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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Phantom Chase Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1233) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  Now it's time for us to go ahead and begin the Phantom Chase Matter parts
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  one and two from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar Pat McCrackan,
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  Universal Adjustment Bureau, Johnny Wow, A long time pad. What's on your
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  mind at the moment? One hundred and twenty thousand bucks. Hey, you're
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  really thinking big these days? No correction worrying big? Well, I guess
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  if I had one hundred and twenty thousand clams, I'd worry too. Look,
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  if we had it, I wouldn't be worrying. So who does have
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  it? Thomas Chase coming in a partner in the New York Investments? Did
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  they get Everson the Chase real dignified outfit up till now? Jason Bezzel the
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  money? We think? So? So what do you want with me?
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  I'm no expert enforcing professions? Johnny again, Make a guy confess if you
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  can't find him. Oh, Chase has jumped his bail. He's disappeared.
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  I'll be right over tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed
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  Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense ac coud America's fabulous freelance insurance
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  investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
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  Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an accounting of
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  expendit yours during my investigation of the Phantom Chase matter expense account at a one
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  a dollar even taxi from my apartment to the offices of Universal Adjustment where Pat
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  mccragan was waiting for me with a worried look and a handful of papers.
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  How can you figure it, Johnny, and I'll fit Like eversonon Chase goes
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  along for years without a blemish on the record, and then blewie, one
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  of them turns sour. That's what makes horse racist. I guess that's also
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  what gives bonding companies headaches. Yeah, what's the background, Pat, No,
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  it's all in here. Everson Chase investment brokers, real high class clientele,
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  warnership. Oh yeah, George Everson senior partner, forty two years old,
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  pillar of society. All right, No, widower wife died three four
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  years ago. This Thomas Chase is the junior partner there. Yeah, he's
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  thirty eight. It's a big fellow, clean cut all conference football player in
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  college, you know that sort of thing. Everything in his favor looks personality,
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  intelligence, ability, Why, Johnny, Eh, why a guy like
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  that? Oh, you're asking the wrong fellow. I've seen enough embassas ought
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  to know. They come in all shapes and sizes. What turns a man
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  like that sour? Anyway? Well, you know the stock reasons as well
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  as I do. Pad gambling debts. A woman, incidentally, is Chase
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  married. Now that's another thing. I don't get what I mean. I
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  know one of the stock reasons for embezzling is another woman. If that was
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  Chase's motive, he's notti than a fruitcake. Why anyone who had a wife
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  like Lola Chase would even look at another woman is beyond me. Like that,
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  huh? Like that impresses me as a real, real fine woman and
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  has got the looks to go with it. Or you'll be talking to You'll
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  see for yourself, always a pleasure pad. Now about the money that's missing.
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  One hundred and twenty thousand dollars, you see, Yeah, more or
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  less, currency checks, negotiable security. Well, look a deal like that
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  didn't just take place overnight. It must have been going on for a long
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  time, no doubt of it. How to Chase manager? Well, Everson
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  configure in on that better than I could a senior partner. Yeah, now
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  he's still not willing to go along with us. The Chase is guilty.
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  I think he's pretty concerned about the company name, which is understandable enough.
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  Well, he's got something. Well, you better save yourself some time,
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  Johnny, meaning meaning you just answered me one question, right, What is
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  it? What? An innocent man. Jump bail expense had him two sixteen
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  dollars and twenty cents transportation and incidentals to New York to the office of Everson
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  and Chase. George Everson was Justice Pat McCracken had described him early forties,
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  a little gray at the Temple's healthy ten, the real solid citizen, tiple,
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  handsome and right now unhappy. I still can't believe it. Mister Dollar,
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  Tom Chase, of all people, Well, he was like a younger
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  brother. I nursed him to the best graduate business school in the East.
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  I took him in with me. How long ago did he become a partner
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  in the firm, mister Everson? For five years? It five years?
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  Next month it would be and Lola, poor Lola, his wife. If
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  I ever saw an ideal, Mary's that was it. As far as I
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  could see. She was. She's all in a man could want. Maybe
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  not for Tom Chase, No, maybe not. And I certainly don't understand
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  it. Tell me how was Chase able to get away with this deal,
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  the embezzlement, Well, it began with mister Dollar. Our firm has always
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  maintained a very fluid relationship with his clients, frequently we're buying or selling for
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  them, or both very rapidly. In a situation like that, the client
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  places a great deal of confidence and trust in us, and we've always had
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  the utmost of both from them, at least we did have, I see.
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  Well, anyway, in a situation like ours, it is possible for
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  a clever man to juggle figures, and that's what Tom Shased did. Yes'mfraight,
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  so you see. More and more lately he'd taken over the personal management
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  of some of our best accounts, oh, sort of taking them under the
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  wing. I encouraged him to. But if I'd realized I was only putting
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  temptation in Tom's way, Well, how did you find out what he'd been
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  up to, mister Effison. Well, Tom had formed a kind of pattern
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  in these accounts. He specialized in handling those clients of ours who were primarily
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  interested in growth investments, growth long range you know, buy and hold it
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  for quite a while. Oh yeah, I see. But one of those
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  clients suddenly decided to liquidate these holdings on short notice. The account turned up
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  short, then quite short, so of course I immediately ordered a full scale
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  audit. The results of that brought the District Attorney's office into it. The
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  rest, you know. Yeah, but I must say that on paper,
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  he'd done a very convincing job. You see, now here are the files
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  on all his accounts. Pardon me. He'd recorded each transaction carefully and correctly,
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  and had written up memos on all of them. These memos, then
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  his handwriting, Yes they are. May I take one of them with me?
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  Yeah, certainly there are, nice, mister Evison, As I understand
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  that Tom Chase wouldn't talk after his arrest. No, that was the most
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  frustrating part of it. If he'd given us some kind of explanation, anything,
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  but he refused to make a statement of any kind. I see.
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  I arranged for his bail, of course, and tried to do what I
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  could, but he jumped ail and disappeared. Yeah, this was four days
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  ago, I understand. Yeah. I one more thing, mister Everson,
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  had he acted it all differently lately? Well, I hadn't noticed anything,
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  but apparently his wife Lola had. Oh yeah, I had dinner with him
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  a week or so before, well before this thing happened. Lola got me
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  off to one side for a moment and asked me if i'd noticed any change
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  in Tom lately. Change. Yes, She said that he'd seemed rather moody
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  and preoccupied, and that made me realize that he had seemed a trifle tants
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  around the office. Apparently, he told her he'd been working extra hard,
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  and I suppose that should have been a danger sign to me, But well,
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  I was afraid i'd so I just passed it off. I kidded her
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  out of it. Yeah. Well, thanks for the information, mister Everson.
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  It's little enough. I'm afraid, where do you start looking at a
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  case like this. Well, that's a good question. First, I think
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  I'm going to have a talk with missus Chase, find out all I can
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  about her husband's habits, likes and dislikes so on. Sometimes you pick up,
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  well, you'll probably run him down sooner or later. I understand you
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  have quite a reputation to that sort of thing. I wonder if you'd do
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  me a favorite, mister Donner. Sure, as I say, you probably
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  find him. And as for the money, well, I guess whatever part
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  of it we recover, we should be grateful for. That's about the size
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  of it. I guess, frankly, I'd rather not see Tom Chase again
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  unless it can't be avoided. Yeah, I understand it, But there is
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  one question. I guess I'll always wonder about it. Maybe you can find
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  the answer for me. What is it? Why did he do it?
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  Why? Expenser con Item three twelve fifty cocktails in dinner for Lola Chase and
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  myself. I figured she might relax a little more that way, And believe
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  me, taking Lola Chase to dinner was no chore. She was everything Pat
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  McCracken and George Efferson had said she was. Tom Chase must have had some
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  pretty powerful reasons to walk out on her. Wellla and I'm a general conversation
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  through dinner, and she was poised but pretty subdued. After we finished eating,
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  I steered the conversation around to her husband. I don't know that there's
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  anything I can tell you that I haven't already told the District Attorney's office,
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  mister Dollar, but every information I can furnish, Well, what I mainly
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  want to know is, oh, what sort of person was your husband?
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  Tom? I guess I'm the wrong one to be answering that, mister dollarm
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  I thought I knew Tom better than anyone in the world, But as it
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  turned out I didn't know him at all. Funny how you can live with
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  someone for years. Yeah, So when you ask me what sort of personal
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  he was, I guess I have to say I really don't know. How
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  about his hobbies, likes and dislikes, you know that sort of thing.
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  Well, he liked to play golf, he did some sailing, and he
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  had quite a collection of records and an elaborate high five. I said,
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  all, what kind of records? Jazz? Mostly? He used to play
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  them by the hour. I must say he turned them up a little too
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  loudly for me. But then I understand that women's ears weren't built for high
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  fire or something like that. Yeah, tell me, missus chasers. Did
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  you notice much change in his behavior recently? Yes, I did. Ended
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  upset me. What sort of change. Well, for one thing, he
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  became rather moody, I guess you'd call it. He seemed to have something
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  on his mind all the time. Several times he stayed out late at night,
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  said he was working. And then there was the thing about our vacation.
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  What was that. We planned a little trip, but at the last
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  moment he told me he couldn't go. He insisted I make the trip without
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  him. I didn't want to, but he insisted, so I finally went
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  alone. It was when I got back that I found out he'd been arrested.
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  Where did you go on this trip, Martha's Vineyard? Well, thanks
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  very much for the information, Missus Chase. Thank you, mister Dowler.
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  You've been very kind. Quenen if you find Tom well, yes, well,
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  I guess I'm just foolish enough to think he still might be innocent.
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  I took Missus Chain to her apartment and then went back to my hotel.
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  A big question was where to start. What did I really know about Tom
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  Chase. I had a picture of him and a specimen of his handwriting.
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  I knew his hobbies, but what did it all add up to. Oh,
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  mister yeah, I'm sorry to barge in on you at this hour,
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  mister Dollar, No, not at all, Come on, come on out.
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  Thanks, mister Donner. You probably think I'm crazy, and I know
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  it's a very slim chance, but it is a chance. What are you
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  talking about. Take a look at this newspaper right here, a feature article
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  on Chez New Orleans. This picture taking in the bar down there, the
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  old guy with a trumpet. No, no, no, in the background
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  the people sitting at the bar. Look at this man right here. Oh,
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  his face is half turned away and it looks like he hasn't shaved for
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  a while. Mister Dollar, that's Tom Chase. You sure you can't see
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  much of his face. I know, I know, But when you've been
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  around a man for several years, you notice little things about him, little
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  mannerism, like what, well, look, look at the way he's got
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  his head sort of cocked to one side. Now, that's just the way
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  Tom always did when he was listening to something. And look at his hand
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  resting on the bar, like one finger was pointing at something. That's the
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  way Tom held his hand. And look he's got one leg sort of drawn
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  up. That is exactly the way Tom used to sit at the bar.
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  Hall. But mister Everson, any number of men and that picture isn't too
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  clear. I know. Maybe it's just a crazy, wild idea, mister
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  Dollar. I'll bet on it that that man is Tom Chase. Crazy wild
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  idea. Maybe, maybe not. But it took less than a second to
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  metally flip a coin and it came up New Orleans Johnny Dollar, George Everson,
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  mister Dollar, Oh, yes, mister Everson, I've been thinking,
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  Yeah, I could have been wrong last night. You mean about the newspaper
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  picture of the bar in New Orleans. Yes, that man in the background
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  of the picture, the way he sits, the way he holds his hands,
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  and he's handed it's so like Tom Chae, that's what you told me
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  last night. Yes, but this morning, well, you know, things
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  always look different in the morning. After all, we can't see very much
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  of his face in the picture. It might be just a wild goose Chase.
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  Well, I've been on plenty of them, believe me. But I've
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  been thinking too, mister Everson. Tom Chase and bezzled one hundred and twenty
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  thousand dollars from your firm. New Orleans would be as good a place for
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  him to hide as any Besides, which his wife told me was very fond
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  of jazz, and there's certainly plenty of that down there, And you really
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  think it might be a possibility. My plane leaves for New Orleans in an
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  hour tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the
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  Man with the Action Packed Expensive Coud, America's Fabulous Freelance insurance investigator yours truly,
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  Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location, New Orleans,
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  Louisiana to the Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut. Assignment the
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  phantom chase matter expense account continue a NUM five three point fifty kmv fair to
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  the airport. George Everson was waiting for me at the passenger ramp. I'll
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  tell you, mister Dollar, before I came out here to the airport,
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  I called the insurance company you represent in this investigation. Oh. I told
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  him, if this pipped in New Orleans did turn out to be just a
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  wild goose chase, that I would assume you're expenses. Oh well, that's
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  very considerate of you, mister Everson, but it is necessary now. Investigations
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  an investigation. My company is willing and anxious to exhaust all the possibilities.
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  And from what you tell me, it's a good possibility that Tom Chase is
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  hiding in New Orleans. Well I hope, so, say, Look,
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  I've still got a minute or two before my plane loads. I want to
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  make sure I've got all the facts straight. All right. Tom Chase was
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  your junior partner. He began to specialize in those clients of yours who made
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  long term investments, right, one of them decided to sell out suddenly,
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  and you discovered there was a lot less in his account than they should have
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  been. He ordered and ordered, and found that other accounts of Tom's had
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  been juggled too, to the tune of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars roughly.
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  He was arrested but wouldn't talk. He got out on bail and jumped
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  his bail and disappeared. Yes, all right. His wife La says that
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  for some time before that he was moody, intense. Well, look,
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  I didn't mention this to her, but I will tell you. Do you
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  have any reason to think that Chase was interested in another woman? No,
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  no reason at all, Good Lord, mister Dollar. With a wife like
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  Lola, a man would be out of his mind to even think of anyone
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  else. Well, I'm just mentioning a possibility, mister Everson. H I
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  know, and I suppose that always is a possibility and embezzlement cases, but
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  I certainly hope not in this one. The whole thing's been hard enough on
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  Lola as it did. Yeah, did you tell her about the newspaper picture
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  and that I'm going to New Orleans. No, I decided not to mention
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  it to her for the present. I didn't want to get her hopes up,
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  although heaven no, she doesn't have much to hope for under the circumstances.
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  Yeah, oh, well, my planes loading for so long, mister
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  Everson. If best of luck, mister Dollar, I'll be waiting for word
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  from you. Don't come on much. Oh, people have hit the jackpot
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  on the first nickel, I know, but oftener than not they turn up
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  three lemons instead expense on them six one hundred and fourteen dollars. There was
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  transportation and incidentals to New Orleans. I checked in at the hotel and headed
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  for the quarter. It hadn't changed much, maybe a little more neon here
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  and there, But the same streets, the same lattice work, the same
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  noises. Then, as I was walking along the sidewalk, something came hurtling
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  down through the air at me. I jumped to one side. It was
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  a basket at the end of a rope. A man from a little grocery
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  store came out, put some food in the basket, and the lady in
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  the upstairs window hold it up again. No, the quarter hadn't changed much.
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  It was after dark when I located ASA's Castle, a bar that had
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  been shown in the New York newspaper. There how many people inside, A
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  few couples scattered around, a single or two at the bar, the bartender,
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  and over in one corner of a small band making slow said music.
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  I went over to the bar. Evening soon, hie Scotson sort of praise
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  a little slow tonight. Huh it's early, it'll pick up. Yeah.
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  Nice. This is the bar that was in the New York newspaper picture,
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  isn't it. Yes, this is the place that must have been good for
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  business tourists. This isn't the tourist spot. What kind of a spot?
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  Isn't People from around the street here come in, have a drink or two,
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  nurse their own private troubles. All forget them and listen to pops hops
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  pops hawker, the old man over there with the trumpet. Oh hey,
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  he plays like he means he does. Do you mind taking a look at
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  this newspaper picture? So what about it? Well, this guy in the
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  background sitting at the bar, Yeah, know him? Not particularly? What
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  do you mean not particular? I mean a lot of guys come in here,
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  should I know all of them? All? Right? Here, here's
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  a front view of the man I'm looking for. Recognize him? Afraid,
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  Nasir, afraid, I can't help you ever. Hear the name Tom Chase?
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  Chase? Not that I remember this man in the newspaper picture? Is
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  his name Tom Chase? Well could be, I'm not sure. Well,
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  if he's around the street somewhere, you'll probably run into him sooner or later.
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  How do you think it people on the street don't leave it much?
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  Well, if it's on huh, I suppose sort of an upside down world,
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  But a world I guess seems to be what they want. Sir,
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  you think if my friend Tom Chase is here on the street somewhere or he's
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  lable to stay, most of them do. And it looks like you're gonna
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  have a steady customer for a while. We can always use him. Why
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  don't you go talk to Pops, the old boy playing the trumpet there.
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  He's got quite a memory. Maybe he could help you. Thanks. I
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  welcome. Pop was way off and never never land. He looked as old
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  as after. He wore dark glasses, and the horn he was blowing looked
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  like he either found it or made it real cool, Pops, Thank you,
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  Daddy. Me and the boys just warm enough. That wasn't warm up?
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  What what it used to be? Well, still hold up for a
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  while, I guess I think it will. Yeah, you talk to that
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  horn real pretty, you'd win on talk back to the cow's daddy. Hey,
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  look, maybe you can help me, Pops. You got troubles in
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  a way. I'm looking for somebody. Oh, lots people got troubles,
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  daddy. No, that's not quite what I mean. It's a well,
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  it's a fellow named Tom Chase. Have you heard the name around here?
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  Cheese? There was a side man in Chicago once named Tom Chase. No,
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  in the twenties was no, Sorry, wrong Chase. So the one
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  I'm looking for is under forty only Tom, I remember what was doing?
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  You been around here much? What are you looking for? Maybe? What
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  kind of voice he got? Why? Don't know why I remember voices?
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  Fire is? Maybe I remembers. Well, look I can do better than
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  that. Perhaps I got a picture right here. I don't do me no
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  good? Why not? I'm blinded basin street doors. I think I knew
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  now why he could blow the kind of music he did. It had to
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  make up for a lot of things. I guess it was the only way
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  he could see Adam seven two dollars drinks for me. I sat there and
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  asis canceled for a couple of hours, waiting, waiting for Tom Chase to
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  show up, off the guy who looked like him to show so I know
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  for sure whether this was a wild Bose chase. But nothing happened. A
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  few people sawly drifted in and out. Mostly they huddled around Pops Harker,
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  nursing their drinks and listening. It got to me midnight and I just about
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  decided to give up when a man with a face like a weasel slid into
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  the chair across the table from it. You're named Galla, Johnny Dalla.
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  That's right. Who are you, pretty, queen Tanner? So so you
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  should be glad to see me? Should I any particular reason? Quin Tanna,
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  Oh the beast, it's around the street. It's you're looking for somebody.
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  Dollar. News travels first. Yeah, when it's really interesting, news
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  like that, Oh what's so interesting about it? Whenever I smell though,
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  it is always interesting. Well, maybe I nose it's too sensitive or too
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  long. There was no mention of money. Look hopping around dollar. Oh,
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  I don't doubt that's. Yeah. A lot of people who clued around
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  the street and accorded don't want to be found. So a guy comes looking
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  for somebody, it usually costs him a little money to find him. Nice,
• 23:55
  and you're looking for a guy named calm Chase. So so I think
• 24:00
  I got him. Pig worse, not so face, dollard, not so
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  faced. First we talk money. You're wrong, their friend? What you
• 24:06
  mean? First we make sure you know what you're talking about. Now look,
• 24:08
  now you look, I've bumped into a lot of characters like you,
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  and more than a fair share of them. We're just trying to asten too
• 24:14
  a deal for a fans buck without Kenny, Kenny, I got the guy
• 24:15
  pigs describe him. Yeah, so good deal. Probably a good looking guy
• 24:21
  when he shaves, curly hair, brown eyes. How am I doing?
• 24:23
  Not bad? But I take a lot of convincing. Look, you're looking
• 24:26
  for this guy. You just want to talk about it. I just want
• 24:29
  proof. Okay, I'll get bring him here. That'll be prooven enough.
• 24:33
  You kidding? You eat that eating? You knew it. This guy didn't
• 24:37
  want to be fine. I know that the minute I spotty. He's going
• 24:40
  under the name of Tom James. Tom James, Yeah, bring a bed.
• 24:45
  Maybe his full name is Thomas James Chase. He could be using the
• 24:49
  first two names as another alias. Sure, yeah, that's a familiar pattern.
• 24:53
  Okay, Quentina, suppose you do give me some proof. What do
• 24:56
  you want? Five hundred bucks? Oh that's a lot of mone I think
• 25:00
  he wants Chase. I'd have to get an okay for my company. You
• 25:03
  could arrange it, maybe maybe, And that brings us back to the question
• 25:07
  of proof again. I'll be back an hour dollar which proof? Yeah,
• 25:18
  okay, what is the boss? And man you was talking to me?
• 25:22
  He's a bad one. I can tell him his verse. Daddy, Yeah,
• 25:27
  I know what you mean. You don't want to mess around with a
• 25:30
  bad one like that. Unfortunately, he could have something I need. Is
• 25:36
  that the reason? Oh? Well, maybe not a good one, but
• 25:37
  it's part of my job. Maybe you got yourself the wrong kind of job
• 25:42
  then, Daddy. You know, Pops, sometimes I think you're right.
• 25:56
  I don't know. Freddie right back on time with the goods too. Yeah,
• 26:00
  take a look, so I'll crumpled up what is smooth it out?
• 26:03
  I think it's a letter he started writing and threw it away. Where'd you
• 26:07
  get it? I paid a little visit to his room when he was out,
• 26:10
  I pieced it out of the waist back. Lola, when you get
• 26:15
  this, I'll be far away. Don't try to find me. It's better
• 26:18
  this way. I don't know how to explain, but ends there. Well,
• 26:22
  what you think is he your boy? I can tell you in about
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  ten seconds. I fished the sample of Chase's handwriting out of my pocket and
• 26:33
  compared it to the half finished letter. I'm no expert, but I didn't
• 26:38
  have to be. There was no doubt about it. It was Chase's handwriting.
• 26:44
  So it looked as though my trip was going to pay off after all.
• 26:47
  Som Chase was right here in New Orleans. Now here's our star to
• 27:07
  tell you about the next exciting episode of this story. There's a little game
• 27:11
  of chance called Dealer's Choice. Fine until the dealer gets dealt out the hard
• 27:15
  way. Join us, won't you yours truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours truly?
• 27:33
  Johnny Dollar is Stirring. Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by
• 27:37
  Robert Rife, It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to
• 27:41
  join us tomorrow night at same time in station for the next exciting episode of
• 27:45
  Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar roy Rowan speaking welcome back. I had kind of
• 28:47
  a head slapping moment when Johnny asked the guy with the dark glasses, who
• 28:53
  was clearly the stereotypical blond jazz musician, offered to show him the picture.
• 29:00
  I don't know, maybe folks listening to it may have missed it. It
• 29:04
  was also interesting that kind of the narration we get as we go into part
• 29:08
  two, New Orleans hadn't changed much, would kind of indicate that it's been
• 29:15
  a while since Johnny has been in New Orleans, but it hasn't relatively been
• 29:19
  that long. In fact, Johnny was in New Orleans longtime listeners will remember
• 29:25
  for the Valentine Matter, just about a year ago. At any rate,
• 29:29
  we're just at the beginning of this story, so we'll continue on Wednesday now.
• 29:33
  Listener comments, and this comes from Steven asking Bull whether we would run
• 29:38
  Bulldog Drumming and Boston Blackie. We have Boston Blackie planned on deck as soon
• 29:45
  as we finish up with Nick Carter, which is still quite a ways away.
• 29:52
  We're probably about a year and a half or thereabouts away from finishing Nick
• 29:56
  Carter The Bulldog Drumming I'll have to be admitted. I listen to it,
• 30:04
  and truth be told, the show just seem boring to me, so will
• 30:10
  not end up playing a bulldog drumming radio show. Doesn't mean that I wouldn't
• 30:15
  be open to doing some bulldog drumming video theaters. It's I've not quite got
• 30:22
  around to watching the bulldog drumming movies yet, but I will take a look
• 30:30
  at them and see if they might be good. But the yeah, the
• 30:33
  audio of the show just really did not appeal to me. So all right,
• 30:37
  Well that'll do it for today. As I said Wednesday, we continue
• 30:41
  on with the Phantom Chase matter, and be sure and join us tomorrow as
• 30:45
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