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The Confidential Matter - Ep 2

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · September 11, 1956 · 14 min · 2,292 words

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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar a Mac Woodson mr. Dollar the girl from the claims of us called and they gave me this number Oh, yes, mr. Woodson. It seems we're working on the same case for the same company Well, I've been working on mr. Ed Morgan's files and records here for the past week

No, I've turned up some how much is missing? $80,000 so far all of it was taken during the four months immediately preceding his death I'll say one thing in 20 years as an accountant. I've never seen a looting more cleverly carried out Oh, Ed was a very bright lad. A man who'd go far, they all said.

Did you know him, Mr. Dollar? I thought I did. He was one of my best friends. But it turns out I'm only beginning to know him. Could you meet me in his office around ten o'clock, Mr. Woodson?

Yes, yes, that's where I am now. I've been working on these books day and night. Better be careful. That's what got Ed into trouble. How's that? Tonight, and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. From special investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office, eternity mutual insurance company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment, the confidential matter, location San Francisco. Expense account continued. Item $4, $1, one martini.

Item $5, $1, one tip to the bartender who stirred the martini. All in the house that Jack goes. I don't know who built it, actually. But it took Jack to live in it, $1,200 a month to be exact.

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