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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Henry Grant, Johnny, you read your morning paper yet I'm
on page four in my second doughnut. Well turn back
to page one. A picture of missus Frank Laurie.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I read it Enoch Garden divorce decree. Her husband missing
seven years. New York Court declared him legally dead.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
So so we had him insured for a quarter of
a million.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And this court decision means you'll have to pay off
within ten days. Something make you think Lawing isn't as
dead as he ought to be.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Possibility. I had a phone call a little while ago
from a woman of in Boston. She saw the item two.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What's there? Can I?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
She's a nurse ten years ago when we issued the
Lawing policy. She was working for the position to examined him.
Her story may not mean anything, but well, I asked
her to take the first plane she could get and
come in for a talk. She should be here by
eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'll grab a cabin, come right over.
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The following is an accounting.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Of expenditures during my investigation of the Enoch Arden Matter
expense account item one fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Cab fair to your home office.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Henry Grant provided me with a complete file of previous
investigations and police reports covering the disappearance of Frank Loring.
I was about halfway through them when Grant came in
with an attractive woman in her early thirties.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
This is miss truth Boulogne, Young Radio.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I told you bought how Johnny Dollar of mister Dollar's
an investigator, Miss Bolloyne. I want you to tell him
exactly what you told me on the full this morning,
and well anything else you may have thought of on
the way down here.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, I don't really know whether I.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Have anything to tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Worked for the doctor who examined Lauring when his policy
was issued.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yes, doctor Felton.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
That was in New York.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I just got not obtaining. It's my first job. I
was only there three months. Then I went into the
Army during the war, and since the war, I've worked
in Boston, the Hayward Clinic. Well, I feel sort of
foolish telling you all this. I'm probably wrong, but.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
She thinks she saw Lauring in Boston. Johnny when well.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
About two weeks ago, two weeks ago, yesterday where at
the clinic. Look, really, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
About You're not hurting anybody, miss Boulogne. Suppose you just
tell us and we'll take it from there.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well, as I said, it was two weeks ago. A
man came to the clinic. He wanted to be vaccinated.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
He gave his name, Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
But it wasn't Frank Wring. He gave the name of
Michael Walsh.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I thought he looked familiar, but I couldn't face him.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What was the reason for the vaccination.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He needed an international certificate of vaccination. It's required by
law for anybody going abroad.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh, he was leaving the country.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Well, I guess, so he wanted a certificate. I administered
the vaccine. He came back five days later, and the
doctor entered the result in his card and signed it.
That's all I know.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What made you connect this Michael Walsh with Frank Lauring.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I really don't know. I didn't until this morning. I
remember thinking I'd seen him before, and then when I
saw that story this morning about Missus Lauring, the name
just came into my mind.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You'd only seen Lauring once ten years.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Ago, Yes, but as I said.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It was my first job, and I was impressed at
the time having him for a patient. Why impressed, Well,
I knew he was an actor. I've seen a couple
of shows he was in. Read his name and columns
things like that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Did this Michael Walsh look like Frank Lauring as you
remembered him?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, he didn't. I can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, it seemed with a trot and have the joint.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Wait a minute, a grant, Let's not chuck it out
so easily. I've been reading this file on Luring, played
a lot of character roles, expert on dialects and makeup.
Man like that could change his appearance very easily. Something
about him, the way he moved, the tone of his voice.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Something registered with this girl. He'd have recognized her too
when he went to the clinic. She was impressed with him.
She had a reason to remember.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I feel a little foolish, and I feel a little curious.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
How about your grandpa?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm I'm curious all morning, so curious. I checked the
steamship and airlines and and a man named Michael Walsh
said in the SS Caristio six days ago. She runs
between Boston and San Diego Chili.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You know when she reaches the Panama Canal and after tomorrow,
that's plenty of time for you to get down there
by air.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, with enough to spare for a stopover in New
York and the chat with missus Luring expens ac count
item two eleven dollars and thirty cents trained fair and
incidentals between Hartford, Connecticut and the Greenwich Village section of
New York, where Missus Frank Loring was living in up
bohemian fashion. It was evening and the party was in
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full swing.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
When I arrived.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
The apartment door was wide open, so I just walked in.
Somebody shoved the glass into my hand like they.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Used to do it at the local movie houses and
a dish nights.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Ah, you must be Linda's boyfriend, Oh must I.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I knew at the minute I saw you. She always
goes for the same type musician, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
They always are? What do you play? Ring o Levio
and double on parteesy?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Oh a funny one.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Well, Linda said when you got here to tell you,
the benefit is going to run late, so make yourself
comfy and weak. She won't be here until twelve I'm Freddy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You must be a poet. How did you know I'm psychic? Now,
what's the party for?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
She's celebrating.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
She's going to get a quarter of a million dollars
just because her husband, Frank disappeared.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
She ought to be happy enough just to be rid
of him.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
They'll be so bitter, lad it'll throw your rhymes out
of meter hers. I helped her get over him. I
helped her anytime she wanted anything. All she had to
do was call little Freddy. Now she's getting all that money,
and she'll just run out.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh she wouldn't do that to you, would she?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Oh no, that's how much you know about women. She's
going to Chili, South America.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh no, that's an interesting bit of information, Freddie.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
She thinks I don't know about her.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
The airline called a confirm her reservation while she was
out shopping this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Which one of those lovely ladies is Marcia lauring those
m She doesn't look like any of them.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Marsha's out in the kitchen fixing sandwiches. She did even
think she'll get any help from me?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh maybe I can lend a hand.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Listen, mister, you've got a girl, coming.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh oh sure, Linda, Well she told me to give
Marcia a message.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Besides, you don't want to talk to me in affairs
with your brooding. I'll see it later.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Well, hello, come in, I'm making sandwiches for the starving multitudes.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I know I came in to help.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
How are you on opening bottles?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Champagne?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
But for those.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Peasants, beer's it's right there, the openers on the hook.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh, we're in business. What are you a party crasher?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Or did you come with one of the girls a crasher?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Who the breed is improving? We both know some of
the same people.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Though, like who who's been hiding.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
You from me?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Fellow up in Boston.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I don't know anyone in Boston, not even Michael Walsh.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Get out of here, I'll listen, missus Laurence.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I said, get out.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
You were invited here, you don't belong here.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
So what is it? Marshall?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Keep your robbers on? Shakespeare?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I told you not to bother her.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I came out of it lying on the cold stone
of a basement areaway, and then I went in search
of a tiner a telegram focus expenser con item three
eighty cents for breakfast and aspirin. Item four a dollar
twenty for a telegram advising that payment of the loring
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claim be delayed until my investigation was completed.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Item five seven dollars and sixty cent.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Cab fare to the international airport, an Item six, four
hundred and fifteen dollars plane fair and incidentals to the
city of Colan, Panama, Canalzon.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
As usual, it was raining in Klan.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The SS Castillo had reached ports slightly ahead of schedule
was waiting to go through the looks. When I made
my way forward, it was almost midnight. I located the
name of Michael Walsh on the passenger list posted in
the lounge, and then made my way to the inside
cabins on B deck. I knocked on the door of
cabin B sixty four. There was no answer. May I
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help you, Senor, you're the cabin steward. I'm looking for
the passenger who occupies this cabin or. Senor Walsh is
not here. He's gone a shore in this downpour. See pluck.
Here's five bucks. All you have to do for it
is to bring me the biggest towel you can find
and open this cabin so I can wait inside, Senor.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But if you were waiting for Senor walh, he will
not be bad. Why not?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
He's booked through the Santiago When you win a shore
an hour ago. He took his baggage with you. I
helped you with him. You know where he went, No, Senor,
he was most anxious to get ashore as soon as
our lines were fast.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I see ship's wireless.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Take any kind of cablegram for him in the past
twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I delivered one to him in the middle of last night.
It was more sgeuron. I think he seemed most concerned.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, I thoughts. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I knew that Frank Lorang alias Michael Walsh wasn't going
to be easy to find away from the ship. He
was likely to have a third name, and since he
was an expert with dialects, there was every chance he'd
adopt a different nationality.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I thought about it as I made my way through
the narrow, rain swept streets.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I seem to be the only man without shellar in
all of Panama.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But I wasn't.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
Do you have a match, Senor?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I could hardly see you. Yeah, yeah, I got a match,
I doubt it with the light of this rain.
Speaker 11 (11:49):
Huh, you don't appreciate the rain, Senor. In the rain,
I always get what I want. The touristas, they never refuse.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Jose, Hey, that isn't a cigarette near eh?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
No, Senor, it is a gone you join me in
the doorway.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
No, well, I'd rather die and say no.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
Now, if the Senor has some little thing he wishes
to give Josett for a gif, Jose would be most grateful.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I don't have much cash, but his wristwatch is worth
a couple of hundred.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Oh see, oh, that's a very nice one. I would
like that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He bent his head slightly to look at the watch
in his gun hand dipped automatically.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I brought my hands up to undo the watch.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Step step quickly to the side, and that was They
have a left and the solar plexis.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Now now drop it pretty much.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
If you insist.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That's better. Sure you are going to turn me over
to the police. Well, that depends.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Pitch here is Verifie Cosette does not like it.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I'll tell you what you help me and I help you.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
What kind of help does the sendor need?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Suppose the police somebody for after me?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Suppose I had to get out of here without using
my passport, How would I.
Speaker 11 (13:18):
Do it from Cologne? There is no way, Senor, to
many Americano offices.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I must slay some way out. Thirty miles down the
coast is Portobeyo.
Speaker 10 (13:28):
It was once the hiding place for pirates. In Portobeyo
is a cafe called.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
The Geisha Girl.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
The Geisha Girl see and the proprietor is Senor Kamamoto
in Japanese.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
He is very good at making people disappear.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
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And now, with our star John Lund, we bring you
the second act of yours truly jolly dollar expencer can
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item seven twenty dollars flat rate. With a native taxi
that slithered its way down the miserable muddy road to
Port O'bayo, Caribbean, stronghold of the Old Time Pirates. There
was a port of Intrigue, an international black hole, a
Western Hemisphere counterpart of Shanghai, Calcutta, Suez, and at the
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bottom of the hole was the Geisha Girl Cafe.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You look lonesome night.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Maybe it's because I want to be I don't know
you and you don't know me.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Let's keep it that way. Now, that ain't no way
to Bay Bacularly, here in Port a Baylor, weever or
friendly lot. Hey you're looking for Kamimota. What are you
a cop? Well, I've been a lot of things, governor
never a cop, No matter. I start on a little
trip and forget your passport, i'd say I lost it.
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What are you doing running a private embassy? Well, I'm
sort of a missioning for people in trouble. You look
locking in trouble. I'll talk to Kamoto about that. Where's
the drying the storeroom back there?
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It ought to be worth a part from a drink?
Then thanks here, drown yourself. It's not of your governor.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Camamoto out Hey, anybody in here uh matches.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
What all the of all.
Speaker 13 (17:07):
The all that we won't need a right?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Oh well, don's okay? Uh give me read now? Uh
why you will tie him up?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I came to in a room filled with packing cases
and lit by Feeble's candle. Two men were seated on
a couple of small barrels. One of 'em was the
Cockney he had spoken to me in the bar. The
other was a Japanese Are you.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Feeling uh better?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Missus? Ar ou? How'd you know my name?
Speaker 13 (17:43):
I'll crob your uh American uh driver's license a head
on him.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Well, Uh, there're all some money which I will find
most useful.
Speaker 13 (17:53):
Well, you were carrying exact amount required to pay for
your uh passage us to them.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Over a thousand dollars. That's pretty high. Fair, I am
a terrible man.
Speaker 13 (18:04):
My rates are based upon what my passengers can afford
to pay. An unscheduled shipline is expensive to operate. So
you will be taken aboard the Akiramatsu and shortly.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You will see you at fow for where.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
You will be pretty short of somewhere in South America,
Venezuela possibly, Oh Brazil.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm not your only passenger.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Oh no, no, you are not.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
How about untying me long as we're friends?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Or will it be untied when you reach your destination?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Wait a minute, I can see the point here where
somebody might give you away.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
But why aboard ship?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Were fugitives from the husky cargo?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Mister da?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
South American nations are rather.
Speaker 13 (18:57):
A furrow about their coastal So if you are tied up,
we can make certainly.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
You're not caught.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What do you mean for somebody that.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
You're you're hot cargos?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Did have?
Speaker 13 (19:09):
Are the only way to carry hot cargo is to
be certain that you can dispose of it in an emergency.
If we are challenged by a patrol vessel, you will
be weighted.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Down and through an overboard.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It was dark when they carried me aboard and left
me still trust in a deck cabin. Then the Kira
Matsu pitched and rolled her away into the open sea.
I knew that Loring was on board someplace, and I
knew something else. Kamamoo had lied to that cock me
about what he'd found when he searched me.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
He had more than a driver's license. He had my.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Insurance company credentials and my passport and the door open.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And I got something else to think about it. When
send your dollar, Jose, how did you get here?
Speaker 10 (20:08):
After you left me? I ran into another Americano. We've
not racewatch, but much money. He was kind to me.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
He gave me money to leave the country when I
told him about the bad jails.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
How come kamamotos letting you run loose?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
You are the only one who is tied up, Senor.
I do not think they intend for you to finish
the trip.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
How many other passengers are there besides us?
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Three? A man and a woman came just before we
say that's two.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Who's the other one?
Speaker 10 (20:38):
A man? A man with a white suit and a hat.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
A cockney accent.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
He sounded like an englishman.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Oh yes he is English.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah yeah, I though's so.
Speaker 11 (20:50):
How many in the crew Kamamoto and five seamen? It
is a very small boat.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah yeah, I can feel that. Look, Jose, I gave
you a break with the police. How about giving me one.
I'm a businessman, signor no sentiment.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
A thousand dollars guaranteed by an American insurance company if
you cut these ropes and lend me your gun.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Gosh, senor no credit?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
So much book, I haven't got any cash. Kamamoto took
it all too bad.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
Maybe next time.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
There isn't going to be any next time for me, ever,
buy a sweep steak ticket.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
See, I'm then to take a chance on me.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Come on, how about it? All right?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
But when is the time for the drawing?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
To see? If my speak it wins as soon as
you get these ropes off. But let's do it now.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Just tell me get to my stoff any minute.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Jose cut the ropes and gave me his gun. There
was an oil slicker hanging behind the cabin door, and
I slipped it on.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But cover the crew on deck was too busy to
be counting noses in the storm. I edged my way
forward to the main cabin, grasped the handle and crashed down.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Dollar And let's not get jumpy anybody.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm wet and I'm mad, and I've been pushed about
as far as I go. Good for you go now
glad you see up in a ba you can drop
the accent, Lauring and stop flexing your fingernails. Freddy, what's
the matter, Marsha? You get too nervous to stay home
and fix sandwiches.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I didn't have to stay. My lawyers can collect for me.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh what, Lauring looks pretty alive to me, even with
that Cockney accent.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I'm more alive than you're going to be.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I'll be a fool, Louring. You're more of a clay
pigeon than I am. You've been practicing for the part
for seven years.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
What are you talking about? You think you're going to
get to spend any of that insurance money? You think
I'm not? Ask Freddy? How about it? Freddy?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I don't know anything. I just came with Marsha because
she asked me for.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
He's a nice boy, Lauring.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
He writes poetry and he'll do anything Marcia asks him to,
won't you?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Freddy? What are you trying to do.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I want to hear this, yeah, you auto before your
hearing stops all together. Maybe you've been dead for seven years,
but your widow hasn't been putting flowers on your tombstone.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
You stop talking about Marcia, you.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
See, Lauring.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Freddie gets mad when I talk about Marcia. Freddy loves Marcia,
don't you, Freddy? Yes, you ever take a look at
his eyes, Luring. If Marcia said the word he put
a knife in you in a minute, think it over.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Mister Michael Walsh.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Turns up dead in South America, and missus Frank Loring
and friend Freddy go back to Greenwich Village with a
quarter of a million bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Only this time they'd have nothing to worry about. Don't
listen to him, Frank, Why not Angel? He sounds like
a pretty smart guy. We've waited seven years for this.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Do you think I'd have anything to do with this littlydia.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
I've used him, that's all, Marsha.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You see, Freddy should get rid of you too.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
After a while, there'll always be somebody else coming along
to open the beer bottles.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
I was kind of wondering how Freddy got in on
this little trip. I was wondering why we kept something
between ourselves for seven years, and then you spill it
to him.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I was frightened, Frank, I knew Dollar was after you.
That's why I wired you. I couldn't come down here
alone until I was sure we'd be together.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
We'll be together, and we'll stay together until the money comes.
Then maybe I'll have some ideas of my own.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
You up Lawing, You're never gonna get that money. Yes,
I am Dollar.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Kamamoto is standing right behind you, the curtain between this
cabin and the next room.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Now let me have that gunjo all right, Kamamoto. Now
let's get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Oh, why Kamamoto, Why don't we bargain a little first?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I have heard you are not in the bargaining position.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
How much is he gonna give you for dropping me?
You'll get five grand dollar? Oh, you're dealing with a
real cheapskate, Camemoto. I'm worth more than that. I can
shut you up right here is sorrowing.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Oh sweep, I do not use that, Conners or Siso.
This is my ship.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
You took my credentials before, kamomto you know who I am? Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
How much did Lauriing tell you it was gonna collect
be Starling Cameramo to get rid of it.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I won't torrowing. I will do sorry, who leaves a ship.
I'm well?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And how.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
Suppose you tell me the amotor the policy mister Dolla
a quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
He's lying. It's only twenty five thousand, is it, Lauring?
I tell you what I'll do. Then Kamamoto put us.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Both the shore back in the canal zone where I
can get him into the hands of American authorities, and
my company will pay you twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
And I'll make it fifty thousand dollars. Comma motive fifty thousand.
I've been sixty, so I hear seventy. Come on, Lauring,
bed I can go the whole quarter million. Won't cost
my company anymore. Either way, I'll kill you dollars no Ha.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Louring and Kamamoto fired at the same time. Both of
them were hit, but only Kamamoto went down. Lauring turned
to Marsha.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You wanted him, you couldn't go together, all right? Dollar?
That ends everything now I'm around to you for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Oh, I wouldn't count on Luring this time. I've got
a friend in the doorway.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
What he says, she's true.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Sen your Kamamoto was no longer using his gune, so
I took it.
Speaker 10 (26:09):
Besides, you have only one bullet left.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I have five.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
You kill mister Dollar, and I will have to kill you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
He cut lauring your wife's dead. You couldn't even get
the money if you could get away.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
All right, here, you can have it. Come. Mother, hit
me in the side. It hurts. Maybe I canna patch
it up a little better. Just wrap your shirt. I
loved it. She always wanted things more than an actor.
The giver whose idea was it hers? I get out
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like a dog.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
She sneaked up to Boston to see maybe once every
six months after the first year.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
First the time I was without her, I guess she
wasn't lonely.
Speaker 14 (26:59):
Yeah, some women never are. And that about finished it.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Expense account Item eight sixty dollars miscellaneous expenses. Expense account
Item nine one thousand dollars as promised to Jose. Item
ten four hundred and twenty one dollars and eighty cents
plain fare and instital expenses from Colon, Panama Canal Zone
back to Hartford. Total expenses eighteen hundred and seventy nine
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Henry Grant, Johnny, you read your morning paper yet I'm
on page four in my second doughnut. Well turn back
to page one. A picture of missus Frank Laurie.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I read it Enoch Garden divorce decree. Her husband missing
seven years. New York Court declared him legally dead.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
So so we had him insured for a quarter of
a million.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And this court decision means you'll have to pay off
within ten days. Something make you think Lawing isn't as
dead as he ought to be.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Possibility. I had a phone call a little while ago
from a woman of in Boston. She saw the item two.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What's there? Can I?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
She's a nurse ten years ago when we issued the
Lawing policy. She was working for the position to examined him.
Her story may not mean anything, but well, I asked
her to take the first plane she could get and
come in for a talk. She should be here by
eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'll grab a cabin, come right over.
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Speaker 2 (02:23):
The following is an accounting.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Of expenditures during my investigation of the Enoch Arden Matter
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Speaker 2 (02:34):
Cab fair to your home office.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Henry Grant provided me with a complete file of previous
investigations and police reports covering the disappearance of Frank Loring.
I was about halfway through them when Grant came in
with an attractive woman in her early thirties.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
This is miss truth Boulogne, Young Radio.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I told you bought how Johnny Dollar of mister Dollar's
an investigator, Miss Bolloyne. I want you to tell him
exactly what you told me on the full this morning,
and well anything else you may have thought of on
the way down here.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, I don't really know whether I.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Have anything to tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Worked for the doctor who examined Lauring when his policy
was issued.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yes, doctor Felton.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
That was in New York.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I just got not obtaining. It's my first job. I
was only there three months. Then I went into the
Army during the war, and since the war, I've worked
in Boston, the Hayward Clinic. Well, I feel sort of
foolish telling you all this. I'm probably wrong, but.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
She thinks she saw Lauring in Boston. Johnny when well.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
About two weeks ago, two weeks ago, yesterday where at
the clinic. Look, really, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
About You're not hurting anybody, miss Boulogne. Suppose you just
tell us and we'll take it from there.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well, as I said, it was two weeks ago. A
man came to the clinic. He wanted to be vaccinated.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
He gave his name, Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
But it wasn't Frank Wring. He gave the name of
Michael Walsh.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I thought he looked familiar, but I couldn't face him.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
What was the reason for the vaccination.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He needed an international certificate of vaccination. It's required by
law for anybody going abroad.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh, he was leaving the country.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Well, I guess, so he wanted a certificate. I administered
the vaccine. He came back five days later, and the
doctor entered the result in his card and signed it.
That's all I know.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What made you connect this Michael Walsh with Frank Lauring.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I really don't know. I didn't until this morning. I
remember thinking I'd seen him before, and then when I
saw that story this morning about Missus Lauring, the name
just came into my mind.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You'd only seen Lauring once ten years.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Ago, Yes, but as I said.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It was my first job, and I was impressed at
the time having him for a patient. Why impressed, Well,
I knew he was an actor. I've seen a couple
of shows he was in. Read his name and columns
things like that.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Did this Michael Walsh look like Frank Lauring as you
remembered him?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, he didn't. I can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, it seemed with a trot and have the joint.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Wait a minute, a grant, Let's not chuck it out
so easily. I've been reading this file on Luring, played
a lot of character roles, expert on dialects and makeup.
Man like that could change his appearance very easily. Something
about him, the way he moved, the tone of his voice.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Something registered with this girl. He'd have recognized her too
when he went to the clinic. She was impressed with him.
She had a reason to remember.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I feel a little foolish, and I feel a little curious.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
How about your grandpa?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm I'm curious all morning, so curious. I checked the
steamship and airlines and and a man named Michael Walsh
said in the SS Caristio six days ago. She runs
between Boston and San Diego Chili.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You know when she reaches the Panama Canal and after tomorrow,
that's plenty of time for you to get down there
by air.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, with enough to spare for a stopover in New
York and the chat with missus Luring expens ac count
item two eleven dollars and thirty cents trained fair and
incidentals between Hartford, Connecticut and the Greenwich Village section of
New York, where Missus Frank Loring was living in up
bohemian fashion. It was evening and the party was in
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full swing.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
When I arrived.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
The apartment door was wide open, so I just walked in.
Somebody shoved the glass into my hand like they.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Used to do it at the local movie houses and
a dish nights.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Ah, you must be Linda's boyfriend, Oh must I.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I knew at the minute I saw you. She always
goes for the same type musician, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
They always are? What do you play? Ring o Levio
and double on parteesy?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Oh a funny one.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Well, Linda said when you got here to tell you,
the benefit is going to run late, so make yourself
comfy and weak. She won't be here until twelve I'm Freddy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You must be a poet. How did you know I'm psychic? Now,
what's the party for?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
She's celebrating.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
She's going to get a quarter of a million dollars
just because her husband, Frank disappeared.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
She ought to be happy enough just to be rid
of him.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
They'll be so bitter, lad it'll throw your rhymes out
of meter hers. I helped her get over him. I
helped her anytime she wanted anything. All she had to
do was call little Freddy. Now she's getting all that money,
and she'll just run out.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh she wouldn't do that to you, would she?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Oh no, that's how much you know about women. She's
going to Chili, South America.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh no, that's an interesting bit of information, Freddie.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
She thinks I don't know about her.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
The airline called a confirm her reservation while she was
out shopping this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Which one of those lovely ladies is Marcia lauring those
m She doesn't look like any of them.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Marsha's out in the kitchen fixing sandwiches. She did even
think she'll get any help from me?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh maybe I can lend a hand.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Listen, mister, you've got a girl, coming.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh oh sure, Linda, Well she told me to give
Marcia a message.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Besides, you don't want to talk to me in affairs
with your brooding. I'll see it later.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Well, hello, come in, I'm making sandwiches for the starving multitudes.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I know I came in to help.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
How are you on opening bottles?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Champagne?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
But for those.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Peasants, beer's it's right there, the openers on the hook.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh, we're in business. What are you a party crasher?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Or did you come with one of the girls a crasher?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Who the breed is improving? We both know some of
the same people.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Though, like who who's been hiding.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
You from me?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Fellow up in Boston.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I don't know anyone in Boston, not even Michael Walsh.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Get out of here, I'll listen, missus Laurence.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I said, get out.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
You were invited here, you don't belong here.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
So what is it? Marshall?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Keep your robbers on? Shakespeare?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I told you not to bother her.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I came out of it lying on the cold stone
of a basement areaway, and then I went in search
of a tiner a telegram focus expenser con item three
eighty cents for breakfast and aspirin. Item four a dollar
twenty for a telegram advising that payment of the loring
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claim be delayed until my investigation was completed.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Item five seven dollars and sixty cent.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Cab fare to the international airport, an Item six, four
hundred and fifteen dollars plane fair and incidentals to the
city of Colan, Panama, Canalzon.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
As usual, it was raining in Klan.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The SS Castillo had reached ports slightly ahead of schedule
was waiting to go through the looks. When I made
my way forward, it was almost midnight. I located the
name of Michael Walsh on the passenger list posted in
the lounge, and then made my way to the inside
cabins on B deck. I knocked on the door of
cabin B sixty four. There was no answer. May I
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help you, Senor, you're the cabin steward. I'm looking for
the passenger who occupies this cabin or. Senor Walsh is
not here. He's gone a shore in this downpour. See pluck.
Here's five bucks. All you have to do for it
is to bring me the biggest towel you can find
and open this cabin so I can wait inside, Senor.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But if you were waiting for Senor walh, he will
not be bad. Why not?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
He's booked through the Santiago When you win a shore
an hour ago. He took his baggage with you. I
helped you with him. You know where he went, No, Senor,
he was most anxious to get ashore as soon as
our lines were fast.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I see ship's wireless.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Take any kind of cablegram for him in the past
twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I delivered one to him in the middle of last night.
It was more sgeuron. I think he seemed most concerned.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, I thoughts. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I knew that Frank Lorang alias Michael Walsh wasn't going
to be easy to find away from the ship. He
was likely to have a third name, and since he
was an expert with dialects, there was every chance he'd
adopt a different nationality.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I thought about it as I made my way through
the narrow, rain swept streets.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I seem to be the only man without shellar in
all of Panama.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But I wasn't.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
Do you have a match, Senor?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I could hardly see you. Yeah, yeah, I got a match,
I doubt it with the light of this rain.
Speaker 11 (11:49):
Huh, you don't appreciate the rain, Senor. In the rain,
I always get what I want. The touristas, they never refuse.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Jose, Hey, that isn't a cigarette near eh?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
No, Senor, it is a gone you join me in
the doorway.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
No, well, I'd rather die and say no.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
Now, if the Senor has some little thing he wishes
to give Josett for a gif, Jose would be most grateful.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I don't have much cash, but his wristwatch is worth
a couple of hundred.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Oh see, oh, that's a very nice one. I would
like that.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He bent his head slightly to look at the watch
in his gun hand dipped automatically.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I brought my hands up to undo the watch.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Step step quickly to the side, and that was They
have a left and the solar plexis.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Now now drop it pretty much.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
If you insist.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That's better. Sure you are going to turn me over
to the police. Well, that depends.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Pitch here is Verifie Cosette does not like it.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I'll tell you what you help me and I help you.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
What kind of help does the sendor need?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Suppose the police somebody for after me?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Suppose I had to get out of here without using
my passport, How would I.
Speaker 11 (13:18):
Do it from Cologne? There is no way, Senor, to
many Americano offices.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I must slay some way out. Thirty miles down the
coast is Portobeyo.
Speaker 10 (13:28):
It was once the hiding place for pirates. In Portobeyo
is a cafe called.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
The Geisha Girl.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
The Geisha Girl see and the proprietor is Senor Kamamoto
in Japanese.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
He is very good at making people disappear.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
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And now, with our star John Lund, we bring you
the second act of yours truly jolly dollar expencer can
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item seven twenty dollars flat rate. With a native taxi
that slithered its way down the miserable muddy road to
Port O'bayo, Caribbean, stronghold of the Old Time Pirates. There
was a port of Intrigue, an international black hole, a
Western Hemisphere counterpart of Shanghai, Calcutta, Suez, and at the
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bottom of the hole was the Geisha Girl Cafe.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You look lonesome night.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Maybe it's because I want to be I don't know
you and you don't know me.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Let's keep it that way. Now, that ain't no way
to Bay Bacularly, here in Port a Baylor, weever or
friendly lot. Hey you're looking for Kamimota. What are you
a cop? Well, I've been a lot of things, governor
never a cop, No matter. I start on a little
trip and forget your passport, i'd say I lost it.
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What are you doing running a private embassy? Well, I'm
sort of a missioning for people in trouble. You look
locking in trouble. I'll talk to Kamoto about that. Where's
the drying the storeroom back there?
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It ought to be worth a part from a drink?
Then thanks here, drown yourself. It's not of your governor.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Camamoto out Hey, anybody in here uh matches.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
What all the of all.
Speaker 13 (17:07):
The all that we won't need a right?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Oh well, don's okay? Uh give me read now? Uh
why you will tie him up?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I came to in a room filled with packing cases
and lit by Feeble's candle. Two men were seated on
a couple of small barrels. One of 'em was the
Cockney he had spoken to me in the bar. The
other was a Japanese Are you.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Feeling uh better?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Missus? Ar ou? How'd you know my name?
Speaker 13 (17:43):
I'll crob your uh American uh driver's license a head
on him.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Well, Uh, there're all some money which I will find
most useful.
Speaker 13 (17:53):
Well, you were carrying exact amount required to pay for
your uh passage us to them.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Over a thousand dollars. That's pretty high. Fair, I am
a terrible man.
Speaker 13 (18:04):
My rates are based upon what my passengers can afford
to pay. An unscheduled shipline is expensive to operate. So
you will be taken aboard the Akiramatsu and shortly.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You will see you at fow for where.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
You will be pretty short of somewhere in South America,
Venezuela possibly, Oh Brazil.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm not your only passenger.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Oh no, no, you are not.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
How about untying me long as we're friends?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Or will it be untied when you reach your destination?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Wait a minute, I can see the point here where
somebody might give you away.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
But why aboard ship?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Were fugitives from the husky cargo?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Mister da?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
South American nations are rather.
Speaker 13 (18:57):
A furrow about their coastal So if you are tied up,
we can make certainly.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
You're not caught.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What do you mean for somebody that.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
You're you're hot cargos?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Did have?
Speaker 13 (19:09):
Are the only way to carry hot cargo is to
be certain that you can dispose of it in an emergency.
If we are challenged by a patrol vessel, you will
be weighted.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Down and through an overboard.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It was dark when they carried me aboard and left
me still trust in a deck cabin. Then the Kira
Matsu pitched and rolled her away into the open sea.
I knew that Loring was on board someplace, and I
knew something else. Kamamoo had lied to that cock me
about what he'd found when he searched me.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
He had more than a driver's license. He had my.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Insurance company credentials and my passport and the door open.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And I got something else to think about it. When
send your dollar, Jose, how did you get here?
Speaker 10 (20:08):
After you left me? I ran into another Americano. We've
not racewatch, but much money. He was kind to me.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
He gave me money to leave the country when I
told him about the bad jails.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
How come kamamotos letting you run loose?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
You are the only one who is tied up, Senor.
I do not think they intend for you to finish
the trip.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
How many other passengers are there besides us?
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Three? A man and a woman came just before we
say that's two.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Who's the other one?
Speaker 10 (20:38):
A man? A man with a white suit and a hat.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
A cockney accent.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
He sounded like an englishman.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Oh yes he is English.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah yeah, I though's so.
Speaker 11 (20:50):
How many in the crew Kamamoto and five seamen? It
is a very small boat.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah yeah, I can feel that. Look, Jose, I gave
you a break with the police. How about giving me one.
I'm a businessman, signor no sentiment.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
A thousand dollars guaranteed by an American insurance company if
you cut these ropes and lend me your gun.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Gosh, senor no credit?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
So much book, I haven't got any cash. Kamamoto took
it all too bad.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
Maybe next time.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
There isn't going to be any next time for me, ever,
buy a sweep steak ticket.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
See, I'm then to take a chance on me.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Come on, how about it? All right?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
But when is the time for the drawing?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
To see? If my speak it wins as soon as
you get these ropes off. But let's do it now.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Just tell me get to my stoff any minute.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Jose cut the ropes and gave me his gun. There
was an oil slicker hanging behind the cabin door, and
I slipped it on.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But cover the crew on deck was too busy to
be counting noses in the storm. I edged my way
forward to the main cabin, grasped the handle and crashed down.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Dollar And let's not get jumpy anybody.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm wet and I'm mad, and I've been pushed about
as far as I go. Good for you go now
glad you see up in a ba you can drop
the accent, Lauring and stop flexing your fingernails. Freddy, what's
the matter, Marsha? You get too nervous to stay home
and fix sandwiches.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I didn't have to stay. My lawyers can collect for me.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh what, Lauring looks pretty alive to me, even with
that Cockney accent.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I'm more alive than you're going to be.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I'll be a fool, Louring. You're more of a clay
pigeon than I am. You've been practicing for the part
for seven years.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
What are you talking about? You think you're going to
get to spend any of that insurance money? You think
I'm not? Ask Freddy? How about it? Freddy?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I don't know anything. I just came with Marsha because
she asked me for.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
He's a nice boy, Lauring.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
He writes poetry and he'll do anything Marcia asks him to,
won't you?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Freddy? What are you trying to do.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I want to hear this, yeah, you auto before your
hearing stops all together. Maybe you've been dead for seven years,
but your widow hasn't been putting flowers on your tombstone.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
You stop talking about Marcia, you.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
See, Lauring.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Freddie gets mad when I talk about Marcia. Freddy loves Marcia,
don't you, Freddy? Yes, you ever take a look at
his eyes, Luring. If Marcia said the word he put
a knife in you in a minute, think it over.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Mister Michael Walsh.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Turns up dead in South America, and missus Frank Loring
and friend Freddy go back to Greenwich Village with a
quarter of a million bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Only this time they'd have nothing to worry about. Don't
listen to him, Frank, Why not Angel? He sounds like
a pretty smart guy. We've waited seven years for this.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Do you think I'd have anything to do with this littlydia.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
I've used him, that's all, Marsha.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You see, Freddy should get rid of you too.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
After a while, there'll always be somebody else coming along
to open the beer bottles.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
I was kind of wondering how Freddy got in on
this little trip. I was wondering why we kept something
between ourselves for seven years, and then you spill it
to him.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I was frightened, Frank, I knew Dollar was after you.
That's why I wired you. I couldn't come down here
alone until I was sure we'd be together.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
We'll be together, and we'll stay together until the money comes.
Then maybe I'll have some ideas of my own.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
You up Lawing, You're never gonna get that money. Yes,
I am Dollar.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Kamamoto is standing right behind you, the curtain between this
cabin and the next room.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Now let me have that gunjo all right, Kamamoto. Now
let's get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Oh, why Kamamoto, Why don't we bargain a little first?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I have heard you are not in the bargaining position.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
How much is he gonna give you for dropping me?
You'll get five grand dollar? Oh, you're dealing with a
real cheapskate, Camemoto. I'm worth more than that. I can
shut you up right here is sorrowing.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Oh sweep, I do not use that, Conners or Siso.
This is my ship.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
You took my credentials before, kamomto you know who I am? Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
How much did Lauriing tell you it was gonna collect
be Starling Cameramo to get rid of it.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I won't torrowing. I will do sorry, who leaves a ship.
I'm well?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And how.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
Suppose you tell me the amotor the policy mister Dolla
a quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
He's lying. It's only twenty five thousand, is it, Lauring?
I tell you what I'll do. Then Kamamoto put us.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Both the shore back in the canal zone where I
can get him into the hands of American authorities, and
my company will pay you twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
And I'll make it fifty thousand dollars. Comma motive fifty thousand.
I've been sixty, so I hear seventy. Come on, Lauring,
bed I can go the whole quarter million. Won't cost
my company anymore. Either way, I'll kill you dollars no Ha.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Louring and Kamamoto fired at the same time. Both of
them were hit, but only Kamamoto went down. Lauring turned
to Marsha.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You wanted him, you couldn't go together, all right? Dollar?
That ends everything now I'm around to you for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Oh, I wouldn't count on Luring this time. I've got
a friend in the doorway.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
What he says, she's true.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Sen your Kamamoto was no longer using his gune, so
I took it.
Speaker 10 (26:09):
Besides, you have only one bullet left.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I have five.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
You kill mister Dollar, and I will have to kill you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
He cut lauring your wife's dead. You couldn't even get
the money if you could get away.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
All right, here, you can have it. Come. Mother, hit
me in the side. It hurts. Maybe I canna patch
it up a little better. Just wrap your shirt. I
loved it. She always wanted things more than an actor.
The giver whose idea was it hers? I get out
(26:45):
like a dog.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
She sneaked up to Boston to see maybe once every
six months after the first year.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
First the time I was without her, I guess she
wasn't lonely.
Speaker 14 (26:59):
Yeah, some women never are. And that about finished it.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Expense account Item eight sixty dollars miscellaneous expenses. Expense account
Item nine one thousand dollars as promised to Jose. Item
ten four hundred and twenty one dollars and eighty cents
plain fare and instital expenses from Colon, Panama Canal Zone
back to Hartford. Total expenses eighteen hundred and seventy nine
(27:37):
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