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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ellen Dear Matter (EP1285) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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well, now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar our
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first nineteen fifty seven episode, the Ellen Dere Matter from Hollywood. It's time
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now for Johnny Dollar Pat McCracken n universally Just Oh, hi, Brad,
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what's on your mind? The sleek, lovely, beautiful Ellen. On the
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strength of that description, I'll take care. And she's loaded dollars worth of
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jewelry. Hey, girl needs a bodyguard. Yeah, Johnny needs a guard
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of some kind. Unless he isn't the guru, he's a vote. I've
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just lost my enthusiasm. What's the matter with the old cup? That's what
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I want you to find out, Johnny. That lands crag suddenly got me
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interested again. Okay, Pat, I'll be right over Bob Bailey and the
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Exciting Adventures of the Man with the action packed Expenser count America's fabulous freelance insurance
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investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar the
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Western Maritime and Property Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California. Following is an
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account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Ellen dar matter. Expenser con
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had a one ninety cents taxi from my apartment of the offices of Universal Adjustment
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Bureau, and hertrig Fred McCracken's usual smile was noticeably missing when I walked in
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on him. Thanks. Oh and you're the build Western Maritime and property on
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this one instead of us. Okay, but how are you involved? We
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handle all their claims that are of any size. Tory you ever hear of
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Randolph Berman? I know of a jewelry down in New York. That's the
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one. And if you know him, Johnny, you've been putting too much
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gravy in your expensive con. I said no of him. Didn't he bring
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in the Star of Cape down and they came and do Emerald? That's right.
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Everybody seems to think he's a crook, and yet somehow he manages to
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handle some of the finest jewels in the world. Are got an honest man
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afforded? This time? It's the Bettonhouse collection. It's out of Hungary.
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Oh yeah, right about that. Only I thought somebody down in Mexico own
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it. Yeah, fellow named Rigo Mariani down in Wadalajara. He's the one
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who's sold it to Randolph Bourman. Okay, now is this Ellen, dear?
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You mentioned Burman's wife? No, no, no, former wife.
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He's in about his fifth or beautiful dumb dolls. But more important it's the
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name of his seventy two foot motor cruiser than the Burmans had been traveling around
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in it, down the coast, through the canal, along the coast of
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Central America and so on. Anyhow, when he got worried that the Bettenhouse
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collection could be had, he wasted no time in getting to Wadalajara. And
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that's where Western Maritime and Property comes in, right. They had already written
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a policy on the boat for fifty two thousand. Their main office in Los
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Angeles was close at hand, so he had them write the policy on the
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Jewel. Is that where Burman is now in Los Angeles? No, No,
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he's still in Mexico. Didn't want to move with those priceless rocks until
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he was certain of the insurance, and before Western would write it. Of
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course, they wanted the collection of prey. Actually, but who in Mexico.
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Jacques Jean Pierre, famous gemologists, was right there in Wadalahara, you
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know, to look over the collection himself. So he made the appraisal.
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The policy has been issued three hundred and twenty five thousand. I still don't
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see anything wrong with the whole deal. Pat Well, there isn't anything wrong
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with it yet. But in spite of Berman standing in the profession, his
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reputation. It isn't everything it might be. I come to think if it
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wasn't there a killing or too involved in this acquisition of the Star of several
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things like that, He's been involved in attempts to smuggle in some valuable pieces
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he's oh he always managed somehow to come out smelling like a rose. Legally
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perfectly clean, you understand, but you still don't trust. Oh No,
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And with his planning to carry that load of stuff around in his yacht.
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Yes see what you mean. If anything happened to those rocks over the boat,
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over three hundred grand right out the window exactly. Now. Relatedly,
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Western is worried about it, and they've paid good money to have you assuage
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their worries. You have a Mexican tourist, gud sure from my last fishing
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trip down there, and I think you better go down and guard that collection
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until Berman gets safely up into the States. He's considered quite the host.
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He'll probably be perfectly willing to have you aboard. Now, this is the
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kind of assignment I like, yaching in the Blue Pacific. But surely he
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hasn't got his boat park in Guadalajara. That's over one hundred miles inland.
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Oh, it's at last land, and from what I've been able to learn,
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it's surrounded by armed guards day and night. While he has some engine
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work done, but as soon as that's finished, he'll head north to the
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state. So he says, got a branch office in Los Angeles. He'll
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probably deliver the collection there. I just want to be sure he gets there.
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Johnny, hmm, okay, Pat, you can wire the boys at
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Weston that I'm on my way. Item two one hundred and ninety one forty
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Plain Fair and Incidentals Hartford, musset Land via Los Angeles. The first leg
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of the flight to LA was uneventful, except for a good looking young blonde
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from Santa Barbara, whom I promised look up as soon as his case is
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well, that's not for the expense account. When we arrived at the Los
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Angeles and An National Airport, I learned that I'd have a three quarter hour
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wait for my planing to mazzic Land, so I grabbed a magazine that's had
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him three thirty five cents. When I heard my name being called on the
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PIA system, Johnny dollars with a thought in mind that perhaps my little friend
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for the plane might have decided to stay over in La. Her name was
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readA by the way, I lost no time in getting over at the pan
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Am desk. Mister Dollars. Yeah, Johnny Dollar, that's right. I'm
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Arthur Arthur, Western Maritime and Property Insurance. Come. Oh yeah, I'm
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doing mister Arthur planning to go on down the mazzot Land with me. No,
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no, meet Monsieur Jeanques Jean Pierre. I am are you, mister
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Tempierre? This is the gentleman who are praised that Thatton How's collection plus.
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Oh yes he is. I am an as issue the policy on it to
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mister Burman. Oh yeah, yes, he's done this sort of thing for
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us many times. I'm afraid that he's brought us rather bad news. Something's
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already happened at the collection. Well, not exactly, not to the whole
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collection, please, that is I'm not quite sure what I mean is what
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do you mean? Mister? Perhaps I should explain to mister Dalla eh I
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thank somebody better. Yes, you go ahead, John very well, and
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while you're doing it, I'll cancel the rest of Miss Dallars reservation. To
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Macedlan yes, I'll do. Now wait a minute, first, let me
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find out what this is all about. We we joque here was in guade
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Laja when the Batonhouse collection became available for purchase, Yes, mister da,
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I had gone there in the hope that some of the pieces might be purchased
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separately. So alas such was not the case, the Marianni firm decided to
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dispose of the collection only a whole. I say, well, what's this
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bad news you have? Ah? I am getting into yes, please please
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please, and then go ahead yoah, thank you, thank you, mister
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interested. As I was, I looked over the collection very carefully, each
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individual piece, and you must believe me to an expert like myself. Every
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facet of Jim has a character. All the tone, a precious tone,
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is like a face to me, always to be remas yeah, well gone.
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I simply wish to make it clear to you, monsieur, that every
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item in the Better House collection is completely familiar to me, as are many
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other important games throughout the world. You know, each is like a friend,
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and a stone in him is like a face. Precisely or where is
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to be remembered? Yes, well, the collection is purchased by Monsieur Randolph
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Berman. Yes, yes, please please, he wishes to ensure it in
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Monsieur Athur's company. Yeah, I know all, miss Arthur replaced by telephone
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that I appraise it three hundred and twenty five thousands. Ah, then you
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know, I know. So I stay at Golahara a few days to wait
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Monsieur Arthur's check for my service. Please, I visited some of my old
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friend among the duel settons, and then then on the third day, what
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do you think happens? You tell me, Jenny, this is it?
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Please answer? In the shop of my friend Garcia and no days I watched
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him work on the mound for a beautiful diamond, and suddenly I see that
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this stone is an old friend one from the patent house collection. We the
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CALIBERG diamond that was supposedly in the position of Monsieur Bourman. You're sure of
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the identity of that stone, mister Jean Pierre. Please, as I told
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you, Monsieur, I press your stone to me. Yeah, it's like
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a face to you. So what you figure, Arthur, is that you've
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ensured a boatload of three hundred thousand dollars worth of gems on the way to
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the USA, and maybe they're not on board exactly unless, of course,
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mister Jean Pierre, did you tell mister Berman about this one stone Blo.
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I went immediately to matstt Land, where I knew he had his book The
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L and D Or what did he say at last? He at the way?
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Did you learn his destination? Oh? Yeah, a Los Angeles Johnny
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right here, he has a branch office. Well has he had time to
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get here yet? I don't think so. Have you tried radioly to his
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yacht? No, no, I've done nothing. You see, I didn't
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learn about this until mister Jean Pierre arrived just a few hours ago. Yes,
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I came up in the areoplane. The better to arrive and speak with
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mister there before Monsieur Berman. You know where Burman plans to dock his both
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Probably the port in San Pedro if he's coming here, but who can be
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sure. Usually on vacation trips he docks down the coast of Balboa, the
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yacht club or who knows he might either Yeah, he might have no intention
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of coming up to the States at all. He might not even have the
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jewels with him, he Arthur, do you know where his branch office is
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usually it's in Los Angeles. Well, actually it's in Beverly Hill. Got
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a car, then let's go. Though he couldn't quite put his finger on
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it, Arthur was convinced that Randolph Burman was up to something and that his
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insurance company was going to have to take the rack on the way in the
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vermin's Beverly Hills office. We dropped Jean Pierre at the Beverly Hilton and Tonam
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to sit tight in case we needed him again. Burman's office was in a
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nice mudern building on South Beverly Drive, tastically furnish with pictures of various famous
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jewels on the walls, but with nothing in predicative value and evidence. However,
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I did notice that one wall held a built in vault big enough for
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a reasonably sized bank. We were approached by a hand rubbing, obsequious little
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character dressed in strippered pants and cutaway coat and wearing thick glasses. Good morning,
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gentlemen. Is there any way I may be of service to you?
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Yeah? I think there is? Are you, mister Arthur? Forgive me
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I didn't recognize you for a moment. Mister Corrello, this is mister Johnny
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Duck. How do you do? Is there something I may show you,
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mister Dollar, some little babble perhaps for a charming lady. Wow, not
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at the moment. Oh, mister Arthur, there's no reason to mail this
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to you. Let me see now. Oh, yes, here is Here
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is a request for slight revision of the policy on the Betonhouse collection. Oh
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what's this? With a wire? Was sent by mister Berman just before he
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embarked for massive Land. I was going to put it in the letter form
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to be war but well I read this. Please request Arthur revise Betonhouse policies
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exclude calibar diamond value four thousand, which I have sold private party in what
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la horror? We kind of guess wrong, didn't hm, mister Carl.
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Yes, has mister Berman wired you? Whether he's coming here? Oh?
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Of course he is with that collection? When when is he going to arrive?
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And he's lovely yacht the Allendia should reach San Pedro Harbor late tonight.
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But that's what he wired me, and I intend to meet him there then
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I'm sure you won't mind if I go with you. Oh and mister Dowland
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is a special investigating investigator. Well, actually, I'm here just to help
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mister Burman protect that collection. Oh excellent, then you can arrange for the
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police escort. Yes, and alert the harbor police to guard the allendears,
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mister Benman requested, Did he request then? Oh? Indeed, But apparently
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he hasn't been worried about anything happening to the collection. Wow, he's at
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set's see. Oh surely you don't mean pirates or anything like that, and
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this modern taenae, you know something. At this point, I'm not quite
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sure what I mean or even why I'm here. Well, of course I'm
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well, of course what tark oh excuse me while I answered that, Well,
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I mean that is why. Well, at least I'll feel better when
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the stuff is here in the ball. Oh no. Correlo at the phone
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paled visibly, then gasped and clutched the back of a chair for support.
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As he listened to the phone, his jaw dropped, his eyes widened,
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and he shook his head once or twice and horrified disbelief. Finally, slowly,
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he hung up and came unsteadily toward us. Mister Corilla, Yeah,
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what is it, miss Corilla? That the coast guard? Yes, they
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said the Ellender, Yes sunk and six hundred feet of water and the altar
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Cha, Act too of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, in just a moment
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democracy? What has it to do with money, the medium of exchange of
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mankind? A couple of thousand years ago, it was said that money alone
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sets the world in motion. That's one way of saying that money and economy
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are virtually one and the same thing. The economy of a nation depends on
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its commerce. Commerce depends on manufacturing and services. It has been proven that
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those nations which practice democracy have the greatest economics. That means money, more
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money for more people, and a greater freedom of opportunity to earn a higher
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standard of living. That's why democracy provides mankind with its richest legacy of freedom.
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Now, act too of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and the Ellender
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matter expense account had him four seven dollars even for a fast taxi ride a
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Coast Guard headquarters in San Pedro, which is really the port of Los Angeles.
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By then, of elbowing my way in, I got directly to Captain
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Bonnie Thorson. You've got only half the story, mister Dallan. All I
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know Captain is that the Ellendar went down at some six hundred feet of water
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in the outer channel, total loss. That's correct. However, what you
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don't know is that the passengers, mister and Missus Burman and the crew were
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picked up and brought in here. Oh, outside of a little soaking and
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a little scare, they were probably all right. You see, the Ellen
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Dear, he had apparently had some engine trouble before she left massive Land,
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and so I understand the Mexican authority is with whom we fully cooperate, notified
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as we'd better keep an eye out for her. So when she reached the
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channel, we weren't surprised to get a radio call from her asking us to
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stand by that universal jount was kicking up. Is that what happened? By
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the time one of our cutters got withinhaling distance, she was on the way
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down. The propeller shaft had whip loose going through the hull, and Ellen
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Dear was sinking fast. Ask me that boat was overpowered, Dolly, how
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do you mean? Well, it must have been because sheer tuck tore the
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whole engine loose from its mountings and it plowed through the bottom along with everything
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else on board that was heavy with a big safe. For instance, an
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could admitted a safe a save you know, a small heavy steel vault right
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now that went down to with the engine. With all our boys could do
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to keep the owner from diving over after it was crying like a baby.
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You'd think you'd had the Crown jewels in it. Maybe you're not too wrong
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at that, right, Not the Crown jewels perhaps, but a collection worth
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something over three hundred grand. What about salvage salvage operations and six hundred feet
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of water in that channel? Yeah, no, dolly, salvage even if
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it were possible, it cost a couple of times the worth of that stuff.
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At least the only passages were the burman's. Huh, that's ray proved
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three and they weren't able to save anything, nothing, not of any consequence.
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That is, one of the crew didn't even have his shoes and his
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shirt on. What about Berman and his wife? It's funny what people who
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are doing in an emergency sometimes. What do you mean, Well, you've
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heard about the man whose house catches fire. He's panicky, throws all the
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china and the glassware out the window and carries out the mattress. What are
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you getting at, Captain? The only thing Burman saved in his excitement was
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two beat up old hats and the fishing rids. Oh yeah, and all
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his wife brought along was a handful of nylon stockings. She was hanging on
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him for dear life. Oh yeah, a big hat box for the Knevening
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dress, half hanging out of it. And that's all. That's all.
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Hey, you know that missus Burman's quite a dish, not too bright,
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but we a looker. Where are they now? Captain? They headed for
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Beverly Hills, Beverly, Wiltshire was the hotel. I think any event,
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Dollar, I'm afraid your company is going to have a big fat claim to
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pay on the yacht. Yes, what's that means? What do you think?
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IDAM five three twenty long distance call to the police in mazac Land.
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I wanted to be sure that the Betonhouse collection had been on board the Ellander
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when she left port. Down there, Inspector Romulo assured me it had that
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he'd checked the safe on the boat himself before allowing it to sail. Furthermore,
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he had insisted his own maritime service keep tabs on it up to the
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point where it had made contact with the US Coast Guard. In other words,
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the loot couldn't very well have been passed to someone else at sea.
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I HadAM six five eighty cab fair to Beverly Hills, where I dropped in
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at Berman's office. No, mister Dollar, he and missus Bermon are at
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the Beverly Wiltshire. I'm sure you understand it's been necessary for them to buy
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a lot of clothes and things. Yeah, but he will come here,
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Oh yes, yes, Indeed from his last phone call, i'd say he'll
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be here within the hour. All right, then I'll come back. Please
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ask him to stick around and wait for me if he doesn't mind, of
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course, mister Dollar, I should be glad to. Oh, incidentally,
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he has had me phone mister Arthur and ask that claim forms for both the
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Betonhouse collection and the loss of the cruiser be brought here to the office just
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as quickly as possible. Yeah, I'd figured as much. Burman wasn't wasting
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any time. All I know, there still wasn't any concrete evidence that Berman
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was trying to pull a fast one night Ostensively. The only reason for my
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trip out here was to watch over that fabulous duel collection. A lot of
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good I'd been. He lost the collection and his boats and the company he'd
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have to pay. Then a wild idea hit me. I suddenly remembered something
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that had happened months ago, last July, to be exact, what a
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big passenger liner, the Andrea Doria, had sunk off the Atlantic coast.
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According to the papers. When the survivors were brought into the port, the
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usual customs inspection was waived. And it occurred to me at the time that
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every one of those people could have easily smuggled in anything he could carry or
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conceal in his clothing. I'm not saying it did happen. I'm sure it
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didn't, but it could have. And if such an idea occurred to me,
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why not to a man like Burman? I was already pretty well known
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for his tricks to have customs. It HadAM six twenty cents phone called to
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the coast Guarden, Captain Thorson Johnny Dollar. Captain, answer me just one
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question. Will you sure what when you brought them in? Whether Burman's required
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to pass through customs? Well, no, of course not. It hardly
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be any reason, thank you very much had him seven ten cents. Another
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call, this time to author author at Western Maritime and Property Insurance. You
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caught me in the n Johnny. I was just walking out the door when
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your way to Berman's office with a handful of claims forms. Now listen,
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get there as fast as you can, get there ahead of them, so
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that you can see if he brings anything into the office like the Betton House
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collection. What though, I doubt if he'd be that foolish, foolish or
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not, how could he, Johnny, That collection, unfortunately is at the
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bottom of the ocean. Listen to me. Keep him there, maybe on
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the pretext of having their way for me, any reason you can think of.
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I'm afraid I don't have Just hold him until I get there. Understand
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very well, Johnny, But what are you going to do, Arthur?
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I may have to break in and rob a hotel room. I went out
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and stationed myself across the street from the Beverly Wilshire. Five minutes later,
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I saw Randolph Berman walk out the front door and head east on Wilshire Boulevard
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in the direction of his office on Beverly Drive. I waited a few minutes
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to make sure he didn't turn back. Then into the hotel. At the
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desk, I learned a number of Bermont's sweet on the ninth floor. Break
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in here, it would have taken a battering ram, so I tried knocking.
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All right, all right, you don't have to bust down the doors
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matter. You forget your keen. No, get out of here, buddy,
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Randy said not to let anybody in. He's out buying us clothes.
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Or he tells you to let me in. Baby, Hey, who are
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you? R Randy sent me up here from Guadalajara. Oh you are.
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We'll have a drink. Then a girl's entitled to a couple of drinks after
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that dusing in the ocean, And you might as well what about her,
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Nandy? Yeah, husband sold in the wrong stone from that collection, so
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he gave it to him. Well then you know about it? Oh sure,
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so he could make a legit looking change in the insurance and convince everybody
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who was on the upper You sure you're from her? Nandy? You kidding?
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How else would I know about the whole deal? I don't know.
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Hey, Randy said not to let anybody in here. He'd kill me,
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don blonde, he called me, you a smart, beautiful girl like you.
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Hey, you're okay. My name's Vike. Come, I must have
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a drink. No, no thanks, listen by. I've got to get
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the right stone from that collection, the Caliber diamond. Then I'll leave this
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one i've got in my part. I get here. Which one you got?
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Let me see it? Oh no, no, only mister Berman,
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and only when he gives me the calibar. Which one you got there?
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Huh, never mind, I'll show it to mister Burn. I just want
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to see it, not until I get the kelibar from the collection. So
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if he isn't here, if he's taken it to the office, I'll just
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you think he's crazy. Let everybody know he let me see the one you
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have. Look, I just told you anyway, How do I know I
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can trust you. I didn't even see you in Guadalajara. Oh now you
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sound like Randy dumb blonde, he said, keep the door up. But
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I let the bellboy in love the drinks, and I let you, And
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then I well, let me see the one you got, will you?
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I get you the other one from the hat box that didn't have to go
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through customs. How did you go? Hey, cute? I bet you
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read of us Andrew Doyce. That's like Grandy did. Where is the hat
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box? Ye? No, wait a minute, maybe I am them.
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Who'd you say you are? Where is the headbox? No? I won't
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tell you. You get out of here now without the collection vie. No,
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you can't. And he would kill me, kill me if you even
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knew. I'll let you in here, Johnny Dollar Insurance investigators. Please,
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Johnny, get out of here. Stuff in the bedroom. You can't go
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in there. I mean it, he'd kill me. Sorry, but that's
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your worry, upset your eyes out. I hate to do this. That's
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right, that's right. I get the manager, Ruby, I get the
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police up here. Oh yes, then you'd really be in trouble. You'd
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be better off firm and tried to kill you. Now, where's the stuff?
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It's in a closet on the floor, the hat box. Real,
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well, it's just a handful of weather force. Well oh now, wait
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a minute, girl, put down that bottle. I gotta stop you kill
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me. Don't you understand just letting you in here? You don't know it.
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Look, baby, you're in this thing deep enough as it is.
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Don't try to make it any worse. For yourself. What do you find
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out that I ys come back? Opened up my hands? I do where
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I go? Right here? Behind this closet door. Quickly, Ah,
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Johnny, there hang under that bottle. I'm thinking over what I told you
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about getting in deeper? Where'd you get these drinks? Let somebody in here?
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Bell boy? I you half witted bird brain? I told who are
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you? The name is Dollar, mister Berman Insurance Dick. I just dropped
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by to pick up the Beton House collection. Put it down, Dollar,
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I'm a good shot with his things. Yeah, and it wouldn't be the
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first time you killed over a handful of jewelry. What it? That's right,
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won't be the last. You'll never know about it? And I always
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by How should I know? You? Let you in here? I'm murdered.
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That dizzy blonde, that Disney blonde is a lot smarter than you think.
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Where is she? What do you mean by helping me? She has
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a chance of getting out of this mess you've involved her in. I'm getting
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out clean that dirty two time, and Dollar, I'm gonna kill you.
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You'd even like to involve her in that too, wouldn't she? Thanks for
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the idea. I'll make it look like she killed. Oh you nice work
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with that bottle. Buy what you mister? You won't let me? No,
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no, don't worry, baby. He won't bother anybody, not for
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a long long time. And I made two hundred and forty five dollars even
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incidentals during a couple of days of relaxation unto the California Sun and transportation back
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to Hartford expense account total four hundred and fifty three dollars ninety five cents.
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Remarks by way of getting off as easily as possible by saying like a canary,
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and incidentally cleared up a couple of other of his shady deals. The
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result, by the time his prison term runs out, he'll be too long
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dead to collect the insurance on his Jack and the remarks. Send a report,
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yours truly, Johnny do now here is our star to tell you about
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next week's story. Next week it is soal matter, and I promise you
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a double barrel thrill in it. Join us, won't you? Yours truly?
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Johnny Dall yours truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in
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Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote Tonight's
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story. Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg Laurence Dobkin, Howard mcneer,
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Jane Novello, Jack Edward, Barney Phillips, and Raymond Burr. Musical
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supervision is by A. Marigo Marino. Be sure to join us next week,
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same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly. Johnny Dollar
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Dan coverly speaking, Johnny Dollar has come to you through the worldwide facilities of
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the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Welcome back. Well,
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this one started out kind of slow, but I think ended pretty strongly.
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And I was kind of reminded with Johnny's observation about him imagining someone sneaking something
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through customs. And I observe that there are some people, and I actually
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count myself amongst them, that think of ways that things can be used for
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sinister purposes. And maybe it comes from listening to mysteries. Maybe in some
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cases it comes from right mysteries. And I actually got the I know that
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when you write mysteries at all, or have to be on the lookout for
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sinister sorts of things. And I remember seeing a friend do something and said,
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boy, that would actually really be an opportunity for someone to get some
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poison in and so I actually use that in Slime Incorporated. Sometimes you feel
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really weird about that of having those sort of thought processes, and certainly that's
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probably a case with people in security related fields. Johnny sees opportunities for fraud
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and all sorts of mouthfeasons. It just comes with the territory, all right.
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Well, some listener comments and feedback and we start from Val who says
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it's Johnny Doller's love and girlfriend here. I'm just using the BBC I Player
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to listen to series one of this wonderful series. Mcclevey, I wonder if
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you've had a chance to hear it. I'm not sure if the eye player
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is available in the US, but I think it is. I've also found
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that it's available to buy via Audible anyway. It's on BBC Radio four Extra
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for free if you can access it. Based on real life experiences of a
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detective in Edinburgh, the attict sends are a little challenging perhaps, but I
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think it's wonderful. He loves his coffee as an interracing, inter resting relationship
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with a woman who runs a house of ill repo. The star is Ryan
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Cox and I was listening to my battered old iPod yesterday shopping and laughed out
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loud when you read out my aha comment on the Chase matter. Needless to
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say, people looked at me askance best wishes from London. Well, thanks
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so much and I will try and get a listen to it. And if
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you're listening to it now, the first episode of the series will no longer
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be available by the time it comes out, but it looks like they're rerunning
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the whole first series on BBC Radio four Extra, so you can catch a
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sample of it to see if it's something that you were interested. They've done
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several series of it and you know, it is remarkable. And I've said
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it many times that while the Golden Age of radio ended in the United States,
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radio is definitely alive both in the United States and around the world as
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a dramatic form, particularly in the United Kingdom where BBC runs so many programs
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and they also have the big finish productions. Val also had a comment on
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Facebook and says, isn't a Marigo Marino a great name? I always listen
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out for him when the Johnny Dollar credits roll and Renee I shared a comment
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says when I was a child growing up in the sixties and seventies, the
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Birmingham, Alabama Symphony Orchestra would have concerts for school children from the entire area
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for a small fee. We would be bust into downtown for the concerts.
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The conductor was Amerigo Marino. Hearing the name on Johnny Dollar did not connect
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with me until Adam mentioned it once he had left CBS to go to Alabama
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to conduct. In Alabama, it was pronounced amor ammor rego, not amigo.
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I hope I pronounced the pronunciations correctly if I didn't apologize, but I
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did decide to Derek, thanks so much for sharing, and I'm glad that
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you got to enjoy his other conducting work because this Johnny Dollar remains just incredibly
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a well scored program. Well, that will do it for today. Join
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us back here tomorrow when we will bring you police headquarters, and then next
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Friday it'll be yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In the meanwhile, send
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your comments to Box thirty henat Great Detectives dot Net from Boise, Idaho.
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This is your host, Adam Grahamson and all