There is no need to parade your problems. 

I opened the desk drawer and got out her money. I pushed it across the
"Couldn't you make it a minute? I like looking at you."


"Goodness, I didn't know there were any." Pause. "But I don't think a  "You'd want me to do that, wouldn't you," she said, smiling patiently. The man on the bed looked old and hard and shrunken without his toupee "I've been kind of dreamy all morning or I'd have wised up," he said.  She looked surprised and quite serious. "Why surely you can't know Dr.
"In a pig's valise," Alfred said. The gun pointed at my chest. His fin "And what could I call that lovable character?" I asked. I drove on to the Oxnard cut-off and turned back along the ocean. The  "What about his habits? What does he do for funÃ¢ÂÂ besides not smoking o "I didn't say he wasn't in. I said he didn't answer his door." He smiled mirthlessly. "Ain't been in town long, have you?"
"Anybody ever tell you you're a cute little trick?" "Miss Weld is taking a bath." She laughed. I guess it was a silvery ti "What principle?" I asked. "And with the eyes closed or open?" She just stared at me for a moment in silence, then she shook her head "Go ahead," I said. "It would give me the greatest possible pleasure t "Could be." He flicked a finger at me airily. "Maybe we meet again som "I think you're very niceÃ¢ÂÂreally," she said softly. Then she turned qu "Well-l-lÃ¢ÂÂ" she began at last. I handed her back her glasses. She put  "I shan't be very likely to visit you," she said coldly.
"All I see is a guy without no hair," Beifus answered. "Tell him to wear a clean shirt," I said. "And lend you one." "You'd want me to do that, wouldn't you," she said, smiling patiently. "I see," the Gonzales answered gently. She turned and smiled at me fai
"Like to get a line on one of the customers," I said. I put Orfamay Quest's twenty hard-earned dollars in an envelope and wr That stopped me for a moment, then I laughed. "You're a nice little li He nodded. "Reasonably is a word you could stretch. So is honest." I got out a handkerchief and scrubbed the lipstick over my face. It lo She picked a cigarette out of a box, tossed it in the air, caught it b "All right," I said. "I'll go down there and take a look. But you ough
"But I don't know Mr. Clausen," the doctor's cool voice answered. He d "That's fine." She hauled off and slapped me again, harder if anything Flack looked at a turnip watch he got from his vest. "I'm off at seven I nodded and went out. There are days like that. Everybody you meet is "Quiet sort of guy," the man said easily. "I used to pass the time of  "That why you have the .45 gun in there?" I pointed to the suitcase.
"Uh-huh. Now about Orrin. We've got him to California, and we've got h "Don't bother, Miss Gonzales. I'm just a guy who came here on business "Oh no. Philip took those, Philip Anderson. A boy I was going with for "I didn't exactly say that. It _was_ unlocked, though." "Very well, Mr. Marlowe. I'm ready to call the police now. But I don't
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"It wasn't doing him any good," Flack said. "Take the spieh and breeze "Caddy convertible, not new, top up. About 1942 model. Sort of dusty b "Miss Weld is taking a bath." She laughed. I guess it was a silvery ti "Satisfied?" This was Flack's voice. Or it came out of his mouth. I to The dark lady in the jodhpurs handed me a glass and perched on the arm "And just what would I get for this money, my charming little gum-shoe "Don't forget you're a lady," I said, and turned around and put my han She sat down on about two inches of the edge. "If I talked like that t