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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Meek Memorial Matter (EP1321) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Uh we actually have a lost episode between last
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week's show and this week's and I'll talk about that after the program. But
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here now is the uh Meek memorial matter from Hollywood. It's time now for
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Johnny Dollar, where are you been for the past twenty minute in the shower?
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Okay, so I'm a shiny dollar. So what was that? Max?
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Max Green of the Shoet Equity? Oh? Hi, Max, what's
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on your mind? A score and seven years ago? I rather is brought
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forth? But that doesn't answer my question, Johnny, You ever hear of
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the meeksh New England family stood away on the Mayflower? Speak only to their
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money? That's the meat? What about it? No, not about them,
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It's about Mariah Meek and Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Who's lost her copy of?
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Well, it shouldn't be hard to find her another one. That's where
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you're wrong, Johnny. It would be very hard. Might cost us one
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hundred thousand dollars. Bob Bailey in The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the
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Action packed Expense of Coud, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Truly Johnny Dollar.
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Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Assured Equity and Trust
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Company, three twenty five Scott Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
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an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Meek Memorial matter expense account
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had of one one dollar ninety cents camp from my apartment of Max Green's office.
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He was standing in a haze of cigar smoke ashes on his vest and
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a worried look on his face. Oh, morning and morning Johnny, But
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you want a cigar? Oh no, no, he sit up. Excuse
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me. Listen, Johnny. What do you know about that speech that Lincoln
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made? It Gettysburg? But I had to memorize it in school like every
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other kid. All right, do you know how many words are? Maybe
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a couple of hundred. Why it's in this book. Yeah, it's page
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one hundred and forty three. Speech is printed here exactly as mister Lincoln released
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it to the newspapers after they Gettysburg address. Do you find it? Yeah?
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And I was gay total number of words two hundred and sixty eight.
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But the first two drafts of that speech, including the one he read that
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day, contained only two hundred and sixty six words. So he panted his
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part, that's right, two more words? How come? Oh? According
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to the historians, Lincoln had libbed the two additional words at the time he
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read it. Later on, when he made new copies of the speech,
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included those two words with me so far keep going, yes, all right?
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Right down at the end of it, just before of the People,
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by the People, where he said that this nation under God shall have a
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new birth of freedom, the words under God do not appear in the first
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two drafts. You wrote, Well, this is all very interesting, Max,
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but I still don't see what it is, sir, what it has
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to do with me? Well, Mariah Meek's copy has disappeared. Oh and
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Johnny, that copy happens to contain just two hundred and sixty six words.
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You mean she owns one of the first two original drafts, handwritten by mister
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Lincoln himself while he was on the train riding the Gettysburg Wowah, Which is,
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of course why we insured it for the full amount of costs, which
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is one hundred thousand dollars. Even of course you made sure it was Arthenny
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before you wish it torone. Naturally who'd she buy it from? An antique
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dealer Donald Richmond, Virginia, fella named Jason Penrod. Where's she's been keeping
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it? Underglass? In the Meek memorial? What's that? Or she collects
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Americana? So she had a museum built to keep it, and she calls
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it the Meek memorial follows follows also follows. The most expensive item in the
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collection, the Gettysburg address, would be the one to disappear. Oh you're
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just an old pessimist, Max, you think somebody lifted it? What do
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you think it walked out by itself? Okay, okay, So what are
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you gonna do by him? Oh, we're gonna run newspaper ads. We're
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gonna offer ten thousand dollars reward for information leading to its return. If anyone
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answers it, you'll let me know where you'll be and I'll refer them to
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you. K when was it taken? The night before last? Is there
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any kind of market for something that rare? H? Hard to say,
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Johnny. A hot camera would be easy at the peddle. Sure, what
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a good Many wealthy people like missus Meek, they make a hobby of collecting
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things, you know, antiques, objects of art, etching. But whoever
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took this or buys it from the thief, couldn't just let everybody see it?
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Wouldn't matter to some people. They take it and put it in a
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vault and keep it there. And what's the point in having it around?
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Pride of possession, something no other collector could own, And of course it
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might not have really disappeared at all. You're thinking of fraud. One hundred
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grand, there's a lot of cash. Expense account item two one dollars ninety
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cents care Fair back to my apartment. I wasn't particularly intrigued by this assignment.
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Rare documents, like anything else antique, have always seemed to be just
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one step from decay, and that sometimes goes for the people who collect such
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things. I had them three sixteen dollars and ten cents transportation, including a
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round trip ticket Hartford to New Bedford and cave Fair to the Waiter's hotel.
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It was a convention in town, so I was lucky to get a room.
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After checking in, I called the Meek residence. Missus Meek was expecting
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me and said she'd have her car pick me up. I had just put
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down the phone when someone knocked on the door. Doing there depends on what
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you're looking for. Love them permits it it's a Jay Jay. Did you
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say nobody buy that name here? Oh? Yeah, I see. I
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guess you get the wrong room. Yeah, well, why don't you ask
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down at the desk huh yeah, yeah, oh sure, shure yeah yeah.
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Or I cracked the door open again, watched him walk through the stairs.
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Then I took the elevator down and ate flights to the lobby. Half
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an hour later, I was in the backseat of the Meek limousine heading toward
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the home out on buzz It's Bay. It was a big, sprawling frame
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building facing on the beach. About fifty yards behind it, closer to the
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road was the Meek Memorial Museum. I was starting up the front steps when
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the door opened, said the dollar. That's right, I'm calling me.
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I understand you have an appointment with my grandmother right again. Come in please,
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he's waiting for you upstairs in the sitting room. Okay, thanks.
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Uh. Before you go up, I wonder if I could have a few
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words with you. Why not stay in here? That you've never met my
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grandmother, have you? No? No, I haven't had that pleasure.
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Some people considered a dubious one. Mister Vallan, Oh, mister Dollard,
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this is my wife, Janie, This is me Hi. How about a
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drink? Thanks? Not just now? How about you second, Madu?
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And another one after a bit Janis And if I were you, I wouldn't
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have anymore. But you're not me, are you? You will have to
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excuse my wife, mister Dollard. See, well, we've both been under
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a severe strain since moving here. Grandmother is blind. You know, No,
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I didn't know psych began failing about four years ago. I'm surprised the
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insurance agent didn't tell you. Well, mister Green was so concerned over the
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theft of the Lincoln manuscript. I imagine it slipped his wine. And just
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how do you intend to locate that manuscript? I'm not so sure that I
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can. It'd be a pity if you couldn't be. It's awful. It's
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grandmother's prize possession. He hasn't better south since it was stolen, and being
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quite elderly, Well, we're all very much concerned. Oh my, we're
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afraid you might die and leave us all lovely money, Janie. The truth.
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If y, Paul and I don't have any money of our own,
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mister Dower, we'll never have any until she does. I giing it to
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us now while we're young. You know what she does with us spends it
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buying junk for that Soyo museum. Look, that's gratitude is this? I
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bathe her feet, her rubber feet, and do all her dirty words.
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Jennie, you've said quite enough. Mister Dollar isn't interested in our personal problem.
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Stick in the mud. All right. I'll be in the den if
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you want me. And that's the funniest thing I've said all day, If
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you want me, I'm sorry. She doesn't mean half of what she says.
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Oh that's grandmother's signal. Then hadn't we better go up? Yes?
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Yes, we went up the broad staircase, through a hall and into a
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bright, sunny room. We rafting an oil. Come on, shawl.
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Martha Meeks sat in an envalid chair facing the ocean. Paul introduced us and
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sat down quietly near the door. Oh, oh, I know you're there.
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N answer me. Yes, m you're going downstairs. I want to
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talk to mister Dollar in private. Whatever you say and prose that door.
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Don't mind my back, mister Dollar. I couldn't see you if I looked
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into your face. Now, then when are you going to arrest that crook
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and bring my Lincoln speech back to me? Well, I'm going to need
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a lot of help and information, missus Meek. What kind of information?
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Mostly about the museum. Do you know who was in there the night the
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manuscript disappeared? Certainly the dirty robber? Was anyone else? Who? Pizza?
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Always there? Supposed to be guard Who's But he didn't do a very
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good job the other night, got himself slugged. Does he live on the
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grounds? Yes? I brought him over from Naples ten years ago. He
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was my guide. Italy showed me around so nice I decided to bring him
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back. Tell me, is the memorial open to the public. It was
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going to be. I intended it to be once in my eyes, No,
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mister Dollar, I keep it locked most of the time. And who
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discovered the manuscript was missing? He did, I guess at least when he
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recovered he ran yelling bloody murder up here to the house. Everybody went down
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to see what had happened, everybody but me. They left me all to
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myself. Were there any strangers here in the house that night, Miss is
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meek? Anyone beside the servants and your grandson and his wife. One person,
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but he is no stranger. Oh? Was that Jason Penrod from Richmond.
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He's an art dealer. We were discussing some business. May I ask
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what kind of business has nothing to do with you are the people you work
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for? Sorry? Where can I find mister Penrod? I you staying here?
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Now? He isn't in his room and he's most likely out in the
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memorial. Now that's enough questions. You give me a cigarette, ma'am.
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That's the matter of your death. Give me a cigarette for follow that snoopy
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wife of his comes prowling around? All right? Sure like me? Yeah?
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Ah well, you want any more information? Pipes the one the doctor?
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All right? Thanks? But what about your son and daughter in law?
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Were they inside the house at the time of the robbery? You don't
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suspect them? Right now? I suspect everybody, missus meek, even me,
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yes, ma'am, even you, well bless you boy. I found
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Pete Vesuvio terming the show just outside the memorial buildings. He seemed quite willing
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to talk to me. How you say what happened to me? Mister?
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I'm a hit out, not out, ah see, senor, and because
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of this I do let's see anything, nothing at all. Please, mister,
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do not use the insult. I am American citizens first papers. Because
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of the kindness of my patrona, I will soon be second papers I know
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by heart the Constitution United States, to get his purgaddress, plage allegiance to
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my flag. You know how I know that these things which help me be
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citizen because of a lady. She's letting me work in a place where great
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papers are for me to read. Because of her. I would not hide
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anything, mister. Okay, pay, okay, I'm convinced. I'm sorry
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I cannot help you. Mister. Well, that's not your fault. Hey,
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you like to hear me say, get his pergadreate, Well, do
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it very good, learn it right from President's own right some other time,
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Pete. Right now, I have to find mister Penrod. Did the mistress
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counting the treasures, all the beautiful things a malady can no longer see.
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You'll find him in his section l I found a small need appairing art dealer,
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just where Peter had said it be, Pearing into a glance case crowded
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with darns of pistols. He had a notebook under his arm and seem to
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him making some sort of inventory. You gave me quite a fright. Oh
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I'm sorry. I wish I could concentrate like that. Oh well, there's
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nothing more interesting to me than these final pistol things. Fut history is they
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must have mister the Dollar, Johnny Dollar. Oh see, insurance investigator Paul
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told me you were wondering about the place. I suppose you'd like to ask
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me some questions if you don't mind. Oh, no, goodness, no,
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I understand you were with missus Meek the night of the robbery. That
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is correct. We heard the shouting. We ran out here just as fast
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as we could. I was the one who's off at the manuscript as missing.
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You have any idea how the thief got in here? No, no,
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unless someone forgot to lock the front door, unless he had a key.
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Well, has Missus Meek given out many of the keys? In my
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opinion, too many even I have. What about Paul Mee and his wife,
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No, I do think so they really are interested in museum at all.
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Mister Dallah, Mister Penrod, I understand you're quite an authority on antique
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art and things like that. Isn't taking inventory a little beneath your position?
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I suppose it is, mister Dollawa. Last week, when I received Dm.
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Mariah's wire asking me to do it, I simply couldn't review it.
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She's been such a good customer of mine. Yes, you have any idea
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who might have wanted the Lincoln manuscript? Would? I know several persons who'd
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love to have anything, give ust anything, But I don't know anyone with
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the nerve to break in here and take it. By thought. You remember
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where Paul Meg and his wife were when you heard Peacha They were writing here,
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But I arrived here, I see. Well, thanks for Oh just
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one more thing. Are you if you'd stolen the manuscript? Which dollar hypothetical
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question, mister Manrod, But if you had, and you wanted to sell
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it at a good price with the least danger of being caught, how would
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you go about? I take it abroad? Of course, I put it
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on the open market over there. You weren't planning on going abroad soon,
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are you? Mister? Oh? Gracious? You know anyone who is?
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Anyone who who didn't? Paul and jeneish taid you they're flying to Paris Wednesday
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night. I left the memorial and walked back to the house. The meets
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were in the study, engaged in their favorite pastime. When I told them
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what the art dealer had said. Paul sat down his glass long enough to
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confirm the fact that they did have reservations, and insisted that he had a
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logical explanation for not having told me of those plans earlier. Very let me
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handle this, Jennis, please sure, Rank Young now first, I want
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to hear that explanation, if you don't mind, Paul, of course I
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don't mind. Jannis and me were fed up. Why didn't you tell me
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about the plane reservations? Well, why should I have? I'm not even
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sure I'm going to use it all. Grandmother's upset enough over losing that manuscript.
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Something else might well. Anyhow, if the manuscript doesn't turn up within
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forty eight hours, we're canceling our trip. Oh no, please, sorry,
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Janis, but that's the way it's got to be. She did it.
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What do you mean It's an act? Don't you see? Penrod told
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her we were gonna least, so she had him hide the manuscript. And
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now this thing about her being so upset and having said, your weak heart,
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it's an act to keep her precious darling boy tied to her apron strings.
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I don't believe it. Well, just wait, you will anything else?
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Dollar? What does a trip to Paris cost? Paul? Well,
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it's not inexpensive. Your wife was complaining about being so broke. Haven't you
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ever heard of flying? Now? Paying later? We have friends in Paris,
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Dollar, it don't cost as much to live once we get there.
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We'll worry about paying for our ticket when we get back. Any other questions,
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mister yeah later. Yeah. It was after seven when I finally got
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back to my hotel room. I ordered a drink and tried to make some
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kind of sense out of the information I gathered during the day, but it
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all ended up to zero. I called Hartford and asked Max Green to look
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into the meet finances. When I dressed for dinner, I was about to
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go downstairs when the phone ride Johnny Dollar. Mister Dollar, I was told
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to call you. Yeah, it's about the ad. Yeah, it's tonight's
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paper about something missing from a certain memorial. Go on, well, they
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call Hartford collect They said to call you. Yeah, that's right. Who
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is this. My name's not important, Dollar, but the ten grand reward
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is you think you can earn it? You meet me tonight. You'll see
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where in the alley behind the Bourne Whaling Museum. Be there at nine thirty
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and be alone. He had it. Yeah, I got it a spense
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account at him four eighty five cents care fare for my hotel to the Bourne
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Wadding Museum. I don't like wandering around dark alleys at night alone in a
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strange town. It isn't the best way to stay alive. But at nine
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twenty nine I passed the old Wadding Museum and started down the alley. It
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was dark, no moon, that was very quiet. I was about twenty
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yards in from the street when I saw him and curled up in a ball
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like he had a stomach ache. Only he didn't because somebody had made him
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very dead. I struck a match and turned him over. I'd only seen
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him once before, but I didn't have any trouble remembering where it had been.
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Right after I'd checked in, he knocked on my hotel room door by
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mistake, at least that's what he'd said. After giving a statement of the
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local police, who identified him. I went back to my hotel. Yeah,
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say, look, I know it's probably against all your rules, but
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who had my room just before I checked in? Oh, I couldn't disclose
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that information, sir. Sorry, Oh well, so am I It'd mean
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a lot for me to know, maybe even five bucks worth well. I
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well, if it's that important, thank you. Yeah, it's he here?
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Yeah, yeah, here it is. Can you read his signature,
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mister Dalla? Yeah? Thanks? Just fine. The name i'd seen sprawl
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and the hotel register wasn't important now, at least not without something more to
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back it up. There was no law against checking out of a hotel,
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but there was a law against murder if it could be proven, and that
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would be hard to do without finding a motive. So I went back to
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the Maek house to look for I paid off the taxi that side him five
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and started up the front steps. Oh hi, Johnny, I thought it
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might be you, that's all. I hope you aren't mad at me for
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the thing that I said today. No, no, not at all.
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I've been a very bad girl. Everything's going to be all right now it
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is? Or haven't you heard about dear old grandmother? She had a real
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bad stroke, isn't expected to live. You aren't a bit sorry? Are
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you? Would you be? If you were me? Dollar? Do you
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mind coming up here? No? Not a bit ball trying to reach you
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at your hotel? Thank goodness you've come here. Did Janie tell you?
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Yeah? How is she bad? Doctor's giving up, says it's only a
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matter of hours. She told me to send for you, mister Dollar.
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Oh, I don't know why. I've never been able to figure out a
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lot of things she did. Right Where is she in there? Old Pete
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with her? But go on? Thanks would they increased devotion to that cause
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for which they here gave it a lot? See mister Dollar, my lady,
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Hello, missus mitche Oh, thank you for coming, mister don I
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go now, mister Dollar, you have a moment, haven't you. Of
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course I promised Peak the last time I visited the museum, I promised I
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let him recite some of the things he's learned while working there. I haven't
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been able to keep that promise till now. Want please, yes, my
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lady, they here gave her the last full measure of devotion that we here
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highly resolve that he's dead. They shall not have died in vain. Let
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the destination under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the
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government of the people pile the people for the people shallon not the parish family
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here. Thank you. That was wonderful, Thank you, my lady.
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Now I go, mister Doller. I have a confession to make to you.
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Yes, I like to you. I'm sure it wasn't very big of
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my missus, Oh, but it was. I told you the business mister
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Penrod and I were discussing the night of the burger. I told you it
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had nothing to do with you, of the people you work for. Remember,
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well, that was a lie. I'm broke, mister. All I
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have left in the world is this house and the things in the memorials.
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That's why I said for Jason Benrodd. He purchased most of my treasures from
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me. He's evaluating them now so Paul and Janners will know what they're worth
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when they go to seven, which they'll do immediately. Missus Meek, don't
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you think you should try to rest now? Will you give me a cigarette?
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No, ma'am, sorry, and you must rest. There isn't much
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else to do, is there. Good night, mister Donald. Outside in
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the hall, Paul and Jannis Meek were talking quietly to Jason Penrod. Off
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in the corner, standing with his back to the others, was Pete Pasulia.
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He ses, resting quietly. Oh, dear Grutch, Why does you
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lie to me, Pete? What I never lied to nobody? Who say
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I did, I say you did? You're crazy? Mister? What lie?
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I tell you said you learned the Gettysburg address right from mister Lincoln's own
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writing in the museum. That's no lie. What's the matter? You don't
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believe that, mister? I believe you, Pete, but I just had
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to be sure. Come on, let's join the other show. See well,
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good evening, mister doll. Are you any of the family secret Journey?
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Not too many. Did you learn anything in there you didn't know before?
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Yeah? I know which one of you stole the Lincoln manuscript one about
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You're crazy? Though we were all in the house at the time it happened,
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that's right. But one of you hired a little man named Leo Jones
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to do your dirty work. Jones called me earlier this evening. He was
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going to tell me which one of you it was. Evidently he didn't like
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the deal he was getting. What was he doing, Penrod? Trying to
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blackmail you? What are you talking about? I don't earn Leo Jones?
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And why did he come around to my hotel room this morning, the same
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room you just checked out of. But that doesn't mean a thing. I
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imagine several persons had been to that room today. Sure, but they're still
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alive. And let's get to the phony Lincoln manuscript. Phony manuscript. It
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wasn't phony dollars, wasn't it. Well, you correct me if I'm wrong,
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Penrod. After missus Meek purchased one of the first two drafts of mister
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lincoln Gettysburg address, she started losing a sight when she closed the museum to
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the public. You saw a chance to make yourself another one hundred thousand dollars
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sale, so you switch copies of the manuscript, replacing that draft with one
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containing the words under God, which isn't worth anything close to one hundred grand
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What do you mean though? All right, let me quotes that this nation
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under God shall have a new birth of freedom and so on. What the
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phrase under God was not in the manuscript he sold your grandmother, but it
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was in the copy. Old Pete has been studying in the museum, right,
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mister Penrod, All you stay right when you are you get right Jones.
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Guys, he won't go far, Pete, But I am the guard.
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The lady will want me to stop it. Pet Come on here,
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keep away from you. Come on, ah, you elite. I am
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a better guard, now, much better. She sen, Yes, I
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did the good, you did the fine Pete Vesuvio will live to apply for
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a second paper and in time probably open a spaghetti join a new Patrick Penrod
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will be tried for murder. As yet he hasn't disclosed the name of the
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person who purchased the stolen manuscript, but on time I am sure he will.
27:37
As for the Meeks, well, Mariah passed on later that night,
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but as she said, there was nothing left for her but to rest.
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Expense account total including hotel and numerous incinnentals ninety eight dollars and thirty cents yours,
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truly, Johnny Dollar Incident. Johnny Dollar has come to you through the
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worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, and welcome
30:26
back. Well. I definitely felt sorry for the poor missus Meek, not
30:30
only blind, but she had really wanted this to be open to the public
30:34
to enjoy, and it was going to get sold off. I like the
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story, the whole historical clue. It was something I really expected to pay
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off, and so I kept listening for what word Lincoln had you know,
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inserted, And it was when the when the caretaker read that text that you
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knew that something was up with the manuscript and there it was not one of
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the real ones. Kind of had a nat reminded me a little bit of
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in a small way of national treasure with that history being such a key clue
31:19
in this story. As I said, there was a missing episode the Golden
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Touch Matter from February seventeenth of nineteen fifty seven was missing, and apparently the
31:38
following week, the twenty fourth, the show was preempted. But I do
31:45
have to comment on the missing episodes during the Bob Bailey episode era because it's
31:51
very uncharacteristic of what was going on at CBS at the time of the Bob
31:59
Bailey half hour episodes. Of the course of about four seasons four years,
32:08
there are twenty six episodes missing, the total of about half a season or
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one of eight episodes, and it's very high, particularly when compared to other
32:22
series. For example, Suspense ran during the same period, only one episode
32:27
of Suspense missing, and gun Smoke ran during the same period, and only
32:31
one episode of gun Smoke between nineteen fifty six and nineteen sixty is missing.
32:38
And it continues during the later dollars with thirteen episodes featuring Bob Reidick and Mandel
32:45
Kramer being missing, and really, I will say because of that, I
32:51
am somewhat optimistic that eventually there'll be some episodes found. Because this was the
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only detective show in action for members of our armed forces overseas, so I
33:05
have some confidence. You know, most series, if if an extra show
33:12
or so turns up, it's a pleasant surprise. But I really do think
33:19
that there are more episodes of Bob Bailey and subsequent Johnny Dollars out there and
33:25
available. I should mention that two Bob Bailey episodes were uncovered by the old
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time radio researchers, uh and we and we'll play those when they we get
33:38
to them. And we have some other new discoveries we'll be telling you about
33:45
in a few weeks with some of the previous Johnny Dollars. But an incredible
33:51
number of lost episodes currently, So for now, we don't have the Golden
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touch matter, and we have quite a few episodes missing from this period in
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the spring of nineteen fifty seven, But we'll carry on. And this one
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original lariredate was March third of nineteen fifty seven. All right, Well,
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I we turned to listener comments and feedback and have a very good question come
34:17
in from listener Wes, who emails in and says, I've been listening to
34:21
your podcast one title of Time. Currently I'm going through all the episodes of
34:24
mister Moto, and the start of every Episodees, they make a very deliberate
34:30
point of calling him mister Iamoto. Do you know why they felt the need
34:34
to emphasize these initials this way, especially since the movie Moto had Kintaro as
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his first name. Well, thanks so much for the question, Wes.
34:44
An answer, Mister Moto, before it was a movie, was actually a
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character in a series of novels by John P. Markwand and Mark Wand actually
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designated the character as mister Iamoto. And it's somewhat confusing as to why the
35:07
movies changed the character's first name, but apparently they were doing that just to
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be true to the books that came prior to the movie. So I hope
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that answers your question. All right, Well, we'll be back tomorrow with
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Police Headquarters, and be sure and listen in again on next Friday when we
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bring you another episode of Yours Truly. Johnny Dahler in the meantime, send
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