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it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. It's The Confidential
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Matter, Parts one and two from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar
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for Parkinson Johnny Eternity Mutual. Oh yeah, Martin, I couldn't feel much
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worse. It's the Olives that do it, not the Martinez. I wish
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it was that simple. Can you come over to my office right away,
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Johnny? Well, I guess so if I don't often pull that confidential business,
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but I really would hesitate to go into this one on the phone.
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Pretty oft. Uh. I'm afraid you're gonna find it even worse than that.
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It's it's about Ed Morgan, Johnny Ed Morgan. I'm sorry. I
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know he was a good friend of yours. He's one of the best I
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ever had. Ed was a great guy. It's too bad he had to
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die that way, Johnny. It's too bad he didn't die a year sooner.
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What you'd better come on over at the office night and every weekday night.
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Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense
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account America's populous freelance insurance investigator, Yes truly, Johnny Dollar. From Special
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Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office Eternity Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
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The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the confidential matter.
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I'd am one two dollars and eighty five cents taxi from my apartment to
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the Eternity Building and the seventh floor office of Mort Parkinson, vice President and
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general Manager. It was a room I well remembered with its black walnut paneling
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and deep leather chairs. I'd worked on a lot of cases with Mort and
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with a late Ed Morgan too, and it sounded now as though Ed,
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my good friend from a long time back, was about to become a case
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himself. Come in, Johnny, pull up a chair. Thanks, Wart.
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I was quite a phone call. It's quite a situation. Yeah,
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I gated that. No, I just can't talk sitting down the old habit
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I guess remember when we used to be, when the old Johnstone building,
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before we built this new one. We had those old fashioned stand up desks.
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It was when old man Clement was still alive and before I was Oh.
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Yes, as I keep forgetting about you newcomers, meaning everybody who's coming
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to the game within the last forty years, I suppose I am one of
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the original settlers. I am setting my ways too. Yeah, well,
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what about I sure hated to see those desks go. You could stand in
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front of him, lean an elbow on him, make out a reporter or
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a speech. All right, you're trying too hard to avoid it. Avoid
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what. He didn't call me over here just to reminisce about the old days
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in a way. Maybe I did. You know, It's funny. I
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always thought you liked that Morgan, But I did. And why did you
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say it's too bad he didn't die a year sooner? Because I liked him,
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except like he's too weak a word. Actually, I thought as much
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of it as I would have my own son, if i'd had one.
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Why, I'm the one who hired him in the first place, remember,
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Johnny, Yeah, I remember, And I took a personal interest in his
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career, watched him work his way up till finally he was appointed Chief of
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Justter for the West Coast, head of our San Francisco Claims office. That
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was don good for a man as young as he was, And I was
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proud of him, Johnny, Yeah, I know, I know you were.
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He was a hard worker, honest, dependable, and he had a
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good sound future ahead of him. And then just like that, accidents I
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usually, just like that a foggy night, sharp curve, and he drove
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his car off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean. And that was that tragedy,
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Feeney, the end only apparently wasn't the end, or you wouldn't have
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called me over here. No, it wasn't, Johnny, I wish it
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had been, Meaning you'd better brace yourself. Within two weeks after Ed Morgan's
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death, we started getting complaints from some of our clients. What do you
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mean, complaints? Old demands for adjustment on claims edit reported paid weeks before,
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requests for past two settlements, so on more. And I don't get
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it. Neither did I. So I sent a company accouting out to San
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Francisco on the QT and put him to work on the claims files. And
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we found out, Johnny, you found out what that Ed's accounts had been
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doctored for some time. What Johnny, In the months before he was killed,
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he'd embezzled nearly eighty thousand dollars Ed Morgan, Ed Morgan, I don't
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believe it. He did it might as well accept the fact anybody else,
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Yes, anybody else, but not Ed. For one thing, money didn't
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mean that much to him. I know, we were always joshing him about
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living like an old hermit instead of a young bachelor. Well, then why
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would he do it steal eighty thousand dollars after all these years of being honest?
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What would he want that would cost that much money? That's exactly what
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I wish you'd find out. I at a second, Mort, Wait a
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second, This is one I don't want any part of it. Neither do
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I. But I'm afraid I'm stuck with it and you are too. Why
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because Ed was your friend. Here's a flight ticket and reservation to San Francisco.
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Plaine leaves him two hours. No, no, no, I'd rather
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pass it. Mort, Well, so would I. But we can't,
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neither of us. There are too many questions left, and they've got to
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be answered by me. Eighty thousand dollars of the company's money is missing.
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I can't just ride it off and forget it. It has to be accounted
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for. There are other investigators, Mort, And another thing that's just as
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important to me, at least, is to find out why he did it.
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It's a failure in human dynamics. Man like Ed, a man everybody
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respected and trusted, and he goes wrong. Why get somebody else to find
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out. I'd be pretty grateful if you'd do it, Johnny, Mort,
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I just don't want any party. I know how you feel. It's quite
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a shock to find out he was a crook. It's like somebody pulling the
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rug out from under you. So now you want to forget all about him.
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Leave him safely dead and buried dead, Mort, but not buried.
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If you remember, they recovered the car, but not his body. It's
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still somewhere beneath the Pacific, all right, Then look at it from an
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efficiency standpoint. If nothing else, to any other investigator, Ed Morgan would
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be just a name, an unknown quantity. But you knew him. I
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thought I did, regardless of what he did, Johnny, I just hate
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to think of a stranger pawing into his past. Maybe I still think back
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to the old times in the old Country when the family buried their own dead.
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I know, I know. And sometimes, Johnny, a friend has
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to go all the way, even when the other person is goofed. Isn't
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that what the younger generation calls it. I'm not the younger generation, Mort
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right now, I'm older than Confucius. I sure appreciate it, Johnny.
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After all, somebody's got to do it. Yeah, somebody's got to do
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it. And like you said, Ed was my friend. All right,
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what let's have the tickets? I had them two fourteen dollars and thirty five
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cents tips, taxi and incidentals and hard friend and Sam and San France le
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us go plain trip between points paid from expense account of company manager and not
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included herewith I went straight from the airport to D's last address when he was
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still alive, an apartment house on the knob Hills section called the drake Lee
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Arms. And there's where I got my first surprise. Ed had always been
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the two room bachelor walk up type, but the drake Lee Arms consisted of
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equal parts of glitter, glass, swank and price, including a uniform dorm
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and a small private bar off the lobby, and an assistant manager with a
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Guardinia on his lapel Oh, he was a rail one, that manager,
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and it was a real guardinia. I am, of course, most desirous
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assisting you in every way possible. Mister, what did you say? Your
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name was Dollar? D O l iigen spell Dollar. I'll bet you can.
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I beg your pardon. It's right. I didn't mean you didn't mean
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to be offensive. I understand now about the former occupant of Sweet fourteen,
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mister Dollar, I'm terribly afraid. Oh, please don't be I mean,
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there is simply very little I can tell you about the late mister Morgan.
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A matter of discretion, is that it discretion policy in the house, something
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of that sort. Well, we do, of course, try to protect
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the privacy of our residents. I'm sure you understand, even to the extent
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of turning down twenty dollars. Oh well, Chris one, isn't it under
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the circumstances nice likeness of Andrew Jackson, isn't it? Thank you, sir.
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Gratuities of this nature are always so helpful in smoothing the rough pathway of
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human relations, don't you think so, mister Dollar. Definitely, it's already
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helping you remember my name. Well, money is a mental stimulant, isn't
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it. Don't call it money, just think of it as item three.
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I beg your pardon. Item that's quite right. I meant, yeah,
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I know, it's kind of a habit. I seem to be picking up
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now. Has your memory ben stimulated any in regard to Ed Morgan? Oh?
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Yes, the late mister pardon me, mister Dollar. Yes, oh
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yes, Countess Margie, yes, I'll be delighted to send the boy up
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for two quarts of SuDS with a nice dry Bavarian all be yes, Curtiss,
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just plain beer, Yes, cutis right away, frightful old lady mixes
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up with kremedon mouth. You know now where were we, mister Dollar.
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We weren't not yet. Oh yes, the late mister Morgan, Well,
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he'd been our guest, you understand for about six months at the time of
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his tragic accident. What was he paying for a suite of rooms? Well,
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ordinarily we don't release information of it, get it, this is not
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ordinary? How much twelve hundred dollars a month? I see? Oh he
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was a true gentleman, if I may say so. And on the crassley
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materialistic side, if you'll forgive me, sir, a very free spender,
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sorry, twenty is the elements, mister Dollar. I was not trying to
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coerce your generosity by well putting on another bind precisely all right? So when
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was better done? And a minlin stalle and was throwing money around like water?
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What else? Who came to see him? What sort of visitors.
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Did he have none at all that I can recall? None at all?
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He least that overpriced cubicle and then just sat in it. Well, what
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about friends here in the building. Most of our guests might be termed individually
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exclusive, even eccentric in some cases, except, of course, Missus Barrett,
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Missus Barron, Yes, one of the loveliest guests we've ever had the
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pleasure of. Excuse me, mister Dolla. Yes, yes, Countess Margie.
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The boy is on his way, I know, but he has to
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go clear down to the corner. Yeah. Well, please tell little tim
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Paan that I'm so sorry. A dog drinks that stuff too. Now where
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were we about this missus Barrett you mentioned? Oh? Yes, well,
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of course she and mister Morgan were inseparable. You understand they were together constantly.
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And mister Baron, Oh, there wasn't any but not recently I mean
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deceased, you know, did yeah, earlier this year, as I recall,
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I didn't know him, of course, Missus Barrett moved in here shortly
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after his death, not until then. And Ed Morgan when did he move
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in? About six weeks later? Oh? He met her here then?
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Oh? No, no, they were already acquainted. M well acquainted.
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I see. In fact, I believe that mister Morgan and the young and
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very lovely widow met at the time of her husband's death. Matter of settling
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the estate or something of that sort. It would figure, all right,
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I do you remember exactly why I thought so? But I do recall having
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an impression at the time that he moved in here only because of her,
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and as I say, they were together constantly right from the first. That's
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all very interesting. I wonder if I could have a talk with this missus
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Barrey Hm, that would be utterly impossible. I'm afraid. Now. Look
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if you think I mean, she isn't here, isn't here? She's been
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gone for ten days. Now where's she go? I really haven't the slightest
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idea mister dollar. Well, if she moved out, she must have left
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a forwarding address of some kind. She didn't move out. She still has
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her apartment here. She'll be back eventually, I imagine, But at the
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moment I haven't heard a word from and she left. Oh poor dear.
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You know, one can understand why she'd want to get away for a while.
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Such a tragic coincidence. Having two deaths of exactly the same Oh,
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confound that. Well wait a minute, what do you mean by tragic coincidence?
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Oh? Well, as I understand it, missus Barrett's husband also died
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in some sort of accident. Yes, Countess Johnny Dollar mac Woodson, mister
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Dollard, the girl from the claims of us called and gave me this number.
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Oh, yes, mister Woodson, it seems we're working on the same
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case for the same company. Well, I've been working on mister ed Morgan's
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filess and records here for the past week. Now I've turned up some how
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much just missing about eighty thousand dollars so far. All of it was taken
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during the four months immediately preceding his death. I'll say one thing, in
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twenty years as an accountant, I've never seen alluding more cleverly carried out.
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Oh it was a very bright lad, a man who'd go far. They
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all said, did you know him, mister Dollar? I thought I did.
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He was one of my best friends, But it turns out I'm only
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beginning to know him. Could you meet me in his office around ten o'clock,
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mister Woodson, Yes, yes, that's where I am. Now I've
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been working on these books day and night. Better be careful. That's what
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got Ed into trouble. Has that from special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home
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office Eternity Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut assignment the confidential matter location,
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San Francisco. Expense account continued. It hadem four one dollar one martini.
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I hadem five one dollar one tip to the bartender who stirred the martini.
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All in the house that Jack goes. I don't know who built it actually,
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but it took Jack to live in it twelve hundred bucks a month,
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to be exact. That was the take home bite for an apartment at the
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Drakeley Arms on knob Hill. And of course that didn't include drinks in the
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end of a little private bar just off the lobby. And this is where
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Ed Morgan had lived during the last five months of his life until he missed
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a curve one night and drove his car off a cliff into the Pacific.
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Ed Morgan, whose idea of a big night had always been his pipe,
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slippers and a mystery novel, but things were different when I'd known him and
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been his friend. For one thing, he hadn't stolen eighty thousand dollars,
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or I don't think he had. Do you find the Martini adequate to your
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expectations? Sir? I ah, here, indeed it's a heck of a
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belt for a buck, Thank you, sir. Quite nice little place she
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got here. Oh, I find it a most agreeable sanctuary from the stress
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and strife and the hurly burly of the city Ben Hillin. I have tended
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by here in the Drakely Arms Rendezvous for some two years now. Oh,
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then you may have known a friend of mine who had an apartment here up
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until a month ago, a mister Edward Morgan. Oh. Yes, mister
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Morgan was a regular customer here, an eager supplicant for my humble and healing
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wares, a beer drinker, mostly, as I recall, the Rendezvous does
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not serve beers, sir. Oh, forgive me, I didn't know.
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I'm quite all right, sir. Yes, I was here before mister Morgan
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moved in, and here I am still now that he is no longer with
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us. Such as the chance and mystery of life, one just never knows
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precisely. Oh, could I see? Thanks get to know it pretty well?
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Did you The policy of the drakelely arms, Sir, is to maintain
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a certain degree of formality and relations between guests and personnel. So I like
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a zoo, you might say, with bars to separate the people from the
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animals. The comparison is quite happed somehow. I can't see Ed Morgan sanking
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in in a marble scrorel cage like this, and I confess he hardly seemed
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the type to me, Sir. He was much too unrestrained for the Drakeley.
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I came in here a lot, almost nightly, for a few minutes
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at least, on his way to some Gallan knight spot. Gallen knight spot,
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Ed Morgan. Oh, yes, In all the years I knew Ed,
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I was only able to drag him into a Gallan knight spot once.
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He stayed twenty minutes and left because his tie was choking. Are you quite
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certain that your friend was the same Ed Morgan? I wish I weren't where
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his friends said he always coming along. Oh no, no, never,
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loan, sir. He and Niki were inseparable, NICKI I should say,
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of course, missus Barrett, oh young widow as I remember, lives here
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in the building, A lovely girl, fascinating and also unrestrained, definitely,
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and Edden was one of her friends. Oh they were together every night,
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sir. An hour here in our little establishment, a few champagne cocktails,
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then out to dinner, dancing the opera, ballet head Morgan. Oh,
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quite, life was just a mad world for those two. I gather your
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friend was something of a wealthy playboy. He was a claims adjuster for an
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insurance company. M Then how could he possibly live in the fashion he did?
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If I told you at flip, I beg your pardon, tell me
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something was heading here on the night he was killed. Oh? Yes,
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yes, he left here about nine, as I recall, and a few
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hours later he was dead. How did this nicky take it? Pretty broken
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up? Why she she is a woman of very strong character. Ah.
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In other words, she didn't ban an eye. Well, look that knight
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ed was killed. Did he leave here alone? No, Sir, he
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was alone when he went off the cliff. Not when he left here,
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though NICKI was with him. Adam six two dollars and forty cents taxi to
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the Telegraph Hill apartment of Lisa Duval. Lisa had been at Morgan's secretary for
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about four years, but it seemed miss mousey. Business at the office was
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miss North Beach Bohemia. At home and slacks and halter cushions on the floor,
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and naturally, if you were at the bay Bridge from a corner window,
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we sat on the floor naturally and drank keanty from a half gallon jug
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while a record player moaned agonizedly under the dodging of its needle. My talk,
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I gathered was now last year's kick. This was progressive Jack. Maybe
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it seems a little affected to you, mister Dollar, the way I dress
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and live in private life. As you might say, I saw, everybody's
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got a right to sell his own dishap porridge the way he likes him.
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Well, I've done this deliberately, I guess, as a sort of antidote
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for the insurance business has been that bad. Not bad, boring, hope,
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not your end of it. Of course, investigation work must be excited,
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scream a minute day and night, just keeping records, filing papers week
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after week. I used to stare out of the office window at the ships
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in the harbor and think about stowing away on one. But of course I
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didn't have the nerve too bad. The cruise would have been delirious. I
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thought of quitting several times. I guess I stayed because of it. Mister
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Morgan, Oh, he was always so wonderful to work for, so lenient
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an understanding up until the last few months, at least. What about those
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last few months, Lisa, What came over him? I don't know.
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He was different, that's all, as though he were tense and nervous under
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pressure. Any idea of where the pressures came from. He didn't confide in
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me, mister Dollar. What what were your personal relations between the two of
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you during the years you worked for him? What do you mean, well,
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I mean were you friendly? Formal? Strictly business friendly? I think
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would cover it best. Did you see each other outside of office hours?
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Occasionally? I noticed one of his pipes there in the book. He'd come
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here sometimes in the evening and we listen to music and talk up until the
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Until the last few months. It wasn't that we stopped being friends, mister
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Dollar. He was just different, that's all. Tense under pressure. That's
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about the only way I can describe it. But you don't know why he
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was that way. Well, looking back, I suppose it was because of
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the money. If he really did take it. I just can't believe it.
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It wasn't that kind of a man. It was gentle and honest,
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at least until until the last few months. Yes, or were you going
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to say until she came along? How did you? Lisa? Yes?
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How long have you been in love with it? Ever since I started to
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work for him? But he never knew it. He couldn't even see me.
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I'm sorry, Lisa. I'm sorry for you too, mister Dollar.
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I know how close you and Ed were, and I know how you must
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feel being called in and had a job. That's all, sure heard,
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just a job. So is major surgery. This woman he was going around
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with, Nikky Barrett. Did you ever meet her? I met her?
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What did you think? What's the difference? I was prejudiced. I'll allow
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for that. In the old days, they used to believe in witches,
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vampires, some of them were very beautiful. And you were a man on
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and on and then destroy him. And you think she did something like that
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to Ed. Oh, you weren't out this way during the time he knew
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her. You weren't around him to see how he changed. Oddly enough,
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the one time I was through here, about three months ago, Ed was
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unexpectedly called away on business. He wasn't called away. He was avoiding you.
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He knew he was getting in too deep. How do you meet her?
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She came to the office with a life insurance claim fifty thousand dollars.
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Her husband had just died. I knew her type from the and that she
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walked in, a grieving widow, all in black and looking like a power's
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model. And he just melted down and laid his head under her foot.
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That was the start of it. Why don't she come to him unless she
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had a disputed claim. It was a double indemnity clause. Her husband had
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been killed in an accident. Her husband too, What do you mean,
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Ed Morgan died in an accident? Remember right? I'm seven a dollar and
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fifteen cents taxi from Lisa's apartment of the Deckman Building on Montgomery Street. It
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was after ten and the financial district was nearly deserted. The canyons between the
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tall buildings were hollow and empty. A cold wind was blowing off the bay,
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or maybe it was blowing out of the past, an old, old
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past, dead and far away. The Panan was beginning to look familiar.
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Two familiar Lord the woman gave me the forbidden apple to eat. Ed Towittson
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the same old wine, the same old dodge, and yet there was something
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not quite right about that pattern. Mccotton runs into some funny ones, mister
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Dollois Morgan case here is one of them. How do you mean, mister
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Woodson, Well, the way he was going about it, for one thing,
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running hog wild, as you might say. Of course, as I
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said on the phone, his general scheme was pretty clever. He certainly knew
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standard procedures, and he'd been with a company a long time. Well,
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now, these payoff checks on claims, of course, they were sent out
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from Hartford and care of this office. So what Morgan did was open a
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disbursement account in the bank here, then sign and deposit the checks and draw
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out the money in cash chargeable to direct disbursement funds under his own name.
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Of course, the canceled checks would return to Hartford, but since they were
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countersigned to disbursement, they wouldn't even be processed. Instead, they'd be returned
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to Morgan. So you see, there'd be no evidence in hart Mister Woodson.
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I'll accept the fact that Ed was clever, but what as you mean
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there was something funny in the way he was going about it. Well,
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he must have known couldn't last. It was a good scheme for a short
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time, but it carried the seeds of its own destruction. He complained.
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Some of these claims are four months old and legitimate claims. Morgan couldn't stall
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these people off forever. I see only other embezzlement case I've worked on them
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was similar. Was a man who worked a quick swindle for a blackmail payoff.
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He knew he'd probably get caught, but he just had to take the
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chat. Yeah, you may have stumbled onto something, mister Woodson. Oh
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so you mean it ties in with that filefolder you've been studying. I don't
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know. It's an investigation report on an accidental death happened about a year ago.
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Ed Morgan handled the insurance claim and got another widow. He'd been running
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around with her for several months just before his death. I don't quite see
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that. Oh, of course, mister Morgan also died in an accident,
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unless he was murdered. Now Here is our star to tell you about tomorrow's
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episode of this week's start Tomorrow eighty thousand dollars and a beautiful girl both missing,
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then one of the two is found in a bombshell explodes. Join us,
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won't you Yours Truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollars, starring
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same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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Hugh Grundlige speaking welcome back. You know, I think they really did a
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great job in the first episode of drawing out the emotional angle of this.
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This is one of those radio plays that is based on a previous play,
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but I don't think that that they really did it as well in the original
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as they do in this five parter. In this case, they use the
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time to good effect, really just bring home how devastating and how earth shattering
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this whole thing was to Johnny. And I definitely feel felt through for Johnny
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through this because it is, you know, it's just an incredibly difficult situation
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when you find out somebody is the opposite of what you thought they were.
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And I think that I think that they really just took the time to help
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us to feel that. So I enjoyed the episode and their approach, and
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we will certainly find out more as things go on. But now we turn
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to listener comments and feel back and William emails regarding the Cranesburg Matter. He
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says, the part where Johnny catches a girl trying to place a gun and
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an incinerator sounds familiar. Has this been adapted from a previous story, or
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at least taken elements from a previous story. I thought I had mentioned when
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we did the Cranesburg Matter that this was based on the Beauregard Matter from January
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twenty sixth, nineteen fifty four. But I could have intended to and forgotten.
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But yes, that was based on the Beauregard Matter. And we have
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just another comment from George who says, thanks so much for the great shows.
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Well, thanks so much, and I do appreciate you supporting the series.
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And then we have a comment from Jay who says, regarding the Cranesburg
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Matter, thanks Adam, keep them coming. From Jay and Bend Organ,
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well thanks so much. And then I received at Brandon tweets in first of
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all, he says, I'd love to hear I was a communist for the
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FBI, and well, not a true detective show, it's still a fun
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listen. Also, thank you for yours truly Johnny Dollar podcast. Such a
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great show and one I can listen to without worry that my kids will hear
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something bad. Well, thanks so much. I appreciate your comments. Brandon
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regarding I was a communist for the FBI, I definitely agree. That's an
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interesting series. Before I got into doing The War, I was listening my
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way through. I was a communist for the FBI, but most of the
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time that I had for leisure listening to programs, it's kind of been replaced
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by listening to shows that will end up doing on the War. But I
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was about halfway through, and I'll resume probably sometime in August or September.
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But I found it a fascinating series and just an interesting psychological case study because
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as you listen to it, it's clear, I think that for Matt Sevetik,
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who's the main character, you know, he is constantly in fear of
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being captured, and he's surrounded by, you know, with all of these
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you know, various comrades, some very emotionally bad people to be around,
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and it's just such in it's just such an interesting combination and really interesting even
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beyond the espionage part, just to hear how he goes through this and how
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much he's just constantly afraid of being caught that they're going to realize and then
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it is really going to be a curtains form and it's a very difficult situation,
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very interesting to watch in great dramas. So I agree with you,
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and I don't know, maybe someday we'll do it on another podcast. All
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right, Well, that will do it for today. We will be back
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tomorrow with the Casebook of Gregory Hood and join us on Wednesday as we continue
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