Speaker 1: I'm now for yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half
Speaker 1: hour has its baggage fact to take a trip with
Speaker 1: America's fabulous Britance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. At insurance investigation,
Speaker 1: He's just an expert at making out his expense account.
Speaker 1: He's an absolute feat.
Speaker 2: Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to
Speaker 2: Frederick Kimball, General manager of Fine Arts of Tours Incorporated
Speaker 2: in New York Arts.
Speaker 3: The following is an accounting of my.
Speaker 2: Expenditures and the investigation of the stolen portrait of the
Speaker 2: Duke of masson Or who opened the season on canvas.
Speaker 4: Back to.
Speaker 2: Expense account out of one three hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 2: plane fair, New York to London. Item two one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five dollars replacement brand new light tan topcoat
Speaker 2: borrowed and not returned by fellow passenger. During flight we
Speaker 2: cleared Yander Nupman living were four hours out flying at
Speaker 2: twenty thousand feet over the Atlantic with a ninth in
Speaker 2: the weather, fighting it out to see which could dark
Speaker 2: on sky. First, most of the passengers were asleep, but
Speaker 2: the rough weather was giving the man on the seat
Speaker 2: beside me a rough time, although the plane had leveled
Speaker 2: off his dinner, still trying to gain altitude among other things,
Speaker 2: he complained to kill So I slipped on my top
Speaker 2: coat threw it around his shoulders.
Speaker 3: Oh thanks, I'm sorry to beat, said to bother.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think I'll try a drink of water.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll post of the steward public.
Speaker 4: He's up forward.
Speaker 3: Maybe they walked back too far. He stepped out for
Speaker 3: a breath of fresh air. I didn't think anybody't sick
Speaker 3: enough to do that. By the time I got to
Speaker 3: the back of the ship, the rear sleep.
Speaker 2: Passengers from milling around the aisle to know anything about
Speaker 2: what had happened, I didn't by that, But if my
Speaker 2: ex friend hadn't jumped out of the plane.
Speaker 3: He's been pushed. And that was this pantalizing question. If
Speaker 3: he's been pushed, and since he'd been.
Speaker 2: Wearing my light tan topcoat, was I the one who
Speaker 2: was supposed to be taking that twenty thousand.
Speaker 3: Foot swan dive into the Atlantic. I looked over the passengers,
Speaker 3: and to me, they all looked guilty, but I really
Speaker 3: couldn't be.
Speaker 2: I also knew I had no chance of finding out
Speaker 2: which one was something to shettled down. Everybody started asking
Speaker 2: the stewardess for senatives to help him get back to sleep.
Speaker 3: I asked her for some black company to keep awake.
Speaker 3: By four o'clock the next afternoon.
Speaker 2: I was in good health in London and in the
Speaker 2: office of your policyholder next to Morley.
Speaker 5: Yes, I've been expecting you to a company cable that
Speaker 5: you were coming. Very generous of him to send you all.
Speaker 4: The way over here to help.
Speaker 2: Way, I have to pad my expense accounts to make
Speaker 2: an honest living. Don't ever accuse my clients of generosity.
Speaker 2: Uh oh no, they aren't very soft hearted benefactors. They're
Speaker 2: being hard head of business man. If that painting stays lost,
Speaker 2: it'll cost them two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: Well, i'd better brief you from the beginning. Oh, why
Speaker 5: you're wondering your story.
Speaker 3: Morning, don't mind, I'm just sleeping.
Speaker 4: I see very well. I'll make a brief dollar. Well.
Speaker 4: During my lifetime I have.
Speaker 5: Developed an overwhelmed appreciation for fine paintings. Unfortunately, I have
Speaker 5: not been able to develop the fortune that should go
Speaker 5: with As a result, I haven't only not been able
Speaker 5: to buy any great paintings. I've not been able to
Speaker 5: afford to travel to the museums around the world where
Speaker 5: the great masterpieces hanging.
Speaker 3: I guess there must be a lot of people stuck
Speaker 3: in the same fix exactly, And that's what gave birth
Speaker 3: to my plan.
Speaker 5: I have organized what you might call the Masterpiece of
Speaker 5: the Month Club. Its members are twelve of the top
Speaker 5: museums and galleries in the world. This plan calls for
Speaker 5: them to rotate their most famous paintings.
Speaker 4: In other words, if the people can't of to come.
Speaker 5: To the pictures, my schemes to the pictures to the people,
Speaker 5: and you work every month.
Speaker 3: Well, it's very interesting, miss Morley. But let's talk about
Speaker 3: the one that got away.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, of course, I was merely outlining the background
Speaker 5: of this case to dolineate my responsibility in the matter.
Speaker 2: Well, so now we know that you feel personally responsible
Speaker 2: for the loss of the painting.
Speaker 5: Even though it's well, in short, mister Dollar, no amount
Speaker 5: of money can get that picture repainted by the man
Speaker 5: who originally painted it.
Speaker 4: The artist Bonnet has been dead for more than three
Speaker 4: hundred years, a.
Speaker 3: Real gone guy. You know.
Speaker 5: If we fail to recover Brenet's masterpiece, The Duke of Masson.
Speaker 5: It would not only be a tremendous shot, but has
Speaker 5: lost to the word about further. It would ruined my reputations.
Speaker 5: The very first thing to be loaned arrives here in
Speaker 5: London from Paris four days ago, and the first night
Speaker 5: after I delivered in the museum, it has stolen off
Speaker 5: their wall.
Speaker 3: Oh jers the morning. So much to the story was
Speaker 3: the museum.
Speaker 4: It's the new art ellery at Coventry. Here's the address.
Speaker 5: I won't be able to accompany myself as I am
Speaker 5: flying across the channel immediately to try to calm the
Speaker 5: official parish, the ones who loans the stolen painting.
Speaker 4: They've been calling incessiantry.
Speaker 5: I'll phone my assistant, Miss Harding, to meet you the
Speaker 5: main entrance in the museum.
Speaker 4: Let's say forty five minutes. Okay, kill her.
Speaker 3: I'll be the man asleep on the step. Fan's accounts.
Speaker 3: I him three sixpence hapen.
Speaker 2: London papers to read while waiting for Miss Harding at
Speaker 2: museum entrance. No matter what I told mister Morley, I
Speaker 2: was afraid to go to sleep. Page one of each
Speaker 2: newspaper referred to my reason the misadventure which had occurred
Speaker 2: on the plane the night before, a possible attempt on
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 3: Then along came another good reason for my lids drooping.
Speaker 2: Miss Harding was at the opener, speaking in artistic turns.
Speaker 2: No painter could completely capture her dimensions.
Speaker 3: A sculptor could come closer, as far as I was concerned,
Speaker 3: could see, and she did what mister du it wouldn't
Speaker 3: need I, miss.
Speaker 6: Heart, mister Morning indicated that I might find you asleep.
Speaker 6: I say, that must be a shocking experience on the
Speaker 6: way over.
Speaker 3: Not only shocking but frustrating. Yes, there was nothing much
Speaker 3: that could be done.
Speaker 2: We shirt a long enough to drop a few life rafts,
Speaker 2: some players, and a big blob of yellow oil to
Speaker 2: help mark the spot.
Speaker 3: Then all the pilot could do was call for the air,
Speaker 3: see recue boys and hope.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's singing all the papers the whole day. Court chat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be that there but for the grace
Speaker 3: of a light sands top coat. Go on, what was that? Oh? Nothing? Well,
Speaker 3: shall we go museum prowling? Yes, of course, there.
Speaker 6: Isn't much to see, just a black place on the wall.
Speaker 3: Well, let's take a look at it.
Speaker 2: Hey, did you see a blank space on the wall?
Speaker 2: You mean they stole the painting frame and oil and
Speaker 2: they did? All right, thieves are doing things the hard
Speaker 2: way these days. Usually they just cut the painting out
Speaker 2: of the frames, they got out of the coat and
Speaker 2: make a getaway.
Speaker 6: Yes, mister, I know, but perhaps this job was done
Speaker 6: by the beginner. Or perhaps the bird was in prop
Speaker 6: and hap need to run for it.
Speaker 1: Frame and all.
Speaker 6: There are infinite possibility.
Speaker 3: Infinite mister Dollar.
Speaker 6: Thank you. I sin distood here at the museum.
Speaker 5: It is an utter waste of time.
Speaker 6: I've gone over the whole situation where a gentleman's stop
Speaker 6: in the yard.
Speaker 2: It wasn't so much as a single finger Please, miss Harding,
Speaker 2: I have yet to solve the case with a fingerprints.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I forgot. Men just can't stand to be any
Speaker 6: show woman.
Speaker 3: Oh I wouldn't say that. It's according to what they
Speaker 3: are applying their afficiency.
Speaker 6: I am speaking of business the dollar. I'm sure that
Speaker 6: I can send you a great deal of trouble. I've
Speaker 6: already done an extraordinar amount of research.
Speaker 3: On this case.
Speaker 2: I'll be careful what you tell me, Miss Harting. At
Speaker 2: this point, I confuse easily.
Speaker 6: The Dollar child could understand what I have to tell you.
Speaker 3: Sometimes a wide awake child is better than a sleepy man.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, well, my this is the.
Speaker 6: Place right here there you see a blank wall, now,
Speaker 6: mister Dollar. Of the twelve Foremouth arts in London, I
Speaker 6: have discovered that nine are currently in prison, while is
Speaker 6: in hospital after falling four stories off a roof, and
Speaker 6: the other two are at large and maybe sound the
Speaker 6: driving at the addresses I have.
Speaker 3: Here, the youth sound more like a patron of the
Speaker 3: criminal courts than you do.
Speaker 4: Of the arts.
Speaker 6: The entire fascinates me. Now have you seen enough of
Speaker 6: your blank wall?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Things are blank enough. Give me those addressers and
Speaker 3: why you're right? I thank you? Better give me yours,
Speaker 3: mister Dollar.
Speaker 6: Don't I know suspicious?
Speaker 3: No delicious?
Speaker 2: Spencer cow Out'm four five shillings camp fair to Scotland
Speaker 2: Yard tip the drummer too, Bob. When it comes to money,
Speaker 2: I speak all languages. Scalon Yards from the outside looked
Speaker 2: like big public schools. Well that has taught a lot
Speaker 2: of lessons to a lot of people. Inside it was
Speaker 2: teacher and quie for the officer in charge of the robbery,
Speaker 2: with which I was concerned.
Speaker 3: I was led to an inspector carew First he gave
Speaker 3: me a cup of tea, Then they gave me my lumps.
Speaker 7: Mister Dollar, you sit here and ask me why we
Speaker 7: haven't done something.
Speaker 4: Believe me.
Speaker 8: Third, the yard is not as archaic as it's architecture.
Speaker 8: There's a simple legal procedure which must occur before we
Speaker 8: can make either an investigation or an arrest. Well, a
Speaker 8: complaint must be lodged by the legal owners of any
Speaker 8: stolen property.
Speaker 3: At that point, and.
Speaker 7: At that point only, are we allowed to act.
Speaker 3: You mean nobody called for help.
Speaker 7: Well, naturally, when the museum discovered the painting gown, they
Speaker 7: immediately rang us up. We went to court to gather
Speaker 7: primary evidence. Unfortunately there was none.
Speaker 2: Well, what about the owners of the painting the museum
Speaker 2: in Paris? As yet we've heard nothing. We expect to
Speaker 2: momentarily inspector just out of curiosity. What about this girl,
Speaker 2: miss Harding.
Speaker 3: I'd say, she's well a jolly fine time. I mean,
Speaker 3: do you know anything about her?
Speaker 7: I say, didn't you Yanks carry off enough of our.
Speaker 3: Girls after the war. I'm not in the imform business.
Speaker 3: I mean, is she known to you?
Speaker 2: Professionally what you suspect her? Not particularly, but she did
Speaker 2: give me this list. In her opinion, this is the
Speaker 2: who's who and where they are of your city's light
Speaker 2: fingered eyed lovers.
Speaker 4: Let me see it.
Speaker 7: Well, quite complete and protect it had was the work
Speaker 7: of an amateur. When the world would a young lady
Speaker 7: like miss Hardy come into such information?
Speaker 2: That Inspector Carew is exactly what I'm driving at. Back
Speaker 2: in a taxi headed from Scotland Yard on my way
Speaker 2: to check into the Mount Royal Hotel, I gave my
Speaker 2: eyes a rest at the risk of missing the sights thing,
Speaker 2: but my mind refused to follow suits that now had
Speaker 2: three blank walls to stare into the one of the museums,
Speaker 2: the one at Scotland Yard, and the most provocative of
Speaker 2: the three, to look at the girl who knew too much,
Speaker 2: Miss Burial Harding. My mind also kept ruffling my nerve
Speaker 2: ends with a question, was I supposed to be the
Speaker 2: guy who got dumped out of that.
Speaker 3: Plane the night before? Where I've at the Mount Royal Hotel?
Speaker 3: I got my answers. Here we are, that's the Mountain
Speaker 3: Oil right head on a two way. You taught me, okay,
Speaker 3: what's the bild he that'll be off at that? How
Speaker 3: much till it takes sex? Oh you figured it out.
Speaker 4: Jesus, God on everything, cabinet, Look down the.
Speaker 3: H That was a close one. Thanks, you're right down there.
Speaker 3: Got me sins the cause of that.
Speaker 2: On the street, it's more dangerous to walk around now
Speaker 2: than it was when them ready buzzbombs were dropping. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a couple of good things about the buzzbombs. Though nobody
Speaker 2: aims them at you personally, and nobody was at the
Speaker 2: wheel to steer them.
Speaker 3: That made it official.
Speaker 2: I had been set up for a pigeon, and it
Speaker 2: was me. Somebody had tried to turn into a seagull
Speaker 2: during that flight across the Atlantic. Expends the count that
Speaker 2: of five three pound ten to bell Boy for services rented?
Speaker 3: How about that fourteen bucks for a bottle of Scotch?
Speaker 3: And I threw forty winks that felt like only twenty.
Speaker 2: And I grabbed a shower, shave and a cab down
Speaker 2: Oxford Street and over to Soo expected count out of
Speaker 2: six five shillings the legal lemon on.
Speaker 3: The price of dinner in England these days. I ate
Speaker 3: a nice place called Keetnits.
Speaker 2: Dinner being a bit of chicken, three choices of vegetables,
Speaker 2: Brussels sprout spoiled, Brussels sprouts creamed, and Brussels sprout's roasted.
Speaker 2: But as there, I looked at the names and addresses
Speaker 2: of Miss Harding's two candidates for the boys most likely
Speaker 2: to have succeeded in swiping the missing portrait of the
Speaker 2: Duke of Masson.
Speaker 3: I was in the right district for one of them.
Speaker 3: I found myself on a dark and lonely muse.
Speaker 2: That may sound good to you, but in soho a
Speaker 2: muse is still only a place fit for ash cans
Speaker 2: and cats. I broke my way up the stairs of
Speaker 2: the address, the number one boorn on Miss Harding's list,
Speaker 2: and a top step. I was breathing hard and I
Speaker 2: wasn't all from the climb. Bunched my teeth, my knuckles
Speaker 2: and knocked on the door. Then I broke roll to
Speaker 2: the basic constructions for the working snoop.
Speaker 3: I opened the door that flock number went to Yale.
Speaker 3: The door of a wood.
Speaker 2: Burning stove across the room was open, the flames erratically
Speaker 2: painting the walls the orange light, then erasing them back
Speaker 2: into black darkness. I finally dared to breeze. Then I saw,
Speaker 2: when I was looking for, lying on a table, his
Speaker 2: edges curled upwards, an oil painting of a guy with
Speaker 2: short breeches and a long face. I started forward with
Speaker 2: something bred my foot. I stared down at the floor
Speaker 2: in front of me. First it was pitch flak. Then
Speaker 2: the light from the stove flared up, and I saw
Speaker 2: that the object was what I thought it was, and
Speaker 2: the folks it wasn't a man wearing his head and
Speaker 2: I don't mean his hair pour.
Speaker 3: It in the middle. I rushed across the room, slipping
Speaker 3: off the top of the stove. More light.
Speaker 2: We look for a telephone. There was none in the
Speaker 2: room of the corps, so I tried the door of
Speaker 2: the next road, and the door I was trying started erupting.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll turn to the second act
Speaker 1: of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. But first we want to
Speaker 1: remind you that those delightful, charming neighbors, Ozzy and Harriet,
Speaker 1: are coming back home next Sunday night, coming back to CBS.
Speaker 1: You'll be able to join them on most of these
Speaker 1: same stations.
Speaker 3: At six point thirty Eastern Standard time.
Speaker 1: Just before the Jack Benny Show. Ozzie and Harriet now
Speaker 1: have their own sons, Ricky and David, playing themselves in
Speaker 1: place of the young actors who formerly portrayed them. So
Speaker 1: make it a party for your whole family when Ozzie
Speaker 1: and Harriet, Ricky and David come home with their fun
Speaker 1: and laughter to CBS next Sunday night, And now back
Speaker 1: to yours truly, Johnny Dollar. When those bullets came crashing
Speaker 1: through the door at me, I dropped to the floor.
Speaker 1: Still don't know whether my knees buckled or I meant
Speaker 1: to go down and stayed where I was. But whoever
Speaker 1: it was on the other side of that door, I
Speaker 1: decided to take off out the window. I got my feet,
Speaker 1: but by the time I kicked the door got to
Speaker 1: the window, I had that old mother Hubbard feeling. The
Speaker 1: cupboard was there, And that's what you're doing here in
Speaker 1: your flatness, haunting. After my little adventure, the first thing
Speaker 1: I did was to call the police, and the second
Speaker 1: was to come here to call on you, the girl
Speaker 1: who steered me into that shooting gallery.
Speaker 6: Where you needn't sound so annoyed at me. Who's I
Speaker 6: advised you to go there? But after all, it was
Speaker 6: your duty, and you did recover.
Speaker 3: The picture and almost lost my health doing it for
Speaker 3: the third time.
Speaker 2: Really, yes, really, First somebody tried to make a sea
Speaker 2: going paratrooper out of me, then they try to make
Speaker 2: part of the pavement by running me down with an auto,
Speaker 2: and now tonight somebody on the other side of the
Speaker 2: door tries to turn it into my personal copy of
Speaker 2: the Pearly Gates.
Speaker 3: That's really enough for me.
Speaker 6: Mister teller. Where is the painting?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Asked Scotland yard? And now let's change the subject back.
Speaker 2: What's bothering me? Is bothering me plenty. I want to
Speaker 2: know who didn't want me to find that picture and why?
Speaker 6: Well, how he seems elementary rank after watch the thief naturally.
Speaker 2: Didn't want you to find it, Miss Harding, Please when
Speaker 2: I got shot at the apparentief was dead.
Speaker 6: Well they do have hashman, you know if he was
Speaker 6: killed by.
Speaker 3: An accomplice, why did the killer leave the patient?
Speaker 6: I'd have no way of knowing of that.
Speaker 3: I'm still not sure.
Speaker 6: Oh man, and mister Dollar's top, did you hardly suspect me?
Speaker 2: I suspect you less if you'd stop saying that at
Speaker 2: this point, I suspect everyone, even Dexter Morley, dreaming up
Speaker 2: this whole painting of the month's scheme to bring those
Speaker 2: paintings within stealing distance.
Speaker 3: Oh but that's I know. I know if that was
Speaker 3: the plan, he'd wait until he had more than one
Speaker 3: picture on the road to steal. That's why I don't
Speaker 3: suspect him.
Speaker 6: Well, frankly, I don't see why you continue to worry.
Speaker 6: After all, your part of the job is done, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose you're right when I still have a
Speaker 2: yearning burning deep down inside.
Speaker 3: I made a break somebody's neck. Why if I use
Speaker 3: your phone not help you?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: All right? This is defense.
Speaker 2: Hello, I want to talk to New York. Don't worry,
Speaker 2: I'll call collect. My name is Johnny Dollar. I want
Speaker 2: to place a collect call in New York. Number is
Speaker 2: Plaza six nine one eight four.
Speaker 3: Checks.
Speaker 4: Please, sir, your name is John Dollar.
Speaker 3: To your number. Your calling is Plazas six nine one
Speaker 3: eighty four. The call is collect, correct correct, collect your offer.
Speaker 3: We shall ring up immediately. If that's the circuit. Thank you,
Speaker 3: They'll call me. Well.
Speaker 6: While you're waiting, you probably doing a brak. Is you
Speaker 6: care for what have we got j darling gin a
Speaker 6: lemon gen Italian or good friends?
Speaker 1: Wish?
Speaker 3: No thanks?
Speaker 6: Well, come and sit down over here, yst much.
Speaker 3: More RESTful in the eyes. Where I am here, I
Speaker 3: can have a better look at you.
Speaker 6: However, when i'm mister doll, you can be charming. Do
Speaker 6: you mind if I changed mister Johnny? It sounds much
Speaker 6: more fun.
Speaker 2: We'll swap your one Johnny for every murial you let
Speaker 2: me use It's a bargain.
Speaker 6: Now tell me about yourself. You'll look about I'm an
Speaker 6: active bagro on criminology.
Speaker 3: At the moment you're real that happens to be my
Speaker 3: unfavorite subjects. Let's talk about you.
Speaker 6: Where should I begin?
Speaker 3: Just after the age of twenty one?
Speaker 6: You're a saucy chide. At the age of twenty one,
Speaker 6: I was singing the wear Huh. The Women's Air Force.
Speaker 3: Oh, you must have had a lot of exciting adventures. Rather,
Speaker 3: what was the most exciting? Oh?
Speaker 6: I think perhaps to night the young US Air Force.
Speaker 3: Captain kiss Oh, one of the boys of the wild
Speaker 3: Blue Yonder. Maybe it was the blue of your eyes.
Speaker 3: It made him wild? Johnny, I know, Helen, you must
Speaker 3: have yourself.
Speaker 6: He Johnny.
Speaker 3: I'll be right back, all right, John, Hello, are you there?
Speaker 3: I of course I'm here. The dollar that's right. We're
Speaker 3: ready to do a call to New York signal at
Speaker 3: the end of Strey minute.
Speaker 4: Are you ready to talk a minute?
Speaker 3: You stop?
Speaker 1: Got you offense?
Speaker 6: Get me off?
Speaker 3: Hello? Hello? Is this the Fine Arts Insurers? I want
Speaker 3: to talk to him at the Kimball Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dollah,
Speaker 3: I'm on the line. Go ahead. Well you can stop worrying, Kimball.
Speaker 3: I got the painting back.
Speaker 6: You say you did get it back.
Speaker 3: That's right, it's safe. Well, you'll have to pay is
Speaker 3: the price of a new frame. But what happened to
Speaker 3: the frame? Well, the guy who's swiped it took the
Speaker 3: painting out of the frame. I don't know where it is. Well,
Speaker 3: after the culprit, what he did with it, I'm sad
Speaker 3: he's dead.
Speaker 1: Well, then look for it.
Speaker 3: That bring it, Clint, that thousand dollars the slum paint. Okay, fred,
Speaker 3: don't flow out any bridgework. I'll look around for it.
Speaker 3: Everything you've come to until you're doing that already, okay,
Speaker 3: fred o'kayble here what happened? Goodbye? Well, Muriel Vacation's over.
Speaker 3: I just got put back to work, Gath and he'll come.
Speaker 6: I wanted to send you shaking off into the night
Speaker 6: to look for the picture frame.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6: These have probably already found it somewhere, and that fellow's flat.
Speaker 3: We'll check that my work is personal service.
Speaker 6: And must you go Johnny's any hot pots?
Speaker 4: Ten?
Speaker 6: Couldn't you put it off till morning?
Speaker 3: There's nothing I'd like better?
Speaker 6: But couldn't you stay even for a little pile?
Speaker 3: Well, just long enough to calm my nerves? Big Ben
Speaker 3: was ringing up midnight on.
Speaker 2: Times greedy cash registered when I finally cleared it with
Speaker 2: a bobby guying the back alley flat, but had not
Speaker 2: so long before given up one unprecious life and one
Speaker 2: very precious painting. The place was darker than then on
Speaker 2: my previous visit, and when I grope for the electric switch,
Speaker 2: I realized why there had been a brisk fire blazing before.
Speaker 3: In the bottom grade of the stove.
Speaker 2: I found enough unburned portions of the hot picture frame
Speaker 2: to justify my conclusions, and I found something else that.
Speaker 3: Came under the category of hot rocks.
Speaker 2: Spen's account out Am seven cabin their office of Dexter Morley.
Speaker 3: The front door was not only locked, it was barred.
Speaker 2: However, at the back of the building, I had better
Speaker 2: lock a loose window down to the basement. I just
Speaker 2: broken a law, but I didn't want to break my
Speaker 2: neg so snap on the lights. The basement was loaded
Speaker 2: with cabinet making equipment, but for my dough, they weren't
Speaker 2: making any cabinets. I was benched with a power drill,
Speaker 2: and on the floor below it a pile of sawdust
Speaker 2: and wood shavings.
Speaker 3: That was normal enough, but the.
Speaker 2: Sawdust pile was glimming with tiny specks of crystallized blue.
Speaker 3: With what I had, now, all I had to find
Speaker 3: was Dexter Morley. He made that easy. He found me.
Speaker 4: Stay down there, doll like where you were.
Speaker 2: Well, welcome home from that trip to Paris. You didn't
Speaker 2: take that gun in your hands. Suggests that I'm right
Speaker 2: about one thing anyway, Yes, and that be that whoever
Speaker 2: took the shots earlier tonight was probably not an Englishman.
Speaker 2: The bobby's over here. I don't carry a gun, which
Speaker 2: makes most English smugs afraid to You're an American.
Speaker 4: That's interesting, but hardly valuable.
Speaker 3: I've got some more. How valuable is this?
Speaker 2: I think you're in on or at the head of
Speaker 2: a very high flat smuggling racket, and I think you
Speaker 2: set up that painting of the month scheme of yours
Speaker 2: to establish just about the neatest method of smuggling that.
Speaker 3: I've ever heard of.
Speaker 4: Very generous.
Speaker 3: I know how I operate, So what you could tell
Speaker 3: me about it could do nothing more than for me.
Speaker 4: What I want from you are the diamonds.
Speaker 3: Maybe I can trade you some diamonds for some answers.
Speaker 3: You're in no.
Speaker 4: Position at bargain. Give me the diamonds are out, shoot
Speaker 4: you and take them ocar.
Speaker 2: No, wait a minute, I'd better explain my bargaining position.
Speaker 2: I think you admit it's not the worst, since you
Speaker 2: have to followed me here. You know I took a
Speaker 2: cab from the murder flat one without a tail light,
Speaker 2: so you don't have the number, but brother, I do,
Speaker 2: and the diamonds are jammed down behind its back seat.
Speaker 3: Now let's bargain. Who you all right?
Speaker 4: What do you want to know?
Speaker 2: Just let me do the guessing and check me if
Speaker 2: I'm wrong. You set up a chain of famous paintings
Speaker 2: which would move around the world for your branch offices
Speaker 2: as each one passed through your hands. Here the frame
Speaker 2: was to be dismantled and holes bored in it at
Speaker 2: the joints for the purpose of smuggling diamonds.
Speaker 3: Lights are far.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'll have right, but remember the more you are
Speaker 5: right about, the worse it is for me, so naturally
Speaker 5: the worse it is for you.
Speaker 3: We'll take care of that later. This scheme of you
Speaker 3: is fascinating.
Speaker 2: The stuff moves around the world, and the picture frames
Speaker 2: under official armed god and enjoying virtual diplomatic community through customs.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 4: It would have been greatfu it hadn't been for that
Speaker 4: heavy handed.
Speaker 3: Open oh that fills in a missing link from another
Speaker 3: night comes a.
Speaker 2: Burglar steals your first loaded picture, shoves the frame into
Speaker 2: his stove to get rid of it. You arrive, creaming
Speaker 2: with your guns, and I arrive, interrupting you before you
Speaker 2: get what you want out of the burning frame.
Speaker 3: And you saw what.
Speaker 5: Happened to him when he resisted medella. No, you must
Speaker 5: realize that I won't hesitate a moment.
Speaker 3: It works the other way, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: You kill me who tells you the number of that taxi,
Speaker 2: and without it you'll never get your diamonds.
Speaker 4: There are ways keep your hands behind you painful, I thought,
Speaker 4: so your head will wear us before this gun peril.
Speaker 4: Uh feel more like talking.
Speaker 2: Just enough to tell you one more thing. You're until
Speaker 2: I blonde accomplice of yours. I was not, I heard
Speaker 2: from a start, Tony.
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: What don't you.
Speaker 2: I can't prepay you for those three tries you made
Speaker 2: or I had made on my life, Morley. But here's
Speaker 2: what it feels like being hit on the head with
Speaker 2: a gun. Rock a bye, booby Buriel.
Speaker 3: Look out your fall.
Speaker 2: I told you that's a very undignified way for a
Speaker 2: lady to went he a room through a basement window.
Speaker 3: I was trying to help him.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 6: You were excusing me of being the countess after all
Speaker 6: those nice things you.
Speaker 3: Said to me before WHOA wait a minute, I followed you.
Speaker 6: I wanted to see how you were a great you and.
Speaker 3: Your criminal ha. At least you might have stepped in
Speaker 3: before he hit me those he.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, Johnny, It's just that I love crime.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, get up. It would be a crime.
Speaker 2: As mister Warley there woke up and I had to
Speaker 2: put him back to sleep again before the police got here.
Speaker 6: What was it all about?
Speaker 3: It was about these little black things. I've got a
Speaker 3: pocket full of them. There straight one of them with
Speaker 3: your fingernail. Oh funny. That's the kind of glass of
Speaker 3: fellow handss girl when he wants to be engaged to
Speaker 3: make here joy jo. Yes, I mean only that they're diamonds.
Speaker 3: Expense account Item eate three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Plane fair out of attempted matrimony by the party of
Speaker 2: the second part. Item nine twenty five dollars gift to
Speaker 2: Muriel Harding two books, one on the art of crime,
Speaker 2: the other on the art of in the hopes that
Speaker 2: the latter might havettracted for the pursuits of a more
Speaker 2: womanly hobby. Item ten ten cents Bromo Seltzer, purchased upon
Speaker 2: landing at vander Newfoundland. The only thing still fighting me
Speaker 2: on this case were those Brussels sprouts I had at
Speaker 2: dinner in London the night before. Expense account total fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty three.
Speaker 3: Dollars and forty cents.
Speaker 2: If you find any slight discrepancy in this amount in
Speaker 2: my favor, blame it on my confusion and lack of
Speaker 2: understanding of the international rate of exchange. The only thing
Speaker 2: I like to exchange at this point is my head
Speaker 2: with its two new lumps. Wishing you the same, yours truly,
Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar.
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