jackson i'm going to grant you a special privilege not often given to him in your position is what you asked for a chance to tell you a story to the newspapers to get it off your chest thanks  kick the bucket it's not so tough to walk to the last mile it's just tough to light a cigarette that bar this from the ward that's good to meet and she come up to your office did you fall in love with that wait a minute one of the time you may not know this but i wasn't always a detective before they pin this murder rap on me i had one of the sweetest little rackets in san francisco a legitimate business better than this kid's going to grow up to be a sponsor even wearing out the lights a cloud coming back to his office of a busy day getting the goods on a few assorted crooks and murderers sam macleod the coolest toughest private eye in the business you see i wanted to be a detective too it only took brains courage and a gun and i had  gun i'd figured out a way for sam to hire me so i started across the hall already i could see my name in big letters ronnie jackson private eye but i didn't see was the small print underneath rest in peace so i can be a lot of help the same look here's my latest invention right here a camera with a keyhole lens takes pictures right through doors i've been kicked out of five hotels already how about it's am i going to work for you just give me a simple yes no or no oh but that's too simple why don't you give a little thought going to chicago for a few days and leave the door open s over a warm fire even if it wasn't raining drink as much as he can i suppose you wonder why he's every girl comes and he does ha so you got to the place you know if i go to the police they'll kill him you say that's what i want you to find out look i have no not what are you waiting for you want to be a detective don't you see what was an address the map my life then i got a lot of the mention of the joint must have been something left over from weathering heights you know the kind of a house that looks like you've been hunting quail in the hallways i didn't know it then but i was going to be the day though it's l you i know somehow they always seem to be more interested in the problems of young lives with older cousins and all it just seems that way to you please listen my uncle came to this and still he treats me like a child tells me not to worry he says that he's handling things and all the time i feel as though i'm being watched i may have a little surprise for y miss monte has been suffering from an acute form of schizophrenia accompanied by visual input ations and increasingly severe paranoid delusions and how is she mentally i very much make it easy on yourself i handle all these  what you kept the map oh sure why not she may not have it up here but how about  do you know who that phone call was from the poli someone forced to make that call someone who wants me to believe that nothing is wrong oh mr macleod i don't know what to do how i met my wit and you know how i passed there an hour ago w you oh so they've been talking to you they've been telling you things or you're crazy i mean you're being silly nobody's been talking to me i haven't even talking to myself oh yes they have they told  i figured little miss groove almost a little when she kissed me i started to go back for it but i changed my mind i spot a high window around the corner of the house and decided to climb up and take a gander i figured the only way to get the inside job was from the outside  is where my gadget pays off the greatest invention since the albany night but this will do it i says next stop runs gallery job what a man he must s those kids with a hammer started pounding again with the something wasn't in my head it was somebody knocking on the door and it wasn't mcleod's door it was my door my door in the other room i'll show you they're probably all hide in here stick with me hey hey what's this looks like nobody home nothing personal about that i hope i didn't think such i think a rebuke is in order on i wait a minute don't get so that's where she  well i do with it was my next book with the fine or so i get back into my hot rod special at start up about an hour later i spot a sign see a cliff line oh i'm going to locate the girl telling you i'm just another guest looking for a little oh lucky i got over those traps i didn't see  staying here you know all about the room next to mine it keeps me up all night long playing yankee doodle on his fight of keep why don't you tell patrol a oh that's better that's his apartment and the thing like this could be permanent you know couples so they have bellhops here wel on hour wait a minute don't go feminine on me don't go masculine either or oh i didn't know this was going to be formal or i'll be right with your boss salmon if you don't mind i'd like to acquaint the baron with a few basic facts you seem assured of brought on we have you we have your means and they're having mr macleod we have to match that judge you haven't spent before the chrysanthemum rooms we will have you please put this away yes  phone don't be so rough was fair he can take it the pool boys they he he don't know what's gone on oh oh oh i'm sorry honey i didn't mean to get so fresh  cooler at the ferry building yeah yeah ferry building in the water cooler by the newsstand third cup from the top we'll find out i don't mean to tell you about three hours to get on th tony doesn't happen to find that map  i you know where you've got a funny way of showing us i'm still trying to get the car parcels to move back in i'm sorry you just don't know your own strike you know willing i like you to you do yes sir what a physique boner day and with legs and look at those shoulders and then arm like a sack a door knob it's just like a woman easy easy easy everything you touch turns to rigor mortis you know willie with your strength i bet you could take that radiator and just pull it out by the roots and play it like an accordion ha when that be but you can even take those bars and just bend them apart so all i don't like to pray oh well go ahead  the you do better with your through play sister the last twenty four hours i've been knocked out shot it knocked out again i've put through the ringer but if i'm still alive it's only because the insurance company doesn't want to give up airfreight it would break up here and i don't mean see you later saw sister i could use water wings in this business from now on i'm gonna stick to watch the birdie leave the checks alone let me put my arms around you you let me hold you close even closer you think you can get me to do anything you want was our next stop but we didn't look exactly like cafe society so i blew the bank roll around a tuxedo for myself and an evening gown for carlotta boy did she stack up i guess you only get out of a thing what you put into it an hour later we were at the all yesterday morning i got a phone call and the voice exactly like better among days when it was said that there had been a change in plans for the man with no longer for sale do you realize what that means well not exactly it means just somebody some other government perhaps is after that cry  you know i had a hunch this thing was much bigger it look i don't care if you have got a girlfriend i'm going home and hit the hay i just don't go pretty blind dates i'd rather be caught dead i'd rather be caught but ok call up  well me you don't expect to get away with it still yet but i tell you i didn't do it i didn't do it cause you didn't do it there's a fire hydrant just sneak up on your house hold that i may see your driver's license when i talk a lot of they dropped out because it was quite a blow to the kid bounced back like a rubber ball nice soft rubber ball to him and i wasn't in the mood to play catch i was in for keeps now ronnie jackson wanted for murder well we were going to rockies a lot of was very sweet she looked to me like a money because she wanted to make sure i didn't get away and for a disguise i was wearing a ten o'clock shadow and the only caging the only thing that bothered me was the alligator i knew it would get brain pitted against his he had the brain and i had the p well you certainly don't look like a detective