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This is a horse on me,
but I did find out that the race

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for life and death. The police
laboratory is where they make the photo finish.

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This is another and the adventures of
America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar.

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At insurance Investigation, Johnny Dollar is
only an expert at making out his

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expense account. He is an apolote
genius. Freens account submitted by special Investigator

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Johnny Dollar to Hartford Branch Lloyd's Underwriters
Association. The following is an accounting of

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my expenditures during investigation of the circumstances
threatening the life of the ensured the racehorse

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file driver or been way off his
feet if I didn't know my oats or

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it's great to get a kick out
of life, so long as it isn't

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a kick in the Headpen's account item
one eighteen cents one pack of the cigarettes.

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You may consider this a personal item, but that's where this case really

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started. At the cigar stands ground
floor terminal office building here in Hartford.

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I had come down on one of
the yellovators noticed the little guy with a

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cane staying with a stotter. After
I passed him, I felt myself being

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pointed out and not being the type
of lights being followed for a long periods

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of time. I gave myself a
good reason to stop and look things over.

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Oh we could Timac give me a
pack of Lucky for him? I

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just told you a pack. What
your game is? I know, but

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things may really start smoking any minute. Yeah, good morning to you,

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sir. I haven't led to believe
that you were one of This is John

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Dollars, be it fact? Uh? Yeah, I'm dollar. What can

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I do for you? Well,
I am quite a famous feller myself.

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Perhaps you've heard of the fabulous jockey
Earl sand Yeah, but well, next

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to him, I was among the
best. May I introduce myself? I

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am the famous little Nettie Montana,
sometimes called the short Johnny Longen. Take

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hands. How do you do ah
to business? I think I have a

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way for you to solve my problem
and make yourself an honest buck. Besides,

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oh now, whoa pony boy?
You're wasting your time. I don't

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bet the horses, and when I
do, I don't buy chips and cows.

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Oh now, wait a minute,
pal, I did not introduce myself

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for the purpose of being insolved I
will have you know that I too,

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do not consort with touts. I
will thank you to keep a civil tongue

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in your head. Oh, I
can see this is gonna be one of

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those days. What is your problem, sir, Well, it is a

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problem best not overheard by people in
the lobbies of office buildings. But this

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much I can't tell you. It
is about a horse and fifty thousand dollars

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insurance. That is why I came
to you. Well, it'd be richer

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if I'd known more about horses,
and poorer if I'd known less about insurance.

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Maybe in this thing I can break
even at least. Come on,

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I hope you are not too much
of a purist to ride in a taxi.

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Little Nettie looked like he stopped growing
physically at the age of fourteen,

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and every once in a while he
talked like his mind had also called a

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quiz at about the same time.
The only thing slick about him was his

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hair, the only thing sharp his
clothes. Liars always talked too much,

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and Little Netty wouldn't say a word
until we were inside my apartment. So

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even before he started his pitch,
I half believed it well to take it

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from the beginning. I was born
in a stable, and that's not just

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a figure his speech. They brought
the hot water in a feed bucket,

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So you cannotderstand my deep affection for
horses. You know. Now, on

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top of that, kindly considered this
one horse in particular, a very steed

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by the name of pile Driver.
Has not only made me very famous,

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but has also made me a very
large pilot. Hey, I have ridden

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pile Driver to a win position since
he was a maiden file Driver going a

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hunk a horse. Ah ha,
I remember then. You might also remember

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that he was on his way to
becoming one of the big money winners of

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all time until I had to go
and fall off a livery stable horse while

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teaching a girl how to ride in
Central Park. It busted up my leg,

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and I might add my future to
say nothing to pile drivers. He

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hasn't won a race since I got
grounded. You know, well, what's

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all this got to do with insurance? Mister dollar? They are gonna murder

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him. Oh can you guess why? I can try? File Driver is

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heavily insured. He's also no longer
winning races. He's also a man who

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can't have a family. No good
for studs. So if file Driver should

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trip and break a leg, the
owner would be entitled to shoot him,

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and he'd still collect the insurance.
I know it's been done. You have

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hit the horse from nail on the
head, mister dollar. I have a

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concent durable bundle of money stashed away, and I am willing to devote a

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considerable lump of it to the purpose
of saving pile Driver. Now maybe you

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wouldn't understand such a thing, but
I happened to love that horse. I

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understand at Netti Worthy. He is
currently stable at a track named Hiawatha Oh

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by the shores of Gitchi Gumi no
No, by the shores of Lake Michigan.

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This is located slightly north of a
place called Chicago. Five telephone calls

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and a few hundred questions later,
I learned that pile Driver was insured by

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your company, got the assignment,
and was on my way. So expense

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account adam too. Airfare Hartford to
Chicago fifty seven dollars and seventy two cents.

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Little Nettie insisted on coming along,
and he kept the hum of the

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plane from being a home drum.
As followed well, Johnny The gentleman who

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owns Pile Driver is an old Kentucky
mid julep sponge named Colonel Faraday bush Now,

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now this character has a very black
heart hiding beneath the head of white

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hair. I trusted him until I
heard him say what he was going to

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do. From then on, I
have been seriously tempted to wrap these hands

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around his neck and squeeze. All
I can say is he has better not

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hurt the pile Drive Spencer count I
UM three sixteen dollars and forty cents.

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Camp Fair, Chicago Municipal Airport,
the Hiawatha Racetrack. Arrival time ten.

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I am to me a racetrack always
smells good, horses, green grass,

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and excitement. Hey driver, keep
a change. Well, this as the

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saying goes, is it, mister
dollar? You will have to take it

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from here? Okay? Oh?
Hey? Yeah? One last word of

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warning. Watch out for his daughter
Lilah a warrant. She's dangerous to a

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guy like me, No, but
to a guy like you. Yes.

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Uh, pardon me? Miss?
Can you tell me where I'll find the

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boss around here? Colonel Bushnell,
Oh, I was just gonna chase you

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away if you don't look like just
another hey in green hurcheon. That's I'm

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not I'm buying. Where's your daddy? How do you know the colonel is

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my daddy? Well they told me
he had a pretty daughter. Well who

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are you, mister? Well,
it's for the name. That's twenty dollars,

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that's for my business. That's trying
to buy one of your father's horses.

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Well, the colonel will be back
for a little bit, but I'm

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bossing on. He's away. I'll
tell you now, I don't think he's

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figuring I'm selling any of his horses. I'll be glad to show him to

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good enough. But there's only one
I'm really interested in. Pile driver.

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Pile driver? Why I know Daddy
wouldn't sell him? Why not? Well

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he's practically one of the family.
He put me through the last two years

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of college. Do you mind if
I see him anyway? Right? No,

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not at all? Right over here, okay, year baby, you

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have tiney darning needs mister dollan,
Oh quite a horse. Yeah, he's

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just a perfect dear auntie Donald,
mister dollar, Why do you want to

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buy a pile driver? Oh he's
a great horse, got a great record.

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Have you been following him, Nick, Yeah, finally he hasn't been

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winning. That all make his price
cheap and the odds long when he gets

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back running. I just happen to
think I can make a winner out of

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him again, but his spirit's all
gone. How do you think you're gonna

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do that? If I told you, his price might be right back up,

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Johnny Darling, I can't help it
done well. It was great fun,

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but what was it for Joey?
You shouldn't have right out here in

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the open? Oh, Leo,
Yeah, what's going on? I'll wait,

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Neil, honey, guy, it's
your brother, will wish he was.

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Besides, that's no way to kiss
brothers. You get out of it,

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buck Buster. If you want this
girl's father, you'd better start doing

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some wishing. Oh you thanks?
So? H tell me what are you?

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My head's like this kind of locks
and I've got now and out going

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on here you spectators run along now
about your business, Leo, I must

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say, I am surprised that you
man tightened in front of a lady.

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Get him off of me here,
young man. I demand that you he's

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mounts sooner or later. I guess
I'll have to now. I listen,

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Leo, are you paying close attention? Yeah? After I let you up,

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as you make one move except away
from here, I'll give you a

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pair of fanniers. Okay, sou'mna
start wearing pads him on leil honey,

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Let's get away from here. How
do not name me for what happened now?

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See here? I demand an explanaians
not I. I came here to

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get the horse business and I end
up in a fight racket. Who is

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that guy there, gentleman, sir? Is Leo Kobd a brother horseholer?

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And I might tool the favorite of
warning you that mister Copas is a hard

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enough man in business dealings, but
when it comes to my daughter, he's

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downright violence. Your daughter was downright
impulsive, maybe so, but Leo is

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hardly the tight stand by while some
other fellas kisses his girl. And I

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saw that happen with my old eyes. I don't want to worry at colonel.

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I didn't come here to collect lipsticks
samples. One thing I can be

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glad about in my encounter was mister
Leo Corby. What is that that he

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isn't James j come on channel,
let's start business, Hey, bar tender

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Hey, mister Dallas over here.
Oh, never mind, there's my man

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all of that? Oh yeah,
I mean, oh, I'm fine.

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Hey, but you what did you
catch that lous under your eye? I'm

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sure there's a trap? I am. You were so right about missus Bushnell.

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She's not only dangerous, he's daffy. Eh. I didn't know she

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could hit that high, or she
didn't just say that she has a novel

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way of introducing people to her boyfriend. Oh you know, I'm Leo Corbett.

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If I knew anymore, i'd beat
a racing Commission's witness. He owns

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a string of very fast horses who
run very slow until the odds get right.

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Then he bets him up to the
brisket wins himself a potball. It's

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also rumored that he is a stiff
competition to the perimutual machine. He books

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big bets among the owners. They'll
catch up to him sooner, they always

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do. Amen. But about that
human glue factory, My friend, the

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horse killing colonel, what with him? Oh? I offered him sixty thousand

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dollars for file driver. Huh,
that's ten thousand more than he did.

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He knocked him off and collected the
instran. Yeah, well, are you

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gonna lay your mits on sixty g's. I haven't got that kind of dough.

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We don't need that kind of little
netting. You see. I told

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Bushmill that I was sending to California
for my private vet, and that he'd

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be here in three days, and
once he pronounced the horse sound, I'd

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give him the money. Yeah,
but that only means that pile Driver is

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safe for another three days, and
that's lot. And those three days is

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up to me to prove intense.
And if it is there, I'll prove

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it and have the policy canceled.
Once that's done, he'll probably be willing

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to peddle the horse for ten thousands
that I can handle. But in the

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meantime, I'm not taking any chance
to see. I'm keeping pile Driver under

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my own personal eye, and I
wish you wouldn't, Nettie. We don't

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want the colonel getting suspicious. I
can't help it, mister Dollar. I

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just can't help it. Okay,
neddie, but don't flow it. Be

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careful. Like all race track,
Kyle Walker was surrounded by motor courts and

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bungalows with rooms for rent. No
expensive count four three dollars room rats.

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I set the tin alarm clock for
h and my ear for any time,

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and went most of the way to
sleep. First things being first, I

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dreamed the girl. Then I dreamed
the fire engine, and suddenly I realized

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why I was hearing some I bounced
out of bed and over the window.

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There I saw him Sunday of sun
bed, hanging over the race track stables.

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I jumped into my pants and into
the landdy's car and got over there

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as fast as in nineteen twenty ninety
four. It could take me. Hey,

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you you, how does start?
I don't know half of the guys.

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We're looking at my little guy with
a lamp while we're hanging around.

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Oh, where'd he go? I
didn't care that I heard it right in

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the fire didn't come out stop right
again. I had one particular horse to

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get to hurry, and I hoped
one particular guy. The door to pile

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Driver's store was closing padlocks. I
throwed on the stable out of the wood

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with the pick end of a fire
axe through the door. Ophin grabbed a

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lung pull of fresh air, closed
my eyes and slammed into the smoke.

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I could have been smoked to death, Furst to death, a stamp to

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death. But I had to take
the chance Stadio whoa whoa pile driving out?

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Take it easy, easy, easy
boy. I wiped him on the

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rump and the axe handle and dropped
it. I slipped to my knees started

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groping across the straw covered floor.
I knew it. If there was any

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air in there, that's where it
would be. And there was an ex

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jockey in there, that's where he
would be. And that's where he was

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in the first corner. I tried
threw off his backwards toward the doors,

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dragging him instry in out into the
clean, cold shower of fresh night hand.

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But I could have saved myself a
trip. Little Neddie Montana was dead.

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He had a horseshoe hung on his
forehead, but not for luck.

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And all I could think of at
the moment was Jackie's big friend is not

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always his force. In the moment. We will return to the second act

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of Johnny Dollar, but first,
may we take just a moment from tonight's

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Johnny Dollar stories will remind you that
three more fine adventure shows come your way

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each Saturday night on most of these
same CBS stations. First, there are

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the adventures of Philip Marlow, based
on the smart and tough Private Eye created

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by Raymond Chandler. Second, there's
Gangbusters, one of the most famous crime

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shows on the air, reenacting outstanding
police cases in real life. Third there

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is Escape, a highly unusual adventure
show which fulfills your need for escape.

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Here these three Philip Morlow, Gangbusters
and Escape, along with yours Truly Johnny

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Dollar, Every Saturday Night, won't
you you un in this call you love?

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Best of all is the address.
Now with our star Charles Russell,

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we returned to the second act of
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Tough luck,

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Nice try Little Neddie Millar, this
is horrible. It sure as much left

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for Little Neddy. You do,
yeah? I mean he's dead. You

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know, when I was a kid, I knew about a story with a

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horse and a woman in it.
Hell about Troy. I should have remembered

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that before I tangled with you.
Why don't you get lost? What is

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the matter with you, miss Bushmill? Two minutes after I met you,

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you bagged me into a fist fight
with your boyfriend with a phony kiss.

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I don't know how much you had
to do with puttying middle Nettie where he

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is? But I intend to find
out true. Any fool leaving you,

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mister Dollar, complainly see that this
boy's been kicking the head by a horse.

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What do you keep? What?
What? What? Who sat their?

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What? This little nitty do kill
me? What would you be if

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you got kicked in the head by
a horse? Colonel quite the pool boy.

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I held this lad in deeper fiction
until just a few months back.

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He was my big jockey. What
on earth was he doing around here at

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this time of night? And all
I can say, Little Netty swapped his

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life for pile drivers. As far
as he was. It's a pretty big

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price to pay, although I guess
you wouldn't think so what what's it?

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I commanded an inclination of precisely what
huisas I mean that to some people,

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a dead horse is more valuable than
a live one. Too bad, you

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can't go count your money. I
gotta take my friend of the morgues.

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An hour later, little Neddie was
resting better than I was. I'd made

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my report to the police and was
back pacing the floor in my rented room.

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There wasn't a long walk. Yeah, I gotta see you right away.

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Why don't you start another fire that'll
draw me. I didn't have anything

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to do with that fire, but
I'm not talk to you right away.

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Where can I meet you? Have
you got a car? Yes, yes,

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I'll come. Anybody take me off
here in twenty minutes. Come alone,

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and we'll take a little drive to
the country. I want to be

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just the three of us, you
and me and the dew drops. Dawn

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was making a dark gray promise in
the sky when she picked me up,

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and I feel easy to please birds
and found something to sing about. During

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the first five miles, Lilah denied
everything except that she was a woman,

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and there was no hiding that.
I had her pull in under a tree

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and said, well, I won't
you call me it's it was something you

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said to my father about a host
being more valuable dead than alive. You

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sold me out once. What are
you planning on now selling out your old

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man? You women? You know
if a truth has ever told, it'll

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probably come out the Goldilocks cut her
grandmother's throat to swipe the gold out of

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her teeth. Please don't make fun
of me, fun, she calls it.

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Well, you have something to spill. Get it off your check.

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My father, who's Leo called it
fifty thousand dollars he lost at that non

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Chile driver. Leo's been demanding his
money and father doesn't have it. And

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I heard Leo practically order father to
destroy a tile driver for the insurance.

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And what did Daddy dare say to
that? He said he'd do, but

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I know he wouldn't. I know
he didn't set that far. Oh you

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know, I just know that that
will sound good to a jury. Why

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are you coming to me with all
this stuff? Because you're our only hope.

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Can't you buypile drive a rod of
wing? It would solve everything everything?

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But one thing? What's that?
Why didn't you go to all that

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trouble to get me punched in the
eye? Oh yeah, I just wanted

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to show Leo that he wasn't going
to have everything his own way, and

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you look strong enough to do it. WHOA, that's a stupid answer.

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Why not makes a stupid kind of
sense. He dropped me off at my

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rooming house, where I dropped off
to sleep. It was, however,

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only a four hour planning expense account
on him five six fifty cab fair to

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headquarters thomisop Vision Chicago Police. That's
one city where the cops were an old

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fashioned star, but they sure do
operate for a new fashion. Speed has

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witnessed the enclosed report made by looking
at Craig six hours after filing of inquiry.

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According to the findings of the autopsy, Dollar, your hunch or whatever

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you call it, was right.
The deceased Little Nettie was not kicked to

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death by a horse. Examinations of
the would reveals that it was admitted by

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a new horseshoe. The shoe on
a horse's hoop would have left traces of

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the straws conca. We say that
the fatal weapon was swung by person or

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person's unknown. As you suggested,
he'd have to have been standing on his

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head to have a horseshoe make the
market did if the horse had kicked him,

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the Lord Tenna had made only one
mistake. He should have said person

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or person's known. Spencer count Adam
six ten cents two telephone calls the idea

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I was working, and I'll give
you for nothing. Spencer Counadam's seven six

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fifty cap fair to Administration Building Hiawatha
Racetrack where the afternoon's program was in progress,

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and where I got the wholehearted cooperation
of the track officials and the use

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of a vacant office in which the
whole the meeting I had set up.

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I sat myself in a swivel chair
and waited, come in. It's the

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dollar. I can't tell you how
happy I am the doll this transaction.

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He's about to become committee. If
you have the money with yourself, pile

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droppies. You wait a minute,
colonel, let's not go consummating too quickly.

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Bo. You indicated to the telephone. I indicated over the phone.

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Justice, I said, my offer
was as good as it ever was,

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and I tell you the truth,
it's not very good. No. See

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who's there? Come in? What
WILLO? What are you doing up here?

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Anytime anybody shows up the hand over
sixty thousand the U for a pile

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driver, I'm going to be here. That's exactly what this smart guy called

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me up to tell me he's about
to do. Now, now, gentlemen,

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gentlemen, let's take it easy.
Before I do anything. I want

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to make sure I'm not doing business
with a murderer, I demanded, an

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explaining, what about you, Leon, Yeah, so do I. Well,

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here it is. The Chicago police
know two things, One that last

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night's fire was set, and two
that little Nettie was murdered. And the

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little Netty got a couple of lungfuls
of smoke before he got hit over the

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head with a horseshoe. That means
that whoever hit him over the head sucked

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in some smoke too. I've never
heard such a pem none change in my

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life. What are you getting a
wise guys, That's what I told you.

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I don't want to do business with
a murderer, especially sixty thousand dollars

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worth. But I've met it easy
on you to prove that you weren't.

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You See, I got a doctor
in the next room with portable X ray

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equipment. If you've got fire smoke
in your lungs, it'll show up.

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Now, how about it? This
is ridicularly, Why don't you leave the

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dick tracy step to the funny papers
because I don't feel like laughing now once

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more? How about it? City? I still do to what this kump

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fool is both, and I'll feel
down right hilly while I'm doing it,

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but I'm willing to take my casus
Okay, Leon, you're first follow me.

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Turning your back on a murderer is
no way to stay healthy, but

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very often it's a good way to
get him to make his move. This

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one did right out the door,
knocking me down on route, and the

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chase was on out of the building
and out toward the grand stand and the

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racing circles. There they go.
It may have been Dreamy Boy at the

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quarter and on the track where it
was my quarry by fifty lanches. He

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headed up an island to the grand
stand. Dreamy Boy was still doing fine

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down there, and I was moving
up up here whatever the top of the

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grand stand, on to the ramp
leading to the press box section, justin

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dreaming. But we hit the free
quarter, we hit the grand span roof,

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and then we went into the stretch. Hey, Corvette's hopeless. You

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can't get much farther. You're running
out of room. I slid behind a

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ventilator and showed myself a drawer shots. He was loudly if he hadn't Dick

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hitting this with a near conditioned elbow. Okay, Carvett, you pass,

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I'm tying her shots. Corbett tried
a few ventilators himself, and then Apparently

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he decided the second time he fought
me, he'd do better. He rushed

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and swinging. I was doing great
treating punches. But he finally moved inside

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and through one like bloat. But
he came up past to his knee,

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said, and he took off straight
to the back corner edge of the pitch

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roof. He swung over the side
and started shooting down on the hundred foot

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rain pipe. But that pipe was
built to carry a rain, not people.

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At the finish line of one tiny
segment of the human race, it

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was gambler, arsonist, murderer Leo
Corbett by a head. He spends account

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item eight Dinner for two with the
Changri Line downtown Chicago, thirty four dollars

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and forty cent dinner itself, when
he took forty minutes and eight of the

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dollars the rest of the evening,
and the money was spent listening to the

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story of her life, a story
which would not by any means win any

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pulitive prize, or for that matter, any husband. But sometimes when you're

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interested in the girl like Lilah,
you have to act like you're interested in

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what she's saying. Expense Account Item
nine fifty seven dollars and seventy two cents

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airfare Chicago to Harford. Item ten
A dollar fifty one book to read on

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airplane titled how to Win at the
Races As if I just hadn't found out.

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Expense account total fourteen and forty nine
dollars and twenty two cents. I

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guess you could call that horse sense. Signs Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Hours

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Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed
by Gordon T. Hughes and Charles Russell,

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script by Paul Dudley and Gildald.
Featured in the cast were Bill Cotrad,

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Dora Singleton, Jerryhausner, Herb Butterfield, and Hall March. The special

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music is written and conducted by wild
Patch. Be sure to be with us

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at the same time next week when
another unusual expense account is handed in by

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Those mystery
adventure shows we mentioned earlier, the Fun

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and Music and Fabulous Jackpot of Sing
It Again and two outstanding music shows,

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they're on half for you every Saturday
on most of these same CBS stations.

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Genoustrey comes along with his sage Brush
ballads, and Von Monroe is due with

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his songs and his great orchestra.
In fact, you're invited to State tuned

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right now for the Von Monroe Show
or it follows immediately Over most of these

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stations, Paul Masterson speaking. This
is ZBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the father