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Of course I have got my own spin on it, and we'll be
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All right, well we've gone long enough on the opening. Let's get
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into today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller the matter of the Medium, Well
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done from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Hi, Johnny Crack
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and a Universal Adjustment girl. Hi, have pantsy? What's in your mind?
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Had your fortune told lately? Nope, but I don't think I want
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to the last time it came true, Well, it's met him, guy,
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guy, I went into a transfit or whatever you call it. Yeah,
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anyhow, she told me I was going to become an insurance investigator,
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and I've ben't stuck with it ever since. Oh that's it. But I'd
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like to try your hand as a psychic investigation. Sure, what do I
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do? Drop over with him? I'm on my way tonight and every weekday
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night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed
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Expense account America's Fabulous freelance Insurance Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar Expense accounts submitted by
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Hertford, Connecticut. Following is
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an accounting of expended yours during my investigation of the matter of the medium well
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done expense account Item one one fifteen TAXI to the office of Pat McCracken at
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Universal. I hadn't seen Pat since he'd ruined my Southern California vacation by insisting
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I tied in with a Johnny Roger matter in the Lamar case or my expense
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account for some strange reason, came out to a rite nice figure. I've
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even included the case of VEO that I'd sent him for having handed me those
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investigations. So I didn't know whether he was going to be nice to me
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or to rub my nose in the dirt. As it turned out, he
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didn't know either. I don't quite know whether this is going to be another
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soft touch for that expense account of yours, or a completely crazy one or
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a real rough Tommy Green seems to think the latter, though I don't see
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why, particularly hos Tommy Green midd Eastern life down in New York. Oh,
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but just bill me as usual? Sure, Okay, Now, Tommy
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says he's run into this sort of thing before, but not on so big
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a scale. That's why he's worried about it. Pat, you still haven't
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told me what. Oh, Now, one of his clients happens to be
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a sweet young thing named Carol Sharp twenty six or seven, beautiful, badly
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spoiled love that way, well, nothing going. Yes, she lives alone
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in a swank penthouse in the East fifties. Down there in New York.
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Playgirl Tommy holds one hundred and ten thousand dollars policy on him, straight life
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beneficiary. Her family mother and a couple of kid brothers, no father,
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no, The others live over in mart Chunk, PA. That's where her
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father made the dough that keeps her in the penthouse and keeps the others living
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well in the old family man, So, what's the problem somebody threatening her
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life? I don't know, Johnny. It depends on what you mean by
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threatening. She just requested Tommy to change beneficiaries. What's so unusual about that.
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Well, one of them is to be a man named Tony Ricardo for
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thirty follos. Oh, so she's fallen for the guy and is making the
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nice gesture. Maybe we don't know yet. The other is a so called
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medium, Madame Celia something. Uh uh, I've heard it before. Turn
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the family fortune over to me and I'll get in touch with dear departed Papa.
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That's what it looks like from here. She's being took. How can
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it be any of our business? Last time Tommy was requested to change a
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beneficiary to a medium, his hale and hearty young client suddenly turned up dead
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and they pended on the medium. Mm hmmm. Apparently this sort of thing
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goes on quite a bit, so it has Tommy worried. So he asked
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for you, all right, just what do you want me to do?
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What do you want to do? Break out the old crystal ball, Pat,
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and we'll see expense account item too. Transportation Hartford to New York and
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the offices of Mid Eastern, where Tommy Green turned out to be a mild
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manner, thairly likable successful insurance broker. Come in, mister Dollar. Glad
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you could make it. I'll do, mister Green, sit down, want
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you thanks? I suppose Pat mccrack installed you what's on my mind? Only
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that you think one of your clients is being taken for the proverbial sleigh ride
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by some spiritualists as you no doubt no, mister Dollar, Spiritualism is recognized
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well established religion. Sure of course, however, is in any other There
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are Charlattan's in Some of these mediums, as they call themselves, take literally
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millions of dollars every year from people by trickery, by producing weird manifestations that
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appear to be genuinely supernan. For me, I know what you mean.
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My own mother took a beating from one of those phonies when I was just
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a kid. You know, promised messages from father after he died, and
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at twenty five bucks a try. Oh I wonder you're suspicious of them,
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and especially if one Madam Celia morgana morgana. Have you seen this, madam?
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No, but I believe you'd better. Have you changed what's your name,
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Carol Sharp's policy yet? No? But I'm afraid I can't stall it
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much longer. And you're afraid that once you do change it, Carol ain't
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going to be long for this world. It's happened before down. Yeah,
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well, I can't just barge in on this, Madam morgana Morgana announce that
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I'm an insurance investigator, and then another Wait a minute, what's the name
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of this other beneficiary, Tony Ricardo? Who is he? All I know
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is what Carol's told me love affair. Yeah, he sounds like a playboy
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and they do a lot of nightclubing together. Money. I don't know family.
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I don't know that either, but he's in for thirty either, one
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hundred and ten thousand if anything happens to her, if we change the policy,
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how are you going to start? Well, If this Carol Sharp is
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all Pat McCracken says she is, this case could have a very pleasant beginning.
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I stuck around with Tommy Green long enough to listen to him verify what
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Pat had said about Carroll's family, wealth, et cetera. Take a look
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at a snapshot of her and get her address. It am three point eighty
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taxi to the Bell Towers at sixty one four East fifty second Street, a
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magnificent want an apartment hotel at the edge of the East River, real swank.
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The place even had its own private ducks, with several well kept cruisers
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tied up, and even a small seaplane. Pat, I warn you,
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it's expense a kind of going to be small. Yes, may I help
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you, sir, Yes you can. I'd like a small apartment for a
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few days. Are you a loan, sir? Yes, Well, we
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still have a small five room penthouse suite for fifteen hundred dollars a month with
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complete maid service of oh, of course, and on a minimum one year
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lease. Of course. Look, all I want is a bedroom, living
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room type of thing, and I may be here only a week or so.
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Well, in that case, I'm afraid there's nothing we can do for
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you unless tell me, sir, do you have any recommendations from any of
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our tenants. Well, I'm an insurance investigator, here my card, and
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I want I think as close as possible to Miss Carol Sharp's apartment. But
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I don't want to have to rob for that investigated. Did you say that'll
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do? Dear? Surely Miss Sharp can't be in any kind of way.
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Think what it would mean to our reputation of mister mister oh, mister Dollar,
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stop worring. Well, she isn't any kind of trouble yet. But
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for reasons that well, they don't particularly concern you. I need to be
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as close to her as I can. What a pleasant thought. For the
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same reason I don't want her and all what my business here is. Of
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course, believe me, mister Dollar, I'm the very soul of discretion.
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Yeah. See that you stay that way. Now, have you got a
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rum or two for me? Oh? Let me see. Now she's in
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penthouse A on floor twelve. There is a two room on ten, very
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nice at three twenty five a week, with the complete service of course.
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Okay, I'll take it very well. Just sign this card please, And
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oh dear, I'm afraid I must have a week in advance. Oh sure,
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sure, what's am easily three hundred and twenty five bucks. One of
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the two billboys who carried up my two bags at a bucket feast settled me
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in ten thirteen. I must admit the place looked almost worth a tag tasty
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furnished, spitting polished clean, or a plate glass panor on a view of
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the bustling East River. Yeah, I wish for a moment that I could
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afford this sort of lodging. First thing I did was telephone to an old
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Powell Detective Division sagin singer. Hey, look saj, I need a rundown
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on a dirty crook. He's going around acting like an insurance stick. But
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he's a crook. Oh, his name Dollard Johnny Dollar. And I tell
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you that punk is a sucker. Sunny. Further, we know all about
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him. We got word here in New York and we'll put a steak out
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on him. A minute we spot his hideout. That copper I can give
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you good Johnny, is where you're staying. Hi, you will reprovate.
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I'm at the tower as he's fifty second the tow expensive. I'd you guess
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I want to see you in exactly twenty one minutes. I'll punch the time
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clocking me over ROUM ten thirteen. Right, oh, and be sure it's
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with soda, easy boy? Give you any incur arangement? Do you want
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to name the brand of scotch? It'm four twelve twenty one bottle of Scotch
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and set ups for two sure, Johnny from when I was doing a nightclub
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beat. And she's lived in town for quite a while, Yeah, a
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couple of years at least. How much do you know about her? Righty?
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Hm hmm, not much. She's loaded, throws your money around like
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it's confetti. Yeah, I figure that when I found her standing here,
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finally left it to her. Mm hmm. Coal miner. Wasn't he on
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a big colliery in Frankville, Pennsylvania, somewhere near Machunk? Well, I
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must have paid off good in the old days. But tell me what you
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want to give me a refilm. Yeah, sure, every heard a matter.
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I've seen your ma again. I'm gonna huh. I've chased at bousy
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old phony from one end of the island to the other. I looked enthusay
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Crystal ball, and I see enthusay, passed the present, see future,
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and into your pocketbook and my hand. She could. I think she's operating
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somewhere are on the Jersey side now, oh yeah, thanks, But she's
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still operating, operating with real class. Last time we picked her up and
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kicked her out. What do you mean nice apartment over here on the east
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side, classy clientel? Hey is Carol sharp hook by her curse? So
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just how does she work? Well, the usual way the phonies do.
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Goes into a trance, writhes around like a sea sick rattlesnake, and then
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gives with the voices voices you know, speaks with the tongues of the departed.
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Hey, look where's the money angle this? Well, she makes like
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the trances cause her a great agony of body and mind. Starts with the
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pitch about doctor bills and the more clients can afford, the more they pay,
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and they don't get wise. She's smart, works it like a serial
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story, you know, continued next week. Oh, I don't know.
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Briefly well, at each say, she tells them just enough to what their
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appetite for more leads right up to the next hot bit of information has them
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hanging on every word. Then Bingo to trance is over. Ah, However,
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if you come back next week when I recover my strength, so they
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they are off from the back. A week later, they'll play games with
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her again. No, no, no, it seems pretty obvious to me.
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Well, that's because you've never attended as run by an artist at it.
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And why don't you? I think I will, I see what I
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can dig up for you. You mean there are still something going on around
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sow Dozens, hundreds probably kick them out of one place they moved to another,
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unless you can tie a serious wrap on them, which reminds me Tommy
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Green told Yeah, yeah, I handle that one myself. Madam Gabor Tchernarski
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got a sweet old man to sign over his fortune and had him knocked off.
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It's a dirty wreck. Yeah. Religion, science, the professions,
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they all even opened door to the racketeers. I guess okay, set up
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a seance for me ready and meantime? Yeah, run me a make on
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Tony Ricardo. Well, yeah, yeah, he's the other one. Carol
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Sharp wants the name as a beneficiary besides the medium. Yeah, beneficiary of
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a whopping big life policy. Okay, good, Johnny, I'll call you
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it. When I took my time showering and changing clothes, I wracked my
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brain trying to cook up a smooth way to meet Carol's Sharp under no circumstances
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did I wanted to suspect the reason behind my interest in her, at least
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not for the present. Reck was it number one? Then? Meet?
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I was just time. My time on the phone rang Johnny Dellar, Randy,
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Johnny, Oh, hi Ram set up a date with a medium?
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Yeah, for tonight. But that's not what I'm calling about, Johnny.
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I can write a book for you on Tony Ricardo, and I don't think
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you'd like it. You seen him yet? No, but I will as
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soon as I can locate him. And if he finds out what you're working
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on, he'll locate you. Fine. Yeah, just be sure you see
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him first and that you're carrying a gun. Thanks Randy, Johnny Dellar Randy
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Singer at headquarters, Johnny Oh, Hi more information on Tony Ricardo only what
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I told you before. Look out for him, Randy. That doesn't sound
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like anybody that a guy like Carol Sharp would be associated with. Who knows
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for a cutter money most anybody'd be willing to act like a nice old coat
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until he get his hands on it. Yeah, I know what you mean.
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But now I thought you were going to set up a seance for me
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or couldn't you find a crystal ball? I'm working on it. I'll call
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you. Yeah, do that. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
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location, New York City to the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut.
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Following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the matter of the medium
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well done. Three people to look up immediately, First, Carol Sharp,
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wealthy heiress who insisted on a funny change in the beneficiaries of a whopping big
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life insurance policy. Second, a questionable character named Tony Ricardo who was scheduled
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to be one of those beneficiaries. Third, in the same category as Tony
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one, Madame Cedia morgana Morgana, a self styled psychic medium. Instead,
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I huddle with Tommy Green, the broker who handled Carol Sharp's policy. But
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you haven't even seen Carroll yet. No, Johnny, I can't stall off
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changing the beneficiaries of her policy much longer. You've got to do something about
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that. Because you don't like mediums. This one is a fake. You
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don't like playboys with foreign names. Listen, Johnny. I'm afraid that once
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she names them in her policy, her body will suddenly turn uploading around somewhere
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in the East River. What if I find they're okay? In spite of
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the opinion of Sergeant's singer of the NYPD, what did he say? Oh
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that much? But he hinted that when I meet Ricardo, I'd better be
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carrying a gun. Well, don't you see, That's exactly what I'm driving
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at. As for the medium, well, tell me, you know as
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well as I do, there are a lot of perfectly legitimate hones spiritualist churches.
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All leave me, Johnny. If this one ever saw the inside of
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a churchy to be a miracle, She's a fraud. How do you know
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I ever met her? I know how these phonies operate ever met her?
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No, No, I haven't. I haven't the least idea where to look
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for That's why I sent for you. But you haven't even seen Carroll yet.
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Now look, Tommy, I've taken a place in her apartment, hotel,
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the Bell Towers. Oh, you explensive cowboys, And I'll meet her
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as soon as I can in my own way. Meanwhile, I want you
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to do something for me. It'll help to get things moving. Anything.
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Find out some more about the beneficiary she wants to cut off her mother and
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two brothers out in mud Chunk, Pennsylvania. Find out how they're doing financially,
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among other things, how Johnny hire another investigator? Take it that you
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don't want them to know about it? Well, why don't you cook up
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some kind of a news item about Carol, the local girl in the big
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city and phone it into the local newspaper editor. Those small town papers love
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that sort of stuff, and the editor will probably talk his head off about
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the family if you encourage him a bit. What kind of a news item?
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Oh, anything that's harmless. Sounds like something you'd be better at than
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I am. Tommy. I've got other things to do, plenty, armed
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with the snapshot of Carol. I took a cab to the bell towers and
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I hope that somehow, and without making it too corny or obvious, I
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could figure a way to get next to Carroll's sharp. As it turned out,
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it was both corny and successful. You see, the automatic elevator in
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the towers is a slow one. Will you push the button for twelve?
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Please? Oh? Surely, miss, I'm only going to the what's the
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matter? M Oh, yeah, I beg your pardon. I'm sorry,
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but I I can't believe this unless I'm psychic. Now, look, mister,
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this city is too big and sophisticated. But is something wrong with you?
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You did want to get off on the tenth floor, didn't you?
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Yes, yes I did. Well, we're here floor ten. So,
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mister, did somebody hypnotize you? Yes? No? Oh, please excuse
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me. It's well, it's just that I can't believe. Oh, I'm
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terribly sorry. When I was a kid, I used to have a dream
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over and over again about a beautiful girl and her name was the same dream,
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over and over and then. Well it startled me just now because because
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you look just like she did. But it's all nonsense. And I know
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it, and I apologize. Carol, did you say yes? But it
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was just a dream, and probably I just imagine that you resemble her,
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and I'm terribly sorry. I know what this must look like to you.
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Yes, like a ritical dream, a truth dream. It's a psychic phenomenon.
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Oh that well, I'm sorry, but I don't believe in that sort
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of stuff. Oh well, it just happens that there are thousands of cases
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on record and by people of reputation and responsibility. Oh sure, sure,
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but now excuse me, And again I want to apologize for this, well,
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this embarrassing moment. Why I could see over my shoulder that she left
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the elevator door open until I'd gone into my suite across the hall. I
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sat down next to the broad into overlooking East River, crossed my fingers and
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waited ten minutes fifteen. Hello, mister dollar, Yes, who's that?
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This is Carol? What your dream? Girl? Hello? Oh, I
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get it. I made a fool of myself in the elevator. Now you're
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rubbing it in. No, I didn't mean it that way. I hope
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you don't think I'm being forward, but I'd like to talk with you about
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your dream I mean, what does that mean? And I was afraid you
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thought I was trying to pull a fast one on the elevator. But how
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did you know who I am? I just asked the desk clerk who was
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in ten thirteen, my name is Carol Sharp? Then it really is Carol.
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Well that's amazing, that's why I want to talk to you. Well,
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there's a nice cocktail lounge downstairs in half an hour. In half an
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hour, bye, dollar, you are fast one. Let me see Johnny
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Dollery, Randy Singer. Yeah, I want to know after what I've been
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talking to This is a comedown. Oh you met Carol. Oh look,
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I've set up the sciance. I promised you. You still want it now
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that you've met the girl? Sure? I want to find out what this
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stuff is all about. How those people operating so on? Want to pick
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me up here at the towers. Why don't you meet me here at headquarters
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and you can look over the file on Tony Ricardo. Good idea. I'll
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be clear anytime after six. Better make it around seven. I've got a
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date for cocktails. Are you down on a case or with Carol Sharp?
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Lucky dog? See you lady to say that Carol looked like a vision when
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she swept into the cocktail lounge would have been a gross understatement. Her light
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blue cocktail gown was probably from Hetty Carnegie, but its lines were simple in
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the extreme, and it only sir to accentuate the fresh, live figure of
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the natural beauty of the girl. Her blond hair was drawn back tightly,
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and a silver blooming stole was draped carelessly over his shoulder. If I'd put
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on an act when I stayed at her in the elevator, believe me,
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this was no act. Now, I hope you don't think me too brazen
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for having called you the way I did. You have no idea? How
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glad I am? Will this be all right? Oh? Fine? Thank
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you? I was afraid after that episode in the elevator you might have thought
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I was just some lonely bachelor trying to find a date. Are you a
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bachelor? Confirmed? You just haven't met the right girl. A lot of
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times like this when I think, perhaps, oh surel Sharran Bitters, please
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sherryan Bitters and b o over Ice, be honest with me. Do I
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really look like the girl you used to dream about when you were a little
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boy? Or did you dream about a little girl your own age who just
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happened to bear some resemblance to me. Well, no, no, you
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see that's very important. You see, if it really was a verritical dream,
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well, you see, the phenomenon of precognition would be involved too,
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So to speak, yes, you're now knowing me psychically before you could possibly
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know about me by any natural means. Where have you lived most of your
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life? Oh, Hoover here in New York her for Connecticutssylvania. Never except
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for an occaional trip to Philadelphia, but that wasn't until I was grown up.
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Then you couldn't possibly have ever actually seen me, because all my life
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I've lived in Pennsylvania and well in the coal mining district. Well, so
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your dreams of me must have been you to some supernatural cause there's no other
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explanation, Well, is there, Carol? And yeah, thanks, I'll
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sign a you say by the bell, or rather by the waiter. I'm
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afraid I came awfully close to admitting to Carol that I trumped up the whole
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dream business just to meet her and talk with her. She was certainly half
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on the subject of things psychic, and I'm afraid the natural sucker for anyone
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who wanted to capitalize on her gullibility. Beautiful, intelligent, well educated.
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But you'll see what I mean, although it's a terrible strain on her,
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these deep trances. I mean, I've received messages through her, Johnny,
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from my father through this meeting. Yes, Madame Morgan and MORGANA. And
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your father's dead. He died three years ago. Carol is sure about those
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messages, Yes, Johnny, I'm sure. That's why I want you to
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go and see see these things for yourself. Will you go to her with
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me? Now? Don't swing at me, but at this point I think
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I'd go anywhere with you, Johnny, I'm serious. I want to tell
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her about you anyway, and the vertical dreams. Oh all right, what
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I'll call her tonight and perhaps we can see her tomorrow night. All right,
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yeah, Carol, I don't want to seem suspicious, but yes,
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don't tell her anything about me except that you're bringing me along. Oh no,
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of course not. She wouldn't let me anyway. That's the way the
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fraudulent mediums work. Oh, there are frauds among them, plenty of them,
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you know. They get the information from some mutual friend and pretend they're
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getting it from a supernatural source and she doesn't. I'm sure of it.
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So far, so good. I'd met Carol Sharp, I'd convinced her in
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a snid sort of way, that I was intrigued with this psychic phenomena business.
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I was well on the way to meeting the medium who had sparked this
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whole case, and later tonight, thanks to Sergeant Randy Singer of the NYPD,
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i'd attend to sing once calculated to be my first step in finding out
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how the phonies in the rack can impress their customers. There was just one
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more person to meet, Tony Ricardo, whom Carol wanted to name along with
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the medium, as beneficiary of her big insurance policy. By the time Carol
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and I finished cocktails, I was sorry I'd made any plans for the evening,
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but I was already late for my meeting with Randy at headquarters. I
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took Carol back to her penthouse and then dropped into my own suite to pick
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up a top cord. Somebody had shoved a note under my door. Mister
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Johnny Dallar, if you value your life, you'll stay away from Carol's Sharp
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it was unsigned. Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode
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of this week's story. Tomorrow, I find out a thing or two about
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a killer and about a medium not so well done. Join us, won't
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you? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey,
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is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced directed by Jack Jemstone. We
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also wrote tonight's story. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at the same
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time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy
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Rowan speaking welcome Back. It was somewhat interesting on this episode to note this
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sort of disclosure about legitimate spiritualist churches, that that's worked into the script at
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least once, and it continues to be to do that throughout the script.
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And it's a somewhat interesting quirk with CBS programs at this point. This is,
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of course, broadcast in nineteen fifty six, and it's safe to say
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that a lot of earlier programs would not have had this sort of disclosure.
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This one worked into the plot. I mean, at least one character in
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the first one. It was Pat McCracken, and the second one it's Johnny
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Doller raising this identical point. And there would occasionally be these disclosures. There
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there's an episode of suspense featuring an unethical psychologist, and they actually the producer
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of the show actually comes in to talk about how psychology is generally beneficial.
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So these sort of disclaimers to avoid offending people were kind of a feature of
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some of the late fifties early sixties CBS radio programs. Probably in a priory
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if they thought it might offend a large group of people, they might not
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even broadcast it. One story of when comedian Fred Allen kind of bumped heads
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with the network. He actually had to remove a part of the script where
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Portland Hoffa, his wife, said she wasted time at the rodeo less half
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en rodeo fans, My, how time's changed? All right, listener comments
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and feedback. DWY offers some praise for the Callackles matter. This one has
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many twists, but not the obvious writer ploys one of the finest stories.
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Well, I would definitely agree that this one had some That one had some
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very interesting features. All right, Well, the matter of the medium well
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done continues on Wednesday. Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot
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Adam Grahamson Boff