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The Phantom Chase Matter - Ep 2 (2nd of 9)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · October 16, 1956 · 14 min · 2,244 words

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From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny Dollar George Everson, Mr. Dollar. Oh, yes, Mr. Everson I've been thinking I could have been wrong last night. You mean about the newspaper picture of the bar in New Orleans?

Yes that man in the background of the picture the way he sets the way holds his hands and he's headed It's so like Tom. Yeah, that's what you tell me last night. Yes, but this morning Well, you know things always look different in the morning after all we can't see very much of his face in the picture

It might be just a wild goose chase. Well, I've been on plenty of them believe me But I've been thinking too, Mr. Everson, Tom Chase embezzled $120,000 from your firm. New Orleans would be as good a place for him to hide as any, besides which his wife told me was very fond of jazz, and there's certainly plenty of that down there.

And you really think it might be a possibility? My plane leaves for New Orleans in an hour. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location New Orleans, Louisiana, to the home office, Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment, the Phantom Chase Matter. Expense account continue. Item 5, 350 camp fair to the airport.

George Everson was waiting for me at the passenger ramp. I'll tell you, Mr. Dollar, before I came out here to the airport, I called the insurance company you represent in this investigation. I told him that this Pipton New Orleans did turn out to be just a wild goose chase that I would assume you're expensive.

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