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Johnny Dollar serial. As always, we will be playing episodes one and two
today and then episodes three, four, and five on Friday. If you
are minded to listen to the whole serial together, then you can go ahead
and pause the podcast now and then listen to the rest of it on Friday,
along with episodes three through five. The original air dates are July second
and third, nineteen fifty six, and it's the Modest touch matter episodes one
and two from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dillon at mcgregen Universal Adjustment
Fureiu. Oh hi, Patty, this is my third call. Where you
been. I'll buy some tackle. I want to go fishing fish. Yeah,
I'm heading down to New York State. Is Soapus River maybe the beaver
kill? Trying to snag myself a nice trout and Patsy, my fishing is
one thing you aren't going to interfere with. I wouldn't think of it.
Why don't you try a Lake Mohaffi? Where's that along? The Colorado River
out between Nevada and Arizona. What sure be the guest at Greater Southwest Insurance
and Liability What are you talking about? I don't know how you'd value those
in Shoppers River trout. There's a fish out there that maybe worth three million
bucks. Johnny, I'll be right over tonight and every weekday night. Bob
Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense account of
America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar expense accounts submitted by
Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company Kingman, Arizona office.
Following is an accounting of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Midas Touch
Matter. Expense account out of one cab fare from my apartment to the Universal
Adjustment Bureau eighty two forty two North Spring. When I got there, Pat
mccrack i was standing holding the door of his office open for me and Johnny.
But don't bother shitting down now? What's that supposed to me? It
means you haven't got time? You'll pack? Oh you bet? I am
for a trip to the sofas and some of those pretty rainbows in Easton Brook
Trot got a new little oil called fans Strike. I want to try on.
I hear it's great. Sorry, but if there's going to be any
actual fishing, it's going to be for Lake Mohave bass As here there you
playing tickets here to New York NonStop Los Angeles and not to Las Vegas.
Now you'll have to go to king min Arizona by car Old Boys. Slow
down? Man is Sean Kingman is Jake Kessler at Southwest pat You mind telling
me what it's all about? The Midas touched mine new racket and Urania,
I said, Midas gold Mine. Oh sure, Well what's the insurance hangle?
Ask Jake Kessler when you get the Kingdom what? But you can at
least tell anyone if you've only got twenty minutes to catch your plane to New
York. You mean if I had just signed it and with a million and
a half dollars maybe three million at steak, nobody's going to quibble too much
over your expense account. Maybe I should take a crack at those Lake Mohave
baths expense account Adams two and three two ninety even a handful of American Express
travelers, checks and cav fair. Back to my apartment for my luggage,
then to the airport from my plane to New York to Las Vegas, Nevada.
It was eleven thirty pm when the big plane slowly glided down out of
the clear starlet sky. And unless you've seen the millions millions of stars that
twinkle brightly through the clear, dry air over the Mohave Desert, you've missed
a real thrill. We glided down on toward the landing strip on the edge
of the town of Las Vegas. From the air, the myriad multicolored lights
made the fambuinous resort sparkle like a field of jewels. I had them four
to thirty cents phone calls to car rental agencies. They were all closed.
I had them five sixty five cents per cave to the Flamingo Hotel, where
I decided to spend the night and drive on to Kingman in the morning.
I had them six hotel overnight food and incidentals one hundred seventy eight dollars thirty
cents. If you know Las Vegas, you know what that word incidentals mean.
Fifteen not and black waiter bats please successful say, I'll say this much.
I tried to make some expense money on the side, but well,
I guess I shouldn't have tried to cover so many of the gambling joints if
I'd stayed at the Flamingo, where I'd always made me a buck or two
at the casino. But this time, Lady luck just wasn't on my side.
Anyway, I am seven to fifty dollars deposit on a rental car.
The next morning, I headed south and east toward Kingman, Arizona. First
stopover Dam, where that tremendous hunk of steel on masonry straddles the Nevada Arizona
state line, and I took a brief but longing look at what I could
see of giant lake Meet. I wanted to stay right there, break out
my fishing tackle, and take a crack at some of the huge lunker baths
for which lake meat is famous. But duty is duty or something. Anyhow,
I hit the highway again across the hot, dry desert toward the city
of Kingmen. At this time of year, at this time of morning,
the thermometer hits the hundred mark without any trouble at all, and the occasional
swimming pools and motels outside Kingman looked pretty inviting when I drove straight to j.
Kessler's insurance office on East Palm Drive. Why must be Dollar, It's
a good name. Come on in. Jake was tall, angular, well
tanned, and dressed in blue jeans, open denim shirt, high heeled boots,
and broad brimmed hat. He looked as though he'd be more at home
on a range point you than in this insurance office. All right, Dollar,
let me tell you what this is all about. Okay, thanks miss
guessing. Jake? You want the folks around town think I'm putting on airs?
Okay? Jake. By the way, Johnny, I hope you didn't
make any arrangements to say right here in Kingman, did you? No?
My bags are still out in the car. Good. I got a place
waiting for you down at Catherine Landing Lake Mahovey Resorts what they call it now.
It's nice cabins, good restaurant, nice people right down at the edge
of the lake. Too bad you aren't a fisherman. Well, I just
happened to have brought along a couple of rods and reels good boy, and
then you love it best. Your favorite down there will show you a spots
where you can haul in the prettiest mess of large mouth bast you ever saw
five six pounds maybe more. Stop making my mouth water, Jake, I'm
supposed to be here working on a case. Well, every man's entitled to
a little time off for fishing, and you look like you could stand some.
Brother. You are killing me. Listen, Pat mccrack and a Universal
Adjustment Bureau said something about a gold Mary. Hey. Yeah, I contacted
Pat because I I knew he'd know where to find you. It's the Midas
Touch Mine, Johnny, and it's right down that neighborhood where you'll be staying.
Wow. The mine was abandoned back in the early thirties, worked out
apparently, but about a year ago, hard luck Dennis took another look at
it. See Dennis prospector promoter here and there Arizona, Nevada, California.
He's found himself an old mine, pecked away at it and managed to scratch
out a fair living for himself, you said, promoter, Yeah, well
I was in Texas mostly never was able to get the full story, but
it appears he got some folks to invest in some kind of phony oil stock
down there a couple of years ago, and had to skip out. Couldn't
have been too serious. So because the law and never bothered chasing him up
here or else, he was able to make things look legal enough, could
be, could be anyhow. He's been back in this country for a while
now, poking around the hills looking for the big strike again. You know
how prospectors are, Yeah, I've finally while back. He started prowling around
the old Midas Touch. First thing, you know he'd got a lease on
it. Well, I still don't see the insurance connection. Will you will?
And you won't like it? Okay? Going Well, next thing,
we knew he'd got a report on some ore samples he'd brought into town here
at the assay office. Johnny, Well you wouldn't leave it good, huh,
Johnny. It looked like a prospector's dream comes true, or worth about
eleven hundred dollars a time, all right. Now, it takes money to
work a mind like that, no matter how you figure it. First of
all, he had a big pumping job to do, pumping out there in
the middle of the desert, that's right. You see, when there was
just the Colorado River running down the valley, it was different. But since
Davis Dam was put into form Lake Mohave about ten years ago, the level
of the water table in that whole area is raised considerable. Oh. I
see, the Midas Touch was in a low spot and parts of it were
dug pretty deep. So now with seepage from the lake feeding at the lower
level filled up with water. Yeah, well down, Jay, simmer down,
Johnny, I'm getting to it. Hard luck. Dennis needed money,
a lot of money. So who should he come to but the Haskell brothers,
three of my best clients. So what happened? He'd keep chewing your
ear off? Three? But I've got gave us some background. Shoot,
Ernie Kevin and George Haskell. There moneymen from back east? What do you
mean? Moneymen? Brokers? You know? Stock market? Oh, they
made themselves big. Pilod Dough got the usual ulcers doing it, and then
decided to give up and get as far away from New York as possible.
I don't blame them the bus when they got out here instead of just retiring
and taking it easy, you know, much as you might like it at
first, you can get pretty bored just riding around on horseback and hunting and
fishing all the time. Get tired of fishing? Huh, nothing go on?
Yeah, Well, after a few months they decided they'd have to have
something to do with themselves, or at least something to occupy their mind.
So they bought up the old too lazy two ranch, eighty thousand acres northeastern
here, not very good grays in land, but enough to keep two three
hundred head to beef alive. And with Alex bund As they're foreman, they
did all right. Well, now let's get down to gentlemen. Ranchers they
called themselves, and that's just about what it amounted to. They build a
nice house on the properties that in it. Well, not much work,
but just enough worry and responsibility so that time didn't hang too heavy on their
hands. Now now, now all their insurance is with my company, the
Straight Life That is five hundred thousand apiece. And you're afraid something sure half
a million each and double indemnity, wow, a million apiece in case of
death by accident, right accident. So let's get back to hard luck.
Dennis. Well, that parts ease isn't is it sure Dennis needs money to
open his mind? The Haskell boys are obviously loaded right first off, even
before he got his leaps, he tried to sweep talk him into putting up
some money. But after years of fooling around of those bulls and bears in
Wall Street, they were too smart for that. So we took them down
in the mine, let them chip off some samples or and had them take
it themselves down at the assay office. And was that the ore that you
said tested so high? Yes, sir, And from the minute they saw
the report on it, you couldn't have held him back with a twenty mule
team. How much did they go in for twenty thousand apiece cash on the
strength of a handwritten agreement with hard Luck Dennis that they'd get thirty percent of
whatever came out of the mind. Okay, Jake, Now let's get down
to business. Are you afraid that something connected with his minas touch mine and
hard Luck Dennis is what the Haskell brothers in jeopardy? I'm afraid it's got
beyond that, Johnny Huh. Three days ago, hard Luck took the Haskles
over to the mine again for another look. Yeah, cave in. They
finished digging their bodies out yesterday morning, all three of them. Hard Luck
Dennis. He wasn't caught in that cave in. Where is he? Who
knows? Hmmm? Then for you, it's a question of a three million
dollar payoff on the policies or a million and a half. Yep, Johnny,
a question of accident or murder. And for me it's a matter of
finding a killer. Yeah, named hard Luck Dennis. And when you do,
look out for him. Yeah, tell me, Jake, does anybody
know I've come here to look into this the whole? I'm afraid maybe I
should have kept it quiet. Well, sometimes it is better if where are
the policies? Oh? Here, I'll get them for you there right in
this little side office. Who are the beneficiaries? There's only one? The
girl it is or the wall. I was married to Kevin Haskell. The
other two were bachelor's. She lives at the ranch, she finally claimed you,
No, has Well. Can you make the corners reports available to me
anytime you want. I'll take it for you, Johnny Dollar. I mean,
this is the officer, the other one I want to talk show.
Huh you heard me? I want you to meet me alone. Oh who
are you? Tell you? Whit and wearing the second? Don't come care
again because mister I can outploy you to Who is this? They call me
hard luck Finnish. Oh, you're planning to add another murder to that of
the Haskell brothers. Thirteen miles out of Kingman on the Highway East, Little
Side Road to the right, Marck. You could train. Listen on the
quarter on you'll see old minor Shock be there at three o'clock shop. And
what if I cele I told you bring somebody with you or try anything funny
and you'll never get out of this digitalis Hello? Did that called for me?
Johnny? No? No, it wasn't Jake. But I wonder why
a killer would call me? Expense accounts I meanted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar,
location king in Arizona to the Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company. Following
is a report of expenditures. During my investigation of the Midas Touch matter,
Jake Kessler, local representative for Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability, had laid it
out pretty clearly. The three Hanskell brothers, prosperous gentleman ranchers, had taken
out life policies totaling a million and a half dollars double indemnity, which meant
that their death and what was the supposed to look like an accident at the
bottom of the miners Touch mine could cost Southwest a cool three million, and
the finger of suspicion pointed straight at one hard Luck Dennis, prospector and promoter.
It was in Jake Kesser's office that I'd received a phone call from hard
Luck. Where did Hardluck tell you to meet him? Johnny? Oh,
I'll find it all right? Where? Look? I think I'd better handle
this alone, Jake, Johnny, He's being hunted by every available policeman here
in Kingman. He's a killer, Like I told you, he got twenty
thousand apiece from the Haskell brothers Cash then took him down to the minas Touch
and caved it in on him. All right, even supposing that he did,
why would he do it? I got it, that's as obvious as
those two heads you're wearing. The mine is worthless. How do you know?
Because smarter people and him gave it up over twenty years ago. I
thought you told me the your samples he brought out to say that eleven hundred
dollars a ton. Now, look, Johnny, you know as well as
I do that there's more ways to sell the gold mine than there's the skin
of cat. Do you have any proof that hard Luck he slid that one?
No, but Tad Harding will, oh, Captain Tad Harding. Please,
he hasn't lived out in this country all his life for nothing worse Harding
now at the night of touch. But when he gets back here, you
see him, he'll show you that I'm right. Well, if you are,
it certainly would point the finger at hard Luck Dennis, wouldn't he?
Can't you understand, Johnny, hard Luck needed money. He's always needed money.
He salted that mine, got sixty thousand from the Haskeles on a lick
and a promise, then caved in the mine on him before they could get
wise to him. Good theory, we'll find it's a fact. That's why
he skipped out as soon as he Oh yeah, he couldn't have skipped very
far, could he? And if he were guilty, why would he want
to see me? All right, Johnny, Now listen to me. The
Hassles were three of our finest citizens. So the whole town will cooperate with
you, So don't do anything foolish like meeting that hard Luck Dennis alone.
That willingness to cooperate includes you, Jake, you know it does. I'll
do anything, all right, then, just give me your words. You
won't tell anyone that I'm meeting hard Luck Well because if you do, I'll
drop this case like a hot potato. Wow. Okay, Johnny for the
time being. Okay, I just noticed out the wind Tad Harding's car just
pulled up in front of police headquarters. And what are we waiting for?
Let's go Captain Ted Harding turned out to be a tall, well built,
cool headed man of about forty who impressed me as being able to cope with
any situation that might arise. He bore out everything Jay Kessler had told me
about the Haskells and about hard Luck, and he added two new and very
important bits of information. One that he'd found nothing whatsoever to indicate that the
Minas Touch had been salted. On the contrary, he'd picked up some very
rich chunks of ore. Two he'd learned the probable cause of the cavan and
what it meant, he told you, was murdered. Johnny, I tool
Tad Harding had found a length of wire rope, one end wrapped around the
spool of a powerful hand weinch. The other end had very obviously been tied
around a pillar, a thick pillar of rock and gravel that had been dug
around so as to leave support for the ceiling of a horizontal shaft. Jack
and I walked back to his office. That's it, Johnny, no doubt
about it, no doubt. If you quick turned to the handle on that
winch, the pillar came down and the roof caved in. I'll have to
admit it certainly looks that way. At least the company's off the hook for
a million and a half of the insurance if we can prove that somebody operated
that wench while the hansklls were down there. Ah, now, look,
John means finding that person. I'm satisfied it was murdered. Would the courts
be? The court sure? When the claims on these policies are filed,
they'll be for three million on the basis of double indemnity for accidental deaths.
You can bet your last penny on that. Claims haven't been filed yet,
have they. No. I hope we'll have time before they are time to
prove it was murder by producing the murderer. You you still plan to see
and talk to hard Luck Dennis yep alone Yep when sometime soon, when Johnny
tell you all about it after I've seen him, Johnny, it's day.
Look, if I'm going to stay at that place you told me about over
at Lake mohave I may as well go and get settled. Huh, how
do I get there? I'll drive you over, Johnny. No point in
that, I've got my rented car. Well, you probably want to be
seeing the mine too. Maybe I can be of help to you, or
maybe you just want to be present. If I happen to keep a date
with hard Luck Tennis. Now I didn't say that. He didn't need to,
Jake. I want you to stay right here in Kingman so you can
keep in touch with whatever the police take up and still be in touch with
me. There's a phone at the Lake Mohavee Resort, isn't there? Well
sure, Johnny. Also, don't forget that three million dollar claim may be
filed here at your office any minute. If so, I want to know
about it. How do I get to Lake Mohavee Head east on Highway sixty
eighty, said, So I did, and thirteen miles out of town I
found the little side road yucka trail that hard Luck hat described over the fall.
The next mile on the quarter was about the worst driving I ever encountered.
This was nothing but an old wagon trail. Several times a crank case
and rare axles sprayed on boulders in the middle of it. The trailer dropped
off sharply from the highway, and as far as I could see, there
was nothing but sunbaked rock and gravel of the Mohave Desert, splotched here and
there with withered sagebrush, tumbleweed, some weirdly shaped Joshua trees, an occasional
yucca plant with its stalk poking upward like a huge candle, and too many
kinds of cactus to mention. All of it surrounded by bleak needles and crags
of rock, by high plateaus and masons. The going got so bad I'd
almost decided to get out and walk when I spotted the old miner shack that
hard Luck had named as our meeting place. As I approached it, I
could see no sign of life around it. Hello, anybody here? Yeah,
I like Dennis. Hello, nothing, no one, no sign of
life at all. Huh. The sudden movement at the corner of the shack
was nothing but an ancient desert turtle plotting at what he probably thought was breakneck
speed towards a shady spot under his sage brush. Hello, I love anyone
inside there? Mm hmm hm, Well that's not him. Should I look
around back of this sack? Why Gold big trading, mister, hard Luck
Dolly? Yes, yeah, come along. Like I said, I don't
see anybody else around in real stir door, I don't move nogain. That's
smarter. Sit down there, that bitch. Sure, what's this all about,
hard Luck? I didn't do it, That's what it's all about.
I didn't do it. I didn't kill Lasko boy, if you understand it,
I didn't think you did. Oh why not? Because if you had,
I think you would have skipped the country. You wouldn't have asked me
to come here and talk to you. That's right, that's right. You
just trying to soften me up. How much point in that is there with
you holding a gun on me. If you didn't do it, hard Luck,
why don't you go to the police in Kingman and tell them that I
wouldn't have a chance jury anything else. Whole towns against me. They made
up their mind. I did it so the best lawyer in the country couldn't
see me. Apparently the whole town thought a lot of the Hasker brother Surely
they had fine men. That's why I picked them to share the mind with
me. The only reason you picked them was because they had money. And
you know it, Yeah, like all the rest. Didn't you see the
or they took out of the miner's touch. I heard about it, rich
rich Or twelve fifteen hundred dollars a ton. And I didn't plan it there.
It's been there all the time. Even Captain Harden couldn't find where I
sorted it because I didn't. Oh, you know that he was out there.
Sure I do. I know everything that goes on in this desert.
All right. Then, look, suppose you put down that gun and tell
me what happened the day the mine caved in on the hask You bet,
I'll tell you. That's why I court you. But I won't put down
this gun until I'm sure you're on my side and waving in some other directs
you want to hear what I gotta say it and sit still and listen to
me. First, tell me this was it? Murder? It was murder?
Then hold not by my head? Then who did it? You know?
Yes? Yes, I know. They wanted to see the mine again.
It's more samples. That was last Friday there the caven. Yes,
So I took them down there, gave them a pick, showed them where
to chip it off down on the second level. But then I left them
there for a minute. I heard the car, heard a car pull up,
so I went back out, went back to sa see who it was
the one supposed to be anybody around that mine. I hadn't posted that i'd
heard this car pulling. Hub. Well, go on go on. So
I left the haskles below and wind that in a hurry. I went.
No time for my eyes to get due to the bright sunlight outside. All
I saw was the car. When I stuck my head out, That's when
it hit me. What do you mean when what hits hurraha club or something?
I knocked me out. When I come to the caven was all over.
The hassles were dead in there, and I knew what everybody would think,
so I let out stayed in the desert? Or do you know who
it was who hits you? Row by the car the same one that made
the cave in ho Dollar, it would listen, that's somebody coming out there.
You cheated me, you brought her. No, No, I did
not hide. Luck. Care if I thought that hard? Luck hide?
Luck? Yeah, I guess they named you right now, here's our star
to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story. Tomorrow, the
so called trackless Desert yields a set of tracks that leads straight to But if
I told you you'd know, wouldn't you so join us? Won't you?
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starrying Bob Bailey is transcribed
in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote
this week's story. Be sure to join us tomorrow night, say time and
station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking
welcome back. This is an important episode for Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Bob Bailey's performance brought a lot of humanity to the role of Johnny Dollar,
but this episode does more to make Johnny a three dimensional character with just a
couple really important things. First, it gives Johnny a hobby he's passionate about,
truly interested in. I love that scene where Johnny was incredulous that there
could ever be such a thing as too much fishing or getting tired of fishing.
Most radio detectives effectively live to work, except those that came from a
literary tradition, such as near a Wolf. Side of that, they didn't
have consistent hobbies or passions outside of their work. Second, this story marks
the introduction of Lake mohobby resort. In this serial, he meets people who
would become friends and be recurring characters for years to come. While we'll talk
more about the real life basis for this location on Friday, it's clear that
john Stone had a real affection for this rugged and beautiful country and that he
put it into the script, and Bailey really brings to life beautifully with his
narration. While other detective shows had advantages in terms of better mysteries, more
running time, etc. What ultimately made Bailey's Johnny doll Or stand out after
the end of the serial era is that there's a feeling that he's a real
man with real consistent passions, interest, and real friends in places that he
loves, rather than so many other detectives who tended to be a lot more
functional. You know, you have a friend show up so that the friend
can be killed or accused of murder or something like that. As to the
case itself, the only thing I'll comment on here is that it's really all
to bring out one of the country's best insurance investigators for his perspective and act
like it's an open and shut case with only one possible interpretation of events.
If that were the case, Johnny wouldn't be there. Part of the strength
of an outside investigator is his ability to look at a case with fresh eyes.
So Jake should let Johnny do his job. Now we turn to listener
comments and feedback and over on YouTube Glamazon Rights. Indestructible Mike was made into
a Gangbusters episode. Thanks for the comment. It was actually a case where
there was a Gangbusters episode, a television episode, I should say to be
clear, called The Durable Mike Malloy, which was based on the real life
incident that inspired the Yours Truly Johnny Doller episode. That episode aired in nineteen
fifty two, So who knows it may have been something that Jack Johnstone watched
and could have indirectly inspired the episode, although we don't have any information to
indicate that was the case. It again does show the endurance of the Mike
malloy story. Daryl Wrights Howard mcneer aka Indestructible Mike was an incredible actor in
dat He was nova brilliant riots. I love this episode and over on Spotify,
Susan says, love Johnny Doller, well, thank you so much,
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have a help button that you're able to find. Email me and say,
you know, I'm on this you know company's software and it's not updating,
and I will check into it and reach out to them. That's not preferable
because it's going to take me a little while probably to get to the computer,
and you know, if you know an apparent way to reach them,
then that's going to be quickest because the less people involve, the better.
But my thing here is if there's an issue with the software you're using,
that we get at resolved so that everyone can get the podcast as quickly as
possible. And the other question was around social media, in particular Threads,
the relatively new service from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
My general stand on adding any new social media is if I have to.
We have a long standing page on Twitter account and an Instagram account we've been
working on for a few years. And I know that to some folks what
social media that you're on reflects some sort of political loyalties. For me,
it's a combination of just engaging the listeners and promoting the podcast. And honestly,
I've not seen data indicating that other social media are particularly helpful for building
podcasts, and so for me to get any new sort of social media,
it really has to make sense from a business perspective, particularly since I don't
have anyone doing my social media, and so it'd be time going from somewhere
else. So for anyone who's curious about that, I hope I answered the
question. Well, now it's time to think. Our Patreon supporter of the
day, and I want to thank Tom. Toms been one of our Patreon
supporters since January twenty twenty one, currently supporting the podcast at the shamous level
of four dollars or more per month. Thank you so much for your support,
Tom, and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the
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curtain behind the desk part and the long slender gentlemen frock coach steps out of
e poses, call like hands together and glides towards me. Good evening,
my new Hi, I mean, good evening. I'd like to see doctor
Minder. Your name Mitchell, Steve Mitchell the next room. Please, I
don't turn around when the door clicks softly shut behind me. I just stared
at the casket at the far end of the room. The casket is empty.
Surprise number one. Surprise number two follows a second later. A gun
nestles in the small of my back. Dunnot move the identification. Place it
on sechsky. There you are, thank you, don't mention it. I
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