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into today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doler. The original

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airdate on this one is March the seventeenth, nineteen fifty three,

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and this one is the King's Necklace Man.

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Speaker 2: John lund As Yours Truly Johnny dot expense account submitted

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by Special Investigator Johnny Dallar to home office Eastern Indemnity

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and Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting

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of expenditures during my investigation of the King's Necklace matter.

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Expense account it of won one hundred and thirty four

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dollars and seventy cents airfare and incidentals between Hartford and Miami.

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Waiting at the airport has promised, was your Southern States

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Agency Manager Marty Fenton. Over a cup of brew in

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the coffee shop, he briefed me on the assignment. Ever

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heard of King Rawlings? Johnny King Rawlings financial tacooon, Wasn't

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he retired some fifteen twenty years ago, that's the lad.

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About a year ago he wrote a policy and a

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quarter of a million dollar necklace that he owned, which

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has suddenly turned up among the missing. Not yet you

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expect it to now.

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Speaker 3: We got a letter from him day before yesterday he

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claimed somebody attempted to break into his safe. Thinks they

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were after the necklace. Well, I'm usually sent for after

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the crime has been committed. True, my lad, True, past

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the sugar?

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Speaker 2: Will you pray? Sure? So what am I doing here now?

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Speaker 3: The policy is coming up for renewal, Johnny, And there

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have been nasty rumors circulating around about Rawling's present financial condition.

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Speaker 2: Brady's starting a build up to put in a fraudulent.

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Speaker 3: Claim done before the boys in Hartford get pretty stuffy

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about that kind of skulldugree. And we want you to

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check around Losponos and see what you come up with.

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Speaker 2: Is that where the gentle sea breezes wafted through the

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palm trees?

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Speaker 3: Two thousand important ones? Los Banos is rolling his own

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personal island off the.

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Speaker 2: Coast of Cuba. He's lived there for twenty.

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Speaker 3: Years, surrounded by his memories, his trees, and his collection

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of precious stones.

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Speaker 2: People, Oh, your.

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Speaker 3: Planes waiting, Johnny. I hired a little amphib let's brush

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off the collection of people. Who am I to prejudice

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of stalwart investigator about to brave the dangers of rolling

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xile on your way land, May the blessings of eastern

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in denverity folly you even under the.

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Speaker 4: Ends of Los Bonas.

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Speaker 2: After one and a half hours of white clouds and

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blue sky, the plane put down in an even bluer

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sea and taxied over to a landing dock on a

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picture book island. King Rowlings had collected palm trees, all right,

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but I didn't know about the people. From where I stood,

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there was nothing to be seen with the landing dock,

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a gravel path, and those trees. The path led through

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a seemingly deserted tangle of exotic flowers, sweet scented vines,

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and the ever present palm trees. It was like a

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tropical paradise, peaceful, serene, untouched by men. I just about

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decided that nobody on this island ever made use of

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this lush garden spot. When I learned that I couldn't

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have been more wrong. Well, oh, wherever you are.

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Speaker 5: Over here in the clearing to your right, Hello, who

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are you?

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Speaker 2: My name's Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 5: I am NA.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad to know you, Miss Valdez.

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Speaker 5: You are the men who are arrived on the plain

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a few minutes ago.

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Speaker 3: Now, I didn't think anyone heard. The hospitality is overwhelming.

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Speaker 5: You would become accustomed to it. Everyone here is too

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occupied himself to bother concerning anyone else. Like me, I

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have been too busy sunbathy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so I noticed.

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Speaker 5: If it bothers you, you could hand in my rood.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, that won't be necessary.

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Speaker 5: See done, mister Donald. Hiks, you have come to see

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the King about the attempt to steal his necklace.

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Speaker 2: Apparently sunbathing has interfered with your learning about that.

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Speaker 5: You obviously do not know King Rollings very well. Why

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do you say that everyone on this island has been

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accused of attempting to say.

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Speaker 2: Including you?

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Speaker 5: Why should I be an exceptions?

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Speaker 2: I was just wondering because.

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Speaker 5: I'm young and beautiful. You think perhaps I hold some

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special place at esteeming King Rollings affections?

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Speaker 2: Well do you.

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Speaker 5: And you reach that stemolution?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Sure, the butt of my shoulders. Would you mind? It

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is a difficult place for me to read.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'll be glad to.

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Speaker 5: About the necklace, mister daughter. I would not be too

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concerned about.

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Speaker 2: It if I were you oh, why not?

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Speaker 5: Well, if anyone had actually made an attempt to steal it.

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The king knows who.

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Speaker 2: He is, but he still accused everybody here. Huh.

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Speaker 5: It affords him a great deal of pleasure to make

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others squirm and be uncomfortable.

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Speaker 2: You don't like him very much, do you? And why

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do you stay here?

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Speaker 5: Same reason as every one else? Money? Oh, that would

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do nicely.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, You're welcome. You mind explaining that bit about money,

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Miss Valds.

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Speaker 5: Later, perhaps my son is still warm and I wish

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to take advantage of it. We will meet again.

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Speaker 2: A polite dismissal if I ever heard one.

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Speaker 5: You are wondering, perhaps why I stopped you to talk

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this one.

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Speaker 2: The thought had occurred to me.

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Speaker 5: Yes, when you meet the king, get to know him

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a little, I think you would understand whom. And if

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I don't, I sunday here every day.

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Speaker 2: Beston, I'll think about that too. I found that Rawlings,

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like all good kings, lived in a castle, this one

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obviously imported stone by stone from some Moorish province. A

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nervous little man came to the main gate and escorted

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me inside to the baronial hall.

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Speaker 6: Harley is my name? Mister Dollar. Timothy B. Harley, I'm

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mister Rowling's secretary in here, mister Rowling's study. He bedown

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to Johnia shortly.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, mister Harley.

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Speaker 6: I presume you're here about the necklace, mister doner.

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Speaker 2: A favorite topic of conversation around here. Isn't it a

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big part? The necklace?

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Speaker 6: Oh? Yes, across well, under the circumstances you see, the

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attempted theft and all it as someone else mentioned.

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Speaker 2: It to any reason? Why they shouldn't.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, no, no no, no, don't know it

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just did?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 6: Was it Nita about days? By any chance?

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Speaker 2: What makes you think so? Why?

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Speaker 6: Nothing? Oh no, no, nothing at all? Only you see

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it was away to tell you the truth. I have

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suspected something for a long time. It's come to my attention.

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Speaker 7: You talk too much, Charlie.

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Speaker 6: Oh, mister Rawlings, Oh I didn't hear you come here?

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And I would just tell.

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Speaker 7: Me you're from the insurance company.

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Speaker 3: That's right, Johnny Dollar, Why you instead of Murdy Fenton.

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Speaker 2: He's an agent. I'm a special investigator.

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Speaker 3: I didn't request an investigation. You made a report of

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an attempt at robbery.

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Speaker 7: What do you want me to do? Have you to

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declare the policy void because I didn't.

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Speaker 2: What do you want us to do? Thank you for

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letting us pay out a quarter of a minion If

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the necklace turns up missing.

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Speaker 7: Over here, Dolly, there's a safe I keep it in.

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Speaker 2: Pretty substantial job.

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Speaker 7: Fenton supervised the installation himself.

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Speaker 2: Those scratches near the combination, that was what made you

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think somebody tried to force it.

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Speaker 7: Only a hammer and chisel could make those marks.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to see the necklace. Boy, who do you

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think was after it? Either Harley or my protege need.

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Speaker 2: A well it is twice suspect them.

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Speaker 7: They love money and hate me.

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Speaker 2: You care to go into that.

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Speaker 7: You're investigating the necklace dollar, not my relationships with the

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people on this island.

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Speaker 2: There it did beautiful workmanship.

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Speaker 7: What else did you expect for a quarter of a

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million dollars a little more.

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Speaker 2: Than this rollings? I'm no expert on precious stones, but

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ten will get your twenty if these aren't paste. Let

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me see.

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Speaker 7: You're right, Dawn.

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Speaker 2: Any explanations, No, you have no idea how to switch

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was pulled? I have not. When was the last time

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the necklace was appraise? When the biology was written. Who

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else has the combination of this safe?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 2: One kind of puts you in a spot, doesn't it?

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Speaker 7: Not at all? I'm insured.

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Speaker 2: The law says we don't have to pay off on

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fraudulent claims.

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Speaker 6: I know.

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Speaker 8: The law also says you have to prove that fraud exists.

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Speaker 2: I broke the news to mart Even and looked around

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for something to improve the shining hours while waiting for

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him to arrive. I found it, dressed in a clinging

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silk gown and a patio overlooking the sea. It was

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obviously the cocktail hour. Mind if I joined him?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Please do?

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Speaker 3: I can't make up my mind to harden for Donner,

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which shows you off to greater advantage a dress or

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the sunset?

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Speaker 5: For that you may have a choice of rewards. Got you, Martini?

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Speaker 2: Nothing? Thanks? Well?

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Speaker 5: What did you think of.

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Speaker 2: Him the King?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 2: I'm more interested in what you think of him?

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Speaker 5: I have already told you.

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Speaker 2: I know. He confirmed your statement.

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Speaker 5: That I hate him. M h you can believe it.

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Speaker 2: I do. What I want to know is why King

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Rowlings is a collector stamps butterflies. How the state license

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plates keep to mister dollar? How is this fascinating game?

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Of his work.

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Speaker 5: He specializes in inspiring artists with little no, no talent,

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actress like myself, it would be poet like Harley. He

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baits his trap with the promise of money to aid

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their careers, keep them dangling as long as they can

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amuse him and feed his ego. Then he cast them off.

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Speaker 2: Very amusing, Yes, isn't it? But if you know what

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he is, why stay on?

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Speaker 5: Oh it's much easier to cling it into a remnant

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of a dream and to facety harshness of reality.

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Speaker 2: How tough would it be the face reality with a

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quarter of a million dollars the necklace is gone? Is

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that surprising?

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Speaker 5: No, it was too great a temptation for you, for

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either of us, if we had not the combination to

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that safe. No, mister Dollar, it was the King himself

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was tempted.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't figure, not with his money if he still

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has it, Why do you think he hasn't?

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Speaker 5: What other answer could there be?

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Speaker 2: Might be interesting to try to find out how.

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Speaker 5: You would be wasting your time?

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Speaker 2: Mister Do I've got some despair?

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Speaker 5: Perhaps I could find use for it.

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Speaker 2: I don't have any money.

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Speaker 5: Oh that was rather cruel, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 10: Oh, yes, yes, of course.

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Speaker 2: Yes, quite the excitement.

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Speaker 6: Hardy tell me, is it true that the necklace has

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been stolen?

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Speaker 2: Looks like it? Why?

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Speaker 6: I wonder if that could possibly account for it? But what,

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mister Rawlings, he's lying on the second floor landing. I

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think he's dead.

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Speaker 2: Timothy B. Harley couldn't have been more right. King Rawlings

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was lying stone cold dead on the second floor landing.

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When Marty Fenton flew in three hours later, accompanied by

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a Captain Puentes of the Havannah Police, I gave them

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a fast briefing. Marty's reaction was predictable.

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Speaker 3: Nobody could show off this island until we learn what's

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happened to that necklace? Right, Captain twenty is yes?

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Speaker 2: I agree?

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Speaker 11: So you were a fainting up to a certain point.

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Speaker 2: What point? What do you mean? The good Captain apparently

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feels there might be something more important about all this

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than a missing necklace.

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Speaker 3: What could be more important than a quarter of a

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million in stolen jewels?

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Speaker 2: How about murder? Never ended my mind? Naturally, not Eastern

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indemnity only ensured rolling stones, not his life gets ahead.

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Speaker 11: That coming Senor Dollar is quite correct, however, because of

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Senor Rawlings' death is not the parent at the moment.

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It will require an autopsy to determine, and if it's murdered,

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we must then regard everyone who was present upon this

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island with suspicion. What help can you give us regarding

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that Senor dollar.

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Speaker 2: Well, just what I've told you. Outside of the servants,

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only Harley, Miss Valdez and I were among those present.

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Speaker 11: And who was the last to see Senor Rawlings alive?

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Speaker 2: So far as I know, I was, But Harley could

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have been with him after Rawlings left me in the study.

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For that matter, Miss Valdez could have seen him too

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before our little tete and ted on the patio.

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Speaker 3: Look fellows me, lads, I don't want to appear single

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minded about this little affair, but we don't know whether

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Rawlings was murdered or not. However, we do know Eastern

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indemnities out of cool two hundred and fifty g's. If

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that necklace doesn't turn.

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Speaker 11: Up payable, of course to Senor Rawlings estate, Sure who

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cares who it's payable to?

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Speaker 4: What I'm interested in is not paying it.

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Speaker 2: Thinking of possible motives captain the air.

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Speaker 11: Through Senor Rollings fortune might will be suspect.

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Speaker 4: So whoever stole the necklace if Rawlings are tumbled to.

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Speaker 2: Him, and there's always plain hate, isn't there?

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Speaker 11: You have something specific in mind, Senior Dollar, just a suggestion.

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Speaker 2: Captain Twenny's had his plane fly Rollings body back to

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Havana for posting while he conducted a very thorough, if

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on enlightening questioning of those present. Apparently no one had

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seen Rawlings after he left me in the study, had

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any idea how he died or what had happened to

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that necklace. Wewendy's knocked off around midnight and everyone ostensibly

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went to bed. I still had a few unanswered questions

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kicking around, so I went up to Harley's room to

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try them out.

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Speaker 6: Why, yes, mister Dollar, mister Rawlings had a will, But

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as I told Captain Fuentes, it's locked in the.

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Speaker 2: Sea and it'll take a court order and some professional

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safe crackers to get at it. I know. But what

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about the cop copy? It's customary for the attorney who

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drew it up to retain a copy.

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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, of course, I hadn't thought Signor Chavez must

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have one in Havana.

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Speaker 2: He's an attorney there.

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Speaker 6: Yes, a matter of fact, he handled most of mister

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ollins financial affairs. But he must have a copy. Oh

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why don't you ask him?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I will, But first I'd like to know why

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you were planning to leave Los Agnles leave it?

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Speaker 6: Well? How did you know?

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Speaker 2: Well? Maybe you can think of another reason for having

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a half filled suitcase lying there on your bed.

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Speaker 6: Oh? Years, of course I was planning to leave. No

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reason why I shouldn't. After all, my employment here has

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been terminated.

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Speaker 2: Have you discussed the idea with Captain Fluens? Well?

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Speaker 6: No, but why should he object?

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Speaker 2: I'm not guilty of anything, just a thought? Hardy mind?

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If I take a look at that suitcase?

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Speaker 6: No, don't touch that.

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Speaker 2: I don't. Well what do you know around paper parcel?

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Neatly wrapped and tired? Do you mind telling me what's

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in it?

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Speaker 11: It's none of your business.

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Speaker 2: Put that down. It wouldn't be a necklace by any chance,

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would it?

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Speaker 6: Put it down? Dollar?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Sure, right away. Well that's interesting. All new crisp

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and one hundred dollars denominations must be close to ten

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thousand dollars.

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Speaker 11: But what of it? It's mine?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't doubt that. I'm just wondering where you've

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got it. I saved it working for Rawlings.

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Speaker 7: Yes, why not?

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Speaker 11: I saved it working for Rawlings.

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Speaker 2: It's mine, Okay, Holley, I don't want it. Don't you

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really know why Captain Plenty's might object to your leaving now?

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Speaker 6: No, I most certainly don't.

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Speaker 2: Remarkable. There wasn't anything I could do before morning rolled

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around except smoke a lass cigarette and try to think

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things out. So I went out in the same patio

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where Anita and I had had our talk and lit

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up the one cigarette turned into two. Then I started

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to light a third one. That was a mistake. I

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saw the muzzle flash. It came from somewhere inside a

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clump of palm trees, but with a full moon behind me,

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I wasn't going to get heroic about it. I made

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a diet for a concrete retaining wall. I didn't think

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the shots i'd snapped out had done any good, and

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I had no intention of finding out now with that

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moon lighting things up, So I made myself comfortable with

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my back to the wall and waited for the Cuban

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Marines and the person of Captain Puentes to come charging

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to the rescue. Some fifteen minutes later, Marty the captain

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and I held a council of war. On our way

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down to the landing ducks, I.

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Speaker 11: Found these two empty shells, one of the pump tree

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signor dollars, but that was all no trace of the

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person who fired him.

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Speaker 2: What about Harley?

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Speaker 11: He's not in his room. So far I've been unable

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to locate him.

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Speaker 3: Hardly seems reasonable, Johnny. What could be so important about

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that money you saw to make him want to kill you?

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Speaker 2: I don't know that he did, Marty, but I'd like

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to ask him a couple of questions about him.

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Speaker 11: But why come down here to the boathouse, Senor?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 2: With here a plane gone, there's only one way off

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this island, crawling speedboats. We'd better make sure they're locked

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up tight. One of the slips is empty. It wasn't

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when I got here. We heard no boat signor Well,

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that's nothing that a paddle and a pair of willing

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arms can't explain. Harley, that's my guess, and it's ten

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to one.

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Speaker 4: He has the necklace with him.

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Speaker 2: Expenser can item too. Five dollars and sixty five cents breakfast.

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But in Havana, when Martin Fatton and I found the

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book and villa and the tourist rates in full bloom.

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We wanted to talk to Senor Chavez Rawlings lawyer, and

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after a rough trip on one of the speedboats and

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that rougher breakfast tab, we made our way to his office.

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Speaker 10: See, I have a copy of Senior Rowlings will. What

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do you understand I cannot disclose its contents until the

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courts so.

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Speaker 2: Order we don't want to need the tail, Senor Chavez.

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Speaker 10: Huh, but I understood you were inquiring about beneficiaries.

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Speaker 2: All we want to know is if he left anything

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to Timothy Harley or Anita Valdez.

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Speaker 3: I see, we've explained the circumstances, Senor Chavez. It can't

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violate any professional ethics to give us a yes.

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Speaker 4: Or no to those two names.

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Speaker 10: No, no, I do not believe it is unethical to

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tell you this much. No individuals were named in the will,

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only charitable and public welfare institutions.

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Speaker 2: Well, h the heir apparent angle Jenny. One more thing,

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Senor Chavez. There have been rumors that Raleigh's fortune was

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almost gone. Any truth to them not? They bee?

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Speaker 10: All his investments were most judiciously pleased. He was perhaps

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wealthier at the time of his death and at any

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time during his life.

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Speaker 2: You've been a big help. Thanks for Nala.

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Speaker 10: It is an at turner's duty to wait the low

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is you know anytime you are here in Avana, please

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to stop piny would be my pleasure and.

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Speaker 3: Will do any Shavis, thanks again. It was a great

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help and cleaned up some loose hands, so loose necklace.

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I'm worried about, Jenny. Where do we go from here?

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Speaker 2: We can check out the local police see if they've

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picked up anything on Harley. Good as anything.

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Speaker 4: I guess, Oh which.

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Speaker 2: Way we passed it on the way up here.

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Speaker 9: It is most fortunate that you're still here.

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Speaker 10: There's a phone call for you in my office from

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the island of Los Vegs.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thanks, Senor Shavis. There on my desk, Senor Johnny Allen,

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this is Captain Pointe. Sen your dollar. I have some.

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Speaker 9: Information for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh what is it? Captain?

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Speaker 9: First of all, the autopsy report on Senior Rollings has.

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Speaker 2: Come in natural death.

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Speaker 9: See that is correct, from an old aggravated heart condition.

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But how did you know?

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Speaker 2: No real reason for anybody to murder him? What else?

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Speaker 9: We have found Senor Harley's body at the northern of

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the island.

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Speaker 11: Apparently his motor staffed.

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Speaker 9: And desert dashed him against the rocks. His skull was fractured.

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Speaker 2: You didn't find the necklace, aland no, but he is

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the one who stole it, that makes you think. So.

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Speaker 9: In his wallet we found a slip of paper signor

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on it was written the combination of.

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Speaker 1: The safe.

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Speaker 2: Expense account item three thirty five dollars transportation of speedboat

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back to Los Bernice. With Captain twenty's report, there was

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no need to report directly to the island, and Marty

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was anxious to get back to the office and bring

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you up to date, so he charted a plane and

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we took off from Miami. Well, Jenny, my lad, we'll

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chuck up another happy collaboration. Huh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you might call it that money the king there was, Yeah, somehow,

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I don't think Rawlings was a very happy man, with

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all his dough hold up on that island, nothing but

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hate around him.

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Speaker 2: No, money is not the answer to everything. No, but

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as the.

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Speaker 3: Saying goes, it sure helps. But then I guess it

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didn't help Harley much either. And I wonder if we'll

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ever find.

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Speaker 2: That necklace, it'll turn up pretty optimistic coun'try.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm sure of it. Oh come on, Johnny, give

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where do you think it is? Right there in your briefcase.

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Speaker 4: It's not a very funny gag, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: No, Marty, it's not. How about changing the snapper? I

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wish I could, Marty, But it figured all along, looking

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for every possible loophole, I guess, but they all closed

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up on me. Where did I slip or they all

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slip at the very beginning when you first thought of it?

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What tipsure? Rawlings swore that only he knew the combination

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of that safe. He was wrong. One other man knew it,

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the one who supervised its installation. Hum, I should have

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known you'd tumbled to that. The paste pinned it down

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even closer, Marty. The reproduction was too good. No wonder

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you had every descriptive detail in your copy of the policy, weights, dimensions, photographs, everything.

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I didn't go back to the island, Johnny. How could

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I make the switch? That's where Harley came in. You

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slipped him the combination, and he made the switch. That's

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why the ten thousand payoff and why you had to

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kill him, and the frame it as an accident.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I should have killed you too when I had

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the chance on the patio.

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Speaker 2: You've still got your gun? Yeah, what's the use wrong?

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All the way?

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Speaker 4: Besides, I never could outshoot you.

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Speaker 2: Expense account Item four thirty two dollars and fifteen cents

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hotel bill and incidentals in Miami. Item five one hundred

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and forty one dollars and ten cents plain fare and

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incidentals back to Hartford. Expense account total three hundred and

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forty eight dollars and sixty cents marks with all due

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deference to my chosen profession. Sometimes this is a lousy business.

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Here's truly Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 12: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars John Lund in the title

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role and was written by Sydney Marshall with music by

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Milton Charles. Featured in tonight's cast were Jack Moyles, Lillian Bayer,

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Tom Tully, Howard McNair, Nester Piva, and Don Diamond. Yours

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Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed in Hollywood by

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him Delvai. This is Charles Lyon inviting you to join

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us again next week at the same time when from Hollywood,

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John Lound returns as Yours Truly Johnny Dalla.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Okay, this is probably one of my favorite

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stories of the Lund era. It is just so cleverly written,

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with the death of the policy holder actually being this

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whole red herring, and the revelation it was the insurance

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00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:38,000
agent really surprised me. I think they just did a

506
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good job throwing us off the trail with so many

507
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other aspects. I say it surprised me the first time

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because this one did stick out in my mind because

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it was so well applauded, and every time I hear

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Jack Moyle's playing an insurance company guy, I kind of think,

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is this that episode? And ye know, this time it was,

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And I could just kind of appreciate all the little

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misdirection they gave, but at the same time, they gave

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you the clues so you could have figured it out.

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I liked how he even started to get philosophical about

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how money didn't bring happiness. You know, that was the

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degree to which you know he was being sneaky and

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hoping that he'd played Johnny, only to find out at

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the end that he.

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Speaker 2: Had gone wrong.

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Speaker 1: And I also appreciate the realism of him not trying

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some desperate getaway. These sort of scenarios were kind of irresistible.

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They were like candy to many writers of the era

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who just couldn't help it. But in this case, he

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saw there was just no way of getting away, and

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you know, all he was going to do probably was

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do himself some mischief or get himself killed. So I

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liked how they managed to keep the story round it

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that way. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter

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