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his comments at the end of the program. Here now is today's episode of
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Yours Truly Johnny Doller. This was one that was promised actually after the year
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Old More audition and at the end of the Bob Daily Bailey script from last
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week. So here now is the Molly Ka Mander Part one and Part two
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from Hollywood. It's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny Doller, Dave Borger,
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Johnny Marine and Maritime casually hid awful. I'm in mourning Johnny from Molly
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Kay. Oh sorry, Dave, you have my sympathy. Save it.
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This is money, not sentiment. We had her insured for a cool half
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million you mean, dame's come that high these days? Oh, but a
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rusty old tub of a freighter does. What happened? She steamed out of
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San Francisco Bay bound for Yokohama, twenty miles off the Golden Gate ge upended
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and departed this world forever real sudden, too sudden. I don't like things.
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Why don't you fly out there, Johnny? Take a look at the
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remains. Sure, as long as you're willing to pay for it, you're
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hired. But be careful. Don't get yourself killed while I'm on an expense
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account. Dave, You've got a lot to learn tonight and every weekday night.
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Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Band with the Action Packed Expense
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Account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense Accounts submitted by
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Home Office Marine and Maritime Casually, Limited,
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Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during the investigation
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of the Molly k Matter. Item one one hundred and sixty four fifty Plain
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Fair and Incidental's Hartford to San Francisco. It was mid morning when I landed,
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and the city on the Seven Hills glittered under the bright sun like a
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fabulous horde of jewels. A cool chris breeze was driving the usual night's bank
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of fog out toward the open sea, and the clear waters of the bay
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danced and sparkle from the touch of the wind. It was a day and
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a place that felt lusty with life and the joy of living. And yet
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thirty six hours before, the freighter Mali Key, with a crew of forty
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three men, had steamed out across this same bay, passed under the high
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arch of the Golden gate Bridge, and disappeared into the gray oblivion of the
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Pacific, gone down to her death. Item two a dollar fifty five local
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transportation limousine to my hotel, where I barely had time to check in,
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Then a taxi down to the foot of Market Street, where Harbormaster Tim O'Rourke,
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a grizzled old veteran of the port, was about to preside at a
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preliminary board of inquiry in the Ferry Building. All Right, boys, all
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right, let's have it quiet. All of us know what we're here for.
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But just to make an official I have to announce that this is the
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preliminary hearing of a Board of Inquiry investigating the loss by sinking of the vessel
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Molly Kay. Needless to say, for you that know me, the proceedings
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are going to be pretty informal. All right now, the bare facts seem
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to be going something like this themali Ka cleared her birth at p twenty nine
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at ten twelve pm, night before last destination Yokohama, primary cargo grain.
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The Maley Kay was a steel hull Class C freighter, oil fueled with a
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steam turbine drive. She was under the command of her owner, Captain Edgar
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Brawley of San Francisco. How is is Captain Brawley presents? I am,
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but if you're expected me to tell the lady Captain later all right? At
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thirty eight the Molly k dropped her pilot and proceeded on out to see five.
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Conditions were reported at the time as medium to dance. Then at twelve
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forty nine am, the radio operator on duty at the point beneath a coast
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Guard station picked up the first distress signal. Now I'll call the first witness
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the officer in charge of the rescue operation, Lieutenant Command of Boughton Fields of
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the United States Coast Guard. Will you take the witness, Jack, Commander.
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I'll raise your right hand, Commander, you swear. The testimony moved
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along the whole truth. Not much came out that wasn't already known. The
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Coast Guard commander testified that five minutes after the first distress call, the Molly
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k had sent a second soos stating she was sinking rapidly by the bow.
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According to the message, the vessel had struck a submerged derelict. The captain
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and crew had taken to the lifeboats, and two of these were picked up
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a media. A third boat missed in the heavy fog made shore and beached
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under its own efforts. Well. According to this report, two men,
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William mac machinist and Benny Jan Stewart are still missing our furthest search has now
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been abandoned and these men are presumed to be dead. I think that's all
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commanding, Thank you well. Radio operator Ga Beck take the witness chat.
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While the testimony went on, I studied the teletypes from the home office that
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I picked up at the hotel. Again, nothing much that wasn't already known,
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with a few exceptions. A stray factor two, a couple of odd
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details. Nothing else. But the seats of suspicion are pretty small, and
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if they're kept well watered, sometimes they grow up into nice, tall,
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blooming hunch plants. Then Chairman Old Rook called the witness I was most interested
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in. Well, Captain Edgar Brawley, please take the chair the man who
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stood to collect a half million dollars if the sinking was legitimate. But I
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was pretty sure it wasn't. Raise your right hand, Captain, you swear
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that the testimony you were about to give is the whole truth, and nothing
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but the truth. I do you can sit down. He was a man
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about fifty, maybe older, but he had the body of a young bull,
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hard, stubborn, belligerent. He figured to be a tough lad of
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tangle within quarter on the deck of a ship. Now, captain, will
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you tell us what happened? In your own words? Starting were from the
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time you dropped the pilot. Unless something happened earlier that might have some bearing
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on this case, There wasn't. Nothing happened earlier early had got me barren
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on it. We hit a submerged derelict. That's all. What more do
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you want? To know. Your story, Captain, just for the record,
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be no different from what you've already heard from all the rest of you.
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Here. This is an official board of inquiry, Captain, you like
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it or not, I will be the judge of what's important and what isn't.
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Yes, well, after we dropped the pilot, I said, of
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course not seventy seven. West aimed to bring us into the main shipping lane
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by daybreak, and I assigned the watches, had the deck gear stowed away,
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opened the trip log, got ready to settle down for the night's run.
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Normal procedure. In other words, that's what I told her. It
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wasn't nothing at wine with your story, Captain. My first officer took over
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the bridge, like he already told you. You didn't. I went to
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my quarters. What was the weather like at the time, Same as it
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been, all even so fargy. You couldn't see a hundred feet from the
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bridge, and you took all the usual precautions prescribed for such a condition,
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of course, go on. Well, it was a while before midnight.
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I was still in my quarters, awake and my bunk when she hit it
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with a big crash like a torpedo. It took us and the lights went
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out. We started losing the headway, and a couple of minutes later the
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engineer cut the engines and pulled its fires. Water had busted right through number
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one and number two bulkheads and was rising fast in the boiler room. Muster
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ripped half the bottom out of her. What did you do next? Called
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the engine room gang on deck, and well, then I give the order
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to abandon ship. She sank less than ten minutes after we got the boats
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on. Well, I guess that's about the size of submerged derelict in the
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shipping lane with an accident, pure and simple. All right, Captain,
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I guess there's nothing mister Dollar. I wonder if I could have your permission
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to ask the captain a few questions. Well, it's kind of unusual,
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but like I said, this is an informal hearing. So, Captain Brawley,
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mister Dollar is a special investigative the insurance company that holds the policy on
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your ship. His position here is unofficial, of course, and you're under
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no obligation. It's up to you. I've told you all I know about
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it. I got nothing to hide if that's what you're talking about. Not
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one single thing. Let a mask till he's brew in the face. Go
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ahead, mister Dolin, Thank you, Captain Brouley. We've heard quite a
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lot about your last sailing for Yokohama night before last, but there hasn't been
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any mention of the first time you started to leave a little over a week
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ago. Ain't no burn on this? Maybe not, let's talk about it
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anyway. According to my report, you were six hours out of San Francisco
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when you radioed the coast Guard to stand by. You had a cargo fire
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and number two holes. That's right. A little while later you told them
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you had the fire under control, but you were returning to port. I
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wanted to check the damage, make sure the ship was sound. Yeah,
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So you laid up in harbor for a week. You filed a claim with
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our home office in Hartford for estimated damages of six thousand, three hundred dollars
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come no more. But when the company appraiser called at your office on Pier
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twenty nine, you refused him admittance to the ship, and an hour later
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you wired Hartford and canceled your claim. That's right, A sixty three hundred
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dollars loss fully covered by insurance and you suddenly decided not to make any claim
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for it. I'd have lost more if I had claimed it. How do
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you figure that? Because I had found out that I'd have to lay up
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here for another two weeks while at sneaking company, your check the facts,
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as they call it. I had a card, go on board, had
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a delivery, did ahead of me. Couldn't afford to waste two weeks.
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What caused the fire? I don't know. Who found it and reported it?
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Oh man named Bill mack alrd. He was one of the two minute
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drown when the ship went down, one of it. What are you trying
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to make out of it? All right, let's quiet down now, let's
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have order in here now. At the time time of the accident, Captain
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the sinking, we're led to believe that it was a little foggy out that
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night. You done it. No, not in the least. That's why
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I can't quite understand how you managed to see that that submerged derelict. I
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didn't see it, then, who did nobody? As far as I know,
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that fog you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. There
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was no fog the next day the coast guard searched the area for hours and
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they didn't see it either. I probably sunk when we hit it. It.
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Just what do you getting that, Dollar? How didn't know there was
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any submerged derrelic? Captain? What do you mean you said there was a
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big crash. All the crew members described the accident as a sudden, hard
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shock. In fact, one of them, mister Hawkins there who was up
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for it on Boo lookout, said it felt like a blast like something.
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Oh no, you don't, mister Hawkins. I didn't say it was no
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blast. What I said was it just kind of felt like one. You
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ain't gonna go putting no words like that in my mouth, mister Dollar,
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You ain't gonna get me mixed up in this mixed up in what Miss hawkings
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this hear, whatever's going on or whatever you're trying to cleam is going on.
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I just don't know nothing about it, about anything. I just don't
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want anybody putting words in my mouth. That's all, claiming I said something
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I didn't that. Well, just what exactly is that you're hitting at,
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mister Dalla, not hitting Captain, I'm saying it. I don't think there
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was a derelict I think the molly K was sunk by an explosive charge placed
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in a hole. Are you accusing me? Not accusing anybody? Not yet?
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All right, let's sell out, drink my own ship, just to
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collect a few lousy books with them insuring. I don't know who did it,
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Captain Prowley, but I'm gonna find out, and whoever it was,
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they're in it up to their neck. Two men died when the molly K
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went down. So this thing is a whole lot worse than just a crooked
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insurance racket. It's a case of cold blooded murder. Outside after the hearing
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adjourned, I turned west and walked along the embark at Darrell. I looked
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at the crowds and the sunshine and the seagulls out of the bay. It
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was all brisk and bright and cheerful. But I felt cold on the pit
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of my stomach. They were scared, and they are, all of them,
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scared to death. The smell of fear in that hearing room was so
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thick you could cut it with a knife. And I meant to find out
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why. Johnny Deller, you don't know me, mister Daller, but you're
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going to wow I can highly wait. You won't have to wait. I
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want you to meet me tonight. Where on the waterfront nine o'clock? Yes,
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it's dark down there at nine it might be dangerous. Are you scared?
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Strange women always scare me. Where on the waterfront here? Twenty nine?
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That's where the Molly Kay was birth before she sank. Molly Kay was
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my mother? Meet me at nine? I don't know. Blind dates never
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work out for me. I'm always sorry afterwards. You won't be sorry this
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time? Is that a promise? Not to promise? From Special Investigator Johnny
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Dollar present location, San Francisco to the home office Marine and Maritime Casualty Limited,
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Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment. The money came at her expense account,
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continued adam three four dollars sixty five cents food. I needed it. It
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had been a rough day. Rough from the standpoint of legwork. I'd covered
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most of the usual sources and usual angles, and for all I learned,
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I might as well have stayed in bed. The freighter Molly Kay had sailed
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out San Francisco Harbor and gone down in the Pacific, and nobody wanted to
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talk about it. They were all too busy shaking in their boots and looking
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over their shoulders, scared to death. I was even beginning to look over
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my shoulder. I had them four seventy cents taxi to the Embarcadero. Sure
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I kept that blind date. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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He keep the change. It was dark and lonely along the waterfront. The
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fog was down, drifting in off the bay, dimming the scattered street lights
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with a damp haze and muffling the sounds of the city. Alcatraz lost and
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hidden somewhere behind the murky, wet blanket kept sounding its mournful warning across the
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water, and the night gulls seemed to cry out and answer to it.
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I crossed the siding tracks and headed toward Pier twenty nine and toward whatever was
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waiting for me there or whoever. The office and warehouse of the Brawley Shipping
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Company, owner of the Molly k, was about halfway out the pier.
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I'd been there earlier in the day and found it closed and locked, but
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there was a dim light burning there now. I headed toward it. Just
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about then, as I passed under the last wharf light and turned toward the
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office door. I started to get that old feeling. I'd had it before
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in other places, once in the heart of an Orinoco jungle, in an
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alleyway and the Kasba of Algiers, one time in London's Soho, and again
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in Suetts. Somewhere close by, hidden by the fog and shadows, there
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was somebody watching. I stood listening, straining to hear some tailtale sound on
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the darkness. Nothing. But there were a dozen hiding places with an a
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radius of fifty feet, and I wasn't fool enough to start searching them.
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Not knowing what I'd find, I turned to open the door to the Brawley
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office. Hands up. He'd been standing behind a post right beside the door.
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Okay, and what are you prowling around here? For? I was
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restless, couldn't sweep and I love that forecorn? Why did they get close
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to it? This is a gun in your back? Amount of pepperin stick.
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I don't say things like that. I faint easy, one more smart,
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crack it? Wait a minute, turn around toward the light. Sure,
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always glad to oblige. Just all right, come on stopping you you're
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gonna break, all right? Come on, get up, Get up,
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come on your feet. Okay, okay, Dalla. So they're right about
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you, you wretch? Is that what they say? I've heard it around
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and how come you jump me? I didn't know it was you until you
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turned toward the light. Just so. Somebody was prowling around the office here
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there? What's going on? It's all right, Ellen, what are you
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doing here? I could ask you the same thing. I just came down
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to do some work on the books. And oh, this is that insurance
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investigator Johnny Dalla? Yes, I know. What do you mean? You
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know? I asked mister Dalla to meet me here tonight. Why what are
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you up to? Nothing? I wanted to talk to him. That's all
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down here alone this time of night, Dean. Suppose we talk about it
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tomorrow? Okay, that's the way you feel, not a matter of how
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we'll discuss it tomorrow, all right? Oh a gun, Dalla? Do
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I get it back? Oh? Sure, hey are don't let anybody take
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it away from me now, don't worry, they won't. I'll see you
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tomorrow, Dean, Yeah, yeah, commend mister Dalla. I followed her
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into a suite of offices that were a lot pleasure on the inside than they
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were on the out. Any paneling, weather, chairs, rugs, sofa
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and open fire burning, small but cozy like the girl itself. So we
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talked the weather, the fog, the weather yesterday, how we like San
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Francisco sparring type talk. Then finally came the tip off that we were going
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to get down to business. Would you like a drink? Mister Daller?
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I poured scotch for both of us, and the clink of ice served as
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opening bell for the first round. Mister Dalla, sounds so oddly formal.
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Do you mind if I call you Johnny? Johnny it is? And you
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Ellen Brawley. I guess I am a little slow in introducing myself, but
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it upset me Dean being out there, I mean, acting the way he
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did. You're Captain Brawley's daughter, Yes, because I told you on the
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phone. Molly Kay was my mother's name. Father thought the world of her,
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broke his heart when she died. Later he named his ship after her,
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and now the ship has gone too. Yes. What about this man
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you called Dean? How does he figure in this Dean Sutton? He's an
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exporter' Oh I've known him for some time. He's not usually the way he
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was tonight. Jealousy always makes a difference. Sure, it's stuck out all
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over him. He just does business with my father. It was his cargo
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that sank with a Molly Kay grain bound for Japan. Oh, I see,
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I've gone out with him quite a lot, but he takes far too
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much for granted. I'm a free agent, Johnny. I call my own
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shots. Yeah, I guess you do, so tonight you call me.
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I've heard about the hearing. How you questioned my father accused him of sinking
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his own ship to collectly insurance. I didn't accuse him, didn't. I
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said, I was sure somebody had done it. He put the shoe on
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his own foot before I even had it out of the box. What makes
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you so sure? Oh? A lot of little things that don't add up?
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What little things don't add up? Johnny? Oh this isn't that.
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Did you know your father put a heavy mortgage on the Molly case seven months
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ago? How did you find a Bureau of Records maritime division? Now,
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when the mortgage comes due next month, he had to install new boilers.
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That's why he did it. He'd have been able to pay it off after
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this last voyage. He'd also be able to pay it off after he collected
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the insurance and have a lot left over. You don't know my father,
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No, I don't. Do. You know who holds that mortgage? A
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woman named Lou Tang, that's right, been an Hona Shanghailu. She owns
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a nightclub up in Chinatown. Quite a girl. You know it very well?
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All right, Ellen, let's quit circling around and get to the point.
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What's on your mind? I don't know not thing, really, I
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guess I just wanted to tell you that you're wrong about my father. I
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mean, if Molly Kay was sunk deliberately, he had no part in it.
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I'll make a note of that, even though your opinion maybe a little
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bit prejudiced. Well are you leaving? I'd be a good idea, don't
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you think. Wait, Johnny, yeh, I was sort of hoping we'd
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be friends. Maybe. Oh. I feel very friendly towards you, do
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you, Johnny? As much as as much as this? That much?
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Johnny, that's pretty friendly. I told you I call my own shot.
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I know, but you didn't tell me you're engaged to Dean Sutton. I
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found that out from a newspaper file mistake his idea. I thought you always
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caught your own shots, Johnny. I've promised you on the phone if you
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came here, I wouldn't be sorry. I'm not good on outside on the
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pier, the fog was thicker than ever. The wharf lights were dim glows,
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and the swirl of mists and sounds, even close ones, were muffled
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and hollowing. I couldn't figure Allan Brawley, at least not completely where she
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stood in this and the reason for the pitch she'd made. I left the
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pier and turned west along the embarcadarl mister Doler over here, get out of
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the light evening here, out of late, mister Hawkins. Well, I
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was waiting around. I kind of wanted to talk to you. I saw
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you come in the taxicab earlier. All right, let's talk. I hope
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you don't hold it against me jumping up in the hearing room that way.
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But I was scared, stared of what, mister Hawkins. I don't rightly
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know that's the trouble. But there's someting strings going on, mister dollar,
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and it ain't safe for a man to let any notices the whole crew feels
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the same way. That's why they ain't talking about it, about what things
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that's happened, things that ain't been brought out yet. I wouldn't be talking
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neither if Bill Mack hadn't been a mighty good friend of mine. Bill Mack,
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he was one of the two men who went down of the ship that
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he did me rest in peace. But you're wrong, mister Dollar. There
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wasn't two men. Bill was only one. What a Chinese steward Mannywong.
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He didn't drown. He was in that lifeboat that got to shore. And
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the men on the boat know it. Why didn't they say so? They
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were scared too. He disappeared later, and they was all scared to see
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anything. I don't know what's happened to back of this wall and keep your
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head down. I crouched behind the concrete tidewall, my gun drawn and peered
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into the darkness, trying to catch some sign of movement behind the blanket of
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fog, listening for some faint sound that might be the giveaway. Nothing,
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And they go hunting in those shadows against somebody who knew the waterfront would be
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about as healthy as stepping out in front of a truck. I gotta get
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out of here, mister Dollar. I got to get away from here,
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Hawkins Waite. I ain't doing any more talking, and it won't do you
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no good to ask pley nor every move a man, mate, I got
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nothing more to say. All I want is to stay alive. So that
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was that fear again. He was scared to death, and I couldn't very
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well blame him. That shot had come close. But there was one thing
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Hawkins hadn't thought I had, and I didn't like the thought that bullet might
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not have been meant for him. It could have been aimed at me.
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Now here's our star Bob Bailey to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this story.
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Thanks tomorrow night, we find out that a dead man can tell a
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tale. It all depends on how he died. John Us want you Yours
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Truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Doller is transcribed in Hollywood, written
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by Less Crutchfield. The entire production is under the direction of Jack Johnstone.
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Be sure to join us tomorrow night, same time and station for the next
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exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller. Roy Rowan speaking say welcome back.
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Well, there was a great example here of what you're able to do when
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you have these multi part shows. With that courtroom scene or the inquiry scene.
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You know, it's great drama classic. You know, it's not something
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you can do in a show where you only have thirty minutes for the whole
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shebang, or at least not something you can do in the kind of detail
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they did in this episode. So good case getting started. We'll look forward
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to more. Speaking of more, we do have some reactions to the Jerald
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Moore performance last week, or I should say a couple of weeks ago.
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Jones says, thoroughly enjoy Gerald Moore as Johnny Dowler on Friday, but I
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like him as Frillop Marlowe and Bob Bailey is Johnny Dowler. I thought i'd
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give you my two cents worth have a good weekend. Well, thanks so
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much. I think there's a probably a fair amount of agreement on that.
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Actually, then Bill says, I listened to the trans specific matter starring Jerald
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Moore. I actually keep a spreadsheet of the OTR shows I've heard, so
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that I don't duplicate them unless I wish to do so. As I searched
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under the title I found that John lun version. It was five fifteen that
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I heard on October fourteenth, twenty eleven, and it's certainly correct. Although
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I've enjoyed many Philip Marvel episodes with Gerald Moore, in his Johnny Doller episode
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he was far too much a tough guy rather than an insurance investigator. To
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date, John alone has definitely been my favorite Johnny Dowler. How I'm looking
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forward to the Bob Bailey episodes as always, keep up the great work.
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And I guess that is a point, and it may be one reason,
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or it may be a reason why the Transpacific matter really is not a great
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audition for a Johnny Dowler. Because there are times when it when being Johnny
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Dollar calls for a good amount of toughness and action. There are also sometimes
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where tenderness professionals and that sort of thing. You know, a wide variety
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of different things needed. What happened in this case is you got had a
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script that really only portray really gave a good option opportunity to portray the tougher
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and tender But I definitely feel that CBS made the right choice when they put
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Bob Bailey on. Then I received this from Dawn. He sent a letter
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Adam again, thank you for all your efforts found new old time radio shows
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that I never had a chance to hear. Next to Johnny Dowler, I
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think Pat Nobacher hires the best. At first I did not like the commentaries,
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but I've learned quite a lot and find myself waiting for something new from
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each of them. Well, thanks so much for your support. Don And
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this is actually about the third donation we've received through the mail and the past
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month or so. It has me kind of thinking about maybe it might be
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worthwhile to get a peel box for the show. If you think that'd be
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a worthwhile idea or not, I'd love to hear from me on that.
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But that will actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with
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the Adventures of Frank Race, and then join us on Wednesday where we continue
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the Molly k matter. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen
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