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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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Speaker 2: First.

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Speaker 1: But now, from May the thirty first, nineteen fifty nine,

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here is the Big h.

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Speaker 3: Manor Johnny Deller.

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Speaker 4: Hi there, Johnny, This is Helen.

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Speaker 3: Dayner, Helen Dana.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 4: I live out here in Marrow Bay, California. I have

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I see insurance with one of the companies you represent,

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the Greater Southwest Insurance Company.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I do a lot of work for them.

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Speaker 4: But also, Johnny, do you mind if I call you Johnny?

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Speaker 5: Well, no, not at all.

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Speaker 3: It's Dana or is it missus?

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Speaker 6: It's miss or better still, just Helen.

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Speaker 4: As I started to say, I not only have that insurance,

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but Johnny, I never missed that radio program of yours

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where you tell all about those exciting cases you solve.

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Sometimes I just don't see how you do it.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: I hope you never find out about the ones I

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miss out on.

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Speaker 2: But now, Miss Danners, I don't think I've.

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Speaker 4: Missed a single one of your programs. I'm your most

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loyal listener and I think you're wonderful. Thanks, And that's

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why I'm calling you instead of the police about this, right?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, calling about what Johnny?

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Speaker 4: If the police weren't able to nab them, isn't that

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what you're saying, nab them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 4: But go on, well, Johnny, these terrible people might suspect

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that I'm the one who told the police about.

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Speaker 3: That what people, Miss Danner, and if that happened.

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Speaker 4: But I guess you can just imagine what they might.

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Speaker 2: Do to me.

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Speaker 3: Who are these people you're talking about? And just what

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is it they're up to? All right, Johnny, Now listen carefully, Yeah, yes,

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Miss Tanner. Hello, hello, hello, hm, hm, oh, come on

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now Downard, don't be a sucker for a yet.

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Speaker 2: Hmm.

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Speaker 3: I wonder Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the

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Man with the action packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance

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insurance investigator is truly Johnny Dollar. Oh act one of yours,

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truly Johnny Dollar expense accounts of it A bispecial investigator,

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Johnny Dollar to the great Your Southwest Insurance Company Home Office,

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Los Angeles, California. Following has an account of expenses incurred

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during my investigation of the Big h S Matter expense

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A count out of one two seventy five long distance

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telephone called to Hollywood eight two one two four.

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Speaker 2: That is to say, the office of Royal J.

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Speaker 3: Harkins contact man a Greater Southwest Insurance in Los Angeles.

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It was late in the day, but luckily he was

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still in his office.

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Speaker 2: Nice to hear from you again, Johnny. What can I

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do for you?

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Speaker 3: Roy? I'm putting this call on expense account. Oh that

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ain't all. If I could make connections down to New York. Well,

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let's see, there's a plane leaving for the West Coast

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a little after midnight, so I'd arrived in La early

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in the.

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Speaker 2: Morning coming out of here.

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Speaker 3: Unless seventy's been pulling my leg, roy you have a

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policy holder named Helen Daner is somewhere up.

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Speaker 2: He certainly do. Well, now what's that mean. She's an

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elderly woman of Spenser who lives up in the little

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town of Morrow Bay. That's about two hundred miles north

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of here, Johnny. She called his office early this afternoon.

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She demanded, did your phone number there in hardware? And

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well I didn't give it to her. Why not because

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she wouldn't say why she wanted to get in touch

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with fun, knowing how busy you always are, will But

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just a few minutes ago I began to wonder about it. Yes, well,

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after all, if she wanted to contact you about some insurance.

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Speaker 3: Matter, Yeah, what did you call her back?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, since we handle all her insurance, that is, I

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tried to but I got no answer.

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Speaker 3: Then, Roy, I'm going to grab that plane I was

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talking about.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wait, did you get to you? Did you

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talk to her?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: And it has something to do with her insurance money.

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Speaker 3: So I'm flying out there right at your company's expense,

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not just a minute, unless, of course, you'd rather pay

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off her insurance to some beneficiary. Honey, then just be

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sure to have a rental car waiting for me when

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I pull into the airport. It them two one sixty

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two eighty five plane fair the big mainliner, took off

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from New York's International Airport, probably at twelve thirty am.

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At six thirty Pacific time. I stepped off the plane

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at La International Dollar this way, Oh, hi, roy I

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didn't exactly expect you to be here in person this

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early in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I got around the car ready and waiting for you

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out at the curve.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Good, But listen, you still haven't told me what.

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Speaker 3: This is all about, because I'm not too sure myself.

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But you sounded over the phone as though something's happened

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to the old lady.

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Speaker 2: It's Helen Dana.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's exactly the way I'm meant to sound.

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And since I still haven't been able to get her

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on the telephone, Well, what what's happened to her?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: This is my car, that's right. I'll start making some sense,

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will you. I wish I could. Well, do you actually

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know that something's happened to mis Dana?

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Speaker 4: Nope?

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Speaker 3: But if it hasn't, I've got to do everything I

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can to prevent it, Donnie, prevent what Royal? I only

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wish I knew Doney Doney. Thanks to an excellent highway

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and light traffic, I made good time through Santa Monica,

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then Santa Barbara, even past the famous Pismo Beach. It

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was just afternoon when I pulled in Tomorrow Bay. When

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I stopped for gad SIS item three four twenty, I

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looked up Miss Helen Daner's address in the local phone book.

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It turned out to be a modest little frame house

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about half a mile south of Marrow Rock, on the

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landward side of the bay. It had some nice, well

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kept flower beds in front, and at the bank I

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could see a small, rather decredit dock that stuck out

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into the bay. A brand new, expensive automobile was parked

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on the street in front of the place, hardly the

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kind of carrie you'd expect the sweet old lady to

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be driving along. Well, there was only one way to

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find out. Yeah, miss Helen Danner.

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Speaker 7: No, I'm Bessy Diner, Helen's sister.

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Speaker 3: And who are you, young man, Johnny Dollar? I'm from Hartford, Connecticut.

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Speaker 2: Is your sister?

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Speaker 6: Yes, I've heard Helen speak of you. You're a new

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friend of hers, aren't you.

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, I guess, won't you come in. Well is

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she here, miss Danner?

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Speaker 7: You ought to be back from the mat any minute.

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Speaker 3: The market.

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Speaker 7: She hasn't done it at all.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know that's why I've come to deliver this

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sort of take care of her.

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Speaker 3: I see it.

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Speaker 6: But I did think it was all right to let

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her walk down to the market this morning.

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Speaker 7: Would you like to come in and wait for it?

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Speaker 3: Sure, market, mister Danner.

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Speaker 7: Wait, the first one down the street. Now do you

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see it? That little supermarket just two blocks away?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I said, so, if you'd like to come

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in and no, thanks, I'll pick her up there.

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Speaker 6: Well, but mister Dalla, thank you very much, mister Dalla.

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Speaker 3: There was something very funny here, but I wasn't sure

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just what, or maybe I'd just fallen for some gag

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on the part of a fan on my radio program.

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I wanted to see her favorite heroin person. In any event,

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there was once your way to find out for miss

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Helen Danner herself and if she was still at the market.

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But as it turned out, I got that well known

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kick in the face. Why, of course, I know, miss

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Helen nor well sair. Then when you please point her

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out to me.

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Speaker 2: Miss Helen, Miss Helen Danner.

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Speaker 3: That's right, But she isn't, dear sir all, then perhaps

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she went to some other store.

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Speaker 2: No, certainly not, sir.

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Speaker 3: What We deliver everything that she orders to her little

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house up the street.

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Speaker 2: Well that still doesn't fru when she Miss Helen hasn't.

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Speaker 3: Been out of that house for weeks, hasn't bludged? You're

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you're sure of that?

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Speaker 5: Why? Of course I'm why?

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Speaker 2: What's the matter, sir? No?

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Speaker 3: Act two of yours truly, Johnny Duller and the big

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age matter? If all Miss Helen Tayner, who telephoned me

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in Hartford asked me to come out here tomorrow Bay

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in California. If miss Danner hadn't budged from her little

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house in weeks? Why had her sister told me she

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was at the market? Could all this somehow? Time with

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the people, the terrible people she tried to tell me

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about on the telephone. I jumped into my car and

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drove back to the little home on the baby.

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Speaker 7: Oh, mister Dowell, that's right now.

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Speaker 3: Where is Helen Daner?

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Speaker 7: Oh sister came back while you were gone.

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Speaker 3: Came back without my singer and a listen. I was

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the manager of that market, said he she hasn't been

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out of this house for weeks.

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Speaker 6: What oh, you must have gone to the supermarket or

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or else, and just because she isn't shopping there, and.

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Speaker 7: Come in.

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Speaker 6: I think she'll be terribly disappointed if you don't. You see,

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she's told me all about you now.

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Speaker 3: In a couple of minutes.

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Speaker 7: I was away from here an insurance investigator. I think

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it's awfully thrilling. But now come in and see her.

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I think she's been kind of expecting you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you'd like to know what I think,

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miss good Law. In the middle of the tiny living

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room was a heavy open armchair. Sitting in a tied

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down to it. It was a sweet looking, gray haired lady

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of maybe seventy or seventy five. Her handkerchief was lashed

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tightly across her mouth, and the eyes behind her old

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fashioned steel rim glasses were filled with tears and a

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look of utter despair. I swung around her so called

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sister and was struck by two things she seemed to

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have suddenly lost about twenty years. Her face wore an

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unpleasant smirk, and in her right hand was a thirty

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eight aimed at me.

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Speaker 6: Don't move, mister Dalla gun is not only loaded, but cocked,

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and it has a hair trigger. Then perfectly still because

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it'll be right in the middle of your back. So well,

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I take away your gun all right now, sit over

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there in that chair against the wall.

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Speaker 7: You'd better do as I say, mister, Dolla.

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Speaker 6: Now we may have to wait a little while, so

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get one thing straight, any move, any tricks, and I

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pull this trigger.

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Speaker 3: Mind telling me what we're waiting for. You'll see, and

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why you've tied her up that way? That is, Helen, Dana,

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isn't it.

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Speaker 7: Why wat's the matter? Honey?

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Speaker 6: Getting a little short of breath with that gag in

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your mouth? Then why don't I take it out for you?

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Speaker 3: No, Dolla, not a single move, just crossing my legs.

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Speaker 7: Sure here now, honey, I want you to conk out

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on it.

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Speaker 6: After all, you may be of some use before we're

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Speaker 8: Johnny, Johnny, I don't know what.

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Speaker 7: There's terrible people. They sneaked in while I was poling you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Helen, I guess that, Tony.

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Speaker 4: We hadn't come, but I thought I.

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Speaker 8: Thought maybe they're smugglers, Johnny, of the worst possible.

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Speaker 6: You tell him, honey, they have to kill time while

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we're waiting for Pete and Dollar.

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Speaker 8: Okay, okay, they're smuggling in narcotics heroine the way down

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in Mexico.

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Speaker 3: Oh, pretty smart picking a spot as far up the

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coast as this.

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Speaker 8: This man Pete asked if he could use my dog.

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He said it was to tie up his boat at

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night when he came in from fishing.

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Speaker 3: How did you get on to them, Helen?

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Speaker 8: They saw I turned my lights up so early every night.

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They thought I was asleep that I wouldn't notice he

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wasn't taking fish off his boat. But little cans of

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of heroine Carona. Then Bessie here can look so sweet

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when she wants to.

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Speaker 6: Wear Helen, I thought I was pretty sweet.

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Speaker 7: He would meet him with her car.

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Speaker 3: Don't you know what's her on?

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Speaker 8: Because they told me they'd use it on me if

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I don't, if I don't behave myself.

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Speaker 7: Which is a lot better than you get Dollar.

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Speaker 8: And besides Johnny, Johnny, Yeah, I found a little of

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it that was spilled on the dock, and I remembered

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how you described it once when you caught a man

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bringing in the terrible stuff.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, she's a real smart old biddy, except when she

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phoned a U Dollar and we caught her at it.

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We can handle her all right, with a little h

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in her veins. We can even let the neighbors see

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her now and then with me acting as her sister

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taking care of her. Oh listen, here he comes now

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from the dock, just relaxed.

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Speaker 3: Dollar.

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Speaker 5: Well, well, what.

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Speaker 3: A charming little body, and this is nice work, Bessie Dollar. Huh,

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that's right.

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Speaker 7: You want to take care of him, Pete.

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Speaker 3: So you made the mistake of coming out here. They

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believe me, mister, it was a mistake.

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Speaker 7: I said, Are you going to take care of him?

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Speaker 5: Well, of course right away.

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Speaker 3: We don't want him lying around here, which is to say, Dollar,

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We're going to do something I haven't thought of since

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the old days in Chicago. You and I are going

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to take a little ride, Act three of yours, truly,

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Johnny dollars take a little ride. Huh that's right, a

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cargo style exactly, Dollar, Johnny, don't you see what means?

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Speaker 4: He's going to tell? All right?

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Speaker 7: All right, honey, just keep out of it. No, I

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won't peach going to kill him right now? Shot not just.

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Speaker 5: Said Bessie.

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Speaker 3: Be sure you keep the gun on him.

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Speaker 6: Worry, Pete, I had a silencer though, I'd get rid

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of him here.

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Speaker 3: And now I've occurred to you, Pete, that I made

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I have left word with them that if I'm not hurt,

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I don't try to be cute.

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Speaker 2: Dollar. Sure it occurred to me.

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Speaker 3: I dismissed it for the simple reason that you couldn't

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possibly have had any reason to know what you were

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getting into out here, So forget it.

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Speaker 7: You're gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: I Well, whatever it is, we'll have to wait laughter

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dark and this one horse town closes up for the night. Well,

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then what I've got to be sure the Dollar's body

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won't be found until shut up, until we're through with

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this operation.

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Speaker 2: That means a weaker Wait.

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Speaker 3: I got it up on Kyuka's Beach.

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Speaker 7: Kyokus, a little town five or six.

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Speaker 3: Miles north of here. There's a big pile of rocks,

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a big cave in them. Nobody never think of looking

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in the air so soon that just digging out a cigarette.

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If you don't mind, no, sure, go ahead, But this

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is one time the condemned man won't enjoy our hearty meal.

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Speaker 2: Shout there anything.

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Speaker 7: I just think I got you into the toes or

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shut up, and I told you.

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Speaker 3: And you tonish him off, Pete.

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Speaker 5: Now we'll wait for dark and do it right.

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Speaker 3: I guess he had really slugged me, because by the

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time I fully came to it was night. I was

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in the backseat of a car driving along the highway

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beside the ocean. Pete was at the wheel. Beside him,

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leaning over the back of the seat watching me was Bessie,

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and the thirty eight in my hand was aimed straight

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in my head. You're sure the old lady won't be

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able to work herself lose messy.

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Speaker 7: I'm sure we'd had any sense, Pete, we would have

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brought her along on this ride too. It saved us

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a lot of trouble late. Oh so you've woke up, dollar.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, just they put in that back seat and

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funny business, I set any funny.

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Speaker 3: Business, Just just trying to dig out a cigarette.

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Speaker 6: Stay back in that seat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. She didn't take her eyes off me for

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a second or the gun either. As clumsily as possible,

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I struggled with a pack of cigarettes, rolling and squeezing

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it and hoping the tobacco was funny dry. Then, having

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apparently failed to pull out a cigarette. I turned the

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pack upside down over my hand. Yeah, the fine tobacco

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poured into it. I took a deep breath.

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Speaker 7: The matter, Dolla, you need some help with her?

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Speaker 2: No, no, my eyes, my eyes.

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Speaker 3: Oh, instinctively, she dropped the gun, put her hands.

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Speaker 2: To her eyes.

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Speaker 3: Now pull what tobacco does. With what little strength I had,

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I picked up the gun and slammed it against the

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side of pizza. Oh it was a commercial trucker driving

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one of those big interstate trailer jobs who pulled off

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the highway to give us a hand. Yes, somehow those

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boys are always around when you need him.

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Speaker 2: And he used his head when.

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Speaker 3: He found my credentials in my pocket. He saw the

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whole picture in a flash, so he hailed down the

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first police car that came along and turned both Pete

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and Bessie over to the Valentiner.

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Speaker 1: Was her height.

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Speaker 3: This spunky little ottle character was tickled pink to be

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involved in the whole thing. Yeah, she just can't wait

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to go to court and testify against those two expense

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acount total including the trip back to Hartford four five

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yours truly, Johnny Dollar, Oh, here is our star to

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tell you about next week story next week. Well, so,

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hell me, it's the wildest case I ever got messed

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up with, Johnnys. Won't you Yours truly Johnny Dollar? Yours

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

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

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our cast were Peggy Weber Virginia, Greg Martlett, Robinson, Joseph Kerns,

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and Russell Thorson. Be sure to join us next week,

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same time and station for another exciting story of Yours

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Truly Johnny Dollar. This is Dan coverly speaking.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, and that route there there is why I

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don't take direct phone calls. I mean, in this situation,

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I would not survive because you see, I don't even smoke,

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which was the whole reason Johnny was able to make

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it out of there. As a general rule, it is

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best if you are an emergency to contact the police,

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even if you have a high opinion of your favorite

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investigator with an action packed expense account who lives in

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another state, or your favorite podcast host. Though I will

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say in her defense that this is the Johnny Doller universe.

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So and she lives in a small town. This means

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that likely the local law enforcement is a single man

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pushing sixty years old with little formal training, who balances

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his work as the constable or chief of police with

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running agast, publishing a monthly magazine, veterinary medicine, and a

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taxid ermy practice. So maybe Johnny was able to give

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her the quickest service possible all things considered, all right, Well,

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radio and counterspy. Where is there?

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Speaker 9: Yes, I'm the hotel fire inspector. Oh, come in good

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to see if Peters any news on go. I got

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this postcard today in the Southern Beauty Tourist Bureau, Memphis.

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Guided tours of historic Southland see Monuments and Battlegrounds of

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the War between the States special feature Visit the High

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Mountain Caves. You'll notice that last one is circled in

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reading the High Mountain Caves. I notice here, and the

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schedule of tours is another circle of readink around the

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date Thursday, five pm. Obviously that's when my next contact

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with the spirings to be made. Look, I go, I'd

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better join the group tool. I think that'll be too risky, Peters.

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Those tourist groups aren't very large. Whoever the contact is

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will take a good look at everybody. Well, how are

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you to be recognized? My name is known to the ring.

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I'll simply give it when I buy my ticket for

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the tour. Then I'll just wait see what happens.

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