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Cranesburg manor Parts four and five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellar,
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missus Dean Sellers. Mister Deller, you may recall in meeting me this
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afternoon. Yes, you and Miss Crane's fiance. What's on your mind,
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mister Sellers. I'm downstairs in the hotel lobby. I'd like him up and
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talk to you if I could. Well, I was just on the point
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of leaving for the police station. Oh and you know about Betty. Yes,
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as a matter of fact, Chief Durham arrested her here in my room.
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What I said? She was arrested? What was she doing there?
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I had the gun that was used to murder Smiley Prewls. She wanted it
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back. What do you mean wanted it back? Why all the interest in
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this girl, mister Sellers, Is it just because you happen to be engaged
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to the woman she works for. Well, yes, you might say that,
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No, that's not at all. I've got to talk to you,
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all right. I'll meet you in the hotel bar in five minutes tonight and
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every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the
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Action Packed Expenser coud America's Fabulous Freelance insurance Investigator who is truly Johnny Dell From
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Special Investigator Johnny Dolla, location, Cranesburg, Ohio to the home office Tri
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State Guarantee Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Cranesburg matter expense account continued.
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It am ten two dollars seventy five cents for three brandies straight, one
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for me and two for Dean Sellers, new comer, a Cranesburg man about
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town and fiance of local socialite Melburgh Crane, the man who'd given her the
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pearl necklace that had been stolen from the safe in her home. It had
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supposedly been an engagement gift. Yet now Sellers was flipping his lid because Melburn's
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maid was in a jam. I remembered the scene in the Crane sunroom earlier
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in the afternoon and Dean Sellers remembered it too. When you walked up on
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the porch of the Crane estate and saw Betty and me and each other's arms,
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who were well, I thought the obvious natural. I figured as much.
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That's why I tried to cover up when I talked to you after one.
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You didn't have to, mister Sellers. I kind of wrote it off
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as just another bachelor having a fleeing before he settled down. Yeah, that's
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the way I looked at it at first. So so it didn't work out
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that way. How did it work? I finally realized I was in love
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with Betty. I see. I know it may sound corny, but it
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happens to be true. Does melbur Crane know about it? Oh? Well,
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at least I don't think she does. Well what did she think when
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you broke off your engagement? Or I haven't actually broken it off, I
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just postponded. I told her I was loaded with work and we'd have to
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wait a while, and she accepted that. She seemed to can't be sure
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about Melbourne. Oh, she's a cool and place of cards close. Most
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women are pretty cool when they suspect somebody is poaching on their own private preserve.
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She may have suspected, but I don't think she could have known anything
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for sure. Betty and I haven't always been as careless as we were this
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afternoon. What about the pearls? Were you intending to ask melbur to give
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them back? I didn't really know what to do, mister dollar. Twenty
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thousand dollars, there's a lot of money. On the other hand, I
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gave them to hers an engagement gift. It seemed kind of rough to ask
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for them back after breaking the engagement on her. Do you think she'd have
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returned them if you had asked her why? I suppose so. Of course,
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it didn't go that far. Before I could make up my mind what
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to do. The necklace was stolen, and this afternoon the man who claimed
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he stole it was murdered. Betty had nothing to do with that. You
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could be prejudiced, mister Sellers. I know her, I tell you how
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well well enough that I'm planning to marry her. That's what I mean,
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all right, But that doesn't mean I'm completely blind about her. Somebody's trying
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to frame that girl, who, for instance, I don't know and for
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what reason. I don't know that either but I do know one thing.
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When she says she knows nothing about it, she's telling the truth. I
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admire loyalty myself, mister Sellers. But there are a lot of facts against
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her. What facts, As you probably know, when I caught her with
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that gun out at the Crane place and took it away from her, she
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was trying to hide it in the incinerator, all right, what's that prove?
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She'd found it hidden in her room and she was trying to get rid
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of it. Well, a lot of people, if they were innocent,
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might have gone to the police with it. She got scared, that's all
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she She lost her head, now maybe, but that's not all that's against
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her. There are other things. It kind of patterned. What things that's
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safe at the greenhouse was opened during the one hour of the day that everybody
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was out somewhere, including Betty, if you remember so she claimed, and
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she probably was. I'm not saying she actually committed the theft. She couldn't
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have no one except Melbourne. Her uncle Phineas knows the combination to that.
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No, No, I think Smiley Prell actually did the job. An old
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fashioned safe like that would be a cinch for a pro of his talents,
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Then how do you figure Betty as being involved? Smiley had to know when
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to do it, and he had to get into the house. There were
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no locks forced, so he must have had a key. So of course
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the maid must have helped him, not necessarily, but it should has added
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up. And then Smiley Prell was murdered shot. Are you claiming she did
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that too? She was in possession of the gun that killed him, She
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was caught trying to get rid of it. But why why would she kill
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him if they were in on it together? Well, as you mentioned a
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couple of minutes ago, twenty thousand dollars, there's a lot of money.
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Maybe she wanted a whole necklace, not a for one. You don't know,
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that's all. No, No, you're right, But I do know
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what the facts seemed to point to, circumstantial evidence, nothing else true.
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And not only that, but it leaves you hanging right up in the air.
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What do you mean at pearl necklace? Now there's a fact for you
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to swallow. As I understand that the police haven't found that. That's right,
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It wasn't on Prell's body, and they didn't find it on Betty.
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If she killed him to get it. Where is it? I don't know.
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Well, she's a rain for this. The prosecuting attorney had better know,
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because without it he won't even have a case. I'm quite aware of
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that, mister Sellers. I left him standing there, belligerent and despondent,
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and drove across town to the police station. It was late by then in
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Cranesburg, hat pretty well folded up for the night. Well, that was
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fine with me. Fewer people I saw at the moment there better. I
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felt about as low as Sellers did, because I was starting to get a
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that this one might turn out messy, that no matter how it might end,
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some average decent people were bound to get hurt. It's like that sometimes
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when there's been a murder. Chief of Police Durham looked like he was expected.
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Sit down, mister teller. Thanks Chief, you are planning to spend
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the night here, No, I'm about to give up going home in a
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few minutes. I have been trying to get a statement from that girl.
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Any luck depends on how you mean it. She's willing to talk, all
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right, answers anything we ask her, but not the way you want her
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to answer. Is that in she won't budge an inch away from that same
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story. So she found the gun hid in the room, was scared because
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of the robbery last week, and tried to get rid of it. What
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about Smiley? Prowl claims the first she heard her him was a bulleting on
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the radio telling about his murder. That's when she got panicking, came to
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the hotel to get the gun back, and that's all she knows about it.
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So she claims he couldn't budget on it. Uh huh. You still
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haven't found any trace of the necklace? Nope, and with out an I
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doubt if the DA even if she will complain. Yeah, the same possibility
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was raised by someone else a few minutes ago. Who is that Dean Sellers,
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the fellow who gave the pearls to Miss Crane in the first place.
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How come he's getting into it? Well, it appears that love has reared
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its head. He's fronding in the mouth over this girl's arrest. Claim she's
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being framed. He could be right, mister Deller. I know it beats
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me. Man just don't know where to start with a miss like this one
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on his hands. I think I'm beginning to get some idea of where to
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start to How do you mean? Look, I've got a photograph here from
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the insurance files. Take a look. It's a photo of that necklace.
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See, I was wondering, Chief Durham, do you know of any jeweler
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here in Cranesburg who could make a duplicate of that a skillful limitation. No,
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I'm afraid you'll have to go into Cincinnata for that be the closest place
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at least. No. No, I don't want a duplicate made. I
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want to know whether somebody did go into Cincinnata for that purpose some four or
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five months ago. Well might take a while to find out. How much
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of a while? Not too long? A little luck, I could get
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Jim Markley in here. Markley, he's a local jeweler. He could take
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his photograph and give them a technical description over the phone. Done things like
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that for us before good. I might have something back for you by tomorrow
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afternoons. Soner the better. Yeah, Now, call Jim and ask him
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to come down. One other thing, Chief, Yeah, I've already phoned
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Hartford and started them to work on this. But we may get faster results
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if you move in on it. From this end. What is it you
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want? I want to trace her? Put on Dean Sellers. I see
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complete rundown. He's been here for eight months. What did he do before
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that? Where did he come from? Where'd he get the necklace? Who
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are his friends? What's his financial status? Anything you can get? Hey,
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I don't quite see what you're aiming at, mister Dollar. I'm not
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quite sure I do. It was after midnights and there was nothing more I
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could do until the next day except drive back to my hotel and sag in
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for the night. It was a good, sensible, conservative intention, and
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I managed to carry it to the point of taking off my tie and unbuttoning
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my shirt. The night manager had been pretty upset earlier when Betty Jackson came
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to my room and then left under arrest. I don't know what he thought
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when I had my second female visitor. Wow, good evening, miss Crane.
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Could I have a word with you, mister Dollar? Sure, come
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on in, Thank you. I guess it's a little indiscreet of me to
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come here like this. Oh well, after all, this is Cransbergen.
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When one has to maintain a sort of position in town. Well, I'm
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sure you understand. Oh, perfectly. How about a drink? Drink g
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ri I n k I even happen to have two clean glasses. I'm afraid
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you have the wrong impression, mister dollar. So it's good cognac, the
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best. In fact, I'll do a bit of harm to your position,
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make it a double if you will. May I ask you what has happened
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to cause you to throw discretion to the winds in this mad fashioned screen.
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I've felt it was something I ought to make clear to you concerning Dean,
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my fiance. I see here you go. Thank you. I believe you
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talked to him in this evening, didn't you? Briefly? Yes? Then
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you know, of course that he's taking up for this girl, trying to
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defend what she did. He did seem to have something like that in mind.
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I also think you may have observed a little tableau in the sun room
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when you came to the house this afternoon. Oh, I'll look my screen.
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I'm quite aware of the situation. I've observed a few of those scenes
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myself. I'm not a complete fool. You know. Why are you telling
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me? Allis the reason should be happeous? I'm dense. I can only
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understand what I actually hear. What I mean is it should be right parent
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that any alibi Dean might supply in a noble attempt to save this poor innocent
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girl should not be given too much credence because he might be prejudiced in her
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favor. Is there any doubt of it? Your glass is empty like another
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one. Oh, I don't believe I should thanks. Aren't you a little
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prejudice, miss Crane? Against the girl? Very likely under the circumstances.
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Am I to take it then? That you're on her side too? I
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am on the side of the Tri State Guarantee Company. And if you remember,
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there are twenty thousand dollars on a necklace that was stolen. I'm here
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to get it back. That's all. I think. I'd better go.
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I shouldn't have come here at all, whatever you think. Oh, by
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the way, has Uncle Phineas talked to you yet? We passed the time
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of day, that's all. We didn't have much time. The circumstances were
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a little unusual, and you've probably been spared some of his wilder imaginings.
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I wouldn't come that. What do you mean, Sit down, Miss Crane?
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Finish should drink? We haven't even started to talk Johnny Dollar. Good
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afternoon, sir. This is Phineas Crane. How are you, mister Crane?
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Highly perturbed, sir? Now what's bothering you? My generation used to
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call it conscience? I want to talk to you, mister Dollar. Well
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that's quite a change, isn't it, from your attitude last night. There
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have been a number of changes since last night. I can't bear the thought
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of that girl being in prisoned. She doesn't like it too much herself.
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All right, what's on your mind? I'd prefer now to discuss it over
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the telephone. Then you'll have to hold your horses. I'm waiting here for
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a call from Hartford and some information from the police. It might be the
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same information I'm ready to give you. I don't think so. You should
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have talked last night, mister Crane. I might have been willing then to
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make a deal of some kind, and now no deal. I can guess
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what happened to the necklace, And as far as the rest of it's concerned,
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I never make deals on murder. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location,
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Cranesburg, Ohio to the home office Tri State Guarantee Company, Hartford,
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Connecticut. Assignment the Cranesburg Meta expense account final page it am thirteen twenty eight
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dollars and sixty five cents phone calls to Cincinnati and Cleveland, and two prepaid
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calls to Hartford. The wheels were spinning now, and I spent most of
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the day just sitting back and waiting. Toward late afternoon, police chief had
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Durham phone, then Hartford, and then Durham again, and finally the three
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black bars dropped into place, and the payoff was jackpot. It am fourteen
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ten dollars and fifty cents second day's rental unhired car. I left the hotel
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just before dark and drove out through the north edge of town to the Crane
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estate. When I'd gone out there the day before, I'd been mostly guessing,
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playing hunches, But this time I knew pretty much what I wanted and
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just how to go about getting it. I thought the place deserted as I
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walked up the long arbor from the carriage house, But as I stepped out
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onto the terrace, I realized I was wrong. Mister Dollar, over here,
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in here, please hurry. Why all the secrecy, mister Crane.
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I wanted to talk to you alone. I rather doubted whether I would be
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able to if it were known that you were here, able to or permitted
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to. Well, that's what I meant, permitted. Who would stop you,
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mister Crane. But that, you might say is part of the story,
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the story I didn't tell you last night? Why not? Why didn't
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you tell me? I still thought then I might be able to save things,
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and you don't think so. Now I'm afraid not. It's too late.
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You know too much about it. Now. What were you doing in
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Swanley Pearl's room when I found you last night looking for the necklace? I
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told you that. Did you know then he'd been murdered? Oh? No,
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no, no. I wouldn't have had the nerve to go there if
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I had, and they wouldn't be of any use of going. That's when
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I realized it was all over, when I heard mister Prell had been killed.
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Dishonesty is one thing, but murder is something else. Again, you're
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so right, of course, it wasn't dishonest at first. It was all
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quite legal in the beginning, but not later. No, no, not,
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Lisa, I was against that, Not that I'm claiming any virtue for
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it. Probably it was just cowardice, mister Dower, be as easy on
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her as you can. I'm afraid it won't be in my hands. I
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suppose not. These things are always done so impersonally by institutions created for that
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purpose, rightfully, no doubt, But one occasionally wonders. There's something I
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wonder about sometimes, mister Crane, you refer to human greed. That's true.
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There's no real excuse for us, my niece and me. Reasons,
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yes, an inherited social position and way of life and declining wealth to support
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them. We're soft people, mister Dolli, and when life gets hard,
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we look for a soft way out, and that usually turns out to be
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the hard way. She'll find it, So for me it doesn't really matter
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anymore. How did you get on the smiley prowl? How did you know
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he was the one who robbed yourself? I was just guessing until you told
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me yesterday that he was a professional jewel thief and that he'd phoned the insurance
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company and claimed to have the necklace. Before that, when you were guessing,
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how did you know about him? What reason did you have to guess?
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I'd seen him hanging around the estate here twice the week before the robbery,
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and when I saw him again afterward talking to his contact. Eh,
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I guess you'd call it his employer fits the facts better, I suppose,
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so Anyway, I put two and two together and I followed proro, I
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found out where he lived. Did the employer know you've done this? Hardly
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all? I doubt that i'd be sitting here talking to you. Oh,
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not that it matters, since you probably know more of the details than I
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do. All right, Uncle Phineas, that's quite enough, Melbbo. That
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was a very quiet entrance to screen. It wasn't intentional. I didn't know
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you were here until I heard voices. Uncle Phineas, would you mind leaving
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us alone? It's too late, my dear. I think Tim was about
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to run out on all of us. Aided a great deal, I presume
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by some of your more senile imaginings, mister Dalla didn't really need any help.
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Please leave the two of you then, to what I anticipate, maybe
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rather storm. What were you doing pumping him, trying to make him say
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things you could twist later and use against him. No, it was more
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a matter of humoring him. I'd say, what's the matter Melbourne hangover from
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last night. I suppose you told him that too, that I came to
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your hotel to see you. No, didn't seem relevant. Somehow, I
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see where's your fiance? Sure? How many of you got? Mister Sellers
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is in the billiard room? Why what do you want with him? Oh?
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I need just a few more facts to fill out the picture. I
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think he can supply them. That's all. What facts? Why have you
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come here? Uncle Phineas invited me? What for? He said something about
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wanting to clear his conscience, his mind wanders. You know that you can't
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rely on anything, he says, I'm not. What about the girl they
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arrested? Your maid, Betty? Yes, Betty, if the police is
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satisfied she's guilty, why aren't you? Because I was hired to find a
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pearl necklace. It was stolen from your safe. It was insured for twenty
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thousand dollars, remember, and I haven't found it yet. Suppose I were
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to withdraw the insurance claim, it's a little too late. The police would
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want to know why. Why? Simply because I choose to Because I don't
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want any more fuss about it. It's not a loss. Actually, the
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necklace was a gift. Oh yes, I know, an engagement present of
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great sentimental value from that wealthy young philander, mister Dean Sellers, who incidentally
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is broken than you are. Yeah, got a complete rundown on him from
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Hartford late this afternoon. I don't believe it. It's quite a shock.
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Imagine you'd say anything just to help that girl get out of jail. Nah,
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you got me mixed up with Sellers, haven't you. He's the one
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who rallied to her defense, cheap little flat. I hope they convict her.
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Do you really believe she's the reason Sellers broke off your engagement. It
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wasn't broken off, it was only postponed. Well, it's like I said,
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mother, a lot of surprises. By the way, I'd like to
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search Betty's room if you don't mind. That's actually why I came out here.
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What that necklace? I was hired to recover it? Remember, But
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if you think she's innocent, and why do you you know what? I
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think? I haven't really said, have I? No, that's true,
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that's quite true. Lucky shot, mister Della. You got two on the
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break. Yeah, the result of a misspent youth. All right, four
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ball in the corner pocket expert. Huh ah, just lucky, like you
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said. Oh, by the way, mister Sella, is you are right
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about Betty? She isn't Gilly. She was being framed. I told you
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so. Yeah, she was just an innocent bystander, you might. Even
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though I did find the necklace a few minutes ago hidden in the room,
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you found it good. The cranes, though, aren't quite so innocent.
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The cranes nine ball the far side. What do you mean about the cranes.
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They were broke and they needed money to keep up a front. When
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you came to town and showed an interest in Melbourne, they figured you were
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the answer. Why are you're making Melbourne sound pretty cold blooded? You know?
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Oh, there was no love loss. You were playing the same game,
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sure, Sellers. That's the way you've always operated. Your last wife
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was a wealthy widow in Miami, Florida. You stayed with her for a
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year and a half and took her for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
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And all that was left of it when you came here was the twenty thousand
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dollars you had invested in the pearl necklace. That was your stake and that's
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the way you used it to convince Melburgh Crane. You weren't a fortune hunter.
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Twelve ball in the far corner, Dala. When did you get all
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this information? Police records? Then about a month ago you broke off your
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engagement with Melburn Crane. Why because I was in love with Betty. You
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were playing Betty for a pigeon. You backed out because you'd finally discovered that
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the Cranes were flat broke. I wasn't at the Melbourn's money. Sure you
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were, but you wanted to get out without losing your investment that necklace,
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so you brought in Sminy Prell to steal it from you. I never saw
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Prel my life. Uncle Phineas saw the two of you together a couple of
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days after the robbery. He's lying, So Prel pulled the robbery, and
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then he told you the pearls he'd stolen were phony. You accused him of
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double crossing you. He thought you were double crossing him. That result,
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he got sore and tried for a deal with the insurance company. That's why
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you killed him. Are you accusing me of murder? That's right? Sellers
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eight Paul. In the end, pocket. Who else Sully's Betty wasn't in
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it except that you tried to frame her. And both the cranes knew the
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pearls were imitation. You were the only one who didn't. They weren't imitations.
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I paid twenty thousand dollars for that necklace, not for this one.
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Melboura sold the necklace a month after you gave it to her. They've been
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living on the money. She had this copy made in Cincinnati. So the
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pearls you kill Smiley for and then planted upstairs in Betty's rama worth about two
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hundred bucks at the most. Something to think about, isn't it? That's
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right? Dollar? And so is this That's a losing game too. Selling
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will be for you if you try to make a move, shut it out
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with the police. Is that your answer? If it comes to that.
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At least I know how to use a gun. Smiley pro could tell you.
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Did you steal this one from Uncle Phineas too? Oh no, this
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one's my own. Put down that pool queue and get your hands up slow
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and easy. When I go out of here, Dean, what are you
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doing with that? Thanks for dollar? Nothing? It's going to make him
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feel very happy. For the next day. So a pool que makes a
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pretty handy weapon. Why what was he doing with that gun? Surprise number
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one? Your fiance is the lad who had your necklace stolen and then later
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killed this part indeed, Oh, that's probably the chief of police. He
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was coming out to meet me. You want to let him in. Murderer
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and I was going to marry you. Yeah, I guess murder is a
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lot worse than fraud. What do you mean you filed an insurance claim on
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a necklace you'd already sold. I imagine the company will want to prosecute.
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I didn't know what I was doing. You sure didn't. Anywhere along the
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line. You were marrying Dean Sellers for the money he didn't have, and
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at the same time he was trying to marry you for the money you didn't
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have. Too bad, it didn't work out. You two were made for
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each other. The police are getting impatient. Miss Crane expense account had him
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fifteen one hundred and eighty six dollars and twenty five cents incan Etels and Cranesberg
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in transportation back to Hartford. Expense account total four hundred and nine dollars and
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ten cents end of account and of report under separate cover, I am forwarding
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one necklace consisting of thirty eight pearls, all imitation, a maximate value two
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hundred dollars, along with my sincere condolences, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week the
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curse of an ancient king and how it affected the lives and deaths of two
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people. Join us, won't you, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours
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Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written by
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Les Pruttsfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in this
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week's cast were Howard mcneir, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane Croft,
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Virginia, Greg James Mcallim, Shirley Mitchell, and Russ Thorson. Musical
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supervision by A. Marigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night
28:51
at same time in station for another exciting story of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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Roy Rowan speaking welcome back, Well, this has gotta be one of my
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favorite of these five parts serials. I'm really well done and I love the
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conclusion. Just really sharp and dramatic and just satisfying payoff with Johnny confronting the
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killer over a game of pool. This episode was another one that Les Crutchfield
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had adapted from an earlier one shot script, in this case it was The
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Boerguard Matter, So I have to say I don't remember The Boerguard Matter being
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quite this good. This really was one of the best ones, and I
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really like the way this went, and I got surprised a little by the
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ending just because that suspect was kind of on the periphery. So overall,
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pretty nicely done. All right, Well, now on to some listener comments
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and feedback, and first we began, actually we'll start with a question from
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Chris regarding episode eleven eighty five. Love this. They did their homework.
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I knew it as soon as the wife said she kept the house closed up
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during the day to keep it cool. I which contemporary shows would take the
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time to get those kind of details right. Well, thanks for the comment.
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I will say that contemporary shows don't have the monopoly on getting things wrong.
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I have an email from a listener which I'll read next week, taking
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hunt segment. But there are details that programs get wrong, even good ones.
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One of the biggest ones I've heard is the Great Detective Show Monk.
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One of the big big mistakes there that is kind of glaring to a lot
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of people is Adrian monk rank when he was a police officer, is consistently
32:02
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32:09
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