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Easy Money: Galloping Ivories (EP1384) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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at Otrdetectives dot com slash the War. Well, now it's time for Easy
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Money. This is the seventh episode of the series. Original air date November
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fourteenth of nineteen fifty four, and the title is gallopin Ivories. The National
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Broadcasting Company presents another program in a new series exposing the inside secrets of gamblers,
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racketeers, and con men. It's called easy Money, Easy Money.
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There's no such thing as easy money. Mike Trent, the ex magician turned
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rackets detective, is an expert on easy money schemes, gyps, frauds,
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and swindles. Tonight he blows the lid off of one of the vicious gambling
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rackets that's being worked in this country year after year. This one's called galloping
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ivories, and here's Mike Trent to tell you about it. Thank you.
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Though, the good professional gamblers are so used to trimming their victims that sometimes
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they get impatient. They see a chance for a fast cleanup and they jump
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at it, especially if they feel they've got a soft touch for their prey.
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My story tonight is about a big operator who got mixed up with some
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kids who came mighty close to reckon their lives. It opens in the back
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room of one of the suburban gambling clubs, where the boss's right hand man
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had just brought in his report of the night's receipts. It's nice night,
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So that's the biggest take we've had in three weeks. Yeah, only look,
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gammer given this kid, Junior Alwyn Sky high credit. That don't seems
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so sharp. No, how much did he lose tonight? Eight hundred and
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twenty bucks. All we got is this little piece of paper eight twenty Hey,
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that makes seven thousand, one hundred and sixty dollars all together. Yeah,
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I'll take all that kind of paper I can get. We're gonna how
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you're gonna collect his old man said the last time he settled up, he
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wasn't paying any more craft game. That's for Junior. I know, old
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man el When ain't the kind of guy we will stand for muscles. Don't
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worry. I'm not planning to put any heat on Junior's daddy. I don't
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get it. That's fine, Sophie. If you don't get it, Junior
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won't either. You and young a wonner about on a par on brains.
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Look, boss, you don't need to get mast, don't I listen?
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Sobie, I'd like to run that Junior. L want to count up to
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about fifteen thousand dollars? You mean fast fast? Give the kid a break,
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let him double up, get him to shoot the works, tind to
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get eaten. You're gonna let him get even now, what do you think
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the minute the bell gets up to fifteen? Grand teley kid? I want
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to see him. Well, if you say so, I do say so,
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and don't scare him. Be nice to you. I should be nice
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to a dumb phony. You owes us all that door or what? So
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I'm playing for big steak, Soapy. Fifteen thousand dollars is just my first
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roll. Okay, Gunner, you're gonna roll like that. Be sure you're
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throwing your own dice, Soapy. When I gamble, I never take chances.
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Well, mister Irwin, I haven't seen you for a long time.
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Have a chair. Thanks. Your dice man said that you wanted to see
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me, Gunner. If it's about money, money, what's that? Your
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credit's always good for a few hundred dollars my gambling club Jr. Thanks.
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I know your father gives you a nice allowance. I know you're the kind
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of fellow who thinks a gambling dead is important. You're a gentleman. Thanks
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again. If you for dollars doesn't mean any more to you than it does
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to me. If you don't have it, I know you will get it.
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I've been having a lousy run of luck lately, Gunner, but it's
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bound to change sooner or later. I never worry much about gambling low.
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That's one of the things I like about you. Junior. Wow, bet
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you can run up a bill of fifteen hundred dollars without batting an eyelash.
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Yeah. Sure, you're an actual gambler, the smart kind of a gambler.
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Why I haven't even checked on your account? Fine, by the way,
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Jr. How does your account stand? Why I've been having rotten luck
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Gunner? Well that's what you told me. Wow, how rotten? I
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owe you fifteen thousand dollars fifteen that's an awful lot of money, Junior.
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I'm a little surprised. I'll pay off. Don't you worry. I never
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worry about anybody paying off. Uh face? Thanks? Where will you get
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fifteen thousand dollars? Wait, I'll get it where I'll borrow it. You
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couldn't borrow fifteen bucks, Well it'll take a few days, of course.
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Brucker up your lips more when you're whistling the dark kid, I give you
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six months. You couldn't raise the money anyway, shorter killing your old man.
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You've been playing me for a sap, and I'm getting sore. You
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said I could have all the credit I wanted. You let me want shut
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up the anything I hate. It's a whiny looser. I'm not whiny.
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You get right on sumbling up until you found yourself on a spot. I'm
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not in a spot. Oh no, well guess again, ju And yeah,
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you're in a real spot. What do you mean I run this gambling
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club to make money? Maybe that never occurred to you. If I let
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one looser welch on me get by without paying, I quit making money.
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I said i'd pay. I have a couple of pretty fair ways to collect,
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kid, collect or else you wouldn't dare. Oh, don't lay any
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yards in that one. Kid, And you're in a place like mine,
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you'd be surprised. But your dad, what do you want me to do?
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Well, now you're talking sense. Well, you run around with a
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pretty speedy bunch of kids. You want me to steer some of my friends
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to your club. I wouldn't have them cluttering up the place, but i'd
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like to meet a few of them outside. What do you mean, from
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what I read in the papers, you're quite a party boy. Well,
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well, I like parties too. I'd like to be invited to a few
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parties of yours. I don't get it. You and I are going to
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be partners, junior partner. We're gonna palle around together. You introduce me
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as a friend who's just come to town. We start a few little five
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dollars crap games. I still don't get the idea. You can't make up
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fifteen thousand dollars in a five dollar game? Did you ever see a five
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dollar crap game? Stay in that class. You started playing here with dollar
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chips. You owe me fifteen grand get me the suckers. You're fifteen thousand
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back and a lot more. Besides, I couldn't do that to my friends.
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Oh no, I'll bet you could, Junior. And what's more,
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I bet you will. I'll bet you two to one. Wanted sake,
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No, I guess not. It looks like they're your dice. Sonn Gorman
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was the life of your party. That's the funny part of it, mister
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Trenty was everybody liked him. And he didn't even suggest the crap game.
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I suppose you did, yes when he gave me the high sign. And
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I'll bet Gunner Gorman was lucky, wasn't he? Well? Not at first?
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Oh no, no, not while you were shooting for five dollars a
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roll. I suppose not. The game couldn't have been crooked, mister trent
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They were my dice. But Gorman knows something about the game. I don't
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know how much did he win? Five thousand dollars? He said it cut
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my loss to twelve five hundred because we're partners and I get credit for twenty
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five. He's getting a friend's a chance to get their money back. Of
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course. Oh yes, he put on a good act like he was embarrassed
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at taking their money. Sounds like a very clever operator. He's taking a
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hotel room and the rest of the crowd think he's just in town for a
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few days. He's throwing a party at the hotel tonight to give them a
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chance to get even. Well, just where does this concern me? Well,
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I may be a heel. Everybody seems to think so, even Gorman
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at least. I've been a prize sap. But I'm darned if I'll double
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cross my friends. You've already done that, haven't you. Well I was
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scared, I guess, and there didn't seem to be anything else to do
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until I saw Gunner Gorman take their money because they trusted me. Well,
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what do you expect me to do about it? Well? I may be
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dumb, but I don't think Gorman's on the level. If he is,
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I'll go to Dad and take my medicine, whatever it is. But if
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he isn't playing fair, I'd like to catch him, and for what you've
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told me about him. Gorman will be rough if he finds that you're double
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crossing him as well as everybody else. I guess that coming to me all
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right, Well, it's nothing to wat your laup coming off. Gorman discovers
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you're trying to trap them. I thought it was your business to catch crook
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at gambler's racketeers. Oh it is, it is. But there's one type
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of gambler I dislike almost as much as the crooks, and you're that type.
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True people will get a big thrill out of hobnobbing with dirty, cheating
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criminals until their charming friends take them and then come crying for help. But
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I'm not crying for myself. I can't let him rob my friends on my
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safe. I don't even know that the man's a crook. He wouldn't need
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to be, you know, to win so surely and certainly. Oh,
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Gorman knows the dice ods backward and forward. He knows his chances on every
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roll of the dice. He could play percentages and win a sooner or later,
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in the most honest game in the world, he'd clean them out because
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dice is his business, and he knows his business. Went five thousand dollars
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in one little glo. There's no rougher, tougher, faster form of gambling
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ever been invented. One flop of the dice, he can make more money
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than a whole evening of poker. Five thousand dollars would make me think Gorman
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was holding back one of my best friends, Marge. Terrence lost fifteen hundred
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of it. That makes me feel worse than anything else. She well,
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I'm sort of crazy hutter in it. Wait a minute, you mean there
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were girls in this dice game and will be in the next one. Yes,
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mister trend. That's why i'd appreciate your help. Well, I won't
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take the case to help you with your friends. You all need a good
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spanking when you need help. But you will take the case. Yeah,
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on one condition. What's that It's understood. I'm doing it strictly to put
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Gorman in his place. Sweat does nothing swell about it? Do you have
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a revolver? Gosh, no, I'd be scared to death. And why
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you're going to be scared because you'll be carrying one, But why you might
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need it. You've crossed up your dad and he's taken it. You've crossed
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up your friends. They don't know it. They wouldn't do much about it
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if they did, probably, But if Gunner Gorman ever finds you're double crossing
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him, you think he'd get tough. Well. I think there's undoubtedly a
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very good reason for his nickname being Gunner. I don't know why you feel
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it's so big about winning five grand at a party. Ain't does better than
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that most any night? Were you going to meet some nice people at the
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party? Soapie? Me listen, God, I hadn't I told you,
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Sophie, you're gonna be my butler this evening? Me cotton praise the sandwiches
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around. Look, bus I stood for a lot. But if it's a
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chance to see the elite a play, Soapy, I suppose you want me
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to be loaded down with fake dice, like a old copy of the Police
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Cascente. Oh, don't be naive, Sofie, don't be huh. We
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won't use odd dice? Are you kidding to bring their own dice? These
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are respectable people Sophie, I never see the guy so respectable. I trust
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his dice. You gotta be sure of winn an, ain't you now?
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When don't you worry your little brain about that? You ain't no dice mccanic.
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I don't have to be, not with a thick pile of rug on
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the floor of our hotel sweep and with a good thick pad beneath it.
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Huh, listen, Gunny, you would't give him the old blanket roll?
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Now why not? You couldn't get away with anywhere crapshure in the country doesn't
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know, but the soft roll not dealing with crapshooters. Soaphie, I'm playing
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with wealthy no goods who want to thrill. I have so much money.
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The only kind they'll show any interest in is easy money. I'll be disappointed
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if I don't win fifty thousand dollars tonight, and they'll come back and back.
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This is just a start. You'll have to give Junior album half the
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profits, won't you. Oh you need a head cleaning, Sophy. Yeah,
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to tonight. My partnership with Junior is dissolved. Well can you do
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that? He might squawk. He wouldn't there he lets these SAPs know anything.
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They'll find out he was working with May helping play them for suck,
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because you think he'd do that. Who'd be coming around here with the sun
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still out? We'll get the door find out. Oh hello, Junior,
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Hi, gunna see, I thought i'd better warn you there may be trouble
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tonight. Oh ah, listen, bright boy, there's any trouble. You
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know who wind up with it, don't you? Yeah, that's why I
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thought I should tell you. All right, what's up? You remember Marge
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Terence, the girl who lost so much? How could I forget her?
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Well, her brother found out about it, and he's kind of a hot
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head. You don't say, well, what about a brother? Well,
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he blames me for letting Marge lose so much money, and he threatened me.
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Threatened. Yeah, how he said, unless I brought him to your
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party tonight, he beat me up. He wants a chance to win that
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money back for Marge. Man. Just when you get to thinking Christmas is
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five or six weeks away, here comes Santa Claus. Don't be too sure.
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Tim Terrence has a reputation for being awfully lucky. Oh, I like
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him lucky. The rest of the Cloud's going to the theater just as they'd
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plan and then dropping in here afterwards. But Marge's brother, Tim's his name.
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He wanted to come up here earlier with margin me just can't wait.
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Eh, mister Gorman, I know you think you're pretty hot with the dice,
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but I'm warning you. Tim Terrance is plenty lucky. Well, maybe
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his luck'st for a change. Bring him around. The earlier the better.
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Oh, don't say I didn't warn you. I won't you. Yeah,
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I won't say a thing except thanks. Oh, mister Gorman, I think
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you're butler or ballet or whatever. He is is a character. Where in
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the world did you ever find him? I picked him up in a rough
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and rugged gambling giant, Miss Terrence. He's a real authentic type and such
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a wonderful name, Sophie, all right, cut it off. I haven't
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met mister Gorman yet. Oh, pardon me. This is Marge's brother,
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Gunner, Tim Terrence. How do you know you folks are a little early?
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Yeah. Your march told me how you took her money last night.
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Wow, she didn't have very good life. I'm sure it was luck.
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Luck Jimmy, be nice. Now, I don't like cracks like that,
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Sarah. I don't like having my sister margin lose fifteen hundred dollars either.
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Oh, tempt be yourself. I can afford you. He doesn't know a
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thing about the game. Shooting craps with hers like taking pennies out of a
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baby's piggy b luck, Terrence, I didn't ask her into the game.
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The game wasn't even my idea. She lost money doesn't mean anything to me.
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I'm giving her every chance the world to get it back. You better
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be careful about your insinuations. Well you sound very noble, mister Gorman.
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Yeah, you're a great guy, all right, taking money away from a
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girl who doesn't even know what the game is all about. There's some boss
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you want me to give this bird of bumps. I stay out of this,
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Sophie. I suppose you're quite a crap sure to yourself, mister Terrance,
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you bet, I am. Oh, he's simply wonderful. He's won
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money from real professionals. You don't say he talks to the dice. He
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says the craziest things about fever and nicator and new shoes, and go ahead
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to me tell them some of the things I think I've heard them. Lady,
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Eh, you're uh real hot crop shooter. I do enough to cool
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you off, and you need to be taught a lesson. You think you
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could do it? Huh? You bet I can. I just assume take
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your money as your sister, I just bet you would. Well, it
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looks to me like there's only one way to settle this. Oh yeah,
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sure, with the dice, you and Tim, but I want to play
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too. You stay out of this much. I'm gonna give Gorman a lesson
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he needs. I'm not in the habit of carrying dice around with me.
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It just happens. I got some in my pocket bus here. I'll just
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take a look at those. If you don't mind, Oh sure, go
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right ahead, look him over all. You like you think I'm a crack
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Huh, I'm reserving my opinion. Give him the sinkerd test if you want
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to go ahead. The sinker test isn't the terminology of this game fascinating?
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I love it? What does it mean? The sincred test means, lady,
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that you drop the dice in a tall glass of water. Let him
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sink to the bottom. I can't imagine why anybody would drop dice into a
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glass of water on a counter. You can tell that way if the dice
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is loaded. If the same points come up every time you drop them,
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well they are the loaded. Well he seemed to be, all right,
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of course there are. Oh we'll have to clear all this stuff off the
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table before we can shoot. Oh well, that's too much trouble. Get
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down on the floor, on the rug. It's more fun that way on
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the rug. Well, yeah, sure, okay, I'll bet ten dollars.
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Ah, ten dollars. I thought you were such a red hot spot.
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Well before you get red hot, Garman, you have to get warmed
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up a little, you know. Ten dollars. Okay, big shit you,
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Kevin, go ahead, roll them out. I won't even bother looking
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for the kind of money. Oh, tim, but twelve the highest point
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you can make. That ought to be worth something that sparks cars. You
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get many of them, you ain't going to be traveling in style. I'll
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shoot another ten Gorman. Yeah, cavied big shits. Six deuced from the
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katah. All right, come on, I show the folks you know you're
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arithmetic. Let's make the point with a five three shake rattle. Rule two
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and two is four. That's half of what you're appening. We'll get the
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rest of it this time. Ch and six deu is right back. Okay,
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I'll let the twenty ride six two. But Timmy, you said you'd
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make the eight with a five to three. Does it come this way?
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I thought you wanted to get your sister's fifteen hundred back. We've been going
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half an hour and I'm seventy bucks ahead, and that's way. We'll shoot
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all night and nobody will get anywhere. Well, I dice haven't gotten hurt
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for me yet, I can tell yeah. Well, I'm tired of this
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paneatic stuff. Maybe your sister's ready to shoot for some real money. You'll
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keep out of this munchy. You're not gonna win her money back for this
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way. Your sister makes you look like a piker. All right, all
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right, if you feel that way about it, going and I'll tell you
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what I'll do. I'll shoot the whole fifteen hundred she lost all in one
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roll. Oh Timmy, that's a lot of money. Put it up,
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big shot. Well suppose you cover it too. It's miney, and I
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haven't got it covered. Don't worry, go ahead shooting, Oh, tim
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how wonderful A seven that d yeah, something tells me, well, I
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guess that was all I needed. Now I'm getting hot. I'll let the
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three thousand ride. Well you're cover, but boss, will you stay out
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of this? It's twenty five hundred, three thousand, go ahead, roll
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them out. Yeah you bet all right? Be good to Papa, Dice
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for three thousand, nice big dollars. Be alert, Dice, Come on
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you, Oh too bad? A five fee the good hot Dice. Let's
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five right back a bank of cop waiting for money, little old easy five.
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Come on, Dice, eight five deuce five for Papa. Just one
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little five is all I ask Sike that scroll. Oh I'll get closer than
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that. Come on, I'll be good, Dice. So I let the
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six thousand ride. Yeah, covered, bright boy, shut up? You
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covered, Tarrant showed. Okay, Dice. Let's seven eleven this time to
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break the monotony. Right high, wide and handsome on a way of prosperity.
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Dice. Oh, I'm sorry, Marge. I said i'd make an
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eleven, and it's a seven. But that wins. Tim. Boss,
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you're to call this way. You don't keep your mouth shut. You mean
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he's doing something crooked. I've been watching and I don't see anything you worn't.
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Is somebody insinuating him. I haven't said a thing. Bright boy,
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you're letting the twelve thousand ryds. If you can cover it. I can
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cover a lot more than that. Sonny, get the other bag out of
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the bedroom soaping bus. This is your thing, cape s tell soap when
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you get the bag. Okay, Timney, I think this is perfectly marvelous.
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And it's so honest too. What he told you how good he was
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before he started taking your money? Right? All right? They Yeah,
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bright boy, you think I'm gonna run short of money? Look it over?
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What there's a fortune in that bag. Yeah, anybody who's good enough
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to take it away from me can have it if they take it honest.
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Is that a crack? Oh No, I'm not saying a thing in twelve
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thousands covered. Go ahead, roll them out. Nothing won't give me more
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pleasure, mister Gorman, What would you like? What do you mean?
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What would I like? A point or a natural? Oh, don't be
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so smart. Just go ahead and roll all right, if that's the way
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you feel about it. Okay, tim aren't you forgetting something? What you
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aren't talking to the dice. Oh well, I don't have too much.
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With twenty four thousand dollars on the line, I don't want to disturb the
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dice. I'll just roll them out like this. You see, you win
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a four and a three, A beautiful four and three. Prettiest little dice
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faces I ever saw in my life. Just look at their eyes, all
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seven of all right, save the comedy. You ain't going to shut up,
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all right, Terrence, You've had your fun. What do you mean?
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I just wanted to see how far you'd go with it? What are
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you talking about? You think I'm a sap. You've been giving those dice
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the old blanket roll? What does he mean to you? He knows what
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I mean, all right. I've been watching him. He's been using a
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blanket roll every time. I don't see what you mean. Well, it
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looks like you'll have to tell them. I'll tell him, all right.
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On any soft surface, like a bet or a blanket or a rug of
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this kind, the dice roll in a stress straight line if you hold them
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right, you say here like this, What difference does it make whether they
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roll in a straight line or not? The difference between winning a fortune and
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depending on luck. I don't get it. I don't either. Oh that's
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because you're dopes. You hold the dice side beside in your hand. On
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the first roll, with the six on one dice facing an ace on the
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other. You see the two faces against each other, and there isn't a
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chance the world are rolling a deuce or a twelve, and the odds are
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two to one in your favor coming up with a seven. But you might
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explain the rest of it to him, goodman, On the off chance that
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you roll a point, the faces of the dice you hold against each other
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determine how you'll make the point. You see the dice roll over and over,
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but not side, so you admit you were using the blanket roll.
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I never said I wasn't the boss rider to let him get away with it
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so long, I'll tell you so pe, because he didn't want to expose
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his own racket unless he had to. He didn't want to let Junior and
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Marge see how they'd been losing their money. Or you know all the answers,
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don't you. When I lost the fifteen hundred, we rolled the dice
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on a rug just like this one, smooth and so yeah, he had
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just a good chance to roll him right as I did. The dice aren't
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crooked. You got no beef? Should I pick up the dough bus?
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Why no, Sophie, I'm really shocked at you. We aren't gonna have
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any strong armstaff. Mister Terrence won the money he wanted the same way I
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want it from these suckers who We're just gonna roll a few more hands and
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well, this time I'm gonna handle the dice. Mike. That, Sophie,
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he has a gun. Didn't you expect he would have? You won't
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get hurt, mister if you play along with Gunner like he wants. Yes
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see, I wouldn't dream of hijack and you. All I want is the
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same chance you had. You have twenty four thousand dollars on the table,
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and I cover it. But this time I roll a dice. It's all
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fan square. That's certainly making armed robbery refine. I give me the dice,
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mister Bley, sure, and you'll have no beef when I take it.
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Six and and and ace facing each other the same way you held him.
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Any complaints, Oh no, no, no, got a complaint in
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the world. Twenty four thousand dollars. I could roll naturals all day.
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Well, aren't you even gonna shake? Why bother? You and I both
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know how it works. I'll just give him a Nyes gentle roll. He
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rode box cars? Twelve? Hey, Hey, what's going on? Well,
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I don't know, Gorman. There your dice? Want to shoot again?
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Yours in your grip? Keeps? Tell, just take care of the
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gun. Would you like to shoot again? In a minute. I'm gonna
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give these dice a few rolls. Yeah, well, well, well another
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twelve and another one. I ain't seen so many box cars since I was
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riding the rods. What are you done to these dice? Well, your
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dice, Gorman, you want to know how to handle him better than that.
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Maybe you're nervous. Oh Betty isn't hot. It's just not his nice
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Grab up the money, Soapy, I thought you were keeping this technically on
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the up and up. Gorman. Oh you're lucky. I'm not having Soapy
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put a slug through. You're keeping comet soaping. When I even get my
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fifteen, You're not gonna get out of here alive. I don't believe i'd
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take that money, Soapy, because the minute your fingers touch it. I
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shoot, Gorman, I've got I'm covering you. Yes, yes, So
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you want to risk a lot of trouble, Sophie, go right ahead and
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pick up the money. You see, Junior wouldn't have to worry. He
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has plenty of witnesses. But you'd be in a slight jam. I imagine
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if there were any fireworks. Give it to the kids, Sophie. It's
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a pretty funny bluff. Gorman. I've never seen a crooked gambler yet who'd
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risk gunplay? You heard me? So do you think Sophie is going to
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risk go onto the chair to save your money? You heard me, Soapie.
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I'm sorry, Buss. The guy's right, what boss, I've just
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resigned. Yeah, mister, you take the gun. I don't want to
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thank you. Sophie. You're showing excellent judgment. Your little You are to
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stay in your own backyard. That's what you ought to do. That's so
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long, folks see it. The Junior leave you, tump back, take
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your Gorman ladies present, no rough talk. I'll rough talk you when I
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get out of here. And that's for you. When you're dirty, double
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us talking, Marge, chriskom for weapons while I'm falling and stacking this money,
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would you? Oh wonderful, mister Trent. You're a character, honestly,
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Junia, how much money do you suppose you've lost to Gorman? Roughly
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about twenty thousand dollars altogether. But it was on a regular dice table,
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sure, with six as flats. Huh a dice Slough did, So you're
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bound to end up loser even if you win a little once in a while
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percentage dice. You know all the answers that, yes, I think so.
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He isn't carrying any guns, Mike, Mike, you called him that
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once before, Sure, Mike Tread maybe you've heard of him. Oh yeah,
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I'll get you for this. Hell, and if you're not going to
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get anybody, Gorman, you can't make a beef without exposing your own crookedness.
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And a fire with you, I'd see that nothing happens to Junior.
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What do you mean? I mean? I'm making a full report of this
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game to the police. From now, I'm they'll be watching you all the
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time. You're shoving me right out of top, that's right, any complaints?
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Look all those box cars I rolled? I don't this all that well?
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You see I had some adher fluid in a sponge pinned inside my coat,
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you see, and hero fluid. What are you talking about? Oh,
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you should keep up our new developments, Gooreman. It's a fluid to
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load dice while the game's in progress. Yes, it's a clear plastic fluid
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that hardens when it comes in contact with celluloid. I gave the aces on
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those dice a good heavy coat of it while you were telling me you were
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going to take over it. I didn't see you. All I had to
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do was get the fluid on my fingers much and rubbed my fingers over the
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aces. The dice was so loaded that when Gorman took them up, they'd
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turn even on a soft padded surface. You're the dirtiest crook I ever roun.
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No, no, no, not a dirty crook, Gorman, an
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honest crook. Here's your twenty thousand, junior, and you're fifteen hundred march.
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Oh, and here's another thirty five hundred to cover with your other friends
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lost junior. Geez, thanks, But what do I owe you for your
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your work? Mister Trent? Not a cent junior? Somehow or other,
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I seem to have done all right and now here's a last word from the
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man who knows the rackets inside out, Mike Trent. Thank you well.
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I hope you like tonight's show. It should help convince you that anybody can
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be easy money for crooked dice game operators. And remember, not even the
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water test is infallible for crooked dice. Any game can be rigged in fifty
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different ways, so the one way to be safe is to keep out of
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the game. This is Mike Trent signing off of the thought that you can
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never stay even with the game when the odds are always against you. Remember,
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there's no such thing as easy money. You have just heard another in
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NBC's news series Easy Money, exposing the inside tricks of the gambler's trade.
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Be sure to listen again next week when Mike Trent shows how it's possible for
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you to be jypped on what may look like a perfectly respectable raffle. It's
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called the lottery Racket. Featured in tonight's cast where Larry Haynes as Mike Trent,
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with Wendy Drew, Peter Fernandez, Ralph Bell, and Maurice Tarplin.
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Script by George B. Anderson, Easy Money is produced and directed for air
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shows incorporated by Blair Wallacer. This is Bill McCord join your favorite couple film
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McGee and Molly tonight on the NBC Radio Network. Welcome back. Oh wow.
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This really I think could have been a hit series if it had aired
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a few years earlier. I love this the way that they worked this educational
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element in to a story in a way that's interesting, that really gets you
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interested in the game and curious about what's going on. And doubtless, while
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there have been some enhancements or improvements, there are probably some gamblers out there
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using the same tricks shown in today's program, so this was definitely enjoyable.
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I will not have the titles of missing episodes. This is not a well
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documented series, so there's no full episode log available. So we have what
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we have, and we have the dates for when they aired, but as
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for the titles of the shows in between, wouldn't be able to tell you.
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That will actually do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with the
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Adventures of Philip Marlow, and then join us back here on Tuesday for another
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