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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Kranesburg Matter, Parts Two and Three (EP1193) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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with yours truly, Johnny Dollar. It's time for the Cranesburg Matter, Parts
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two and three from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. This is
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Oh yes, miss Green, I phoned a little while ago and your maid
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said you were up. She told me was there something you. You've had
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a twenty thousand dollars pearl necklace stolen. I thought you might want to talk
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about it. I have talked about it. The local police were quite thorough,
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mister Dollar. Well, let's say there have been some new developments.
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Like what that's what I want to see you about. I suppose you want
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to come out here? Oh, thank you? Will a half hour from
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now be convenient? Couldn't we talk about this over the pall? If forty
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five minutes will be better for you, I'll be glad to cooperate. You
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seem to be a very persistent man. I usually get what I go after.
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Know something, mister Dollar, So do I old and this might turn
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out to be interesting. See you in a half hour tonight and every weekday
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night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed
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Expensive Out America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. From
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location, Cranesburg, Ohio to the home office Tri
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State Guarantee Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Cranesburg Meta expense account continued
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Item twenty thousand dollars The face value of the policy on a pearl necklace stolen
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one week ago from Miss Melbury Crane, young socialite, one of the last
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two surviving members of the town's most aristocratic family, and, according to her
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own statement, a girl who always got what she went after. Well,
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I'd almost got what I'd gone after. I'd at least made contact with Smiley
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Prel, a jewel thief who had phoned Hartford and offered a deal. But
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that was all. Smiley had clammed up, started to stall and implied the
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whole thing was blowing up at his face, and now the victim herself was
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trying to stall, and on top of everything else, a storm was coming
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up. I left my hired car near the coach house and walked down a
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long arbor toward the entrance to the Crane mansion. It had been quite an
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estate once, still was, but the buildings needed a touch of paint here
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and there, and the gardens needed a gardener, just a hint of wear
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and tear. It fit with what I'd learned at the bank. Those still
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tops in local society. Melbourgh Crane and her uncle Phineas were flat broken.
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I was reaching to ring the doorbell when I saw the couple in the sun
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room, a man in a business suit and a girl in a maid's uniform,
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so busy with each other they didn't even notice me at first. It
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was an intensely romantic scene, and I started to feel like a peeping tom.
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The girl was still a little red faced when she answered the door a
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few seconds later. Good afternoon, sir, my name is Johnny Dollar.
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I'd like to see missus Uller. You're the investigator about the robbery later to
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wire everybody in town. I'm sorry, sir, I didn't mean to blurt
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it out, though. Oh I found it interesting. You know, we're
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going to get a little wet if that rain starts. Oh won't you come
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in? Mister Dallas. Thanks? You'll want to see miss Crane. I
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imagine, yes. I think she's expecting me. If you will wait here
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please. Oh by the way, I I didn't interrupt you. I hope
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I'll tell her you're here. Mister Dallas, Thanks, I think. Oh.
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Hello, you must be the insurance fellow. Did you get a wire
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or two? Why? No, Melbourne told me you were coming out.
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I'm a friend of the family, mister dalladean sellers, how are you Melbourne
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and I are engaged. Congratulations. Yeah, I know, so you're a
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hard to figure out. I'm a complete and enigma, mister Sellers. I
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believe you're the chap who gave miss Crane the necklace, right, yes,
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it's an engagement present. Do you have any lead on it yet? Nothing?
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Definitely. I understood you'd been contacted by the thief who stolen That's right.
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Well, I haven't actually seen the necklace yet, and until I do,
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I can't be positive this man, ever, well, even has it.
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It wouldn't be the first time a professional jewel thief has tried to pull
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a swindle. I see. Tell me something, mister dollar. Suppose you
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do get hold of the pearls. What happens to them? Then? Well
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that depends if missus Crane's claim hasn't been paid at the time they go to
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her. If it has been paid, then she refuses to reopen negotiations.
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Then we sell the necklace to recover our losses, and up till now,
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as I understand that the claim hasn't been paid, that's right, I see.
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Well, I hope you get it back quick. Then the insurance won't
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cover the sentimental value. Sentimental value to whom mister sellers to both of us.
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Oh, I know I saw you outside the sun room there strictly unintentioned.
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What I mean is his appearances can be deceiving sometimes. I wouldn't want
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you to misunderstand. Well, I think I understand perfectly. Mister Seller's good.
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Whether Miss Crane would or not may be something else. Again, Melville's
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very understanding. She must be. Well, I've got to run on.
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She'll be down in a minute at My office is in the Ridley Building.
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Drop in it. There's any way I can help. Thanks, I may
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just do that. I'm sorry to keep you waiting, mister Oh, that's
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all right. It gave me a chance to meet your fiancee. Oh were
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you talking with Dean? We exchanged a few pleasantries, isna darling. Wow.
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Of course he's a little headstrong sometimes and impulsive, but he never means
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any harm by it. How did you know? Personal observation? And also
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by an odd coincidence, that's exactly the way you were described to me.
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Oh, instead of beautiful, glamorous, seductive, I imagine it was assumed
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that I could see those qualities for myself. I wonder if I should buy
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that as it is, or analyze it face. I warn you, I'm
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dangerously subtled. I think you may be at that. Would you like a
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drink? Or are you one of those always stick to business type. I'm
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even worse. I could bind the two. I'll have Scotch on the rocks.
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That's my drink. I know we found something in common. We already
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had something. The robbery. Yeah, you want to talk about him?
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Why not? I want that necklace recovered as much as you do. Yes,
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I understand it has a high sentimental value. Who told you that your
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fiance? Oh, here's your drink? Thanks to pearls? The frozen tears
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from the eyes of Allah. A poetic cop, more cynical and poetic the
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man I heard call them that had just knifed a British colonial administrator and blown
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up a sampan with six Chinese fishermen aboard. Why nine pearls you wanted them?
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There were thirty eight in that nightlace of yours. This man did he
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get away with it? Not exactly? He was shot to death on the
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Hong Kong waterfront. This is good scotch. It is another thing? Was
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crane? I am not a cop poetic or Otherwise it amounts to the same
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thing, doesn't it. In some ways, I'm not professionally concerned with identifying
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and capturing criminals and bringing them to justice. My obligations on that score are
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no more nor less than those of any other private citizen. So I'm hired
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by the insurance company to protect their interests. Usually then involves trying to recover
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stolen property or looking for evidence of insurance fraud. I'm afraid I don't quite
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Sometimes I make deals miss crane meaning exactly what? Meaning that if somebody should
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start something and get in over their head, I might listen to reason,
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try to work something out. A cop, wouldn't he's not permitted to Well,
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that would all be very interesting, I'm sure. To the person who
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stole the necklace, Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you. What about
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that person, mister Dollar, the jewel thief who phoned the insurance company smiley
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prone. I talked to him a couple of hours ago. Briefly. Does
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he have the pruns? I don't know. Do you mind if I have
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another drink? Go ahead? What do you mean? You don't know?
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That's why you came here, wasn't it to meet him? And get them
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back. He may not have them. He may just be trying to swindle
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the insurance company. That's not too uncommon a game, you know. No,
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I wouldn't know. Oh yeah, let's tried every now and then,
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the nicest people. Sometimes he's looking at you. It seems to me you're
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taking this whole thing pretty calmly. Well, that's merely a front inside him,
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a seating volcano. Now they tell me something, Why did you postpone
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your wedding? I didn't. Dean was the one. Now what difference does
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it make? What's that got to do with it? Do you think he's
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changed his mind about marrying you? Suppose we leave mister Sellers out of it.
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Can't He's already in it. He's the one who gave you the necklace
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in the first place, an engagement gift. Has he called off the engagement,
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Miss Crane? He hasn't, and he won't, regardless of any rumors
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you may hear to the contrary. Now does that answer your question more or
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less? Then? Suppose we leave my personal life alone and talk about the
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robbery. That is, if you're at all interested in it. Where is
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the safe miss screen safe? Oh? That the necklace was in It's there
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behind that painting. Do you want to see it if you don't mind?
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Right, you and your uncle live here alone, as I understand it,
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my maid, of course, Betty Well, there's the safe. I doubt
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if you'll find any fingerprints or anything. The police spent hours on it.
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That's a real old fashioned one, has been around quite a while, mister
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Dona. Wouldn't be much of a job for a professional safecracker, you mean,
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even without the combination, even without How did the thief get into the
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house? Force a window somewhere? Door? No, with a key,
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I guess you see. It happened in the afternoon. I'd gone out and
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Uncle Phineas was out somewhere as usual. The house was empty at the time.
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What about your maiden, Betty Well? After I left, she decided
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to go into town to do some shopping or something. They couldn't possibly have
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picked a better time, apparently not. Would you like to look around the
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house? No, no thanks, I've got a pretty complete story from the
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police reports. Mostly I came out here to take a look at you.
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And what's your verdict? Maybe I'll do better with Smiley Prowl meeting him later.
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Oh, and is he going to produce the necklace? I don't know.
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He talked about a double cross, said he might give me more than
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I was bargaining for. He was pretty upset why, I don't know.
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Incidentally, mister Doller, there's someone else you'll no doubt me talking to,
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and I want to warn you about him. Who's that? Uncle Phineas?
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Of course he means all eyes he had strong and impulsive too. He makes
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up things sometimes, and he's well just a little bit vague. Bommy,
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you mean, mister Dollar. With people of our class, it's referred to
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as eccentric. I'm sure you understand. I left the house filled with understanding
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and with some brand new questions about the cranes that needed still more understanding.
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The lowering storm clouds had brought an early dusk, and it was nearly dark
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when I reached open the door of my car. Then suddenly I caught a
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flash of white at the corner of the coach house. Somebody had seen me
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and tried to duck out of sight. I walked quickly across the driveway and
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moved quietly up to the corner of the building. How are you betting?
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Can I help you with that. No, I mean I was just going
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to burn some trash. Well, let me put it in the incinerator for
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you here. Oh please, sure you sorted these papers. There seems to
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be something heavy here. Let me have it. Please. You won't understand
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why, missus Crane thought. I was very understanding. You've better run on.
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She sounds impatient. I'll take care of this, no, please,
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you won me. Oh. I watched a disappear into the shadows, running
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toward the house. Then I unwrapped the package she'd been trying to hide in
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the incinerator. It was a thirty two caliber revolver and one chamber had been
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fired recently. Johnny Dollar, this is Betty, mister Dollar, missus Crane's
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made. I'm the one who well, oh yeah, what can I do
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for you? Buddy? Have you told anyone about it? The gun?
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No? Not yet, Thank Heaven? Do you still have it? What
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do you think i'd do? Bury it somewhere? Oh? You look,
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somebody's used this gun, used it recently? Who was it? You know?
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I never saw it before? Then? Why were you trying to hide
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it in the incinerators? I was scared. I didn't know what I was
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doing. Is it your gun I found? Where? Please? Is it
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tied end with the theft of miss Crane's necklace. I don't know anything about
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it, about anything. I just know I'm in trouble. You've got to
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help me, mister dollar. Please. From Special Investigator Johnny Delly, location,
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Cranesburg, Ohio to the home office Tri State Guarantee Company, Hartford,
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Connecticut. Assignment the Crane matter expense account continued Item seven three ten cents for
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a bad steak and worse coffee in the hotel dining room. But it didn't
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matter much. I had to rush it anyway. With one eye on my
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watch. I was meeting jewel Thief's Swaney prel at his rooming house at nine
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o'clock and Melbourne, cranes made Betty was coming here to the hotel at ten,
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providing she could slip away from the house. The schedule was tightening up
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on me, but I still hadn't seen hide nor hair of the stolen necklace.
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That is, if hide nor hair can apply to a string of match
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pearls, and sure it for twenty thousand dollars fourteen twelve North Oak Streak was
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in the Lost and Forgotten corner of town doc and nearly deserted at this hour
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of the evening. The rooming house, a ramshackle frame built flush to the
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sidewalk, seemed to wait for me, brooding in silence. So when no
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names on the letterbox, is no sign of an office, I tried the
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front door. It was open. Room six was the number smile he had
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given me. I walked down the long hall, studying the numbers on the
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doors, with a dim light from a single bulb at the far end.
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For I've six, I heard the veriest hint of movement behind the door.
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In silence. I reached down quietly and turned the knob. The door was
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unlocked. I took a deep breath and then went in fact, hold what
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the devil? Take it easy, Mac, all right, hold it now,
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find the light switch. Well, well, i'll be mister. Ain't
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you a little out of your territory? Mister Crane, I don't know what
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you mean. Sit down before you shake your teeth loose. I beg your
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pardon, sir. I'll mention it if I may remind you who you're talking
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to. You don't have to remind me, your Phineas P. Crane,
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uncle of miss Melbury Crane, who had a pearl necklace stolen from her.
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You're one of the last two surviving members of the Crane family who founded Crane
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mister, and I have just caught you prowling the room of a known professional
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jewel thief. Now sit down, I can explain this. Yeah, I
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hope. So. I suppose our host isn't home. There's no one else
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here. Was the door unlocked or were you equipped with a set of keys?
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I beg your pardon again. You're the most polite burglar I've ever tagged.
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This is not the way it seems, I assure you all right.
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Now you've assured me, convinced me. I came to ask some questions of
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the gentleman who lives here. Do you know I'm certainly not. It's hardly
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likely that i'd be acquainted with a person of his type. Oh, I
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don't know. He's a jewel thief. Your niece had a necklace stolen ten
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days ago. It kind of adds up in a way. Oh, now,
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are you accusing me of complicity? I'm not accusing you of anything.
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I'm just trying to find out what you were doing hiding here in Smany Pewl's
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room. I came here to talk to what about but the reasons that personal
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stood out? Then you did know him. I knew he lived here because
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I followed him one day. I didn't know his name. I didn't know
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he was a jewel thief until you said so, just a moment ago.
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I know, I know this seems rather well. That's one way of putting
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it. You'd understand if I were in a position to explain, it might
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be a good idea. If you got in that position. In view of
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the circumstance, I simply cannot, and I do not believe your capacity is
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such that you can force me to. You're quite right, But the police
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might handle it somewhat different. I doubted very much. My grandfather founded this
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town. Yes, they remember that here a matter of pulling rank. Oh.
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I think they had leaned toward believing any reasonable story that I might give
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them. A story like that is reasonable only as long as there's no actual
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evidence to disprove it, and you have such evidence. Not yet, but
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I think I will be for Oh. Then I'll have to deal with that
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eventuality, when and if it happens. Who are you trying to protect?
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Mister Crane. I don't know what you mean. Why did you follow smiling?
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Because I saw him under rather unusual circumstance before or after the robbery?
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Well? After, yes, when I followed, Well, what was that
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tonight? No, there was several days. But I expect him to be
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here tonight. Oh were you accounting in his room being empty? I did
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not come here to commit burglary, May I remind you? Said? Oh?
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Yeah, I know your Phineas P. Crane, and you and your
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niece are the tip top aristocrats on the local totem poll. Also, I
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happen to know your flat. I imagine twenty thousand dollars worth of insurance would
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look pretty good, do you. I am not a thief. People have
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an odd moral sense. Sometimes a lot of them seem to think insurance for
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it is not quite the same as actual Do not happen to be one of
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those persons. Mister. What about your niece? Well, that necklace was
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given to her as an engagement gift by the man she's going to marry,
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and I'm sure it's value to hers much more than the amount of the insurance.
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Maybe and maybe not. You did tell me this afternoon that she's headstrong,
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impulsive, Yes, but I did not mean to imply soon. I
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imagine you'll be around when I want you. You're not the kind of man
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who runs away, So for the moment, play it your way, cover
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up and hide behind the family name. But sooner or later you're going to
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have to talk it out with somebody, either with me or someone else.
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Am I free to go now? Sure, sure, as far as I'm
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concerned. Unless you want to stick around and wait for Smiling well, I
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doubt whether there's much point in that. Now, under the circumstances, good
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nights, keep cool, mister Crane. I shall make every effort to As
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soon as Crane left, I made a quick search of the room and found
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nothing. Smileing evidently traveled light and lived light. There was hardly any sign
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he was even living in the place. I gave it up as a bad
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job, finally closed the door behind me and drove back to my hotel.
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I was starting to see a faint gleam of daylight in the case, but
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I couldn't quite figure how Phineas Crane fit into it, And unfortunately I was
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in no position to pushing very hard, since technically I had no more right
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in that room than he did. But all of my theories fell apart when
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I walked through the door of my hotel. Come right in, son,
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have a seat. Thanks. One of us could be in the wrong room,
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of course, not if your name's Dollar. Oh, I wasn't questioning
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my presence. Mister. You know fellow name Smiley Prell. Well, I
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know who he is. Got business with him? Have you? Maybe do
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I have any with you? Well, my name's Durham, mister Dollar ed
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Durham. Well, it's a little late, mister Durham, So if you
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don't mind, I'm chief of police here in Cranesburg. Oh, oh,
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maybe it's not as late as I thought. Found your name where this Philip
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Prail and wrote it down along with your room number here at the hotel.
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Call I some got a helpful though. You a friend of yours? No,
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No, I'd hardly call him that. Oh. I don't see any
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point holding out on your chief term. Here are my credentials. I'm an
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insurance investigator working on that crane robbery. You don't say Smiley Prail as a
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jewel thief two previous convictions. He found the insurance company in Hartford and wanted
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to talk a deal. I flew in here this afternoon. Well he's seemed
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to be an order all right, thanks. I had an appointment to meet
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prel this evening in his rumming house at nine o'clock, but he didn't show.
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I reckon, he wasn't in much shape to mister Diller, what do
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you mean Preill got himself shot four or five hours ago? Shot? Yeah,
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real shot. Matter of fact, he's dead, murdered. Kind of
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looks that way. Found him in a back alley behind the city Park.
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Must have happened sometime this afternoon. You wouldn't know anything about it, won't
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you, mister Dollar? I don't know. I might. Do you know
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what kind of a gun was used to kill him? Thirty two revolver according
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to the boys and ballistics. Hold onto your hat. I may have it
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right here, h don't bother looking under the mattress, mister Dollar. I
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already found it. I got it right here. You're pretty cagy, aren't
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you? Wasn't sure how to figure you, Reckon? You're all right though,
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or you'd have kept your mouth shut. Well, thanks, how'd you
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come by it? I'd take it away from Melbourn, Crane's housemaid. A
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girl named Betty. Yeah, I know who she is. It was some
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time between six thirty and seven this evening. I caught her trying to hide
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it in the incinerator. You don't say it's been fired, as you undoubtedly
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noticed. You might have a check through, but I don't imagine it's registered.
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It's registered, all right, Oh, we don't have many guns around
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here. I recognize this one right off belongs to Phineas Crane. What add
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up to anything, mister Dollar? Not the way I've been adding. It's
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got me stumped too. I don't suppose you found that necklace on Smiley Prow's
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body. No, not a sign of it. You figure then this murder
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is tied up some way with that robbery? What else is it? A
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figure? What about these Cranes? Chief? Just who are they? What
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are they? Well? An old line family, just to of them left
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now Phineas and Melbourne not as wealthy as they used to be. Made Elton
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Barkley at the bank told me the same thing. Funny thing about that though
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lately at least Old Phineas seems to have plenty of cash to jingle together.
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How lately not just since the robbery? If that's what you mean. It's
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longer than that last four or five months. That checks two with what Borkley
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said. You got some idea they planned that robbery, mister Doller, Oh,
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I don't know. I've got no evidence of it. If that's what
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you're asking. How do Phineas and Melbourn get along together? Well they kind
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of like royalty here. You know, they're pretty much to theirselves. Man,
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if they do have any trouble, it's never heard outside the house.
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Huh. What do you know about Melvin's fiance, this Dean Sellers. Well,
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he's been here about eight months, seems to be a pretty nice fellow
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civic leader and all that. Everybody in town thought it was just fine when
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they got engaged, figured they was meant for each other. Well, he
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certainly goes in for lavish gifts, a necklace with thirty eight match furls his
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credit expecting somebody. Yeah quiet, Oh, isn't ready let me in,
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mister Dollar just a minute, she phoned earlier, wants the gun back.
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Maybe you'd been a listening for the bath of the bathroom there, good idea,
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let me get set, okay, right, come in, Bettie,
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thank you, I've got to have it back, mister Dollar, have what
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back? The gun you were trying to hide in the incinerator this evening?
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Yes, of course you mean this one. Oh yes, please, mister
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Dollar. Somebody's trying to get me into trouble. I don't know. I
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found that gun, that's the truth, getting in a drawer in my room,
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out of the crane. I don't know. I don't know when I
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saw it. I got scared. I was trying to get rid of it
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when you stop me. And now tonight on the radio it says a man's
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been shot. Did you know him? No? You know whose gun this
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is? I don't know anything about it. Give it to me, please.
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I liked you, bunty, but I'm afraid things aren't that simple.
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What do you mean? All right? Chief, it's all yours. Now,
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here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story.
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Tomorrow castle crumbles, Cupid goes to and a lovely Iceberg thoughts a bit join
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us. Want you yours truly, Johnny Dellar, yours truly? Johnny Dollar
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is starrying. Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Less Crutchfield,
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and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow
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night at same time in station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking that talk by Johnny about being able to cunt neal
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and it's not being his job to catch criminals was kind of interesting. Well,
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welcome back, by the way. That was, of course in part
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two. Of course, with Johnny's sense of justice, he usually will end
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up doing that anyway, even if it's not strictly in the job description.
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Though back when it was just a jewel theft, he may just to blet
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some things slide. Clearly, we're left with a puzzle, but we're also
30:26
left with some clear direction with her it's misdirection. Well, we'll find out
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on Friday when we'll actually have both parts four and five. And remember,
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for even though there's a little bit of a confusion that the first two parts
30:42
were Part one in part one a Well, now that we're all thoroughly confused,
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let's turn to listener comments and feedback. I had a comment regarding episode
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eleven eighty five, the Crystal Lake matter. The Eric says, Crystal Lake
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wasn't that Jason stomping ground? You don't think nah couldn't be, of course,
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Jason in this case, I've not watch the films, but I've heard
31:11
of them. Jason, of course reference to Friday the thirteen and apparently the
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setting there was Crystal Lake. Of course, that wasn't the only old time
31:22
radio show to use the name Crystal Lake as as the name of a location.
31:32
I was just I was just checking the through some other old time radio
31:41
shows, and Armis Brooks actually had a program that was also said at Crystal
31:48
Lake. I do think that from a frightening perspective that it's probably a lot
31:53
more frightening to have something set at a place that sent something horrific set at
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place that sounds normal or maybe even peaceful. The older scary radio programs I
32:10
have often have creepy things happening in creepy places, which isn't nearly as terrifying
32:17
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32:21
connoisseur of the genre, there could be a lot of productions that during the
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