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it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. As we continue on
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with the modest Touch Matter Parts three and four from Hollywood, It's time now
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for Johnny Dollar. Jake Kessler returning your call. Johnny, I just got
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back here to my office. You've been at the hospital, yes, and
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it looks like hard luck Dennis may pull through. Has he been able to
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talk? He may never be able to. That bullet went right through his
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neck. Anyhow, He's still unconscious. He's the key to the whole case,
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Jake, So follow me here as soon as he canna be talked to
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him. Meantime. Meantime, I'm gonna try to snag me some of these
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Lake Mohave Bess, Lucky Dog Tonight and every Weekday Night Bob Bailey and the
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transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pactics Benskout, America's Fabulous freelance insurance
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Investigator, Yours Trully Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Catherine Wash
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on the Colorado River, to the Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company Kingman,
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Arizona office, following as a report of expenses incurred during my investigation of the
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Midas Touch matter idam eight six dollars twenty cents gas for the rental car that
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I drove down here to the Lake Mohave Resort in the Colorado River just above
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Davis Dam. And what a place, modern, comfortable cabin within spitting distance
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of the lake itself, good restaurant, tackle shop, doc in fact,
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everything to make a fisherman happy to help him fight it out with a luncker
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bass that inhabit the sixty mile long lake. But much as I wanted to
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fish, I had other things to do. First. I wanted a good
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look at the Minas Touch mine. On the advice of the manager hand Pratt,
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I took along Buster favor general fact told him of the resort. I
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like Buster immediately, short, stocky, cheerful, and with keen eyes that
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took in everything that went on about him. Little side road to the left,
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Johnny. Okay, so old hard Luck Dennis got shot up. Yeah,
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apparently because he knew too much. You see when that caven occurred at
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the Minas touched and killed the Haskell brothers. Are you you better go into
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second year on this road? Okay, you're right? Why hide Luck was
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the only person known to have been there with him. Couple that with the
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fact he just got sixty thousand bucks from them to reopen the mine. But
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mine's worthless, Johnny, So I understand Anyhow, Naturally enough, everybody decide
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that hard Luck had done it in all before the brothers could get wires to
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him. It's a funny old cad pretty nervous when I saw him. He
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almost took a shot at me a couple of times when he didn't like something
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I said. Instead he got it. Yeah, Well, he was just
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prospect, and he was all right, man, he's getting up out of
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the ground here and there to live on some left over for a Saturday night
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being down in Hey, you see the workings up ahead, right, But
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when he couldn't seem to make a big strike, like every prospect to try
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as far, that's funny, tried finding suckers for some of his fancy promotions.
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Huh Yeah, but he really wasn't very good at it. He threw
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him out of the Texas oil country, you know. Yeah, so I
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heard. Wow, So that's the minus touch. Not too many of this
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kind of mine anymore, with the entrance going into the hillside this way,
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and I better use this flashlame, Okay, Hey, tell me something,
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fuster. If this mine is worthless, how could hard luck get the Haskell
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brothers to chip off chunks of ore that has sayed over one thousand dollars a
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ton? Well, I got kind of a theory about that. Let's see,
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if I'm right, everything is so covered up with dust down here,
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not having been work for years, ought, it'll be easy to see where
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they knocked off chips for sample to take it back. Well, well,
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well, what are you doing down here? Holy smoke, that's a rattler.
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Yeah, I guess he decided to get in out of the hot sun
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out there. Here. I'll find a big rock or something. No,
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you just wait, handle it. This old pick here. I can get
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them to strake at it. Maybe I can grab them by the tail and
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watch it and crack him like a whipper. So help me by. Sometimes
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you do it right, You can snap their heads right off. Got to
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be careful, oh, not to snap that head against your own self.
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Brother, Yeah, you can see what you mean. No chance of somebody
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having planted that snake down here, is there? I mean like scarp in
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in the monument. Huh. You know those little neat piles of rock you
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see here there in the desert, two three feet high. I thought those
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were where some prospector had stake to clean markers. Yeah, there are monuments,
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they call them. In the old days, they always did the same
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way. How is that? Well, pull a couple of stones away,
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you'd find the old Prince Albert Tobacco. Ten he opened the tin, you'd
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find two things in it. Piece of paper describing and marking off the claim,
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and a scorpion alive as long as he stayed alive. That meant stay
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away, no trespassing. This is mine. I'll be dying. And look
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here here, Johnny, on this pillar. That was the pillar that was
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left by digging around it to hold up the ceiling. Oh you see where
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someone was knocked off with a pig. Yeah, hey, Buster, that
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looks like yelk, it looks like gold. That's what it is. Then
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this mine is rich? Nah, Johnny, you mean the only gold or
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left down here is in these pillars, that's right, and without on the
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roof of cavian. Couldn't it? Couldn't it be short up with wood?
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Why only two, three, four of these left down there? Probably not
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moreing a ton at all? Not worth it, Oh yeah, I see,
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but worth using it to bring in the suckers. Yeah. Well,
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now you want to see how the cave in on the hass wasn't it?
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Sam? Hell is just doing down here this winch in length of wire rope.
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Isn't that the answer to the cave in? Ted Harding over at headquarters,
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and Kingman seemed to think so. Yeah. Sure. Somebody used to
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pull down one of the pillars for Johnny. A winch of this type hadn't
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got any place in the mind. Where would a rig like this be used?
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Well, every ranch in this whole area probably has a couple cattle wrench.
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Yeah, that's right. Hmmm. That gives me an idea about who
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did it. At least it gives me a lead to an idea, or
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at least the kind of questions to ask. Hard luck, Dennis, I
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thought you said he was still unconscious. Yeah, yeah, so I'll have
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to wait. Well, let's get out of here. What he plan to
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do? Now? Oh? Just wait, I guess and do some fishing
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while I white. Oh now that's right down my alley. Only first time
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I'm going to knock off a bit of this oar for a suoner. Yeah,
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this old picked on the well, I take it easy, I shauld
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take it easy now, Johnny, you should know them better than that.
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Let me help you out of that powder rubble. My face was pretty red
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as we drove back to Lake Muhammi. Only once did Buster mention the full
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thing I've done. Yes, sir, If you'd blinded away at one of
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the pillars further in the shaft, we would have been in real trouble.
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Probably ended up like the Haskell brothers, and I suppose instead of planning on
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going fishing, I should have been cooking up some new angle of attack on
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this case. But after all I had been promised fishing time on this trip,
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and until hard Luck Dennis could recover enough to talk. I got the
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boat already and waiting for it, Johnny with a thirty high Johnson outboat on
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it. Oh boy, I can't wait, and I'll take you the spots.
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I know where you can pull out the biggest fight in this beast.
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You ever saw buss the you son of Aghania, attempting me with something I
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can't resist. Well, even loan you my bottle of fast tray fast,
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Yeah, your oil, little dab of that on your bat'll guarantee you fish.
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That's for me. You you sure you wouldn't rather just sit and try
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to figure out some new lead on this insurance case? You want my answer
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here? But has luck would happened? Ham Pratt was standing down by the
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dock waiting for us, with a message for me, Carl Kingman operated number
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three seven. I made the call, is Jake Kessler, Johnny, how's
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the fishing? Well? It wasn't for the message from you, I'd be
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out on Lake Mohave right now. So if that's all you want to know,
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Monny, Yeah, I put in this call to over two hours ago
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when hard Luck Dennis first game too. Yes, yes, the doctor is
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going to be okay. Has he told you anything about who shot him up?
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No, he won't talk to anybody, but you says you're his only
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friend. Okay, Jay, I'm on my way and a half hour flat.
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I was back in Kingman at the Mercy Hospital on the edge of town.
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Not a hard Luck Johnny, Johnny Dellar, that's right, Glad you
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came only one to trust, not like people around town. They hate me.
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Wow. Knew he'd tried to get me. Jenny probably seen me going
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back to the mine. Knew I'd recognize that winch he left her, the
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winch that was used to pull down the mine pillar caused the cavan. That's
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right. A lot of winches like that and the ranchesly Alex, only he
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used that particular make Royal standard, Alex fool, hard Luck Bundy, Alex
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Bundy forming at the Haskles, the two Lazy two? Yes, Ali,
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but why in love Kevin Hasko's wife, Dora? Okay, Okay, will
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you tell the police to court all this when the time comes. If you
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say so, ah, he'll live all right. The doctor says, you're
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gonna be fine. You're gonna be okay. Now, is there anything you
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want? Anything I can have scent of here to make you more comfortable.
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No, thanks, Jenny, just come and see me. Sure, thanks,
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I guess sure, the only real friend I have. Just why he
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felt that way, I don't know. Perhaps it was because he needed a
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friend. I decided I'd better let Jake Kesler in on what I'd learned,
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and incidentally ask him for directions to the two Lazy two. So I drove
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on over to his little second floor office on eas Bomb Drive. Alex Bundy,
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Yeah, that's what Hardlock says, and with his testimony back me up.
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When I find Alex Shoe, well, we'll have a case, a
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good case, which means, by the way, that your company won't have
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to pay off an additional million and a half a double. What's the matter.
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Uh yeah, Jake, I'm going on over and do a bit of
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fishing and Lake Mohabb mister Favor promises to get me a limit of the finest
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bash. What is it, Johnny, what do you do with somebody was
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outside that door listening to us. I'm sure, well, yeah, look
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there he is going down the street. Recognize him, Jake, Where Johnny?
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That's too lady, gun around the corner. But if it's who I
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think it is, yeah, he must have heard all that was said in
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here. Alex Bendy, what's your guess I've been thinking, Johnny. Yeah,
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Old hard Luck Dennis been the key to this whole case right from the
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case. He still is more than ever after what he told me. All
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right, then excuse me Jake Kessler speaking. Oh hello cheef. Hm,
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why oh? What's the matter of Chack? What's the matter? You look
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like you've seen a ghost that was Tad Harding at headquarters the fire escape outside
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the room at the hospital. H somebody clumb up the fire escape used the
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bailing hook. Oh yeah, he's dead now, hard Lucky Johnny Dellar good.
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I was hoping you'd be there at Jake Kessler's office. This iss your
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favorite lake, my hobby resort, Oh high find out anything? Yeah,
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hard Luck Dennis are one real key to this three million dollar case has just
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been murdered. I have an idea. Well, I found something here that
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might have help oh, tired tracks the old miners shack where hard Luck was
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shot. More of the same tire tracks here at the resort Flster. I'm
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on my way. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location Lake Mohave
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Resort on the Colorado River in Arizona to the Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company.
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Following is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of the Midas touch
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matter. Adam nine six point thirty is stop at the sign of the Flying
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Red Horse for gas for my rented car. They get me from King of
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Arizona to Lake Mohabb Resort. About a mile short of the lake, on
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the winding road that led in for the main highway, I found Buster waiting
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in a spot where an old wagon trail cut off to the right. Right
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over here, John hied Buster see him here? These tire tracks in the
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sand, Well, oh yeah, sure, you see three of the tires.
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Look here where the car turned to get around this rock. Yeah yeah.
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Three of the tires were pretty good, had those big knobby treads.
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But this one right front's almost worn smooth? Or is it the left rear?
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Oh, it's right front, Johnny, the car was going north out
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into the desert. Tell by the little skid on this turn, Flus.
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Do you read tire tracks like some people can read footprints. It's just practice
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anyway. These are the same tracks that I found by the old shack where
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you met hard Luck and he got shot at. And let's get into my
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car and follow these up. Oh, Johnny, nothing but jeep could get
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over this trail. Well, why does this trail pick up a highway again?
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It doesn't winds around for eight or ten miles and ends up in the
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lake over by the southwest corner of the fence line on the two Lazy two
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range. And our best bet is to drive over to the two lazy Except
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for one thing. The jeep we're looking for somewhere up that trail. So
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we'll go by outboard what this old trail worms round? Or I have always
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close along the edge Lake Mohave all the way, and the end of it's
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eight mile to one is only about one mile by water from our dock at
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the resort m Then we ought to be able to intercept whoever's in that cheap
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that's right, now, let's go. Lake Mohave was clear and calm and
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beautiful, perfect for fishing. But we had other things on our minds.
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As the thirty horse outboard pushed our fourteen foot aluminum boat along at better than
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twenty five miles an hour, we stayed fairly close to the Arizona side.
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Look, Johnny, see that streak of dust along the shore. Yeah,
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somebody's been driving along there all right. Still is won't be able to see
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who though, until it comes out from behind that ridge of hills over there.
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Hey, that streak of dust hasn't grown any longer. Looks like he
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stopped. Good Bee, I'll head his ind towards shore now. I still
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don't understand why he'd be driving out on a dead end trail alone, unless
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he wants to dump a body or something in the lake. Now that's something
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more thought, all right. But if it is a killer you're looking for,
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you said that trail ends at the corner of it. Hey, wait
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a minute, Bush, Yeah, if it's who I think it is,
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he overheard me tell Jake Kessler, I planned to go fishing out here today.
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So what was that? I won't have giving you trouble? What was
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what there? Herein? Yeah? I heard it, but it wasn't the
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motor. That's funny. What's the look we're taking in water? Those holes
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in the bottom. You take this can and start bailing, right, I
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would drew a lot of holes. No, wait a minute, look at
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them close. They're bullet holes. Holy smoke, you're right, Hey,
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that was a shot came from over on the shore. I saw the puff
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of smoke over on that patch of sagebrush. Come on, let's get out
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of here. Let's swarm us around, Buster here, we've been a para
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city ducks man. You are right. Keep on bailing and keep your head
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down. Swing us around that little point there and we'll be out of range.
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Wow, you see that's fret of water beside us. That guy can
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shoot. You aren't kidding, Paul, kay Buster, you can ease her
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up now or out of his line. Yeah, well, I guess we've
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pulled a bonet, Johnny. Why not having somebody posted on that road while
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we came out here? Uh huh. Now he can climb back and his
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jeep and yeah, there you see trail of dust again going back to the
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highway. I see it. We hadn't taken on so much water, we
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might be able to get back and intercept him on the highway. But it's
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too late. Now. Well, at least we know what to look for.
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What the cheap that's made those tracks? Well, isn't it kind of
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like looking for needle in a haystack out in this country? Wester? I
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think I know exactly where to look. I believe I must have bailed a
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good five gallons of water out of that boat by the time we reached the
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dock. Then Buster insisted on going along as I headed back up the highway
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toward Kingman. We stopped where the old trail cut in, only long enough
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to see if the jeep tracks had come back on the highway. They had.
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Now that we're on the way, Johnny, where are we gone?
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Any of these ranches out here used Jeepsbuster, most, all the big ones,
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but including the too lazy two. Yes, right now, Wait a
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minute, I didn't ask you who you thought was shooting at us out there
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on the lake. Who you thought overheard you're talking about going fishing. I
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figured if you wanted to tell me, you would. Oh. The trouble
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is, I still can't prove anything. All right, let me tell you
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who can shoot like that and with that kind of a gun. It was
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a thirty odd six. You could tell by the sound thirty odd six with
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a long barrow. That could mean it had a scope. Site almost have
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to for that kind of shooting. Alex Bundy for a minute, too lazy
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too, that's who hard luck Tennis said, shot at him and it ties
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up. Johnny does it? You got a few too many under his belt.
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One night at a dance party in Kingman, he started yapping his head
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off about how a lot of soft living millionaires from back east could come out
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here and own the place while he had to do all the work. There
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wasn't fair. Worm ad turned sometime, even if he had to help it
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turn, and he'd be the one who count the money. Boyt the time,
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everybody started talking about him and Dora, Dora, wife of one of
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the Haskell brothers that was killed on the mine. Oh, Kevin Haskell,
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go on. Must seems Alex and Durro seen a lot of each other on
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the sly Everybody kind of stood around waiting to see if Alex was trying to
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get some control of the rants. That way, that's union pass right ahead
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over the tops of the road to the left short cut to the two lazy
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two. That's where you want to go in Yeah, Bust, that's where
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I want to go. It was only a couple of miles into the ranch's
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fence line, but I got three miles further to the main house and its
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cluster of out buildings. Buster sharp Eyes first noticed the jeep park by the
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side of what looked like a vic tool ship, and I drove slowly past
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it, slowly enough so that he could study its tires and the tracks on
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the dusty ground. Uh huh, Well that's the one, all right.
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Then keep an eye out for Alex and that gun up his and be ready
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to duck by the main house. Okay, you know, I got a
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kind of funny feeling now that we're here. We should have brought a posse
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along. Right, It's too late for that. Now. It is a
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gun bulging onto your jacket, isn't it. Oh yeah, but I'm wondering
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what chances a little thirty eight lemon squeeze her hands against the high powered rifle.
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Oh, come on, keep your eyes peeled, Johnny. I'm beginning
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to feel like I'm right in the middle of an old time Western movie.
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Maybe you are a Buster, Maybe you are why buster, or how are
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you, Dora, don't just stand there? Yes, ma'am. The woman
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standing on the porch of the old house looks strangely out of place on this
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big western desert branch. Perhaps it was because of her close two toned sports
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shoes and a cris well tailored white linen dress that serve to accent the lines
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of a trim athletic figure and go perfectly with her short boys cut hair.
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Ms. Hashcher, this is mister Dollar Johnny doallna, mister dollar. Jack
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Kessler told me you were here, come in please, oh say thank you.
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I suppose he told you why I'm here? No, leave the door
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open for the breeze, he said, to investigate the death of my husband,
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Kevin and his brother's in that mine accident. It's it down, won't
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you thank you? Do you think it was an accident? According to mister
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Kestler, you don't why because it means his company would have to pay only
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a million and a half to me instead of three million. Somebody found pretty
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concrete evidence there in the mine that one of the rock pillars supporting the roof
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had been deliberately pulled down. Hard luck, Dennis. But you say is
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true, he must have done it. It was hard like who told me
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about it? Who showed me the winch that was used to do it?
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And that winch missus Haskell could have come from only one place around here,
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this ranch. Oh no, you mean no, you can't mean it's somebody
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here at the ranch? Did it kind of looks that way, doesn't it.
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But who? That's what I hoped you might be able to tell me
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who beside you could profit by the death of your husband and his brothers?
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Who here at the ranch? Alex Bundy? Perhaps Alex how by marrying into
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the family. What are you talking about? That is, of course,
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if one of the Haskell brothers were to die, Kevin, Perhaps that's absurd.
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Oh, I had a notion that you and Alex were someone interested in
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each other. Well, you're wrong. He may have been interested in me.
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He was. As a matter of fact, he made it very difficult
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for me. How do you mean that he kept trying to force his attentions
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on me and you didn't reciprocate it. Of course, not because we'll go
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on, Because I knew what his real motives were. All right, go
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on, this ranch, this ranch is what he wanted. He knew that
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Kevin wasn't well. That's why Kevin had come out here with his brothers in
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the first place. I did hear that he was having a little trouble with
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his lungs. Johnny, he didn't have long to live, not many years,
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that is, even in this hot, dry air. So Alex did
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it? Sure looks there with Johnny. What led you to look for him
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here? It was Alex Bundy who shot up hard Luck Tennis. Then somebody
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overheard me say I was going fishing down at the lake. That's where I
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was shot at by somebody who was not only a crack shot, but more
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important was driving the jeep that's parked outside. The jeep was gone from here
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this afternoon. You know where Alex Bundy is now? He must be somewhere
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around the ranch and you mist get him. Mister Dollar, I'll help you.
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I'll help you find it, but don't go unarmed. Here. I'll
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give you one of my rifles. The collection of high powered rifles is yours,
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Yes, international rifle team in college. Here, I'll give you ammunition
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and buster you take one this thirty thirty. I don't know, miss.
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What mister Dollar says about him is true, Alex may try to shoot before
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you. Mister Dolls, do be ready when he comes in. I want
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to tell me what threw the Jesus you don't w want? Did he use
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it this afternoon? Dora? Well, well don't move, mister Dallas.
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Your gun isn't loaded. Now here's our star to tell you about the final
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intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow. Well, sometimes justice is done by
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strange and devious means. Join us, won't you yours truly, Johnny Dollar?
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Yours truly Johnny Dollar is storrying. Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood.
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It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote this week's story.
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Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time in station for the
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next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking and welcome back.
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I like the way that this story is developing, and a great twist
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