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Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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to you. So just remember Johnny Dollar Air dot com. Well, now
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it's time for us to get into the matter of the medium. Well done
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Part three and Part four from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar.
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This is Tony Ricardo. Oh, I've been hoping to get in touch with
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it. You was that your polite threat to kill me if I don't leave
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Carol sharp alogn Yeah, I received it, and I have a sneaking suspicion
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the police department might be interested in Oh please, I guess they acted a
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bit hastily. Perhaps you let me talk to me. You want to take
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the threat back that still stands, then you don't leave me much choice.
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Talk to me first. Believe me. You won't be sorry, but I
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might be dead. Is that it I want to see? You can't do
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it now? But where can I reach you? Sunrise three? Okay?
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Meantime, don't get trigger happy? Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in
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the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous freelance
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Insurance Investigator US truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar,
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location, New York City to the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut.
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Following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the matter of the
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medium well done Expencer con adem seven eighty five cents cav fair from the bell
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Towers to the eighteenth Precinct Station and Sergeant Randy Singer. So, yeah,
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I meant to Carol's sharp huh yep, I put on an act that would
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have done credit to the theater. Gil told her she looked exactly like a
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girl I dreamed about as a kid, a girl named Carol. Oh no,
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she swallowed it. Not only that, but she gave me a lecture
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on vertical dreams and allied psychic phenomenon. You deserve an oscar. Also,
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she wants me to go with her and see this, Madam MORGANA MORGANA oh
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good? When to well, you're not figuring on skipping tonight's sayands a hold
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on, out of bits. I want to find out what this stuff is
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all about, so I'll be prepared for tomorrow. This dame you have lined
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up pretty good. She's got a big following ready to go. Oh what
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a minute? You said you have the file on Tony Ricardo. Oh yeah,
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yeah, I was waiting for you, eh. Anthony Ricardo alias Ricky
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Marino, alias Tony the Tip. Here's his picture. Height five nine,
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weight one seventy two eyes, brown hair, bars, grace expected member of
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the Duchy's spurling outfit. Twelve Arettsviction started as a rum runner back. This
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is Tony Riccardo. It's the guy I would have sworn. The man I
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talked over the phone was in his twenties, late twenties and more. You
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talked to him after leaving an unpleasant little note under my door at the towers.
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He called me on the phone and what kind of note? Oh,
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nothing, particularly, just a gentle suggestion I lay off Carol sharp threat.
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Huh, still got it. But I'm sure that voice couldn't have come from
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this old Geesey and well, frankly, I kind of wondered about the sharp
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girl being interested in him, even though the final does show he's always surrounded
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himself with a bunch of young onesy. You know, he's probably handed out
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more mink coach. Oh, Johnny, you wait a minute, Old Tony's
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got a couple of kids here. Angela goes under the name of Angela Richards.
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At least she used that name at Brentmark, Brent Moore and Sarah Lawrence
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College at Bronxville, and the old boy tried to keep the stigma of his
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passed away from her. I guess, hey, I see I had to
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a doctor over in Hackensack, respectable housewife. Mm hmm, Oh what about
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the other Anthony Junior, aged twenty six. That was last year. Let's
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see that makes him twenty seven now Rutgers University class. Not much, gentlemen,
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unless I must my guess, he's a chip off the old block.
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Are you know where I can find him? All I have is his phone
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under what is it? Wait'll I see him? Talk to him? That
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may be too late, is what I think he is? Why not ask
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this medium about him tonight? Yeah? That? Hey, come on,
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we're late. Let's go alright. I'm eight a dollar twenty cab to an
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old brown stone house somewhere over in the west forties, way west, in
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a district that had seen better days. We were greeted at the door by
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a tall, gray haired, old gentleman dressed in black except his white gloves
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that somehow reminded me of a pall ber. Come in, mister Singer and
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mister Dollar Terrible is about to begin? Psychometry? Is the mood this evening?
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Follow? Please? How do you know our names? I had to
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give them to him when I made the appointment. What's this psychometry? Press?
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Ah? Music gives me the creeps? Yeah? Into the temple please
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and be seated. The temple turned out to be an old dining room a
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bare wooden floor, heavy drapes over the windows, and as nearly as I
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could see, a bunch of chairs around in the circle, fill with people.
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The sockets in the ancient chandelier that hung from the ceiling had red bulbs
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in them that barely glowed. We could highly see a thing, although I'm
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sure the light went up very slightly when we made our entrance, and then
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down again, as though somebody was controlling it with a rheostat. Our eyes
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were almost used to the semidarkness by the time we seated ourselves in the circle.
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Nobody spoke, and the weird music from that scratchy record was beginning to
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get on my nerves or put me to sleep or something. I'm not quite
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sure what. Then suddenly there was a flash of light and a puff of
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smoke, and so help me what the same Brandish client is a party greeting
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greetings, friends of the unknown, friends of the mystics of Boat and the
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Indian Boy, and the seventh son of a seventh son of Harrish New the
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Mighty. And then she stood in the center of the circle where the flash
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had gone off. Are we all in the moon? She stood there,
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draped and what looked, even in the dim light, what looked like a
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slightly soiled bed sheet pulled in around her ample middle with a hunk of coarse
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rope. She wore a sort of turban or maybe it was just an old
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dish towel wrapped around her head. A faint older of gin pervaded the room.
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I guess her feet were bare, for she made no noise as she
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walked slowly around the circle, holding on a shallow metal tray, taking a
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collection. So soon, I wondered, each of you, place upon the
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tray some object very close to you, something you had had a long long
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time that has become a part of you. You'll get it back. And
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if the spirits are with us, and there are no dissenting minds among us,
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if Botan, the Indian boy from the world beyond, is willing to
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act as our control, we shall learn many strange things this night. Place
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something close to you upon the train, Oh, wullis Watson. You must
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not speak, but keep the moos, keep the mood. Are we all
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in the moods? Yes? Sweet and Now, dear friends, while I
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editate and establish contact with the spirit world, Henningway will pass among you.
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For the tiny assurance that you join us in all sincerity. Now join hands
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to create the flux that will join our thoughts and minds and hearts and open
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the doors to enlightenment for all of us. Five dollars photo, Are you
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with us? To no? Five dollars? Please? Botann will you answer
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us? Are you with us? Now? Is that Botan that answers our
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call? Oh, the little sister hyacin Ah, it is Phota, We
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may begin. I hold this ring, I feel the paramagnetic forces arising from
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it. This belongs to a businessman south of here. I seem to see
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clothing hanging in a large warehouse, and the sound of many machines, sewing
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machines, and many young ells working at the machine. One by one,
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she picked the objects off the tray, held them in her hand, and
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gave a kind of character reading with the owners. Occasionally, somebody in the
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circle would respond in a way that made it sound like she'd guess right.
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Other Times she'd just make with a lot of generalities that could apply to any
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one. Finally, she picked up my watch. This watch, I see
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tall buildings of stone and strange signs on them. I don't know what they
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mean. Try mutual universal adjustment, Brandy, And I see great chiefs of
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papers, carefully folded, and on each one it says policy policy. I
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don't understand unless insurance. Yes, it's fantastical. Way does she get STI
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wide with them? The watches from a young man, clever, energetic.
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I will have many things to tell him at another time, but he must
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see me again of them. And now this other object that lay beneath the
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watch, I see a police badge, the cops. Cops. Let me
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rated get out of here anyway, Clara, your filthy hands off me.
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You're not going anywhere until I have a talk with you. Anyway, ran
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On, I'm out of known. He wanted a pinch. There isn't going
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to be a pinch if you'll just shut up and stand still, iminine.
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I wasn't doing no harm on this officer. And all the money goes to
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charity. All right, all right, settle down? Where's the light switch?
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Got it ready? I'll never live this down now, Look office,
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you look, Clara Belle. All we wanted some answers is some questions,
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and you won't pinch me. And if you tell the truth, Johnny,
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Yeah, just now, did you know so much about me. It certainly
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wasn't from holding that watch. Okay, so it wasn't, though some there
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are who can do it that way that I've heard. Well, go on,
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no pinch, no pinch. Well, when your friend called to arranger
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being here tonight, Henningway, well he would walk out on me. Well,
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Henmingway asked where you come from? So we know if the spirits was
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propitious there? That's what we always say. And I told him Hartford,
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that's right. So what's Hartford insurance? If a client's in insurance? He
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responds, like you done? So I keep pushing it, and if he
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ain't well, at least he thinks I'd done pretty good by describing the place
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he comes from. Yeah, what about the clothing maker right at the beginning?
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Easy, he called from a hotel, So he calls the hotel back
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and gets his address. You told him he was from the south of here.
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Sure would buy in New Jersey. Only business down there, of any
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account is clothing and small farms. Where'd you find that? At State directory?
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Any library and anybody could see he was a businessman, not a farmer.
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Well, I'll be and hooking him that way tonight. You could have
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had him coming back as long as he could afford it him. Sure,
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if it hadn't been for you. Okay, Now what about the others?
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Some we get the dope on and some we guess that. But there's always
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enough good ones to keep going so easy. And yet I must confess she'd
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had me stop for a while. We talked with her a bit longer.
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Randy wanted to watch your step, and we left, took a taxi back
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to my hotel. Well, learn anything, I should hope to tell you?
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What are the church going spiritualists think of her kind? I hate him
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and I don't blame him. Are you still going to see Madam Morgan and
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MORGANA tomorrow night? Mm? Yeah, Well, mister, that one won't
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be so easy to expose if you can expose it. Johnny Dollar, this
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is Carol. Johnny, Oh, hello Carol. I've made the arrangements for
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us to go to the seance tonight with Madame MORGANA MORGANA good What time?
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Eight o'clock? Only it's across the river in New Jersey. Do you have
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dinner with me? I'd love to, but we'd better make it pretty early.
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Pick you have a new penthouse at six, I'll be waiting. Expense
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accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar location, New York City to the Universal
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Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut. Following is an accounting of expenditures. During
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my investigation of the matter of the medium well done, some pretty strong pressure
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was being put on Carol Sharp to change the beneficiaries of her one hundred and
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ten thousand dollars life policy. And she was very much under the influence of
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a psychic medium who insisted that she be named as one of the two new
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beneficiaries. The other was to be a Tony Ricardo, whose father made quite
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a record for himself in the bootlegging gangs Todays of the Roaring. I met
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him at Susan Palmer's oyster Bar over in Radio City. I must admit I
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was surprised that the sort of fellow he turned out to be. I guess
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it was a little well extreme to threatening you that way, mister Doller.
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That's putting it mild. But this whole spiritualism business and the whole it has
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on Carol, Wow, that hasn't me terribly concerned. You don't like spiritualists.
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I didn't say that you know just as well as I do. There
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are a great many fine honest spiritualistness city. But is any other fielder of
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frauds, racketeers? So I've heard it's not only true religions, but businesses,
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professions, anything. You sure? Sure? But I'll look here,
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Tony Dollar. I will not have you or anyone else leaving Carol on this
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medium who's already has such a hold on it. Do you understand? Pardon
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me, Tony? Your background is showing what I say, Come off with
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this kind of act won't work. What are you talking about? Do you
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think I don't know? Your one of the two. Carol wants to name
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his beneficies of her policy you in that medium. That's not my doing.
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Who's doing? Is it? Medium? Morgan? I'm organa. It's been
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taking Carroll's money by the hundreds a week after week. Now you've come along
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and encourage you and dolla. I tell you to stop it. Tony.
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Maybe that story you gave her about dreaming of her over and over when you
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were a kid and couldn't even have known about it was true, But I
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don't believe Tony, that was made up out of whole cloth. I still
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this funny decision to switch your policy around is the case I'm assigned to Wait
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a minute, Yes, I had to meet her somehow, so I use
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that device, knowing she might fall for it because of her implicit belief in
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such things. But now you're encouraging this whole thing. You're even gonna see
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this more guna moganna with her at night, because if she is a phony,
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it's the only way I can show this to Carol. Wow. I
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hope and pray that you can, mister Donna. Some of the best psychic
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investigators in the country have been stumped byre Ow are you gonna go about it?
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I won't know until I've seen her operate. Even then, I may
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not know. Or maybe this medium isn't a fraud. Oh come on,
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of course she is. But you can't prove it. But you or somebody
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must. Carol will change your policy and then turn up dead. We'll be
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easy, mister Dolla. Have the tendities sayances with Carol, many of them.
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There been times when I've almost been convinced myself. Wait, there's some
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more coffee. Please? No, no, no more for me. Thanks.
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You're gonna need it, Tony, because I'm gonna keep you here until
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you've told me every detail you can remember this Matam Morgan and organis seance procedure.
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Right, I help you all I can. You'd better. I'm still
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not forgetting that if I fall down on this job, you'll cut into Carrol's
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insurance for I need thirty thousand dollars. In spite of your sweet talk,
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I'll say this for Tony Ricardo. He was thorough and I began to believe
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that he was serious and his concerned for Carol. I had him twelve ten
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cents one fold. Call to Tommy Green. No, no, Johnny,
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no trouble at all in getting the rundown on Carrol's family that you has for
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keep talking. Apparently they're doing all right. They're in march On, PA.
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Neither the mother or two brothers will ever have to really get out and
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dig for a living. They're all man left and well set up. Eh.
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Yeah. One of the boys, Harold's turned out pretty well, works
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in some office over there, even though he doesn't really need to. What
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about the other boy? That'll be Day, The black sheep of the family
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travels with a fast crowd, tears around the country in a sports car that
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sort of thing. Oh right, now, he's somewhere here in New York
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just playing around. But Johnny, are you getting anywhere on this case?
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Yeah? Tell me, I think I am, especially after what you just
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told me. Item thirteen another phone call. It's time to Sergeant Randy Singer,
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eighteenth Precinct Headquarters. Yeah, Jenny, got a real easy one for
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you. What's that? Find A man name is David Sharp, home address
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mock Chunk, Pennsylvania, Chunk, Pennsylvania. Got it? Description none though
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he's probably in his twenties. Wow, it's not. And he's probably staying
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at a hotel here in the city. Well, yeah, but where what
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part of the city? Let me know when you find out wild you No,
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wait a minute. A Kida expense account Item fourteen, one hundred and
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six dollars eighty cents, and it includes cabs to several camera shops, one
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mini ature camera without an f two lens, a couple of rolls, a
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special film, some very special flash bobs, and a tiny flash holder.
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Item fifteen tex back to the towers to clean up and dress for my date
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with Carol. Then the phone rang, Jenny Dellen, we located David Sharp
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for you. Johnny, just dumb luck Now, who knows, Randy,
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maybe your psyche? I leave us and not half that stuff. Where is
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he found? I'm staying at the third hotel we call the ambar Ran Over
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on his fifty third Street, not two blocks from that palatial joint where you're
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staying. Is he there now? No? But he always comes in just
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for dinner time. He still haven't told me why you're interested in him.
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I'm not sure myself, but do me a favor. Would you like what
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when he shows up? Put a tail on him. I want to know
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where he goes, how long he stays, and when he comes back.
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But you won't say why, not until I'm sure I know why. Thanks
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Randy, But I haven't said that. Thanks why. Dinner with Carol could
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have been one of the pleasantest things in years, But I'm afraid I was
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preoccupied with matters at hand, and she with anticipation. She's promised to try
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to hear from Daddy again tonight. Oh, Johnny, I so want to
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speak to him again. Finally I signed the check, We hopped into a
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taxi and headed across the river to the Jersey side. We ended up at
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a rather plain but nice home somewhere on the outskirts of my guess at Union
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City. We were met at the door by a matron of about forty five,
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I should say, who looked like an ordinary respectable housewife, except perhaps
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for her quick, discerning eyes. Good evening, Carol, my dear,
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Oh, and you must be mister Johnny Dollar. Yes, Madame Morgan and
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morgana. Yes. Do come in and meet the others who are here to
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form the circle tonight. Thank you, Cherl, Thank you. Harold told
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me nothing about you except your verridical dreams of her. An amazing experience,
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isn't it. Perhaps you're really psyche? Oh? I doubt that, But
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all our friends thought my kid brother Richard was before he died a couple of
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years ago. Richard Richard. That name has been haunting me ever since Carol
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telephoned. You don't suppose what matter? Oh? No, of course.
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Not. Now Here in the parlor are the others who will be with us
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tonight. I present mister Johnny Dollar, Missus Dorothy Jess, mister John Crowd,
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mister Samuel Frolake, and of course you all know Carol. Sharp,
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Good evening. I see no reason why we shouldn't start the atmosphere has seemed
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almost electric tonight, very conducive to good contact with the shall we say,
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the nether world. And oh, oh, yes, you may smoke if
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you like, mister Dollar. We're very informal. Oh, I'm sorry,
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just sort of a nervous habit, I guess flicking this lighter. Oh incidentally,
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I I hope you tell these people of your dreams after we're finished it.
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M Oh, dear, the atmosphere is tense. We should begin right
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away, you will, yes, oh, turn on music. The six
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of us sat down on a small circle. On the floor were three long,
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slender metal trumpets, like Halloween horns, but made of thin metal,
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spaced about the center of the circle. In the subdued conversation of the next
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few minutes, I learned it was through these that the spirit voices would come
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to us, that they would rise in the air, and the voices would
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issue from them from time to time. They're in the pitch black rum.
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I snapped the cap of my lighter as a reminder of what it was.
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You mustn't light it downny, you know no danger. This one hasn't even
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got a fleam in it. I knew who we get some messages to I
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think we will, mister Philic, I have a feeling we will. I
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have that feeling too, very strongly. From what Madame told us, you
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must have definite psychopauis, mister Donna. That should be helpful. Wait,
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wait, the power is here. I feel it almost as though she were
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suffering. Physical were ready. The medium side and guessed, and we waited
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and waited. It's hard to describe the ten that comes of waiting that way
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in a completely darkened room, and it's easy to see how well the imagination
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will work the powers of suggestion. There was a slight sound one of the
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trumpets. I heard it move. Yes, yes, so did I.
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That means that there was seemed to move towards your girl. I hope so.
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Yes, Yes, I can feel it near near me, Father,
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Father, Carol, Carol, oh father, can you speak to me?
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There's so many things I wish to ask you. Yes, dear, yes,
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yes. It may not sound like much to tell, and believe me,
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this was impressive. The deathlike silence broken only by the faint voice of
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the trumpet, the whispered questions by Carol, an occasional sigh from the medium,
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and the shudder at my special camera, which I hope sounded enough like
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my lighter had sounded. Yes, Carol, always do the things I tell
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you do. You're a good girl, my darling, and you'll give me
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great happiness in this lonely this father, father, good Bye, goodbye Johnny.
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Do you see? Do you see? Because only he and I know
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the things we talked? Wait, I feel the trumpet is still near us
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since you John for you? Yes, Richard, Yes John, Dick,
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I've waited so long to speak to you, Dick, my brother. The
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brief conversation I carried on with my dead brother Richard was amazing of things in
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my childhood that I thought nobody else even knew about, personal, intimate things
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that could only be known to a brother, someone equally close. It was
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fantastic, amazing, or inspiring, except for one thing. I never had
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a brother. I didn't tell this to anyone. I played it straight and
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even stayed around and discussed my trumped up dreams after the seance. But I
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needed proof, and I couldn't wait to get back to New York to the
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police lab where I could develop the infrared film in my little camera. Now
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here's our star to tell you about the fine, intriguing episode of this week's
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story tomorrow the wind up and a bit of heartbreak for a very chasing girl,
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johann Us, Won't you Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar is starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and directed
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by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story. Be sure to join us
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tomorrow night at same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly
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Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking, welcome back. This hasn't been my favorite
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serial so far, but I love the sudden shift when the phony syc at
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in part three found the policeman's badge, both in her temperament as well as
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in the scene. But we'll see how things develop in the next serial and
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whether Johnny has the evidence to cook the medium well done or if he was
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mistaken. Also if listeners revolt over those the last two months. All right,
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but that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Nick
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Carter and join us on Friday for the conclusion of the matter of the Medium
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