The Promise to Pay

It was only a gambler's marker. I promised to pay worth a thousand dollars. And I was hired to find it, which sounded easy, until I realized that it meant the whole future to two men, freedom to a third, and death to the girl in the cottage.

From the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of Crime Fiction, comes his most famous character in... The adventures of Philip Marlowe are with Gerald Moore. Starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story.

The promise to pay. It started over a bottle of 4 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. When Mama Nodella, a proud old lady who ran a restaurant, let me, I couldn't prepare a dish of chicken, kachiatore.

I never pass up a bed. So at 5.30, I picked up a can of chicken, and it's 6, had gone to work on it. At a quarter after seven everything was ready for the pen and my enthusiasm was at a high end until the telephone rang and what I thought was a check call from Amma Nodela turned out instead to be Garfield Randall. He was

a used to be client who at 32 was currently setting the LA business world and it's here. Young Randall probably next head of Continental Land and Trust. Yes that's it. Salmon to the board isn't it Gar? Yes job I've been after for two years.

So well, it's a job that will go to somebody else to do tomorrow Phil unless you can get me out of an ass to mess I'm in What's her name? The trade secret what do you want me to do?

Yeah, yeah, I guess so right away a guy but it hurts I leave it there she cuts you up all day Come in, Marl. Quickly. I'm due there at eight in it. It's almost that now.