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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Michael Meany Mirage Matter (EP1357) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  details and other options are available at support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well,
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  we had the last lost episode for a while between last week's show and
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  this week's show, So today's program is from May to nineteenth of nineteen fifty
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  seven, and the title is the Michael Meani Mirage matter. I wonder if
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  people who made up titles for the lineup episodes wrote the title for that one.
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  Anyway, here now is yours truly Johnny Dollar from Hollywood. It's time
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  now for George Reid speaking. Oh good morning, George is for sure the
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  birds are singing, bees or buzzing. And there are whales in the Gulf
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  of Mexico. Oh there are What do you know anything about whales, Johnny?
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  I can't say that. I do, I don't need to do I
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  Zippy. Can you go down there? Well? Yeah, sure, but
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  what's it all about? I told you a whale? Come on, you
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  people didn't ensure it? Sure, oh, Johnny, of course we didn't.
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  But we did write a voter policy covering eighty pounds of ambergris Chris comes
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  from a whale, very valuable used in the making of perfume. Oh yeah,
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  we're used with the policy. A week ago, yesterday the stuff disappeared.
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  How much did you cover it? For twenty thousands? And our agent
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  down there is w. C. Owen got it? Owen? Huh,
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  yes, ye. You shouldn't have any trouble locating the stuff. No,
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  why not? Because and I quote mister Owen, ambergris smells worse than a
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  hound. Dog, which is kind of scunt Bob Bailey and the exciting adventures
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  of the Man with the action packed expense accounts America's fabulous free lance insurance Investigator,
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  Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and no act one of Yours, Truly
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  Johnny Dollars. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollars to Floyd's of England,
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  American Branch Office four four three North fifteenth Street, Hartford, Connecticut.
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  The following is an account of expenses in encourage during my investigation of the Michael
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  Meani mirage matter expense account at a one one hundred and sixty eight dollars transportation
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  from Hartford to the Markham Hotel in Gulfport, Mississippi. I called WC On,
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  the agent who sold the policy covering the ammigriss Half an hour later,
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  I opened the door of my room to a middle aged man wearing a brown
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  seersucker suit. Mister Dalla right, sure is John Mstrong gon dang, but
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  I'm not gonna pull around about this. I'm in a mess. You know.
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  My only chance getting out of it? Well, I'll do whatever I
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  can. Mister On, you just find that ammigras and man, please find
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  it within the next forty eight hours by the rush two reasons when the emmigriss
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  was stolen off the freight platform to train depot DA Poor yesterday was packed for
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  shipping, had enough dries around less even to two hours, but no more.
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  Uh huh, I wan't the second race. That might mean me to
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  see owner of the Ambigrisans real good client of mine. I promised him.
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  You'd roky still for sure. Well, I appreciate your confidence, mister on
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  names w C. Mister around here sounds too high for rooting for an insurance
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  sales Okay, w see, but what's this from? I mean he's so
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  worried about the ammigrants is covered with twenty thousand, he told me learn it
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  worth a lot more than that since support it was something up here sixty thou
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  pretty rare stuff. Matter of fact, this first time I've ever heard of
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  anybody find an ammigration to go go fishing out of the water. Meanie.
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  Oh you know how it worked for him named Billy Fisher? Did mean he
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  buy it from Fisher. Didn't have to blown to mister Meanie right off.
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  Oh well, of course Fisher was for him, which mean he lets out
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  his fishing boats to fellas which ain't got no boat of their own, or
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  he man change to get for him. He rents him out so you don't
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  run him. He lets him out o share. But I mean he puts
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  up the boat, gas nets everything, and whoever runs the boat, well
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  he whatever he catches, he blows. Miss mean ah. Because Fisher happened
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  to be a Meani's boat when he found the emigres, it automatically became Meani's
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  property. Huh. Now you've got a boat. Did Fisher know what it
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  was or the value of it when he turned it over to meeting? He
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  had to ask him about this? Yeah? I plan to, but first
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  I'm like to have a talk with this Mike Meani. I'm way ahead of
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  your dollar. I called him me and here right after you called me,
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  he's waiting for how far is he lived from here? Boat? Three or
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  four miles down to be thrown toward blocks me place called Missisippi City. Mississippi
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  City, but don't let the name pool you. It goes there except a
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  couple of stores, fishing boat land, the train depot. It sounds like
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  a real quiet place. It is. It's also where this whole thing started.
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  And where I hope it finishes, and the sooner the b A few
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  minutes later, we were driving east along the coast. Ahead of us we
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  could see Mississippi City's one and only landmark, a long wooden pier extending far
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  out into the Gulf anchor near the end of it with several small fishing boats.
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  We passed the Meani General Store and the Meani Fish Market, then turned
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  into a narrow driveway. I'm not sure what kind of a house that expected
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  Mike Meani to live in, but this certainly wasn't it. It was too
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  small and they needed a coat of painting. We got out and on led
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  the way to decide. The horse mis meanie you know, doesn't look like
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  it. No, No, he's here. Listen what my name of sure?
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  Heavy? Any? Yes, I mean another man here side the whole
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  United States? And I believe w C Boy, you sure took your sweet
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  time getting here. Yeah, maybe just fast we could miss me. Is
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  this the fellow I will tell you about, mister Johnny Dollar? Both of
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  you come inside. That's it the morning you mean, sit down and so
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  far out? Just lower uh lower myself into this this uh uh chair there?
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  Yeah, no, then you're a detective one dollar? Well, welln
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  me ain't giving me an answer. You're a detective where you win a detective?
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  Now? Which is? I have an insurance investigator right now I'm being
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  paid to find eighty pounds of ambigrants that you lost. Loss laws. He
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  didn't mean nothing saying that you wash up, you road agents, mister mian
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  Allah that stuff was stolen. You hear seed right in abroad lighted day.
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  You're sure, I'm sure eighty pounds of ambergrists didn't get up and walk off
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  by itself. Yes, me too. You know exactly where was it when
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  it was stolen? Sitting in a box I had built for it, a
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  special box box smellprew twenty five dollars. Oh, shut up. I was
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  sending it to Nolans, to a fellow i'd heard might be able to sell
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  it for man. The box was on the platform right outside the American Express
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  office of the depot here Insissippi City. Boy, you ever take a bad
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  fall out of your crib? No, you ignorant? In Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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  where you think that depot was, goven and Gulf Court. No, it
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  couldn't never do business there, Okay, okay, so wrong, But that's
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  the first time you ever admitted it. Had the box been checked in at
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  American Express? I mean, had the break been paid dollars? Yes,
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  that's what I mean. It's grounds and ignorant, no good. And had
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  it been paid mister meaning? Oh it had? Why not? Because the
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  rat I trusted with the Ambergris and sent down to the station to see it
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  got on the train. Yeah, he'd promise, he'd give his word.
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  He wouldn't take his eyes off that stuff for one second. Not dirty north
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  shine. Are you okay? Miss meaning? No? But you shit down?
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  You make me nervous. W s. Yes, there was a time
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  I think of that TEJ, that stupid nephew of mine. Well you know
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  what he done, Dollar, He spotted something more interesting to look after than
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  twenty thousand dollars worth of ambigrat ambigrit Okay, oh, wuc told no,
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  I didn't know, sir, mister Dollar. He's just clever. Well,
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  anyway, according to TJ, this young female pulled up in an open car
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  across the road from where he was at, and it wasn't until he got
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  up close that he could see that she was wearing the scrapless baby suit.
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  You see, mister dollar, TG knows what TJ thought. You you'll keep
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  your mouth shut WI whatever. Well, while TJ was investigating the situation,
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  someone made off of the ambigress. That's right, right, What about the
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  other people at the station? There weren't no other people there. How about
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  the baggage clerk and the passing generation? Where were they? The Sam Burrows
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  is the only man that works down in the deept and he was busy selling
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  some woman to pull m and take it to mean, for how long did
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  TJ talk to the girl? Just a couple of minutes according to him that
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  you want to ask him yourself. He works at the All Line Cafe and
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  goup for all right, thanks, well, we're sure having much to go
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  on, You got nothing to go on, so you might as well give
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  me my twenty thousand head back up north with a blow. Not yet,
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  mister meaning, you got forty five dollars at the end of that time.
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  I want my insurance money. Money you don't see that I have with mister
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  w c Owned. You're going to be sorry, you know what I mean?
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  Mean, yes, I know. I one didn't say another word until
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  we pulled out a fat Mike Meanie's driveway, and I turn left, going
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  on down the beach toward Bloxing. I suppose you think I should have stood
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  up to him little more. Huh? No, I figured you had your
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  reasons for not wanting to get into an argument with him. See those boats
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  off the end of the pier, small fishing boats, huh they belong to
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  Meani. He's also got money invested in half the business place along the beach.
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  You know what that means? Dollar? Yeah, Well, where I
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  come from, he'd pull a lot of weight, that's it. And anybody
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  he could dry on that, well, one word from him and my clients
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  would be screaming for me to cancel their policies like that, just like,
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  hey, where are we going, Billy Fishers? This way is? This
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  year is the Barton house he lives in. Come on, okay, boy,
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  okay, easy, how he's easy? That's just you know, Miss
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  Harvey. Oh but my goodness, miss Owen, this is an unaccepted plaguer
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  for sure, I thank him. Uh. This year is mister Johnny Dollar,
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  Miss Harvey, need to know you, mister Dollar, wouldn't you like
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  to come in and sit down? No? Thanks, we really don't have
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  much time. Oh, miss Dollars an insurance investigator. Right now, he
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  wants to have a talk with Billy Fisher providing his whole wy. Sure he
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  is you find him down the side there, Oh, but he is when
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  he's with Jene Higgy miss Owen. Oh you know her father readed that old
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  Niller place again. Girl, look got into that trouble? Who is what
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  kind of trouble? Well, this happened when the Higginses were down here two
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  years ago. Billy and Jane have always been sweet on each other. But
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  being as Billy and Billy and doesn't have fun if you don't not even the
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  job def fishing want of miss Meani's boat with James Todd just put his foot
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  down, But didn't mean you think Billy knows her. He's not until o
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  man Hi can get sheriff. You're not still in the top, James,
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  and finding the Higgins is just typed up. They didn't come back until just
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  three weeks ago. Seven. How old is the Higgins girl now? Eighteen
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  nineteen and she hasn't changed one bed in those two years? No, such,
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  he's just over here all the time. She will be some purpose there
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  they are now Lily James come over here in a dinner. Someone wants to
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  see you, good Billy. Now that she has mister Dolls, why Dotty,
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  Miss Higgins, mister Dollan and miss Owen along as Billy. I wonder
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  if I could speak you alone from a moment. Yes, would you want
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  to talk to me about mister Meanie and the ammigrants you found? Oh?
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  That? Where did you find it? Billy? I'm near cat Island,
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  floating in the East Channel. Did you know what it was as soon as
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  you saw it? No, sir, not exactly. But I read a
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  story once about a fellow that found some ambergriss. He should have made a
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  lot of money off. So you weren't going to take any chances, and
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  you haulted the board. Is that right? Yes, there's something like that.
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  Billy. You realized that anything you caught or salvage with that voat belonging
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  to mister Meanie, it wasn't yours. You realized I didn't choose well,
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  not right then. I didn't know, sir. He'd give me some kind
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  of a contract A signed and I started working for him, but I never
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  read it. Well. What happened when you put in at the period that
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  night. Oh that Chris Stillinger. Mister Meani's checked it. He spied the
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  ambigris right off, and he made me turn it over to him. Was
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  the last time you saw it? Yes? Yes, that was it?
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  Okay, Bill, that's all I had on my mind. Well, that's
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  all I mean, no questions about whether I swapped it from the train station
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  or not. Would you tell me if you had? He's crazy something pick
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  No, I have to saying goodbye to Jane Higgins and taking a rain check
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  on a dinner invitation from missus Harvey ow And and I drove back to town.
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  I was tired, and I was discouraged, and I needed a good
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  night's sleep, so I had him dropping off at the hotel. At the
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  desk, I found a message to call long distance operator nineteen. A few
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  minutes later the call was completed. George read speak Hi, George, thought
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  it was you. Johnny? Where are in blazes? If you've been I've
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  been trying to get hold of you. All have to know, oh something
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  important? No, I was just curious about the weather down there. Oh
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  well it's great, great warm, And on to Johnny And Okay, George,
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  what's happening? One of the boys upstairs got window, that Amberger's glass.
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  So he just happens to have a who's an ichtheologist? Well believe for
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  him, Johnny thiscktheologist says that Ambergris comes only from the sperm whale, and
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  there has never been a sperm whale alive that would be caught dead swimming in
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  the Gulf of Mexico. What you follow me, Johnny, I think so
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  it there's never been a sperm whale in the gulf, then that stuff you
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  people in short couldn't have been. But George, if it wasn't Ambergris,
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  what was it? I don't know unless you find it. We're stuck for
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  twenty thousand bucks only smokes Act two off yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a
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  moment. Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star there stands
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  yet another flag for each of the fifty states. New Mexico's flag is an
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  ancient zea sun symbol, a red circle on a field of yellow, radiating
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  from four points, which we might indicate as north, east, south,
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  and west are four parallel lines. Four was a sacred number of Zea,
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  the number most often used by the giver of all good gifts. The earth
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  had four main directions, each with its own gifts. The year had four
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  seasons, each with a different offering for mankind. The day had four faces
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  sunrise, noontime, evening, and night. Life had its four divisions childhood,
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  youth, manhood, and old age. Everything in life and nature was
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  bound together in a circle, the circle of life and love, without beginning
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  and without end. And in this great brotherhood of all things, man had
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  four obligations. He must develop a strong body, a clear mind, and
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  a pure spirit. Fourth, and most to the welfare of his people.
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  From this simple symbol, the Zia Sun, we read the legend of a
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  wonderful philosophy. The plank's colors of flaming red and golden orange represent the banners
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  of Ferdinand and Isabella, which were carried by Columbus across the Atlantic. New
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  Mexico's state flag, the flag of the forty seventh state to enter the Union,
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  was adopted on March nineteenth, nineteen twenty five. Now Act two of
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  Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and the Michael Meani Murrii Matters. After talking to
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  George Reed and learning that there was considerable doubt in his mind concerning the origin
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  of the ambergris Mike Mehdi had insured with Reed's company. I called WC on,
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  the agent who had issued the policy to come down to the hotel.
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  He was a shocked and surprise eyes as I said, Yeah, yeah,
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  I just can't believe it. Yeah, well that's true, at least according
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  to a man who's studied the habits of sperm whales for years. Those kinds
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  of whales never come into the doll not, according to him. If ambigrants
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  isn't, what is it? You see, your guess is as good as
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  mine. But whatever it is, it isn't worth twenty thousand dollars. Oh
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  yes, sir, yah, yeah, you don't think Missu Meani is trying
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  to pull fast? When do you trying to defraud the company? Oh?
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  No, I dot it. He has all the money he'll need for a
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  while, that's for sure. Tell me WC. Did me and he have
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  the emigrants analyzed before he asked you to ensure it? In fact, he
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  did even showed me a letter which said that the stuff was You remember who
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  made the analysis for him? You can't. It's over BILOXI don't recall his
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  name off hand, but he signed that letter he gave mister Meani. Okay,
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  first thing in the morning, we'll take another trip out to Meanie's place.
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  In the meantime, don't mention any of this to anyone, which no,
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  no, Amal Jerry. Yeah, I should have checked on that,
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  Tim. I shouldn't have, and I shouldn't have been so anxious to take
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  this to mean as Ward. Well, we all make mistakes, not biggeres
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  like this, Johnny. We just got to find this stuff. Because we
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  don't, we'll never know if it was Ambergers or not, will it?
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  No, WC, we won't. I felt sorry for all. I knew
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  as well as he did that the company might recall his franchise unless we couldn't
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  prove it was ambigrants that had been insured, and at the moment I was
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  quite sure we couldn't do that. The thanks morning, the coffee shop was
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  crowded, so I started up toward the center of town, looking for another
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  place to have breakfast. I was about four or five blocks from the hotel
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  when I heard someone calling me, Johnny, m oh, oh, yeah,
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  good morning, Jane. Well, what are you doing in town so
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  bright and early? I'm going on a shopping screen. A girl can't get
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  married just anyone thing, you know? Oh? Oh, well I was
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  a lucky guy. Who do you think Billy Fisher? I certainly wouldn't marry
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  anyone else. Well, Jane, it's none of my business. But I
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  heard you had my father's dad said against Billy, didn't she say? Yeah,
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  something like that. Well he is, but there's much he can do
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  about it. I'm over eighteen guys. He's going to change his mind about
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  Billy, I hope. So he's going to be real sorry he ever treats
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  Billy the way he has. Jane. Look, I haven't had breakfast yet.
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  How about joinning me for a couple of coffee? Oh? I love
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  to where we go? Oh? How about over there the all night cafe?
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  All right? Oh no, I mean do you know what time,
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  mister dollar? Just ten after nine? Why? We had just remembered something
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  in party? You made a helps funny. I crossed the street and end
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  of the all night cafe. Behind the counter wearing a white T shirt,
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  apron and a Valentino type hairdoo was a man about twenty three years old.
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  Oh will it be? How an eights of coffee? They want their make
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  over? Reason? Okay, so kidding me, I ain't eating them,
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  dude, half nice with Pete. You want your coffee now? Yeah?
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  Please? Do you happen to know a man named Mike? Mean? He
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  I should? He's my uncle? Oh well then you must be t J.
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  That's right? Yeah? How come you know me? I was talking
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  to your uncle yesterday. My name is Doll Well yeah, yeah, he
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  told me if you come around, I can tell you anything you want to
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  know. Well, what happened at the deep at that afternoon? TJ?
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  Can you already tell you that? I'd like to hear your silence when you
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  met to tell I was sitting there waiting to put that box in three o
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  three and the ship gal drove up. What happened then? Man? She
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  gave me just about the biggest come on I ever did get. So you
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  left the freight flat farm and crossed the road to talk to her? Who
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  is shoot, mister dollar? I didn't see nothing wrong in doing that.
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  To was nobody around? I must have been yeah, yeah, raycon sue,
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  But I sure didn't see you. P J said that girl tell you
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  her name? Yeah? What is it? Betty Miller? Benny Lou Miller?
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  Yeah he look miss No, no, wait, have you seen her
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  since then? For sure? When was that? We're just there out in
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  the street. She's a girl you was talking to. I finished my ham
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  and eggs and walked back to the hotel. Owen was waiting for me.
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  But before we drove to Mike Meanie's house, we made a stop at the
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  railroad depot. The agent remembered everything that had happened that afternoon. In the
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  afternoon the ambagers had been stolen, including the name of the woman who had
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  purchased the pullman ticket to Memphis at the time of the theft. After thanking
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  Sam for his help, we went on to the meeting place morning. Shake
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  yourselves down, Thank hill, Dolla, dollah you fine, miamigress. Yeah,
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  now, sir, but I think I know who has it? You
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  mean you mean you know who stole it from the deepot? I think so,
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  mister Meannie, I'm not sure. Well, boy boy, you just
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  let me have the name. Yes, sir, I'll get this sure about
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  you see that foot earned the jail. Now you come on, tell me
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  who did it? Now, sir, I'm sorry, I'll tell you what
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  I'm sure and not before. Well, when's that going to be depends depends
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  on what why do you help me or not? Well? You ignorant,
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  stupid yet thinky you know? Good and well? Boy, I'll help you,
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  yes, sir, No know what what do you want me to do?
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  Give on here the letter you receive from the chemist and analyze the emigrants
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  that know that's off and now? But boy, boy, you go,
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  where do you think you're going to see a lady? Mister minie I want
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  I'll call you as soon as I'm sure, right, you know, car
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  I drove down the beach to Missus Harvey's boarding house. Keiby Fisher was out
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  with the boat, so I had plenty of time to tell her what I
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  knew. It's oh my soul, mister dollar. I planned the whole thing
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  and put Billy up to it and bought the pullman ticket. Yes, I
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  still had it, meaning to turn it in for the money, but just
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  having had a chance to get down to the day thot. Tell me,
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  Missus Harvey, how did you know that TJ would leave the Ambergris when he
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  did? Everybody around there know TJ's weekns for girls. Wonder to me hasn't
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  been locked up long? Well? It was a beautiful John. You timed
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  it just like a profession. Okay, God, thank you for the compliment.
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  Where was Billy in the woods on the other side of the med e
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  waited, dear Jane got tj Old mixed up, Then he scooted cross,
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  got Famberchris ran back into the tree and Jane picked him up. After leaving
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  the depots, Yes, sir, you care for a cup of cols?
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  No? No, thanks for serving you have? Well, I I guess
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  that's part of my job too. What did he do with the Ambergers?
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  I didn't go into Atland a man. They're going to sell it for I
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  see my show looked like you lost your best friend. Yeah, well I
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  I ran into chain this morning. She was going shopping for her tusseau.
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  I know, missus Harvey. If it turns out that that isn't ambers,
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  Oh they still get married no matter what, mister Donald, If not nolla
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  you yet? Where are you at? And my friend, mister mean,
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  just what you're trying to put I tried to coming over here, missus Dormer
• 27:45
  just putting them at all? All right, it's a long way from being
• 27:48
  all right. Just what do you want here? Miss Mike? Meaning?
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  What do I want? Woman? I want to rest you that duty back
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  by Hilly Fisher and his girl were stealing my amber, Amber amber Grise,
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  that's what I want. I want to see you and James. Yeah,
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  you don't be ridiculous. Ridiculous, Well, and I said, now if
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  you don't get off my property for you woman, you stole? How did
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  you know I stole anything? I know because this here worm of an insurance
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  agent wouldn't have a customer lift on the beach unless he told me. Well,
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  he told you wrong. Then it took that amber bore but it belonged
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  to him all the time. Woman. Ain't that right? Mister? Yeah?
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  Sure is? At least it is if it was Ambergury timber Gris right
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  enough. I call that Kimels. But he quit his job a couple of
• 28:45
  days ago, couldn't final record. He middle don't need no record. It's
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  amber Gris and it's mine. You think that you're you're seeing a mirrage.
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  Tell him, mister, if this is some kind it will low down here
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  he's trick. It's no trick, mister, meaning missus. Harvey showed me
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  the contract you have with them. Where what's that got to do with him
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  stealing the Ambigris? Just this. The contract states that all fish and fish
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  products and by products caught or saying while using your boat belong to you.
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  That's right, exactly right too. So the ambergris dozens well, No,
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  sir, Ambergris comes from a whale. And the whale is not a fish,
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  It's a mammal doll. No Dollar, you born. They say that
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  young love can work miracles, and I guess it must be true, because
• 29:44
  later that day a huge sperm whale was sighted about three miles offshore near the
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  cat Island shadow moving. As I've always said, you can't figure whales any
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  more than you can people. Expense of con total including hotel, villain,
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  transportation back to hybrid four hundred and twenty dollar and ten cents, yours,
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  truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here is our star to tell you about next
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  week's story. Next week the wayward truck matter. And I'll leave you to
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  figure that one out for yourself. But join us, won't you? Yours
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  truly, Johnny Dollars, yours truly, Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey,
• 30:32
  originates in Hollywood. Written by Charles B. Smith, it is produced and
• 30:36
  directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg Jeanette Nolan,
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  G Stanley Jones, Junius Matthews, Gil Stratton, Dick Crenna, and
• 30:44
  John Dayner. Musical supervision is by Amrico Marino. Be sure to join us
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  next week, same time and station for another exciting story of yours, truly,
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  Johnny Dollar. This is speaking Johnny Dollar has come to use as the
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  worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Welcome back.
• 31:32
  Well, Michael Meanie might be able to boss around a lot of people,
• 31:37
  but he can't boss around biology. A nice little twist there, good
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  relaxing episode, even if it was a bet stereotypical of the South. Though
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  I will say the only thing that wasn't stereotypical was that remark inside the restaurant
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  when Johnny ask if he could happened and was told, well, you wanted
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  that way, I won't be eating it, or something to that effect.
• 32:06
  But at any rate, but I would say that would not be your typical
• 32:10
  reaction. But I guess it kind of depends on the place, all right.
• 32:15
  Well, onto some listener comments and feedback, and Johnny receive an email
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  from Sparky regarding the ming toy Murphy matter. It was nice to get a
• 32:29
  lighter, funnier story. Em and O'Brien would never do that. The best
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  drama slash action series show throws in a funny episode now and then. Well,
• 32:37
  thanks so much for the comment. I think that what we saw with
• 32:43
  m and O'Brien, a lot of it was reactive. The previous Johnny dwler
• 32:52
  Charles Russell, had a lot of the flippancy and jokes that didn't necessarily play
• 32:58
  well. I think partially because of the script, partially because of the top
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  of actor that Charles Russell was, and so there was I think this reactive
• 33:08
  idea. You know, we need a serious detective drama, and you really
• 33:13
  don't find a whole lot of humor in the Edmund O'Brien Johnny Dollar stories,
• 33:19
  unless it's kind of the cynical Gallows humor top of thing, such as in
• 33:24
  the Singapore arson case where O'Brien urges that your company will get its money,
• 33:32
  which you know in his letter to the insurance company, which is really what
• 33:37
  matters to you, and it didn't happen much. Under Jahnline, the reaction
• 33:42
  and the focus was on being more matter of fact and the show could stand
• 33:47
  up in the era of Dragnet. The ironic thing about that, of course,
• 33:52
  was that Dragnet worked in quite a bit of humor into its stories.
• 33:57
  They didn't have many straight humorist episodes, but they would always tend to try
• 34:01
  and light in the blow of some of their heavier programs with a little humor,
• 34:07
  particularly at the beginning. And I have to admit that I do,
• 34:09
  also, like Sparky, have an affinity for action series that work in an
• 34:15
  appropriate amount of humor. One of my favorite series in that vein is,
• 34:21
  of course I Spy with Robert Colp and Bill Cosby. Certainly, it's not
• 34:27
  laugh a minute, and they've got plenty of action and tention, but the
• 34:30
  two have great chemistry, and that leads to some very humorous, very fun
• 34:36
  moments. I will say that humor can be a difficult thing to manage in
• 34:40
  a lot of action or otherwise dramatic series. As you study in particular science
• 34:46
  fiction series, some of the worst episodes are those where they decide to do
• 34:52
  a comedy, but they do their comedy in such a way that the characters
• 34:57
  act completely out of character. Top balancing act. But if you can do
• 35:01
  that as a program and you can keep your characters consistent and still have humor
• 35:07
  out of it. It's definitely something that I enjoy and appreciate your comments.
• 35:15
  Also have some comments regarding episode thirteen forty five, the Melancholy Memory Matter.
• 35:22
  Jim says, I had trouble making out most of the conversation in the Little
• 35:27
  House in Mexico. Glad that Johnny restated things and clarified the whole medical deal.
• 35:32
  Well, I will admit that that episode, Melancholony Memory and the Me
• 35:38
  and Toy Murphy matter were some of the poorer sound quality programs that we have
• 35:46
  had, And thankfully the number of programs with the later releases and more refined
• 35:57
  copies out there that sound really bad are much less than they used to be
• 36:06
  on Johnny Dollar, but they're still out there and we'll run into them from
• 36:10
  time to time. So sorry that didn't have great sound quality, but that
• 36:15
  is one point where some restating definitely comes in handy. And some more comments
• 36:21
  just on Johnny Dollar in general. Aloma says, love my Johnny Dollar,
• 36:24
  keep him coming, Bob says love Johnny Dollar, and Pastor Lisa says,
• 36:35
  I love the five part serials. I've been tuning in for a year now
• 36:37
  and I absolutely love your podcast. Keep up the great work. Philip says,
• 36:42
  great story, and Samantha says, regarding the omnibus edition of The McCormick
• 36:47
  Matter, totally just made my day at them. Well, I'm glad that
• 36:52
  you enjoyed that, and I hope you'll enjoyed the programs that are to come
• 36:58
  with the omnibule shows. All right, Well, that will actually do it
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  for today. We will be back tomorrow with Dragnet and next Friday Johnny Dollar,
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  as well as next Sunday and next Tuesday with the omnibus edition and then
• 37:15
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