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travel plans, check john Nedollar Air dot com first. But now,

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from May the seventeenth, nineteen fifty nine, here is the

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Twin Trouble Manner from Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: It's time now for.

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Speaker 3: Johnny Deller Jolly.

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Speaker 4: This is George Reads.

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Speaker 2: Well, hi ya, George, what's troubling Fords?

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Speaker 3: I mean, on this time, Jolly.

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Speaker 2: One of our clients.

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Speaker 5: Quite frankly, he's far more than just a client. Yes,

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his life is being threatened.

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Speaker 2: Oh George, you know I hate these bodyguard assignments. Every

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time I handle one of them, it ends up with

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my own life being in danger. I fully realize, Yeah,

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one of these days my luck may run.

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Speaker 5: Out, haven't forbid.

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Speaker 2: Nonetheless, if somebody needs protection, why don't.

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Speaker 6: You just call the police.

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Speaker 5: There are certain well confidential aspects of this case. But well,

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if any sort of publicity can be avoided, if it

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can any way help to minimize the danger to yourself,

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I'll gladly go along with you on this.

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Speaker 2: You you mean literally physically go along with me? Yes,

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well not, George. That's not the way I usually like

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to work, I know, But as I.

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Speaker 5: Told you that, this involves a man who is more

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than just a client man.

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Speaker 2: That's what does that mean?

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Speaker 5: It's my brother, Johnny, my own brother.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, okay, George, I'll be able to see it.

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Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of a Man with

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the Action fact expensive God America is fabulous. Freelance insurance

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investigators truly expense accounts. I met it by a special investigator,

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Johnny Dollar Floyd's of England, North American Office, Hertford, Connecticut,

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allowing as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation

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of the Twin Trouble matter expense account out of one

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a dollar twenty for a taxi over to George Reid's

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office at Floyd's of England and Downtown Hartred. I found

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him pacing the floor waiting for me, and needless to say,

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he didn't waste any time getting down to business. As

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I told you over the phone, Johnny, this matter involves

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my brother, my twin.

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Speaker 6: Brother, Adam.

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Speaker 2: Oh you're a twin. Yes, we're identical in every way

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except perhaps for our manner of speaking. Why is that? Well?

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You see, Adam completed his education at the University of Dublin,

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whereas I stayed on in England, then.

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Speaker 3: Did postgraduate work over here.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I see, about eighteen years ago Adam and his

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wife came here.

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Speaker 6: To the United States.

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Speaker 2: Is he also as some branch of Floyd's A No, Johnny.

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Speaker 6: Adam owns a small brokerage office down in Newark, New Jersey.

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He lives in a nearby town called Upper Montclair.

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Speaker 2: Say tell me, has this business of his anything to

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do with the thread against his life everything? I'm afraid now,

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don't tell me. He went around selling a lot of

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worthless stocks and bonds, and now somebody wants to get email,

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And of course not. Adam is a completely honest, reliable

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dealer in legitimate security, then wants the trunk.

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Speaker 6: Well, you see, when he first.

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Speaker 2: Arrived in this country, he traveled around quite a bit,

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not only sightseeing, but oh looking for a good business connection.

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Speaker 4: I guess.

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Speaker 2: While on the West Coast he met two men, Shocky

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and Barren, independent stockbrokers. They seem to like him immediately

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offered to take him in with him since his funds

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were beginning to run out. He jumped at the chains naturally,

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but Johnny had turned out that they were swindlers of

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the worst possible sort, dealing in completely worthless security. Oh yes,

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Because of his lack of familiarity with American manners and methods,

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he took Adam quite a while to catch on, but

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when he did, charged George ahead. When he finally got

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to them, he called in the law. So they got

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set up the river, including your poor misguided brother. And now, yes, Johnny,

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it was Adam's information his testimony that brought the whole

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foul operation into the open.

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Speaker 4: As a result, of.

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Speaker 6: Course, his prison term was a relatively mild one.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know there was such a thing. But now

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that the others are free, there ought to get him

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at least the one name Shockley is it's he who

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has contacted Adam with this impossible proposition. When did he

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and Baron get out.

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Speaker 6: Of the clink about two weeks ago?

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Speaker 3: We see?

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Speaker 2: So what's the proposition Shockley has made? Your brother, Johnny,

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Adam has spent the past nine years, ever since he

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was released, out there building up this small brokerage office

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here in the east. Now he and his wife are

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finally beginning to reap the fruits of their labors. Children,

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two fine upstanding kids, are in college over in New

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York State.

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Speaker 3: But if it were ever to become.

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Speaker 2: Known that he once served a term in prison for

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participation in a stocks fan, I would kind of pull

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a rug right out from under him. What It would

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completely ruin him, Johnny, And it would probably kill his wife.

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This nine years of struggle of trying to make up

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for that one mistake has been just as hard for

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her as it has for him. Right now, she happens

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to be in the hospital with a serious heart condition.

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Speaker 6: I see.

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Speaker 2: Is she the beneficiary of his insurance?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 4: She?

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Speaker 6: And then of course the children.

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Speaker 2: All right, now, what is this proposition that Shockley has made?

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He's demanded seventy five thousand dollars.

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Speaker 7: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yes, unless Adam pays it in cash in unmarked bills, Shockley.

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Speaker 6: Will release to the papers anonymously. Of course.

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Speaker 2: Well, he'll tell them all about Adam's unfortunate part in

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that stock selling racket years ago, which means that if

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Adam had a single customer left instead of a wake

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to be America, then Shockley says, after he's.

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Speaker 4: Ruined him, he'll kill him.

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Speaker 6: He'll want unless he pays this money.

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Speaker 2: Of course, he'll make it look like suicide after all,

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under the circumstances, well you know, the ruined business man. Yeah,

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I do know. Sure, there'll be no reason for any

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one to think it isn't suicide. Exactly. Wait a minute,

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that's the insurance angle, isn't it. Yes, if Adam's death

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is called suicide, his policy will be void, his wife

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and kids will get nothing. And if this man Shockly

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is as clever as Adam says he is, he'll do

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it in such a way that any court in the

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land will call it suice. George, I, well, I just

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can't believe it. And yet I suppose he's told Adam

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that he's already got away with this sort of thing

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once before, before Adam knew it. But why doesn't he

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call in a police, the FBI if this man already

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has a criminal record. No, no, well maybe the other one,

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Baron is still working with him.

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Speaker 6: And no, Johnny, don't you see don't you see he

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doesn't dare.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you're right. If he call in the cops,

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the publicity would be just as bad, just as ruinous

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to him as if Shockley were to shoot off his

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mouth of the papers. Yes, Johnny, if he goes to

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the police, he'll only bring his business crashing down on

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his own head. George, your brother is in a pretty

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bend spot. No matter what he does, he loses if.

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Speaker 6: He pays off seventy five thousand dollars. But who knows

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whether that one payment would be the end.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course it wouldn't. But if he doesn't, don't

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you see, it means not only his business, his wife,

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his children, but his own life. I know, I know

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if it were me alone, a bachelor with nobody else

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to think about. But with Adam, Johnny, he couldn't do it.

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Speaker 6: He might as well cut his.

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Speaker 2: Own So we'll have to do something about it. What, Johnny,

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what can we do, George, I wish I knew. It

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was obvious this was to be more of a personal

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affair than business, in spite of the insurance policy involved.

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So for once I decided to forget patting out the

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old expense accounts. Okay, then Adam two four to thirty

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five a tankful of gas for my own car. It

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was after business hours by the time he got down

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to Jersey, so instead of trying to catch Adam Reid

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in his office, George phoned a head and we went

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directly to his home on Highland Avenue and Upper Montclair.

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George stood beside me when the front door was open,

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and you know something, it was like looking at George

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in a mirror.

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Speaker 6: Yes, can I George?

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Speaker 2: Even they closed were.

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Speaker 4: Life Hello, Adam.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these twins were certainly identical, except for the slight

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difference in their manner of speech. Adam, this is the

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man I told you about on the phone, the man

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I hope can somehow help you.

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Speaker 6: Johnny donnod, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: How I am mister raid And excuse me for staring.

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It's quite all right, daughter, quite understandable. And please call

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me Adam if you don't mind, sure, but so help

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me I've never seen two people look so much. I'll like,

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you know something, Johnny, what do you think? Just a wild,

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crazy idea, Adam, George, this perfect similarity might nah, Well

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we'll see. Well I'll wait, maybe you have an idea there. No, look, George,

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forget all about it from on us. Go inside where

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we can talk about this thing.

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Speaker 6: I'm in compete agreement, daughter, because we have no time

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to waste. If there's anything you can do about it.

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Speaker 2: Why do you say that, Adam, I've heard from sharply again.

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Oh when this morning, after the last time I talked

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to George, he called me at the office. I'm afraid

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I didn't get as much business done to day as

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Speaker 6: Then I left as early as I could. I went

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to the bank and called on my wife at the hospital.

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She's very seriously ill, said yes, so I understand if

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not yet had the heart to tell her about this

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whole ungodly affair.

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Speaker 2: And I can't say that I blame him.

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Speaker 6: Yet, what difference would it make? Whatever happens, whatever this

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man does to me, it's bound to affect my.

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Speaker 2: Poor my darlin. It's a terrible king dollar now. This

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phone call today yes, Yes, Sharkley says that he's coming

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here tonight tonight, Yes, with my car out front. That's

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why I stopped at the bank today. He says he

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must have ten thousand dollars as a sort of down payment.

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There's evidence of my good faith. Ten thousand. Well, I

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say that he won't get on a minute, George, Lord, Johnny,

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tell you I won't let Shartley get away with it.

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Speaker 6: If he comes here tonight and demands that money, I'll

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kill him rather.

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Speaker 2: Than let Adam give him a single I told you, Johnny,

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with me, it doesn't mean a thing.

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Speaker 6: But Adam and his wife, the children.

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Speaker 2: Do you think he'd come in here with my car

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out front? If he does, I want to be ready

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for him. Give me your gun, Johnny. Sure this whole

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thing has gone too far. I tell you that if

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I have to in order to stop it up. No,

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I don't wait. Is there an extension phone in.

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Speaker 6: The next room in the library.

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Speaker 2: But Dollar, is it shocky and here's your pick it up?

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Speaker 3: You want?

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Speaker 2: If we do it right, however, I call it here,

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then pick it up immediately. I'll do the same on

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Speaker 4: Yes, all right, Dollar, can you hear me?

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Speaker 3: All right now, yes, are you alone, Adam?

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Speaker 4: I'm alone?

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Speaker 7: Shortly, you haven't called in the police.

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Speaker 5: You know as well as I do what that would mean,

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the publicity.

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Speaker 7: I'm glad to realize that. And I don't trust you, Adam.

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What so instead of my coming to your home, you're

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going to meet me? You've got the ten pounds for me?

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Speaker 2: I have all right?

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Speaker 7: See the know about seven miles not here? Do you

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know the place?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 7: See your no, there's a little check on top of it.

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Empty and get into your car, your own car.

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Speaker 5: RAI them, I'll recognize it. Meet me there very well, Shockedly.

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Speaker 7: Just one thing, yes, just be sure that you're alone,

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because if you're not, somebody's going to die, and it.

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Speaker 5: Won't be me.

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Speaker 7: But if there's anybody with you, you understand, I understand?

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Speaker 3: See the no?

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Speaker 2: H Well, I don't sounds so sorry. Your man, Shocky

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is as clever as you see them. So it's your you.

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Speaker 6: Listen to the phone next to my ear. As soon

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as Shockly named the meeting place, George took the gun

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out of my desk and.

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Speaker 2: Let me what. He's going up there to George Sharkley

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unless I can stop him, Adam he's going up there

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to get murdered. Where is it, Adam, let's see your

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no where Shockley will be your daughter.

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Speaker 6: I can show you on the map. Here it's fifteen

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or sixteen miles from.

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Speaker 2: Here, Shockley said, it was only about seven.

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Speaker 6: Then you must have been somewhere along the way when

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Speaker 2: Means he'll get there long before George can.

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Speaker 4: Yes, here, look, no, here.

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Speaker 6: It is on the map.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I see straight up twenty three and west of

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pumping planes. Yes, all right, George took your car? What

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kind is it?

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Speaker 4: A little coope?

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Speaker 3: I saw out the street.

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Speaker 2: That's it's all fine. There are ten million of them

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on the highway. All I like, what's the license number? Well,

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come on are you?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I don't remember it.

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Speaker 2: Then, Adam, all I can do is try to get

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there before George does, before he gets himself killed. Traffic

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was heavy, and I don't know why, but Highway twenty

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three was lousy.

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Speaker 6: With belief the troll.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to stop on him and tell him to

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come along with me, but this was one case where

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I couldn't, so instead I drove within the speed limit

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except for a cutoff above Mountain View, where I could

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open her up for a few miles before getting back

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in the highway. I probably by past George as well

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as the highway traffic, but the important thing was for

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me to get there first. That's why I left twenty

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three again, took the curving narrow but much shorter back

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rowe to see her. No. Finally I could see then

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a sort of big mound, a high barren hill. I

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could see the little building on top of it, a

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silhouette against the woonnut sky, and I could see a

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car parked up there, a big sedan. So Shockley had

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arrived and was waiting there at the bottom of the knoll.

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I pulled off to the side, cut the engine and

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douse the lights, and went the rest of the way

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on foot. As I slowly approached the shack through a

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drawn window shade, I could see a light in it

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and waving around like a nashlight, and the shadow of

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a man. Always for a moment there there were two

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of them, two shadows that meant Shockly wasn't alone. And

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knowing they'd be well armed, both of them killers, well,

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this whole thing might not be so easy.

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Speaker 6: Yet somehow I had to keep them from hurting George.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm killing Adam. Slowly, cautiously, I edged over

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to their cars. I slid down under it and went

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to work with my pocket knife on a small piece

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of tubing near one of the wheels. It was slow

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and awkward there in the dark under that low hung car,

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but it was the one thing I knew that it

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was George, and of all the times to pick with

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me sprawled out under that sedan, unable to even pull

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out my gun.

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Speaker 3: Just stay out there, Adam. You take the money and

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be on our way, your own, Shockley, this is all

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you will take.

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Speaker 2: Shakis got a gun, Yes, and I'll kill both.

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Speaker 4: Of you, might have to. This is Adam Reeve, There

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is no Oh, he talks differently.

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Speaker 2: This is his twin. It's George. You're right, Shockley, and

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I'm here to put a stop to this nefarious scheme

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of yours. Well, listen to the fancy talk.

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Speaker 4: Of course it isn't Adam, so it must be George.

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George my name.

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Speaker 6: No, don't move, don't drop your guns, both of you.

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I'm afraid that mister Reed, that mister George Reed has

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the advantage of us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well listen, he shoots at you. I get him,

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he shoots at me.

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Speaker 6: You get him. That's right, I'll kill at least one

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of you. So under the circumstances, I'm afraid there's only

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one thing we can do. Yeah, what hand over our

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guns to it?

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Speaker 2: So here you are, George. I yanked myself up from

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under the car and just in time to have George

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land right square on top of me before I could

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push him away and get to my feet without like

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a light, and both shot me in his power on

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top of me. I never got out of the ground

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going down our way. Shoot you had enough, You had enough,

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Misturns had a way shot let me shoot it.

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Speaker 3: No, but listen, you've got to get.

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Speaker 6: Out of here.

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Speaker 2: Those shots he got off the coups when were coming

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off from the highway to see what they want. Don't

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you see if we leave him here, he got to

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But we're not leaving this state until we kill his brother.

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Speaker 3: Come on, no, Ah, you wait, you want some off?

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Speaker 2: Never get away? Oh no, he card kill yourself up. No, listen, yeah,

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you lessen all come on?

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, are you are you o king to me?

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Speaker 2: It is?

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Speaker 4: But they go away, you'll kill out of them.

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Speaker 2: You're not going anywhere, George. What I cut the brake

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fluid line and they have no break by the time

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they get rolling down that hill. Good heavens, oh, George,

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they're not going anywhere. By the time the highway police

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got to the scene of the crash there on the

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back road, and of course that car exploded and burned,

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they had forgotten all about the gunshots, if they'd met

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them at all. So George and I were able to

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leave by the main road unmolested. At the bottom of

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the hill, I picked up my own car without a

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tranking attention. I suppose I'll have to make some sort

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of report to the police, but I don't see any

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reason why I should have to reveal the name of

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the man they were out to get you. It's certainly

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too late to need anyone to bring charges against them.

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As for the expense account, so what's a couple of

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gallons of gas in so good a cause? Yours truly,

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Johnny Dollar, Now here's our star to tell you about

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next week's story. Before I do, I just want to

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say thanks to all you good people right in to

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tell me how much you like the show. It may

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seem like a little thing to you, but it means

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a great deal to all of us. Believe me. I'll

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answer our letters just as fast as I can get

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around to them, but you just have to be patient

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if it takes a little time. Now, as for next week, well,

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I suggest you read The Cask of a Montado by

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Edgar Allan Paul. Then join us, won't you? Yours truly,

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Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey, originates

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in Hollywood and has written, produced and directed by Jack

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john Stone.

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Speaker 6: Heard in our cast worre g Stanley Jones, Alan Reid and.

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Speaker 2: Frank gr stool Be surely joined us next week, same

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time and station, or another exciting story of Yours Truly,

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Johnny Dollar. This is then coverly speaking Frank love Joy

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stars and my hair raising psychological thriller A friend of

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that is as a Spence follows. Next on the CBS

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Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, And in this episode you heard one of

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the most understated lines in the history of old time

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radio when Johnny says, I suppose I'll have to make

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some sort of report to the police. I just pictured

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Johnny walking into New Jersey State Police headquarters and saying, yeah,

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a couple of men died horribly after I cut their

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brake lines and they plunged to their death.

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Speaker 6: Do you have a form for that?

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Speaker 1: To quote a character from the very first Johnny Dollar serial,

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gee Whizz, Johnny, You've got an action packed expence account,

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not a license to kill now, to be fair to Johnny,

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and I guess to Jack Jonestone as well, this is

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kind of a borderline case. There's a self defense argument,

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and with Johnny having just a brief amount of time

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and knowing that George Reed was driving into a trap,

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he had limited options to save George's life as well

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as that of his brother, and he did try to

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warn them, but because they beat him up, the message

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comes out someone didn't go hear it. Although sounding a

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little bit like Gene Wilder as Willie Walker saying stop,

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don't in Willie Walk on the Chocolate Factory. Still, no

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jury in the world, certainly no jury in New Jersey

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would end up convicting the Great Johnny Dollar in a

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circumstance like this, so he probably wouldn't be charged. Still,

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it's not one of his finest moments. The show does

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reff how different the times were and reminds us of

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the vigor of many of the institutions of the day.

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Nineteen fifty nine entertainment programs thought nothing of giving you

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a reading assignment, and there will be a quiz on Monday.

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No not really. Listener comments and fayback now and we

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episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dallar, but join us back

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of old time radio and Counterspy Where.

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Speaker 8: Pappy County, what you know about Rod rig. He is

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one of the richest, most fantastic, most powerful man in

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Mexico and one of the cruelists, an international voker of

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secret information. On his enormous ranch not far from here,

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it is a big gus.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 8: When American dancing shows come here, he invites everybody, make

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you guess for a week. People come all over the world.

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And when I met on his ranch, I've said to

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be large puppies here for opium, A big dope smuggler.

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Speaker 6: That's do boys.

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Speaker 8: Most of his enemies disappear, he said. He takes them

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into the desert and murders him. Others remained silent out

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of fear.

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Speaker 6: They had great thrill to what smart.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.

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