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So remember when making your travel plans, check Johnny Dollar air 10 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:27,840 dot com first. Now it's time to conclude this week's yours truly Johnny Dollar 11 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,200 cereal so from June twentieth, twenty first and twenty second, nineteen fifty six. 12 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:46,079 Here is The Purling Matter Episodes three, four and five from Hollywood. 13 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:56,640 It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Your numbers ringing now, mister Dollar Aimwell 14 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,840 agency Amwell Detectives. Is what are you calling? I want to talk to 15 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:05,599 mister Rainwell. My name's Johnny Dollar. I understand your agency has been looking 16 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:08,719 for the Pearling Girl for about a year now, Oh you do? Huh? 17 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:13,439 And who told you that missus Pearling? I never heard of you or 18 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:21,280 her or a girl saloon. This is the operator where you cut off, 19 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,280 mister Dollar. I'll call them back, never mind, call me a cab, 20 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:34,280 honey, I'll talk to them in person tonight and every weekday night. 21 00:02:34,439 --> 00:02:38,560 Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expensive out 22 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:59,479 America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators Truley Johnny Dollar Expense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny 23 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,840 Dollar, two Eastern Liability and Trust Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following 24 00:03:02,879 --> 00:03:10,879 is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Pearling matter. Item seven 25 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,280 three dollars Camp Fair, my hotel to the office of the Amwell Agency. 26 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:17,960 A red headed girl at the switchboard looked me over like I was a car 27 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,319 she didn't want to buy. I told him my name and that I wanted 28 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:24,960 to see Nile's Amwell. She told me to sit down and wait. Three 29 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:30,240 minutes later she waved me down a long carpeted corridor. I followed directions a 30 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:35,159 typewriter clack Somewhere. Men in those suits with a little shoulders and hemstitching for 31 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,840 lapels moved in and out of offices. It looked more like an advertising office 32 00:03:38,879 --> 00:03:43,879 than a detective agency. Finally I opened the door and stepped into a small 33 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,919 room that was decorated in gray, gray walls, gray carpeting, great draperies, 34 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,439 a desk, a brass lamp of finding cabinet, and a man were 35 00:03:51,439 --> 00:03:53,199 there. He didn't get up when I walked in, but slouched back in 36 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:57,919 his chair and let his ball head rest against the wall. You're kind of 37 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,919 determined, aren't you. I suppose so your aim well mm hm. On 38 00:04:02,039 --> 00:04:04,759 the phone, I told you I didn't know what you were talking about. 39 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,840 Now I'll tell you again. Don't slam the door when you go out. 40 00:04:09,919 --> 00:04:13,400 What are you paying rent here? If I've got it figured right, you 41 00:04:13,479 --> 00:04:16,040 wish you weren't paying it. But then a place like this draws a snappy 42 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,560 a crowd of clients. So what you've got in the end is more clients 43 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,600 and more rent, No more money for yourself. Now that you've said all 44 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,720 that, will you get out of here? I know one of those snappy 45 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,920 clients happens to be the Pearlings. I know you've been trying to find their 46 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,319 daughter. This is my ID, this is my license bond, letter of 47 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:38,399 authority from Eastern Liability. Now. Two days ago, the papers carried a 48 00:04:38,439 --> 00:04:41,560 story that David Perling was killed in a boating accident in Key West. That 49 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,519 was a lot of bloney. It was restracted. I know that, But 50 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,439 I talked to a reporter down in Key West who told me Perling paid to 51 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,920 have that story about himself printed. My client had an idea Pearling might have 52 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:55,519 done it to set up the stock market for a killing. Missus. Perling 53 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,680 told me he did it, and I hope his missing daughter would see the 54 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,480 story in the papers. In contact home, What have you got to say? 55 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:04,439 Here's your stuff one other things. Pearling the kind of man who'd pull 56 00:05:04,439 --> 00:05:09,680 a trick like that. Ask him, you got a way about you? 57 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:12,199 I don't like. Well, that's too bad. But in between the time 58 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,560 I called and the time I got here, you had time to call the 59 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,480 Pearlings on the phone and ask about me. They said it was all right 60 00:05:16,519 --> 00:05:19,040 to tell me what I wanted to know. If there was a daughter, 61 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:21,519 if you've been hired to look for if you don't tell me. You might 62 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,279 jeopardize the part of the rent the Pearlings pay for you. No, look, 63 00:05:25,319 --> 00:05:28,399 DoD, there's something else you aren't gonna like. I might just want 64 00:05:28,439 --> 00:05:30,639 to see your operatives report in the case. I might have the idea that 65 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,480 if you've been looking for her this long, you might just be dragging it 66 00:05:33,519 --> 00:05:36,319 out a little bit. You know, the rent money it's due every month. 67 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,519 Get mister or missus Pearling on the phone right away. I hope they 68 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:47,480 tell me to throw you out on your ear. Well, while we're waiting, 69 00:05:47,519 --> 00:05:50,319 let's get back to the questions, where have you looked? What have 70 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:55,519 you done? We pulled the case eleven months ago, almost of the day. 71 00:05:56,399 --> 00:06:00,439 The girl's five five, one hundred and fourteen pounds, no visible scars, 72 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,959 no glasses, black hair, brown eyes. She's twenty four. It'll 73 00:06:03,959 --> 00:06:09,079 be twenty five next month. We thought we had. Are located in Muncie, 74 00:06:09,079 --> 00:06:13,720 Toledo, Detroit, Fort Worth, and Pueblo. We think she's traveling 75 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:16,399 alone. We think she's a little girl who was fed up to here with 76 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,399 mom and daddy and just struck out for herself. But you haven't found her. 77 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,560 Five men have been looking on eight hour shifts seven days a week for 78 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:30,079 eleven months to the day. Five men, eleven months, seven days a 79 00:06:30,079 --> 00:06:33,759 week, and I'm one of the five. My feet hurt, my headaches 80 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:38,959 most of the time, my wife's thinking about divorcing me. And then you 81 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,240 walk in here and plant yourself in my office. You're suggesting maybe I can 82 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,199 go out and find it just like that. Well I can't, nobody can. 83 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,040 So I want you to know I kind of resent that remark about how 84 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,399 I'm laying down on the job, and if you don't take it back, 85 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,040 I'll have to cave in the side of the wall with you. What do 86 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,360 you got to say, dollar, I take it back, mister Ringwell, 87 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:08,959 sit down and have yourself a smoke. Hello, well, hello, missus 88 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:14,240 Perling. Mister dollars in my office now, yes, yes, I'll cooperate 89 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:16,839 with him. Yes, Missus Perling, I understand. They explained it all 90 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:33,040 to me. Yes, ma'am, h whole file everything. How would you 91 00:07:33,079 --> 00:07:36,639 like somebody to bring up a bottle of cold beer? Oh, I'd like 92 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:44,959 that fine, mister Ramwell, Nile Saymwell. In between complaining about the abundance 93 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,800 of bad private operators and the detective business, showed me how good he was. 94 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:53,319 The Jennie Peerling file was a comprehensive day to day report on the investigation. 95 00:07:54,199 --> 00:07:57,680 His discouragement in the case was understandable. The only thing that meant something 96 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:01,040 was the picture of Jennie Perling. Black hair over a fresh white skinned face, 97 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:07,199 dark eyes, a nice smile. Somehow not my idea of the daughter 98 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:09,240 that would belong to David Peerling. Too old, too young, or to 99 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,279 something. I couldn't put my finger on it. If I had been able 100 00:08:13,319 --> 00:08:16,639 to, I could have ended this expense account right here as it was. 101 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,319 I spent one hundred thousand dollars somebody else's money, sure, but I spent 102 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:28,839 it just the same. Mister Dahner, I'm certainly surprised at this development. 103 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:35,000 You say Pearling's daughters missing. That's right, mister Scottman, and I'm convinced 104 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,799 that the detective agency he's had looking for have been doing just that. Eh. 105 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,200 Well, then I'm relieved. No, you got to the bottom of 106 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:46,320 this matter. I'm sorry, of course for missus Pearling. But as I 107 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:52,080 say, relieved that there there was no attempt at financial manipulation. I think 108 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,720 then I can call you off the case. There is no case now, 109 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:03,879 Nope, guess not. And that's the way it stood. At four o'clock 110 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:07,360 in the afternoon, I told mister Scotman i'd send him a bill. We 111 00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:09,720 shook hands, and he wandered off to see if he could get a night 112 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,360 flight back to Hartford. I went up to my room to pack and was 113 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,200 folding his shirt all wrong when it struck me that I suddenly didn't believe anything 114 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,600 or anybody. The idea that there was money and it's somewhere still kept coming 115 00:09:22,639 --> 00:09:24,600 back to me. I couldn't shake it. I finished packing and left my 116 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:28,279 bags at the desk. I wandered out and found a bar and sent out 117 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:31,159 to think. After a couple of hours, nothing much occurred to me, 118 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:43,159 but I did something anyhow. Oh, hello Dotter. My plane didn't leave 119 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,919 till eleven o'clock. I haven't had dinner yet. I didn't come about dinner, 120 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,639 mister Scotman, what is it? Well, how does this case strike 121 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,360 you? Eh? A phony death report, a missing girl, a stock 122 00:09:54,399 --> 00:09:56,440 market manipulation that didn't come off. How does it strike you? Oh? 123 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,759 Very neat? That's a phrase I use, miss Dollar. We had a 124 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,960 question with serious implications to it. We have an answer now that's what we 125 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,639 wanted. But it's too neat. I'm not sure I know quite what you 126 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:13,600 mean. Look, you first called me in because it was halfway in your 127 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:16,679 mind that Perling's alleged death was for the purpose of making money on the market. 128 00:10:16,919 --> 00:10:20,120 Now why did you think that it was a possibility? But what else? 129 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,120 What about Parling? What do you mean you know him? I ever 130 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:26,679 met him? Do you think he was capable of a thing like that? 131 00:10:26,039 --> 00:10:31,320 Not? No, No, I have proof from you that that wasn't his 132 00:10:31,399 --> 00:10:33,440 reason at all. But you thought so. Before you had that proof, 133 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,919 you suspected it. You suppose I did. Yes, Well, I didn't 134 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:39,240 know him from a load of coal, But I always figured this money in 135 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:43,360 it somewhere. And I've met David Perling. He doesn't seem like the kind 136 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,399 of man who'd worry about a grown daughter who didn't like him and ran away. 137 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:50,639 Just didn't seem that way. Oh here now, detective agency working on 138 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:52,919 the case, the story in the papers, But no police, mister Scottman, 139 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,879 no bulletins, no one hundred percent effort to find her. Why I 140 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,360 suppose you have a good point. I'm sure I have a good point, 141 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:03,720 mister Scotland. Money's always a good point. Well what money? How why? 142 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:05,200 I don't know. I can't answer those questions. I wish I could. 143 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,240 If I could, i'd know that a man like Dave Pearling was lying 144 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,600 through his teeth. If he told me he wanted his daughter back safe at 145 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,159 home, I'd know why he was lying. I know I'm just talking and 146 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,480 getting nowhere right now. But well, I thought I thought i'd better tell 147 00:11:18,519 --> 00:11:22,039 you what was on my mind. Yes, well you've certainly done that. 148 00:11:22,799 --> 00:11:28,320 Now what that's up to you? Oh? Well, if you feel so 149 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,159 strongly about this, I think then you should continue. I thought it was 150 00:11:31,279 --> 00:11:43,200 ended, but in view, the circumstances continue by all means continue. Well, 151 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:48,360 dollar, Well, you're working late. I'd rather stay here than go 152 00:11:48,399 --> 00:11:54,399 home sometimes most of the time. Hey, well we might be seeing quite 153 00:11:54,399 --> 00:11:58,279 a bit of each other. How did you know, Hm Pearling told me 154 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:03,320 to contact you. You're a pretty cute dollar. Tell me why you hardly 155 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,039 ever run across the picture of a girl you'd like to look at as much 156 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,799 as this Pearling Dame? Oh, I might have you know? You kid 157 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,159 me most of the time, and I'm an old slab who stands around with 158 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,120 hardly any fast answers. You aren't getting me this time, Pally. You 159 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,960 show it all over. If I walked in a place and I seen a 160 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,440 girl as nice looking as this, and I had me business with her, 161 00:12:24,159 --> 00:12:28,840 I'd be the luckiest guy in the world. If there are women, and 162 00:12:28,879 --> 00:12:33,799 there are women. But if that picture means anything, boy, she's a 163 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,279 woman and you want to meet her, right, sure, I want to 164 00:12:37,279 --> 00:12:39,200 meet her, But you're getting romantic. And if I saw but didn't have 165 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,919 any business with her, just saw, I'd go take a walk around the 166 00:12:43,919 --> 00:12:50,000 block before I talk to anybody. Yeah, I know, And I don't 167 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:52,799 blame you. You're a very lucky fellow. You're going to see her. 168 00:12:54,679 --> 00:13:00,600 That's why Pearling asked me to contact you. Huh here. About an hour 169 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:05,559 ago, one of our men located her where she's in New Orleans. He 170 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:09,799 handed me the wire and I read it over. Then I looked at him, 171 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:13,639 he looked at me. I didn't ask any questions, he didn't say 172 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:16,960 a word. It was a wonderful, make believe world, but it really 173 00:13:18,039 --> 00:13:22,159 didn't exist. Too neat and too tidy, And we all know the world's 174 00:13:22,159 --> 00:13:45,080 full of bumps. Never hear them. Mount Everest Johnny Dollar, Dave, 175 00:13:45,519 --> 00:13:48,919 mister Dollar, I want to talk to you. Hello, mister mister Eamwell 176 00:13:48,919 --> 00:13:52,440 tells me you're in his office looking into my private affairs. Of investigating the 177 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,679 matter I came here for involves your private affairs. I guess I did that. 178 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,639 I should be irritated. I suppose, and I guess I'm not. 179 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,159 When can I say most any time? How about today? I'll be at 180 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:20,559 my household alone. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Eastern Liability 181 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,279 and Trust Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expendit 182 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:33,759 yours during my investigation of the Pearling matter, Item nine ten cents. One 183 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:37,440 phone called a Morton Scottman, advising him that Genie Perling had been located in 184 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,039 New Orleans by one of Amoell's operatives. Missus Scottman thought that over for a 185 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:45,919 while and then assumed it would be in the best interests of Eastern Liability to 186 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,759 make certain this was the truth. I told mister Scottman I intended to do 187 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:52,240 just that. I had him ten five dollars camp fare from the New Western 188 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,480 Hotel to the home of David Perling. HI, come on in the man 189 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,120 who opened the door wasn't a servant. He wore a dark blue, bub 190 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,840 arrested suit. He smelled the cigars and bourbon and private detectives stuck out all 191 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,600 over him. He jammed a pudgy finger in the general direction of what later 192 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,759 turned out to be the library, and I followed. The room we went 193 00:15:09,759 --> 00:15:13,200 into was empty except for us, as far as I could see or hear. 194 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,159 The rest of the house was empty too. The man in the blue 195 00:15:16,159 --> 00:15:18,960 suit sat down on a leather sofa and pointed to a quart of bourbon that 196 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,399 had just come out of a sack. You must be this dollar guy. 197 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,879 Uh yeah, mister Pearling be along in a minute. He asked me to 198 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:35,559 say hello to you. By the way, my name's Brad Copeland. I'm 199 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,440 one of Niles man. Niles ain't well, that's great. Where is Niles. 200 00:15:39,679 --> 00:15:43,559 He's with mister Pearling. They'll be along. Sound relax. They said 201 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,200 they thought it was about time for little conference. What for, the girl's 202 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,799 been found, hasn't she? Oh? Sure? Sure? Now they got 203 00:15:48,799 --> 00:15:52,840 to figure some other things out. I'll bet you don't believe much of this, 204 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:56,320 do you. Nope? Well, then I'll put it this way. 205 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:03,519 I'm the guy who found Jeanie Pearling. How about it? Now? Okay, 206 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,360 look, I got put on this thing because an insurance company executive thought 207 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:10,480 Pearling might have had a false death report made on him to juggle some things 208 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,960 in the stock market. Ah that story in the papers about Pearling dying. 209 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:15,960 Uh. Yeah. Pearling paid to have that story printed, all right, 210 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,000 but not for any stock market angles. He did it to try and scare 211 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:23,240 up this daughter of his who scrammed away from home a year ago. I 212 00:16:23,279 --> 00:16:26,720 found that hard to believe, even after I talked to Niles Zaymwell and he 213 00:16:26,759 --> 00:16:30,080 told me the agency had been hired to find the girl a year ago. 214 00:16:30,919 --> 00:16:33,480 I suppose you're one of the men who's been looking. Yeah, that's about 215 00:16:33,519 --> 00:16:37,000 it. No luck either. And yesterday morning comes a phone call I don't 216 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,440 know who it is, tells me where she's living, what name she's using 217 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,120 in New Orleans. I scrammed down there by plane and check it out. 218 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:45,639 It's all true. So I come back here and here I am conference. 219 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,279 You found her on a tip from somebody you don't know, man or woman. 220 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,360 Always a man's voice, wonderful in it? What happen sometimes? How 221 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,799 does it look to you like a seal freight car full of nothing. That's 222 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:00,840 the girl down there, and you are right. I managed that. I 223 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:03,279 picked up a prince and checked him on what we had to go on. 224 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:06,759 But what's what. I don't know, what's sam I'm going to do now? 225 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:14,400 That's why the conference we see what we'll see relax. I tried to 226 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,640 do that, but I didn't do very well. Copeland settled to his bourbon, 227 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,480 and I picked up and laid down a half a dozen magazines, smoked 228 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,599 two cigarettes, paced up and down. Finally I heard a door open somewhere 229 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,759 and Nile's Amwell and David Pearling walked in the room. Then aim Well motioned 230 00:17:27,759 --> 00:17:30,279 Copeland to his feet, and both of them left the room without a word. 231 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:34,240 David Pearling and I were alone. How much do they pay your dollar? 232 00:17:34,759 --> 00:17:37,559 Oh? I'm paid well enough. What's that got to do with it? 233 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,960 I was just curious as all. You seem like a competent man. 234 00:17:41,839 --> 00:17:45,519 As a matter of fact, the most competent I've met, and that includes 235 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:48,880 mister Amwell and mister Copeland. By the way, I just fired them. 236 00:17:49,039 --> 00:17:52,039 Really, I don't think I need them anymore now that I know where Genie 237 00:17:52,079 --> 00:17:59,200 is. Oh, you've had an extraordinary interest in my affairs lately. I'm 238 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,880 willing to bet that you won't leave me alone until you're satisfied about my daughter. 239 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,160 You'd be right. I want Geenie to come home here where she belongs. 240 00:18:08,599 --> 00:18:12,799 Why don't you go get her? I think that might be difficult under 241 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:18,599 the circumstances. I'm afraid she bears considerable ranker for myself and missus Pearling. 242 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:23,039 Perhaps someone like you could well persuade her that it would be the best thing 243 00:18:23,079 --> 00:18:27,400 to do. I go down to New Orleans and get her exactly I was 244 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:33,160 going anyway? Oh why, Well, off hand, you don't seem like 245 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,519 the father who's happy to know that his daughter whom he hasn't seen her heard 246 00:18:36,519 --> 00:18:40,119 from in a year, is alive. And well, you haven't made a 247 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,920 move to go and pick her up yourself. Also, she was found too 248 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,960 soon and too fast after I got in on the picture. Hey, you 249 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,160 can stop right there. I'm sure I wouldn't even attempt to explain any of 250 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:56,440 those things. I didn't think you would or could. I'm on my way 251 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,519 to New Orleans, mister Pearling, to get your daughter. I think she'd 252 00:19:00,559 --> 00:19:03,160 be crazy if she came back here, but I'll take it up with her. 253 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,279 Do that. I wonder if you'd like to try to explain something else 254 00:19:07,319 --> 00:19:11,240 for me. What why you were feeding me out a couple of minutes ago 255 00:19:11,279 --> 00:19:14,960 to see if i'd buy off, get out of here, get out? 256 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:23,079 Why not expense account out of eleven one hundred and thirteen dollars fifteen cents their 257 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,599 fair Incidental's New York to New Orleans, Louisiana. The temperature was exactly twenty 258 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,960 eight degrees hotter when I landed in the cam from the field. I peeled 259 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,720 off my coat and loosened my tie and took off my hat. I walked 260 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:40,640 into the lobby of the Roseholt Hotel that way. Everyone else seemed cool enough 261 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,880 in linens and tropicals, everyone except myself. In a big blonde giant of 262 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,319 a man leaning against the CNS ticket counter, boh, hey, take mister 263 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,880 dollar to five eleven. The giant smile when he saw me and stuck out 264 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,359 his hand. Well, well, well, I'm certainly glad to see you. 265 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:00,680 We thought you'd never get here. Hope you had a pleasant trip. 266 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,279 I was okay, I know you're tired and hot and would like to wash 267 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,720 up a little and refresh yourself. But the rest of the boys are headquartered 268 00:20:07,759 --> 00:20:11,880 in eight ten. Now, mighty anxious to meet you, mighty anxious. 269 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,480 Del The cotton growers are gonna make it or break it at this convention, 270 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:21,319 Yes, sir, Yes, sir, sure are we As soon as you've 271 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:22,519 cleaned up, you come right over. We have a drink, and I'll 272 00:20:22,559 --> 00:20:26,119 show you around the town. Yeah, that'll be swalled eight ten, eight 273 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:33,279 ten, about an hour, about an hour. I'll see you, thank 274 00:20:33,319 --> 00:20:37,319 clerk, Yes, sir. How long have the Delta Cotton Growers been in 275 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,799 town? Delta Cotton Growers for they had the convention last month? Sir? 276 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:49,599 Who's registered in eight ten? We have no eight ten? Sir. I'd 277 00:20:49,599 --> 00:20:52,839 done someone dirty when he came over with a handout in front. I was 278 00:20:52,839 --> 00:20:56,839 supposed to say, you got the wrong fellow. My name's Dollary, but 279 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,480 I made him play it out for a particular reason. I wanted to know 280 00:21:00,519 --> 00:21:03,279 who I was, and he didn't quite know. But then I wanted to 281 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:07,240 know who he was and I didn't quite know. I wanted to know him 282 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:11,079 because of that thirty eighth strapped under his left arm. It bowled out just 283 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:17,240 enough to make me curious. By seven thirty, i'd eaten dinner and founded 284 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,599 an address on Ursuline Street, the address where Genie Perling was living. A 285 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:25,440 mailbox carried that name. It was one of those unpainted apartment houses in the 286 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:30,400 French Quarter, full of heat and low white light bulbs. The girl who 287 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,720 opened the door was a medium sized blonde, and she wore a black dress. 288 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:38,559 The girl I was looking for had cold black hair. Yes, how 289 00:21:38,559 --> 00:21:42,039 do you do. My name's Johnny Dollar. I came here to see Genie 290 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:48,359 Pearling. Come in. Please, you're a friend of Jeans in a way, 291 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:52,519 I just came from New York. You know her father? Then? 292 00:21:52,759 --> 00:21:59,519 Yes, oh, I'm Janie Floyd, Jean's roommate. This way, careful, 293 00:21:59,559 --> 00:22:03,920 it's a little sure. Maybe I had the feeling when I saw the 294 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,720 black dress, but I knew I had it. When Janice Floyd turned and 295 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:11,400 led me through the two large rooms that made the apartment, I thought that 296 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:15,200 was the end of it. But there was one more room. The blonde 297 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,759 girl stood one side so I could see, and the perspiration began to trickle 298 00:22:19,799 --> 00:22:23,400 down my face. I knew what was coming. Yes, she is mister 299 00:22:23,519 --> 00:22:29,119 Dowler. She was there all right, as lovely and as young and beautiful 300 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,720 as the picture. There was a candle burning at her head and feet, 301 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,640 and she was dead. I don't know how long I stood there in the 302 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,559 dark room, staring down at her. I think there were other people in 303 00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:47,359 there too, dark people, heads bowed, hands folded in front of them, 304 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:52,200 all looking at her. How did it happen? Leukemia? You know? 305 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,599 Didn't you know her very long? No? No, As a matter 306 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:03,920 of fact, Miss Floyd, I didn't never know her. I certainly didn't 307 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,920 know she was dead when I came here tonight. I hardly expected he asked 308 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,599 that it'd be this way. But who are you? I'm an insurance investigator 309 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,880 from her father. Not exactly not. Oh, yes, I see it 310 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,799 now. You aren't the first one who's been here looking for her. There 311 00:23:15,839 --> 00:23:19,039 have been others, detectives and lawyers trying to get her to go back. 312 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,200 What if he'd loved her, if they'd loved her for just one unselfish moment, 313 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,480 she would still be there. Well, mister Dollar, she's where her 314 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,680 father can't bother her anymore. You tell him that when you go back to 315 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,519 New York. Tell him he can stop hiring lawyers and detectives to find her. 316 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:41,240 Now get out expense account adam thirteen five dollars, the usual charge in 317 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:45,519 any city for having a legal document copied and photostadded a death certificate verifying the 318 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:48,720 fact that the girl had died on the twentieth day of the month. A 319 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:53,160 medical report attached to the certificate named the cause of death is leukemia. I 320 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,119 had copies of all these legal documents by ten o'clock the following morning. I 321 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,839 even went through the motions of phoning the desk and asking for a bill and 322 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,839 making a plane reservation for that night. I had a feeling someone would be 323 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,359 very interested to see me take care of all those things, and I was 324 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,839 right. The big blonde man with a thirty eight happened to be in one 325 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,039 corner of the lobby when I paid my bill. He also happened to be 326 00:24:14,079 --> 00:24:15,559 at the airport when I picked up my ticket, but then he got careless. 327 00:24:17,319 --> 00:24:18,480 I walked through the gate, waited two minutes, and slipped back to 328 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,000 grab a cab in front, just in time to see him wheel a batter, 329 00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:23,000 convert a lot of the parking lot, and head back for town. 330 00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:26,559 I followed in my cab. He went to the Ercelain Street address. Two 331 00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:30,480 minutes later, he came out expense account. I am fourteen eight dollars. 332 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,960 I let my cab go and strolled up to him just as he was getting 333 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:40,400 in his car. Hi, end, what, look, we've been playing 334 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:45,240 games long enough, don't you think? Well? Why don't you go back 335 00:24:45,279 --> 00:24:48,920 to New York and do what you have to do, deliver this death certificate. 336 00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:53,920 I don't believe it. You saw I did, didn't You still don't 337 00:24:53,920 --> 00:25:00,920 believe it. That's too bad, because that's the way it is. Hegan 338 00:25:02,039 --> 00:25:04,920 in his car, started it up, drove away. I stood there and 339 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:11,519 watched him go. Money. I kept saying to myself, money, there's 340 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:33,960 money in it somewhere, plain old money. Johnny Dollar. This is Janice 341 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,839 Floyd, mister Dollar. Hello. I understand you don't quite believe that Genie 342 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,680 Perling is dead. That's about right. I'm really not concerned one way or 343 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,200 the other what you believe or disbelieve. I do know that I've been through 344 00:25:45,279 --> 00:25:48,759 quite an ordeal lately, and if you have any plans for interfering or bothering 345 00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:52,839 me in any way, I'll call the police. All right, I hope 346 00:25:52,880 --> 00:26:11,680 you understand that I do well then goodbye, goodbye. Expense accounts of it 347 00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:15,519 by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Eastern Liability and Trust Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 348 00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:19,480 The following is an accounting of expended yours during my investigation of the Pearling 349 00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:26,559 matter, I wrote to Morton Scottman at Eastern Liability, and I explained the 350 00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:32,000 circumstances under which I had arrived in New Orleans and located Genie Peerling. I 351 00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:34,880 and closed a death certificate and the medical statement. I also reported on the 352 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,559 conduct of our ex room mate, Janis Floyd. Then I sat down and 353 00:26:38,599 --> 00:26:45,720 called Jennis on the phone. Hello, this is Johnny Dollar, Miss Floyd. 354 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,640 I think it's time we had a talk. Nothing to discuss. I 355 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:55,279 think we have what how you're being taken by a couple of people. Good 356 00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:56,519 bye. Look, don't hang up on me, miss Floyd. I came 357 00:26:56,559 --> 00:27:00,680 down here to find Gene Perling. I'm with an insurance company. It was 358 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,640 my job to check on a story her father told. Finding out was part 359 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,319 of it. Let me come over and talk to you. I'll be home 360 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:12,960 tonight. The apartment was six blocks from the hotel. I walked it for 361 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,400 a reason. All kinds of people have followed me one time or another. 362 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,559 And I've followed all kinds of people. But the man who followed me off 363 00:27:19,559 --> 00:27:22,960 and on in New Orleans, the big blonde man with a thirty eight, 364 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:26,759 knew what he was doing. He was a professional. I made up my 365 00:27:26,799 --> 00:27:29,599 mind about that the first time I saw him, and I thought I was 366 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,759 ready for him. But I wasn't. He waited until the street lights got 367 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:37,960 dim and no one was in sight. Oh, I vaguely remember that he 368 00:27:38,039 --> 00:27:41,240 caught me under the arms and laid me gently down on the street. That 369 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:52,119 was all easy, buddy, easy. You've been making too much whoopie. 370 00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:56,400 Oh folks, visit down. You are to be more careful, get your 371 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,960 suit all dirty. I wouldn't have found you, but my cab conked out 372 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:02,920 here. Oh my head, at the sight of my head, you must 373 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,359 fall in hard. You had enough for the night that you want to keep 374 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,279 going? I've had plenty, Yes, sir, I'll call it doctor. 375 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:12,440 Oh, no, help me, I'll be all right up. Enough is 376 00:28:12,519 --> 00:28:18,720 it? Thanks? What time is it? Eh? Almost midnight? Two 377 00:28:18,759 --> 00:28:22,079 hours? Where you want to go? Erescell on Street? Get him? 378 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:30,039 Get him? Expense account item sixteen ten dollars to one Good Samaritan cab driver 379 00:28:30,079 --> 00:28:33,400 who picked me up and dropped me at Jenis Floyd's apartment. I was still 380 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:41,680 weaving on my feet when I tapped on the door. Mister Dollar, you've 381 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:47,599 been hurt. Come in. I'm all right packing. Yes, I've decided 382 00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:49,920 to leave town tonight. As a matter of fact, I thought it'd be 383 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,279 something like that. Did a big fellow, a blonde man, have anything 384 00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:56,200 to do with your decision to leave? That's none of your business. Let 385 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,559 me tell you my business, miss Floyd. I came down here to see 386 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,599 Gene Peerling. You saw she is dead, Yes, I saw dead. 387 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,359 Yesterday. I mailed a copy of her death certificate to New York. Well, 388 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,839 then, what else? What other business? The man who came here 389 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,839 yesterday and reported to you, The man who told you I'd left town and 390 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,319 you could breathe easier again, The same man who called you later and told 391 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:22,960 you I was still around, still asking questions. He's my business. He 392 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,920 followed me on my way here tonight, he slugged me. I don't believe 393 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,559 you're telling me the truth. What's his name? Any idea? Why he 394 00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:33,480 carries a gun? Carries a gun? You're making all this up? Why 395 00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:37,599 would I I've got what I came for, or practically what I came for, 396 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,799 legal proof of the whereabouts of one Jeen Pearling. If Al hit you, 397 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,759 he was trying to protect me. I listen to me. I think 398 00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:45,319 I have pretty much of an unhen. Now you tell me if I'm wrong. 399 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,240 First off, you're not any Janis Floyd. I guess that Janis Floyd 400 00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:53,400 was the girl who died of leukemia. I've got her picture in my wallet. 401 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,359 It was given to me by David Perling, who said it was his 402 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:57,880 daughter. This is all crazy, or you go into that. Listen, 403 00:29:59,359 --> 00:30:02,359 I can have that body exhumed. I don't want to do it, but 404 00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:04,519 I will if I have to do. You want me to do that? 405 00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:11,920 All right? I'm Jean Perling, and that was the Floyd girl who died. 406 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:18,319 Yes, she was sick and well I knew my father had detectives looking 407 00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:21,799 for me. I just never wanted to see him again or go home again. 408 00:30:22,519 --> 00:30:26,200 It seemed if poor Janice were dying and she had no one, if 409 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,759 she somehow had my name, well I'd never be bothered with my family again. 410 00:30:32,279 --> 00:30:34,720 That was a pretty idea, was it yours? Alan? I thought 411 00:30:34,759 --> 00:30:38,440 of it? Now, albrid the blonde guy. Okay, how do you 412 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,519 work it? He saw to it that Janie had my name. I know 413 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,039 it was against the law, but she had no one, and if she 414 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,920 was buried with my name, then I'd be free of my family. Oh 415 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,519 I took some managing. They hate me, they always have. I want 416 00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:56,079 my own life. I don't blame me. You're entitled to it. Are 417 00:30:56,079 --> 00:31:00,599 you sure that's what you're getting. I'm going to marry Alle no matter what. 418 00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:03,839 If you go back and tell them, well, that'll be that if 419 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,480 you let me stay dead. I can't let that happen. Why not? 420 00:31:07,359 --> 00:31:11,279 Why not? Mister dollar? What harm would it do let your father make 421 00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:15,000 a fool out of you? I don't understand you're worth one hundred thousand dollars. 422 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,799 What cold, hard cash and irrevocable trust was set up on you when 423 00:31:19,839 --> 00:31:23,000 you were born. Comes to you when you're twenty five. That'll be next 424 00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:26,160 month. I don't care about the money. I wait a minute. In 425 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,359 the event you should die before your twenty fifth birthday, the money would revert 426 00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:34,519 to your nearest of kin, my father, your father. But I'm dead 427 00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:42,759 on paper, then el else. Somebody paid him, probably your father, 428 00:31:44,839 --> 00:31:49,880 to make love to you, Oh, get out of here. Dollar. 429 00:31:51,319 --> 00:31:53,400 Wait. I told you this man man nothing but probably he knows all about 430 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,200 it. He can't prove a thing. Get out of here you now, 431 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:05,200 Honey, I know about you. Honey. Yeah, I don't know what 432 00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:13,519 to say. Go just go, please, he went. He looked at 433 00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:15,359 both of us as he went out the door. It was sort of a 434 00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:17,480 whip look away. A puppy stares at you when you've caught him chewing on 435 00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:22,960 a slipper. I said a while a Jean perling. She didn't say much. 436 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,759 It wasn't what she could say. I told her I didn't think there 437 00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:28,960 was any reason for her to go back to New York unless she wanted to. 438 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,279 She said she didn't want to go, didn't know what to do at 439 00:32:31,279 --> 00:32:35,680 the moment, and well we left it at that. I went back to 440 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,000 my hotel and tried to get some sleep. About six o'clock in the morning, 441 00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:40,640 I got up bay shaved, and packed. By seven point thirty, 442 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:46,480 I had breakfast and was just about to check out. Hello, hello, 443 00:32:46,559 --> 00:32:58,400 Brett leaving. That's right, I like to talk first. Sure, okay, 444 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,839 you messed it up fine for her and me. I tried to call 445 00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:05,319 her this morning, and she hung up on me. Went over there, 446 00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:07,880 she wouldn't let me in. I don't blame her to you, I guess 447 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:13,759 I don't. I decided to leave town. Yeah, maybe that's better. 448 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,200 I don't know whether it is or not. You make it hard for a 449 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,000 guy at talk. All right, now, look at it my way. 450 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,839 This whole thing's been rotten. I met her father, and I know what 451 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,119 kind he is. I know what he's done to her, what he'll do 452 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,720 to her if she goes back. And then there's you, Brett, the 453 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,880 hired man. You went in and made love to her for a salary. 454 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:34,160 I didn't like it having to tell her that, and I must hurt. 455 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,799 It must hurt pretty bad. So you see, I'm not too interested in 456 00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:39,160 what you might have to say or what you're going to do. Wait, 457 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:44,200 you're right reading me out this way. I deserve it. The old man 458 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,160 found out where she was four months ago. I found out for him. 459 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:52,200 I knew the girl she was living with had leukemia. I planned the whole 460 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,359 switch. I put it to her the way she explained it, about being 461 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,119 dead, to keep away from her old man. Of course you didn't mention 462 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,960 that hundred thousand he could get his hands on and once she was dead though 463 00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:06,799 I didn't, but something funny happened to me. Dollar. I mean, 464 00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:10,960 I've done my share of dirty jobs. I've seen a lot of the human 465 00:34:12,039 --> 00:34:15,599 race. Taking a salary to make a sucker out of her didn't bother me 466 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:21,960 at all, not at first, And then I found out when she touched 467 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,760 my face, I lived for that touch. And when I held her, 468 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:30,320 she lived for me. I never thought that had happened to me, but 469 00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:37,280 it did. If you see her again, Dona tell her. I was 470 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,639 trying to stop it. I mean, all this part, but it was 471 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:54,480 too late. Funny how things turn out. Yeah, funny. Expense account 472 00:34:54,480 --> 00:35:00,079 out of seventeen forty two dollars and thirteen cents. Hotel on board build one 473 00:35:00,159 --> 00:35:04,079 hundred one dollars, even airplane take it back to Hartford. I have nineteen 474 00:35:04,119 --> 00:35:07,440 one dollar cab fare. I stopped by her apartment on my way to the 475 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:14,000 airport. Oh, I thought you'd left, mister Dollar. Wow. I 476 00:35:14,079 --> 00:35:19,840 came to say goodbye. How's it going today? All right? I have 477 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:25,480 some brand? No? No thanks, Jean, Yes, you're going to 478 00:35:25,559 --> 00:35:30,559 New York. No, I'll stay here a while. I don't want to 479 00:35:30,599 --> 00:35:36,280 see my father or mother? How about al Britz? He wants to see 480 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,480 you. Let's not talk about him, shall we. Do you think I'm 481 00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:44,280 a nice girl? Do you think my one hundred thousand dollars will attract a 482 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,840 lot of nice, eligible young men to me? Do you think I'll stop 483 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:54,519 it? You'll burn your brakes? Oh no, I knew what it did, 484 00:35:55,360 --> 00:36:00,800 I know why he did it, But I love it. He did 485 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:06,239 his job too well. Yeah, he could tell you what he started out 486 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,400 to do and what happened to him with you. He could tell you if 487 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,480 you let him. He told you. Yeah, what kind of a trick 488 00:36:15,599 --> 00:36:19,880 is it? No trick, couldn't be. The guy's too mixed up. 489 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,360 Tell you what he'll try again when he calls up next time? Talk to 490 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:31,480 him? Why should I? Because you may not have a mother and father 491 00:36:31,599 --> 00:36:37,639 or anyone else, but you do have him, and you will have him 492 00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:40,639 as long as he lives if you want him, And that's what you've been 493 00:36:40,639 --> 00:36:49,239 looking for all your life, someone to have. I'd take him if I 494 00:36:49,280 --> 00:37:04,719 were you, I him twenty ten dollars miscellaneous. Total expense accounts seven hundred 495 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,519 and fourteen dollars thirty five cents. Remarks none report she took him. They 496 00:37:08,519 --> 00:37:24,960 were married in Tampa. This morning, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Now 497 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,800 here's our star to tell you about next week's intriguing story. Next week, 498 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:35,239 A lonely girl, a fine young man, a gentle father, and one 499 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,159 of them is a killer. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, 500 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:46,519 Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in 501 00:37:46,559 --> 00:37:52,320 Hollywood. Written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. 502 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,559 Hurt In. This week's cast or Mary Jane Croft, Forrest Lewis, 503 00:37:54,599 --> 00:37:59,639 Jeannette Nolan, Russell Thorson, Michael Ann Barrett, Jack Petruzzie, Barbara Fuller, 504 00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:02,760 Herbert Ellis, and Marvin Miller. Musical supervision by A. Marigo Marino 505 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:07,519 and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same time 506 00:38:07,599 --> 00:38:12,079 and station for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan, 507 00:38:12,119 --> 00:39:54,000 speaking welcome back. I appreciated the time that they dedicated to considering whether 508 00:39:54,079 --> 00:40:00,639 to continue the investigation. I talked about it on Tuesday and in terms of 509 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:06,079 is there actually an insurance interest here? And it was nice for them to 510 00:40:06,119 --> 00:40:10,320 treat that with some seriousness and to answer that question. And of course the 511 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:17,800 conversation speaks to the type of investigator that Johnny is and how much intuition is 512 00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:22,519 key to how he works and how respected he is within the industry. That 513 00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:30,400 that was accepted in the investigation continued. Now the cereal is almost perfect because 514 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:36,079 you've got some great supporting characters. They're all really interesting to spend time with. 515 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:42,519 There's some really good plot twist, and I think it really interesting ending. 516 00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:50,239 But there's one problem. Johnny was called in to investigate why Perling faked 517 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,719 his death, and we don't actually have a good answer. He didn't do 518 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:59,880 it for stock market manipulation. He also didn't do it to get the attention 519 00:41:00,199 --> 00:41:05,199 of their daughter, given that his plan to get her declared dead had been 520 00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:10,320 in place for four months. Maybe Missus Perling didn't know what he was doing 521 00:41:10,519 --> 00:41:16,480 in Louisiana and the plan was her idea and he didn't want to tell Missus 522 00:41:16,519 --> 00:41:22,000 Pearling about what his real plan was. Though the problem with that is that 523 00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:28,719 from what the daughter said, she didn't actually have a good relationship with Missus 524 00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:34,559 Pearling either. Plus, setting a boat on fire might not have cost one 525 00:41:34,599 --> 00:41:38,840 hundred thousand dollars in nineteen fifty six money, but it would be a really 526 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:45,239 expensive ruse, and you think a guy like him would want to avoid torching 527 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:51,639 a boat and several thousand dollars he couldn't file an insurance claim on and would 528 00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:55,239 try to talk his wife out of it. So other than that, it 529 00:41:55,280 --> 00:42:00,719 was a great story. Now this is another e. Jack Newman script where 530 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:05,800 the plot of the episode was imported, but instead of being mixed with another 531 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,920 story, as you saw in a case like the Broaderick matter, you just 532 00:42:12,199 --> 00:42:19,360 had an insurance angle added on. This one also had a big shift in 533 00:42:19,519 --> 00:42:24,800 tone for the ending. This was based on a nineteen forty eight Jeff Reagan 534 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:31,119 story with Jack Webb the Prodigal Daughter. The Jeff Reagan story had a much 535 00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:36,840 more gritty, earthier tone to the New Orleans scenes, and the big ending 536 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:43,800 is the daughter reclaiming her trust and foiling her father's scheme. The Dollar episode 537 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:50,320 reflects a different sensibility. Money, or even revenge on a hypocritical father might 538 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:57,039 be fun for an audience, but it's pretty unsatisfying for a real human being 539 00:42:57,599 --> 00:43:04,119 whose reason for leaving home wasn't that she wasn't getting the money she wanted, 540 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:09,119 but because she didn't feel loved, being truly loved and finding the strength to 541 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:15,159 give someone a second chance were far more important and valuable. Of course, 542 00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:20,079 it speaks to the type of person Johnny is that he made what was a 543 00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:25,559 totally unnecessary from a business perspective anyway trip to encourage her to talk to al. 544 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:31,599 And I think it's a well acted and endearing ending listener comments and feedback 545 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:39,199 and over on Spotify, John cg Rites of the Calicles Matter very good. 546 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:44,400 Well, thank you so much. Appreciate you taking the time to leave a 547 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:51,440 comment on Spotify. Well, now it's time to think are Patreon supporters of 548 00:43:51,559 --> 00:43:58,559 the day. 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I wouldn't know what to do 565 00:45:22,599 --> 00:45:27,159 if anything like that happened to Hank. What do you want me to say? 566 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,760 But does Hank really wanted? Can't you talk him out of it? 567 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:36,599 You're his wife, can you? No? I think it's his choice, 568 00:45:36,639 --> 00:45:38,760 Miss Decker. He's going to have to make up his own mind. I'm 569 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:45,800 sorry, it's what Hank wants. I guess I worry too much. A 570 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,000 lot of women marry cops. They have and they will. They all worry 571 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,239 Hank will be all right? Will you guarantee it? Joe? I hope 572 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,960 you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments to 573 00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:04,039 Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and 574 00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:10,000 check us out on Instagram, Instagram dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, 575 00:46:10,159 --> 00:46:15,320 Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.