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rate
uh...
Put it on nine.
Help yourself! Help yourself to anything you want!
Oh, very original of you having this in your home, Louise.
But aren't you a bit afraid?
Afraid? Why, why, why, what ever of?
Well, this is not Nevada, you know.
And isn't this type of indoor sport rather against the law in New York?
Oh, well, that's what makes it so exciting, don't you think?
Besides, it is for charity, the orphan's home.
So have lots of fun and lose lots of money.
Oh, Mr. Thornton, it's fine. Everything is just fine.
Well, I'm glad you think so, Mrs. Ford.
Oh, I do. People are losing money all over the place.
Well, I wouldn't say that exactly, though a slight percentage always favors the house.
About two percent.
Actually, I thought you'd bring in a lot more of your friends to play.
After bringing in all the equipment and the dealers and so forth, I, well, I expected more play, frankly.
After all, charity.
Well, I'll have a lot more tomorrow.
You see, I had to be rather careful about urging people.
After all, it is illegal.
And we can't let the bulls get wise, can we?
Oh, heavens no.
Oh, excuse me.
Oh, dear, he's winning a lot of money.
An awful lot he can't seem to lose.
Six with a pair and nobody there. The point is eight.
How are you, Mrs. Ford?
Great little party.
Eight, the point.
How do you like that, honey, huh?
Oh, it's all right, I guess.
Four straight passes. Coming out on the line. Coming out.
Richie, don't you think you're winning a little too much?
I mean, well, think of the orphans.
Well, I am, Mrs. Ford. After all, I'm an orphan myself.
Sweet boy.
And I'm the orphan I'm thinking of.
Let's have him.
I let her ride.
It's all right with the house.
Richie, take some off. There must be $4,000 there at least.
That's all right, honey.
Richie, please.
Look, let me handle it my way, will you?
Let her ride. Coming out on the line.
Seven a point.
Ah, nine. I'll put it on nine.
Seven wouldn't do him any good now, would it?
No, he has to make a nine. If he makes a seven, he'll lose.
Oh, wouldn't that be nice?
How about those cumbets there? Seven craps on the field.
Eleven. Pay to come.
All right, now blow on them, honey.
That's 91.
Nine down the line.
Nine a point. Pay the line.
Margaret dear, I think this young man should know
that winning too much at games is just as bad as losing too much.
Well, it's a little vulgar, and it could lead to gambling.
The dice are still yours, sir.
Oh, no, I'm sorry. I'm not going to stretch my luck any further.
You're not leaving, Richie.
I'm sorry I didn't lose, Mrs. Forbes.
You, um, you can give this to the other orphan.
Oh, but you will come back tomorrow night.
Our take a chance for charity benefit will go on until Friday night.
I'll see if we can make it. Goodnight.
Goodnight, Mrs. Moore.
Good night, children.
I'll be ready as soon as I get my wrap.
All right. Number 42, please.
Well, I saw you were leaving.
I couldn't let you get away without saying goodnight.
Good night, Thornton.
You did pretty well.
Yes, yes, pretty well.
Ten thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.
Minus withholding tax.
You can call that a tax for your social security,
which I'll collect right now if you don't mind.
But I do mind.
This is hardly the time or place for anything like that.
I think it is.
Now, what would Mrs. Forbes think
if she saw one of her guests paying 75 percent of his winnings
to the man who's supposed to be running her games for her?
Blackmail, huh?
What would the other guests think?
Ready?
Oh, surely, dear.
Well, we'll see you tomorrow night, I suppose.
Well, his luck can't last forever.
He doesn't seem to think so.
Good night, Thornton.
Good night.
This is your last chance, honey.
We can still go out and have another nightcap.
How many nightcaps do we need?
The more, the merrier.
It's been a great night for me.
Ten thousand dollars richer and happier than life.
No, Richie.
Let me come in for a minute, huh?
Good night, Richie.
Hey.
Call that a kiss?
Look, it's late and I have to get up and go to work in the morning.
Poor little working girl.
Hey, look.
Look here.
See these?
They brought me great luck this evening.
Now, now, let me in.
I want to see my point.
Snake eyes.
Let me get my dice, will you?
Tomorrow, Richie. I'll give them to you tomorrow.
Oh, now, Maggie.
Honey.
Hey, wait a minute. Open the door.
Maggie.
What?
Look behind you.
Look down.
You wouldn't wait for the elevator. You decided to use the stairs.
You stumbled.
Too bad. You were a nice kid.
Let me go.
You've got something that belongs to us.
I'll give it to you.
I was going to give it to you.
You want to use the elevator.
I was going to give it to you.
I knew you were. I wasn't sure you did.
Let's go, Buster.
My office.
Push the down button, Charlie.
That'll be a pleasure.
Nine.
Let me try it.
Eight this time.
Twenty-two rolls and more than half of them came up eight or nine.
They did the same thing last night.
Let's try something.
These dice seem to be talented.
Let's see if they can swim.
Watch.
Four.
Now, if they've been gimmicked,
the same point will turn face up.
Four again.
That proves it.
Loaded like Grandpappy's musket.
But they're transparent. I didn't think they could be.
Not with weights. With paint.
Paint? Where?
The points on the opposite side have been painted with zig paint.
They've been shaped through.
And rounded off on two edges.
Then they'll roll over easily.
Not every time, but often enough to make it profitable.
Well, I knew Richie needed money, but I'd never believed it.
Well, he won ten thousand dollars last night alone.
Not one. Stole.
How'd you happen to get mixed up with him?
No romance, if that's what you mean.
His uncle and my dad are old friends.
I just can't believe that Richie'd be a cheater.
It looks like he's also a shill.
You mean he's working for Thornton?
Nobody rings in passes on a professional gambler.
Any good dealer would immediately have them thrown out of the game,
along with the man who brought them in.
Unless he was expecting them.
Well, can't say I'm glad to hear this, Mr. Barnett,
but thank you.
And, well, you can send me a letter.
I'll write it down.
Thank you, and, well, you can send me a bill for whatever you think it should be.
Is that all you wanted?
I could have smelled these on the phone.
Don't you want to break this thing up?
Oh, indeed I do, but how?
Well, if I go to the newspapers or the police,
a lot of good people are going to get hurt.
People who only gamble because they thought they'd be helping
some poor kids in the orphanage.
Ridicule and scandal won't get their money back.
But it'd sure make them think.
But a lot of them are my friends.
They only went to these parties because I urged them.
I feel responsible.
There were only something that I could...
Excuse me.
Mr. Clayton.
Oh, yes, Richie.
Yes, I'm fine.
Yes, I still have them.
So you left them home?
Oh, no, I left them at home.
Try and get him to take you again tonight.
Yes, that's right. I did say so, didn't I?
All right, Richie, I'll be ready.
Nine o'clock.
Goodbye.
Good.
He'll take you to the party and I'll take his dice.
But what are you going to do?
I'm going to help you break up Mrs. Forbes'
Park Avenue crap game.
Not with publicity.
If it works, Mrs. Forbes will never know it even.
But what do you need the dice for?
I know a little place where they teach dice to talk.
And these still have something to say.
I'm really interested in dice.
I'm going to go to the party.
I'll be right back.
I'm really interested in dice.
Well, why didn't you?
A sportsman, well, I should have known it with that
beautiful conservative tie you're wearing.
Hey, ya, how's that?
Huh?
Take your pick.
Any size, any color,
but all the same shape.
Absolutely square. How do I know?
I know because I make it with my own
two little hands.
No, actually, pal, I'm interested in percentage dice.
Percentage work, eh?
For magic tricks?
Or for demonstrations
exposing the folly of gambling?
Of course.
Well, don't go away. Got just what you need.
There you are, sir.
These are the best
busters east of shy.
Inside work is what you want?
Well, here's passers,
miss outs, taps, and floats.
And for outside work,
we have shapes, caps,
slicks,
and rollers.
Just you name it.
This stuff get by?
Get by? Why, all the best
layouts in the country use my dice.
But you make these.
Ah, shapes, eh?
Color, too.
Well,
I feel like my work. Where'd you get them?
A friend of mine,
he got them from a fellow named Thornton.
Ever hear of him?
Did you ever hear of Las Vegas?
Never heard of it.
Well, Thornton ran the hoodoo club there.
Ran it into a cool couple of million.
Where's Thornton now?
That I wouldn't know.
But, supposing I was to
see him, who would I say
was asking for him?
Well, he wouldn't know me.
Well, take your pick, Mac.
Now, here's a beautiful pair.
Miss outs defies the eyes,
and leads detection.
And I'll guarantee you, if that
don't roll a natural on every come out roll,
they'll turn right around and apologize.
Sure thing, huh?
Yes. Oh, I'm sorry.
No, that's alright. Take nothing of it.
Perfect.
I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll just take a look around town and see what
kind of action's going, and I'll come back here
and get the best kind of work for it.
Well, of course, anytime. Come right in.
We're open Thursday night to take care of the late shoppers.
Yes, sir. Hey, what's that for?
That's for your trouble.
Oh, thanks, but you didn't have to do that.
Be seeing ya.
Hello, is that you, Mr. Thornton?
This is Malco.
Yeah, I thought there was something you ought to know.
Yeah, there was a fellow in here
just now, and, uh,
he was very curious about some work
I'd done for you.
Yeah, I think I know him.
Just a minute. I'll look at him.
Yeah, just as I thought.
Yeah, I made his face
all right. He's, uh...
Mike Barnett, huh?
Thanks for the office,
Malco. We'll be waiting for him.
Remember our little conversation
in the elevator last night, Richie?
When you, uh,
agreed to come back to work for us?
Yes.
You remember I told you to bring that McLean girl
back again? Did you date her?
Yes. Good.
She's got friends who have money,
and she's got those
guys, too.
Hasn't she?
I already told you she's gonna bring them back to me again tonight.
We have a little room, Richie.
We don't take any work home.
Listen, you little punk, you're out of prep school now.
You're in the big town with grown men.
What's the matter? What's happened?
You tell me. There's a private cop
walking around this town with those dice in his pocket
asking questions about me.
You'd better get him back, kid,
or I'll split that petal that was gone.
Mr. Thornton!
Uh, yes, right in here, Mrs. Wallabs.
Oh, now don't let me
disturb you. I was just...
Why, Richie Locke, what in the world are you doing here?
Oh, he just dropped in to donate
some of his last night's winnings to our father, Mrs. Wallabs.
Well, that's very generous of you,
Richie. But why don't you come back
tonight and let us win it from you?
Oh, oh, I came in
to see if you had the statement ready.
You see, the Fairlawn children's
home is so excited about it,
and I told them that I'd let them know
today just how much to expect.
Well, I was just going over the accountant's figures.
I expect to have it in a few hours.
Oh, splendid.
Well, I've got to run along now, Mrs. Forbes.
What in the world has happened to your forehead?
Oh, I, uh...
I ran into a squash racket.
How virile.
Goodbye.
Oh, yes. For you, Mrs. Forbes.
Oh, thank you.
Louise Forbes speaking.
Oh, Margaret.
How nice to hear your voice.
Yes, it's so well modulated.
What?
I said I have a friend
who's just in town from...
Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth.
That's in Texas, darling.
Yes.
He's disgustingly rich,
and he'd like to come to one of your parties tonight.
His name's Carhart.
Any relation to the oil, Carhart?
Great aunt.
Distantly.
Oh, that's fine, Mrs. Forbes.
Thanks a lot.
Yes, I'll see you tonight.
Goodbye.
Well, you're all set.
She's expecting you.
I just wish I didn't have to go with Richie.
These are his dice.
I've got to make sure they get into the game.
These are the ones they're expecting.
Well, what are those?
This is a pair of beauties.
They defy the eye, they defy detection.
These are the ones nobody's expecting.
Six and ninety-one.
You think I can't make it?
I do. You can't keep this up.
You're right.
Ninety's a point.
Any more money doesn't count.
How about you, honey?
Don't you think it's about time I lost?
Let's put it this way.
I think it's about time the orphanage won.
Why don't you let Mrs. Forbes worry about that, huh?
You just worry about a little niner from Carolina.
Nine.
She hit it.
But, Mr. Thornton, I simply can't believe it.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Forbes, but there's no way
I can make it.
I'm afraid you can't.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Forbes, but there are the figures.
I've had our accountant double-check them to make sure.
But I've been giving these little parties for a week now.
And only $3,000 profit.
I promised the Fairlawn children's home
that we'd furnish a whole new wing.
It's been disappointing, I know, but then there are expenses.
The catering, rental of equipment, the dealer's salaries,
and my two percent.
I just can't understand it.
So many people seem to be losing.
Ah, but not to the bank.
Your friends all like to side-bet with each other.
Only $3,000.
Oh, I'll be so humiliated to announce a sum like that.
Well, now we could continue the parties for another week.
Do you think that would help?
Yes, provided you encourage more of your friends to participate.
All right.
I roll again?
Don't surprise.
What do you mean?
Nothing.
Only wouldn't it be a little embarrassing if you made another pass?
Some of these people might begin to think you brought your own dice.
Yeah.
Maybe they would at that.
Ah, you're shooting, sir. You're holding up the play.
I've had enough luck for tonight.
Your dice.
How about a drink? Have one?
Ah, you shooting this?
No, I'm just watching. I'll give my turn to this gentleman here.
Well, thank you, ma'am.
Last few years, the only gambling I've done has been drilling for oil.
But I guess I can remember how we used to play this game down in Texas.
I'd like to use the same dice that other fellow was using.
They seem to be working just right, okay?
Aye, certainly, sir.
They have action without money.
Do I just throw them anywhere?
Ah, against the rail, sir, and please hurry.
Ah, seven, pay the line, naturally.
Well, what do you know about that?
Win a ride.
You ever hear of Texas luck? Just bet that front line.
I got a feeling I'm gonna break this bank just like Jesse James.
Ah, seven, pay the line.
Another natural.
If it wasn't from Texas, I wouldn't believe it myself.
Let that ride do.
Now, hold on.
What's wrong with those dice?
I don't know.
They're house dice, aren't they?
Why, yes.
Then what could be wrong with them?
Nothing. They're still shooting.
Then you better start ducking.
Ho, ho, ho, seven, pay the line.
Seven, pay the line.
Michael.
Ah, seven, the winner, sexicon.
hated.
ey, that one.
For they're.
Always enabled,
Seven to the winner, eight to the line.
Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. My name's Thornton. I'm banking this game.
Hiya, I'm Carhart. I'm breaking this game.
Oh, Mrs. Forbes would like to see you, sir.
The hostess? Sure, I'd like to thank her for all the fun I'm having.
I'll just cash in, son.
Right into the study, sir.
I thought you said Mrs. Forbes wanted to see me.
Oh, she had sort of a disappointment this evening. She's not feeling very well, so she was lying down for a while.
This is between you and me, Barnett.
I should have worn false whiskers.
I know a store where you can buy some. So do you.
You were around there today asking about dice.
The guy who runs the joint sent you a picture over.
Are these the dice you were using?
Don't point those at me. They're loaded.
I know.
And so, you're going to be a good man.
And so is this.
How much do you take us for, Charlie?
Twenty-five-five.
Let's have it.
This is going to the orphanage.
And you're going to a hospital.
And when you get out, if you get out, we're going to be kind of hard to reach.
They'll find you. There's a warrant out for your arrest on a gambling charge.
So I pay a fine, they put me out of business, I'll retire rich. Will you?
You're an out-of-towner, Thornton.
Before pushing a Pachisi game into New York, you should have read the penal code.
Maintaining a public nuisance. I can afford that, too.
That's section 971, but can you afford section 995?
What's that?
It has to do with swindling.
Roughly, it means that a friend of mine is calling the cops right now.
Yeah?
Yeah, so you'll be handy in the morning when the district attorney institutes a civil suit against you to recover three times what you took from those people out there.
That's 995. Can you throw a higher number?
Yeah.
Lock the door, Charlie.
Hi, honey. What are you doing, huh?
Calling the police.
Huh? Hey.
Richard.
What for?
Wait here a minute.
I'll be right back.
Hello, police?
Quiet, quiet, everybody. I have an announcement to make.
This is our last take-a-chance party.
Oh.
Yes, yes it is. Yes, it is.
And the reason is this.
Mr. Thornton brought an accountant to go over our books.
A new accountant.
A very nice Mr. Carhart from Texas.
And he discovered that the Fairlawn Children's Home will get $55,000.
Yes, that's all the money you lost.
It hasn't been fun.
There, that's all I can afford to pay you.
Don't worry. Thornton paid my fee.
What?
Well, you earned it.
Well, not exactly earned it. Let's say I won it.
That's all the money you lost.
This is Mike Bonnett.
Turn to this same channel next week for another exciting case from the file I call Follow
That Man.