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dot com first. But now from June twentieth, nineteen fifty nine,

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here is the life at steak manor from Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: It's time now for.

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Speaker 3: J I have a call for you from Hartford, Connecticut.

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Speaker 2: One moment please, Oh thank you all ready at all, Johnny? Yeah,

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that's right.

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Speaker 4: Bill Ferguson at Continental Insurance and Trust. I'm glad I

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caught you before you.

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Speaker 3: Left Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Oh. I was just about to check out of my

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hotel here on Beverly Hills and grab the morning fight

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back east. Yeah, what's up?

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Speaker 3: Do you remember Elvin Peabody corn.

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Speaker 2: Wright right right, that wild old character who lives up

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in Lakewood, a few miles north of High Prinson.

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Speaker 3: That's the one, Batty is.

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Speaker 4: They come it worth a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you can say that again. That robbery I cleared

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up for him last winter. Bill He insisted on giving

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me a small bonus for it. Three thousand smackers.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So mister Alvin Peabody Carridrite is calling for my services.

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I am ready willing and able.

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Speaker 4: Well he is, Johnny. He says, it's tremendously important that

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you contact him at once.

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Speaker 2: All right, then I'll finish my banking and grab the plane.

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Speaker 4: No, he's out there on the coast, has a little

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or at least he calls it little. He has a

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place right there and Beverly Hills at ten three twenty

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one North Roxbury.

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Speaker 2: Drive and three twenty one North Roxbury. Can you tell

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you what it's all about?

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Speaker 1: All that?

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Speaker 4: It's very important that he see you right away when

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you consider how many attempts have been made on his

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life over the years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 3: And Johnny, Yeah, don't forget that.

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Speaker 4: Cotwright is a pretty important client of ours. If anything

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should happen to me.

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Speaker 2: I see what you mean. Okay, Bill, I'll be in touch.

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Bob Dailey. The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the

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Action Pact expens cout America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Truly

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Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny

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Dollar at the Continental Insurance and Trust Company Home office,

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Hertford Connecticuts. Following is the account of expenses incurred during

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my investigation of the life at Stake matter. I know

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to find the Beverly Hilton that I'd be staying over

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for a while, and grabbed a Beverly Hills telephone directory

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expense account. I don't want to call the crash field

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three two one two one. Well, well, mister k R yes, sir,

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that's very interesting. I beg your pardon.

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Speaker 3: What's the matter, don't you hear?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 3: I said, that's very interesting.

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Speaker 2: You see, my name is Carsh No, no, you missunder

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What can I do?

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Speaker 3: Mister Cash?

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Speaker 2: No, listen with you. This is Johnny Dollar Dollar.

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Speaker 3: Oh now, what's the idea of trying to confuse me

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that way? I'm Carshwrad you remember, yes, sir? And Johnny Yeah,

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how did you do it?

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Speaker 2: Do what?

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Speaker 3: Get out here so fast? I only put in that

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called a Hartford about an R and here you are.

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I mean, how did you manage it?

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Speaker 2: Mister?

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Speaker 3: I know these new jet flights are pretty fast, but Johnny,

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you haven't been fooling around with some of those rocket ships.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm afraid not. I I just happened

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to be here already. See, I was working on a

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case of a Marrow Bay and did you Yeah? It

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came out all right.

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Speaker 3: Well, congratulations, john You are a one day and I

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think you deserve some kind of a reward for it.

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So maybe I'll think of something.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, thanks, but that won't be necessary.

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Speaker 3: What you say. I know that I'm deeply indebted to you.

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But the things you've done for me, it's Johnny.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't worry about it.

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Speaker 3: What you say? Nice, You've talked to you.

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Speaker 2: Goodbye? Now wait a minute, right, weas a minute, can't

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you see I'm busy what you sent for me?

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Speaker 3: I did?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you called Hartford said you wanted to see me

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right away?

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Speaker 3: Oh of course, idea, what's the matter with you? Anyway?

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Of course I want to see you. Jonathan Peebles too, right, away.

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Speaker 2: Who is Jonathan Peebles.

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Speaker 3: He's an old friend of mine. He lives out here.

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I telephoned him to come running too.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, what's it all about, mister guy? Right?

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Speaker 3: Just you get yourself all over here to my house

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and I'll tell you, and don't you waste any time.

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Speaker 2: You're just hear it pretty important? Huh important?

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Speaker 3: It's fight.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's somebody threatening you something like that.

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Speaker 3: I said, it's important, Johnny, and I mean important.

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Speaker 2: Okay, mister right, I'll be right over r Johnny, Yes, sir, yeah,

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old man kind ride was as wacky as a bed bugy.

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But what build Ferguson that told me was true. A

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lot of people had tried over the years to get

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to him and get to his money. So I pulled

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the desk for a Navis rent a car and started

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down from my room. I say started. The youngster came

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barreling down the hallway chasing a hula hoop. Was probably

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a very nice kid, a great joy to his parents,

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and may even grow up to be president of the

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United States. But as I started out the door, that

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hoop caught me between the knees.

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Speaker 1: Door.

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Speaker 2: I came to a couple of hours later on the

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table at the dispensary, I guess you'd call it. There

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at the hotel, I was conscious of a good looking

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blonde and starched quite uniform standing beside me holding a

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lot of cotton. He winches from my face. That's better, now,

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that's better. Now once more, take a good deep breath inhale,

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mister Dallan.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: What the smelling salts. You had quite a bang on

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the head. Yeah, you just see what you did to

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that metal door panel when the child's parents said that

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if there's anything they can do there, No, oh, nurse,

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where's my coat? Oh but you want to rest?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I got to get out of here, and thanks.

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I dashed out to where my rental car was waiting

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for me and drove to the address of North Roxbury

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Drive and a wealthy section of Beverly Hills. A beat

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up turning car that must have dated back to the

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early thirties was parked in the driveway. The front door

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of the house too wide open, the kit writes. The

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kit writes, Oh, hello, is that you? He isn't here?

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What are you, mister dollar? I mean, are you mister dollar?

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That's right, I'm Jonathan Peeble's Alban's friend. And oh, mister Dollar, Yeah,

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what's the matter. He's gone. Something's happened to him? And oh,

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mister dollar, well yeah, well from what I saw, from

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what I've found around here, Oh, mister Dollar, he's been murdered.

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What I'm sure of it. He's been murdered. Mister Crankwright

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has been murdered. Oh mister Dollar, what can we do?

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What happened? How long have you been here? He telephoned,

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He told me to come over here, that it was

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very urg Yeah, he told me the same thing. But

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he often does that, you know how he is always

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has to see me right away immediately, and often it's

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just for some little thing like sharing some ice cream

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with him. I seeing the new flower that's coming, the

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blue lost anything, now, that's why I didn't hurry coming

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over here. And anyhow, Betsy doesn't like to be push

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That's my nice old car that's parked out front. Didn't

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you see it? Oh? Yeah, sure. I named it Betsy,

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after an old white horse I used to have when

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I first came to California's a wonderful horse. Would you

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believe how old she was? When she's No, And I

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don't care now about mister kit right, Oh yeah, oh,

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dear mister dollar. When I finally got here a few

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minutes ago, I was surprised to find the front door

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standing wide open. But then I wasn't surprised either. If

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you know what I mean, I certainly do not know

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what you mean. I mean that he often left it

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open that way, and I told him a thousand times

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he shouldn't do it, that it was careless of him,

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and that one of these days I'm roughia knowing about

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all the money he had. Well, I told him, mister done, Yes,

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I'm sure you did, but that doesn't do us any good.

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Right now, Look, before we go any further, mister, people's

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just who are you one of the many of Alvant

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card Writ's eccentric old wealthy friends. No, I beg your pardon.

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I didn't quite mean that the way it sounds. I

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should hope not believe me. I may be eccentric, but

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I am not wealthy. It wasn't for beneficial finance. I

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couldn't even keep up the payments on bits. You mean

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to say you're still making on I'll wait a minute,

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mister Cardrid, Oh yes, of course, So well, anyway, I

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came into the house and I called to him, and

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I looked around for him, but there was no one here,

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no servants. No, And anyway, he keeps changing them so

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often that well, I just can't keep up with him.

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So I looked all through the house. Any sign of

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a struggle or anything like that. No, no, no, no no.

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Then I looked out the window and I saw them.

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Who's them? Two men walking up the driveway from back

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where the garage is. What did they look like? They were, well,

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they were awfully rough looking, but they were well dressed,

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so I thought perhaps they were a couple of Alvin's

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youth servants. I hadn't met, But I'd only thought about

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that tour robe they were carrying and the way it

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was drifted. Wait a minute, what's a tour robe. Oh,

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it's like a big, heavy suitcase. Like a small wardrobe. Trunquilly,

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It's more like a suitcase. It was heavy, they could

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hardly carry it. And oh, mister dollar, wait a minute. Listen.

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You said it was dripping. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

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oh all over the dry Come on, I think we

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better take a look and close that front door. Yes,

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come on. These men were coming from the garage. That's right, yes,

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but Alvin doesn't have a car, so what could they

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be doing? There is that where he kept us all luggage, yes,

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and the frozen food dock and some garden tools. Oh

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oh there now look yes, oh oh yes, it's it's blood.

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Speaker 5: Isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: They killed him, dismembered him then, Oh, mister doll. I

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made a hasty inspection of the garage. Nothing. I found

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no sign of a struggle anywhere in the house. I

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tried to get a description of the men he'd seen

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from Jonathan Peeple's but I'm afraid he wasn't much help.

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And yet with that funny mind it is. Oh, dear

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mister Dollar, I'm afraid I'm soode distraught, and I just

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can't remember it all. Look, they must have had a car,

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mister Peoples. Did you notice a car out front? Car? Oh? Yes, yes, yes, yea,

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I did, all right, can you describe it to me? Yes,

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it was a touring car in nineteen thirty one. Oh no, no, no,

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that's my car. Oh great, But there was another at

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the end of the driveway. And mister Dona, I've seen

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that car before time. Well, it was a four door sedan.

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It was a big car. It was silvery on the

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sides and a cream color on top, like vanilla ice cream,

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you know. And the license number was see if you

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won six? Oh lord, you are sure of that. Oh,

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I never forget things like that. And you say, I've

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seen it before many times. At the dock, at the

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Malibu Dock. That's where he keeps the Alpa car. Who

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keeps the what where Alvin keeps the Alpa car. Here's

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yacht Alp car, Alvin pee. Okay, okay, it's a pretty

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slim leave. But come on, And I was a slim one,

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believe me. But I couldn't see calling in the police

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until I had something more definite to give them. Well,

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here we can take betsys. Are you kidding? I'll make

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better time in mind? Oh yes, of course. We cut

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out through Westwood, then Santa Monica, and then hit the

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Coast Highway and headed Norton. Finally we've pulled over at

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the entrance of the Malibu Dock. Look, that's the car

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I told you about, park there at the side. Yeah,

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and it looks like coming here may pay off for us.

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The boat, the Alpa car, It isn't it? The morning. White. Oh, why,

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I'm missus feebles. Have you seen mister cock right this morning?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't notice his boat went out so how

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long ago? Oh, I'd say ten to fifteen minutes. Yeah,

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see you out there going up towards Point Doom. Yeah,

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I said, but those two men, Yeah, they had the

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shore boat take him out to the outfit car. Yeah,

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well I ord to see him. What do you mean

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that little trunk that they was carrying. You see what

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I'm mopping up, the messy trailer left all over the

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pier for me to clean up. Yes, sir, I ought

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to assume him. Who is all of that means that

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taking Elvin cock Write's dismembered body after seed to dispose

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office and on his own office. He's got to find

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something fast enough to catch up with it. Out there. Well,

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there's that that Thompson cruiser of Larry Comstock's tied up there.

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That's Comstock, who has a boat motor shop in Los Angeles. Enough, well,

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he had a couple of Big Johnson's on the fastest

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one that's out here. Now, call him on the phone,

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tell him me borrow it. I'm why it's an emergency,

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and that we'll pay him plenty for the U. Well, now,

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I don't know if you really are what I do

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and listen. Call a coast guard in Santa Monica. Have

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him send out a patrol boat. Come on, people, say,

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put mister Dara, those men on the off of Desperados

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there kill us. I'll say, then stay here in the dark.

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I'll go on along. No, Alvin was my friend. I

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shall help to avenge his untimely deaths. Maybe I should

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have left him behind. Of course I had a gun

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with me, but that wouldn't keep him from stopping a

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bullet at the men afoord. The Alpha car decided to

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shoot it out. I opened the throttle wide on the

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twin out boards, and within fifteen minutes we overtok the

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big seventy five foot yacht. Much to my surprise, it

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was simply cruising along. Of course too, i'll suspicion. That's

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why mister Dollard. Yeah, possibly, Yet it must be pretty

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clear to him there were chasing them. Look for the

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men at the wheel. That's one of the Ruffians I

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saw carrying the trunk with Alvin. Believing the party in

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this Ruffian man, that's sure. And there's the other coiling

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up the fruits up on the board. Deck's chills. You're

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going to stay down long, mister. People's stopping the boat again.

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There's gonna be any shoe up theirs. Alven, what's years?

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Speaker 4: Alban?

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Speaker 2: He just came upon Dick. You're right, haven't you seen

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mister Donad? They put him together again? Yes, those children, Alvin, Alvin,

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who we are here? We've come to your rescue. Then,

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n what a surprise? And Johnny Dalla, now what are

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you doing out here? Are you kidding?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Of course I remember now.

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Speaker 6: I wanted to take you out for a nice long

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ride in my lovely yacht.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 6: Of course, that's why I called you, Johnny. I think

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you deserve something nice like this for all the good

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working Dan, and you've done so many fine things for

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me over the years. I decided I should take you

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on a nice long cruise and you could relax and

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eat and sleep and finish.

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Speaker 2: And that's why you call the insurance company to get

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in touch with me. That's right. I wasn't that a

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great idea? And I invited Jonathan along too, But an

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awfully funny thing happened, Johnny, Yes, sir, Johnny.

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Speaker 6: The minute we left the doc.

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Speaker 2: I gu just knew there was something else that I'd

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forgotten that and you know what the words don't tell me.

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Speaker 6: Of course, however, I've forgotten to wait for you, Jonathan.

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Speaker 2: Oh, now isn't that the funniest thing? Yeah, mister, now,

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just a minute, m what about those two men, those

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terrible cures. What did you say right there beside you?

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They killed you, they murdered you, and they Oh what

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am I saying? Wait a minute, Yeah, you're thinking you

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said something else you forgotten.

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Speaker 6: That's right, you and Jonathan. I forgot to wait for

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you at the house. And then when we started off,

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I were Oh, wasn't it silly? I forgot all about you?

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Speaker 2: What what was the other thing?

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Speaker 3: The other thing?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, Oh, the other thing that I'd forgotten was

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the trunk full of nice, thick, juicy hinderline steaks that

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I'd set aside in the garage.

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Speaker 2: For this trip. But it was not real trunk, just

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with two ropes that I had out in the garage.

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But I remember that the minute we came on board,

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and so I had to send Gerald and Harold back

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to the house. And there's card again and there minute,

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Butler and Cook, Oh they are the nicest boy. Oh,

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Gerald and Harold come over here to the rail. So

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my friends, don't wait, Eldren Wade, you you need to

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see those men standing there beside you.

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Speaker 6: Now, why don't you and Johnny come onboard and I'll introduce.

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Speaker 2: Him to you. Oh wait just a minute. Then all

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that blood, all that blood that was dripping out of

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that trunk, Oh, wasn't that o? And he was all

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my fault because I let the steaks fall out too

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much over the trees, bood.

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Speaker 3: And we'll take the I p for you.

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Speaker 2: Come on now, you know something. It's crazy, it's wild,

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but it does my heart good to get tangled up

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in something like this sometimes helps keep away the ulcers.

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As for the expense account, forget it. Alvin Peabody Cartwright

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shoved a check into my hands before I left that

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would cover the expense account a dozen times over. As

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for Larry Comstock, the man who's boat had appropriated, I

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want to hear the story of what had happened. He

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wouldn't accept a penny for it. So that's that, yes, truly,

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Johnny Dollar, here is our star to tell you about

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next week's story instead of telling you about next week. Sean,

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congratulations to station, w DBJ and Roano Virginia thirty five

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years on the air. Pretty good, hunh, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood

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and has written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard

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in our cast were Virginia, Greg Geene Tatum, Howard mcneer,

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Boris Lewis, Joseph Kerns, and Paul Duball. Be sure to

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join us next week, same time and station or another

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exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan

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cobberly speaking, Well, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Come back well. Most websites have the title misspelled, but

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John Abbott, in his book Though, who is Johnny Doller Matter,

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has the correct spelling of steak for life at Stake now.

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Doubtless some listeners thought if they looked up at the

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title and saw what it was, thought I had misspelled it.

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But I have not. According to Abbott, that's what's on

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the title page, and I love it.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is one of those cases where you might think

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that Cartwright is referring to some sort of action that

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happened off air, but it's actually a case that aired

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on December twenty eighth, nineteen fifty eight, and was in

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that whole stream of lost episodes that closed out nineteen

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fifty eight. It was actually the second appearance of Alvin

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Peabody Cartwright. It was the first time the character was

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portrayed by Howard mcneer. The first time Cartwright appeared was

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in The Loss of Memory Matter in nineteen fifty seven,

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and the part was played by Poorly Bear and it

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was a very different portrayal, and there was a little

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bit of eccentricity, but Alvin was only in the story

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a few minutes, which focused on him instructing Johnny to

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guard some goods he wanted to donate to a museum

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and to keep them safe from his worthless nephew who

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was coming along to guard them but had his own designs. Now,

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Howard mcneer actually played another eccentric millionaire, Jedediah Gillis, and

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kind of a trilogy of strange animal stories, including a

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singing mouse, a talking dog, and a cat who had

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inherited a fortune. In his final story, Gillis had at

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last canceled his policy with Floyd's of England, and bought

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his own insurance company. By letting mcneer reinvent the character,

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john Stone could have mcneer playing off Bailey in that

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great way, unburdened by the tropes of Jededi Gillis, and

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also the decision to buy the insurance company. Now, if

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you are blastioning in your mind, how Johnny ended up

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in California after the last episode we wrapped up had

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him in New York, this shows that rejuggling of scripts

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once again sabotage Johnstone's efforts at continuity. Now, nobody else

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who ran the show tried to do this, and generally,

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if you have a series, you know, like Sam Spade,

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every episode is set in San Francisco, or you have

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a series where it's all said in the same place.

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He was trying to have continuity from one week to another.

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The challenge during this era was that financially, radio couldn't

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be the priority for a lot of actors. He would

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want to use because people loved, you know, doing radio

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if there was nothing else on, But if they were

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getting paid for a TV show or for a movie,

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he'd have to work around that. And that's where I

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suspect most of the juggling came from. Now it's time

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to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you

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and that'll do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast,

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it from. We will be back next Friday with another

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episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. But join us back

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here tomorrow as we give way to Counterspy and the

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great adventurers of old time radio ware.

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Speaker 5: Yes, very beautiful, a wonderful Please, it's dance like a

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lovely girl of a belly right the night will be

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a turning point in history.

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Speaker 2: I have no interest in history, mister.

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Speaker 5: I'm an office with good business. Then, now that my

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work is done as a matter of the fifty thousands mark,

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you have earned your money. Wear a grin when you

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put the talks to the right time.

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Speaker 2: You stop at the flaming symbols that will wait for

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you to come.

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Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us. Then In the meantime, send

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