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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Meg’s Palace Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP1217) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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You can support the show. What support not Great Detectives dot net. Well,
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it's time now for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. It's The
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Meg's Palace Matter, Parts three and four from Hollywood. It's time now for
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Johnny Dollar. Oh listen, it's after midnight and I don't feel it.
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Tim beat me. I want to talk to you, Oh the ohs A
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very uncoperative mayor chief of police in general do nothing in this town? No
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you just a minute. I asked you for help this afternoon and finding out
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who's threatening to put Meg McCarthy in a restaurant out of business? What do
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I get? A snide warning from you that the people of cond Harbor don't
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want outsiders messing in their affairs. Well, I don't believe it if you
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listen to me, And why want you here? A little while ago when
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somebody slugged me, what who do you think? Pick you up in that
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alley and put you to bed at makes place? You you want to come
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over here and talk to me? Now? I know it's okay, Beasley.
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If my head stopped spinning long enough, I'll be right over tonight and
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every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the
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Action Packed Expenser COUD America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar. From
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location, Cod Harbor, Massachusetts, the Inner Coastal
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Maritime and Life Insurance Company, Boston Assignment, the Makes Palace Matter expense account
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continued expense account. Well, so far here in Cod Harbor, there's been
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a little need for it. Make mccarthy'd given me a small room above a
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restaurant and provided all the food I could eat. My own two feet were
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the only means of transferation. The only shops were along the waterfront that they
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were suppliers to. The boats tied up the various docks, and a motley
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lot of boats they were. Some were big schooners dating back to the last
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century and still carrying sail. There were power boats of all shapes and sorts
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and sizes, from eighteen footer is with one lung gasoline engines the big sixty
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and seventy foot diesel jobs. Trouble of the sword I'd come to investigate seemed
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out of place in this otherwise peaceful little village. Come in, Dollar,
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So you have suffered a change her heart, obviously, and you've decided to
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go operate. Yeah, that's about the best way to put it. I
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guess she's wait before we go any further. What was this bit about picking
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me up after I got socked on the head a while ago. Listen,
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mister Dollar, after you left here this afternoon, I got to thinking maybe
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I was wrong in giving you the back of my hand, and maybe you
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was right, and walking out mad like you did, Well, how did
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you feel the insurance company back in Hyford, it's word from Meg McCarthy that
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somebody's threatening to burn up that joint on the waterfront. She calls a restaurant.
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It's insured for fifteen thousand dollars and she's insured for twenty five. I
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know, I know, well, you see, it's this way. And
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when I get here, I learned that somebody has already tried a couple of
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times to set fire to the place. All right, all right, I
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learned a long time ago. And in a case like this, it's smart
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to enlist the help of the local authorities here in Cod Harbor. Those authorities
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all seem to boil down to you. Why I will never know? Yeah,
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like I told you, And what do I get from you? The
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cold shoulder, the back of your hand as you put. I got to
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explain to you, mister Donald, And then go ahead and explain, and
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believe me, brother, I'd better be good. Well, they probably ain't
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another village like this in the whole country, see technically, or we're supposed
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to be part of Barnsboro, a few miles inland. But we've always left
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them alone, and they've always left us alone. Any trouble happens, you
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settled it amongst ourselves. And because we're such a small place, it's getting
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along with everybody you're get out. See. So we just don't have no
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trouble, not of any account, that is, unless it's somebody comes in
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from outside and makes it for us. You understand, mister Dollar. Are
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you forgetting it was one of your own towns people who asked me to come
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here and for her own protection. That's what I got to thinking about after
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you left. So I decided maybe I better talk to you. And wow,
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that's how I happened to go over to Meg's place tonight. Was that
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you I saw in the shadows up at the front door. Yes, I
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was waiting for Captain Billy Morgan and his crew to finish cleaning up the place
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for Meg, and I was going to go in and talk to you.
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And that's the truth, mister Dollar. Come on, well, I just
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got there when I heard a noise out at the side of the cafe,
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like a fight. Of course, it was dark, there was no fighting.
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Somebody came out the side door behind me and knock me on the head.
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Yeah, So I took you up and put you on your bed and
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give you time to get your senses back and then telephone to you. You
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sure it was you out at the front of the cafe. Oh no,
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mister Dolly. You trying to implicate maybe it was me to give you a
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Balayan pin over their head? Was that what hit me Beasley a Balayan pin
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Wow, wow, something hit you? And Niger Okay, okay, I'll
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take your word it wasn't you. For the time being, I swear mister
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Dollar by all. All right, then listen, Yeah, I heard that
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side door open just before I started seeing stars. Huh. Yeah. That
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means whoever struck me must have come from inside the cafe. Say, yeah,
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yeah, that's right. The only people inside were Captain Morgan and the
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crew of his fishing boat. You sure, I'm sure because I was in
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there myself just a minute before, just Billy Morgan. And there's three men.
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Where was May? She's gone up to bed. I just stepped outside
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for breath of air. Holy uh, holy Jensen first May. Yeah,
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I heard Captain Billy call one of Molly his name's Jensen. Huh. And
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then there's Charlie Charlie Buttons a deck Hanne and Montgomery the engineer. Well,
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no, no, not one of them could have done it. Isn't that
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like saying I didn't get hit one of must have done it. No,
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sir, mister Dolley just couldn't make any sense. Oh, I tell me
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this, Are any of them related to the guys who run the other cafes
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along the wharf. No, no, but you are, aren't you Busney?
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Huh to Clem Harris at the silver plate or is it the recy plate?
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Anyway, here's your cousin, isn't he? I told you that?
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But if you think he had an all right, now, I don't know
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what I think. Let me tell you this. If you have suffered this
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big change of heart, it's about time you started proving it. I'll do
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anything you say, mister down all right, Meg seems to think the threats
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and attempts to burn down her place came from her competitors. Well I know
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she does. But show in a couple of hours, I'm taking off of
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the fishing banks with Captain Morgan and his crew. Maybe I'll be able to
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spot which of his men laid me out in the alley if it was one
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of them. Meantime, you see, if you can dig up anything that
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would put a finger at the other cafe owners, that means Ernie at the
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manor house, Tony who runs Irving's chopped. So we joined and your cousin
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Clem Harris. Okay, mister Dollry, I'll do it. Hey. By
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the way, did you ever check their handwriting against the letters make received well.
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No, I never quite got around to it. I don't think you
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ever got around to doing anything. It's such an easy job. I'll do
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it. Get the letters from Meg and check them. Yes, sure,
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I'm going to try to get a couple hours sleep before we take off on
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the lily hand. Yes. Sure, the big lazy slob. The first
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time I met him, he'd actually boasted about his soft job, about how
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nicely he could live in the town without having to lift a finger. Oh
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sure, the sudden change of heart may have been genuine, but I wouldn't
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have bet on it, and I still had no proof. It wasn't he
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who slept me, and one of Meg's rival eateries was run by his cousin.
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But then everything indicated that whoever struck me had come from inside her own
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cafe. So I decided it was more important than ever that I go on
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the next day's fishing trip. Back in my room on the second floor of
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Meg's palace, I fell asleep. The mint of my head hit the pillow,
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and I could have sworn it was only a second later that mm hmmm,
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who is it? Time to get up and out? What do you
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think it is? You're going out with the boys. Just get them,
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lazy bone. It's still pitch dark, bad are for the age time he
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was up. Here's the light for you. Turn that thing off. Now
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here's some coffee. Take a sorcery or to choke yet that strong? But
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in a way, Johnny boy, what happened to you? Just what it
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looks like? Your head? Somebody just got real friendly with a bullion pin.
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Right after you want to bed, they come up here and attacked.
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No, I was outside by the side. Who overdone that too, Johnny
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boy? So help me to find out who'd done that. I'm sure you
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want to get up and go out to the banks. Maybe No, No,
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I'll be all right. And I think it's pretty important I go out
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with ket and Billy and his boys because I have a sneaking suspicion one of
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them may have done this. Why the dirty knife? And oh no,
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Johnny, I must be wrong. Oh don't you know, darling, that's
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the finest growthman in all of Cod Harbor. I'm not so sure. But
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then you you mean you think one of them could also be behind trying to
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burden me down and maybe me with it. You can be mighty sure.
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I'm going to try to find out. Oh, Johnny boy, I pray
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that you're thinking wrong. Anyhow, If you're going with them, well open
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out with you the time here in your clothes. I'll have some grits on
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the table for you, eggs and pork chops and donuts and jack. I'm
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at the crew with the Lilande at that breakfast breakfast. Considering the amount of
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food set before them and the way they piled into it, you'd think those
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four men had need for a month. And I must confess there was nothing
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about them that looked like cause for suspicion. First it was Charlie at tall,
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brown eyed, young fellow, alert and pleasant, with a sense of
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humor, and he was obviously liked by the others. I think you just
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got the dreaming about some nice, pretty gallant. When you reached out and
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tried to grab her, you fell out of bed, and that's the way
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you got banged up. Montgomery a bit older, the man who was responsible
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for the engines on the board, gray haired, lean, worrying with narrow
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fingers that looked clumsy, and somehow never made a clumsy move, whose blue
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eyes looked straight at you when he spoke. Don't you believe? And you
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can blow me down, mister Dollar. If that like the most dastedly thing
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I ever heard of here in card Arbor, you best stack close. That's
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that your friends whilst you're here, I said, friends are made McCarthy baby
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friends as then Alie Jensen, first mate, the oldest member of the crew,
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quiet calm and official, the soft spoken one. It's not for me
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to inclare why you hear that business you're about, mister Dollar, and they
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don't. But I'm certain it's for the good and any hope that we can
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give you. You're welcome, sir, and I say the different. With
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all this chitter and chatter, when there's three should see for you to catch
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your lazy love churts. Get up from that table and get to work.
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By the time the suns up the kitchen up here. Within a few minutes
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we cast off and the Lily Ann put to sea. Slowly. The lights
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of the little village disappeared after the moon had gone down, and our only
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company out in the dark water was the twinkling stars and the occasional running lights
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from the other boats sitting out for the fishing banks. Captain Billy Morgan stood
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at the wheel. Montgomery sat athwart the engine cover and occasionally made some slight
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adjustment or indicated the change of throttle to the captain Young Charlie, and only
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made ready the two small boats and trap lines. For today we'd go for
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codfish in the deep that lay along the edge of Taylor Banks. I stood
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alone up in the bows, looking over the curling wash as it scattered the
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myriad microscopic beams and gave a soft phosphorescent blow to the water gliding past.
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And I wondered, I wondered why there had to be trouble in this world
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where honest labor by men could do so much more. Honest men, nah,
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not even among this crew. One of them had to be the man
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who'd attacked me, was probably the one who had threatened to burn make McCarthy
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out of business. So I better have it. I better get back af
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talk with them, watch their every move, try somehow to trap one of
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them into saying something that would give them away, or maybe who knows,
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give all of them away. And above all watched my step. There was
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a long way back to shore, and the darkness and the sound of the
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engines could all too easily cover up an untwort act by one of them.
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It did before I could lift my head, a powerful pair of arms that
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picked me up bodily and dropped me overside. In the brief moment that I
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remember, I felt the strong tug from the big propellers as the water closed
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over me. Then a terrible glow against my side, and nothing. Now
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here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story. Tomorrow,
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the motives for arsen and murder begin to take definite shape in the form
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of a confession. Join us, won't you yours truly, Johnny Dollar?
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Yours truly Johnny Dollar is starrying. Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. It
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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 the same time in station for the
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next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. By Rowan, speaking from Hollywood.
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It's time now for Honey Dollar, doctor Lionel Champion. Here, mister
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Dollar. I'm surprised mc McCarthy didn't answer. I ordered her to keep you
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in bed there at her place until I could see you again. I am
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in bed, and I take it to the doctor who bandies me up this
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way, put on this splendid that's right after I tangle with a propeller at
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Captain Morgan's fishing boat this morning, Yes, only it was yesterday. Hum
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hm, you were unconscious when the captain and his men brought you in.
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After treating you, I gave you sedation. Oh, rest was the most
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important thing. How did you ever happen to fall off that boat? Doctor?
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I was pushed tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed
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Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance
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Investigator, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location,
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Cod Harbor, Massachusetts, the Inner Coastal Maritime and Life Insurance Company, Boston
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assignment. The Meg's Palace matter report, an expense account continued. As soon
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as I hung up on Doctor Champion, I again checked the splint on my
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right leg and confirmed the suspicion that I couldn't possibly walk on it. Then
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a few minutes later Mg McCarthy came into my room. She carried a tray
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filled with enough food to choke a horse, and while I piled into it,
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she brought me up to day. It's in Barnsborough. The doctor Champion
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has his office, and lucky it was for you. He happened to be
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here in Cod Harbor and his weekly is that. Oh you were a sorry
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looking mess when the man brought you in yesterday. The doctor said, you've
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been out as cold as a cod fish ever since, but he can tell
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by the looks that the rest has done a lot for you. On your
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feet, no matter of fact, Meg, I feel pretty well, pretty
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good there. You see. You've got to take it easy, like the
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doctor said, just lather, undressed and sleep. And it told the good
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food I bring you. Yeah, accept And unless I get up and going
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on, you'll try that and I'll lash you to the bedpost doctor's orders is
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doctor's ordists. So don't you try nothing different. Yes'm, it's a miracle.
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Praise be that that propeller on the lily and didn't cut you to ribbons.
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Captain Billy and his crew brought me back here. Who else where are
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they now? Fishing out on the banks? Of course, what did you
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expect? Don't you know they have to earn a living, the same as
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me and you? And what about keeping up the payments on that seaging bathtub?
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Precious little time they had for fishing yesterday after that fool trick you've fallen
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off over? Is that what they told you happened? Of course? What
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else? Meg? Which of the men told you I'd fallen off the port?
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All of them? Only the first mate, young Charlie Montgomery, the
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engineer, and of course my Willy by hisself, Captain Morgan for you,
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And they all told it the same way. What why not should we after
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making up fairy tales? How did they tell it? You're sure that screw
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didn't hit you on the head too, you lost your memory? How did
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they tell it? Meg? It's important. Well, whilst they went about
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their toures, you were standing alone up in the bows. They'd heard you
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yell despite of the darkness they see in you splash and the fast prescent wake,
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and there you were being sucked under by the prop And they all told
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it the same, exactly the same, even you, Charlie Buttons kept saying
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it over and over. I saw it. I saw it all like well,
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you know, like he was still struck with the fear of what might
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have happened to you? I wonder, Well, stop wondering and get yourself
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some more sleeper. The doctor will have me head, and if he does,
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I'll take it out on you. And believe me, Johnny boy,
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that will be a lot worse than the full accident was. Listen to me,
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it was no accident. What I was thrown overboard, Oh Johnny boy,
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your raven, delirious sort of your head. I was leaning over the
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rail, watching the water, and a powerful pair of arms belonging to somebody
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aboard that boat picked me up and tossed me over Saints Oh, Olie Jensen,
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Young Charlie Buttons, Montgomery, Captain Billy himself. Yes, that travin
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Johnny, you must have got hit on the head. And I'll bet my
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last bucket whoever did it is the same one who slugg me in the alley,
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the same one who's threatened to burn you out of this place. He
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Oh no, the minute I get up out of this bed, tell me
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something. Yes, Tim Beasley, you're a police chief in Mayor and so
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on. Yes, as even up here to see you, that good for
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nothing blurthers guy to know. And what's more, if he shows his ugly
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face in my establishment. I'll toss him out and his beamans which idea ask?
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Because I told him to get the threatening notes from you check them against
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the handwriting up several people here in kott Harbor who like that snivvellant cousin of
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his, Clym Harris, that runs the Silver Plate Cafe. Well, he
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ain't been here and I won't have him here. I take it you and
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he don't get along. Of course we don't, because ever since his cousin
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Clem has been in business, Tim is threatened to close me up for what
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reason, to break in town ordinances on restaurants the Kindian forces over to Barnesburrow.
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Well have you been breaking them no more than no less than dear cousin
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Climmer twenty fourteen or Ernie Tourner does after they're harsh joints. But me he
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always is picking on. And why because I get most of the business from
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the fishermen. So you want to suspect in this case, Johnny boy even
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ain't enough for me, Megan, the other cafe owners all right, So
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he'll give you one. Tim Beasley and Clem Harris working in cahotes and if
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it wasn't one of them, way, lady, And oh wait a minute,
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neither of them could have been aboard the lily inne then you must have
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fell. Oh Megan, when is the doctor coming to see me? You
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should be here by now. If he doesn't come pretty soon, I'm getting
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up and going Orderers and orders. Johnny WELLTIF suspects why Meg McCarthy yourself could
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have rigged this whole thing, called me in as a cover up while she
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burned up her place to collect fifteen thousand insurance, even her intended Captain Billy
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Morgan, who'd collect her life insurance as she were to die in a fire.
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Tim Beasley lazy slam of a general fact totament, Cod Harbor to put
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Meg's palace out of business in behalf of his cousin, Clem Harris, or
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Clem himself one of Captain Billy's crew. For some reason, I had neet
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fathomed. Half an hour later, Doctor Champion arrived look me over, and
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then went to work with a pair of bandage shares. So no, we'll
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take off that splint. Oh but if something's broken, Doc, not a
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thing broken, mister Dollar, just an old trick of mine. Ah,
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you needed absolute rest until I could see you again. And from what I've
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heard about you, you wouldn't have taken it unless I fooled you into it,
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and that was the sole reason for the splint tak here. I wonder,
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there we are, and in view of your surprisingly good condition, I'd
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say you may be up and a round as soon as you honestly feel able,
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say even tomorrow. Perhaps I had them eight ten dollars for medical services
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all the doctor Champion would accept. Needles to say. As soon as he
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left, I planned to get up and get to work. But as he
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walked out the door, Make brought Captain Billy and a visit and cimpathize,
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so in hope of keeping him off guard, I played real sick. Then
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only a Montgomery came in too. But I needed to get these men alone,
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and I must admit being feeling better than I did. Then I realized
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that young Charlie hadn't gone. I asked about him, Johnny. He said,
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as long as the doctor was keeping in bed two three days, he
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could see you when he gets back. But wait a minute. You went
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to pick up some supplies for Meg here, like he always does. It
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gives him a chance to drop in on his sister where he keeps his Sunday
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clothing things. He wasn't out on the boat with you today. Ah,
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Meg spoils the lad that way, always has him going in for supplies when
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I need him the most. Look here now, Willie boy, you talk
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like I was the one picked today. Of course didn't. And don't you
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tell me he said it. You're off your course your wife. Do you
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want mister Rollard off you? Oh Johnny boy, I'm sorry, Sup,
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It's okay, And tell me I'm sorry if I seem to be raising my
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voice. Oh bless you megas that fiery spirit that keeps me loving you.
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But now, why don't we leave the poor man alone to recover? Huh?
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Come on, yes, come on out your after you make right Montgomery.
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Wait, mister Donner, I'm not do for you to ease your bed
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of Pain'll drink you something of a bottle of board the lily. No,
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no thanks, I want to talk to you about you. A real fine
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lady is I'm sure he'd be wanting to see you. And he gets back
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from his visit in no, no wait, Captain Morgan said he has a
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sister in Barnsborough. Do you know the address that I do? Many's a
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foreigner. We've had from her on all time. Off. Well, I
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want to see her, you know, just a little personal thing. Then
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right down the address for you. She lives in a pretty little lass.
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And maybe Montgomery was the wrong one. I don't know, but I had
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to gamble somewhere along the line, and if my suspicions about Charlie Buttons was
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right, I hoped that wouldn't be too late. When Montgomery had left,
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I sneaked out the back door to avoid Meg and hurried over to Tim Beesley's
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office in the shack that functioned as Cott Harbor City Hall. He wasn't there.
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A woman who lived next door informed me he'd taken off in a hurry
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to Barnsboro. So Beasley had gone to town after Charlie, or had he
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by twenty five dollars that's had him nine. I rented a creeky old truck
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and headed for Barnsborough. Charlie's sister's house was on a gravel road out on
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the edge of town. There was no other car there, so I stopped
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in front of the place, got out and walked up to the front door.
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Sorry, mister, but my sister, mister Donald, Oh, Charlie,
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Yeah, I meant to say, why did you come in? You're
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glad to see you're all right, mister Donal, I am. That sure
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was awful. You're falling off the boat that way. It's a matter of
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Charlie. Aren't you feeling good? Yeah? Sure, sure I am.
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You look a little pale, and say, where where packing up to leave?
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Huh? Yeah, Well I'm tired of the fishing business, mister Dollar,
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going to give it up because somewhere else during a living tired of Yeah,
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why did you do it? Charlie? Huh, I don't know what
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you mean. It took somebody who knew that boat pretty well to sneak up
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on me in the dark and push me overboard. Took a strong young pair
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of arms to do it, too, yours, weren't they? Well,
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I didn't want to do it, mister don So help me. I didn't
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want to. Who made you? He found out? He found out about
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me? About my record? What record? That I killed the man once
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accidentally when I was just a kid, and I'd run out and escape from
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the reformatory. But now I'm grown. If they ever catch me, they'll
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hang me or the electric chair up for life. And he knew that,
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Charlie. If I didn't do anything he said, like slugging you or trying
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to start the fires or anything, he'd give me away. So I had
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to, don't you see, I couldn't help myself. He made me do
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everything, Charlie. Hold Charlie, it's all right. You don't need to
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rough me up. Dollar. I knew i'd get caught up with some day.
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I'll go quiet with you, and maybe maybe you'll help it to try
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and get things easy for me. Charlie, who made you try to kill
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me? Yeah? Yeah, it was so we could get you out of
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the way and burn up Meg's palace and her with it. I'll tell you,
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mister Dollar, it would there at the window behind you, that old
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trick. Oh no you. The boy fell against me, pinning me to
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the floor, and as I pushed him away, I saw the patch of
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red slowly spreading on the front of his shirt, directly above the heart.
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By the time I got to the window, a car had taken off down
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the old gravel road and was completely obscured by a thick cloud of dust,
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and I wondered. I wondered for whom the shot that killed Charlie had really
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been intended. Now here's our star to tell you about the final episode of
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this week story tomorrow. A killer strikes again, but one of his victims
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rises from the grave to strike back. Join us, won't you, Johnny
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Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starrying 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 the same time in station for
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the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back.
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Well, I've a good idea who did it now? But that may
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also just be me remembering, or I could be from when I've heard this
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before. But an interesting case, some pretty good characterization, and a lot
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of dialogue dialects, excuse me. The only one that really didn't work I
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think was the only one. But they may also have been trying to avoid
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overdoing it, which often happens in old time radio programs where the attempt to
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do that accident just goes totally over the top. I also love the cliffhanger
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for part three. It was kind of a shame the way we set the
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show up that we go right into part four at any rate. Onto the
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listener comments and feedback, and have this from Arthur, who actually I mentioned
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him as supporting the show on Tuesday but forgot to read his message. He
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says, we listen every night, so thanks for the podcast and also says
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bought your book from my Kindle. I read it and kudos to you.
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Well, thanks so much, Arthur. Really do appreciate the comment and appreciate
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everyone who supports the show and also people who purchase and enjoy the various books
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we have out there for the Kendle. All right, well, that will
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do it for today. We will be back with you on Thursday with Nick
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Carter, and then we will wrap this case up on Friday, so be
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