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The school teacher needs an emergency train ticket to Seattle, but can Lum come through on his promise to get her one? Today he can be found on the phone, calling on all the favors from his friends who may owe him one,.
His pride won’t even allow himself to admit to Abner what he’s doing, or that he really doesn’t know any rail road presidents. His web of lies grows as he tells how the rail road president was a school chum of his. What was his name… Bill… Bob… and what school did they go to?
Grandpap reads the paper and distracts the topic. There is the possibility of run away inflation in the post war world. The short encouragement for listeners to control their spending is directed back to Lum’s troubles with a phone call from Miss Emaline,
