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Well. Today is our first listener support Slash Appreciation special, and over the
course of the next three weeks, we'll be talking about and encouraging folks to
sign up to become one of our Patreon supporters. Though we're going to start
talking about that tomorrow. Today we're going to present one of three different types
of specials will be playing during this particular campaign. Now, in the course
of choosing specials, particularly when we're talking adaptations of a movie or story,
I tend to choose the one that I like the best. That doesn't mean
that other versions might not have merit. Though, we're going to play another
adaptation of a special that I've done previously, and this one goes all the
way back to the beginning and our pilot episode. For that episode, we
did the screen directors playhouse adaptation of Call north Side seven seven seven, starring
Jimmy Stewart in his film role, and we also played it as our one
thousandth episode special. So we're going to do another version of that, and
the big difference is that it doesn't star Jimmy Stewart. It stars Dana Andrews,
who of course starred in last week's presentation of Laura. It's kind of
funny. I remember my very first time starting to listen to it. I
was listening to an online old time radio station. This program came on and
they announced that Jimmy Stewart wasn't starring, and I just closed the online radio
station with no interest whatsoever in hearing anyone other than Jimmy Stewart. I think
my taste have matured a little bit since then, so we'll give mister Andrews
a chance. This program is an episode of Hollywood sound Stage, and to
many listeners it will sound like an episode of Screen Guild Theater, and with
good reason. This was part of the very confusing nineteen fifty one fifty two
Screen Guild Theater season. A program name Screen Guild Theater aired from nineteen thirty
nine to fifty one, in its last season going to one hour stories,
and then it was replaced by Hollywood sound Stage, and then in December it
launched a second series, Stars in the Air, and then in the middle
of the nineteen fifty one fifty two season, Hollywood sound Stage renamed itself as
Screen Guild Theater. So, now that that's clear to everyone, let's get
into today's episode of whatever. This is the original air date December the twenty
seventh of nineteen fifty one, and here is called north Side seven seven seven.
This is Dana Andrews, this is Thomas Gomez, and this is Hugh
Douglas saying welcome to Hollywood sound Stage. Good evening, and welcome again to
another exciting thirty minutes made possible through the generous cooperation of the entire motion picture
industry. Our story tonight is a stirring human document, a story based on
fact, the thrilling and deeply moving record of one man's fight for another man's
life. Hollywood sound Stage is proud to bring you transcribe twentieth century Fox Studio's
great dramatic hit called north Side seven seven seven, starring Dana Andrews, Thomas
Gomez, and the Screen Gill players. First of all, let's get one
thing straight. I didn't just dream this story up. It's right off the
record. It really happened, and if the people in it resemble characters living
or dead, they lieve me. It's strictly intentional. On October tenth,
nineteen forty four, I was a reporter on the Chicago Times. October tenth,
nineteen forty four. The date is important. That was the morning the
ad appeared, a little ad in our classified section, a personal notice that
said five thousand dollars reward for the killers of police officer Brunde on December the
ninth, nineteen thirty two. Call north Side seven seven seven twelve to seventy,
ask for till reach check. I didn't notice the ad myself, but
Brian Kelly did. Kelly was a city editor. There wasn't much in the
paper he ever missed, and whenever Kelly got an idea, he usually had
me do something about it. Call it curiosity, Mac. I want to
know why it's worth five thousand dollars to somebody to find out who killed a
cop eleven years ago in nineteen thirty two, it was open season on cups
on the North Side. They were shooting him in pairs like bracea ducks.
Well, I won't hurt the check. Maybe you'll get your name in the
papers, Kelly. This is sucker bait. Every grifter and mooch in town
will be after that five grand. They'll frame their own brothers to get it.
And then right, maybe this is a frame. It's got a lot
of angles. And see what I mean. It just takes you longer to
catch on. Oh well, I was just thinking about it. You're using
that phone. Go right ahead. Thanks, Hello, Betty, get me
a number, will you? Yeah, I want North Side seven seven seven
V. Check wasn't home. They said she worked nights, and they told
me where one of those big office buildings downtown. I found her up on
the seventh floor in the empty corridor, on her hands and knees, with
a scrubbing brush and a bucket of water. I showed you the ad and
then she got out quickly. Yeah, yeah, that is from me.
You know something, mister, No, I'm a reporter from the Skygo Times.
Oh, we like to know why you're so interested in finding the killers
of that cup. Frank V check. He's my son. He's in prison
for killing him. My friends tell me if I offer big money, maybe
somebody tells her kill this policeman. You mean your son is in prison for
killing the cap, right, Yeah? Yeah, but he don't do it.
My Frank is a good boy. He don't do this thing. It's
five thousand dollars. Where did you get it? That's important? Yeah,
it's very important. He might have had it hidden away, or maybe you
got it from some mob. It's fine to spring you. Oh no,
no, it's mine. I work. I scrub floors. Eleven years,
I say everything. I never missed that days work so I can get Frank
out. I dream of this day. Five thousand dollars. There's a lot
for a dream. Yeah, eleven years I dream, and I've worked.
First, I tried three thousand dollars. Nothing. Now I try five thousand
dollars. I suppose it's still nothing. Didn't I work eleven more years.
I get ten thousand dollars. But my boy, some day he'd get out.
It made a pretty good yarn. I guess mother slaves to save five
thousand dollars opposite the clear sun. I told him myself. It was all
in the day's work. I wrote it and tried to forget it. I
tried, but Kelly didn't a swell story, Mac, it's got size.
Thanks, almost too good for a one day run. Why not grew up
an interview the boys. Now, wait a minute, I'm not glorifying an
a cup killer. You've got proof he's a cop killer. They didn't give
him ninety nine years for playing hooky. He had a record. He was
on probation when he shot the cup. Yeah, I know, I looked
it up too. He was public enemy number one. He and a couple
of other kids broke into a grocery store. He got a few candy bars
and a police record. Look, Mac, let's put it this way.
Maybe I'm interested for personal reasons because my mother did the same thing. She
scrubbed wars on her hands and knees for more than eleven years to send me
through school. Okay, I'll go up to the pen in the morning.
How about expenses. Here's a voucher, take it to the cashier. All
right, Oh, Kenny, Yeah, I happen to know your mother had
a small and new edition never scuffed the floor in alive, and you never
get out of the fifth grade. Wow, But I think if you put
it a corny gag, you want me to do it pretty badly. So
I'm going well, keep the expenses down, will you make I guess the
warden told you, Frank, I'm from the Chicago Times. Yes, he
told me. Of course. You don't have to answer any questions if you
don't want to. But I do want to. Sure, I want fine
to see. I'd like more of your story, your side of it.
I need an angle, something to hit the public with. Understand. Yes,
Now you knew about the age your mother in the papers, about the
five thousand dollar reward, that's right. Did you know she was scrubbing flows
to get that money? Yes, I did. Well, she lives for
is to getting me off. I guess that's all I got to live for
too. You know, if you're guilty, you're letting a flavor life away
for nothing. She knows I'm not guilty. Well, I read all the
news clips and the transcript of the trial. They don't exactly whitewashi. No,
I know, but you only Redwick convicted me. All the true facts
didn't come out. Even Judge Morton said I wasn't guilty. The judge you
gave you a ninety nine years. Yeah, he had to do that.
Jury said we were guilty, and its chamber as he said, he knew
we were innocent. Family was there after his sentences after I don't have a
better duck that what else. Lloyd was a drunk. Didn't even let me
understand because he was afraid I'd go to the chair, go on, well,
well they question you are after hour, you're bombing getting mixed up in
a lot of little things. Didn't even listen to me on the important things.
They had to have a conviction, so they hadn't got it. Yeah,
that's a good angle railroad it. It took me one police station to
another every few hours, taking around the horn. They cry. That was
so my lawyer couldn't get me off. And then this this Fenders Scutting cut
Nick, that's the dame we ran to sp easy. Yeah, that's right.
The cop was in there having a drink when these two men walked in
and shot him and him run out again, and Fenders Kutnick said, you
were one of the two. First couple of times she saw me, she
said, I wasn't all of a sudden, she said, I was finger
woman. We'll play that up too. Look, I tell you when that
cop was killed, I was home with my wife. That's right, that's
what you said at the trial, said, she come up here to visit
you, my boy. No, not anymore. We're divorced. That's what
kept sticking in my crawl that his wife didn't believe him. Why should I?
But I couldn't forget the old lady scrubbing the floors. And that's the
way I wrote my story. Not guilty, says Becheck places faith and mother.
And by the next night, Kelly was full alighted. Nice work,
Mac. We're getting up to twenty phone calls an hour on that story.
What are you gonna use for follow up? Follow up? Yeah, it's
snowballing. They want more of it. You want to give me a razor?
Or do I just get the five thousand from Check's mother? Listen,
guy, I just work here like you. I get my orders too,
from a home the circulation department. Sure, we're selling lots of papers.
We might also be selling this dead cop short. Maybe he had a mother
who scrubbed floors too. No use blowing your top. Now, I'll tell
you another thing. Remember what Becheck said about the judge promising him a new
trial, Well, the judge died three weeks after the case was closed.
That v Check's fault. I'm just saying he's pretty sharp, giving me a
leading new I couldn't check. Look, Mac, if you're so sure he's
guilty, and there's nothing more to the story than end it, write a
finished piece and kill it, Okay, I'll take that deal. I'll interview
his wife. His wife, he believed in him so much. I got
a divorce. But that on your fat rory pressed mister Kelly, I want
to kill it for keeps was open and Chef Beacheck's wife had divorced him,
she'd married again. Wasn't any doubt about what she'd say, Not a doubt
in the world until she started talking. Frank is innocent. He didn't do
it. He was home with me when that policeman was killed. You wouldn't
be saying that because you loved him then. I mean, yes, I
did love him. I loved him very much. So you got a divorce
and married somebody else only because Frank insisted on him. He would you say
that again? Frank made me do it. He made me get the divorce,
and then he made me get married again. Why so our boy would
have a chance in life, so we'd grow up with another name. I
guess the story I wrote that knife was a little different from what I'd planned,
but it had a nice lead. Divorced wife believes Check innocent, and
the next day Kelly was on my neck again. Mac. I know there's
nothing more to the v Check case. I know it's all washed up,
but I think, what well, I just got a call from the warden.
Check wants to see you again. What for? Maybe he wants to
confess I was just up there. Don't I get time off for good behavior.
Vcheck has been there for eleven years. Better take the first train up
in the morning, five minutes, Mack. Thanks hello, Check. The
warden said you wanted to see me. Yeah. Look, I want to
tell you something. I don't want you to write any more but me or
my family. No. No, put the hearts out, tea and all
adment. He Wait a minute, you want help, don't you. We've
got half a million people following this story. Someone might know the killer.
Who do you think you're kidding? My mother's doing this for me. You're
not to sell your papers. I thought I was doing a pretty good job.
Put my kids pitching the paper, spoil his whole wife. I don't
want to kind of help. Rather stay here a thousand years, just don't
write any more about us. That's all that shook me up a little bit,
maybe more than I was willing to admit. Anyway. I had a
talk with the warden, and then I went back to me. Check again.
You didn't say a word. Just let me stand there. Finally I
made a start. I said, look, Frank, suppose I went on
with your case and did my best to slap the story your way. I
want you to know I still don't think you're innocent, but I'm willing to
dig and get the facts. Thanks. But remember the first time I catch
you lying, I'll blast you so hard you won't even get your parole when
you're ninety nine years Is opposide a deal? They got nothing to be afraid
of it? Yeah? Yeah, I'll make it. Deal. Okay,
Now start talking. Was there any witness when Judge Molton told you he'd get
you another trial? Whoa there was the bailiff? What was his name?
Well, I don't know, I'll find that out. Who was your lawyer.
His name was Underwood. But he's just Bird and I was a drunk
Yeah that's great. A dead judge and a this bird lawyer. What else?
There was a friend of Scuttning. She was a woman around a spake
easy she identified me. It was her alone. The other two witnesses they
said no, keep going. And there was a police captain. He stood
right alongside a friend of Scutning. When you picked me up. She acted
like she was afraid of him. What was his name? I didn't know.
I never found out he wasn't at the trail. Where can I find
this scot nickname? That's nice material. Well that's all I got, but
it's the troth. I swear you're willing to take a lie detective test,
mister McNeil. For eleven years, I've been waiting for a chance at that
box. You know what you're up against. If it turns out bad,
you're cooked. If it turns out good, it isn't legal evidence. All
right, I'll take the test, Okay, I'll set it up for him.
How about some of the sandwich mac? You go for ham and cheese
on rye? Thanks? Oh you're lost? Say? Seeing the report that
lie detective test. I thought your head gives be check a pretty clean bill
of health, doesn't it. Yeah, you're sure you don't want some of
this sandwich? No thanks. Stomach has been a little jittery because is something
I ate sure or something you wrote? Ale? Say Kelly, if you
think no, don mac, why don't you let go tell yourself the truth?
If you want him to be innocent, you want him to be free
admitted. Yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe I want him to be but
it doesn't make me believe he's innocent. If you want to believe, that's
pretty good start. I remember, I'll be in there swinging with you all
the way. Thanks, Kenny, Yeah, you wouldn't have some of that
sandwich left for you. You are the things of the Hollywood sound stage production
of twentieth cent Fox Studio's great dramatic hit Call north Side seven seven seven,
starring Dana Andrews and Thomas Gomez. Our stars will be back in just a
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sound stage production, I'll Call north Side seven seven seven, starring Dana Andrews
as McNeil and Thomas Gomez as Kelly, with Tony Barrett as Frank Daddy,
lou Gerson as his mother, Frank Nelson as Underwood, and Bob Sweeney as
the bailiff. Hollywood sound Stage brings you Act two, I'll Call north Side
seven seven seven. They say that a convert always praised the loudest, and
once I'd switched over to Frank Beacheck's side, I guess you could have heard
me all over town. It wasn't just a story anymore. I was digging
for a man's life. I started with the bailiff, the one that Frank
had told me about. Aye tis the truth, mister mc neil. Judge
Morton did promise told a new trial the hand of the saints. I used
there heard him Remember the details, mister Sullivan schmcneil. I'll have you understand.
I am the fellow that reminds the offense. Now she who it happened.
As he came out in the trial, this officer of Bundy was having
a snoot and it'll speak easier. And by this, says woman Fenders,
the very same, the very same indeed, and whilst he was warm for
himself, he's being a cool day. These two eggs come in and the
little habit. But there was another funner sitting there and having a drink,
I know, a tuck driver name of Druska Crept. When the trial was
done, the judge cried, mister store and I'm all brought into his chambers.
That's when this Gruska fuller speaks up and tells the judge that Whee Check
wasn't one of the curist. Why did Fenders Scotnick say, oh, oh,
she stands. Pat claimed she saw the shooting from start to finish.
But then this Groska gets mad and says she never saw any part of it.
When the fireworks started, she had ducked into a closet. Why didn't
he say that I'm a witness? Stand? Well, no, I guess
he never had the chance. All of the let him say was yes and
no. The next man on my list was a little harder to find.
But four days later I dug him out in a greasy little restaurant, washing
dishes and not exactly happy they see me. Yeah, my name's Underwood.
I was Check's lawyer, but I didn't care what happened to him then,
and I don't care now. Look, why should I. I'm a disbarred
shyster. I'm a drunk and a pool and a crook. My testimony is
no good, My words no good, My life's no good. I'm no
good to anybody. Anybody. But Frank Beacheck, you mean you you want
the advice of a dish washing? My wife washes dishes every night. All
right, I'll tell you something. Only one thing convicted Beecheck. That was
the testimony of tender Skutnick. That's not new. She said that after the
murder she didn't see bee Check again until she identified him in a police lineup,
but the day before that she was in a squad car with him.
She was with him the day before she identified him. Yeah, when they
were riding v Check around the horn from station to station. So I couldn't
find him. He and Fenders scott Nick set side by side. Why didn't
you use that information at the trial? Yeah, I couldn't prove it.
Well, I'm going to find that scot Nick game. I'll prove it all
right. I'll give you some advice McNeil, good advice, not shyster talk
his creditor. Prove she's a liar. Otherwise you're wasting your time. All
I had to do, and I was find Fenders cut Nick game, except
that she didn't want to be found in Chicago is a pretty fair sized village.
But I wasn't exactly wasting my time. Checking the police files, I
found that Frank had been arrested on December twenty second, but he hadn't been
booked until the twenty third. The police had held him twenty four hours.
He could have been with the scot nickdame. I said to myself, if
I could only prove it and then suddenly I got the big idea, and
I raced for the nearest telephone city to ask Kelly. Listen, Kelly,
how about that bee check yard. I know it wasn't important back in nineteen
thirty two, but maybe somebody took some pictures. Sure you want to get
one autographed, don't clown. I'm in a hurry. Check our files and
have somebody check the other papers too. But Mac, you read every word
that was printed on the case. You've seen every picture. A photographer shoots
maybe ten pictures and only prints one. I want to see the other nine.
Have it your way, say Kelly. The Harold Examiner was still in
business then, wasn't it. Yeah, you want that check too? No,
no thanks, I'll check that on myself. Kelly, Well, Mac
would have be God my god, it's just a pardon for Frank bea check.
That's all here. Take a look at this picture. Will you shot
a v Check getting out of a squad car and vendis Goutnik right beside him?
That proves he was lying, doesn't it. That'll invalidate everything she said.
Well, how do you figure she testified she didn't see be Check between
the time of the murder and the Times. She identified him on December twenty
third, but Frank plained she saw him on the twenty second, when the
cops were taken him from station to station, and you think that's when this
picture was snapped. Well, obviously, look, Mac, when you come
up before the pardon board, you can't just say obviously, you've got to
have proof. And this picture could have been taken after she identified him,
but it wasn't. So you think it wasn't, and I think it wasn't.
But the board will just sit there and ask for facts. You know,
that could be pretty rough on bea check. If they review his case
now and turn him down, it might hurt his chances for parole. I
wouldn't want to hurt Frank. I know you wouldn't. You've done a great
job, Mac. Nobody could have done any better. Sure, the operation
was successful, but the patient died. Personally, I'd go along with you.
But the front officer is getting a little worried. These cracks we've taken
the police department in the state's attorney. Okay, what do we do?
Write a finished story? Get the paper off the hook, all right,
and you'd better go out and see v Teck's mother. I can't, I
can't do that. You wanted to read it in the paper? Do your
mac? No? How cool. That's the toughest assignment I've ever had to
have to tell Frank's mother. We were pulling out to have to tell her
she was on her own again. I sat there in the cab and I
kept staring at the picture of Frank and find the Skutnick, staring at it
looking for something back. When you got a letter that's got bad news and
you read it over and over and over again, hoping maybe you've read it
wrong, I guess I hardly heard the cab driver at first seen the afternoon
paper, Bud, I said, have you seen the afternoon paper? Paper?
Now? And a cops pull the nifty one? All right? They
proved some guy as a forgerer. First time I use that new machine.
Machine. Yeah you don't that machine and largest things A thousand times. They
can take a piece of writing or like a picture, anything a thousand times,
Yeah, thousand times. It brings it out clear as a felly.
You know where the police lab is? Police lab? Yeah, sure it's
down there. A few plot. Don't talk, drive, I wait a
minute, pull up to that drug store. Will you. I gotta make
a phone call first. I dropped everything. Mac rushed right down. What's
it all about? We've still got a chance killing. If you know how
to pray, if we get a break, I'll pray for watch slow down,
give me an angle, will you. They've got a new process just
perfected and largest pictures a thousand times. I've got them working on that picture
right now, the one of Frank v. Jacob fed to Skutnik. Yeah,
but they're not working on them. Over on one side. There was
a kid in the picture, a newsboy with some papers under his arm.
That's the part they're working on, Kelly. If I am right, if
they can bring that out almost ready, Mack, I want to come in,
try and stop us. Don't light any matches or anything. Have to
develop these prints in the dark, just going into the soup now, Kelly,
remember what I said, I'm not praying. I still don't know what
you're looking for? The date? The date on the newspapers under that newsboy's
arm. Can they bring that out? Coming up? Now? What's it?
Kelly? What's the date? And there it is? It's coming through
I think the December December twenty twenties something December twenty second, nineteen thirty two,
that cab drivers said it was clear as a bell, clear enough even
for the pardon board. I guess I should be pretty happy. But there's
just one thing. There were two men convicted for Officer Bundy's murder, two
men convicted on the same evidence. One of them, Frank Beecheck, has
been pardoned now, the other one is still in jail. You know,
I've been sort of wondering about that. Looks like I'll have to go to
work again. You have just heard the Hollywood sound stage production of the twentieth
century Fox dramatic hit called north Side seven seven seven, and now back on
stage for a final round of applause, here are the stars of our play
tonight, Thomas Gomez and Dana Andrews. Thank you, thank you very much.
We hope you enjoyed the show tonight as much as we enjoyed being here.
As you know, this program helped support the Motion Picture Relief Fund,
and there isn't an actor in Hollywood who isn't proud to share in that great
work. Am all right, Tommy, absolutely, Dana, all Hollywood is
combining to make this half hour the dramatic highlight of the radio week and doing
a pretty good job. I'd say, wait till our audience, here's about
next week's show. Why wait you Douglas is right here and all set to
tell him. Then, why should we hold up the parade? Come on,
let's beat it. Good night everybody, and thanks, thanks again.
Good night. Next week, Hollywood sound Stage brings you a rare treat to
start the new year on a high dramatic note. A tender and deeply moving
story that will capt today you from start to finish. A story filled with
rich moods and poignan scenes. A story that builds to a shocking and unexpected
climax. Its metro Goldwyn Mayer's great motion picture hit The Sacred Heart, and
it will star two of your favorite players, Clodette Colbert and Barry Sullivan.
Remember at the same time next Thursday night, Barry Sullivan and Clodette Colbert in
The Sacred Heart. Be sure to listen. Our story Tonight was presented through
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starring Richard Baseheart and Gary Merrill. Dana Andrews appears through the courtesy of
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favorite songs, every Friday night the CBS Radio Network. Welcome back. Well,
I think mister Andrews did a good job. I would still take Jimmy
Stewart every day of the week over him, but he put in a solid
performance. Caul north Side seven seven seven is such a phenomenal story, it's
disappointing that it was never adapted for a one hour episode of the Luxle Radio
Theater or screen Director's Playhouse or screen Old Theater. When they were doing one
hour episode, however, I think this half hour version does a good job
at establishing the basics of the story. I always hope with these half hour
episodes that they might get some folks interested in checking out the full movie.
Certainly, I have sought out movies where I've only seen the half hour adaptation,
but the adaptation just made the film seem so intriguing and so worth watching
that I just had to see it for myself. This is a good story
because it's not only a solid detective story, it's also got some really interesting
dramatic beats. I think Mac goes on a journey in this story. He
starts out as really a bit of a cinic who is willing, if not
enthusiastic, about using Frank and his family to sell papers and improve circulation,
to really caring and trying to help and do the right thing and find the
truth and in dealing with the responsibility that comes with the power of the press.
Films like Cole north Side seven seven seven also should temper some nostalgia for
a mythical houcyon bygone days of journalism. While listening to Kelly's eagerness to get
reader interest to increase circulation, I couldn't help, but think of modern publications
who will do some dodgy things for cliques and views. And historically, I
think that there is a bit of reality to the way that this is portrait.
Newspapers were at first a very cutthroat business, with a lot of competition
and multiple editions published throughout the day, and not every paper survived. What
happened with newspapers was the coming of other forms of media, radio and then
television, leading to a decline in their popularity and calling the field quite a
bit. And I think that the broad taste of the American people began to
favor a more responsible, seeming approach to journalism rather than the sort of sensationalism
that was so prevalent through the early decades of the twentieth century. Of course,
in recent decades the news business has undergone even more changes and kind of
resembles much more the sort of situation that you could recognize in this episode,
or even a decade or so earlier. So perhaps it's a cyclical thing,
but I think the way that our modern media tends to work makes this resonate
a bit more. For me. This is a story where you could easily
change some of the details and write it as a completely fictional story and the
basic plot would stand up perfectly today. Now it's time to thank our Patreon
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Norman. Oh come on here, missus Spade? Whatever you say it over
here, won't me? Oh yeah yeah sure, I'll just bring your father
with it here. I'll make room here. Oh thank yeah now no,
no, yeah, oh, don't worry about your he's on a Greenland too.
I'm moving back for hours. George, Yes, poor dar, he's
my husband. Well, wow, missus over George, Oh, joy,
I feel the things you will detected. You'll know my secret? You know?
Or later? So? Why had anything? Well? What what are
the isn't it? Father? I don't now listen say the beginning is my
husband must never know? Ye? Well, oh all right about the jewel.
Oh you he gave me the money for a floor of policy on the
naked and I was naughty. I thank it in a wild meed than are
you listening? Yeah? Sure, yeah, you sank somebody's mink. Tell
me I just want to do no thank I thank the flota. So no,
it isn't injured and it's gone ran away, not the meek fam the
necklace, What shall I do? It's worth thirty thousand dollars? Please?
But what about your husband? He'll be awfully angry. He's an absolute bug
on insurance and he'd be very upset if you knew I was not fully covered?
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