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Would it's time now for Johnny Dillar. Eve Holden's son, Hi, Sheriff.

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You put in a call for me, did you? Yes? I'm

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ready to go to work. Now
that the inquest has been held in George

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Henderson's death is officially an accident,
I might be able to move around your

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little town a little easier. What
can I do for you? Help me

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to move around? As I'm concerned? Eve, what's the matter with you?

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That inquest was a farce. For
all I know, Henderson could have

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been pushed out of that hotel window. The attitude of different people in this

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town makes that whole thing. Hold
on now, Son, hold on.

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I meant to say it's closed.
As far as my office concerned. Personally,

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I think it needs investigating. We
can help each other. Maybe you

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and me? Can I come over? Oh? I better come there.

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You know how folks are around here
tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey

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in the transcribed Adventures of the Man
with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's

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Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator. Yes truly, Johnny Dollar expense account submitted my special

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investigator, Johnny Dollar, Location,
Culver, Montana to Paramount Insurance Adjusters,

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Hertford, Connecticut. The following is
an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of

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the Henderson matter. The question accident, suicide or murder expense account item four

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three dollars and forty eight cents.
One day later to Tim Connor's office in

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Hartford, explaining the situation in Culver, I'll read back to you, miss

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Dollar, mister Tim Connor's Paramount Insurance
Adjusters, Hartford, Connecticut. Corners in

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quest in the death of George Henderson
policy number EMP Dash one nine six six

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six seven found death to be accidental. In my opinion, the inquest was

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not thorough. Have decided to stay
on in Culver and conduct my own investigation.

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If any change, please advise via
Western Union Beauti Hotel, Culver,

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im boarding copy of coroner's verdict this
date, best regards Dollar correct Okay,

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Oh, mister Dollar, good luck? Yeah sure? Expense account item five

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sixty eight cents postage. I mailed
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Airmail Special. After that, I
went back to my hotel to wait for

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the sheriff. Equal come on in
Aphi. Oh Hello, hello, mister

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Dollar. My name's Porter. I'm
the manager of this hotel. Oh,

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mister Porter, I can't right now. I've got some other things to attend

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to. Well, anything I can
do for you, mister Porter, I'm

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going to have to ask you for
your room, mister Dollar. Oh when

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today any particular reason? We're all
filled up. The room's been reserved for

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six weeks by home. What who
reserved it? Why? A man from

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Bozeman. It's a sort of convention, Sort of convention. What kind of

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convention is that, mister Porter.
Look, mister Dollar, you'll have to

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leave this room today. The man's
coming in tonight. Aha. And there's

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no other hotel in town. That's
the way it is, mister Dollar,

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no other place to stay. No, so I have to pack my bags

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and get out of town. Is
that it? I must have the room?

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Mister Dollar? Who asked you to
say you wanted the room? Mister

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Porter? Who asked you to come
here and kick me out? Why no

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one? Will you go back to
no one? Mister Porter? And you

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tell no one that I'm staying right
here in this room here in Culver until

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I finished what I have to do
here. You tell that to no one,

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would you, mister Doller? I'd
hate to call the police. Go

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ahead, mister Porter, be sure
and tell them about the sort of convention

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you're having and how all the rooms
are sold out. Tell him about mister

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No One and tell him I called
your bluff. Anything else, mister Porter,

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I was at the stage where I
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Note one, the mayor didn't want
to have an inquest into the death

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of George Henderson. Not two.
When they did have an inquest, they

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didn't want to really find out anything. No Three, mister hotel manager wanted

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me to keep on not finding out
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I explained all of this to Eve
Holton when he showed up a half an

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hour later. Yeah, I'm kind
of tied, isn't it. I don't

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know what that means, but it's
pretty stupid. Yeah, it's stupid,

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so but it could be effective.
I'll tell you what. If Porter calls

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the police, I'm the police,
so don't worry about that. I'll hand

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him and Hawy all right, thanks
now, and tell me how much your

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insurance company's stuck for fifty thousand dollars
if Henderson's death goes by as an accident.

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The Good Book says, that's what
it was. I know, I

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know. There's a chance too,
we had a heart figure and fell out

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of that window. No sure,
always a chance. We might have to

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dig him up and find out,
sir, hold on autop season. Digging

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people up is one thing you'd have
a hard time doing around here. I

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might insist on it. I don't
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Say tell me about missus Henderson.
Where's she from? Here? Right

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here in Colder. Now, she
didn't get that mink coton, those diamonds

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she was wearing at the end quest
in Culver. More important, she didn't

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get that continent look here either,
So what's the story. Her name was

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Pauline Underwood before she married George Born
and Ray right here in Culver. Of

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course, she went to school in
the East, and she's been in Europe

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a couple of times, but most
of her lafe's been right here. She

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is a mighty pretty widow and mighty
rich one too. Henderson had it.

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That's divorce she talked about at the
inquest yesterday. Everybody in tom knew they

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weren't getting along, never did get
along. How could he? Pauline's twenty

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six and George is fifty nine.
He could have been her father. As

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a matter of fact, he almost
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got a drink? Oh yeah.
But George raised Pauline from the time she

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was fourteen. He paid for all
her schooling and growing up. She didn't

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have any polkes after her old man
died. George was pretty good to her.

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He sure was. Was he a
friend of her parents. Tom Underwood

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worked out at the ranch for George. When he died. There was Pauline

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standing there, and she eventually married
him and his money cool. Well,

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I wouldn't put it that way exactly. I think she liked him. I've

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gone over what you're thinkings on.
Those two were talking about divorce for some

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time. The papers had been drawn
up for a settlement. She'd got a

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lot of baalomoning so on. Oh, Bauline had no call to push him

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out that when hav him pushed out, at least not for money. All

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right. Suppose he didn't want a
divorce. Suppose he loved her, and

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she came to the hotel room that
morning and he pleaded with her to try

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all over again. Suppose she said
no. Suppose she said no in a

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great, big cold way, and
George Henderson sat there and thought about it

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after she left, and he got
sick all over and he walked over to

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that window and suicide. What do
you think you know him? He wasn't

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a suicide type. Oh, nobody's
the suicide type until they come to the

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end of the line. Then it's
too late to interview them and ask them

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how they got there. Everybody seems
I think it was an accident, So

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I'm just throwing words around. You
have a right to do that if you

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aren't satisfied. Son, Hey,
getting back to this hotel again. Who

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might want me to get out of
town and not ask any questions anybody?

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Well, no idea, but it's
somebody who has some feelings in this.

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Hey, who owns this hotel?
Noah Baxter? Who's Noah Baxter? Andrew

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got a place about fifteen miles from
here, pretty big man? Uh,

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friend of Henderson's. Yeah, and
let me put that question a little different

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banks to a friend of missus Henderson's. I don't know. Can you find

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out? I can dry, We'll
find out about him and any other frenzy

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friends that might be younger that might
have gone to Europe or a school in

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the East. Yeah, sure,
what are you thinking now, Son?

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Well, Now, if I were
a Missus Henderson and my husband fell out

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of a window and this hotel and
killed himself, I'd hire a lawyer and

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I'd sue the hotel for damages.
If the insurance company didn't pay off my

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claim, I'd hire a lyar insists
that they pay that claim. I'd do

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those things right away, Sheriff,
especially if I thought it was all legitimate.

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Yeah. Yeah. Two hours later, I received a wire from Tim

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Conners. He requested me to look
up a man named Thurber, an insurance

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broker living in great Falls. Expencer
count itdem six four dollars two cents tank

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of gas. I borrowed Sheriff Holton's
car and drove the eighty odd miles to

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Great Falls that afternoon. Mister Thurper
bought lunch. My lord, I hope

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there isn't anything to all this,
mister Dollar. I just hope there isn't.

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George Henderson, Yeah, well,
there isn't anything to anything yet,

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mister Thurber. I'm still trying to
find out the fact. Oh I knew

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you were over in Culver. I
tried to call you there A couple of

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times you were out both times.
Finally I put in a call to the

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home office in Hartford. I talked
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Yeah, you see, mister Dollar, it's like this. I've been

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over in Jackson Hope five days now, hunting Duck. We were way in

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and I didn't hear about Henderson's death
until I got back yesterday. Uh huh.

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Now, oh, look, mister
Dowler, I don't know what reflection

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this will have on your attitude toward
this case. But two days before I

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left, mister Henderson telephoned me here
in Great Falls. He said he wanted

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to change the beneficiary on his policy. Oh. In other words, he

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was going to cut his wife on. Yes, I suppose. So.

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I know they weren't getting along.
They'd been talk of divorce. Yes,

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I guess so. Uh huh.
Did he name a no beneficiary? Yes,

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a school teacher in Culver name until
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What was his connection with her?
None that I know of. I

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think it was just a name from
the throw in until he could decide on

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another beneficiary. Why he didn't have
him Maddy Nickerwroker, just a school teacher.

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Everybody knows her. He was awful
mad when he talked to me that

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day. I could tell it in
his voice. Now here's what might interest

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you just a little more. The
day I left in my hunting trip,

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mister Henderson phoned me again. He
said, to never mind, missus.

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Henderson was still his beneficiar. Had
you changed the policies yet? No?

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Are you sure it was Henderson or
telephoned you? Well, yes, I

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I think it was him. Do
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Somewhere around noon? A little later? I guess he died between twelve thirty

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and one. It must have been
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He phoned your long distance from cover, sir. Well, he was supposed

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to have been in the hotel all
morning, so he had the phone from

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his room. But you can check
that, can't you. She'd be surprised

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how hard it is to check simple
things like that around the Butte Hotel.

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Did you know Henderson very well,
mister Thurber. He was a customer.

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I wrote a lot of insurance for
it. Now his wife? Oh yes,

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well tell me about them. Go
ahead, mister Thurber. Eh,

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Now, look accidents rarely have reason
behind them. Suicides and murders always do.

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You don't think it was an accident, I'd say I've heard an eye

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seen enough to make it a draw. So far, go ahead tell me

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about him. And I wish I
was married to missus Henderson. I mean

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I wish she could see me.
I think most any man who's ever met

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her hoped the same thing, young
men, old men, any kind.

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But she picked George. George was
as tough and leathery as these mountains around

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us, exactly her opposite. Pauline
married him, He raised her, He

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was close to her all her adult
life. Yes, But mister Dalla,

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you know and I know, she
didn't have to marry him. She could

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have married anybody here in Culver,
or anybody in London or Paris. You

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see what I mean? Not quiet
well? I always had the idea that

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after she married him, she kept
letting him know she could have had anybody

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else she wanted. Go ahead,
therber. I think she married him for

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his money. I think she would
have killed him for his money. There

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will be another intriguing episode in our
story of the Henderson matter tomorrow. Tomorrow.

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The whole affair becomes a town issue, and I become the town goats.

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Incidentally, let me take a moment
to say thanks for the many kind

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letters you've said. We appreciate them
more than you know, and I only

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wish it were possible to answer them
all personally. Again, Thank you,

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Yours Tully, Johnny Dollar. Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,

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is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by
John Dawson, It is produced directed by

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Jack Johnstone. Be sure and join
us tomorrow night at the same time in

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