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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Primrose Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP1229) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  Well, now it is time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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  As we continue on with parts three and four of The Primrose Matter from Hollywood,
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  It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Hello, Hello, Hello, what's
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  that? I can't quite This is Johnny Dollar. I'm phoning from a patrol
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  phone Forest Service Summit road. Okay, you're coming through now? Is that
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  Lieutenant Mervin Right? I should have known it was you. What are you
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  doing up there in the mountains? Is this a man hunter of a case.
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  Relaxed, lieutenant, before you use some words, you'll have to eat.
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  Call in your APB. I found that stolen car the nit's In gang
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  was using where up here in the Santa Rita Mountains, about a mile from
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  Primrose Camp pop Ardell. Yeah, they ran it off a cliff and started
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  a rock slide to bury it. One of them still in the car dead,
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  two bullet wounds. You must have hit him when they crashed your roadblock.
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  That makes two days and leaves Jipper Ninsen and one other one still on
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  the loose. All right, miss a Dollar, I'll have fifty men combing
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  that area within an hour and a half. You will not there's something wrong
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  at Bardell's place. You bring fifty state troopers in here, you may busted,
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  wide open, wide open. That's what I'm trying to find out tonight
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  and every weekday night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with
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  the Action Packed expens Coud America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator Areas Truly Johnny Dollar.
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  From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location in Santa Rita National Forest, Southern Arizona to
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  the home office mid State's Industrial Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut assignment the Primrose matter
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  expense account continued. It took a lot of arguing to get Lieutenant Mervyn of
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  the State Highway Police to hold his men off for twenty four hours, but
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  he finally gave him one hundred thousand dollars. That was the amount of the
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  in short payroll in its and gang had got away with in Kansas City,
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  killing two guards in the process. Later, they shot their way through a
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  roadblock in southern Arizona, left a state trooper and one of the gang dead
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  in the road behind them, and then disappeared. I was certain the answer
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  was at Primrose camp evening, mister Parnell choked in their shop for gut.
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  No. I told you i'd stop on the way back down. Got a
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  vacancy Yet on one of those caps you're already. Ah, that's too bad.
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  I noticed they're dark by the way, and there are still no cars
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  parking in front of you. You don't signify. What do you suppose all
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  your guests are lost bag in the hills somewhere. Couldn't see now. Maybe
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  some of them went down to the highway for the night. I could turn
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  the cavin back over to them. If they happen to show up when there
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  rendered or rented, makes no difference if the folks ain't here to use them.
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  Well, that's true, I suppose, technically. But when a traveler
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  is badly need of a place for the night and you've got cabin standing out
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  to told you before, it's better you're go on down to the highway.
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  There's plenty of motels within a few miles of the junction. That's exactly my
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  trouble, mister Bardell. I can why not because it's almost dark now and
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  I haven't got any lights. Yeah, this is a rented car. I
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  should have tried the headlights before I took it out, but I didn't.
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  Now when I need them, they won't work. See, it's probably just
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  a fuse bload. I might be turn the flashlight up under the dash here,
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  won't take what it's sick to tell now what it is? No uses
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  seemed to be all right, flop and wire maybe hut say, oh,
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  I think you might be able to fix it. No, No, it's
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  it's your job for an electrician. I ain't got the equipment to trace it.
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  Hey, is that your station? Where in there? At the side
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  of the lunchroom. What well, look, i'd be glad to pay if
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  you drive me down to where I can No, no, no, I
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  can't. I can't leave here. Or maybe your nephew could take me.
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  Huh? The young fellow who was here this afternoon when I came back.
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  No, no, no, he's not familiar with the road. I drove
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  down and picked up the mail this morning, didn't he? Let you know?
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  Jake down at the barn grill? I have to mention it. Just
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  who are you anyway? Oh? I guess I did forget to introduce myself
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  this afternoon. My name's Johnny Dolloman. I had not done not your name.
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  I mean, what are you up here for? Walking around prospecting a
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  little, seeing the country? Your nephew did go down for the mail,
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  didn't he? But that was in the day. Like Look, you said
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  you had a sleeping bag with you. It ain't cold tonight, Why don't
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  you that's a good idea. I can spread it out right there on the
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  porch in front of your sowinger. Sh No, no, I don't mean
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  here down the road some please. I don't quite understand your attitude. I've
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  always understood you Western as we're noted for your hospitality. Well, it's just
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  that it makes that missus nervous that to have strangers around outside. And how
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  am I supposed to get down the road someplace I don't know what the foot
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  maybe in the dark and strange country. Oh and I tell Jake this,
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  He won't believe us. What don't see anything to Jake? He wouldn't understand.
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  Well neither do I. I can't do anything for you, mister Dollard.
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  Just take my word for it now and go on before your cause board
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  trouble and you trouble, uncle, What trouble you're talking about, Well,
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  it's not trouble exactly. The lights is out on his car. He just
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  wants me to put him up for the night. You have hard luck,
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  don't you, mister Calise. I told him just like I did this afternoon.
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  We ain't got no place for him. He'll have to find something he
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  can take care of him, Uncle, as long as he's that i't just
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  to stay. I said what the cabins would get all rindered, and it's
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  not likely the people in number two will be back. He can use that
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  one for the night. But you better go see if it's in shape.
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  Uncle, go on, all right, I'll go look it. I'm much
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  applied to you for changing his mind. That's okay. We wouldn't want you
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  to go away and tell bad stories about us, would We might cause trouble.
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  Expense account. I him seven five dollars payment in advance for one night's
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  red on cabin number two from Rose tourist Camp. The room in the bed
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  were far from inviting, but it didn't matter, Hush. I didn't look
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  for any easy night's rest under the best of circumstances, not with a feeling
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  of tension and danger that hung over this place and the almost certain knowledge the
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  two desperate killers were only yards away from him. This is by that,
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  all, pops. I've took my payment to the room and made change in
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  the lunch room next door to the service station. We'll have to give you
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  ones. Mister dollar got five dollar bill, that's all right, there's two,
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  three or five seat? No nothing, but I could surestand something to
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  eat. Well. I could cook you up some ham and eggs. I
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  guess some coffee if that'll do you. Sure, sure fine. The only
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  time I fix any regular meals aside from short orders when we got the cabins
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  full, and they're not full now I take it out. No not,
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  I mean, well, they're rented the course, but the folks aren't eating
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  here. I see you want your eggs sunnyside up. Yeah, yeah,
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  that'll be fine. Must get kind of lonso for you up here when the
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  season slacks off. I got my man and my daughter. How old is
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  your daughter, missus Bardell? Jenny was twenty month before last. Oh well,
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  I imagine she's a big help to you. Yes, she takes care
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  of the souvenir shop on her own, helps me here in the lunch room
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  when I get real busy. Yeah, I noticed the clothes sign on the
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  door of the shop. Is your daughter away at the present? No,
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  she's she's not feeling well today. She's in her room. I hope it's
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  nothing serious. No, sheould be all right. She's got to be.
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  Then it is something serious. No, I didn't mean it that way.
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  It's nothing. Forget it. Well, look, if there's anything I can
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  do, nothing forget us that anything you're gonna want toast and I'll Bret will
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  be fine. And there you are. I hope that's gonna be enough for
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  you. Bunny cream in your coffee black. Please, Yeah, this looks
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  great. You're a good cook, Missus. Right now, ham an eggs
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  don't prove nothing. Anybody can fix that. Oh, you'd be surprised be
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  leaving in the morning. I suppose well. I'd like to stay several days,
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  but I don't know whether your husband will let me have a cabin any
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  longer. He can't help hisself. He just can't help it. Why not
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  pull the cabins are rented, that's all. When I put my stuff in
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  number two there was no sign of any other luggage. They took it all
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  out. I was right there all the times, I mean earlier, mister
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  Dollar. We're in terrible danger, all of us. You too, What
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  kind of danger? I can't tell you. Please. If I talk about
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  it on go old pieces, you don't know what it's like. I might
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  be able to help you. No, the only way you can help is
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  to forget it. Not ask any questions. This place is a powder keg.
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  Don't do anything to say at all, Please, mister dollar. I'd
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  have ate a dollar and ten cents one order of ham and egges. Missus
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  Bardell refused to say anything more, and I didn't try to force her to
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  She was shaking cold sweat on her forehead. Scared half to death. I
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  walked down unto the porch, sat down cigarette and watch the stars come out,
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  one by one, sharp and bright against the black mamba sky. The
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  Bondell's living quarters were back at a souvenir shop, and there were no lights
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  showing in them. If their daughter Jenny was in her room, ill she
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  was back there in the dark. After a while, I went to my
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  cabin. As I fumbled around for a light, s which I suddenly realized,
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  somebody was standing in the doorway. Reckon, you're going to have fuse
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  an oil lamp tonight, mister dollar generator's got a drive belt busted night ain't
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  been able to get out to fetch one. Oh, I don't mind,
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  mister by now. The lamp's are on the table a lady for you now,
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  and you can blow it out when you go to bed. Sure,
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  all right, fine? You had not to pay no attention to the missus
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  what she said a while ago. I didn't realize she'd said anything welse she
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  was telling me. She spouted off some foolishness might be tucked wrong. If
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  a man was to pay any mine do it if that gets to smoke and
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  you have to turn it down some Okay, missus Bardell did seem a little
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  upset at you, That's all it is, mister Dollard, just upset.
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  You know how women get sometimes. Just forget it. It's the best thing
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  to do. Anything you need now before I leave you, No, no,
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  nothing, I can think of it. Thanks anyway, then I reckon,
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  I'll say good night. You can have your breakfast in the morning anytime
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  after about seven o'clock, Jake Meeker was telling me you have a daughter,
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  mister Bardell. That's right. I didn't notice her around anywhere this evening.
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  She's in the tuc Sons for a few days. Oh yeah, she's in
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  the visiting friends. Oh I see. Well, then you are lucky to
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  have your nephew here to help you while she's away. But yeah, yeah,
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  it works out real good. He's been here for some time, I
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  suppose, oh yeah, several No, seems to be a lot of help
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  to you. Really takes hold of things. I don't know what to do
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  without him. He'll see you in the morning, mister. Yeah, Jake
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  Meager told me your nephew just came yesterday. Jake drinks too much. He's
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  always getting things mixed up. And missus Mindell told me a little while ago
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  that your daughter's out back in her room. Ill not in Tucson. It's
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  like I was saying, the missus is all upset. She she just don't
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  rightly know what she's saying. And one more thing, I noticed the front
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  end of my car has been jacked up and the right front wheel has been
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  taken off. The tire went flat. We'll fix it and put it back
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  on in the morning. Good night, mister Dollar, Johnny Dollar, this
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  is j Marsh. Mister Dollar. Yeah, I've been waiting for you to
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  call. The Horas ranger come down to my cabin and said you was calling
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  from one of the emergency phones. Figured it must be kind him partner.
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  It is Jed. I'm at the fire patrol phone a mile below Primrose Camp
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  the Summit Road. Can you meet me here? It's time of night fall,
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  mile across the rage, John Foot, Well, you're a woodsman,
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  aren't you, And that's what you told me this afternoon. Well, I
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  just met the Bardell's. You're a longtime friend of theirs, aren't you?
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  Something wrong it, pops? Please, I think there's something badly wrong.
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  He and his wife are scared half to death for some reason. I haven't
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  seen the daughter, and Pop and his wife have each told me a different
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  story about her that don't sound like them tall Well, they're obviously under some
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  kind of pressure. That so called nephew seems to be running the show.
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  I told you, poping nephew. He has now jed. You got any
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  idea? What's behind it, mister Dolla? Yes, I think it's tied
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  in with one hundred thousand dollars payroll robbery. That wreck car we found this
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  afternoon. Three murders, and you'd better meet me up here as soon as
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  you can tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of
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  the Man with the Action Packed Expensive Out America's Fabulous freelance and insurance Investigators,
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  Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location Primrose Camp, Arizona
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  to the home office mid State's Industrial Insurance Company, Highfrid, Connecticut. Assignment
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  the Primrose matter. The expense account continued. Jed Marsh, an old time
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  prospector, was a good friend of the Bardell's operators of the Lonely tourist camp
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  on a dead end road high up in the Santa Rita Mountains, and I
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  counted on that friend ship to sway him. It did. He finally agreed
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  to come. I hung up the range of patrol phone and sat down on
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  a flat pine stumped to wait for him. And I hoped it wouldn't be
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  too long await. The night wind sang, and the high branches overhead,
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  and his shadows and the moonlight formed strange moving patterns of silver and black.
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  It wasn't a good night for a jump your imagination. I started to reach
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  for a cigarette and Matches, got your hands up. He was behind me
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  and I couldn't see him, but I knew the voice. It was Pop
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  Pardell's mysterious nephew. Get him up. Move you're up late? So are
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  you just keeping? And we'll see if you got it? Uh. I
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  figured you'd be packing a run self protection. I understand there are a lot
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  of snakes around here. Maybe you understand too much. Dollar. I suppose
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  you followed me from the camp. You were a good supposer. What's the
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  game? Well, I'm a birdwatcher and I specialize in observing the quaint habits
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  of the night flying tipmossle. I want jokes. I'll tell you I want
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  jokes. I guess I mist understood you. I get up, Get up,
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  You're not hurt. I appreciate you doing I asked you a question,
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  Dollar, Oh yeah, yeah, the game. You heard that phone conversation,
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  didn't you? I heard it? And you know who's the guy you
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  talk to? A friend of mine, an old prospector named Jed Martin.
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  I heard that. Why'd you get in touch with him? Well? Now,
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  he specializes in knife blooming uranium, so I thought we might combine our
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  hobbies. How much of this does it take to wise you up? All
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  right? I think that one just might have done it. Why'd you want
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  him to meet you here? He thought he might be useful? What for
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  pointing out the roasting places of the night flying? All right? Take it
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  easy. Slap me once more with that rod, and I may get mad,
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  scaring me to death. There are worse ways to go, Dollar,
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  I'm smart. Cracks are going to get you nothing but stitches. Stitches are
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  what they're supposed to keep us. Keep ask relax, relax, relax.
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  You know, I think I finally got you tagged? Now what do you
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  mean? Tag you're not Pop Bardell's nephew, and you don't come from Tussa.
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  All right, so far you're doing the talking. I think you came
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  originally from Chicago and New York, but recently you just come west from Kansas
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  City. You a cop? Dollar, No, and how come you?
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  I've been trying to place you ever since I saw you this afternoon, thinking
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  back over police bulletins. I've seen mugshots, descriptions. Yeah, you're Spade
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  killer, aren't you. Go on, this is your story. He used
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  to work with the Kazati mob. Then you went out of circulation for three
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  years as a guest of the state, and when you got out, you
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  apparently hooked up with Jipper Nitsen in this gang. So you are a cop.
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  Well, miss, I'm somebody who found that stolen car you ran off
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  the cliff and tried to hide under a rock slide. If you found it,
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  you must have been looking for it. I was looking for one hundred
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  thousand dollars that Kansas City payroll, the one you boys killed a couple of
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  bank guards to get your hands on. Remember I'm just listening. Then,
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  of course you killed a state trooper down there at the highway when you crashed
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  a roadblock. That's three murder, Spade, and nobody left now to pay
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  for them, but just you and the jipper. You know they got to
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  catch us first or they will or kill you trying to the cops don't do
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  no better than you did, Ay, Dollar. Cops know about that car?
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  Which car is that? Spade? You know which car the one we
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  buried in the rock slide. There's the ranger. Phone, call him up
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  and ask him. Maybe they'll be a hole. You just keep it up,
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  Dollar, This gun will still be in good shape when your head's got
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  holes in it. Maybe it's sorry him? What about it? You told
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  the police about that car you followed me, didn't you? You know I
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  only made one call? Yeah, but you might have called him earlier,
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  wouldn't I be kind of crazy? Then they'd get the hundred grand? You
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  mean? You? So that's the game? Uh? You and this pall
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  of yours were figuring to knock us over and hijack that payroll for yourself.
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  I didn't say that. I figured you for a phony the minute you drove
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  into the station this afternoon. That's why I had Bardell give you a cabin
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  when you came back, and that's why I took a wheel off your car
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  tonight so I could have you or I could keep my good on you see
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  what you were up to. And now you think you know sure you got
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  a hunts we'd be hold up in here somewhere after we broke through that roadblock
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  in an old Gallus highway. So you come up to snoop around and try
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  to get your hands in that hundred thousand spade. You're a real smart boy.
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  You found the car and then you tag me. So you figured Primrose
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  camp for the hideout out of the body. Else figure in that spade,
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  and you sneak down here tonight and phoned your pal, wanted him to come
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  over to the camp and help you. Help you what dollar? You don't
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  know where jipper is and you don't know where the money is? And what
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  were you planning to do? I thought we might ask you. Yeah,
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  I'll bet you did. Only it didn't work. No, it didn't work.
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  Well, Now there's nothing to do but just sit here and wait for
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  your pal to show. To make sure you wait quietly. So I waited
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  quietly, being somewhat unconscious. There wasn't much else I could do I've been
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  trying to stall Spade until Jed marsh arrived, hoping to tip Jed off in
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  some way before he walked into the trap. But I've been not foxed up,
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  maneuver and then finally just playing out for how long I don't know,
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  but it was too long to do Jed any good. When I came to
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  he was already in the parlor and the spider at pounced. What do you
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  mean get my hands out? You hurt me, didn't you? Right?
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  I heard you? You, mister dollar? What's going on here? Who
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  the devil are you? Anyhow? As you like a bullet right over your
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  belt buckle? Now you broke heresy, Jed. But to do what he
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  says, mister dollar, what happened to you? The same thing that's going
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  to happen to you if you don't get your hands up? What are you
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  worried about? Spade? He's not even packing a gun. I suppose I
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  make sure that, Oh golden lucky, I ain't got no gun. You
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  shift the eyed little sideway. If I had one, i'd feel you so
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  gold dang for a hose. They would shoot me. You hurt Jenny?
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  Not as bad as he'll be and I pay him back for that next to
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  Dollar. Come on, snap it up. I'm not be glad there's a
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  moon tonight. I want to get that feace. So you're real clear in
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  my mind, says I'll know it next time I see it. So I
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  told you to shut up better relaxed. Jed Spade here is pretty jumpy.
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  He's one of the last two left now, and he knows it's just a
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  matter of time. What I gotta do, Dollar, smash that head of
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  yours clear open. I think you'd better go easy on that slugging stuff.
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  Spade. About the next time you swing on one of us, the other
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  one's gonna jump you. I was wondering if you had the same idea I
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  had, mister Dollar. Either one of you makes a move, it'll be
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  your last one. You see. Jed, he's jumpy. He and the
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  Chip are up at Dinning Road. They got no place to go from here,
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  and Spade knows it. A couple more days they'll figure we got clear
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  away from this part of the country. They won't be looking for us around
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  here. That's when we'll leave and we'll get away with it, provided Jed
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  and I don't tell him where you want you won't. That's one thing I'm
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  real sure of this here. Varmon wouldn't be aim drew us in, would
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  you, mister Dollar? I wouldn't be surprised if he had something like that
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  in mind, Jed. Am I right, Spade? What have I got
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  to lose? That's a very logical attitude. What he means, Jed,
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  is the fact that the gang has already murdered three people, and since they
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  can only hang Spade and the Jibber once, a couple of more killings won't
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  matter very much. Man has something to me, seeing as I'm to be
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  wonderful more. Yeah, and to me seeing as I'm on the other.
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  But that's spades problem, of course, having two of us on his hands,
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  even with him having the gun, that's pretty touchy business, right Spade,
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  Get on your feet. Dollar, Sure, we'll stay as far apart
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  as he'll stand for Jed. So he'll have to swing the gun if he
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  goes for me first, jumping fast, I gotcha seen it happen once in
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  Plapart during a gold strike and nine shot. Now Spade's got an even worse
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  problem, Jed. He's so scared Jumpy he may even miss his first shot.
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  Then he'll have both of us on him. They can I be jumpy
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  too. Oh if I was standing there where he is, What are you
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  talking about? Next to the edge of the cliff, that way close to
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  all them bouldered What about them? Just snakes? That's all snakes. You
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  shouldn't have told him, jid. I was hoping he blunder on to one.
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  Where's any snakes might be anywhere around you? There along four sun up.
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  When the starts getting chilly, they crawl in around the rocks and get
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  warm. You city fellers, order have a nurse to keep it any Wait
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  wit a minute, I wouldn't move around much fiberus. You not without flashlight.
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  I haven't got a flash I have right here in my pocket. Now,
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  I keep your hands up. I seen that trick pull before you throw
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  the light in my eyes to give dollar a chance to jump. Men,
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  you've got a real suspicious nature. Space snakes. There's probably no snakes within
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  ten miles. What's that? I got space ware? The other way,
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  it's right there by your foot. Go back, let me get the flash.
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  Not that way, Spadine, you're gonna step on it. No,
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  he stepped back on that loose slab on the edge, mister Dollar. Yeah,
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  I was sure his last step Jenne, I must be a four hundred
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  foot drop there. I didn't name for this to happen. I was just
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  trying to upset him so as we could jump him. How'd you make that
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  noise? Anyway? With this set of old timber snake rattles stuck on a
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  pine sliver, you just rub your thumb on it and it starts some going.
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  Use it sometimes to spook a tenderfoot, And you sure spoke one tonight.
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  I can't say I'm too sorry at that, mister Dollar. He wasn't
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  aiming no good for us, And that's a dang sure three down on only
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  the chipper himself has left funny about life sometimes, mister Dollar. That's bad
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  fellow went around striking out at people like a snake does, and he died
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  the same during way, all smashed on the rocks, just like a snake.
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  Guys, now here's our star to tell you about the final episode of
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  this week's story Tomorrow. A lovely girl screams in terror as a cornered rat
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  turns and fights back, fights the way a rap fights. Join us,
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  won't you yours truly? Johnny Dollar m Yours Truly Johnny Dollar starrying Bob Bailey's
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  Transcribed in Hollywood. Written by Les Cutchfield, it is produced and directed by
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  Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night, same time and station
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  for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome
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  Back. I have to admit there were a few points in this story,
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  particularly in part three, it was kind of doubtful of how Johnny was going,
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  particularly with as much pressure as he was applying, but I think most
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  of it was necessary, except for the last conversation with the old man.
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  I think it could reasonably be assumed that they were being forced into this and
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  the daughter was being held hostage, but that didn't matter since they pretty much
• 28:49
  decided to follow him anyway. I really do like the confrontation that ends the
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  part, for it's just a great dramatic up and it puts you right on
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  the edge of your seat as Johnny and the prospector both keeping their heads and
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  really rattling the nerves of the guy with the gun. It was just a
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  very classic maneuver with tension building right up until the very end of it.
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  Of course, there's plenty of work to be done in Part five, and
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  I hope you'll be back with us for that. All right, Well,
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  I mentioned on Monday that we only have three more weeks of the five part
• 29:32
  Your truly need Dollar after this week. In four weeks, we'll begin to
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  present you the Adventures of Philip Marlow will be starting out with the NBC version
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  of that series. In two weeks, we'll bring you a sneak preview with
• 29:45
  a Lux Radio Theater presentation of Philip Marlow. It'll be sure to listen on
• 29:51
  Wednesday next week, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, then a Philip Marlow Lux
• 29:56
  Radio Theater presentation, and then the following Wednesday, our last episode of Geors
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  Truly Johnny Dollar, before we begin two years of Philip Marlowe. Well this
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  week, just join us tomorrow for Nick Carter. In the meantime, send
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  Grahamson and off