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for today's episode of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The original

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air at eight February tenth, nineteen fifty and this one

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is the SS Malay Tradership.

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Speaker 2: I'm now for Edmund O'Brien as yours truly, Johnny Dolla.

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Speaker 3: Edmundon O'Brien and another of the adventures of the Man

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with an Action tact. Expense account America's Fabulous Freeliance Insurance

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Investigator Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 4: Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to home

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office Intercontinental Marine Insurance Company is Hotford, Connecticut. The following

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is an accounting of my expenditures during my assignment aboard

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the FX Melee Trader. The ship was no court of course.

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Account Item one eighty dollars transportation from Hospital Savannah, Georgia,

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where after pausing only to grow a bed and deck

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myself out in Seamen's gob, I proceeded to the local

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hiring hall of the Seamen's juniors, bound.

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Speaker 5: For real detail. Heeds the mom on the ninety am.

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Speaker 6: I call it the one Baker one category one commident

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to eighties.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, we'll put the call right

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through right away. Yeah, what is it? The name is

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dollars I'm standing on the Melee Trader ordinary streaming special permit. Wait,

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let me stream?

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeah here it is insurance dick.

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Speaker 4: Huh. Well, I'm glad to go operate, though, thanks. Where

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do I find the ship perid directly? I'll be here

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on your island. Slip? What me hot cargo? Well maybe

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when I find out, you can read about it in

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the paper. Okay, so you're not talking. That's your business here,

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you slip now.

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Speaker 3: The best way to get there is to follow the

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railroad tracks, plaice and wear an outfit.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 4: My new home when I found a was neither pretentious, comfortable,

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or even seaworthy. She was a rusty old liberty ship

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that probably had a war record, but hadn't had a

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coat of paint in months. A winch's fallen aft were

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busy feeding heavy ratman covered bales into a gaping holes.

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A decks were alive with longshoremen, and set against all

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that activity, a bulky gent wearing an officer's cat, loud

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on a stool made ahead of the gangway, idling time

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with fingernails and a penknife. Yeah, what's your business? I'm

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signing on? Where do I find the chief out? Of it.

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I found him. I'm off step let me see useless

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Speaker 7: Yeah, oh okay, Doland, you're on.

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Speaker 4: The forty eight. Watch quarters of three. A just last thing, gotay?

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Speaker 7: Then I have to stop and said start up here

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to design later.

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Speaker 4: Right, So far that my story meant its seemed to

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be working. I was aboard the ship as a seamen,

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and a few seconds later I was shaking hands with

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a man who shared my quarter. Al wrote it on

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a salary for four years because in the Continental's marine investigator,

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I am, it's been a long time. How I'm fine.

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I'm fine. It's going to be working a casey again. Hey, yeah,

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they're all right to talking here. Yeah yeah, let's keep

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it down. I've been on this sub since it left

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Singapore and nobody's on to me yet. But play at

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Cagy on deck. How much did I tell you in

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jolly old Hartford. Well, they gave me just a basic

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situation that that Intercontinental hued a bunch of crude rubber

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from British melee before the evaluation of the British pounds

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doing half that I understand burned and awares in Singapore.

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Speaker 8: That's to the tune of over one hundred thousand insurance bucks.

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I flew out there signs a larson, but no proof.

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I follow the other half of the crop here at

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the Savannah. Hey, this company that owns Melee Traders kind

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of announced they a lot of angels, been up against

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British customs a few times, never nailed. They own their ships,

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and the branch here, headed by a mister Peela, imports

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basic commodities like the rubber and minerals. Well, it is

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that since this crude was insured before the British pound dropped,

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they can bring in more loop destroying it than they

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can filling it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I guess that too, and I take it to

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policy covers until they do. So that's it.

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Speaker 8: I thought we were getting rid of it here. They

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packed it away in their warehouse, but then three days

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ago they started loading it aboard again. That's why you

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were sent down.

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Speaker 4: That's a matter of how don't you think the company

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trusts you?

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Speaker 8: I guess they figure I need help and they're right.

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Where do you think we're bound? Well, my papers at

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Corpus Christy and the scuttle. But is that Corpus is

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just a stop that we clear there from Mexico Vera

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Cruz where arson investigation isn't what it could be. After

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that operation in Singapore? What else would they do?

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Speaker 7: Hell up? And yeah, I'll stop hip not to go

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through the company office corner of the warehouse.

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Speaker 4: Oh short time, okay, right away, sir.

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Speaker 8: Nice tries say. Oh, and if you will take a

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word of fatherly advice.

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Speaker 4: Well practically anything you say, go ahead.

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Speaker 8: That girl in the office, the Malaya in the half cast,

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she's the boss's daughter.

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Speaker 4: Am I am I that her appreciation or is it

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her name? Both?

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Speaker 8: But save your dreams. The chief, our friend hall staff

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is as possessive as he's big. And you know something,

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I don't blame him.

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Speaker 4: I didn't blame Horseta either. After I saw am I,

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you could tell she had enough accidental know how to

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be proud of what the Oriental did to her. Look ah, my, indeed,

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good afternoon. Hello, I'm here to find the article.

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Speaker 5: Oh what please?

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Speaker 4: Your name dollar, Johnny Dalla Dalla?

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Speaker 5: Are you a very thrifty man, mister Dallah?

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Speaker 4: Well hardly. My name is usually the only one I

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have to my name.

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Speaker 5: Yes, right here, I wish I was sailing with you.

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What what did you say that I wish I were

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sailing with you. I have begged with my father, but

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he will not let me go with him.

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Speaker 4: Your father's going with ushuh. I didn't know that I.

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Speaker 5: Beg some more. Once again, right here, you have nice hands, mister.

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Speaker 4: Dalla, nice hand. Now why did you say that?

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Speaker 5: I see so many hands here on my desk? Now

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I noticed that I'm a big and MP. I'm sure

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I'm a dirty and it's too which you pride, mister

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McLean from dishwatching.

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Speaker 4: But holleringly you see, well, I'd better get back to

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the shief.

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Speaker 5: Thanks, thank you. We hope that conditions during your voyage

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will meet with your approval, that you will accept employment

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with me.

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Speaker 4: And with those memorized words ringing in my ear, I

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thanked the luscious Am I again and proceeded ship. Was

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to take up my duties as a very ordinary freeman.

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I hope that her interest in my landlover hands really

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stem from her unusual hobby and not from suspicion. And

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I wondered why mister Peeler, her father and the local

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head of the suspect company, had decided to go with us.

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Had his doctor ordered a sea voyage for his health,

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or did he want to enjoy in person the odor

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of burning rubber. The next afternoon, Chicrgo had all been

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brought aboard, the ship was made ready to see, and

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I had sustained, along with multiple cuts and bruises, the

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ire of the bosom because I didn't know the difference

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between a preventer and a topping lift. But by the

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time night fell and the melee Trader was plunging down

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the Atlantic coast, I knew one thing. The sailor's life

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is not from me. How'd you make out?

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Speaker 9: Al?

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Speaker 8: Oh, nothing new.

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Speaker 4: Scuttle Butter is still there a cruise, but.

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Speaker 6: There's something screwy about it.

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Speaker 8: Johnny, you developer knows after you've snooped as many ships

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as I have, there's something wrong aboard.

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Speaker 4: What besides my seamanship, the old man, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: A lot of little things.

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Speaker 8: Of course. We're on for Florida Strait. The readings on

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the Dallas gauges, of course, the displacement ratio changes with

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different oceans and water temperature.

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Speaker 4: Look, look al, that's all Greek to me. Ballast gauges,

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displacement ratio. What are these things that are about me? Well,

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I don't know, just vague things that look come out

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on the four deck with me, will you? Yeah? Sure,

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probably just this overactive nose of mine.

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Speaker 8: But I want to get a look in one of

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these holes. Now there's a handstanding lookout, and if you'll

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go up there and keep his attention, I'll slip into

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the escape patch of number two. All I'll need is

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about ten minutes. I'll meet you in the cabin.

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Speaker 4: I made small talk with the lookout but ten minutes,

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then started back towards the cabin. Suddenly I heard a

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scuffle behind me. Yeah, is that you? And I heard

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someone running and I started after the during figure, but

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I didn't get very far. I stumbled over. Al rode

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his body by the open hatch, and there was a

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stamb wound in the back of his neck, just at

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the top of the spine. It was small enough to

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have been left there via ten knight. I didn't report

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that the chiefs made or the captain. I went over

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both their heads and I counted on the door of

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the owner, mister Pillar.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, one moment.

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Speaker 6: What does this mean?

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Speaker 4: There's been a killing down on deck? My watchmate Al

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rode it.

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Speaker 6: But this release he captain or mister where are they

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why do you come to me?

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Speaker 4: Because because I think a request from you as an order,

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I think sparked order Radio, the Coast Guard, the Sooners,

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the that.

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Speaker 6: Is kitting on my ship to believe it's from you.

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Speaker 4: No, no, I do not, man over lord, mister Peeler.

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A murder just turned into an accident.

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Speaker 6: In just a moment.

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Speaker 3: We returned to the second act of Johnny Dollar. But first,

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Kitty Callen will join Bornman Rose Caravan along most of

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these same CBS stations this Saturday night and on the

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CBS Gen Autry Show, The King of the Cowboys will

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bring you Ramona when the Bloom is on, the Sage

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and many another Western favorite. The Born Monroe Caravan and

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the Geen Outry shows are heard every Saturday night. Hear

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them tomorrow night in an hour of top pops and

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sage brush symphonies. Now with our star Edmond O'Brien, we

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returned to the second act of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 9: Mister horse, has the horse has come here? Mistill horse? Yes,

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horse has been Tobo.

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Speaker 4: Yes, one of the crew all overboard.

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Speaker 6: Then talk with this young man. He speaks of killing.

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Speaker 7: Kelly Chill Dollar.

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Speaker 4: That's his gup about Kelly hal Roder. He was stamped

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in the back of the neck a small knight.

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Speaker 7: This man is either drunk or crazy, mister Villa. Yes,

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I just stepped out on deck to check the running wife.

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Before I turned in saw the man leaning over the rail.

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Speaker 4: He was sick.

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Speaker 7: Ship rolled and he went over.

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Speaker 4: I guess that was a life jacket. I stun below that.

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What are you doing about the man overboard?

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Speaker 7: I'll thank you to remember your place on this ship.

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Speaker 4: I do, but I also remember al Roger doing what's

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prescribed by maritime law. I'm changing my course to circle

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and touch the area. Yeah, how about the coast guys,

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I mean not I fight in your time.

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Speaker 7: I'll either go to your quarters or get forward to

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the rest of the crew and look for this guy

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you're so worried about.

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Speaker 4: Where are you going the radio room? Even I know

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the coast guard gets first bid.

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Speaker 7: You'll listen to me, dollar, I'll have you up before

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a commission board. You'll never ship again if you don't

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obey my order and the boilers you might have got

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to your lifeboat station with the peeler.

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Speaker 4: Every time an explosion lifted the Mela trader up off

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the water lifted my make up with it. My heart

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must have been counting tool because I felt that high

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in my float and feeling that big sea going box

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of steel plates and boats shuddering up my seat. I

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painted sweat on my forehead and big sticking splashes and

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real fear on my soul. This would be getting dead

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the hard way. But finally the quivering of a ship

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came to a stop, calming down my own vibrations. It faded,

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then the tub started to list, giving me a new

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reason for keeping my mind off of taking a cut

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at horse Staff with the closest fire at the cool

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got panicky is a bunch of kids in a burning school.

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So while I tumbled with a light boat, I took

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a last running look at number two holes. There were

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still bloodstains on the decks where I found rotors, and

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next to them, besides the open hatch, I found something

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that horse Staff hadn't realized he lay or I hadn't

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had time to look for his pen pearl shell handle

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with an anchor, and bossed the slow I'd pulled back

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the top further and moved a few of the sectional

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hatch colors and got a look into the hole. There

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was enough light to see the cargo. It enough smoke

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curled out to tell me the explosion had not been

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in the boilers. Yeah. I had a fine case, except

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it was going down under my feet and I'd end

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up with everything but proof. It was shortly after dawn

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when the melee trader finally settled by the bow and

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went into a final clung everybody in the light. Bull

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turned lot to go, and the water quieted over her,

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and the only traces left were the hatch colors i'd

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pulled loom. There's a place miss as they'll.

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Speaker 7: Do it.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I keep it.

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Speaker 6: Thanks. Oh are you.

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Speaker 4: Page one and three, line twenty two Ship's articles You

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remember dollar?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's newspaper if you're missing from shipwrecks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. The guy would have to be stupid or dead

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to be lost in a thinking like that. Everything was

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too convenient, plenty of time to get the boat law,

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only four miles from shore. Yeah, they reported me missing

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because I didn't take time to report myself among the livings.

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You see, I couldn't wait to get back to Savannah,

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get back to you. When the King's side scheme cooked

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up in this office. I'm not promising anything, but a

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quick signed statement might help you. I'll write a new sign.

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Speaker 5: It you talk about scheme? What statement?

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Speaker 4: You ah? Come on, stop it? Look use the old

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sex pitch. Try to tell me that it'll be worth

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my while, But but don't try to sell me in it.

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Speaker 5: It's gony. You think I know about something, give me

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what it.

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Speaker 4: Look. If you're a bluffing, you can quit. I know

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that explosion on the ship was staged. The next step

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is to try to collect the insurance on the rubber

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that was lost. And that's the step I'm supposed to start. Yeah,

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it's my idea.

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Speaker 5: Oh I'm not understand.

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Speaker 6: You are a police.

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Speaker 4: Yeah in a way. In a way, I'm the police,

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and the real ones aren't far behind me, and you

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do not like me. Look, I wouldn't have any reasons.

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Speaker 5: I knew nothing upon it. I too do not lie.

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Speaker 4: Why do you think your father was taking this trip?

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Speaker 5: I did not question. You told me your business in corporate.

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Speaker 4: Christians and whole staff ideas. The newspapers will tell you

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why your father took the trip. Here look at this

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important fleet on a narrowly escaped death and explosion about

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his own ship. Who'd think of scuttling, with the aged

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owner taking the risk himself.

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Speaker 5: Huh, Scarlett in a few minutes too. Men, you love

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to come and dis criminal. I am only two. I'm

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not questioned my father. If he did this thing, he

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did it with reason. Now, what would you have me

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to do?

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Speaker 4: Oh stopped looking at me as if I started at all.

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I'm sorry, honestly, I am. It's clear to me now

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that she wasn't buying to hide my embarrassment. I read

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through the newspaper accounts of the sinking again. While she recovered.

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There were air photographs of the huge oils like the

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sinking ship had left on the surface. The only reminder

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now that the hatch covers had drifted away. The lack

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of wreckage was mentioned in the stories, and I remember

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now wrote a worrying about ballast and displacement. I looked

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up the number of a local chemist and I made

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a phone call. At all. Listen, doc, this may sound

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like a silly question, but it could be important. This

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crude rubber floats crude rubber do you mean for yeah,

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whatever you call it? Where it comes into the country

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rapped in rattan will it floats?

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Speaker 2: Obit?

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Speaker 4: They wait? I think it decreases as the temperature arises.

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You see, normally specific gravity is a little less than

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they're a water. Yeah, it would float, Yeah, it floats

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in the hold of a sunken ship with a hatch

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partly opened, it would force its way out and come

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to the surface. Yeah it floats, Yeah, but it didn't. Thanks,

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am I. How many warehouses as may Traders have here

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in Tavanna, here on the water, has anything moved out

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of them? Last night after the ship left.

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Speaker 5: No, nothing was moved. Do you know what does this mean?

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Speaker 4: Am I? I want you to wait here in the

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office for your father. When he comes. I want you

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to tell him that I'll be waiting for him in

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one of the warehouses, and that I know the truth.

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The Melee Trader warehouses were closed for the day, but

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my foot and a window opened them. Both were stack

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high with imported goods, and I picked my way through

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everything from leechy nut to ivory backstrashes. And the second one,

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hidden behind the wall of cotton ceylon tea, I found

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what I was looking for. They were unlabeled with traits.

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I opened one and the resilience mass inside was crude

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rubber still on dry land and still insured.

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Speaker 10: All right, old white horse, there's nothing left to hold.

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How are you made that for me?

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Speaker 4: Everything is finished, wound up. Time for the laws unless

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you can make another switch with that rubber before they

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get that rubber and the right yeah, and here for

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over a year. Come on, let's not waste time. You

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and Teela and I know there wasn't any rubber in

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Number two holes. You say that the sell after you

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got paid off for losing it, and I'll let the

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experts prove it. What ex oh they got all time?

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You know one group is going to ail you for murder.

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That's very funny, that's very funny. There's a pen knife

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a funny murder weapons. But I found one on the

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male trader on the deck me a number two holes.

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You've got a night Yeah, a pearl handle and a

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silver ranks are on it. You know, I get at

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least one hundred seamen would testify you girls that it's yours.

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I know, I will. I only wish I could be

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fifteen people when you hit the courtroom, the jewelry, the

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executing attorney that saw with misana sentencing judge, do you

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want to.

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Speaker 3: Save me in the court room?

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Speaker 4: How did I execute down here and shallows? Let the

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chair gas chamber? What come on? Tell me?

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Speaker 7: How do I have to look it up? I have

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to have more than I've got.

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Speaker 4: They got plenty. All I have to do is match

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up the weapon with a would look dollar right on?

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Scare razy.

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Speaker 7: I gotta make a confession.

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Speaker 4: Without a body? What do you mean without a sid?

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I gotta have a body. Anyone knows that you're getting

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ahead of yourself. Did I say they didn't have a body?

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You think those coach, god, helicopter and blim cruise are blind?

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Keep gone? You think a guy who's been a marine

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investigator as long as al Rooda had went around without

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figuring how to do his job even after he was dead.

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What do you think he wore around his middle a

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money belt for a life belt that would keep him afloat?

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Speaker 7: You're stupid.

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Speaker 4: Give me the knife. It's not only a knife, it's

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exhibit A and the prosecution will want it. Give me

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the knife, Domar, you don't want to shoot me, horse cant.

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How do you know I've got the knife with me?

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How do you know I haven't left it someplace with

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a note to the police that still I got your

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hands up in the sky. Hold on that all right,

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and not keep your hands still. I just turn around,

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don't move. It wasn't time be Queen's very.

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Speaker 10: Rude toast me.

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Speaker 6: I used my feet.

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Speaker 4: The first one landed on his shin, and I stayed

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with you forward on my hands and kicked out with

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those people into the solar Plexus would have stopped and order,

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And after I gave him a couple more, the big

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Chief's mate turned into just that an ordinary man. I

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turned whole staff over to the police, along with the

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murder weapon and the results of my blood. They took

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it from there to a concession. The suppeelo was slit

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of responsibility that our roads murders now being held on

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conspiracy to the fraud. I hope since the policy on

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the remaining cargo of Rubbick can now be canceled, Intercontinental

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is minimizing the monetary loss of Singapore to you. The

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loss is a little more than one hundred thousand dollars

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and an offer, as I have lost a friend expense

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account item two sixty three dollars getting my foot on

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a bar and my chin off my chain while waiting

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for a train to take me out of Savannah. I

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had them three eighty dollars transportation Savannah at a hunt

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had him four ten dollars public scenographer who took the

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dictation on this expense account. I had them five entertainment

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saint public stenographers who spent the evening proving that socially

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she didn't take dictations, also that she was no good

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at making me forget what I want so badly to

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forget the state of old expense account totals e skip

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if this one has done me, Yours Truly.

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Speaker 3: Jenny Down, Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars edmunds O'Brien in

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the title roles and is written by Paul Dudley and

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Gildalls with music by Leaps. Edmund O'Brien can currently be

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seen Starry in Harriem Hopkins Unit his Artist Productions DA.

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Featured in our cast were Lillian Bias, Mark and Yarborough,

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William Conrad, Elliott Reid, and Robert Griffins. Yours Truly Johnny

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Dollar is produced and directed by him del Bias. Join

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us again next week when Edmund O'Brien returns in another

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adventure of Truly j DLA, The Case of the Oblivious Angels,

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a true story of manhunt in Tennessee and Georgia is

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to be dramatized on Gangbusters this Saturday night. The story

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will have narration by the Chief of Police, who directed

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the successful search for the bandits. So for a half

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hour of real adventure as experienced by our forces combating crimes,

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listen in this Saturday on most of these same CBS

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network stations to Gangbusters story the Case of the Oblivious Angels.

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This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is CBS where yours truly,

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Johnny Dollar meets adventure every Friday night the Columbia Broadcasting System.

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Speaker 1: Our commentary today is brought to you by storyhack dot com.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: An interesting note that they use the current currency situation

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as a key plot point. Also, somebody did a lot

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of research into nautical terms to give it a really

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authentic feel. This one definitely does feel more like what

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we will come to be listening to in the O'Brien era,

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though it's not quite there. Yet, but definitely moving in

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that direction and away from the Russell style. All right, well,

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listener comments and feedback now, Bill writes in high att

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of the episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar that I've

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heard have been from the Bob Bailey era forward, so

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I've enjoyed hearing these episodes from the Charles Russell era.

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I think Russell did a great job as Johnny and

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enjoyed hearing about his later career. I look forward to

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hearing Edmund O'Brien and John lenn and their take on

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the role. Thanks well, thank you so much for the comment, Bill,

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and I hope you're enjoying the start of the O'Brien

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era so far. Well, I do want to go ahead

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and thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I

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want to thank Maggie. Maggie has been one of our

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and thank you so much for your support. All Right, Well,

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that will do it for today. Join us back here

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tomorrow for Dragnett, and then we will be back next

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Friday with another episode of Yours truly Johnny Dollar. In

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