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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Kranesburg Matter, Parts 1 and 1A (EP1191) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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net. Well, now we turn to probably one of the most difficult to
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figure out serials in the series run, and that's the Cranesburg Matter. And
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there have been so many things said about this and so much confusion. There
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have been people who have stated that there was a seventh part, or that
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there's one part missing, or and basically part of this has even been caused
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by recordings that have incorrect information appended to the end when Johnny gives the teaser
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for next week's program. But I think that based on what we heard last
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week with the key, that the program would have the story start on Friday
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after the Republican convention. That really gives us that there's one part on Friday
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and then five parts the next week. And I don't think that there's any
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other way that you can come up with that. But there's actually been people
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who have advocated that there's a seventh part out there. But I've listened all
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the way through and this is complete as is so here from August twenty fourth
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and August twenty seventh is the Cranesburg Matter, Parts one and one A squad.
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It's time now for Johnny Dollar Bob Water joint writespeak. I have bombed
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been a long time, and I wish it were a longer time. Nothing
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personal in that is he no, no, just bad tamper. I'm on
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the prod. Johnny, we had a pearl necklace. Wipe. It's gotta
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be irritated. That's the same thing to anice, to the way I hear,
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yeah, but in reverse. If Aster gets irritated and he makes a
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pearl, I lose a brol. I get irritated. Right now, I'm
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irritated. Thirty eight pearls words said money, twenty thousand clams. Ever hear
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of smiley pearls smiley prow Oh sure a small town jewel thief, a couple
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of raps. I pritt him lately, though, well you're here now.
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He boned us from Ohian. Our goal says, you've got the necklace.
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Wants to talk a deal? What was your client? Girl named melbour Crane,
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a real snoopy tuty. The way I get it, owns a town
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or something, anyhouse named after her family, Greensburg, Ohio. Well,
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if I can find it on the map, I'll see about a plane reservation.
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Donny, you already got one tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey
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transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact expenscout America's Fabulous Presence Insurance investigator
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was truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the office Tri State
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Guarantee Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during
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my investigation of the Cranesburg matter. Item one one hundred and five dollars and
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thirty five cents incinnetals in Hartford and transportation to Cranesburg, Ohio. I checked
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into the hotel the Crane Hotel, incidentally, and for instructions waited for contact
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by one Swanley prel jewel thief. That Crane name was beginning to run out
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of my ears. So for the moment at least, I postponed coming on
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the family itself. As it happened, though, the family came to me,
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or at any rate, one of them did come in. My name
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is mister oh sure, sure, come on in, mister Crane. Thank
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you, sir. You related to miss Melbury Crane. Melbury is my niece,
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and the necklace belong to her. That is correct. It was her
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own personal property, not a part of any family holding. Oh I see,
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I want you, miss Cream. Oh thank you. Just two constitutes
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the family you mentioned. Well, as a matter of fact, mister Dolla,
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only Melburn myself now were the last remaining survivors. Oh now, I
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see you unpacking, said, but you just go right ahead and forgive my
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entrusion. Well, yeah, did catch me a little by spride. I
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just got in town a few minutes ago, and I wasn't expecting mister Lauder.
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The insurance company bid that you were coming, and I was waiting here
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at the hotel. I understand the thief has approached you. Well, no,
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not personally. No, He followed the main office in Hartford and talked
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to lawder See I'll probably hear from him sometimes said now you say, he
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mister, are you certain the call was from a man? Lotter was certain?
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Do you have some reason to data? Not at all. I just
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wonder. The name he gave is a known jewel thief, several previous convictions,
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Smiley pro and the call was made from here in Cranesburg. Yeah,
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that's right. Well that's very remarkable. Why so, but this is quite
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a small town, as you've doubt noticed. Now a strange you would draw
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attention, be somewhat conspicuous. Oh not necessarily. Smiley may have come here
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some time ago to establish himself. You may even have met him, mister
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Greg. Oh no, I'm quite sure that. I was utterly impossible.
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Did are you a description? No, of course not. And how can
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you be so sure? Well? I just have met any strangers in the
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last few months, not a what I see. Well, I am now
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at home. Can I can I order have something from the bar? Mister
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cran Oh no, no, no, thank you, No, I really
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have to run on. I only stopped in for a minute. Did you
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have anything special in mind? Oh no, no, no, nothing at
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all, I don't believe you, mister Crane. I beg your pardon.
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Well, I just don't believe you care for cigarette. Oh no, no,
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I never spoke to and I must say I failed to understand your implication.
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You understand it all right? I want is there something funny about the
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loss of that necklace? Certainly? And what's up? I merely came here
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to offer my help and Melbourne two. Of course, I wanted you to
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know that we will be glad to cooperate fully in any action you may choose
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to take. That's very generous of you and your niece. My names Well,
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she's a very remarkable girl. Melboy all. Yeah, she's a try
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her head strong times course, and not always inclined to use the best judgement.
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Ah how has she shown this lack of judgment? Mister Crane? Oh,
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there is nothing specific, But I did want you. I did want
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to see you before you talk to her and let you know kind of what
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to expect. As you might say, Oh, naturally, she's very upset
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over the loss of her neck. I imagine you don't have any hope I
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suppose of recovery. Well, as a matter of fact, I have a
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lot of hope of recovering it, possibly within twenty four hours. Oh well,
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noble to be very happy to hear that it was an engagement, give
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to understand, and from her fiance, Dean Sellers his name. Oh,
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she was quite broken up when it was stolen ab a twenty thousand dollars necklace.
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It's a pretty fair loss, now, mister Crane. Oh, it's
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not the intrinsic value as all, mister No, I supposed not, since
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that part of it is covered by the insurance. Yeah. Oh that's that
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ours referring to the sentimental attachment she understands all naturally, and of course to
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the sheer beauty. Oh it was lovely. Okay, you've seen the necklace
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and suppose no, but I've got photographs of it. Oh yes, of
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court, yes, from the insurance company. That's quite an unusual ornament,
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with each pearl set individually in a platinum money. The whole thing is a
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part Johnny Dollen this You know who mister dollars are to talk? Yeah,
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go ahead, shoot all right, you know where the Green Lion bar is,
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I'll find it. We'll meet me there then in an hour and a
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half check and I won't have it on my dollars, So don't go some
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money pants on me or you'll be holding the sack you. I just want
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you and me to understand, no cops, huh. I've been in this
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game a long time. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm counting on.
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I'll see you later. That was the soy sense. Well, I've got
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to run alone now. If there's anything I can do. Well, you
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got finished what you were saying about your niece, if you will. Oh
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no, no, there was nothing, really, It's just that Melb is
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a bit too uh imp the times headstrong. You know, she's young,
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she's foolish, but she never means any actual harm by it. I no,
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not really now, I'm sure you won't stand that, mister Doller a
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good day. Sent it them two twenty six dollars even to put it in
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first days rattle. On a higher car, I checked on the location of
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the Green Lion fifteen minutes in the center of town, so there was plenty
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of time to follow up another angle before I went to meet Swanny Prowl.
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I parked the car in front of the Cranesburg Bank, went inside and presented
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microdentials in the letter of introduction to Milton Berkley President, step inside the off
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with mister Donald. We have a little privacy at least, Thanks mister Parkning,
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I have a sheet nice. Any any recommendation that Bob Waters is good
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enough for me? He handled a lot of investments for Tri State. You
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find company, nice company to work for him? Now, what can I
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do for you, mister d Oh? It's just the usual routine shack in
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cases of this kind. The general financial status of the Crane bunch you mean
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the Crane Chemical company or the Crane family. Well, I assumed the two
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went together. No, no, not for several years now. Melbourne's father
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sold the last of the family stock a while before his death. Neither Phineas
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nor Melba have one stent of ownership in the company. I see now.
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The company, of course, is an excellent financial gets the family we're concerned
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with, Well, there, the picture is a little different. The fact
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is that although they're the social leapers of the town and everybody pictures they're rolling
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in it, the cranes are broke, flat broke, have been for a
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couple of years now. But as I understand that they live at quite a
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fancy of state out on the edge of time. Sure, and it's mortgage.
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Did they help? It's very interesting. Of course, lately old Phineas
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seems to be going around with a pocket full of money. I don't know
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where he got it. It is a funny thing, how lately, since
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the necklace was starne before, oh long before two or three months for the
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robbery, was only left great supposed a least. No, I see what
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you mean, but it's not the answer. Melville wore those pearls of the
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country club dance just a few days before they were taking Well, it was
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an idea. I'll give you a piece of advice, mister Dollar, have
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more than just an idea before you get too rough with malbur Crane or her
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uncle. Oh if money or no money, they're still top society here.
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The local aristocrats and the town kindly takee care resultantly. Well, as I
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said, this is a routine. I don't have the slightest bit of evidence
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that the trains are trying to pull on a short swindle. But I get
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paid to be suspicious, that's all. Well, I wondered, I spoke
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where Phineas was getting the money? Any ideas about him? No, unless
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he's been borrowing from his perspective. Son in law Dean Cellars, the land
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who gave hus Crane the pearls. Yeah, how is he fixed financially?
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A man who can afford a twenty thousand dollars engagement gift. Yeah, we
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can assume he's eating regularly. I suppose. Well. Actually, I don't
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know too much about him. He's an out of town here about eight months
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ago. He doesn't bank with me, I say, but I will tell
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you one thing. If he doesn't have money now, he's certainly will had
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before long. Oh he's a go get her that boy. He must be
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here eight months and engage to the town bell. Oh, he's a whirlwind,
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keeps such a eight project going all at once, for instance, real
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estate, business promotions, one thing and another. So busy he even had
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to postpone the wedding they were supposed to get hits three weeks ago. Of
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course, I hear that it may be due to well two to one,
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mister Dowler. This whole thing is odd enough, just on the basis of
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facts the rumors, I think we'll skip. I'm sure you understand. That
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was the second time I was supposed to quote understand unquote Pheneast train was sure
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I could understand about his niece, and banker Milton Berkley was equally certain about
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the rumors. As a matter of fact, I understood less about the whole
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thing, and I did when I first got in town. I wasn't getting
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anywhere. I was losing ground. I had them three a dollar forty two
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dry martinis in the Green Lion bar when I waited for Smiley pro. He
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was twenty minutes late, but he finally showed up, slipped into the back
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booth across from you. Are your dollar right? Have a drink? No
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summer time. I only got about one minute, all right? What's your
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price? No price? Nothing? Now? Oh, look smarting a minute.
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It's not long enough to too much bargaining. I didn't come here to
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bargain. Well I did, And we assume from the way you talked on
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the phone to Hartford you felt the same way. Just keep your shirt on,
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chumping. Well, we'll make a deal, all right, but later,
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not right now? Why not? Because sums come up? I gotta
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get it straightened out. What never mind? Look you remember this address and
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fourteen twelve North Oak Street, Room six, boarding house. Are you you
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meet me there at nine o'clock tonight. Oh a matute, what's this all
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about? I haven't got time, chump. Don't you get your beads back
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one way or another? What do you mean? I mean that somebody's trying
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to hand old smile a real quick shuffle, first class double cross. And
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I'm going to see too that somebody gets it right in the neck. Who's
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the somebody? You Just sit tight and meet me at nine o'clock, and
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I think I'll be in a position to give you a lot more than just
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the necklace. You understand, frankly, No, you will. You're going
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to understand real good before you're through. So stick around, dollar Johnny.
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Yeah, apparently. Now who did you say you and your work for?
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Mister Barton? I mean I am mister, I mean miss Barb. You're
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confused? He JD Barton Town is me? I'm here? Never heard?
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Now you see what you've done. I'll never forgive myself anyway. I'm the
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try state guarantee agent here in Crainsburg, and this seems the least you could
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have done was to look me up. We'll give me time. I just
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got in town. You had time to rush out there that south side bar
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and started lushing it up. I came out here at this joined to talk
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to what jewel see you want? Julesy. It's the guy who phoned Hardford
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and offered to make a deal on the Crane necklace. He claims he's one
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who stole it. That for a slight consideration, I can get it back.
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And what do you think I think I've walked in on the nuttiest case
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in the month of space. Hey, look, he's waiting for me at
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the bar. Suppose I ain't dropped by later? And are you sure j
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D. Bartlett is a woman. You're the first man who ever doubted it.
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I'll see you later, mister Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to
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the home office Tri State Guarantee Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
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an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Cranesburg matter. Expense account continued
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when I told her the case was nutty I met it. The start of
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it had been fairly ordinary. A pearl necklace in short for twenty thousand dollars
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had been stolen from a wall save in the home of its owner, local
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socialite Melva Crane Swiny prel An no small time juwelthy but fondus aiming to have
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a necklace, and Smiley offered to talk a deal. But before I'd been
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in town ten minutes, things began to crumble and change shape. Melville's featherheaded
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uncle Phineas had called my hotel to warm me that his niece was headstrong and
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impulsive, or at least he said that was why he called. When I
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tagged the rumor that the aristocratic cranes were flat broke until recently. And now
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at the Green Lion Inn, Swiny Prell, a burglar by admission, was
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turning skittish and climbing up. Look, Dollar, I got no time to
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talk now, all relaxed with your smiley. A man and your profession can't
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afford to develop a case of nerve. Oh very funny, But I gotta
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blow this joint now. I told you before you went to get that phone
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call, I got things to do. Yeah, I know what you're talking,
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all right? Then, now you meet me later at that place and
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time. I told you you try pushing me, you're never going to get
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them beads? Do you ever think of that? I don't know who I
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am anyway, I told you, and an hour before on the phone,
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you told me to meet you here. We talk a deal, all right,
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and so we will. We'll talk later. What's the matter with you?
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How many times I gotta tell you something's come up and I gotta get
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it straightened out? Like what for instance? Well, never mind, it's
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learning your business, it's it's like personal. So later you said you were
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being handed a double cross. Now what kind of a double That's exactly what
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I'm trying to figure out. Who did it? Who crossed you? Never
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mind who crossed me? It's your business. Did you have a partner on
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this job? Oh, look, don't try to kid meet you. Check
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my m O before you ever left Hartford. If you did, then you
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will. You know I always worked a lot. Well, there canna be
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a first time or anything. No, I got note, you have somebody
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on the inside smiling, somebody in the crane house who tipped you off,
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briefed you. Yeah, you want to know too much? Is that where
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the double cross came from? I got nothing more to say more. You
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haven't said anything. Well, you meet me tonight where I said two dollars
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at nine? You know something? Smiling? I don't think you've got it?
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What are you talking about the necklace. I don't think you had anything
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to do with the robbery. I don't believe you've got it, or that
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you've ever even seen it. You don't know, no, no, I
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think you're trying to pull a con of some kind, but it's not gonna
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work a dollar. You know what the things look like? Yeah? I
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got photographs of them? All right? Then check me out. There are
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thirty eight pearls. Yeah, and they're pink match color match sides, and
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they're not piers like they usually are. Each one said in a fitted platinum
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mount and the mounts are fastened together with those you know, those little links.
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What kind of a stone in the class? Class? Right? And
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he's stolen the cook? Hey, what are you trying to do? Okay,
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okay, all right, you've got it, or at least you've seen
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it. So how much do you want? Meet me tonight at nine o'clock
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and I'll tell you fourteen twelve North Oak Street, Room six, and no
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copy not if you want them beats back. You understand not anymore than I
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did when I walked to me, but you will, so just keep your
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shirt up, smiley. If you can talk tonight, you can talk now.
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There's no reason to down now. Look, I got things to do
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and not much time to do them in So go find yourself a cool pad
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somewhere and simmer down. Huh so long Don had them four to seventy five.
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I was stuck with the check, naturally, so I paid it and
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strolled toward the door. I stopped just outside and the entrance way to the
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roadhouse and watch smile across the parking lot toward a treciated taxi stand, where
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a couple of waiting hanks at parked out of the sun. A few yards
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away from me stood another care this one occupied. I stepped out of the
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entrance and walked over to the taxi because I'd recognized the passenger in the back
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seat. Afternoon, missus Crane. I'm sorry if I started. Oh oh,
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not at all. I just didn't hear you walk up. Yeah,
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I know this. You seem pretty concerned with something across the lots. It
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wouldn't be that getting into the taxi, wouldn't what, fellow, I don't
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know what you mean, mister. Oh, I could be wrong. I
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hadn't even noticed the man as a matter of fact. Oh well, then
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of course you won't mind if we just stand here and watch him drive off.
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I really should get back into town. Good. I'm going that way
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myself. I've got a car here. Be glad to you, but I've
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already engaged them off. We'll get going. Give us a chance to talk
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on the way in. But you might as well, mister Crane. The
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other taxi is already out of sight. I hadn't noticed very well hear you
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driving. Keep the chin eyes over this way. Gay. There may be
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a misunderstanding of some sort, mister. You seemed to end of the misapp
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pension that I was interested for some reason in that stranger who left. I
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said, I could be wrong, and I can assure you that you are.
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Here's the card. For the best of my knowledge. I have never
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seen the man before in my life. Well, there'll be days like that
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sometimes, a colloquialism of the common man. Mister. What's what were you
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doing out at the Green Lion by the way, Well, I was just
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killing time, were you? As a matter of fact, so I was
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waiting to talk with you. I was afraid I may have left the wrong
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impression when I talked with you at your hotel earlier today in what Wiams.
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But I mean about my niece Melmo. Well, you said she was headstrong,
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impulsible, but not a bit more so than any other normal, average
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girls that I see. I don't really know why I considered it's so important
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at the time. Yeah, well, that's understandable. You don't have a
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jewel robbery in the family every day, if you in the family, I
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mean stolen from the family. Apparently we're both getting wrong and pressure. Yes,
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I did say that, Cineras. I'm glad that everything is cleared up
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now I wish it were. Nothing has been cleared up yet as far as
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I can see, the necklace is still missing. But of course that isn't
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what I mean. It's what I mean. It's the only reason I'm here
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in Cranesburg to recover that necklace, one way or another. What do you
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mean by one way or another? Either by tagging the thief and getting it
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back through police action, or if necessary, by making a deal. Just
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talk to the man who claims to be in possession of the pearls, as
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you know, of course, but he was why they your parts here?
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But I do not know, of course. Well, and let's say may
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have guessed you were in my hotel room when he phoned. You heard me
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arrange to meet him. I didn't really pay much attention to that phone call,
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all right. Anyway, when I flew in here from Hartford, I
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expected this to be a cut and dry matter of routine. I'd meet Prel,
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make a quick deal to get the pearls back, and catch the next
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plane out. Only it's apparently not going to be that way. What do
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you mean? I mean, I've stumbled onto a whole nest full of question
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marks, and nothing seems to add up quite right. Prel. For one
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thing, I think he's got himself into a spot of some kind. Is
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that it you? It doesn't make sense? And what else, mister doll?
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Little things rumors I've picked up around town, hints, and of course
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the biggest question mark seems to be right close to home. Which one is
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that you, mister Crane. When I dropped him off of the center of
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town, he was still fumbling with vague phrases, trying to clear up the
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misapprehensions, as he put it, but actually saying nothing. He was sure,
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however, that I would understand he was wrong. I didn't even my
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mistake about J D. Bartlett, tri State's local agents seemed to fit in
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with the rest of them, mixed up case. I'd assume from the name
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that Bartley was a man. But when I walked into the office a few
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months later, I was suddenly happy that I was wrong. Your dollar,
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I presume that's right, miss Bartley. Just make a JD. I spent
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a lot of time and effort getting those initials pounded into the skulls the local
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inhabitants. Why it's good for business? Makes me one of the boys,
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you might say, I kind of doubt it somehow, As you mentioned on
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the phone, you were unmistakable for that. I'm going to drop the dollar
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and call you Johnny Chair. Yeah, thanks, JD. Can you get
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anywhere that character that snatched the queen's rocks? Oh? He stalled, postponed
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the whole deal until nine o'clock to night. Why Uh, he was nervous.
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I guess well, that's about the the reason I can figure between him
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and old Phineas Crane. I'm getting a little nervous myself. How did Phineas
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get into the act? Good question? I wish I had a good answer.
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What about these cranes, j D? What makes them tick beats me.
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Well, you sold them the insurance policy. You must know something about
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that. I didn't sell the policy. I just permitted it to be bought
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from me. So Melva Crane came snooping into the office one day, dropped
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the pearls under my plebeian nose and wanted them insured. Why do you dislike
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her? She's a good looking dame and I'm pretty well favored myself, And
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answer your question roughly yes, So what happened? So I got Jim Markley,
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local jeweler in here to appraise, and issued the policy. And that
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was that. I understand that the necklace was an engagement gift from some newcomer
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in town. Yeah, Dean Sellers. She had him hooked for even got
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his eggs unpacked. That's scared as the ethics of a Boa constrictor and about
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as much personality as a face painted on an egg. Somehow, I don't
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feel I'm getting an unbiased opinion. You won't at this address. Why can't
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she climb down off her petestal and play ball with the rest of us?
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The Crane name, the Crane tradition, the Crane social position. The only
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thing they're not so high and mighty about the Crane bank account because there isn't
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one except lately. As I understand that old Phineas is fishing money around pretty
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freely the last few months, so I've heard. Don't ask me to explain
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it. I can't even explain Phineas. What do you mean? He's a
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rare one, that old boy, old school time. I'll fomage that sort
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of thing. But you know, as a matter of protecting the family name,
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I actually think he'd commit murdered. Now here's our star to tell you
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about tomorrow's episode of this week's story. Tomorrow when somebody kisses the wrong somebody
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and somebody gets burnt up over it, and then a gun is found in
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the ashes. Man, it's murder. Join us, won't you? Yours
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believe Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is worrying. Bob Bailey is transcribed
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Be sure to join us tomorrow night at the same time and station for
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the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back.
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You might have had some confusion about the part one and one a thing
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at the start of the show. That's how it was designated. The part
30:41
that appeared on Friday that was part one, and then what started on Monday
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that was Part one A which I guess is another thing that adds confusion to
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the serial. And I kind of went back and forth on how I should
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number this, but I decided just to stick with the way that they did
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it originally. I think that makes the most sense. Obviously, a lot
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has happened already in this series that is quite suggestive of something being hidden,
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and this is kind of a recurring theme. But we'll see how this unfolds.
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Sounds like quite a hit a bit ahead for us in part two and
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