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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Rolling Stone Matter (EP1657) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. The original
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  Speaker 1: air date May the eleventh of nineteen fifty eight and
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  Speaker 1: the title is The Rolling Stone.
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  Speaker 2: Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar, i't
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  Speaker 2: mccrack and Johnny Universal Adjustment. Hi Brad what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Seventy five thousand bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yours is somebody else's.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny, They're the Cubella diamond.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, matter think I have. It's a pink diamond. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: One of the companies who represented roid is seventy five
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  Speaker 4: thousand dollars policy on it. The owner of the stone,
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  Speaker 4: a jeweler named Joseph Wentworth, was trying to sell it.
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  Speaker 4: So last night the Sabella Diamond was stolen.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right over Bold Bailey in the Exciting Adventures
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  Speaker 2: of a Man with the Action Packed expens ad America's
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  Speaker 2: fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Oh It's truly Johnny Dollar. Expense
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  Speaker 2: account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar the Universal Adjustment
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  Speaker 2: Bureau Hertford, Connecticut, following as an account of expenses encourage
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  Speaker 2: during my investigation of the Rolling Stone matter expense account
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  Speaker 2: out of one a dollar twenty cap fair from my
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  Speaker 2: apartment of the Office of Universal Adjustment, Girl patmac cracken
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  Speaker 2: gave me one additional dope he had which wasn't much,
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  Speaker 2: and a headed for New York a side of two
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  Speaker 2: twenty six dollars forty cents and the apartment of Joseph Wentworth.
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  Speaker 2: I was just released from the hospital an hour ago.
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  Speaker 2: They kept me overnight for observation. Nothing serious, I hope,
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  Speaker 2: mister Wentworth. No, I was hit on the back of
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  Speaker 2: the head. At first they suspected the Skoll facture, but
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  Speaker 2: it was only a slight concussion. Wow, you're lucky. Practically
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  Speaker 2: my total assets stolen.
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  Speaker 5: And you call it lucky.
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  Speaker 2: You mean the Sabala diamond. I have borrowed heavily to
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  Speaker 2: purchase that stone, mister Dollar, I'm afraid I'm just about ruined. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken, it was insured for seventy five
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. You don't understand the insurance money will barely
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  Speaker 2: cover the loans. The diamond wasn't insured for his full value.
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  Speaker 2: I see. And what's worse, I had a customer for it.
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  Speaker 2: I was almost ready to close the deal. Could have
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  Speaker 2: gotten at least one hundred thousand, maybe more. Trying to
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  Speaker 2: tell me exactly what happened, mister Wentworth. Last evening, Eloise
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  Speaker 2: stopped by the shop at six. We were going to
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  Speaker 2: have dinner. Aloise Eloise Barnes by Beyonce. I started to
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  Speaker 2: close up and I remembered I'd forgotten to put some
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  Speaker 2: things in the safe. She went down the streetaways to
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  Speaker 2: hail a taxi, and I went back inside and left
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  Speaker 2: the front door unlocked. I must have. I was in
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  Speaker 2: my hurry. I opened the safe and I heard a
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  Speaker 2: sound behind me. I started to turn, but too late.
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  Speaker 2: That's the last I remember. The police figure out what
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  Speaker 2: you were hit with. Yes, a heavy brass candlestick in
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  Speaker 2: my shop. Then when Eloise brought me to, the Sabala
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  Speaker 2: Diamond was gone just a minute, you say Eloise brought
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  Speaker 2: you to?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: You see when I didn't come right back outside, she
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  Speaker 2: started wondering what had happened. She came in and found
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  Speaker 2: me lying on the floor. How long have you known
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  Speaker 2: Aloise mister Wentworth? About a year? Why mind giving me
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  Speaker 2: her address? I think I'd like to talk to her.
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  Speaker 2: I went to count out of three dollars ready cab
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  Speaker 2: fair to Welowise Barn's apartment. Aloise look if anything more
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  Speaker 2: expensive than the Sabala Diamond, And I had the feeling
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  Speaker 2: that underneath that lovely surface she was almost as hard.
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  Speaker 2: Her gray eyes never left my face as we talked,
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  Speaker 2: and I got the impression she had nately waived me
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  Speaker 2: cataloged me and put a price tag on me.
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  Speaker 6: Great, I can't help you much, Johnny. Joe went with
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  Speaker 6: apparently told you.
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  Speaker 7: All there is to tell about it.
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  Speaker 2: You were out looking for a taxi at the time,
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  Speaker 2: went with, got slut.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. I feel sorry for Joe. That was a
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  Speaker 6: lot of diamond to lose.
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  Speaker 2: Must be quite a stone id to.
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  Speaker 6: Go for those things.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 6: I guess some people really have a thing about diamonds.
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  Speaker 2: But you, huh, all.
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  Speaker 6: Right, just happens through a couple of things I prefer
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  Speaker 6: like what like money and mink?
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  Speaker 2: Huh. But now according to your fiance you.
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  Speaker 6: Were, it's a minute.
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  Speaker 2: According to my what your fiance what worth?
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  Speaker 3: Johnny?
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  Speaker 6: That may be his idea, but it's not mine.
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  Speaker 2: We s'll not engage Joe.
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  Speaker 6: It's been very nice to me and I like him.
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  Speaker 6: Were the friends to fly that I'm concerned? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid. I'm not to engaged type, Johnny. I tried
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  Speaker 6: it once or twice, but it didn't work. Seems to
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  Speaker 6: interfere with my hobby. Your hobby, Yes, having fun, that's
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  Speaker 6: your hobby, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at the moment, trying to find the Sabama diamond.
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  Speaker 2: Then what well, I have been known to have fun
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  Speaker 2: now and then.
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  Speaker 6: Johnny, I hope you find the diamond real soon.
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  Speaker 2: The invitation was printed in large type. This was no
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  Speaker 2: time for an RSVP, especially since I remember it went
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  Speaker 2: Worth mentioning a customer who's been anxious to buy the
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  Speaker 2: diamond just before I was stolen. I called Wentworth and
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  Speaker 2: got the man's name, General Mantel, who had an apartment
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  Speaker 2: just Fifth Avenue in the seventies. Ah.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, mister Dollar. The Sabala diamond an exquisite stone. The
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  Speaker 7: pink radiance of it when it caught the light positively hypnotic.
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  Speaker 5: Such a pity it was stolen.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Wentworth tells me he was negotiating with you for
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  Speaker 2: the sale of that dime. That is correct.
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  Speaker 7: Unfortunately we had reached a stalemate yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: You see, he.
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  Speaker 7: Wanted more than the diamonds worth.
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  Speaker 2: Well maybe that's a matter of opinion, mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 7: I am a collector and a connoisseur.
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  Speaker 2: I know what such.
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  Speaker 7: Things are worth. Are Yes, I only hope it will
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  Speaker 7: be recovered before Friday. It would make things so much
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  Speaker 7: more enjoyable for me. What happens Friday, I am leaving
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  Speaker 7: for Europe. Oh business trip. Not really, as a matter
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  Speaker 7: of fact, more of an impulse than anything else.
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  Speaker 5: Huh, anything wrong.
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  Speaker 2: With that on, mister van Tell, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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  Speaker 8: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
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  Speaker 8: there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifties states.
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  Speaker 8: Alabama state flag of Saint Andrew, the symbol of the Confederacy,
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  Speaker 8: and the national flag of Scotland. Alabama state capital, Montgomery,
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  Speaker 8: served as the first capital of the Confederacy, and it
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  Speaker 8: was on the steps of its capitol building that Jefferson
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  Speaker 8: Davis took the oath of office as President of the
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  Speaker 8: Confederated States of America. The Scottish cross is in the
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  Speaker 8: form of an x or saltier and is also found
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  Speaker 8: on the state flags of Georgia and Mississippi. Perhaps it
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  Speaker 8: is the independent, rugged spirit of the Scots that recommended
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  Speaker 8: its national symbols of the Confederacy as a symbol of
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  Speaker 8: its rebellion. Alabama's state flag, the flag of the Commenty
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  Speaker 8: second State twenty of the Union, was adopted on February sixteenth,
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  Speaker 8: eighteen hundred and ninety five, and no.
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  Speaker 2: Act too, if yours truly Johnny Dollar and the rolling
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  Speaker 2: stone metter. I went back to my hotel, stretched out
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  Speaker 2: on the bed and went over the whole thing in
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  Speaker 2: my mind. Elloie, who liked the things that money could buy,
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  Speaker 2: and who supposedly had been looking for a taxi while
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  Speaker 2: Wentworth was slugged and the diamond lifted. Then there was
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  Speaker 2: Gerle Mantel, a collector who was now suddenly leading for Europe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: could be either of them. Johnny Dillen, you're looking for
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  Speaker 2: the Sabalah diamond, mister Dalla was that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that doesn't matter. I know where the diamond is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh where?
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  Speaker 3: That's how fast Dollar? I'm sure the insurance company represent
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  Speaker 3: what pick quite a bit together stone pack. The question
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  Speaker 3: is how much.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there's a bigger question than that, friend, whether you're
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  Speaker 2: on the level or not.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose I can show you the case that diamond
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  Speaker 3: was kept him. Would you be convinced them?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe?
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  Speaker 3: And Tonio's bond East fifty third?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they're in an hour. Wait a minute, how
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  Speaker 2: I know you, I'll know you. Hey, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I had them four two dollars even drinks at Antonio's
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  Speaker 2: while I waited for my telephone buddy to contact me.
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  Speaker 2: A half hour went by and nothing happened. Then somebody
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  Speaker 2: came in and went to a corner booth. Not the
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  Speaker 2: person I'd been expecting, but just as interesting. So I
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  Speaker 2: went over. Hello, Eloise, Johnny, sit down.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, expecting someone, all sorts of people, but this is
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  Speaker 6: a pleasant disguise. But bring you around here?
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  Speaker 2: Business?
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  Speaker 5: I thought.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Johnny, you've got a one track mind, always business.
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  Speaker 6: With that attitude, you miss a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Don't Donald.
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  Speaker 7: Oh here you Why Elouise, Oh why it's mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mister Mantel. Jeryl. I didn't know you two know
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  Speaker 2: each other.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, we've been friends for years. As a matter
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  Speaker 7: of fact, it was Luise who told me about the
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  Speaker 7: Sabala Damond.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he didn't tell me that, Eloise.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't ask me, Johnny. Oh, cherl they had waiters.
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  Speaker 6: Seems to be signaling to.
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  Speaker 2: You, that's what I see.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, Eloise, I think i'd better be getting along.
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  Speaker 2: Don't leave, Johnny.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to take with Mantel.
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  Speaker 6: He just wanted to have a drink with me before
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  Speaker 6: he left for Europe. I told him I was meeting
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  Speaker 6: Joe went with you, so he said he'd stop by
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  Speaker 6: for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Did went with know that you and Mantell are old friends?
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  Speaker 6: I don't no reason to tell him. Johnny was very
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  Speaker 6: tiresome about things like that.
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  Speaker 2: You mean he's jealous.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder what happened to Daryl this trip.
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  Speaker 2: He's taking to Europe. I gather he got the idea
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  Speaker 2: rather suddenly.
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  Speaker 6: Jeryl very impulsive that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll be getting along. Eloise. Looks like a
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  Speaker 2: man I came here to meet isn't going to show.
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  Speaker 6: I can't imagine what's keeping Joe.
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  Speaker 2: I say, we've both.
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  Speaker 6: Been stood up, Johnny. Maybe we should do something about
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  Speaker 6: usn't well?
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  Speaker 2: As I told you, right now, the only thing I
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  Speaker 2: have on my mind.
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  Speaker 6: I know that diamond the girl could get tired of waiting, Johnny, Eloise.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you've ever waited very long for anything.
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  Speaker 5: Cheerwater.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get out on it.
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  Speaker 2: Donner, Well, oh what we were wondering? What has happened
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  Speaker 2: to you, mister Dollar. I'm certain you're a very efficient investigator,
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  Speaker 2: but it seems to me that you've questioned Eloise all
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  Speaker 2: you need to or have your conversations with her and
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  Speaker 2: now reached the unofficial state. If that is the case,
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  Speaker 2: and I suspect it is, i'd better remind you that, Elouise.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe i'd better remind you of a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: went worth in the first place.
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  Speaker 7: Over here with there's dollars a load that a package
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  Speaker 7: for you?
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  Speaker 5: So gentlemen just left with me?
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  Speaker 2: Did he give his name? Oh so no, but there
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  Speaker 2: was a short man of STOCKI in the world grade suit.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thanks you go, oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: As I started to say hello, what do you went with?
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't take a chance contacting you, somebody was following me.
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  Speaker 2: Contents of the package will show you. I know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about. We'll contact you later. What's this all about?
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  Speaker 5: Dollar?
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  Speaker 2: It's from a man who formed me a couple of
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  Speaker 2: hours ago. If it's what I think is in this package? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: empty jewel case, your name on? I went with, what
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  Speaker 2: that's the case? I kept the subato diamond in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: see you later. I went with where are you going?
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  Speaker 2: Dollars back to my hotel room. I'll wait to hear
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  Speaker 2: from him. I went outside and started for the corner
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  Speaker 2: to grab a can. As I passed the alley, I
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  Speaker 2: spot at something strawl on the ground. A body with
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  Speaker 2: Gerald Mantell act free of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in
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  Speaker 2: a moment.
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  Speaker 7: The way a man conducts himself at ease or under
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  Speaker 7: stress shows what he's made of. It shows his character
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: under the strongest flight. This is particularly true when a
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  Speaker 7: man becomes a prisoner of war. One of the points
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  Speaker 7: of the Code of Conduct of the American Fighting Man says,
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  Speaker 7: if I become a prisoner of war, I will keep
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  Speaker 7: faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no information
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  Speaker 7: nor take part in any action which might be harmful
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  Speaker 7: to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command.
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  Speaker 7: If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those
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  Speaker 7: appointed over me, and will back them up in every way.
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  Speaker 7: The very essence of the ideals set forth in those
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  Speaker 7: words were displayed by by Commander later Rear Admiral Richard
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  Speaker 7: Antrim in April nineteen forty two, while a prisoner of
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  Speaker 7: war and macasser Duchy Cindies during World War II. Acting
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  Speaker 7: instantly on behalf of a naval officer who was subjected
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  Speaker 7: to heavy punishment, Commander Antram boldly tried to quiet the
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  Speaker 7: guard and persuade him to discuss the charges against the officer.
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  Speaker 7: The guard refused, tension increased. The entire enemy prison force
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  Speaker 7: was faced by twenty seven hundred Allied prisoners.
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  Speaker 5: An order was given to continue the punishment.
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  Speaker 7: Suddenly, Commander Antrum, at the risk of his own life,
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  Speaker 7: stepped forward and volunteered to take.
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  Speaker 5: The remainder of the punishment.
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  Speaker 7: This sudden move got a roar of acclaim from the
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  Speaker 7: inspired Allied troops, and saw amazed the enemy that both
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: men were spared any further indignities or punishment. Commander Antrum's
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  Speaker 7: heroic and unselfish conduct brought about better conditions for the
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  Speaker 7: prisoners and earned new respect for American officers and men.
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  Speaker 7: Commander Richard Antrim upheld a highest ideals of an officer
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  Speaker 7: and learned for himself the medal of Honor.
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  Speaker 2: And now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
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  Speaker 2: the Rolling Stone matter. Mantell, Mantel, come out of a plant,
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  Speaker 2: my kid? All right? Are you okay? Who did it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Dollar, The headwaiter told me a taxi driver wanted to
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  Speaker 7: see me outside. I came out, but there was no
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  Speaker 7: cab in sight. I thought he might be at the corner, so.
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  Speaker 2: I started walking past the alley here.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, mister dollar, why would anyone want to beat me up?
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  Speaker 2: I'm can think of one possibility. Mantell is you wanted
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  Speaker 2: the Sabala diamond pretty badly, but went with wouldn't sell
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  Speaker 2: at your price. I'm suggesting you lifted the diamond and
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  Speaker 2: somebody was trying to get it back from you. Just now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the diamond. I maybe you know where
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 7: No, I swear I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I was forgetting beaten up just now.
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  Speaker 2: I am every bit as much in the dock as
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  Speaker 2: you are. I didn't know whether he was telling the
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: truth or not, but I had no proof he was lying.
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  Speaker 2: I did him five a dollar, even a pot of
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  Speaker 2: coffee at my hotel Roman. I tried to pull some
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  Speaker 2: threads together, but they didn't pull. If Mantell had the stone,
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  Speaker 2: who phoned me and sent the empty jewel case to
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  Speaker 2: convince me he had information?
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  Speaker 3: How did he fit?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Come, oh, why words come in here, mister dollary,
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  Speaker 2: I have some information that will interest you. Yeah. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: First though, I owe you an apology for well flying
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  Speaker 2: off the handle when I saw you with Elouisa Antonio. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: see'll touch you. Now, what's the information. Well, just a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes ago, a man telephoned me at my apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Huh that I think he was the same one who
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  Speaker 2: phoned you and sent the empty jewel case. What he's
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  Speaker 2: said that he knew where the diamond was and for
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  Speaker 2: a price, would furnish the information. Ah. Now, I wonder
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  Speaker 2: why he suddenly switched negotiations from me to you. Well,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps he thought it too dangerous to continue with you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, speaking of danger, I wish I could locate this
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  Speaker 2: character before something happens to him.
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  Speaker 5: That's the point, mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 2: I think I know where he is. Well, he must
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: have placed his call to me through a switchboard, because
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I heard an operator in the background saying Hotel Masefield.
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  Speaker 2: Hotel Macefield. Huh, thanks for the lead, went Worth, I'll
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  Speaker 2: check with you later. I headed for the Macefield and
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: described the man I was looking forward to the desk clerk.
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  Speaker 2: The clerk said his name was Krauss, that he checked
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  Speaker 2: out that morning. This I didn't get because he'd called
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  Speaker 2: Wentworth from the hotel. Shortly before I had the clerk
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  Speaker 2: let me in the cross's room, hoping I could find
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  Speaker 2: some lead. On where he'd gone. I did a scratch
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: pad with the imprint of a pencil still visible, a
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  Speaker 2: phone number and a name Catcart hotel. I headed there
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  Speaker 2: fast and was referred to room four thirteen. Hello Cross,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: there must have been state. My name is Colin unger
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: me that your name's Krauss and you're the guy who
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: phoned me and said he had information about that diamond. No, no, no,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: that's wrong. Come on, let's quit playing games. When you
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: call Wentworth a while ago he found out the name
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: of the hotel July. I haven't told him since. Yeah, yeah,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: that's what I thought. What remired about that phone call? Why?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Because he hoped I'd find you for him, but you
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: had talked to him earlier. Yeah. The theft of that
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: diamond was rigged between you and Wentworth, wasn't it, And
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: you slugged him to make it look legitimate. Well yeah, yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: but now you're hiding from Wentworth. Why what happened to
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: your cozy little partnership? Blackmail dollars?
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  Speaker 6: What Worth?
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  Speaker 5: Don't move either of you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what it looks as though I figured you right,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: You thought I might have better luck finding Krause than
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: you had, So he gave me his last known address
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and followed me, Now, what's this about blackmail?
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  Speaker 5: I thought I could trust you, Kraus.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I wasn't really going to blackmail. You got to
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: believe that. I think I get it now. Kraus was
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: supposed to turn the stone over you after a decent time.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It elapsed and Steady held on to it and tried
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: to blackmail you about your being involved in the fake robbery.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: That's why he pretended to open negotiations with me, to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: scare you into buying. Yes, but you made a big mistake, Kraus,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: trying to blackmail a desperate man. I had no money
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: to pay you. I needed every cent from the insurance
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: and from what we'd get for the stone when it
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: was cut and sold. Why worth? Why do you need
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: the money for Aloise? For Eloise? Does she know about
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: all this?
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: No? No, she knows nothing about this. But she she.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Wants so many things, and I want to give them
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: to her. I've got to hold on to her further.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: You know, you wouldn't understand. You don't know what it's
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: like when a girl like that gets into your blood.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You're willing to do anything like a couple of murders
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: went with, you're willing to add them to your list? Two? Yes, yes,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I am on our look, put that thing down. Why
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: don't you stop kidding yourself about Aloise? She loves me, Dollar,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I tell you she loves Are you kidding? She told
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: me what she loves manking money? How long do you
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: think she'd stick with you after the money ran out?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Get back, stay where you're You're a thief and a
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: fool went with but you're not a killer. Stay away,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: So you just better give me that gun right now. Thanks.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: You're right about Eloise. I guess I always knew it,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: but I just I just couldn't face it. You just did,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: and you were right about me, Dollar, I'm no killer.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I want to know something went Worth. I wasn't sure
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: about that at all. Expense account total including the trip
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: pull one hundred and forty six dollars, even remarks Kross
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: handed over the diamond. He and Wentworth are both in custody.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: It was Wentworth who beat up Mantel for hanging around Eloise.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And Eloise last I heard, she was going her merry way,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: having fun, as she called it. I never did accept
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: her invitation to join her after the diamond have been recovered,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: and I'm not about to yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Our
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: star will return in just a moment.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: Our flag now number is fifty stars, and behind each
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: star there stands yet enough flag representing one of the
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: fifty states. The origin of Hawaii State flag has been
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: the subject of much debate. It is now believed that
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: it was the work of foreign advisors to King Kameya Maya.
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: Legend also has it that it was designed at the
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: request of King Kameha Maya by George Beckley, an English
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  Speaker 9: sea captain. The flag consists of eight horizontal and alternating
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: stripes of white, red, and blue, representing the eight major
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: islands in the chain. Also represented is the British Union Jack,
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: a reminder of Captain Vancouver, who, on his voyage around
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  Speaker 9: the world in seventeen ninety four, gave King Kamea Maya
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: a British flag and the promise of British protection. The
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: Union Jack is also a reminder of Captain James Cook,
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: who discovered the Hawaiian Islands in seventeen seventy eight. Hawaii
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: State Flag, the flag of the fiftieth state to enter
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: the Union, was adopted in eighteen forty five.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Now here is our star to tell you about next
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  Speaker 2: week's story. Next week, Well, the title of the ron
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: is the Ghost Ghost Matter, and the story lives up
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  Speaker 2: to it. So join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yours truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, originates in
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• 24:31
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  Speaker 2: were Virginia, Greg Larry Dobkin, Boris Lewis, Edgar Berrier, and
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  Speaker 2: time and station for another exciting story of yours truly,
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Cobberly speaking. This is the
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  Speaker 10: and now let's get back into the show.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Another one of those weird changes in how
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: we view things. Of course, the episode was named after
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: that famous saying about a rolling stone gathers no moss
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and UH. Today though we would mostly tend to associate
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: it with either the band Rolling Stone or the magazine
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Rolling Stone, which of course still goes back to the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: same saying. But at any rate, I love the Armed
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Forces radio and television services commercials, particularly the ones about
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the Medal of honor winners. The ones about the state
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: flag I find I find kind of interesting. Though it's
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: it's out of date, it still keeps sending me over
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: to UH to find out what the current state flag is.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And I'm surprising some cases how often it's ben change.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought this was just a very well plauded
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and well characterized episode. It wasn't an amazing mystery, but
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: it definitely held my attention, and I did like how
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Johnny didn't fall for the fam fatale, which is has
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: been shown before is a very dangerous thing in his
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: line of work all right. Well, now on to listener
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: comments and feedback, and we turned to Wes, who comments,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I love listening to Johnny Dollar, but unlike most of
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the listeners whose comments you read, he's only my second
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: favorite detective for his integrity and intelligence. Philip Marlowe is
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: my number one, and among the actors who portrayed the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: man with the action packed expense account Edmund O'Brien is
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: my favorite, though others seem to prefer Bob Bailey. Now,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: there was a survey done of a website called the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Nostalgia Page, and they found that Bailey was preferred by
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: sixty percent of the people responding on the site, followed
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: by Mandel Kramer and Edmond O'Brien. I think each Johnny
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Dollar has something to commend himself. O'Brien, particularly, the early
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: ones were really good because he put so much emotion
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: and you had this sort of hard boiled feel to it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I prefer the Bailey ones myself, and that's just a
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: matter of preference. I don't even know if that needs
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: a reason, but yeah, there are definitely people who prefer
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the O'Brien era on Johnny Dollar. But he also goes
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: on to ride very nicely, regardless of the actors involved.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you Adam Graham for creating this podcast.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I discovered you last October and it took me until
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: March to listen to every episode, eight or ten a
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: day while in my office. The quality of my work
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: may have suffered, but who cares. I was entertained. The
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: shows you tooose to broadcast, and the regularity and depend
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: about ability of your productions are all first rate. But
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you don't stop there. It would be easy for someone
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: to rebroadcast old radio show to try to profit from
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: work done by others, but you go beyond that. Your research, commentary,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and insight into these shows add greatly to what I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: gain by listening, and even come to love the way
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you say Detective. You do good work here, sir, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I hope you keep it up for a long time.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Well thanks so much, Wes. I appreciate your con comments
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and that will do it for today. Join us back
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: here tomorrow for Dragnet, and then we'll be back next
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Friday with another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Doller. In
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