father died a year ago leaving only me as heir apparent Since that bowl is mine all mine via primogeniture, which brings us right back to where we were except You haven't mentioned why the ball means so much to you and I won't know will you pay the ten thousand bucks, huh? I didn't say that and I won't say anything more until I see that bowl Now I've got to make a couple of calls should take about 20 minutes After that, I'll be in my room. Please call before you come up And if you don't have the bowl don't come up. Okay, baby fair enough so long It had been the kind of conversation piece where in each party is quite sure that the others are liar But not quite sure why So a moment after I was on the sidewalk and out of Mona's site I dotted for the side of the hotel in the rear entrance where I made my way to a self-service freight elevator that got me to the fifth floor Just as the Apache would gloss closed the door to a room at the far end of the carpet at hallway I was about halfway there when it came out The door to 515 wasn't locked and when I threw it open I found about what I'd expected Mona slumped in a corner of the room pride heard only an opposite her a wide open window Which I figured led to a fire escape Until I was standing next to it and saw that there was nothing but sheer wall that plunged five stories to the sidewalk below And on a line with the hotel's fourth floor a rooftop But at best was a good 15 feet away When I closed the window and turned back to the room. Mona was already on our feet That's a lie jerk. He waited till I had the door closed behind me and then he swung Oh brother when we meet again. Oh, Mona. Who did he get the ball? Get the ball. I thought you had that Smith. I was kidding and you know it now once more Who was it his name Mona jimmy brown bear jimmy witch brown bear Smitty a lot of indians have indian names. It's a custom Why not to fall apart every time you hear one? I will if you'll stop being persecuted I think indians are all good americans now. Tell me about the big brown bear Okay, all right Is absolutely so the bow the priceless tribal heirloom the white man's trying to steal he's plain nuts Who else would try a jump like that from a fifth story window? Yeah, quite a hop If he actually made it what do you mean if nobody fell? No, maybe nobody jumped either Maybe you make up heap big story, baby hide bowl here in closet then fall on floor tell wild tale of screwball Apache That'd be smart. Yeah But also smart if you take long nose out of indian girls affairs before it get blown off stand still buster. Yo Tomahawk caliber 38 how unfriendly but effective Now smith What's your real name sammy blue ox my father calls me jr Let me clear up a very important point That indian bowl in some strange way is the answer to the location of enough lost spanish gold to keep you me and every one We have a met off the red line from here on out. Okay. I'm intrigued with the points. We're gonna clear up Does this I've got a dandy idea where I can find both the bowl and jimmy brown bear right now That's something I wanted to buy my lonesome Now back into that closet and keep quiet while you head where on the wall path via bus I'm a hot blooded Apache So long, baby There are times when things look black enough without staying put in a dark closet So I kicked the lock splinter casing and walked out in room 515 just in time to hear a timid knock on a hall door When it opened up one frail sandy head man wanted information Oh I I beg your pardon, sir. Can you possibly tell me what I can find miss mona waters? Who are you? My name is claque erskine. I'm an archaeologist. I'm sorry friend I can't say any more than miss waters is out after a while light Apache who's got a Piece of pottery tucked underneath his arm. What? Oh, not the bowl. It's supposed to be in vandals place Not jimmy brown bear right on both counts mr. Erskine, but What makes the name brown bear ring a bell you two met before well We certainly have why that idiot has hampered every archaeologist who is so much a set foot in new mexico Now that you've mentioned him mr. Erskine. Why are you a keen interest in the bowl? What does it mean to you? What does it mean to me? Yeah Well, my good men those inscriptions circled around it are going to prove invaluable possibly another rosetta stone An open sesame to the countless undecipherable writings. We've already collected about spanish gold. Maybe So what are you talking about? Nothing. Look erskine one question. How did you know the mono waters was staying here at this hotel? It wasn't simple to learn When mr. Van lord refused to sell the bowl to me until tomorrow I wanted to be certain that he also didn't sell it to anyone else So I watched his show. Oh, that's smart Though when I saw miss waters there, I recognized her at once as an Apache and I followed her here Where I found out her name and room number now. I'm going to wait for her until she returns I'm not going to give up. That bowl means too much. Wait a minute. Hold it erskine You happen to know jimmy brown bears hometown. Come on quick. Well, yes, I do it. It's a conanumexico So conanumexico by bus. Thank you friend. I'm sorry to have to leave you to do your waiting alone But I gotta catch a bus but where mr. Marlowe at the downtown central bus depot I'll put cart before horse to turn tables a switch in short mr. Erskine to track an indian so long In just a moment the second act of philip marlowe, but first You meet many an old friend from the wide field of music every sunday afternoon When the corollers and the symphonet are heard on most of these same cbs stations This sunday to find voices of the corollers will recall such old favorites says I've been working on the railroad the best things in life are free and janine. I dream of lilac time The symphonet will bring you the overture from the bohemian girl a straws composition and a stirring march among others Be sure to hear the symphonet and the corollers to find your old friends and favorites every sunday Now with our star jerald more we return to the second act of philip marlowe and tonight's story the indian giver Tracking an indian over the busy concrete of downtown los angeles sounds a lot tougher than turned out to be Apparently a six feet four apache in a full crown black hat and moccasins Was an oddity even in the city of oddities and everyone who'd seen him remembered him from the guy behind the bus depots take a desk the news boy outside the flop house nearby Where jimmy brown bear had made camp the next bus was still 45 minutes away So I decided to visit the flop house But jimmy brown bear must have seen me coming and was expecting trouble because when I stepped into the hall I saw him duck out the back door to the alley I ran after him and watched him turn down what would have been a dead end to a normal man But jimmy made a jump at a nine foot wall caught the top and was pulling himself up when it happened Jimmy stiffened on the wall And the second shot came he dropped rigidly like a poison fly and lay very still I started over to him but stopped at the excited voice of a cabbie running toward me from the open end of the alley Hey, hey, mr. Hey, what happened? I heard a couple of shots him and I Uh-oh Yeah, that's what you heard. Holy mackerel Hey, wait, wait, that's the indian. You mean you know him too Yeah, I hauled him around in my cab tonight. Who did it? Mr? You don't be silly. Will you the shots could have come from any place any one of those windows His own fire. Oh, yeah. Yeah between those buildings there that Hey, that day I'm running for the street. Will you get out of my way? Not so fast, buddy You know, yes, I know I'm on a water is the brother. Will you get the cops over here right away? William, I gotta catch that girl no chance. Mr. She's long gone. Oh, oh no Van Nord Oh, I certainly didn't expect to find you here. What in the world is going on here among other things murder Yeah, it's that indian mr. Van Nord the same one. Oh Good heavens Did this happen because of the bowl? No does mono waters just got away between those two buildings I'm pretty sure she's the one who took the bowl out of your place tonight because jimmy brown bear got it away from her later Now she's got it back again, and he winds up like that Then you think the girl killed him to recover the ball right now. I'm too bald up to think anything So just a minute. How do you manage to show up here? Uh why I I started home in this man's taxi and found out that he was the one who brought mr Brown bear to myself tonight. Yeah, that's right I picked the indian up right out here on the corner So we came down here because I thought if we found where the indian was staying it might be a help to you Marlon you were waiting in the cab when he was shot No No, I started into this place alone And then I thought better of it and came out to get you cabbie to come in with me And then I heard the shot now look mr. Van Nord you better keep your nose out of this mess Go on home and sit on your curios. I'll call you when I got something Assuming that my client story was true and that he did have the cabbie to back him up I got in my car and headed back to the walker house I parked at the side of the hotel and started to that convenient rear door again when I saw the commotion of half a dozen excited passes by bending over a man stretched out on the sidewalk Hey, how do you like that? It's enough to make a fatalist out of you, ain't it? Absolutely, what happened why that poor guy there is walking along mine his own business and practically gets his back Broke by a hunk of pottery some jerk must have heaved out at one of them windows up there Pottery you mean a bowl maybe a boat. I don't know it broke all the smithereens It was plenty heavy though was about hey, hey look look. There's a chunk of it. Let me see that Oh, sure brown clay with symbols carved on it Indian symbols Listen, uh, buddy what window that come out of anybody see anybody? No, no, they're all dark up there. We can't figure that Hey, what's the matter where you going? There was no doubt about it a broken piece of pottery I clenched in my hand must have come from the Indian bowl I ran inside rode the elevator up to the fifth floor again and beat it down the hall to 515 Sprawled out on the floor inside was Clark Erskine the archaeologist Making a valiant but wobbly effort to get back on his feet I dropped the chunk of bowl in my pocket and gave him a hand Come on fella. Up you go. Come on. All right. Take it easy Sit over here and tell me what happened to you Who are you Marlowe Marlowe remember you're in room 515 of the walker house When I left you were waiting for mono waters, but I came back to find you spread out on the floors Flat as that puddle of ink there on the desk blotter now you take it. How come all this? Oh, yeah. Yes. I I remember now I was struck. Yeah. Yeah, but Marlowe the light are out and they're better left that way unless you want the room full of irate citizens Who struck you? I have no idea I was sitting at the desk there writing miss waters a note because I decided not to wait any longer when I was Hit from behind that explains the spilled ink. What about the open window was closed when I left open window way Well, that's strange strange. It's screwy nuts. What do you mean? Mr. Marlowe just what is your position in this business? I'm a private detective working for mr. Van Nord and I'll tell you something else Whoever slugged you open that window and sail the precious indian bowl right out into thin air five stories high Smash down there on the side. Oh the bowl is gone Destroyed. Oh, no. Oh, yes. Well, that's hideous The markings on that bowl were priceless Why marlowe greets cut why was it destroyed? That's what I mean. Say it's screwy Oh, wait a minute. I'll get it Hello Miss mona waters, please. It's urgent interstate airlines calling. She's out. I'll take the message To 12 a.m. Instead of 1 12 a.m. As a departure time of her plane tonight The baby is 12 30 now if she leaves at 1 12. I know we're just sick I hope not. I'll do my best to deliver your message in person. You're a dear girl for calling. Goodbye What was it marlowe? Something important. Not archaeologically. I'll see you later. Oh, wait, wait Isn't that anything we can do about the bowl? Yeah, oh sure get a bottle of glue and a dustpan and hop to it. So long earth skin. I'm off to the field of the thunderbirds Now look officer, I was never mind Well mac you're batting a thousand you pulled out of the hotel drive way two blocks back Ran one full stop and a red signal getting this far. That's great So what's your story then drinking not a drop believe me and now look I've got to get to the airport now hurry Why yeah to catch an indian girl a guy named jimmy brown bear was murdered tonight because a bowl was stolen Wait a minute wait a minute hold it who was murdered. Oh, I know. What's it you there's no use in going into office My name is malo. I'm a private detective working on a case and I got to get to the airport Private eye, huh? Let's see your paper. Oh, sure. Sure here. They're all here. I Yeah Marlon license number Hey, what's eating you? What are you staring at? Blue black lines on the palm of my hand They look just like Holy smoke. They are that's the answer. I got to get back to that hotel. It's a matter of life and death Now just please give me a ticket. Give me three tickets only Let me get back to the walker house right now. Will your life depends on it? You better be right marlon Wait till I stop the traffic then make a u-turn Now go ahead Made it back to the hotel in something under seven minutes for the round trip I ran for the elevator waited for the car to come down and when the gate opened bump head on into clock urskine himself I backed him into the elevator again at gunpoint and pushed the fifth floor button I didn't say a word By the time the elevator stopped and the gate slid open he was beginning to sweat malo I I I just don't understand this Why is the gun take a guess urskine? I want to know what happened to mono waters Why I I I don't know she she didn't come back here. This is 515 remember go on open it up and get inside Now listen you I know who killed jimmy brown bear and I found out plenty about the bulls. So talk Where's mona behind you with a gun in my hand. So don't move. Oh great Well, at least you're okay except for a headache. Yes I just woke up in the bedroom with a heap big lump on my scalp and I know a pale face who's gonna pay for that Drop your gun malo drop it Now who's this character here and where's the bowl malo headed miss waters I saw him hit you and take it. I I tried to stop him, but he hit me too. My name is urskine I'm an archaeologist. I only wanted to make a scientific study of the bowl, but this vandal here has destroyed it Life's on that wing and listen before you start shooting There's a lot of wampum at stake of nothing else now keep that in mind Okay, big wins start blowing speak your peace and keep it straight. He's a treacherous liar miss waters I know I'm braced for that. Oh you sweetheart you all right The inscriptions on that bowl with a key to the treasure which is probably no news to you too You didn't know how to work at mona, but urskine here did He found out that some of the lines were etched into the clay and others were raised like the face of type in a printing press Do I go on Pray do professor. All right. Now look if you look closely beautiful, you'll see ink on his fingers Also, you'll notice that a bottle of ink poured out on your desk blotter there made the same kind of ink pad You use for a rubber stamp that ink was spilled by accident now. Don't listen to him because Go out mellow. Well after he knocked you out and left you in the bedroom All he had to do was roll that wide flat border of the bowl through the ink then roll it again over blank paper and it printed What's more, baby? If we look real close, we'll find a perfect printed map on your hotel stationery stuck in one of his inside No, you don't you'll never get the shot My love a gun on the floor is gone Jack mona lights out Yeah, I'm okay Then I I did shoot the right man And sugar mitzvotas Well, that's about the story mr. Van Orden mona here slip the indian bowl into your shipment to keep it away from the guys She knew her after it and of course she had to follow the ball here to la urskine followed her I see It's amazing. Isn't it positively amazing? Marlo, how did you discover that the intricate pattern on the ball worked like a printing press? Oh, well after urskine had made his print of the map He threw the ball out the window to smash it so no one else could duplicate it I got hold of a chunk of it and clenched it in my hand I found out later when I passed that cop my credentials that The chunk of pottery had left separate distinct lines of ink on my palm terribly clever. Isn't he mr. Van Orden? Oh, take it easy, baby Indeed the east clever miss waters But what the poor jimmy brown bear? Well, urskine followed me from the hotel of jimmy's place and shot him so I'd never have a chance to talk to him He was a ruthless little guy clock urskine What if he survives that bullet wound the state will get him for murder? Yes Miss waters you'll have to hurry and finish your breakfast so that you can catch your plane But before you go, I have a little gift for you. Excuse me. I'll get it And marlo Speaking of gifts, I have one for you Come here Yo, baby, that's nice Is it for keeps? Of course not silly I'm an indian giver remember When I come to town again, I'll be rich and reckless and loaded with all that old spanish gold That's when I'll take my gift back again With interest How long filthy Well when I finally got home completely fagged out at 10 o'clock in the morning I took one look at my favorite chair The big deep soft one And then sank down into it good and hard Oh Something that felt like a broken beer bottle stabbed me I reached for it and it turned out to be the jagged chunk of the indian bowl I dropped in my pocket earlier For the first time I really looked at the hieroglyphics on it There were three indian figures The first was breaking sticks into uneven lengths The second was holding a small fish and the third was Running away with all the wampum It took me a long time, but I finally got it I think The indian picture message could only be translated one way It had to mean Never give a sucker and even break And right then and there I thought about mona And what she'd said So long, baby The adventures of philip marlowe bringing you raymond chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy star Gerald Moore Tonight's story was produced and directed by cliff howell Script is by melden ellie robert mitchell and gene levitt Feature in the cast were betty lou gerson hans conreed clark gordon howard cover peter leeds jane webb and jane novello The special music is written and conducted by richard orant Be sure and be with us again next week when philip marlowe says Inside of two hours a lavish mansion seethe with suspicion A sealed cabin filled with gas and an artist's retreat had a corpse on the floor All because one man was too good-looking to be true to anyone There'll be a couple of unusual twists for mystery fans on gangbusters and on basal rathbone's adventure tonight Gangbusters will present a former chief of detectives on the new york city police Narrating the case of a bet on a long shot that ended in murder Basil rathbone's drama will find that suave gentleman going to jail himself in order to deliver a man to the police This is roi roan speaking Now stay tuned for gangbusters which follows immediately over most of these same cbs stations This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system