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From Hollywood. It's time now for
Johnny Dollar. Dollar. My name's King,

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Malibu Sheriff Station. Did you leave
a message here? Oh, yes,

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sir. I understand you're looking for
Lorraine Broderick, Roderick or Bradley,

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whatever name she's using. We want
her. I'm looking forward to. What's

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your connection. I'm an insurance investigator. We've been trying to find her all

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away from Hartford. We have to
pay off a claim that's due her claim.

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Yeah, that's right. An old
man left her fifteen hundred dollars.

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He doesn't deserve it, not that
one. I can't tell him that he's

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dead. I'm expecting a little action
on it pretty quick. Like to be

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in on it. Come on over
tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey

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in the transcribed Adventures of the Man
with the Action Packed Expenser, count America's

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Fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by

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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Malibu
Beach, California, to the Eastern Trust

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Insurance Company Claims Division, Hartford,
Connecticut. The following is an accounting of

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expenditures during my investigation of the Broderick
matter more expensive item fifteen thirty eight dollars

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even more transportation. My trip here
to Malible Beach, where I didn't even

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bother listening to another disgruntal hotel proprietor
repeat a bad check story I knew only

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too well. I went directly to
the Sheriff's station and Deputy King, Well,

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it's about the picture, mister dollar. Lorraine Bradley was at the end

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four days and checked out this morning. Used the name Bradley. Lorraine Bradley.

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She can't be too far ahead of
you now, I hope not.

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There has been a long rough chase. While she was at the end,

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she took up with one of our
local residents, a man named Joe Tappan,

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who lives over in the beach colony. We know this much. He

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drove her into town this morning,
which he checked out of the inn.

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Have you talked to this man Tappan
yet? He hasn't come back it.

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When did she leave the inn?
About ten this morning? Uh? Huh?

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After two? Now it gives him
just about time. Here's a house

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over in the colony. We've got
a man there. Colony down the road,

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apiece. They call it that because
a lot of movie stars built beech

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homs there twenty five or thirty years
ago, movie colony right on the beach.

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Aw this tappened? Is he an
actor? Yeah? When he gets

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work, which isn't very often.
Mainly he keeps sun tan excuse me?

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Sure? Yeah? This king?
Oh good, right away, Tappened just

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drove up to his house. Let's
go. I went with Deputy King to

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talk with Joe Tappan. He turned
out to be a healthy, muscular man

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in his mid thirties. By the
time we got there, he was in

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trunks and sunglasses, sitting on a
porch at the front of his house.

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He was a little stunned by the
news we brought him. What the rain

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of phony? But are you sure
about that, sheriff? That's the man

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at the seaside in Oh no,
no, I don't believe it is this

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Lorraine. Go ahead, look at
it. Well, that looks like Lorraine.

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Yes, but I can't be sure
she's older. Well, I mean

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the girl in this picture is pretty
young. It's her all right. Mister

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Dollar has been looking all over the
country for Hartford, New York City,

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up and down this coast. Well, come on, let's go up to

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the house. I thought I knew
her pretty well. How long did you

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know, mister Tappan? Not long, but I knew her, I really

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did. When did you meet her
the first night she checked into the Seaside

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in four days? Then? Yeah? I want something to drink? No?

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No, thanks, Well, I
think I'll have no. No,

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No, I don't want to talk
about her. We have to talk about

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her, mister Tappan. But I'm
sure there's some explanation about the check.

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She'd have to explain quite a few
checks, right dollar. And that's about

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it, mister Tampa. I understand
you drove her into Los Angeles this morning.

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That's right. I took her to
the Beverly Glenn Hotel. Did she

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check in there? No, she
just dumped her luggage. She told me

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she didn't know whether or not she'd
have to go to Chicago to I something

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about a house she owned there that
had to be rented her sword. Did

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you leave her there at the Beverly
Glen No, she made a phone call

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and said that she had to meet
a lawyer. Did she say where a

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bar in Hollywood at the Topper I
think it was on Kuga Boulevard. I

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drove her over there and left her. When was this a couple of hours

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ago? I guess about noon?
How was she dressed black, strapless,

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wore of her store? Did she
mention any names, tell you anything about

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herself? Oh? Yes, she
told me that six months ago a little

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boy was killed in an automobile action. He was only two years old.

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She said that was a thing that
broke up her marriage to this Bradley.

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And she told me that she needed
to believe in something again some and then

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she needed someone to believe in her. Well, there wasn't any little boy

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or any husband, mister Tappan.
There have been a couple of men.

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I've talked to a dentist in Hartford, a businessman in New York who felt

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the same way as you do about
her. Well, even with what you

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told me, I believe what she
said. Why she cried a little when

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she was telling me, I don't
care how you look at me. I

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don't think that anyone could invent a
story that tragic without some sort of basis.

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A good liar can see a story
in a newspaper like that one and

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adapted for his own needs. But
I am an actress, sir, and

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I can tell when other people are
acting She wasn't she? She go on,

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mister Tappan, I've got a suggestion
for you. What's your name,

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Dollar, I've got a suggestion for
you. Try believing what people tell you

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sometime. It'll do something for that
habit. You have a bearing down with

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your eyes. Okay, the next
time, I have two weeks off.

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What see you, mister Tappan.
I drove into Hollywood with Deputy King.

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At the Beverly Glen Hotel, a
worried clerk was still wondering what to do

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with the fourteen pieces of luggage Lorraine
Broderick had deposited there earlier. No,

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she was not registered at the hotel. No, she hadn't phoned in and

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given him any instructions. Deputy King
made arrangements for a man to cover the

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lobby in case she showed up to
claim her things, and we went into

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the topper. What mut me,
gentlemen, police, I like to talk

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to the man who was on duty
here at noon today. Oh, that's

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meet sir. Anything wrong now?
This is mister Dollar. We're trying to

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locate a woman who's been using the
name Lorraine Bradley. We were told she

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was in here around noon today.
No, I don't recognize that name,

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sir. About five five, dark
brown hair, brown eyes, twenty four

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years old, or a black strapless
summer dress and a stole h twenty No,

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No, nobody liked that in all
day. No, so noon is

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a pretty slow time, sir.
I don't notice if anybody like that came

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in. I think have you been
in duty all at time? Time?

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I came on at ten, that's
when we opened. Are you sure this

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is the right place? The top
right now? This is the place I

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wish I could help to save what
I'm sorry, excuse you? Well,

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we struck a one thing. What's
that? That luggage is the Beverly Glen.

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Yeah, we'll keep an eye on
it. Lorraine Broderick did not return

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to the Beverly Glen Hotel that day
to claim her luggage. The lobby was

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watched around the clock. Her description
was on the daily bullet and every policeman

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in Los Angeles was on the lookout
for her. I spent my time thinking

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about the little girl who had helped
an old man sell newspapers one afternoon years

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ago, A little girl with a
face like an angel. I didn't feel

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good about this case, but Joe
Tappan felt worse when I went to see

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him again. Well, hi,
mind if I come in? What now,

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mister Dulla your girlfriend? I've been
thinking about what you told us so

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so maybe you didn't understand what I
told you. I'm not pushing my weight

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around Tappan, but it seems to
me you're a little stubborn. And what

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you want to believe about her?
How old did she tell you? Her

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baby was that she lost in a
car accident? Two years old? All

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right? Two years ago? She
was working for a dentist in Hartford,

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Connecticut. He was pretty much in
love with her. She left him flat

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to take up with a man in
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left him flat, took sixty five
hundred dollars when she did it. There

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wasn't any baby in her life then. Her name was Lorraine Brodrick. It

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still is now. Would you like
to see my file on her? I

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brought it along, No thanks.
I thought i'd better prove that part was

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a lie, So you proved it. Mind, if I sit down,

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help yourself. Thanks? You have
anything else to tell me? I suppose

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I do, mister Tappan, since
you don't seem to want to tell me

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anything. I'll just sit down,
please. I've heard every man who knew

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her describe her, and I think
I can understand why they feel the way

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they do. All I've got is
a picture from a high school annual taken

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when she was seventeen. That was
pretty good. She's twenty four now.

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She must be seven years better.
Anyhow, You're my only hope. Now

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what loraene Brodrick can get away from
the police for a while. Oh yeah,

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she's smart and clever, and she
can go right on doing these same

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things she's been doing all along,
stealing, writing bad checks. But that's

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police business. My part is to
find her and give her something. One

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man left her and insurance bequest.
But it's become more than that now,

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to find her and stop her.
Maybe. Look, they'll get her eventually,

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tapping. Do you know what five
years in prison can do to a

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woman like her? Do you?
Because I know her and she passed a

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few bad checks doesn't mean that I'm
responsible in any way. You're right,

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it doesn't. But you're involved just
the same. Oh you're different from just

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some hotel man who's been tilted.
You're a boyfriend, true, just a

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four day boyfriend, but a woman
like Lorraine Brodrick can do a lot of

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damage in four days time. Why
are you here? What do you want?

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I'm here to disillusion you, tappen
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Now. You're a perfect stranger to
me. I don't know you from

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a grand Rappid's chair. But I'm
doing you a favor talking to you about

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Lorraine Brodrick. I'm doing you a
favor telling you she's a crook and a

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thief and a forger and everything she
ever told you was a lie. Now

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and then, a woman walks into
a man's life that he'd sell his soul

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for, but all she'll do in
return is write you a bad check for

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it. She's trouble in a great
big way, tapping you know it as

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well as I do. What do
you want me to do? Apologize for

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meeting her. I'll be satisfied if
you tell me where she is and stop

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lying. Now. Look here,
I've listened to all. Iraine Brodrick never

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went to that bar in Hollywood you
were talking about yesterday. You didn't drop

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her off there. No one there
has ever seen her. And she's the

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kind who could walk around the polo
grounds with fifty thousand other people and still

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be seen. Now, where did
you take her? Where is she now?

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Could it? Could it be fixed
so she wouldn't know? I told

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you? I suppose. So she's
at the Wentmore Downtown, registered under the

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name of Evelyn Brady. Oh this
this beats me. Dollar. I just

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don't understand it. What do you
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I know that. But an hour
ago she called me up here and

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she said, Joe, I love
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and I told her that I loved
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What kind of crazy world do we
live? In? Expense account Adam sixteen

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fourteen dollars care fare from Malibu to
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a second rate old timer on Figaroa
Street, a little different from the

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swank spots where Lorraine Brodrick had lived. So gaily the clerk told me she

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was in thirteen oh two. I
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The door was standing partially open.
All of the lights seemed to be

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on. Hello, Hello, Hello, anybody? Huh what you way?

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I'd found Lorraine Broderick at last,
Only she was standing on a ledge outside

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the window, all ready for a
leap into eternity. There'll be another intriguing

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episode of the Broderick Matter tomorrow.
Tomorrow the end of the trail for me

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and for Lorraine Broderick. Join us, won't you Yours Truly? Johnny Dower?

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob
Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood,

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written by John Dawson, It is
produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be

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sure to join us tomorrow night,
same time in station for the next exciting

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episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Roy Rowan speaking