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The original air dates are July second

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and third, nineteen fifty six,
and it's the Modest touch matter episodes one

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and two from Hollywood. It's time
now for Johnny Dillon at mcgregen Universal Adjustment

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Fureiu. Oh hi, Patty,
this is my third call. Where you

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been. I'll buy some tackle.
I want to go fishing fish. Yeah,

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I'm heading down to New York State. Is Soapus River maybe the beaver

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kill? Trying to snag myself a
nice trout and Patsy, my fishing is

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one thing you aren't going to interfere
with. I wouldn't think of it.

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Why don't you try a Lake Mohaffi? Where's that along? The Colorado River

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out between Nevada and Arizona. What
sure be the guest at Greater Southwest Insurance

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and Liability What are you talking about? I don't know how you'd value those

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in Shoppers River trout. There's a
fish out there that maybe worth three million

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bucks. Johnny, I'll be right
over tonight and every weekday night. Bob

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Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the
Man with the Action Packed Expense account of

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America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours
Truly, Johnny Dollar expense accounts submitted by

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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Greater Southwest
Insurance and Liability Company Kingman, Arizona office.

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Following is an accounting of expenses incurred
during my investigation of the Midas Touch

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Matter. Expense account out of one
cab fare from my apartment to the Universal

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Adjustment Bureau eighty two forty two North
Spring. When I got there, Pat

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mccrack i was standing holding the door
of his office open for me and Johnny.

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But don't bother shitting down now?
What's that supposed to me? It

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means you haven't got time? You'll
pack? Oh you bet? I am

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for a trip to the sofas and
some of those pretty rainbows in Easton Brook

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Trot got a new little oil called
fans Strike. I want to try on.

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I hear it's great. Sorry,
but if there's going to be any

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actual fishing, it's going to be
for Lake Mohave bass As here there you

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playing tickets here to New York NonStop
Los Angeles and not to Las Vegas.

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Now you'll have to go to king
min Arizona by car Old Boys. Slow

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down? Man is Sean Kingman is
Jake Kessler at Southwest pat You mind telling

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me what it's all about? The
Midas touched mine new racket and Urania,

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I said, Midas gold Mine.
Oh sure, Well what's the insurance hangle?

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Ask Jake Kessler when you get the
Kingdom what? But you can at

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least tell anyone if you've only got
twenty minutes to catch your plane to New

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York. You mean if I had
just signed it and with a million and

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a half dollars maybe three million at
steak, nobody's going to quibble too much

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over your expense account. Maybe I
should take a crack at those Lake Mohave

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baths expense account Adams two and three
two ninety even a handful of American Express

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travelers, checks and cav fair.
Back to my apartment for my luggage,

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then to the airport from my plane
to New York to Las Vegas, Nevada.

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It was eleven thirty pm when the
big plane slowly glided down out of

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the clear starlet sky. And unless
you've seen the millions millions of stars that

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twinkle brightly through the clear, dry
air over the Mohave Desert, you've missed

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a real thrill. We glided down
on toward the landing strip on the edge

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of the town of Las Vegas.
From the air, the myriad multicolored lights

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made the fambuinous resort sparkle like a
field of jewels. I had them four

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to thirty cents phone calls to car
rental agencies. They were all closed.

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I had them five sixty five cents
per cave to the Flamingo Hotel, where

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I decided to spend the night and
drive on to Kingman in the morning.

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I had them six hotel overnight food
and incidentals one hundred seventy eight dollars thirty

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cents. If you know Las Vegas, you know what that word incidentals mean.

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Fifteen not and black waiter bats please
successful say, I'll say this much.

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I tried to make some expense money
on the side, but well,

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I guess I shouldn't have tried to
cover so many of the gambling joints if

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I'd stayed at the Flamingo, where
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at the casino. But this time, Lady luck just wasn't on my side.

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Anyway, I am seven to fifty
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The next morning, I headed south
and east toward Kingman, Arizona. First

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stopover Dam, where that tremendous hunk
of steel on masonry straddles the Nevada Arizona

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state line, and I took a
brief but longing look at what I could

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see of giant lake Meet. I
wanted to stay right there, break out

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my fishing tackle, and take a
crack at some of the huge lunker baths

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for which lake meat is famous.
But duty is duty or something. Anyhow,

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I hit the highway again across the
hot, dry desert toward the city

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of Kingmen. At this time of
year, at this time of morning,

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the thermometer hits the hundred mark without
any trouble at all, and the occasional

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swimming pools and motels outside Kingman looked
pretty inviting when I drove straight to j.

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Kessler's insurance office on East Palm Drive. Why must be Dollar, It's

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a good name. Come on in. Jake was tall, angular, well

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tanned, and dressed in blue jeans, open denim shirt, high heeled boots,

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and broad brimmed hat. He looked
as though he'd be more at home

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on a range point you than in
this insurance office. All right, Dollar,

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let me tell you what this is
all about. Okay, thanks miss

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guessing. Jake? You want the
folks around town think I'm putting on airs?

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Okay? Jake. By the way, Johnny, I hope you didn't

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make any arrangements to say right here
in Kingman, did you? No?

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My bags are still out in the
car. Good. I got a place

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waiting for you down at Catherine Landing
Lake Mahovey Resorts what they call it now.

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It's nice cabins, good restaurant,
nice people right down at the edge

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of the lake. Too bad you
aren't a fisherman. Well, I just

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happened to have brought along a couple
of rods and reels good boy, and

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then you love it best. Your
favorite down there will show you a spots

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where you can haul in the prettiest
mess of large mouth bast you ever saw

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five six pounds maybe more. Stop
making my mouth water, Jake, I'm

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supposed to be here working on a
case. Well, every man's entitled to

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a little time off for fishing,
and you look like you could stand some.

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Brother. You are killing me.
Listen, Pat mccrack and a Universal

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Adjustment Bureau said something about a gold
Mary. Hey. Yeah, I contacted

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Pat because I I knew he'd know
where to find you. It's the Midas

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Touch Mine, Johnny, and it's
right down that neighborhood where you'll be staying.

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Wow. The mine was abandoned back
in the early thirties, worked out

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apparently, but about a year ago, hard luck Dennis took another look at

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it. See Dennis prospector promoter here
and there Arizona, Nevada, California.

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He's found himself an old mine,
pecked away at it and managed to scratch

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out a fair living for himself,
you said, promoter, Yeah, well

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I was in Texas mostly never was
able to get the full story, but

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it appears he got some folks to
invest in some kind of phony oil stock

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down there a couple of years ago, and had to skip out. Couldn't

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have been too serious. So because
the law and never bothered chasing him up

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here or else, he was able
to make things look legal enough, could

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be, could be anyhow. He's
been back in this country for a while

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now, poking around the hills looking
for the big strike again. You know

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how prospectors are, Yeah, I've
finally while back. He started prowling around

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the old Midas Touch. First thing, you know he'd got a lease on

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it. Well, I still don't
see the insurance connection. Will you will?

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And you won't like it? Okay? Going Well, next thing,

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we knew he'd got a report on
some ore samples he'd brought into town here

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at the assay office. Johnny,
Well you wouldn't leave it good, huh,

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Johnny. It looked like a prospector's
dream comes true, or worth about

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eleven hundred dollars a time, all
right. Now, it takes money to

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work a mind like that, no
matter how you figure it. First of

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all, he had a big pumping
job to do, pumping out there in

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the middle of the desert, that's
right. You see, when there was

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just the Colorado River running down the
valley, it was different. But since

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Davis Dam was put into form Lake
Mohave about ten years ago, the level

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of the water table in that whole
area is raised considerable. Oh. I

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see, the Midas Touch was in
a low spot and parts of it were

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dug pretty deep. So now with
seepage from the lake feeding at the lower

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level filled up with water. Yeah, well down, Jay, simmer down,

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Johnny, I'm getting to it.
Hard luck. Dennis needed money,

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a lot of money. So who
should he come to but the Haskell brothers,

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three of my best clients. So
what happened? He'd keep chewing your

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ear off? Three? But I've
got gave us some background. Shoot,

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Ernie Kevin and George Haskell. There
moneymen from back east? What do you

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mean? Moneymen? Brokers? You
know? Stock market? Oh, they

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made themselves big. Pilod Dough got
the usual ulcers doing it, and then

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decided to give up and get as
far away from New York as possible.

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I don't blame them the bus when
they got out here instead of just retiring

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and taking it easy, you know, much as you might like it at

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first, you can get pretty bored
just riding around on horseback and hunting and

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fishing all the time. Get tired
of fishing? Huh, nothing go on?

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Yeah, Well, after a few
months they decided they'd have to have

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something to do with themselves, or
at least something to occupy their mind.

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So they bought up the old too
lazy two ranch, eighty thousand acres northeastern

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here, not very good grays in
land, but enough to keep two three

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hundred head to beef alive. And
with Alex bund As they're foreman, they

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did all right. Well, now
let's get down to gentlemen. Ranchers they

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called themselves, and that's just about
what it amounted to. They build a

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nice house on the properties that in
it. Well, not much work,

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but just enough worry and responsibility so
that time didn't hang too heavy on their

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hands. Now now, now all
their insurance is with my company, the

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Straight Life That is five hundred thousand
apiece. And you're afraid something sure half

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a million each and double indemnity,
wow, a million apiece in case of

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death by accident, right accident.
So let's get back to hard luck.

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Dennis. Well, that parts ease
isn't is it sure Dennis needs money to

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open his mind? The Haskell boys
are obviously loaded right first off, even

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before he got his leaps, he
tried to sweep talk him into putting up

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some money. But after years of
fooling around of those bulls and bears in

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Wall Street, they were too smart
for that. So we took them down

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in the mine, let them chip
off some samples or and had them take

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it themselves down at the assay office. And was that the ore that you

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said tested so high? Yes,
sir, And from the minute they saw

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the report on it, you couldn't
have held him back with a twenty mule

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team. How much did they go
in for twenty thousand apiece cash on the

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strength of a handwritten agreement with hard
Luck Dennis that they'd get thirty percent of

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whatever came out of the mind.
Okay, Jake, Now let's get down

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to business. Are you afraid that
something connected with his minas touch mine and

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hard Luck Dennis is what the Haskell
brothers in jeopardy? I'm afraid it's got

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beyond that, Johnny Huh. Three
days ago, hard Luck took the Haskles

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over to the mine again for another
look. Yeah, cave in. They

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finished digging their bodies out yesterday morning, all three of them. Hard Luck

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Dennis. He wasn't caught in that
cave in. Where is he? Who

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knows? Hmmm? Then for you, it's a question of a three million

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dollar payoff on the policies or a
million and a half. Yep, Johnny,

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a question of accident or murder.
And for me it's a matter of

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finding a killer. Yeah, named
hard Luck Dennis. And when you do,

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look out for him. Yeah,
tell me, Jake, does anybody

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know I've come here to look into
this the whole? I'm afraid maybe I

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should have kept it quiet. Well, sometimes it is better if where are

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the policies? Oh? Here,
I'll get them for you there right in

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this little side office. Who are
the beneficiaries? There's only one? The

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girl it is or the wall.
I was married to Kevin Haskell. The

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other two were bachelor's. She lives
at the ranch, she finally claimed you,

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No, has Well. Can you
make the corners reports available to me

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anytime you want. I'll take it
for you, Johnny Dollar. I mean,

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this is the officer, the other
one I want to talk show.

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Huh you heard me? I want
you to meet me alone. Oh who

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are you? Tell you? Whit
and wearing the second? Don't come care

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again because mister I can outploy you
to Who is this? They call me

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hard luck Finnish. Oh, you're
planning to add another murder to that of

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the Haskell brothers. Thirteen miles out
of Kingman on the Highway East, Little

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Side Road to the right, Marck. You could train. Listen on the

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quarter on you'll see old minor Shock
be there at three o'clock shop. And

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what if I cele I told you
bring somebody with you or try anything funny

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and you'll never get out of this
digitalis Hello? Did that called for me?

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Johnny? No? No, it
wasn't Jake. But I wonder why

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a killer would call me? Expense
accounts I meanted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar,

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location king in Arizona to the Greater
Southwest Insurance and Liability Company. Following

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is a report of expenditures. During
my investigation of the Midas Touch matter,

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Jake Kessler, local representative for Greater
Southwest Insurance and Liability, had laid it

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out pretty clearly. The three Hanskell
brothers, prosperous gentleman ranchers, had taken

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out life policies totaling a million and
a half dollars double indemnity, which meant

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that their death and what was the
supposed to look like an accident at the

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bottom of the miners Touch mine could
cost Southwest a cool three million, and

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the finger of suspicion pointed straight at
one hard Luck Dennis, prospector and promoter.

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It was in Jake Kesser's office that
I'd received a phone call from hard

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Luck. Where did Hardluck tell you
to meet him? Johnny? Oh,

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I'll find it all right? Where? Look? I think I'd better handle

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this alone, Jake, Johnny,
He's being hunted by every available policeman here

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in Kingman. He's a killer,
Like I told you, he got twenty

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thousand apiece from the Haskell brothers Cash
then took him down to the minas Touch

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and caved it in on him.
All right, even supposing that he did,

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why would he do it? I
got it, that's as obvious as

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those two heads you're wearing. The
mine is worthless. How do you know?

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Because smarter people and him gave it
up over twenty years ago. I

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thought you told me the your samples
he brought out to say that eleven hundred

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dollars a ton. Now, look, Johnny, you know as well as

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I do that there's more ways to
sell the gold mine than there's the skin

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of cat. Do you have any
proof that hard Luck he slid that one?

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No, but Tad Harding will,
oh, Captain Tad Harding. Please,

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he hasn't lived out in this country
all his life for nothing worse Harding

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now at the night of touch.
But when he gets back here, you

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see him, he'll show you that
I'm right. Well, if you are,

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it certainly would point the finger at
hard Luck Dennis, wouldn't he?

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Can't you understand, Johnny, hard
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He salted that mine, got sixty
thousand from the Haskeles on a lick

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and a promise, then caved in
the mine on him before they could get

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wise to him. Good theory,
we'll find it's a fact. That's why

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he skipped out as soon as he
Oh yeah, he couldn't have skipped very

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far, could he? And if
he were guilty, why would he want

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to see me? All right,
Johnny, Now listen to me. The

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Hassles were three of our finest citizens. So the whole town will cooperate with

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you, So don't do anything foolish
like meeting that hard Luck Dennis alone.

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That willingness to cooperate includes you,
Jake, you know it does. I'll

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do anything, all right, then, just give me your words. You

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won't tell anyone that I'm meeting hard
Luck Well because if you do, I'll

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drop this case like a hot potato. Wow. Okay, Johnny for the

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time being. Okay, I just
noticed out the wind Tad Harding's car just

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pulled up in front of police headquarters. And what are we waiting for?

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Let's go Captain Ted Harding turned out
to be a tall, well built,

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cool headed man of about forty who
impressed me as being able to cope with

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any situation that might arise. He
bore out everything Jay Kessler had told me

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about the Haskells and about hard Luck, and he added two new and very

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important bits of information. One that
he'd found nothing whatsoever to indicate that the

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Minas Touch had been salted. On
the contrary, he'd picked up some very

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rich chunks of ore. Two he'd
learned the probable cause of the cavan and

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what it meant, he told you, was murdered. Johnny, I tool

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Tad Harding had found a length of
wire rope, one end wrapped around the

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spool of a powerful hand weinch.
The other end had very obviously been tied

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around a pillar, a thick pillar
of rock and gravel that had been dug

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around so as to leave support for
the ceiling of a horizontal shaft. Jack

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and I walked back to his office. That's it, Johnny, no doubt

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about it, no doubt. If
you quick turned to the handle on that

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winch, the pillar came down and
the roof caved in. I'll have to

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admit it certainly looks that way.
At least the company's off the hook for

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a million and a half of the
insurance if we can prove that somebody operated

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that wench while the hansklls were down
there. Ah, now, look,

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John means finding that person. I'm
satisfied it was murdered. Would the courts

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be? The court sure? When
the claims on these policies are filed,

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they'll be for three million on the
basis of double indemnity for accidental deaths.

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You can bet your last penny on
that. Claims haven't been filed yet,

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have they. No. I hope
we'll have time before they are time to

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prove it was murder by producing the
murderer. You you still plan to see

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and talk to hard Luck Dennis yep
alone Yep when sometime soon, when Johnny

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tell you all about it after I've
seen him, Johnny, it's day.

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Look, if I'm going to stay
at that place you told me about over

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at Lake mohave I may as well
go and get settled. Huh, how

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do I get there? I'll drive
you over, Johnny. No point in

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that, I've got my rented car. Well, you probably want to be

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seeing the mine too. Maybe I
can be of help to you, or

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maybe you just want to be present. If I happen to keep a date

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with hard Luck Tennis. Now I
didn't say that. He didn't need to,

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Jake. I want you to stay
right here in Kingman so you can

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keep in touch with whatever the police
take up and still be in touch with

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me. There's a phone at the
Lake Mohavee Resort, isn't there? Well

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sure, Johnny. Also, don't
forget that three million dollar claim may be

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filed here at your office any minute. If so, I want to know

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about it. How do I get
to Lake Mohavee Head east on Highway sixty

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eighty, said, So I did, and thirteen miles out of town I

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found the little side road yucka trail
that hard Luck hat described over the fall.

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The next mile on the quarter was
about the worst driving I ever encountered.

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This was nothing but an old wagon
trail. Several times a crank case

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and rare axles sprayed on boulders in
the middle of it. The trailer dropped

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off sharply from the highway, and
as far as I could see, there

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was nothing but sunbaked rock and gravel
of the Mohave Desert, splotched here and

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there with withered sagebrush, tumbleweed,
some weirdly shaped Joshua trees, an occasional

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yucca plant with its stalk poking upward
like a huge candle, and too many

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kinds of cactus to mention. All
of it surrounded by bleak needles and crags

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of rock, by high plateaus and
masons. The going got so bad I'd

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almost decided to get out and walk
when I spotted the old miner shack that

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hard Luck had named as our meeting
place. As I approached it, I

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could see no sign of life around
it. Hello, anybody here? Yeah,

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I like Dennis. Hello, nothing, no one, no sign of

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life at all. Huh. The
sudden movement at the corner of the shack

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was nothing but an ancient desert turtle
plotting at what he probably thought was breakneck

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speed towards a shady spot under his
sage brush. Hello, I love anyone

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inside there? Mm hmm hm,
Well that's not him. Should I look

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around back of this sack? Why
Gold big trading, mister, hard Luck

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Dolly? Yes, yeah, come
along. Like I said, I don't

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see anybody else around in real stir
door, I don't move nogain. That's

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smarter. Sit down there, that
bitch. Sure, what's this all about,

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hard Luck? I didn't do it, That's what it's all about.

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I didn't do it. I didn't
kill Lasko boy, if you understand it,

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I didn't think you did. Oh
why not? Because if you had,

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I think you would have skipped the
country. You wouldn't have asked me

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to come here and talk to you. That's right, that's right. You

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just trying to soften me up.
How much point in that is there with

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you holding a gun on me.
If you didn't do it, hard Luck,

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why don't you go to the police
in Kingman and tell them that I

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wouldn't have a chance jury anything else. Whole towns against me. They made

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up their mind. I did it
so the best lawyer in the country couldn't

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see me. Apparently the whole town
thought a lot of the Hasker brother Surely

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they had fine men. That's why
I picked them to share the mind with

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me. The only reason you picked
them was because they had money. And

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you know it, Yeah, like
all the rest. Didn't you see the

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or they took out of the miner's
touch. I heard about it, rich

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rich Or twelve fifteen hundred dollars a
ton. And I didn't plan it there.

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It's been there all the time.
Even Captain Harden couldn't find where I

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sorted it because I didn't. Oh, you know that he was out there.

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Sure I do. I know everything
that goes on in this desert.

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All right. Then, look,
suppose you put down that gun and tell

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me what happened the day the mine
caved in on the hask You bet,

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I'll tell you. That's why I
court you. But I won't put down

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this gun until I'm sure you're on
my side and waving in some other directs

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you want to hear what I gotta
say it and sit still and listen to

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me. First, tell me this
was it? Murder? It was murder?

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Then hold not by my head?
Then who did it? You know?

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Yes? Yes, I know.
They wanted to see the mine again.

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It's more samples. That was last
Friday there the caven. Yes,

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So I took them down there,
gave them a pick, showed them where

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to chip it off down on the
second level. But then I left them

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there for a minute. I heard
the car, heard a car pull up,

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so I went back out, went
back to sa see who it was

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the one supposed to be anybody around
that mine. I hadn't posted that i'd

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heard this car pulling. Hub.
Well, go on go on. So

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I left the haskles below and wind
that in a hurry. I went.

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No time for my eyes to get
due to the bright sunlight outside. All

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I saw was the car. When
I stuck my head out, That's when

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it hit me. What do you
mean when what hits hurraha club or something?

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I knocked me out. When I
come to the caven was all over.

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The hassles were dead in there,
and I knew what everybody would think,

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so I let out stayed in the
desert? Or do you know who

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it was who hits you? Row
by the car the same one that made

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the cave in ho Dollar, it
would listen, that's somebody coming out there.

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You cheated me, you brought her. No, No, I did

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not hide. Luck. Care if
I thought that hard? Luck hide?

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Luck? Yeah, I guess they
named you right now, here's our star

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to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode
of this week's story. Tomorrow, the

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so called trackless Desert yields a set
of tracks that leads straight to But if

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I told you you'd know, wouldn't
you so join us? Won't you?

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly
Johnny Dollar, starrying Bob Bailey is transcribed

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in Hollywood. It is produced and
directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote

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this week's story. Be sure to
join us tomorrow night, say time and

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station for the next exciting episode of
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking

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welcome back. This is an important
episode for Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Bob Bailey's performance brought a lot of
humanity to the role of Johnny Dollar,

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but this episode does more to make
Johnny a three dimensional character with just a

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couple really important things. First,
it gives Johnny a hobby he's passionate about,

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truly interested in. I love that
scene where Johnny was incredulous that there

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could ever be such a thing as
too much fishing or getting tired of fishing.

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Most radio detectives effectively live to work, except those that came from a

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literary tradition, such as near a
Wolf. Side of that, they didn't

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have consistent hobbies or passions outside of
their work. Second, this story marks

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the introduction of Lake mohobby resort.
In this serial, he meets people who

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would become friends and be recurring characters
for years to come. While we'll talk

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more about the real life basis for
this location on Friday, it's clear that

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john Stone had a real affection for
this rugged and beautiful country and that he

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put it into the script, and
Bailey really brings to life beautifully with his

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narration. While other detective shows had
advantages in terms of better mysteries, more

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running time, etc. What ultimately
made Bailey's Johnny doll Or stand out after

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the end of the serial era is
that there's a feeling that he's a real

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man with real consistent passions, interest, and real friends in places that he

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loves, rather than so many other
detectives who tended to be a lot more

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functional. You know, you have
a friend show up so that the friend

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can be killed or accused of murder
or something like that. As to the

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case itself, the only thing I'll
comment on here is that it's really all

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to bring out one of the country's
best insurance investigators for his perspective and act

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like it's an open and shut case
with only one possible interpretation of events.

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If that were the case, Johnny
wouldn't be there. Part of the strength

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of an outside investigator is his ability
to look at a case with fresh eyes.

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So Jake should let Johnny do his
job. Now we turn to listener

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comments and feedback and over on YouTube
Glamazon Rights. Indestructible Mike was made into

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a Gangbusters episode. Thanks for the
comment. It was actually a case where

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there was a Gangbusters episode, a
television episode, I should say to be

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clear, called The Durable Mike Malloy, which was based on the real life

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incident that inspired the Yours Truly Johnny
Doller episode. That episode aired in nineteen

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fifty two, So who knows it
may have been something that Jack Johnstone watched

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and could have indirectly inspired the episode, although we don't have any information to

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indicate that was the case. It
again does show the endurance of the Mike

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malloy story. Daryl Wrights Howard mcneer
aka Indestructible Mike was an incredible actor in

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dat He was nova brilliant riots.
I love this episode and over on Spotify,

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Susan says, love Johnny Doller,
well, thank you so much,

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appreciate your comments. Now, there
are a couple of questions that I got.

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I don't want to read out the
specific message, but I do want

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to address kind of a question or
issue behind them. I've gotten emails from

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folks who are concerned that the podcast
is not up now. I've even received

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emails from people who just assumed that
I someday decided, you know, I'm

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just not going to upload an episode, or I forgot, which doesn't really

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happen. There were times in the
past where we would have issues that were

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honestly caused by me when I was
self hosting the podcast files where I'd make

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a clerical mistake and something wouldn't load
up. Now that we've been hosting the

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podcast on Spreaker these past three years, that doesn't really happen anymore. I

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have had cases where there might be
a few hours delay because I made a

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typo in setting the release date,
but in terms of any long delays,

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that generally doesn't come from our end. There are generally two issues that will

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cause this. Now. One thing, it's not particularly common, but it

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might be. It may be an
issue with your own setup. It may

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be that the version of the podcast
software you downloaded is out of date,

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or it may be that they've updated
the software and it will no longer work

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on an older device, or there
was some error, and that can happen

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occasionally. The other thing that I'm
starting to see a bit more common is

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that there will be some random software
issue with the company that you get your

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podcast software from. A couple recent
examples of this is that I noticed a

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drop in downloads on the Old Time
Radio snack Wagon in people who are downloading

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the podcast in India, which is
noticeable because India is actually our second most

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popular country for that podcast. And
it turned out that an Indian podcast software

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that I submitted it to had stopped
updating the podcast feed and we had to

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send an email to support and work
through that to get that corrected with them.

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And then recently, tune In for
about three days didn't update our podcast

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feed even though we were posting episodes
every day, and I sent an email

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to them and got that corrected.
Now, one of the challenging things with

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podcasting is that there is a whole
lot of different podcast software that people use

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to access podcasts. And in one
way that's great. I don't like the

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idea of one software cornering the market. The challenge is that I really cannot

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monitor every single podcast software to make
sure they're updating every single podcast fate.

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So if you are subscribed to us
and you don't receive an expected podcast,

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particularly if you get to the next
day, like you were expecting a Johnny

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Dollar episode on Friday, it's Saturday
and you still don't have anything, then

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first of all, you can check
the website at Great Detectives dot net make

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sure that I got the podcast posted, and if I do, then I

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would you send a message to your
podcast company for lack of a better term,

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if you're able to locate that if
for some reason you know they don't

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have a help button that you're able
to find. Email me and say,

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you know, I'm on this you
know company's software and it's not updating,

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and I will check into it and
reach out to them. That's not preferable

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because it's going to take me a
little while probably to get to the computer,

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and you know, if you know
an apparent way to reach them,

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then that's going to be quickest because
the less people involve, the better.

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But my thing here is if there's
an issue with the software you're using,

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that we get at resolved so that
everyone can get the podcast as quickly as

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possible. And the other question was
around social media, in particular Threads,

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the relatively new service from Meta,
the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.

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My general stand on adding any new
social media is if I have to.

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We have a long standing page on
Twitter account and an Instagram account we've been

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working on for a few years.
And I know that to some folks what

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social media that you're on reflects some
sort of political loyalties. For me,

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it's a combination of just engaging the
listeners and promoting the podcast. And honestly,

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I've not seen data indicating that other
social media are particularly helpful for building

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podcasts, and so for me to
get any new sort of social media,

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it really has to make sense from
a business perspective, particularly since I don't

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have anyone doing my social media,
and so it'd be time going from somewhere

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else. So for anyone who's curious
about that, I hope I answered the

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question. Well, now it's time
to think. Our Patreon supporter of the

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day, and I want to thank
Tom. Toms been one of our Patreon

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supporters since January twenty twenty one,
currently supporting the podcast at the shamous level

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of four dollars or more per month. Thank you so much for your support,

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Tom, and that will do it
for today. If you're enjoying the

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podcast, please follow us using your
favorite podcast software. Be sure to rate

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and review the podcast wherever you download
it from. We will be back on

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Friday with the conclusion of this week's
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Cereal, but join

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us back here tomorrow for Dangerous Assignment, where a few seconds later, the

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curtain behind the desk part and the
long slender gentlemen frock coach steps out of

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e poses, call like hands together
and glides towards me. Good evening,

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my new Hi, I mean,
good evening. I'd like to see doctor

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Minder. Your name Mitchell, Steve
Mitchell the next room. Please, I

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don't turn around when the door clicks
softly shut behind me. I just stared

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at the casket at the far end
of the room. The casket is empty.

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Surprise number one. Surprise number two
follows a second later. A gun

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nestles in the small of my back. Dunnot move the identification. Place it

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on sechsky. There you are,
thank you, don't mention it. I

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hope you'll be with us then.
In the meantime, do send your comments

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to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot
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Detectives, and check us out on
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Great Detectives from Boise Idahol. This
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