Gumball machine

And that, Thelma, darling, I regret to inform you, is still the crop.

After I'd sprung you from the pokey, I got hold of Higgins, and we went through every coin out of every Eagle gumball machine

in the city of San Francisco.

It couldn't happen, but it did.

You've got to help me.

[coughs] Now, what makes you think it's in a gumball machine?

Mr. Chiselhurst took the pearl to show to a man named Junius Eagle, and that's when it disappeared.

Mr. Eagle decided not to buy, and when Mr. Chiselhurst returned to the hotel-

That collision between his car and the rear end of Higgins' truck was a good lead in more ways than one.

It meant that at least part of your story, darling, was true.

But you neglected to tell me that you, Chiselhurst, and Merle had been tailing Higgins to pointed rounds of the gumball machine.

I checked the police report on the accident.

They have Pringles dispensers.

So I want you to think of a gumball machine.

Gumball.

Not like a vending machine where, you know, you hit it, and it bzz, and it drops down.

Not like that, right? This is like a chest high, you know, put a quarter in and, like, turn the knob, like that kind of thing.