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From Hollywood. It's time now for
John Lunnon as Johnny Daller. This is

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orn vance. Set me up to
Austining seven years and you'll remember or in

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vance? Oh the Zeman case.
How that I do it a lot about

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coming out and killing you. Instead, I'm gonna do you favor. What's

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on your mind? Advance? I
did all my time, and people don't

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like to hire X cons. I
think maybe you and I can work out

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something. I haven't got any jobs
advance, not asking for the job.

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It sounds like double talk to me. How don't think you've dog you'll give

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me any routine? Dell, I've
for them all. You can help me

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and make yourself some money. It's
legitimate. You say, I don't know

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what it's all about. I suppose
I can over and tell you. Okay,

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I'll be waiting for you, John
lud In a transcribed adventure of a

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man with the action packed expenser count
America's fibulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly,

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Johnny Dollar expense accounts submitted by Special
Investigator Johnny Doller to All States Insurance

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Company, Wilmington, Delaware. Attention, mister Don Freed, Chief investigator.

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Since your office authorized me to conduct
certain inquiries based on information supplied by oron

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Vance, I am billing you accordingly. The following is an accounting of expenditures

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during my investigation of the Baltimore matter. Expenser count Item one two ninety five.

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A phone called a prisoner dismissal board
at Sing Sing Prison, where I

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was informed that oron Vance had been
released three days before the above date.

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He had completed seven years of a
seven to fifteen year term for grand theft.

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It was non parole release. The
chaplain described him as a model prisoner

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with a better than average chance of
remaining out of prison for the rest of

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his life. For that reason,
I was willing to listen to his story

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when he showed up an hour later. Hello, Odella, you haven't changed

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a bit. Come on advanced.
Yeah, sure, nice. It's a

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nice place you get. I like
it. Sit down, tell me what's

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on your mind, Della. Look, don't treat me like a con even

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if I am one. I'll sit
down, I'll have a smoke with you.

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I'll talk with you. Forget the
other part for a while, will

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you please? Okay? That one
nice? Just everybody's doing that. My

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wife went over to see you the
first day I got out. You know

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what what, Kitty wouldn't let me
in the house. She get me forty

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dollars, told me to go out
and get a decent job. Tell you

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she had it all worked out,
work hard, she said, six months.

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If everything's okay and you're not in
any trouble, you can come home

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to me and the kids. If
not, she said, I'm gonna divorce

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you. What do you want me
to say? Want you to offer me

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a seat, invite me to sit
out it? Sure? Thanks again.

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No thought about it a lot.
If you hadn't been out to getting me

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seven years ago, i'd have had
you over for dinner. Maybe we would

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have been friends. Maybe. Look, I can't get a job and I'll

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have to go in business for myself. I need a steak. That's why

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I'm here to see you. I
talked to you maybe twenty times while you

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were working on that Zeeman case,
and I think I got to know you.

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I call you today because of what
I saw of you then. I

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think you're an honest man. Thanks
you ever. Hear the town A case

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in Bornemore Towner Loan Company in nineteen
forty six, Yeah, everybody's heard about

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that million dollar theft. The insurance
companies still have a reward for information leading

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to the arresting commission was never solved. I suppose they do. I can

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help you help them solve it the
half of that reward, can you.

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I know two of the men who
did it, two of the six men.

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I talked to one of them yesterday. I'll tell you who they are.

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Wake and pick them up. But
I want my name out of the

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picture. Could get fixate, yeah, probably, but I have to talk

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to the police sooner or later.
Oh look, this is a good thing

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dollar and all I'm asking is your
promise to keep my name out of it.

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Tell me how good before I make
any promises. That's fair enough.

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They had some of the serial numbers
on part of the take here. This

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is one of the bills. Why
don't you check it with him? Then

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we'll take it from here. Spencer
con item too, fourteen dollars and eighty

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five cent it's a long distance phone
called the chief investigator, Don Freed,

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All State's Insurance, who verified that
the serial numbers and the ten dollar bill

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or on vance had me tied in
with the townter Loan company theft. I

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explained the information I had at hand
and the source from which it had come,

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leaving out any mention of names.
Freed talked with his boss and pulled

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me back half an hour later,
giving me the go ahead. Okay,

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vance here in business. All right, how does it work? You tell

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me who they are. I'll handle
it from here. I mean the money

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part, and we have something,
you'll get paid for it. All I've

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had so far is talk. This
bill could have come from anywhere. You

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might have picked it up at a
cigar county. Look. I got it

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from a man named Leonard Torpie.
He lives in New York. He's one

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of them. Leonard Torpie. Yeah, I met him my second year.

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Asked me he was up on an
old petty theft charte. She did eighteen

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months. Told me to look him
up when I got out. This part

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may sound crazy, but we had
a few drinks together in his place yesterday.

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I was weeping on his shoulder out
all my hard luck, and he

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said, you think you'll got hard
luck? Then he marched me into the

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bedroom, showed me a stack of
money and a bureau drawer. He said

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he couldn't spend it, and he
gave me one of the bills. Must

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have been pretty drunk out it was. I got to thinking about it.

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Checked the bill, found out it
was in the town of me. I

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looked up the story in it,
Torpie fits the description of one of the

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hold up men right down the line. We'll see you say, you know

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two of them? Who's the other
one? Harold King lives in Reno,

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Nevada, now runs a filming station
there. He used to come see Torpy

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in visiting days. I saw him
several times. It makes you think he

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had a part in the town.
I think just what top he said while

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he was drunk, and the general
description of the other hole up men in

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the story say, while Thorpe was
drunk, he mentioned his old partner,

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Harry King told me where he was
living. So for you say anything about

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the hold up No, I told
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But King is the other man,
I'm sure of it. King have a

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record. I don't know anything about
him. Okay, where'd he be Alphoni?

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Two days? Oh? I should
know something by then. Remember my

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name's out of it. The police
or anybody else. Sure you're afraid,

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Yeah, I'm a stool pigeon.
Well, haven't you noticed. I'd noticed,

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and I worried me, so I
followed him when he left my place.

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I was buying a package of cigarettes
at the corner drug store while he

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bought the street car for downtown.
I tagged along in a taxi to the

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main business section, watched him get
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I bought another package of cigarettes while
he bought a one way ticket to New

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York. In a half hour before
departure time, I telephoned a private detective

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friend of mine, Pete Florian.
He appeared at the bus terminal fifteen minutes

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later. What's the rumble, Johnny. That man over there in a gray

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overcoat. His name's ed Vance.
Uh huh. He's on his way to

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New York right now. Maybe you
better tag along. See that nobody killed

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him. Oh, if what he
told me is true, somebody might try

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to do just that. Stay close
till he settle somewhere and she I haven't

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got any more to tell you,
Pete, because I'm just starting to look

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into it. Find out where he's
living there, and contact me at this

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number. I'll let you know what
to do then, all right, anything

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else, don't let him out of
your sight Pete Spencer cont Item three one

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hundred bucks retainer for private Detective Pete
Florian for explained purposes. I stayed at

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the bus terminal long enough to watch
Pete board the New York bound bus and

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take a seat across the aisle for
more in vance Item four eight dollars and

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eighty five cents Plane fair Hartford and
New York. Item five four fifty cab

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fair to hotel, and then the
Metropolitan Police station, where I explained my

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business to Lieutenant Randall, who gave
you this tip dollan. I'm afraid I

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can't tell you that, Lieutenant.
Why not because I promised not to disclose

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any names. I can tell you
that the source is a man who couldn't

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possibly have had anything to do with
the case since he was in president at

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the time of the hold up.
But you want me to stick my neck

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out and get up a search warrant
and maybe take this word Torpi into custody

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on your say, so, you
have plenty to start with with. That

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ten dollar bill should be enough for
you to look into it. And why

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you looked into it? Frankly,
yes, prima facie evidence, but no

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name, No name I've told you
all there is no believe me. Let's

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get busy. The mug folder on
Leonard Torpey showed a balding, forty year

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old man with a long record of
thefton burglary. There was no record for

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a Harald King, although he was
listed as an associate of Torpee's. Lieutenant.

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Randall wired Reno authorities requesting they locate
King and hold him for part possible

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questioning. Once these preliminaries were accomplished, Randall and I went out to the

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address or a dvance had given me. This turned up a blank. The

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landlady informed us that mister Torpey had
lived there, but it checked out the

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preceding morning, no forwarding address.
The good Lieutenant and I parted company outside

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the apartment house, and I walked
back to my hotel. I was going

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to change clothes and grab some dinner, but the clerk waved me over to

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the house phone. A call had
just come in. Johnny Dollar paid Johnny

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how to go when your boy getting
down at trailing to a place on one

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hundred and fifty fifth Street. He's
got a room with a view. He's

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up there now alone. You think
so any visitors, Oh like one out

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about an hour ago, might be
sleeping. What's the number six? Eighty

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rumps in the back first fall?
Number ten? Who are you? Drug

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store? Right across the street?
Expense account items one sixty cab fare to

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the drug star where Pete Floyan was
keeping a watchful eye on my nervous informer

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or in vance. I found the
drug store, but Pete was nowhere in

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sight. The girl behind the soda
fountain recognized him by my description and said

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he'd stepped out a few minutes before. I glanced up and down the block

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and then spotted him standing just outside
the shadow of a street light across the

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street. I walked over, Hi, Johnny, that's the room back there,

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lights on. He's got a couple
of visitors in there with him.

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Showed up about five minutes ago,
car taxi. What they looked like once

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thin, medium sized dark suit,
the other stocky dark suit too, both

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in the early forties. Chopin wears
glasses. Didn't make either one here,

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that's one of them. Let me
see. Yeah, he's in there.

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What's his name? Leonard Talpee?
We better go in Okaya right back there?

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Yeah, who's uh? Leonard torpie. That's somebody who might wanna kill

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Vance. I wish I knew more
about what this is all about, Johnny.

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Yeah, I said, Oh,
it's all talk, so far better

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cover me. I'm over there.
Okay, okay, Oh, mister Vance

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or in Vance, you must have
the wrong number, buddy, nobody by

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that name lives here. Well,
are you sure positive? Why don't you

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try the manager? I did.
He said, mister Vance had this throw

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and he's all wet. Good night. Just a minute before I went down,

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I heard a go up a couple
of more times, must have been

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six inches from my head. My
eyes couldn't see and my feet wouldn't move,

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but I could hear. There was
someone very close to me, and

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he was dying. Johnny, Johnny
Chunny. We'll return to yours truly,

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Johnny Dollar in just a moment.
Sign up enroll now join the seven million

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strong who buy United States Defense bonds
through the Payroll Savings Plan, where they

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work The bonds you buy help keep
America strong and now Series E bonds earn

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more. They give you a quicker
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Plan, and you will save the
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invest more in United States defense bonds. Now with our star John Lunn,

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we bring you the second act of
yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. I

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won't talk about my operation. I
had one at the police emergency hospital.

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As a matter of fact, I
had two. They prodded a thirty eight

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slug out of my neck and another
one out of my shoulder. It was

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forty eight hours before I was allowed
to sit up in bed and talk naturally

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enough. My first visitor was Lieutenant
Randall. He looked haggard, tired,

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worried. You say you hired the
street Florian. Yeah, keep an eye

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on arm Vance with sure tipster.
It's okay to tell it now, I

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suppose. Yeah, well thanks.
Florian died right there in the hall.

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Four slugs dances on the floor beneath
you, still hanging on. You're giving

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track of all this? What about
Torpie? Did you get him? We

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didn't, but Thorian did. Torpy's
in the morgue. The other man got

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away quite a night. Yeah,
look, Donny, you're the only one

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who can give me the story.
Now. Dance isn't able to talk and

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won't be for another three days.
If then everybody else is dead. Or

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Gone. What happened? I don't
know. I didn't see anything, Lieutenant.

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I was trying to push into the
room past Torpeye and the whole world

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caved in and he uh and he
lied on the man who was with Torpy

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good descriptions, with no luck so
far. He hoisted a car outside a

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Dvance's place. He found it two
hours later, no prints on it,

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some blood he might have one of
Fourian slugged his him. Yeah, we

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gotta land that bird. Hey,
you all right? I felt awful,

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and Lieutenant Randall left me alone for
the rest of the day. At three

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point thirty the following day, or
Advance regained consciousness long enough to relate what

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had happened. I was wheelchaired down
to his bedside, statement and clothes.

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That was Harry King with Toby King
flew here three days ago, Marino.

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It came to my place to find
out what I'd done with a ten dollar

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bill. Torby give me that when
he was drunk. I told him I

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spent it, but they didn't believe
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I've got reward money coming. I'm
not gonna die. He was still hanging

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on two days later when I left
the hospital Spencer con item seven fourteen dollars

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ambulance ride from emergency hospital to my
hotel. The doctors told me to take

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it easy for a month and I'd
be all right. I had a phone

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call a half hour after I started
to take it easy, Johnny Dollar,

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are you interested in finding Harry King? Hos? This? My name's Milvi

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King. I'm Harry's wife. Oh
do you want him? Or don't you

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sure? I'm a trash restaurant on
forty second off Broadway. Can you meet

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me? Yeah? How I know
you? You won't, but I'll know

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you. She's been in the paper
for the last three days. Hello,

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mister Dollar, missus King. Yes, and you look pretty weak. I

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feel that way every bit a sit
down. The small, pretty brunette woman

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and the nice clothes look like anything
but the wife of a bank bandit and

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murderer. She looked more like a
housewife on a shopping tour or a school

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teacher on a New York vacation.
I listened while she cleared up some questions

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I had in mind. There's a
reward posted, isn't there for that hold

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up in Baltimore? Ten thousand dollars? Yeah? Well, I get it

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if I turn Harry over to the
police. Sure how much? Half?

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Well, that isn't much for You've
enough your husband. They'll get him sooner

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or later. Missus King the other
half spoken for on this dvance man.

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Yes, wait em, just trying
to figure what about you. I'll pass

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it up five thousand dollars for Harry, providing he was tied in with the

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Baltimore hold up it. That's what
the insurance company's interested in. He was

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in it, all right. I
want to get something else straight. What

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happens to me? What do you
mean? I'm his wife know he had

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a part that hold up for the
last six months. I haven't said anything.

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Does that make me a party to
it or something? Head? You

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could have informed, but you couldn't
have testified being his wife. I'm a

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rain I don't want to spend all
the money hiring lawyers to keep me out

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of jail. My company, I've
covered that. Where's Harry? Oh not

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yet? What now? I better
get something in writing from you, Something

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that says your insurance company'll pay me
the reward and give me help if I

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get in any trouble. All right, I'll talk to him this time I'm

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thinking of the future. I'm going
to have one once this is over,

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I hope so, missus King,
I know so, mister dollar. Did

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Harry have money? He couldn't spend
two forty five thousand dollars? Where is

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it? I can give you that
when I give you, Harry, Well,

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it's thought of everything I tried to
Harry and a torpie man were fools.

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O Lee ever got out of it
was the marked bills worthless money.

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You don't happen to know who the
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No? I suppose that's what you'll
ask Harry when you get him. That's

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the idea, Poor Harry. How
long will it take you to get things

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arranged? Not more than an hour. I can do it by phone.

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I'll call you, okay. I
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left the table and went out on
the street. I was just in time

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to see her climb into a cab. I was trying to hair one to

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follow her when a black coupe pulled
up to the curb. Heyst it little

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change? How he feel terrible?
What is this? The vance told us

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it was King. We checked the
airlines and found out that Ed's wife with

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him when he flew in from Reno. That is missus King up there in

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that cab, isn't he? That's
who she said she was. She wants

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to sell you were a husband for
part of that reward, doesn't she yeap?

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What's the delay? She wants to
make sure she'll be handled alright.

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The money and all sold advance.
Don't need me, I don't mean to.

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It's all figures. I thought she
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you for just that reason. I
don't get it. Well, that's why

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I put a man on your hotel
followed you when you came to meet her

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today, and he phoned me.
We looked her up. Her name was

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Melville Thayler before she married King.
Her old man had a lot of money

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in Minnesota, but she couldn't keep
herself out of trouble and got disinherited on

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his own. Has been her problem. It's everybody's problem, not the way

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it is with her now. King's
worth a lot of dodo or if you

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pay off. He's no good door
now, lying somewhere with a slug in

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him. And he hasn't been any
good door with the marked money he got

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in the town or hold up,
there's something else? Random? What she's

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starling me. I think she said
she didn't know who they were. But

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if she was lying and she does
know who the others were, and that

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towner hold up King, it'd be
worth even more money. They'd want him

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dead instead of with the police talking
his head off. That's right. We

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followed melvil King's taxi for better than
forty five minutes, all the way through

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the Holland Tunnel and into Jersey.
She finally left it at a train station

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in Bucks County. We watched her
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waiting room and begin to read it. Fifteen minutes later, she stepped into

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the phone booth. When she came
out, I went over to the filling

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station phone to see if she'd phoned
my hotel. Well, she wasn't trying

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to get me. Well, that's
Saturday's contact with the others, going to

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sell to you or them whoever pays
most for him, some operator, isn't

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he. Well, when you have
time, look at the file we picked

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up on her sixteen arrests, one
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Well we will see what we will
see. Didn't take long. When a

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green Cadillac pulled up at the station, malver King stepped out on the platform

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and greeted the two men who were
in it. She sat in the car

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with him and talked for a short
time, then got back out. When

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the Cadillac rolled away, lieutended Randall
was on the radio ordering a pickup Yale

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five nine six. I don't pick
him up right away. We'll stay with

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her. When malver King caught another
taxi, we were right behind her.

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She took her to an auto court
about a mile from the station. We

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saw her go into the cabin.
Mark D. Randall radioed in our location.

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We were about to check the auto
court office when the door to Cabin

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D opened. Standing beside melvil King
in the doorway of the cottage was a

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pale, stocky man. It looked
as though his legs wouldn't support him another

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minute. Then she saw us get
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He's gotta gun on me. Don't
do anything, don't do anything that's

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right. He gets you the anybody
gets you my way. You're hurt king.

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You can't go far. I'd come
this far and I'm still gonna keep

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fool uh me he was all ready
for her when she got back. Yeah,

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oys, no ice, shower do
especially if you be good. That's

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funny. I thought the same thing
about you, King Kang, bless your

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reason. I can tell you're hurt
bad, you need help. Why don't

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you give it up? How much
were you gonna give it for me?

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I wasn't how much telling half of
it? How much? Wolf? Would

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you? Yes? You did?
I passed out this morning. You've got

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real fussy. How much for your
feet? Who told me you're dying on

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your feet? King? Yeah,
that's a good place to die on your

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feet? Maybe I will make it. It'll steals gonna hurt nor King?

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No yell if you want o King, don't add another one in the God

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that's one too. Let's get this
old man. Spencer count itam made same

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as Item two transportation back to Hartford, Item nine eighty five dollars, doctor

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bills, Item ten miscellaneous forty eight
dollars while in New York. Spenser count

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total two hundred and ninety four dollars
and sixty cents remarks. As you know,

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the two men melvil King contacted were
also part of the six who had

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held up the town a loan company. They made a full confession and named

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the other parties involved. As far
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oron Vance deserves his five thousand dollars
and I think Pete Florian's widowed. As

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there's my five thousand. Here's trun
me Johnny Dollar from Hollywood. It's time do