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twenty ninth, nineteen fifty eight. Here is the ugly patterned matter.

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Speaker 2: From Hollywood. It's time now, Paul, Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 3: This is Barry Winters, a Master's Insurance and Trust.

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Speaker 2: Oh hi, Barry, it's been here.

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Speaker 3: Sure, Johnny, because we don't usually have trouble with our accounts.

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Speaker 2: You mean you didn't, huh until now?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I'm afraid that's about the size of it.

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And this time it's bad trouble.

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Speaker 2: Tell me all.

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Speaker 3: Simplex tackle company Johnny over.

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Speaker 2: In Danbury fishing Tackle.

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Speaker 3: That's right?

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Speaker 2: Oh, how come I never heard of them?

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Speaker 3: A little small outfit to kind of glorified partnership.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: What's owned by nine men? One of them Hanley Thomas

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as president. The others are secretary treasurer and a flock

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of vice president.

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Speaker 2: So what's happened?

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Speaker 3: The nine of them, plus the twenty or thirty workers

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of the plant are all covered by a group life

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insurance deal.

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Speaker 2: And listen, yeah, we've just.

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Speaker 3: Had to pay off on three policies in a row.

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Speaker 2: Well that's too bad. But why call on me?

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Speaker 3: Be cause, Johnny, why those three deaths were all murdered?

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Speaker 2: Wob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with

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the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Freeliance Insurance Investigator

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ors Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator,

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Johnny Dollar, the Master's Insurance and Trust Company, Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut,

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following us an account of expenses incurred during my investigation

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of the Ugly pattern matter expense account A one a

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dollar even taxi the very Winner's office at Masters, where

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I hoped he could give me something more to work

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on than he had over the fawn. And you know something,

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as it turned out, he gave me a lot more

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than he thought he did. The police, sure, they've been

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working on these murders, Johnny, but they hadn't come up

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with anything except the theory that one man is behind

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them all. Why very? Because the victims have all been

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members of the Simplex Tackle Company. Well, but because they've

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all occurred within a month, because each of them occurred

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on a Wednesday pattern, Huh, that's right? And also, Johnny,

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because there's been no apparent reason for any of them.

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Have the police found anything? Nothing, same kind of weapon

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used in each case. No. The first was a VP

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named Adams run over by a car. Sure it was

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an accidental, the police say no. The second, John Bowers,

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was strangled and Frank Dalvers was shot in his own home.

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Now pattern there, I mean, in the way they occur?

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Apparently not, But Henley Thomas and the police don't agree.

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Thomas is president of Simplex, you said, and a real

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financial wizard used to be a promoter. Not much ethics,

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but a sharp businessman. As a friend or a partner,

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I imagine he's well he's a fine man. Here, I'll

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give you a complete list of the officers of the company,

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their rank and their salary. Well, I don't know exactly

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what good that will, hear you? Huh? And this is

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a list of the employees. Have those employees? Alvin check On.

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Sergeant Dennis over there at homicide made quite a point

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of it, so did mister Thomas. Well, why don't I

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run over there and talk with them? And of the

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Danbury police. I think you'd better, And Johnny, the sooner

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the better. Why do you say that the pattern? There

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are still six officers left in that company, That is

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six who are still alive. Item two another buck for

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a cab back to my apartment. There I picked up

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my own car, and from here on end the charge

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will be for mileage, except for item three four quarter

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for at tank of mobile gas. It was almost noom

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by the time I'd covered the sixty odd miles of

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the Simplex factory on the far edge of Danbury. To

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my surprise, was quite a plant, new and modern in

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every way. A receptionist took my card and a few

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minutes later I was ushered into the office of Handley Thomas. President. Oh,

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this is a terrible thing. Adams, Bowers, Frank Dowvers all

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within a few weeks. Barry Winters back in Hartford, seems

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to think these murders have all been the work of

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one man. Police, and I concur in that theory. There's

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been a sort of pattern followed with the crazy killer,

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but not an actual method, mister Thomas, Oh no, I'll

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grant you that's true. Car accident, strangling, pistol shot. But

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they were done by someone who must have been very

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permitted with his victims. How do you mean, oh, someone

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who knew, for instance, that Van Adams took a long

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walk alone each night. He knew the route that he took.

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Same thing applied to the second victim. John Bowers always

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drove to work through the Little Woods. Was there he

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was stopped and strangled. Frank Doalvers always stayed at home

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alone on Wednesday nights while his wife was out playing bridge.

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Someone in on him? Huh had the police checked in? Well?

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It was someone he must have let in. In other words,

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someone he knew. That's a possibility. I suppose I understand

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you've checked on all your employees, Yes, right off the bat,

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as much as we or rather as much as the

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police could any particular reason to suspect one of them, well,

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only because they were all in position to know these

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men pretty well, know their habits. We're a small company,

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mister Dollar. Our employees, including the girls in the office,

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only number twenty one. That was your only reason to

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think one of them may have done it. Oh, of

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course we've had our share of labor troubles, a few

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dissidents in the ranks, so to speak. I suppose some

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of them resent the rather top heavy management here. You mean,

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in fact, there are nine executives to only twenty one employees. Yes,

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and I must confess the profits have been pretty good lately.

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Barry Winters gave me a list of here it is

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now according to this, all of these what is it,

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mister Dollar. I got thinking on the way over here. Yeah,

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part of the pattern you mentioned. The three men were

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killed in well, in alphabetical order. What Yes, Adams, Bowers, Dalvers.

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But now that I look at this list again, of

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course the pattern again? No, No, I think that was

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just coincidence. The pattern, if there is one, is based

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on their order of rank. That is, if these salary

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figures mean anything, I'm not sure I understand look, first

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was Adams at the lowest salary among you officers. Oh, yes,

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Adams received twelve year Yeah. Look, Bowers came in next

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to thirteen to five. You're right, and Frank Dealver's earned

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fifteen thousands. So if this pattern should continue, you mean

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to say you think there might be more of these murders.

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If this pattern continues, the next to go would be

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could hit would be James Williams or Charles Hart, both

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earning sixteen five. Then a couple more than you, mister Thomas,

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Mister Dolley, Well, I find James Williams. Well, Williams is

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on vacation the little place not far from here, Parvin's Pond,

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last week on Monday. Have you heard from him? Oh? No,

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I haven't, of course. If the alphabetical pattern is the

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right theory. Oh excuse me, yes, sergeant, then as much

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as Thomas. Oh it's a sergeant at homicide, mister Downers,

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so I hear. I'll hold the phone so you can

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get ready, Thomas, Yes, sergeant.

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid I have some bad news for him.

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Speaker 2: Oh not the one of your partners, Williams. Mister John Williams, Yes.

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Speaker 3: Discovered his body over at Parvin's pond. This morning he's

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been murdered.

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Speaker 2: Good Lord, Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in

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a moment.

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Speaker 4: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star

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there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.

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Massachusetts state flag, bearing a green pine tree, is the

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of the famous Liberty Tree flag that came out of

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Boston to serve all the original thirteen colonies. It was

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under the Liberty Tree flag that the Sons of Liberty

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met and planned the Boston Tea Party, that our floating

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batteries on the Delaware River defended Philadelphia, and on the

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Charles River defied house canons. Beneath the trees inscribed the

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state motto ensu pettit placidam sub lebortate quietum. By the sword,

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we seek peace, but peace only under liberty. These words

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were originally written by the famous English patriot Algernon Sidney

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about sixteen fifty nine. This was a message intended for

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King George the Third. Unhappily it went unheeded. Massachusetts state flag,

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the flag of the sixth state to enter the Union,

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was adopted on March eighteenth, nineteen oh four.

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Speaker 2: And now Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and

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the ugly pattern matter, another of the executives of the

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Simplex Tackle Company murdered, bludgeoned to death and his little

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vacation cabin on Parvin's Pond some forty miles north of Danbury.

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And again it was according to pattern. How those carefree

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kids can fish and water ski out there when there's

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been a murder right under their noses. Yes, Sergeant, I

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know what you mean, mis the cabin mister Williams was using, Yes, sir,

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he came up here on his vacation Monday morning last

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week alone. There we are who knew he was coming

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to this particular spot, Sergeant? Why everybody down at the planet?

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I guess now the way the doc and I figured

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it out, mister Williams had just come in from fishing.

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Now you see there, he'd just tossed his rodden stringer

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on the bed. Everything's just the way it was, except

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for his body. That's in Danbury at the corners. You

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said he was bludgeoned to death with that or from

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his rowboat. You see it laying there on the floor. Yeah,

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I see who found his body? Little old lady from

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the cabin next door. She'd stop by this morning to

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bring him some cook He's knocked on the door, The

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door swung open, and there he was. And the doc

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says the body was lying there. Ever since have you

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checked that? Or for Prince a killer must have used gloves.

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What about footprints? Well, if there were any, the vacation

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crowd tramped him out long before we got here. Now,

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the way we figure is that he came in here

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Wednesday night off the lake Wednesday, Yes, mister Dollar, just

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like the other ones that happened on Wednesday. We could

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go tomorrow. The pattern again, yes, sir, And if you

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ask me, it's the pattern of a madman, and this

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being a Tuesday, and what possible motive could there be

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for it? And he asked me, it's one of the

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employees there at the plant. After all, for such a

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small company, nine big money making officers, at least there

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was nine. Yeah, I know what you mean. Are those

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twenty one employees paid pretty well? Nope, in spite of

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the company making a lot of money. What with this recession?

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Where on rate the science man, most of the so

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called recessions a lot of bump? I agree with you.

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Everybody get out and dig instead of sitting around hoarding

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their money. Well, what I was going to say is

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that those executives took advantage and held down wages in

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spite of all the money they're making. So just let

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one crazy hot heead find out how good they're doing.

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How well have you checked those employees the best we could.

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I talked with every one of them myself. How about

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the officers of the company. There's not one of them

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would do a thing like that. They're all fine, man,

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asked mister Thomas. Sure, they're hard headed businessmen, everyone looking

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out for himself. But they're all fine men. And they're

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all making plenty of money. Oh, which reminds me. What's that,

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mister donar a list of the officers and their salaries,

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and according to this, if there's to be another victim,

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another Oh no, I worked out another step in the

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pattern of these murders based on the earnings of these men. Then,

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mister Dollar, who will be It won't be anybody if

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I can help it. But Sergeant, I may have to

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ask you to put a twenty four hour watch over

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an officer of that company named mister Charles Hart. I

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didn't bother explaining my own idea the pattern to Sergeant Dennis.

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After all, my theory could be wrong. But I drove

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back to the Simplex in the office of Charles Hart.

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I found only a secretary there.

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Speaker 5: No, he isn't here, mister Dollac.

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Speaker 2: Where is he?

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Speaker 5: Be perfectly honest about it. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Hasn't he been in at all today?

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Speaker 5: No, sir, hasn't been in since about last Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Looks, whatever your name is, have you called his home

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his wife?

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Speaker 5: He's a bachelor, mister Dowler, and lives in a little

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apartment in Danbraeth.

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Speaker 2: Have you tried to call him? Well, no, sir, you

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see there, mister Thomas know about his not being here.

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There's nothing unusual about Charlie's leaving without telling us, mister,

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mister Thomas. He often goes off on sales trips like this.

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He was last seen the day mister Williams was killed. Well,

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surely you don't think Charlie Hart had anything to do

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with Jim Williams being Oh no, did you find out

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anything over at Parbn's Pond? No, not much. I'm afraid

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could this Charlie Hard have had any reason for wanting

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Williams out of the organization and Adams and Bowers and dollars.

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Speaker 5: Of course, yes, yes he could.

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Speaker 2: What miss Gregg, what do you mean by that?

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Speaker 5: Mister Hart was the one who built up this company,

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the one who developed the products, but all his money

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in it, just as he's the one who sold all

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the product that made all the money. He and mister

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Adams were the ones who started the business.

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Speaker 2: Is that true, mister Thomas, Yes, of course.

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Speaker 5: And when mister Thomas and his relatives came along, Mis greg.

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Speaker 2: What she says is true, mister Dollar, Charlie Hart and

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Ben Adams did start this business. They took on a

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couple of partners, Al Bauers and Frank Dalvers. They were

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the ones who decided on the expansion program, who came

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to us for the financing.

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Speaker 5: The other's gone. It should have been mister Hart's company.

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Speaker 2: Wait, miss greg, Our financing made this present operation possible.

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But to imply that Charlie could have been driven by

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jealousy or well, are any other motive to commit these crimes?

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That's absurd. How could you suggest such a thing, Miss Gregg.

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Speaker 5: I didn't say he did it.

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Speaker 2: I only try to know what you said, And you've

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said en up, tell me one thing, mister Thomas. Yes,

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what happens to his share of the business when one

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of the partners dies or in this case, when he's murdered, Well,

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the other partners absorb his shit. Then if Charlie Hard

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eliminated one of you, it would add to his holdings.

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That's true. Okay, I'll see you later. But mister Dollar,

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if you believe for one moment that Charlie Hart, why

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I've blown him for a year. Yeah, well, I think

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I want to know him a little better. Act three

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of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment, what does

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a man's life mean to him? Some men will commit

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suicide for little or no apparent reason. Others get blind

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and liquor and drive their unguided missiles into other automobiles,

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sometimes killing more than a half dozen people. Life to

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those men seems worthless. But when the time comes to

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go forward into battle or to resist severe interrogation in

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an enemy prisoner of war camp, life seems suddenly to

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take on all the aspects of a precious gem. For

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some men, it isn't easy to overcome that undesirable condition

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of paralyzing fear. When the chips are down, But let

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me tell you of one man who dimmed during World

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War II in Europe. Staff Sergeant John W. Minnick, assigned

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to the eighty third Infantry Division, United States Army, sat

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down and cried bitterly when he first faced the prospect

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of battle, of having to kill or be killed. Drafted

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at the age of thirty six, Minnick felt he was

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a little old to find himself in such a bewildering

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and unhappy situation. While in camp, he wasn't much in discipline,

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but in the heat of battle, a great change came

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over him, and he became the perfect infantry soldier. In

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a number of bloody engagements, he was noted for several

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valued actions, which earned him two Bronze Stars and the

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Distinguished Service Cross. Specializing in scuffing patrols behind enemy lines,

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Sergeant Minnick, one day in November nineteen forty four, led

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his men through a minefield in a fog laden forest.

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Suddenly they were confronted with a hail of machine gun fire.

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Minnick went into action. No man could stop him that day.

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In rapid succession, with his men hot on his heels

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and his submachine gun blazing, he knocked out a machine

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gun nest killed twenty two and captured twenty three of

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the enemy, broke up an important security outpost, broke the

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back of the enemy battalion, and was spearheading the attack

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to take battalion headquarters when he stepped on a land

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mine and became a legendary Medal of Honor hero. Sergeant

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Minnick had cried when he first wanted a battle, but

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he became the perfect infantry soldier when the chips were down.

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He had learned well his soldier's cold, and now at

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free of yours. Truly, Johnny Dollar and the ugly pattern matter,

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it was pretty plain that Charlie Hart, supposedly next on

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the list of victims, had plenty of motive for eliminating

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some of his partners in the Simplex Tackle Company. I

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guess the same apply to any other member of the company.

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But he, having started the business, knew all about the others,

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their plans, their habits, and he be the last seen

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just prior to the murder of James Williams. I got

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his address, hopped into my car and go back to Denvery.

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But ringing his bell and pawning on his door got

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me nothing.

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Speaker 4: Here here, young man, you want mister Hart to publify

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them the fact.

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Speaker 2: Are you the building superintendent? That's right, and I want

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you to let me in the mister Heart's apartment were

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all right?

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 2: Here are mia coetenentials. I'm an insurance investigator investigation. Yeah yeah,

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see Johnny dollars for sure. And if that isn't enough,

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here's a five spot via trouble ten where.

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Speaker 5: But now don't to let on?

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Speaker 2: Okaydad? Thanks? M hm.

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Speaker 6: Anyway, yeah hmm, the same list that I got to

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the office the officers of our company, mister Hutt. That's right,

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Charlie Hick should have looked behind the door and.

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Speaker 2: You barged in here. Yeah, well, look, would you like

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to point that thing the other way please? I'm sorry,

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mister Dollar, of course. Oh you know who I am. Yes, yes,

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I heard you through the door, all right? Is that

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the gun that killed one of your partners? That killed one? No,

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but listen, tomorrow's another Wednesday, Wednesday, mister do I know?

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And look look at that list you're holding. I finally

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realized that the progression in which these murders are happening, oh,

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on the basis of our salaries at the company. Adams

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Bowers Dolvers. Then Williams are me. Yes, you've circled William's name. Yes,

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because he got it last week. That's why I'm staying

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in here, locked in because tomorrow if the killer strikes again,

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that crazy maniac killer maybe or maybe that's what he'd

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like everyone to think. Charlie, a couple of questions, anything, anything,

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if I can help you stop this. That company was

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once yours. Yes, that's right. You're the boss, the head

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man until Hanley Thomas came along. Yes, Hanley and his

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brothers and his brother in law, and they took over

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as first in rhyme, but they were entitled to della.

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What was there? Money made the company what it is.

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I'm not an administrator, a man who knows and plays

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all the angle time. I'm just a worker in a

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sales time. Wait a minute, you mean you you're content

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with the present set up. Yes, yes, of course, in

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spite of the prodding of a sweet old secretary who

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thinks that wait a minute, these murders, mister, you stay put,

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keep that gun, and don't move out of this apartment

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until I tell you to, no matter who comes to

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the door to save your life. You think you know Kelly.

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It's been right on of my nose. The obvious, almost

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too obvious. But I had no proof of anything, only

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a hunch, but a potent one. So how to prove

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it out? Bluff? It might work if I was right.

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I drove into police headquarters and picked up Sergeant Dennis.

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They're out to the Simplex Tackle Company. But when I

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walked in it was after hours. No secretary's about. When

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I walked into the office, I borrowed the sergeant's hand

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cuffs and made him wait outside. His ear glew to

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the door. Well, mister Dollar, I didn't expect you backs.

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What do the handcuffs mean? They mean arrest the murder

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of your partners. That's a very bad joke, you and

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your brothers and brother in law, the whole company of yours,

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once you got rid of the men who started it,

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who made it possible for your capital and make it payoff.

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But tell me, well, you're going to kill off your

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relatives to one by one. This is the most absurd

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thing about your tracts pretty well perfect crimes except for

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that or you used to kill Williams. Fingerprints as big

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as life all over it impossible. I figured the gloves

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you wore must have had holes in them or have

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been worn very thin. What that you just didn't notice

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in the excitement of the moment. And when I finally

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found those gloves, you've been out to my home. Ran second,

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my own wife confessed that you went at home at

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the time of any of the murders that July. She

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helped me plan the whole thing. Ah, then you admit

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the murders after my bluff about the fingerprints. I see,

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But now that you know, you haven't had time to

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tell anyone. Yeah, there's no one around to hear the shot,

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mister dollar. Oh but I heard a real clean in

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question mister Thomas. Sergeant. No, no doubt that was just

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to protect myself from this time. I'm afraid that kind

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of talks a little late. No, no, it is, I

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got sergeant. I haven't seen that fast a draw except

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on TV. That's where I learned it. There'll be a

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lot for the courts to work on about who else

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was involved with Thomas. The sergeant's bullet killed him, by

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the way, and I'd call it good riddance or at

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least quick justice. So expensive onun total, including a lot

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of mileage on my car one hundred and one dollars,

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even remarks why bother yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Our star

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will return in just a moment.

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Speaker 7: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star

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there stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states.

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Alaska's state flag is dark blue, the blue of the

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clear Alaska sky, and the forget Me Not the state flower.

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Upon it shines eight golden stars, forming the Big Dipper

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or the Great Bear, a symbol of strength. It points

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toward the north Star, representative of our northernmost state. Alaska's

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state flag, the flag of the forty ninth state to

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enter the Union, was adopted on May twenty second, nineteen

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twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.

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Next week, a foggy night in San Francisco Bay, A

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beautiful girl and a killer join us, Won't you? Yours truly?

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Johnny Dollar? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey

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Orich Mason Hollywood, and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone,

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who also wrote today's story. Heard in our cast were

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Virginia greg Let's Promaine Fororence Lewill's Herd, viagrants, Junius Matthews

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and Frank Gerstol We sure have joined us next week

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for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This

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is Roy Rowan speaking. This is the United States Armed

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Forces Radio and Television Service. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: An interesting story adds a fair mystery with some misdirection,

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although you always have to be suspicious in a Jack

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Dunstone era story. When they mentioned someone used to be

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a promoter, that's a big giveaway that if they're not

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the villain at the very lace, they are up to

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no good. This story does touch on Johnstone's own morals

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and views of management, earning exorbitant salaries for his day.

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The story also referenced the recession, and in this case

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it would be the recession of nineteen fifty eight. Now,

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despite what Johnny said, the recession of nineteen fifty eight

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was not bunk, which was why he was not an

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economist with an action packed expense account. In fact, the

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eight month of recession saw the largest decline in GDP

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between the nineteen forty five recession and the Great Recession

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of two thousand and seven two two thousand and nine.

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By the time this episode aired, the recession had technically

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ended back in April, although a lot of people may

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not have known. It's always a fun thing with recessions

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is that people often feel the stresses in the economy

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and will feel like it's a recession, but we don't

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know if it is actually one, or when it started

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or when it ended until the economists tell us months

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or even years after the fact. Listener comments and feedback.

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Now and we start out on Facebook with Emmett and

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some thoughts on the Wayward River matter, and Emmett wrote,

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this was a truly different episode, not the usual chase

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the bad guy thing. But by far my favorite part

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was when Johnny asked if any local store might just

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carry dynamite. I just think, for last I'm going to

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hop on down to my local hardware store and ask

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them for a whole bunch of dynamite because I want

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to blow an I stamp off. Let us know how

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that goes, Emmett. In a similar vein over on Spotify, more,

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Gerald Less Tremaine comments, that's one of my biggest pet

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peys about living in Illinois. All our dynamite stores went

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out of business. Let this be a word of warning

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to you all of you kids local. If you don't,

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your dynamite store might go to out of business too.

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Words to take to heart. Then we have a comment

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from John regarding the Midnight Sun matter. Had it been

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established that Johnny Dollar could fly plane previously? That was

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sure lucky. Anyway, their dramatic turn overshadowed the idea that

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you could blow up a glacier with TNT. The script

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was taking swings as big as all of Alaska. Well,

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thanks so much, John, it had been established. I remember

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back in the Sea Legs Matter that Johnny's Roague guide Oscar,

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admitted he didn't have a pilot license, and Johnny said

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he did and he flew the plane. Now he may

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have flown in some of the subsequent episodes. That was

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back during the serial era, but it was established in

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the Sea Legs Matter. And I think that there was

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a reference to believe Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar having

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flown during the war. But generally I don't tend to

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think that the pre Bailey stuff affects the Bailey era.

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But good questioning, great comment, John. Then we have a

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comment from Rhinser, who wrote joke and this is on

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YouTube regarding the Froward Fisherman Matter. Joe Friday had a

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case like this probably before, and I think that what

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Ryncar's referencing here is the Big Family, and there were

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some similarities between that one and the Froward Fisherman matter,

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though no crossover and riding obviously in that you did

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have a man who was a little bit older. I

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don't think the guy in Dragnet was as old as

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the one in Johnny Doller technically and disappeared and turned

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up fishing, though in this case on a fishing boat.

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Of course, there were big differences, the big one being

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the guy in Dragnett essentially faked his death which kind

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of triggered a homicide investigation, and the Frauard Fisherman was

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a little bit more lighthearted, but I can definitely see

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the similarities. And Mark writes, thanks for sharing a nearly

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lost episode. Well, thanks so much. And now it is

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time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and

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I want to thank Philip, Patreon supporter since June twenty

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twenty three, currently supporting the podcast at the rookie level

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of two dollars or more per month. Thanks so much

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for your support, Philip, and that will do it for today.

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Friday with another episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. But

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join us back here tomorrow for the great advances of

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old time radio and cloak and Dagger.

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Speaker 8: Where now here is your mission? This red line north

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to the south is the main line of supply. At

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this point there's a bridge which you are to blow up.

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Why that shouldn't be tough blowing it up?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 8: However, five hundred yards from the bridge not here as

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a German company barracksed.

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Speaker 2: The bridge is well protected.

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Speaker 8: It's up to you to figure out a way to

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dynamite it.

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Speaker 2: Or a about a Norwegian contact who's going to meet us.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 8: When you hit the shore, take cover precisely eleven o'clock,

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a man will be strolling down the beach.

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Speaker 2: Stop him.

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Speaker 8: Ask him how the fishing is. You'll answer, not too

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good in winter. From then on you're in his hands.

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You Anderson are his nephew, and you, if you're Illo,

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are his cousin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I can't speak Norwegian.

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Speaker 8: You will not say anything at any time. You will

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be known as the dumb one. Why the reason you're

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called the dumb one goes back to a childhood disease

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on that wed Any goodbye, gentlemen, and good luck.

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Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send

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your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, follow

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dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is

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your host, Adam Graham signing off.