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From September fourteenth, nineteen fifty eight, here is the wayward

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Diamonds manner.

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Speaker 2: From Hollywood. It's time now for.

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Speaker 3: Jenny Dollar.

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Speaker 4: Peter Henley at Western Maritime and Property.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, mister Henley, I found this.

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Speaker 4: Message to call you. You still in town at the

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Beverly Hilton.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's right.

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Speaker 4: I thought you'd be back in Hartford by now.

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Speaker 3: When I can enjoy a spot like this on expensive

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count What this California weather? The swimming pool here at

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the hotel?

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Speaker 4: Wait, no, no, wait, you say on expensive count.

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Speaker 3: Why sure, goll it you cleared.

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Speaker 5: Up that metaphorse, you proved conclusively that Randolph Merrill did

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not lose his yacht and the explosion of the sinking faith.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 5: And incidentally, as you anticipated, the yacht was found in

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a small Mexican seaport, all ready to be rebuilt and

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repaid to thoroughly disguise. Now, mister Henley, Oh, by the way,

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in spite of his earlier vindictiveness, Merril has decided to

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plead guilty and threw himself.

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Speaker 3: On the mercy of the court as he signed a confession. Well, no,

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then I'll bet he changes his tune by the time

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he goes to trial. Oh sure, that's an old trick

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to slow things up gain time. Are you having missus

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Merrill held as an accessory?

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Speaker 5: Merrell has made and signed a statement completely clearing is

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so hold her now would only complicate matters.

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Speaker 3: Hanley, Either you haven't yet read my expense account, or

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I forgot to, or I forgot to tell you what

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tipped me off that that bear was trying to pull

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something on us?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: What was it for jewels? That you'd ensured it for

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one hundred thousand dollars. Oh no, oh, yes, Hanley, that

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jewelry Missus Merrill showed us was fake paste a dollar

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You you still think I how to go back to

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Hartfred No, no, no.

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Speaker 5: No, no no, not until you found out where the

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real jewels are.

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Speaker 4: Can you come down to the office, Misdella right away?

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Speaker 3: Sure if you like?

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no, I'll drive out there to

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your hotel.

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Speaker 3: Whatever you say.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I'll drive out there. I'll be there right away.

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Speaker 3: Scotch and so to be all right? What you suddenly

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sound as though you could use it?

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Speaker 2: Drink Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man

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with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigators.

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Speaker 3: Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny

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Dollar the Western Maritime and Property Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California,

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following is account of expenses encourage during my investigation of

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the Wayward Diamonds matter. Expense account had a one, two

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dollars and a quarter for drinks in my room at

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the Beverly Hilton. By the time room service had delivered them,

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collected the tip and left. Peter Hanley arrived.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, come in, I make no bones about it, mister Doner.

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I had completely forgotten about those jewels of missus Merrill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I can't say that I blame you. We

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were so intent on exposing the so called singing in

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that yacht exactly. All right, all right, relax here, come

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on now, sit down and relax while we map out

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a plan of action.

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Speaker 6: Thank you. After you hung up, I suddenly remembered that

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you had mentioned the fact that those jewels were fake

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to missus Merrill herself.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, all.

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Speaker 6: Right, Well, well, how did you know that they were fakes?

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Speaker 3: Miss Donna? You remember when we sat in their living

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room out in Westwood while they gave us that cock

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and bull story about the yacht going down. Yes, yes,

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I remember, all right, She handed me the jewels to

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look at. They kind of absent mindedly drag one of

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the so called diamonds across the glass top of the

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coffee table and realized it didn't scratch it. Now did

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any of the others, which proved they weren't diamonds at all,

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but some kind of imitations. Look, why kid about it, Hanley.

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Up to that point, they'd had me believing their story

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about losing that yacht.

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Speaker 6: You weren't alone, Dollar, You weren't alone. But now I

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suppose we'd better call in the police about that jewelry.

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Why the police to see if they can find the original?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 3: Look, look, the meryals are a clever pair. They proved

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that when they almost got away with one hundred and

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fifty thousand dollars claim against you for a boat that

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didn't sink after all.

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Speaker 6: Very true, Dollar, very true. So you can be.

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Speaker 3: Pretty sure they didn't take the diamonds out of that

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jewelry and just hand them over to some fence around here.

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Speaker 6: Yes, you're right. Later, I suppose she figured to lose

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the fakes, have them stolen, and then claim the insurance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, probably, if we hadn't had the old man for

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the yacht fraud. You say she hasn't been held.

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Speaker 6: No, but I see now that she should have been,

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in spite of her husband's statement that she was completely

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innocent of any complicity in the whole ski.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think she should have. You know, it's going

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to take a lot of money to defend him, and

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with him in the clink, she's the logicale to raise.

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Speaker 6: It with the diamonds, the real diamond huh, that's my guess.

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Very well, then I'll go over to the police headquarters

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right away, charge it with fraud, you know, because of

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the diamonds themselves, and see that she is held until

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she tells us where we can recover them.

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Speaker 3: And you better get evidence of fraud first. The fact

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that she's substituted paced with the real diamonds in that door, well,

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a lot of people do that, never wear the real

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stuff in public unless they have a lot of guards around. Well,

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even though, no, Hanny, you've got to prove that she's

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actually got rid of the real ones or tries to.

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You see, I don't think she's had a chance to yet.

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Speaker 4: Why not?

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Speaker 3: No, no, listen, I'm running up a nice fat item

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for you on my expense account. What kind of an item, Well,

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so far it only amounts to one dred hundred and

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fifty dollars what for fee to a private detective agency

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somebody at the tailor, twenty four hours a day.

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Speaker 6: In the hope of finding out what she's doing with

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the genuine stones.

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Speaker 3: It's more important to find out how she'll try to

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dispose of them.

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Speaker 6: But you may have done that sometime ago.

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Speaker 3: I don it Why it's only recently they've needed dough. Granted,

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they had two plans, the phony singing of the yacht

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and later, if that worked, a phony loss of their

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phony diamonds. But why later to run them both together?

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It looks suspicious. What's more, apparently saving the jewels made

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the yacht accident look legitimate.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I suppose, sure, I remember this.

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Speaker 3: She made a big thing of having saved her jewelry.

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Speaker 6: When we still believed the wreck was legitimate.

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Speaker 3: That's right. She made a big point of displaying those

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phonies to us because she wanted to be sure we'd

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not only see them, but believe they were the originals,

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that we'd be witnessed to the fact she still had them.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I see, but you must recall that you finally

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recognized them as peace.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like you and I almost forgot about it, simply

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because they had nothing directly to do with the matters

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at hand, And she may think that we haven't forgotten.

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I mean, I doubt it. The point is now she

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needs money. He saw to it that she stayed free

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to raising.

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Speaker 6: The diamonds are probably her only way of getting it.

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Speaker 3: Which is why I put a detective on her. Oh

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excuse me, Johnny Dollar. Yeah what.

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 9: Hot it?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Well, look I'll be right over.

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Speaker 3: Oh that detective I was talking about, it's just lost

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his job.

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Speaker 6: I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: He just came to came to. Yeah, it's the home

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of missus Merrill. He's in her home, yes, but she

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isn't She's gone.

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Speaker 2: Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.

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Speaker 10: Although most men by nature don't feel in a comeba

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mood much of the time, there are some who just

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can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if it

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is a good sound reason for it. In July nineteen hundred,

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when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty

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of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising, the battle

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was a furiously fought affair. Army Private Robert H. Pon Schlick,

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serving with Company C of the ninth United States Infantry Division,

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was in the thick of the Frakis. Although he had

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been wounded previously while carrying a wounded comrade to a

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place of safety, he rejoined his command, which partly occupied

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an exposed position.

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Speaker 4: On a dike.

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Speaker 10: Private pons Schlick remained there after his company had been withdrawn,

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and in spite of the hail of bullets around him,

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single handedly continued to fire into the enemy ranks. Oblivious

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to the fact that he was a conspicuous target, he

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refused to leave the fight until he was literally shot

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off his position by the enemy. Private Robert Pont Schlick

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earned the Medal of Honor for valiant devotion to duty

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and added heroic background to the Code of Conduct of

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American Fighting Men.

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Speaker 2: And now Act two of yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar and

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the Wayward Diamonds.

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Speaker 3: Matter in separate cars. I still had my rental job,

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Pete Hanley, the insurance man, and I drove out to Westwood,

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just beyond Beverly Hills.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Sure, that detective was here at the Mellow home

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when he called.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what he said.

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Speaker 2: But if he was supposed to simply tail it.

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Speaker 3: Come on, come on, Yeah, that's right, and I take it.

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Just Sam Benjamin, Holy smoke, what happened to you? Where's

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missus Merrill? Well? I told you on Aphomus the dollars

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she's gone, and the idea of where.

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Speaker 4: You matter.

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Speaker 6: If I said I don't feel good.

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Speaker 3: No, no, go ahead, go on. So all right, Joel said,

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Now what happened?

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Speaker 11: Well, I was walking up and down the street. Ha,

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you know, real casual. So it's not there, rosinal.

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Speaker 3: You've been walking up and down in front of this

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house all morning.

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Speaker 10: All morning.

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Speaker 11: But like I say, real casuals, Where did you ever

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learn to be a detective?

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Speaker 3: Some correspondence course on.

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Speaker 8: A luck dollar?

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Speaker 11: You shouldn't talk like that, I.

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Speaker 3: Resented, Okay, all right, go ahead and resent it. But

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prowling up and down in front.

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Speaker 8: Of the house.

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Speaker 11: My brother was a very good detectiator. Yeah, and if

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you didn't think I was a good operator, if he

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wouldn't be all right, what happened, Well, I see it

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come out the back door, you know, missus Merlin wow,

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And I say it go out and she opens up

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the garage and why were you my good luck? I

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just happened to be in front of the driveway about then,

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so real casual. I lean over and I start tying

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up my shoe laces, you know, so she won't get suspicious,

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go on, go on. Well, well she gets in the

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car and she gives me a look. But that's all

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so I figures me be as a casual lull. She's

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not wise to what I'm doing around here.

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Speaker 3: You know, I bet she was. But that's where you're wrong, Dollar, because.

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Speaker 11: Somehow she must have figured it out, even with me

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being as a.

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Speaker 3: Casual all right, all right, what happened?

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Speaker 9: Dollar?

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Speaker 11: She comes bown out of garage so fast.

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Speaker 3: I didn't have hard She casually ran you down, so it.

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Speaker 11: Was casual about it by the time picked myself up.

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In the final I got ay bust the bone. She's

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down the street and around the corner.

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Speaker 3: What kind of a car was she driving? What was

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the license number?

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Speaker 10: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You don't know well, whoever assigned you to this job?

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Speaker 8: I told you my brother.

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Speaker 11: Don't you will say anything about my brother.

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Speaker 3: Did you get into this house? My order said, if

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she made me move, I was to phone you. I

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figured the nearest phones in here. How did you get in?

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Speaker 8: Well? I looked around us.

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Speaker 11: You want the back windows?

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Speaker 3: Have any authority to enter this house or warrant?

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Speaker 1: Maybe?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 11: But I have my orders to phone you just as

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soon as I couldn't. Like I said, I figured the

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nearest boat.

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Speaker 8: You want to see my owner?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't. Well, look see here, how you look?

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You can take those back to your office. And shove

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them in your darling brother's face. I don't forget to

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tell him your fire.

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Speaker 11: Oh no, Look, Dollar, anybody can make one of the

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mistake you asked me.

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Speaker 3: You made them all. Now go on, get out of

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that chair and get out of here. Ipose that car

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that's parked right across the street, I suppose that's yours,

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So that she.

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Speaker 11: Made a move I could follow without wasting no time.

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Speaker 3: Real casual, so she wouldn't know you were following her car.

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R go on, get out. Oh you was really serious

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about you being admired. You bet I was. And you

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can tell your brother he and his agency are Oh,

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go on, I'll settle with him later. Look, I'm gonna

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used to be a treater like this. And when I, oh, brother, well, Hanny,

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it looks like I called him the wrong detective agents.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm afraid so. And I suppose you and I

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have no more right to be in this house and

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that idiot. So perhaps we better leave.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, but not until you get on the phone

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and call the Department of Motive Vehicles find out from

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then the year making model of missus Nancy Merrill's car.

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Speaker 6: No better, still, I can I can call my office,

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your office. Yes, we issued the insurance on that car.

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Speaker 3: Oh good. Meantime, Rather than just sit here and twiddle

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my thumbs, I'm gonna have a look around.

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Speaker 6: But dalla, if I were simply being here as illegal, would.

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Speaker 3: You stop worrying about it and get on that phone.

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In the bedroom, I found the jewel box, all right,

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but no sign of the jewels. However, in a desk

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I did find a receipt, a receided bill as a

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work done by a jeweler in Westwood Village. The amount

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of the bill, yeah, it was more than enough to

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cover the substituting phonies for the diamonds in that jewelry.

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So when Hanley got the description of Nancy Merrill's car,

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I sent him over to West La Police headquarters to

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have my pals over there put out an APB on it.

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Then I hopped into my own car and headed for

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the jewelry store in Westwood. You know something, if I'd

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had any idea of what was waiting for me there,

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believe me, I'd never have gone alone.

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Speaker 2: Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 9: In a moment, Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and

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behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one

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of the fifty states. Kentucky's state flag is dark blue

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with the seal of the Commonwealth and circle by a

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wreath of golden rod, the state flower. Within the seal,

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two friends embrace. They're right, hands clasped. They're left resting

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on each other's shoulder, their feet on the verge of

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a precipice, which illustrates the motto beneath them, united we stand,

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Divided we fall. Kentucky's state flag, the flag of the

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fifteenth state to enter the Union, was adopted on March

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twenty sixth, nineteen hundred.

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Speaker 2: And eighteen, and now at three of yours truly, Johnny

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Dollar and the Wayward Diamonds matter.

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Speaker 3: Howard's Hillcrest Jewelry is a small but very exclusive shop

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on Wayburn Avenue in the Westwood Village section of Los Angeles. There,

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with the help of receipt I found at Nancy Merrill's desk,

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I hope to get on the track of the missing diamonds.

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I entered the snooty little shop and asked for the owner.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, my good man, but mister hod It is engaged.

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Speaker 2: Was one of our important clients.

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Speaker 3: While I'm here on rather important business.

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Speaker 2: Well, lets you care to leave your name, and he

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wishes to see you.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps we shall call you missus Smith.

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Speaker 12: How delightful.

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Speaker 7: And he liked the jeweled color we selected for him.

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Speaker 4: She's just a lovely puppy.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 4: He's the favorite of all my doggy friends, just as

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you're my favorite.

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Speaker 7: This is my Kenworth.

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Speaker 11: You have no idea I would write you the day that.

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Speaker 4: You drop him.

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Speaker 8: Oop.

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Speaker 13: No, no, please, Nancy, my dear, my pet. When I

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removed the genuine diamonds from your various pieces and replaced

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them with paste, it was with the distinct understand.

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Speaker 14: I know, dear, I know, But now I have to

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have the real stones put back.

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Speaker 7: Why, as I understood, it was in order to the

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fake jem's stolen so that you could collect.

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Speaker 15: On how of course, it was, of course, Howard a

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plan to claim that the yacht exploded failed. Randolph was

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in jail.

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Speaker 7: He didn't involve you in that, guy, must say, rather

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foolish plot.

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Speaker 14: Oh no, but I have to go through the motions

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of getting him legal help.

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Speaker 7: Excellent, my dear. I hope they keep him in jail.

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Howard Randolph has stood in the way of our romance

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too long, my.

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Speaker 14: Pad, Howard, please listen. Because of the yacht, they sent

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an insurance investigator out here.

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Speaker 3: Investigator, yes, a mister Johnny Dollar Galla.

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Speaker 8: Good heavens you know him. I know about him.

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Speaker 3: I don't like this.

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Speaker 15: And he found that these jewels I have now are paced.

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Now you've got to put the original stones back so

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that when he sees them again he'll think he was mistaken.

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Speaker 3: Impossible.

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Speaker 7: I've already disposed of them through various connections.

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Speaker 8: Why did you show him those faces?

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Speaker 14: Well?

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Speaker 15: I thought I thought you thought wrong.

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Speaker 8: Your stupid wench.

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Speaker 12: You may have opened the door to investigation of some

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of the other papers I've been doing you and other

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customers to beat your insurance companies.

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Speaker 15: But I didn't say.

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Speaker 8: Oh, of course you didn't.

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Speaker 7: If do ever connects me with those imitations.

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Speaker 15: Oh dear, how I know? And if they ever find

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out that the lost you fake here in the store

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that you collected so much on Nancy.

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Speaker 7: If they ever discover that that was faked, I'll go

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up for life thanks to you.

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Speaker 12: Oh No, I could kill you for being such an

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I didn't know.

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Speaker 8: I didn't really don't know anything.

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Speaker 14: How it pleased, Oh, anything anything I can said?

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Speaker 10: Shut up, Howard?

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Speaker 8: Will you be quiet? I got to think this thing out.

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Speaker 12: I knew from the beginning of that stupid trick with

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the yacht wouldn't work out.

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Speaker 14: I told you so, but it fooled the police and

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the coast guard. How are we to know the insurance

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company would send that Johnny Dollar out here?

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Speaker 12: You stop talking about him. We've got to figure our

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way out of this mess. Who else besides Dollar knows

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about the phony jewels.

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Speaker 8: I made up for you?

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Speaker 14: And Howard accept my husband of correct?

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Speaker 8: Are you sure?

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Speaker 14: How could they know?

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Speaker 8: What if your husband talks?

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Speaker 14: Oh he doesn't, dare Don't you see he's the one

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who sent me here to get the stones back, So

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the Dollar can't prove he saw the imitation.

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Speaker 12: And I tell you I can't get them back. They're

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probably scan it all over the country by now.

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Speaker 14: But don't you see, unless we can show them to him,

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the real ones, I mean, show them to this Johnny.

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Speaker 8: Donald, No, it's impossible.

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Speaker 15: So that means only one thing, Nancy, replacing the fakes

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with some other genuine.

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Speaker 8: Stones, don't Nancy. It means that I.

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Speaker 2: Have to get rid of this Dollar.

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Speaker 8: They're done that's right.

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Speaker 15: You'd kill him.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Nancy, kill him if I can find him.

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Speaker 3: I'll save you the trouble of looking for me.

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Speaker 8: How it, Dollar?

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Speaker 3: And is that the gun you're planning to kill me with?

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Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, And I think i'd better kill you

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right now, Darling.

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Speaker 3: Please, I'll put that thing down, Howard. You're not gonna

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shoot with customers out fry.

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Speaker 7: Private vault is just outside this back door of my office.

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Speaker 8: Dollar, and it's open in there. The sound of a

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shot won't be heard out front.

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Speaker 3: No kidding, no kidding, all right, walk of that little door.

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Speaker 8: Walk.

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Speaker 3: You don't really leave me much choice to you.

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Speaker 8: I'll open it carefully, No tricks.

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Speaker 3: Tricks, put a gun on my back?

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Speaker 7: All right?

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Speaker 8: Open the door, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: It seems stuck. Maybe you'd better open it.

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Speaker 8: I said, no tricks. You open it?

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Speaker 15: What you doing?

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Speaker 8: You bet?

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Speaker 2: I do?

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Speaker 8: Go ahead, Dolla.

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Speaker 3: He may be sorry for this, you know.

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Speaker 8: Will you quit sauling and open.

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Speaker 3: It and go on?

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Speaker 8: I tell them I'm not to be disturbed. I'll see

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them in a few minutes.

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Speaker 16: Please go on.

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Speaker 3: The police bless Peter Han.

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Speaker 6: No, yes, I don't, Dona.

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Speaker 4: Are you all right?

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Speaker 6: Those shots like Johnny Hi Pete. Oh, thank heavens.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, looks like he's okay, mister Hanley. But dollar one

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under the sun. Did you do to our friend Howard here?

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Speaker 3: Well, we had little argument, Sergeant. I'll tell you all

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about it, and then you can haul him off to

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the Clinton.

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Speaker 16: Oh hey, listen, if you've got something on Howard Howard,

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you'll be our friend for life.

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Speaker 3: Sergeant, I've got plenty good.

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Speaker 16: Because brother, we've been trying to catch up with him

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for years.

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Speaker 3: Incidentally, have you got to sell for missus merrill to you?

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Speaker 1: Bet?

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Speaker 3: We have expense account, had him two fifty dollars in

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legal fees to make a deposition, so I won't have

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to hang around for a trial or two or three.

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And I have a sneaking suspicion that Howard and Marilyn,

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his wife, are going to have a long long time

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to think things over. Expense account total including additional mileage

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on my rental car and the trip back to Hayfred

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two hundred and eighteen dollars. Even yours, truly, shiny.

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Speaker 2: Dollar, our star will return in just a moment.

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Speaker 10: There are some men who, after being practically pushed into

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the service, find their element and commit heroic deeds. Frank

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Luke was that sort of young man. Soon after the

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United States entered World War One, Luke was taunted by

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his patriotic family into joining up. He was commissioned a

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second lieutenant after completing his flight training with the Signal

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Core Air Service, that small beginning of today's Mighty Air Force.

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Lieutenant Luke found it difficult to accept the discipline so

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necessary in the military up to France, and was assigned

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to the English SPADs. His attitude worried his commanding officer,

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but Luke's performance in the air didn't. In less than

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two months in aerial combat, he accounted for seven enemy

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aircraft and earned himself the nickname of balloon buster for

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knocking down eleven or twelve of those menaces to the

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ground troops the observation balloons. For his gallant action in

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the face of great danger and overwhelming odds, he was

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awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses and the Medal of Honor.

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Shortly before the end of the war, Lieutenant Frank Luke

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made his last heroic combat flight. After having just returned

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from a sizzling air battle. He refueled his spad and

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took off in an extra duty mission pursued by eight

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enemy planes. He shot down three balloons, he was wounded,

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and his plane was so badly damaged in the action

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that he had to make a forced landing in a

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German cemetery. Perhaps the irony of it struck him at

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the time. When called upon to surrender, he preferred to

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open fire with his automatic and fight to the death.

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Though he was only twenty one years of age. Lieutenant

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Frank Luke may have had trouble adjusting to the military life,

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but when he did, he was a gallant fighter and

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a credit to his country.

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Speaker 2: Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.

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Speaker 3: Next week a quiet little fishing fear on the coast

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of California. Only they call it the peer of Death.

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Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar?

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Speaker 2: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar? Starrying Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood

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and is written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone.

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Speaker 8: Heard in our cast were.

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Speaker 2: Paula Winslow, then right, Jack Prushian, Jack Edwards, Marvin Miller,

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and Joseph Curns.

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Speaker 8: Be sure to join us next week.

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Speaker 2: Same time and station, or another exciting story of yours truly,

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Johnny Dollar. This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is the

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United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. This episode was frustrating. Essentially, the core of

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the story is everyone being incompetent, starting with mister Hanley.

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So let me get this straight. You're going off and

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working with prosecutors and cutting deals and you haven't bothered

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to read the investigator's report. Now, Johnny, to his credit,

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tried to be nice and raised the possibility, which he

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had to know was nonsense, that he had left out

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of his report the detail about the jewels. But when

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he said, either you haven't read the report, I said,

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but then Peter, and Johnny was saying, or I forgot

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to mention about this detail, but Hanley interrupted him and

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said I haven't even while Johnny continued on with the sentence.

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So this all comes back to him not doing just

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basic due diligence. Now, I do think in another context,

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the private investigator who was there as nepotism could have worked.

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He would have been perfectly fine comic relief if the

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rest of the story held up. And then we get

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to the jewelry store, where Johnny is able to slip

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back into the private areas of the jewelry store, because

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why should the jewelry store clerks be any more competent

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than anyone else in this story. And he gets to

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overhear mister Howard and missus Merrill discussing all of their

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sins and felonies allowed to each other for expositional purposes,

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as people tend to do, before mister Howard decides that

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he is going to take out Johnny Dollar. And this

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is the next part was something I could not relate

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to because if I happened to overhear someone saying that

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I needed to be killed and they were brandishing.

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Speaker 17: A gun, I wouldn't walk in and say, hey, it's me.

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That's not something I would do. And Johnny talked about

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how he should have brought someone along. Really, all he

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needed to bring along was a god. But I think

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Johnstone recognized that if he he just captured the criminals

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after overhearing them exposit, then that wouldn't be dramatically satisfying.

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But then you have the portion where Johnny points out

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that mister Howard wasn't going to shoot him because his

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customers would hear. And then mister Howard points out that

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he has a vault that sound proof and instructs Johnny

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to go back to that vault, and then Johnny says

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something that actually got me to audibly react to the

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show yell at the show. He said, well, I guess

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you haven't left me any choice, and I said, yes,

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he has. Don't go to the vault.

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Speaker 1: There is one place in this entire building where he

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can kill you and not be detected. If you don't

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want to get shot, don't go there. There are ways

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you can make that work dramatically. If say there was

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somebody else who might get hurt, your hero might go

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along with it because he's scared of doing something that

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gets somebody else hurt, but you just got the criminals there,

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or if somebody is panicking and not thinking clearly and logically,

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but Johnny was. Johnny understood that if Howard killed him,

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all of Howard's customers would hear it, and that gets

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canceled out as soon as Howard tells him there is

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one portion of the building where I can safely kill you,

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And Johnny's reaction is, well, I guess I don't have

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any choice but to go there. Is there some rule

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of insurance investigators that maybe was around in nineteen fifty

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eight that's been lost to the ages. That says, if

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a man with a gun orders you to go to

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a soundproof room where he can kill you without being detected,

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you have to go there. That's the only logical explanation.

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And then of course at the end Johnny gets bailed

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out when the police show up, which is a favorite

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ending of Jack Johnstone for these sort of stories, which

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I don't think reflects particularly well on the hero. I mean,

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maybe it's a pro law enforcement message, support your local police,

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save an insurance investigator, but Johnstone uses it way too much,

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and I think, particularly with the private detective, you get

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an idea that this episode was intended to be comedic,

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but I feel like and Johnstone can tell comedy episodes

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that work. And I think when Johnstone writes Johnny Doller

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and it's actually amusing and funny, it tends to be

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eccentric characters interacting with Johnny and Johnny responding in a

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believable way that leads to humor that actually works. This

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just makes everyone the Keystone Cops. So what are the

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weaker episodes so far?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: Listener comments and feedback now and we start over on

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Spotify with some comments regarding the Malibu Mystery manner, Harrison

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riots to tonight the part of mister Dopkin will be

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played by mister Dopkin. Yeah, that's an interesting quirk of

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Jack Johnstone. He didn't have actors play themselves, but he

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had them play characters with their same name. And I

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guess with everything that he was doing, he just didn't

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have time to give everyone character an original name. That's

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the best explanation I can come up with. Mechanics sixty

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six rights good one. And then regarding the Neil Brear

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matter Encore, it says a really good episode, it seemed

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about fifty percent longer than the non serialized episodes. Well

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about that. One thing with the pre Bailey stories, most

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of them, was that you had a pretty good space

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to tell a story in. If you were dealing with

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a sustaining episode which was network sponsored, you often had

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something like twenty six minutes to tell the story compared

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to maybe nineteen, you know, not counting commercials, the music, PSAs, whatever,

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and that extra time really does make a difference. I

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personally tend to prefer the serial episodes and the first

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first season of Bailey, but then after that I tend

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to prefer the O'Brien and Lund episodes over the later ones,

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just because they had more rooms and tended to be

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better stories. Over on Patreon, Jeff wrote, I know O'Brien

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was Johnny Dollar for two and a half years, but

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this is the first time I've heard an O'Brien episode.

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I know I'm beyond on this front, Lowell. It was

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interesting to hear his vocal style difference from Bob Bailey.

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At this point, all of the O'Brien episodes are probably

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off of our main feed, but if anyone is interested

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to go and listen to past Johnny dollars, I'd encourage

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you to check out our great detectives yours truly Jony

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Dollar feed, which has all of the Johony Dollar episodes

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in it with all of the various actors. It's quite extensive,

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but thanks so much. Appreciate the comment, Jeff. And then

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over on our listener survey on Blueberry, Fred Wright's joy

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Dollar gives me a good listening e varience when I

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can't sleep well, So glad to be of assistance. Fred,

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And then from YouTube a couple more comments on the

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Mala Boo mystery matter James says, great episode, and Mildred says,

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I agree, well, thank you so much, appreciate the comments.

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Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,

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and I want to thank MJ Patreon supporter since February

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twenty eighteen, currently supporting the podcast at the rookie level

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of two dollars or more per month. Thanks so much

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for your support, MJ. And that will do it for today.

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If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your

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back next Friday with another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.

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But join us back here tomorrow as we give way

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to the great adventurers of old time radio and we

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start the first of our Coda stories to Cloak and Dagger,

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where we will be bringing you oss.

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Speaker 3: Where scissis shopping, knives and scissor shopping. Knives and scissor shopping.

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Speaker 14: Can you shop in sculpting.

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Speaker 4: Tools anything, Madame?

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Speaker 3: Scissor shopping, Knives and scissor shopping. How much I have

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not chopping chisels like these in a long time.

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Speaker 14: I met Martin an hour ago oh, I can.

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Speaker 8: Do them all right.

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Speaker 3: Where newspaper stand near the railroad yard.

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Speaker 6: Well, how much ten francs each, Madame? Ten francs twenty

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cartrain six am tomorrow.

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Speaker 8: That's ridiculous, how man must live.

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Speaker 3: But where Jama all right here?

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Madame.

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Speaker 3: I will shop in them like new ten frogs each out.

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Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime. Send

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