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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Blinker Matter (EP1699) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 1: The original air date July the sixth, nineteen fifty eight,
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  Speaker 1: and the title is the Blinker matter.
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  Speaker 2: From Hollywood at time.
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  Speaker 1: Now for.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar, Fred Wills assure he Mutual limit of Johnny. Oh, hi, Fred,
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  Speaker 2: what's on your mind at the moment?
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco.
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Nice, down to have on your mind? What's new out there?
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  Speaker 3: That's what I hope you're going to tell me? What
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  Speaker 3: do you mean Johnny doesn't porter out there? Name of
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Foreman. We're carrying a fifty thousand dollars policy on
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  Speaker 3: his life. So have you ever heard of an importer
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  Speaker 3: getting exported?
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  Speaker 2: I don't get you for it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid that's what's happened to Foreman last night.
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  Speaker 2: He disappeared. I'm on my way.
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  Speaker 5: While Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
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  Speaker 5: the Action Pact Expenser out America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators,
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  Speaker 5: Truly Johnny Dollar and now Act one of yours, Truly
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  Speaker 5: Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 2: Expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to
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  Speaker 2: the home office Shorty Mutual Limited, Hartford, Connecticut, following his
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  Speaker 2: account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Blink
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  Speaker 2: expense account hat of one hundred and seventy eight dollars
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  Speaker 2: fifty transportation and incidentals to San Francisco. On the flight out,
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  Speaker 2: I studied the dope Fred Wills at Sampei. Andrew Foreman
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  Speaker 2: aged fifty one occupation importer health good judging from the
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  Speaker 2: hefty premium he had to pay, His importing business must
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  Speaker 2: be okay. Wife Marsha Foreman aged thirty five, sixteen years
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  Speaker 2: younger than her husband, and marsha was the sole beneficiary.
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  Speaker 2: My plane landed about eight in the morning. An hour
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  Speaker 2: later I was at the Farman's apartment. It was spacious, modern,
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of glass and the kind of view
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  Speaker 2: of the bay that you had to pay plenty for. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there was money written all over the place, and marsha
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  Speaker 2: Foreman looked right at home.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just having coffee on the terrace, Mitter Dollar, won't
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  Speaker 6: you join me?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Thanks, I could use some out here. You sure
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  Speaker 2: got a beautiful view here.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I never get tired of watching the bay and
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  Speaker 6: the ships. There's always something going on. Well here you are, thanks.
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  Speaker 6: What is it, mister Dollar? Oh I'm just looking at
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  Speaker 6: the bay Alcatraz. Yeah, such a grim looking place.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. It's a real exclusive club. But I managed to
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  Speaker 2: get a couple of no members into it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think I care for the kind of job
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  Speaker 6: you have, mister dollar. Trouble wherever you go.
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  Speaker 2: Suppose we talk about your troubles, all right?
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  Speaker 6: I told the police all I know when I filled
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  Speaker 6: out the missing person's report. But i'll go over it
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  Speaker 6: again for.
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  Speaker 2: You, if you don't mind. Your husband disappeared the night
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  Speaker 2: before last.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's right. What time, I'm I'm not sure. Around
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  Speaker 6: nine o'clock that night. Somebody came to see him, a
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  Speaker 6: strange sort of man.
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  Speaker 2: How do you mean strange?
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  Speaker 6: Well, he was dressed in rough clothes, a seaman's jacket.
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  Speaker 6: He said he was an old friend of my husband's.
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  Speaker 2: Did he give you his name, missus foreman? Only blinker Blinker?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, he said that's what everybody called him. I guess
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  Speaker 6: because he kept blinking his eyes very rapidly.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 6: I showed this this blinker person into the den where
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  Speaker 6: my husband was, and left the two of them together.
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  Speaker 6: A few minutes later, my husband came out and told
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  Speaker 6: me he was going to drive Blinker down town and
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  Speaker 6: find him a hotel room. So I went to bed.
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  Speaker 6: I was tired and went right to sleep. And well,
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  Speaker 6: my husband and I have adjoining bedrooms. When I went
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  Speaker 6: in to call him yesterday morning, he was gone the bed.
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  Speaker 6: It hadn't been slept in. I called his office, thinking
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  Speaker 6: he might have decided to work late, but they hadn't
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  Speaker 6: seen him. Then you call the police, Yes, missus Foreman.
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  Speaker 6: Had your husband ever mentioned this man Blinker before? No,
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  Speaker 6: I am quite certain he hadn't. Can you describe him well?
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  Speaker 6: He He wasn't above medium height, age, oh maybe in
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  Speaker 6: the forties, a scar on his right cheek, a thin nose,
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  Speaker 6: and dark rother beady eye. I'm afraid that's the best
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  Speaker 6: I can do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, considering that you only get a brief look at him,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say that was a pretty complete description.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Dollar. Do you think this person Blinker could have
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  Speaker 6: done anything to my husband?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm sure the police are looking
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  Speaker 2: for him. Just one more question, missus Foreman. Suppose Blinker
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  Speaker 2: had nothing to do with your husband's disappearance.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid I don't follow you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, what I mean is, can you think of
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  Speaker 2: any reason, any reason at all, why your husband might
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  Speaker 2: want to disappear?
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  Speaker 6: No, mister Dollar, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: Masha Foreman sounded pretty certain of that last answer. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit too certain expense account had him
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  Speaker 2: to a dolerated care fater to the office of an
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  Speaker 2: old friend of mine, Detective Lieutenant Scappella. John If Foreman
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  Speaker 2: took this character Blinker to a hotel, it's no hotel
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  Speaker 2: we ever heard of. We've covered them all.
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  Speaker 7: You think think I could have killed Foreman's possibility? What's
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  Speaker 7: another Maybe there is no Blinker? Yeah, Skippella, I thought
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  Speaker 7: about that too, Jonnal.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't hit you.
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  Speaker 7: There was something strange about missus Foreman's story.
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  Speaker 2: She said. She let Blinker in the apartment, she showed
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  Speaker 2: him to the den. Now she could have only seen
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  Speaker 2: him a couple of minutes, Yet she rattled off a
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  Speaker 2: complete description. Surehth to me, Skippella, right between the eyes
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  Speaker 2: and the way she described Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 7: Know semen's jacket, beady, blinking eyes, scar on the right cheek,
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  Speaker 7: or he sounds real distinctive, real distinctive or real fake
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  Speaker 7: trouble is smelling of Fake's one thing? Proving it's another.
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  Speaker 7: What do we got for a motive.
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  Speaker 2: For one thing? Fifty thousand bucks? She was form and
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  Speaker 2: soul beneficiary. It's interesting, that's real interesting. Excuse me, gentlemen. Schappella,
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh, yes, what I see? Yes, okay, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: all right, thanks mister Ronald Johna.
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  Speaker 7: Looks like we've got to back up and start all
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  Speaker 7: What do you mean that was Wayne Arnold, that's Foreman's attorney.
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  Speaker 7: You had a telephone call this morning from no but
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  Speaker 7: from somebody just as interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Blinker. Yeah, Blinker, Act.
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  Speaker 5: Two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment, and
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  Speaker 5: now Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar, and the
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  Speaker 5: Blinker matters.
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  Speaker 2: Like Schappella said, we had to back up and start
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  Speaker 2: all over again. Just when we talked ourselves into thinking
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  Speaker 2: Marsha Foreman's story about Blinker was funny or missing, husband's
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  Speaker 2: lawyer phoned and told us he just heard from Blinker.
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  Speaker 2: It had him three a dollars seventy care for head
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  Speaker 2: to the office of Wayne Arnold, Foreman's attorney. I met
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  Speaker 2: him just coming out his door. Did you wish to
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  Speaker 2: see me, mister Arnold. Yes, I'm Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yes, the insurance investigator, missus Foreman told me you'd
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  Speaker 7: been questioning her. Look, I'm sorry, but I'm in rather
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  Speaker 7: a hurry. I have an appointment and I'm late.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, but this will only take a minute or two.
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  Speaker 2: I was in Lieutenant's Capella's office when you phoned a
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  Speaker 2: while ago about this man Blinker. Mister Arnold, Oh yes,
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  Speaker 2: what did you hear from him? Just a little while ago.
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  Speaker 7: I called Marsha Foreman right away, and she thought I
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  Speaker 7: ought to calls Capella. What did Blinker say on the phone.
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  Speaker 7: It's a strange conversation. Sounded nervous, excited, almost out of breadth.
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  Speaker 7: Said he wanted money, ten thousand dollars. If he didn't
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  Speaker 7: get it, he'd and that's as far as he got.
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  Speaker 7: He stopped suddenly, said he'd contact me later, then hung up.
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  Speaker 7: What do you make of it, mister Dollar, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Could be he's holding Foreman for ransom. That's what it
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  Speaker 7: sounded like to me.
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  Speaker 2: I take it you don't know that splinker.
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  Speaker 7: I never heard of him until Marsha told me about
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  Speaker 7: him showing up night before less.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, just one more thing, mister Arnold. How long have
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  Speaker 2: you been Foreman's attorney? Three four years? Why any reason
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  Speaker 2: you know of why he might want to disappear? None
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  Speaker 2: that I can think of. Another woman, Maybe I got
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  Speaker 2: it very much about his importing business. As far as
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  Speaker 2: I know, it's an excellent shape. Okay, thanks, mister Ronold.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Donah, this man blinker, why would he have it
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  Speaker 7: in for Andrew Foreman?
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  Speaker 2: Good question. I don't Sorry, I don't have an answer
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  Speaker 2: to it. I went down the elevator and outside. I
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  Speaker 2: stopped at the corner to get some cigarettes. And that
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  Speaker 2: was my first lucky break, because just as I was
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  Speaker 2: leaving the counter, I saw Arnold come outside, and the
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  Speaker 2: way he looked up and down the street made a plane.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to see if anybody was watching him. He
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  Speaker 2: got into his car and drove off. I grabbed a taxi.
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  Speaker 2: That's sign I'm for and trailing. He drove into Golden
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  Speaker 2: Gate Park and stopped. I got out down the road
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  Speaker 2: and worked my way toward him behind some bushes. Pretty
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  Speaker 2: soon a woman came over and got into his car.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I didn't
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  Speaker 2: need to because when I saw the kiss, I got
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  Speaker 2: the message. The woman was Marsha Foreman. I went back
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  Speaker 2: into town and waited for Marsha outside her apartment door.
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  Speaker 2: She showed up about half an hour LATERY.
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  Speaker 6: What why, mister dollar? What is it is? Something wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, something's real wrong, missus Foreman. I want to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 6: All right, come in, but I've already told you all.
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  Speaker 2: I know the story you told me about this man Blinke.
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  Speaker 2: There's no such person as there. What you and Nold
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  Speaker 2: made it up?
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  Speaker 6: I know that's not true.
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  Speaker 2: What about you and Arnold, missus Foreman.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then tell me. Did you enjoy your visit with
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  Speaker 2: him in Golden Gate Park an hour ago?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: That?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Well all right, mister Dollar. Wayne Arnold and I have
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  Speaker 6: we been in love for some time?
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  Speaker 2: Did your husband know?
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure you were trying to find the right
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  Speaker 6: time to tell him. I don't think he'd really have
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  Speaker 6: cared very much. My husband and I haven't gotten along
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  Speaker 6: very well the last year or two. I guess I
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  Speaker 6: really didn't know him when I married him. Mister Dollar,
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  Speaker 6: this has nothing to do with my husband's disappearance. You
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  Speaker 6: must believe that.
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  Speaker 2: That's all.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't make up the story about Blinker. I didn't
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  Speaker 6: kill my husband. If that's what you're thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Has he been killed?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. You you got me confused if.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't do it. How about Arnold.
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  Speaker 6: No, he'd have no reason, said he wasn't even in
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  Speaker 6: town the night before life.
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  Speaker 2: I can check that, I know you can, Missus Foreman.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you're telling me the truth and maybe you're not.
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  Speaker 2: Sooner or later, I'm going to find out which.
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  Speaker 6: I am telling you the truth?
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  Speaker 2: And can you give me any reason at all why
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  Speaker 2: your husband has disappeared.
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  Speaker 6: There's there's one possibility, mister Dollar. It might have something
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  Speaker 6: to do with his importing business.
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  Speaker 2: What's that mean?
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  Speaker 6: My husband? Well, he seems to have made a lot
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  Speaker 6: of money out of his importing business, more than the
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  Speaker 6: kind of thing he usually imports with Warren.
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  Speaker 2: What does he import?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 6: Drinkets, curios from the Orient? Mostly?
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  Speaker 2: Have you a key to your husband's office? Yes, let
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  Speaker 2: me have it. I want to take a look around.
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  Speaker 2: I went over the papers in Foreman's office and found
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  Speaker 2: out his last ship and had come in three days
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  Speaker 2: ago on the Indian Princess. Missus Foreman had said Blinker
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  Speaker 2: was wearing a seaman's jacket. I had it for the waterfront,
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  Speaker 2: but the ship was gone. The other pier was a
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  Speaker 2: beat up eating place called Gus's Cafe. A woman with
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  Speaker 2: an apron came over. She was about six feet tall
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  Speaker 2: and almost that.
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  Speaker 4: Why what can I do for you, Betty?
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to the owner.
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  Speaker 8: Gus, that's me, your Gus short Forgutsie.
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  Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Betty?
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Johnny Dollar? I want some information?
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  Speaker 4: You a cop, Betty?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not a cop. You look like I can
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  Speaker 2: listen that freighter that shoved off from this pier, the
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  Speaker 2: Indian Princess.
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  Speaker 4: That's their regular.
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  Speaker 2: You know any of the sailors from her?
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  Speaker 4: About all of them? They all come in here.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Gussie got okay, Gus, you ever happen to hear
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  Speaker 2: of a sailor named blinker Sure? You know him? Sure
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  Speaker 2: about medium height, scar on the right cheek, blinks his
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  Speaker 2: eyes all the time.
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  Speaker 4: I said, I know him. What do you want?
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  Speaker 8: Nappa?
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  Speaker 4: David?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Gussie, are the most beautiful thing that's happened to
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  Speaker 2: me all day?
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  Speaker 8: That's what they all tell me, Buddy Lattery, don't get
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  Speaker 8: him A thing might help you though.
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  Speaker 4: You're kind of cute.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Look, did Blinkers sail on the idiot princess?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: Then where is he? The act is?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Blinkers disappeared.
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  Speaker 5: Act three of yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment,
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  Speaker 5: now act three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar, and the
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  Speaker 5: Blinker matter.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't have any idea where Blinker is now, Gus.
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  Speaker 4: Not the slightest buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh great, and I'm right back where I started from him.
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  Speaker 8: Blinker was mixed up in something, all right, what do
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  Speaker 8: you mean the Indian Princess.
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  Speaker 4: Dotty the other night? Blinker come in here for a
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  Speaker 4: cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 8: That's one thing the sailors around here all miss when
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  Speaker 8: they're around, to see my coffee.
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  Speaker 4: If no one makes coffee like me, why there's nobody
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  Speaker 4: on the hole.
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  Speaker 2: H Yeah, I know about Blinker now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, seemed pretty pleased with his self. Said he was
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  Speaker 4: onto something good.
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  Speaker 2: Did he say what he meant by that?
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  Speaker 4: No, set there looking pleased with hisself. Oh yeah. He
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  Speaker 4: showed me the elephants that it was gonna make him
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  Speaker 4: a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: What elephants?
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  Speaker 4: He had a carved elephant about six inches high. Mu's
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  Speaker 4: have picked it up somewhere. Maybe he was gonna sell it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm. Foreman imported curios from the Orients. His last shipment
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  Speaker 2: came in on the Indian princess. That elephant could have
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  Speaker 2: been part of it.
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  Speaker 4: Foreman, who's he?
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  Speaker 2: And never mind? Well, I wonder where I go from here.
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  Speaker 8: I wonder what I'm gonna do with all blinker stuff
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  Speaker 8: if you don't show up?
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe I was what did you say about Blinker's stuff?
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  Speaker 2: What stuff?
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  Speaker 8: I got a back room where I let the boys
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  Speaker 8: keep their gear when they're.
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  Speaker 2: Sure you've got Blinkers things there? Now, why didn't you
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  Speaker 2: tell me?
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  Speaker 4: You never asked me.
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  Speaker 2: In the back room, I went through a Blinker's sea bag.
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  Speaker 2: Near the bottom, I found the carved elephants. An ordinary
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  Speaker 2: looking elephant until I twisted one of the legs loose.
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  Speaker 2: It was hollow and inside a little paper packet full
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  Speaker 2: of white powder. Suddenly the whole deal slid into place.
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  Speaker 2: And just as suddenly, the whole deal made me slightly sick.
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  Speaker 2: Now I wanted to see the rest of those elephants
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  Speaker 2: real bad. According to the records Informant's office, the shipment
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  Speaker 2: was in a warehouse. I went outside over to the pier. Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: wh oh cuss, Come here a minute, Johnny. Look look,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in a hurry. Thanks for everything. I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 4: You've got time to see this over here near the pier.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, yep, the body all right.
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  Speaker 8: One of the boys just fished it out of the
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  Speaker 8: water and sent him to call the cops.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like I'd spent in the water quite a few hours.
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  Speaker 2: Guess yep, blinker all right. I knew I had to
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  Speaker 2: work for us now. I headed out on the pier
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  Speaker 2: of the warehouse. Once I thought I heard footsteps somewhere
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  Speaker 2: behind me. I stopped and listened.
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  Speaker 9: There was no sound.
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  Speaker 2: It was dark inside the warehouse. With the help of matches,
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  Speaker 2: I located for him and shippment. I took a crowbar
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  Speaker 2: and open one of the crates. It was full of
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: carb elephants. I picked up one of them, yeah, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: had a hollow leg, And the hollow leg was full
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: of the same white powder. I hit the floor fast.
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  Speaker 2: The shot had come from open near the door. I
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  Speaker 2: eased my gun out and waited. Five minutes. Ten minutes
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  Speaker 2: went by. I kept quiet. Then suddenly a shadow loomed
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  Speaker 2: up near the crates. We saw each other at the
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: same time. My shoulder. Oh well, the missing man himself,
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Foreman look and I found out what you were
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: importing in those carved elephants. He tried to blackmail.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, you probably told him you'd pay off. That's when
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: you drove him downtown night before last. Then you tried
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to kill him, but he must have got away. Called
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: your lawyer. Tried to put the squeeze on through him,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: but he had to hang up in a hurry. You
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: were probably getting close. You finally caught up with him,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: didn't you, Foreman. Look, you've got no proof of anything.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Why should Blinker tried to blackmail meet? Like I say,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: he found out about the narcotics and those hollow elephants.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: It was put there without my knowledge. You have no
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: proof I was involved, you know, Foreman, it doesn't much matter.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: You've got even bigger troubles than that. Staring in the face.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I don't understand Blinker's body has been recovered from the
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: pay I wouldn't know anything about that. You got no
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: proof of that either. Uh. There were two bullet holes
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: in Blinker. Five will get your ten The slugs and
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: him came for this gun of yours. The gun. Yeah,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: this is something that can be proved. Well, yeah, all right,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: just didn't have any choice it them five one hundred
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: and eighty three dollars even transportation and Incidetal's home expense
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  Speaker 2: a count total four hundred and thirty four dollars fifty cents.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Remarks Andrew Foreman made a complete statement to the police.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: The mighty case against him is open and shut, so
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: it looks like he's going to beat the narcotics right
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  Speaker 2: after all the hard way. Yours truly, Johnny.
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  Speaker 5: Dawe, yours truly, Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, originates
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  Speaker 5: Today's story was written by Robert Stanley. Heard in Arkas
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  Speaker 1: This is Andrew J.
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  Speaker 1: Radio welcome back. Well, a very good mystery, particularly given
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the twenty one minute time frame with a lot of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: twist worked into a short amount of time. Definitely a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: very solidly constructed mystery. And you could tell that it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't Johnstone who wrote this one. Johnstone tends to specialize
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in interesting, in quirky characters and situations rather than strong
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: mystery plots. All right, well, listener comments and feedback, and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: we did have a comment regarding the Virtuous Mobster matter.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Debbie said, I like these two episodes of the Village
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  Speaker 1: of Versu virtue. Excuse me, thanks so much for sharing. Well,
• 24:42
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• 24:45
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