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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lamar Matter, Part Five and Dr. Tim Detective: The Second Alarm (EP1063) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Daller,
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and then after that we'll pick up with doctor Tim Detective. But here now
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is though Lamar Matter, Part five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny
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Dollar. This is Larry Comstock. Johnny, try mutual insurance. You're out
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at the Lamar Yeah, Larry. At least crime Lab find out anything more
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about the stuff from here they took in for examination. Yes, yes,
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they certainly did. Well. They found traces of that poison pyrodamar on the
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toothbrush that Thomas Lamar was using just before he got Are you kidding? Oh?
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No, I need John, not a bit. There's a murder weapon
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for you, a toothbrush. Larry, send the cops out here. I
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think I've just about got this case sowed up. Tonight and every weekday Night
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Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense account
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America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator aust truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special
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Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, South Bend, Indiana to the Universal Adjustment Bureau,
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Hertford, Connecticut. The following is my final entry of expenses incurred during
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investigation of the Lamar murder and murder it most certainly was. It was in
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Lojoya, California, during my so called vacation, that I met, and
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I must admit, kind of fell for Fannie Lamar. It was from Lahoya
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that I flew her back to South Bend, Indiana when we both received news
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of a foster father's sudden death. All the clues I'd been able to dig
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up seemed to point to one Walter Mars, who had been Lamar's personal secretary
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and who lived at the Lamar mansion. Is there in the house I found
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the one book in the world that described the poison Piratedamaran that had killed Thomas
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rene Lamar. Poison derived from a pretty little yellow flower once raised on an
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island near Greece. The flower was sudden death in its pollen. Huh,
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you're Johnny Dollar, aren't you. Harrison? The butler said, you were
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up here and you must be Walder Morrison. What what are you doing in
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my room? Let me ask the questions why system, Look, you may
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as well know it. I'm an insurance investigator, Harrison said, But I
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don't believe it right here my credentials, I see. But I thought you
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thought I was just a boyfriend that Ronnie Lamar met in La Joya, and
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we just came back here with the comforter over the loss of her father.
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Yes, yes, that's right. What you were wrong, mister her Party.
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So the main reason I'm here is to find out who murdered Thomas Lamar
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and why? And I think I found out you had well who, mister
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Downer. Interesting book you've been reading here, Flora exatica Mediterranean stolen from the
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Central Library over in Chicago, wasn't it? Yes, yes, it was
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found a poison in it, didn't you muss pirate Damarn deadly quick and hard
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to trace, so rare that the chances were pretty good it wouldn't even be
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recognized. But it was. Where'd you get it? Walter? As you
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said, I'm talking about the poison, the pirate Damaran that killed Thomas Lamar.
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Oh no, no, no, you're you're all wrong. Am I
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who besides Vannie would benefit from the midion and a half insurance on Lamar's life?
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Well? What made you think that? I know you? Because I
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know you're married to Vannie. No, you tried to figger your way into
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Lamar's business, but he wouldn't have it. All your chiseling and conniving and
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phony stock transactions got you nowhere. So you did the next thing you could
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think of. You got something on Vannie and forced her to marry you.
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So you thought you'd at least be sure of a big hunk of the insurance
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money over my debt. No, look, dall, and maybe I was
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married to Bonnie but found out about her big gambling debts got her off the
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hook by some fancy minute relation of her foster father's investments. No doubt threatened
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to tell him all about it unless she did marry you and thereby guarantee yourself
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a prosperous future. Oh and you timed the whole thing beautifully when she was
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emotionally upset over the death of missus Lamar. No, Dolly, you don't
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know what Kat couldn't wait for him to die on natural death dot mister sure,
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go ahead, speak up and make it good. I was married to
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Ronnie. I'm not now sure that's right. I did want to play some
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Lamar metal products. I thought I could get it by showing mister Lamar how
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clever I was. Well. Instead of throwing me out, he gave me
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another chance. I'll be forever grateful to him the turning point in my life.
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I give you my word, mister Dollar. I've done nothing since that
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time that's been anything but completely honest and above board pretty speech. No,
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No, it's true, it's true, I swear it. Nevertheless, you
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married Vonnie and the whole we're divorced. What it was the only honorable thing
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I could do. Would you like to see the final papers? Bonnie mailed
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them to me from Reno before she went to La Joya. You mean she
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yeah, let me see him right death. Don't try to pull a gun
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out of them. I said, you still don't believe me, do you?
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Yeah? Yeah, hmm. Then would you like to tell me who
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did murder Thomas Omar? I wish to heaven. I knew That's why I
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got this book, hoping to find some clue as to where the Pirateameron might
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have come from. But you sneaked this book out of them because I was
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afraid of the very kind of suspicion that you've shown. I want to know
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something I'm still showing, and I tell you you're wrong. I ask Bonnie,
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She'll tell you. Worrishy. Harrison said, you two had gone out
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together to make arrangements for the funeral. Yes, we did, and we
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came back together. But when Harrison told her that you were here to see
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her, she well, she said she'd be back in a few minutes.
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Where did she go. She's still in the house somewhere, I think,
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Mason, just what is your relationship with Vonnie? Now? Oh, there
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never was any love between us. Our marriage was only on paper. The
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foster daughter of the man to whom I oh so much. It's my duty
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to do what I can for her in spite of her. Remember what h
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even to the end, we kept from him any knowledge of her dissipations drinking
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and gambling. I thought that was all over. She's more deeply in debt
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now than she's ever been. I'm I'm thankful mister Lamar died, but with
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the insurance, of course, she'll be able to pay office. Mason,
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you're a dirty rat, and your accusation isn't very well vaud Are you trying
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to say that I'm accusing Bonnie of them murder? Oh? There go on
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this book. According to this the plant from which pirate Damron is derived is
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next unless somebody somewhere managed to salvage some seas that would then planned exactly where
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for a purpose killing is found only on a small Grecian island. Night.
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I wonder if Dmitri would know. Dmitri, what's this sudden switch? Who's
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Dmitri's the old Gardener's he's here on the estate. Come on, Marson and
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bring that book. Before going out to the gardener's cottage, I asked Harris
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and Wherevanni had gone, and he told us he only knew that she was
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somewhere on the grounds that a car was still on the driveway. I form
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Larry Comstock again, but he left his office, presumably to come out here,
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and I called the man I'd talked to earlier at the library. Of
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course I can. As I told you before, I keep a very close
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check on the books in that section. Let me see now. Yeah,
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yes, Flora Exotica Mediterranean has only been out four or five times in the
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past several years. Once what mister Thomas Thomas Hanley to mister Ralph Cummings,
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Miss Levon Lamar and thanks. I tried not to show Mars how I felt
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as we walked out to the cottage, and Dmitry the old gardener could be
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nothing too nice for mister Lamar. So I always try keep things nice.
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Yeah, I can see, Dmitry, mister Dollar is here to investigate the
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circumstances of mister Lamar's death. Invest Oh, I hope you find will do
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this terrible thing to such a fun I want you to look at this book.
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Yeah. Did you ever see a flower like that? Oh? Yes,
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yes? Where in old country in Greece it used to be, but
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no more you never saw it in this country. No? Yes, well
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which is it? You should not say, because in old countries against the
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law, I don't know why, well I do. Why go on to
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me? But I keep many of my nice seeds anyway, and some of
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them were for this flower. Yes, you don't mind. It is very
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pretty flower. Did you ever plant any of them? Oh no, no,
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not somebody else. She was always so nice to me, funny miss
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Lamar. Look sir, she even sent me gift on her trip last week.
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It's a matrix. Look look you call it toilet case. See it
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have soap and toothbrush and cold dollar teller. Look look that that too brush.
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I am looking the yellow stain on the bristles the same color as the
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flower on the steadly plant. So so pretty, she said her father.
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One of these two, well dollar, I'm sick, sick, frud,
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so corny and so obvious it would never be noticed. And she was safely
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a couple of thousand miles away, beyond any possible suspicion when the dmitreaty.
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Did she plan any of these seeds you gave her? She often planned many
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cups where show us in the morning. Maybe he's getting pretty dune. Now,
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now come on, come on, Marson. Knew you must not tell
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her I show you. She always keep her little garden secret she did not
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even think. I know. She very sweet girl, yeah, very but
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now you know. Oh wait, she there now cultivating, cultivating with a
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shovel. Mtory. Go back to your cottage and stay there. Oh you
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are, Come on, Marson, she's she's sticking and I think I know
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why she sees us. Go away, both of you. Stay here.
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I want to talk to you, Bonnie. What are you doing? And
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I'm doing it. I burying a little garden that was mine for day,
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little personal things Johnny that I grew with my own hands for him alone.
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Now that he's gone, this would be only one more bit of memory.
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Please leave me, Johnny, to finish before you turn under that little yellow
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flower here, I'll show you, Johnny, don't touch it here. Source
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of a poison called piratedamin. How did you know? Look, I know
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you don't do nobody help me, help you, help you. Johnny would
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go help with me, but I turned him down and he came out here.
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I hate you. I hate your boat. Everything would have been all
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right if you hadn't come along. I hate you. What Johnny million dollars
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million and a half do you and I couldn't Johnny, faith don't believe me
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this is one case I wish I'd never seen. I sure you the company
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are all right. You won't have to pay off a million and a half
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in insurance. Your gain. For me, I've lost something faith, faith,
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and I'm sick of the whole thing expense account. I'll land that up
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later. Right now, I'm going out and get roaring, get some flowers,
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some clean flowers, and just sit and look at them. Yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell you about next week's exciting
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story. Next week, tell me did you ever wake up from a pleasant
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dream to find a smoking gun in your hand and two bodies at your feet?
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Well? I have join us next week and I'll tell you about it.
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Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Is starring
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Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack
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Johnstone, who also wrote this week's story. Heard in the cast were Virginia,
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Greg Laurence Dobkin, Harry Bartel, Eric Snowden, Howard McNair, John
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Dayner, Gen Tatum, Joseph Kerns, Paul Richards, and Jack Boyles.
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Musical supervision by Amerigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night at
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same time in station for another exciting story of yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Roy
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Rowan speaking welcome Back. There are some mixed thoughts on this here l I
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kind of saw the solution coming, but that may partially be too due to
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having heard it before. This one also seemed to have some particularly long interviews
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with single characters. I think that the big upside of this series is the
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end for Johnny. I don't think I don't think that Bonnie Lamarar was was
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really planning some sort of thing about who would investigate the insurance claim. That's
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probably giving too much credit to planning. For the normal person to plan out
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a murderer and then to know who exactly is going to investigate it seems hard
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to hard to swallow. So I think her interest in him, whatever it
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was, was not tied at all to them murder case. And of course
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this is the second straight week that he's he's had something like this happened.
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Though he wasn't romantically involved with the secretary, he had kind of taken from
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the last week show. He'd kind of taken a protective stance toward her,
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only to have a sort of betrayal, and uh, you know, I
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think it felt like just a typical hard boiled fem fatale story until you know,
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you got to the end of the story and then that last minute turn
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I thought was brilliant, which a which kind of shows that Johnny will continue
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to to not let this, you know, what he encounters change him in
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terms of turning him into somebody who's just totally hard and cynical. He certainly
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no one's full And I think that what made this happen was that he didn't
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meet her at the time, you know, during the murder investigation, but
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before that, I think he would have been more wary during the murder investigation.
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But we'll see what's ahead for next week. I don't want to let
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you know that. Coming up next week we have our second serial with a
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lost episode, this time part two missing. So we'll have parts one in
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three on Monday, and then we will have another program on Wednesday. Then
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next Wednesday be The Johnny Fletcher Mysteries, and again Friday, we'll have parts
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four and five. This week, it's time for us to go to Doctor
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Tim and today's episode is titled the Second Alarm. This is Doctor Tim detective
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to bring you by transcription, the Mystery of the second Alarm. Well,
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the first caller who knocked on the door of my laboratory and consulting room one
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morning a few weeks ago was a woman in her early thirties. So give
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her name as i've missed. Hugh a Miller doctor, and I lit the
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next house, just beyond the vacant lot. Won't you sit down, missus?
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Thank you? I can told that you're both a doctor and the detective.
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Yes, you might call it that, but I had known as a
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rule to take private cases. What did your problem? Well, I have
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every reason to believe that my husband's father, who lives the US, is
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well not quite right, if you know what I mean. And in the
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next place, I think he's hiding a fortune. Afraid I don't quite see
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you. I thought you might examining him. No, put him away somewhere
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for his last But that's a matter for a psychiatrist. You'd have to get
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his consent or else fell out papers in a legal room. No, no,
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no, no, that's just what I don't want to do. There
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must be any publicity, you see. What I want is to get him
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out of the house. Longe wants to make a throw such as his room.
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He never leaves it, and I'm sure he has thousands and thousands of
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dollars getting in that room somewhere. I almost caught him several times, but
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he's too fell, too crafty, missus Miller. But you're proposing is highly
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irregular, perhaps even criminals. I'll forget what you've told me. Yes.
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At that moment, there was a disturbance in the hall outside. I recognize
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the voices of my two friends, Sammy and Jill and Air I've never heard
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before. Jail is my landlady's daughter, and Sandy's a power. I opened
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the door and into the room they walked with a policeman grasping each one firmly
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by the arm. You're the doctor. Yeah, these kids say they're friends
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of yours. I him, I don't need any harm. We're just having
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some fun. Got I'll we and all them doesn't fire. The ways in
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a lot next to it was, and if I hadn't been walking along on
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my way home, hold on them all and both you kids, officer,
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I think we both realized how serious setting fires can be. Burn the whole
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neighborhood down playing with ntches they will well, we didn't mean. However,
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I can vouch for them if you're home one moment, Officer, I'd like
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to say that it isn't the first time they've been in trouble for setting fires.
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Why old I? After all, I've lived on the other side of
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that lot for several years, and I can figure look of missus Miller in
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amazement, and I should have been able to see right then what he was
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getting at, but I didn't. Chill and Sandy don't ordinarily play with fire,
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and they aren't problems to the neighborhood. I oughtn't know, because we've
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been friends for a long time and they've given me some mighty valuable help in
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my cases. Anyway, Ben, a few minutes, Officer Barton had turned
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them over to my care with a warning. Missus Miller had left after glaring
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at me with a look of hatred, and Sandy, Jill and I were
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alone. From their looks, they were sorry kids, and I could tell
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they were expecting to really catch it this time. There they stood silence and
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scared. Finally, yea, you got get him with dope baker dopeson.
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You realize maybe when you see your hands sandy, Ay, it's nothing,
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it's burnded a little. Still, hand me to serial bandages. M nice,
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oh, still until I get addressing on that burn, greasy sens and
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on it. I am not first, I'm going to clean the hand thoroughly
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to prevent any infection. Ointments and greasy medicines many times are the best means
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of spreading infection and burns. Of course, it's a very severe burns,
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certain infections stopping drugs are necessary. I could say at this point, young
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man, it says you're right now yellow moment. Yes, you're lucky.
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Ever see a human body with really bad burns on it, the kind you
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might have had if your clothes had caught on fire on that big and lot.
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No, not a pretty sight. It can mean months in the hospital,
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infections so bad to look at it would make you sick at your stomach.
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Bessings and burn cases often have to be changed down an anesthetic like ether
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because the pain is so terrible, and you go through more months of operations
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where skin is taken from unburned parts of your body and grafted to the places
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where the fire is burned clear down into the muscles. Sometimes you wish you'd
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died, you'd be scarred forever. Yes, doctors today can save the lives
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of people who have lost seventy percent of the skin and their bodies with penicillin,
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with blood transfusions and blood fractions, and with modern hospital care. But
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believe me, it's the most horrible pain in the world. That's Sandy and
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burn is dressed. I'll look at it again tomorrow. Above wall, don't
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break those blisters. We'll cree Docter Kim, how need to dash out to
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Kim. We'll never play with fire again. About a half hour later,
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Sandy in Jel had gone to think over what I'd told them, I hope,
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and before settling down to some chemical tests, I was making connection with
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the murder case. I happened to glance out of the window. Missus Hugh
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Miller, whom I had almost forgotten in the excitement, was walking towards her
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house with a bundle under her arm. It was a rather sizeable package and
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somewhat odd shape, and I didn't think much about it at the time.
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Instead, as I worked with my laboratory apparatus, I pondered upon the fantastic
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story of old mister Miller, her father in law, and the mysterious treasure
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he was supposed to have hidden in his room. I've talked to him a
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few times, as neighbors will the summer before. I'd put him down to
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my mental notebook as perfectly harmless a little queer in the First World War had
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ended back in nineteen eighteen. He'd been with the Army of Occupation in Germany
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for a while. He had a pension, and he told me, and
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I had decided a year or so ago to come live with his son and
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daughter in law. That was all I knew, except that his health was
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none too good, and he rarely left his room these days, and hadn't
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been out of the house and fall. But where this is Hugh Miller had
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gotten hold of the idea that her father in law was hiding a crazy I
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couldn't imagine. I wish now I'd taken the trouble to think things through,
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even talk to the old man. It might have saved a lot of suffering.
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It was just getting dark when I finished my lab test and glanced out
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of the windows that faced the Miller house. I loved my eyes and looked
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twice, for at that moment there burst out of the Miller's back door and
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apparition wrapped in flame. If it hadn't been to the dreadful scream that wrist
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on it, I would never recognize that flaming torch as a human being.
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And one bound. I was outline door, over the fence and running toward
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the Millers. Sandy and Jill were in front of me. From which direction
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they came I didn't know. Still, a flame covered creature ran around in
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circles, and I shouted, Sandy, Jill, stop him, sup him,
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stop at him, run, break it off that plot line and let
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off in it. Before I could reach the Miller yard, Sandy and Jill
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had both made flying tackles of the flaming figure and were rolling him over and
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over in the dirt, smuggling out the flame with a blanket. The moment
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I joined them, the thing, for that's the only way to describe it
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now was still except the moaning sound that came out of his burned and agonized
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face. Oh Lord, I thought, why will people run when their clothes
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are on fire? To lie down and smother the flame as their only dalvation?
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I was giving the man, for it was old mister Miller first date
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when his daughter in law came shouting out the door. God, I'll bet
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he hasn't even called a fire to part. But miss Miller went running back
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into the house, as Jill told me later, and was telephoning when Jill
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came panning up to her. By this time, the whole neighborhood was gathering
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around the house, and it seemed like hardly a moment after I turned again
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with the suffering figure lying on the grass, but the fire engines came charging
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out, and followed by an ambulance squad. Calm all the rescue apparatus.
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The fire was quickly put up. It was only after the old man had
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been put into the ambulance that I hadn't chanced to notice what was going on.
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The first thing I heard was missus Miller's showing they did it. It
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was those two kids right there. You know yourself, officer, that you
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caught them setting fires this morning. But how do you know they did?
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I saw him running around the corner of the house just after I noticed the
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race, and I'll testify and caught that they did it. Well, you
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two kids, I don't know whether you're guilty or not, but I'll have
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to take it out of the station for question of a Few minutes later,
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the officer had left with Sandy and Jail. Both of them had thrown me
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anguished looks, but were bravely holding back their tears. I could have done
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something, I suppose, but there wasn't time. I had to get into
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that house as quickly as possible. I was beginning to put two and two
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together, and I was certain that what I would discover would solve a part
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of the mystery. At least I knew who had set that fire and why.
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Whispering a few words into the ear of the fire chief, I saw
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him not to lead the way into the Miller house while Missus Miller was still
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talking excitedly with the neighbors. I hoped Missus Miller wouldn't see us go in,
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or she might destroy the very evidence to prove my case. It was
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at the door for the old man's room I found the first thing I was
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looking for, our home fire extinguisher empty. The rug and the bedcothes were
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burned, and the room was filled with smoke. But aside from this,
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there was little evidence from the fire. On my hands and knees, I
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sniffed at the floor, there was an odor of kerosene, but recognized one
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more thing remained to do. I lifted the phone, dialed a number,
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waited until there was an answer, and I asked one question, Hello,
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doctor Tim speaking yes, will you give me the exact time of the first
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telephone call to report the fire at twelve sixteen East Homont's place? And no,
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no, not the second. The first thing I did after finding out
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about those calls was to call the doctor at the hospital. The old man
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had a chance to live thanks to the pomp way and with Sandy and Jill
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handled the emergency and modern hospital care medical advances. He had been treated with
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a new technique discovered during the war, the use of pressurized vasoline, blood
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transfusions, blood fractions. All the miracles of modern science were being used.
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Then I hopped into my car and went down to the police station. Two
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scared kids safely. I know you didn't kid. Then I'm sorry I had
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to let things go. As far as this, the Willow criminal has been
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arrested, notcuser. Barden says to tell you he never really believed you set
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that fire in the first place, but he had to question because of what
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missus Miller said. Oh, he treated his plow. Then who did do
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it? Yeah, that's what I want to know. Well, it was
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a person who called upon me this morning, and I'm afraid she got the
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idea of how to scare an old man into the skoy using the hiding place
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for his money. When Officer Barking brought you into the office for starting fires
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on the vacant lot. Me, missus Miller, I do I should have
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known when I saw a walk past my window with a fire extinguisher wrapped up.
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But still I should have known. Well, she meant just to scare
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the old man, so he grabbed his money out of the hiding place and
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run. Everything went fine, except missus Miller was too smart. She called
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the fire department first and then started the fire. I thought the trucks got
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there too quickly after the first alarm, which was really the second. And
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gee, I'll bet you put the fire out with the extinguisher almost off so
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it really wouldn't bring the hot down exactly. And then blamed you two kids,
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which shows the importance of a good reputation. She almost got you convicted
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because of the fire this morning. Yeah, hung you up on us.
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By golly, what about the tain here? No, I guess we won't
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know the answer intil old mister Miller can talk. There's no trace of it.
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Should a wise, I've got it right here in my pocket. The
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old man was clutching it in his hands when he ran out of the hawks.
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Sandy handed me the remains of some charge banknote. In one corner of
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each was printed a figure one million, five million, fifty thousand, not
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dollars, but mark worthless, inflated German marks of thirty years ago, not
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worth the paper they were printed on. You see, the old man had
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picked them up while he was in the Army of Occupation in Germany and had
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thought for years they'd be worth something. That he had become a millionaire,
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and for that he had almost lost his life. That one other reason,
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when missus Miller's plan had miscarried and she'd set him on fire too, he
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should have remembered the most elementary thing in the world, and that's don't get
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panicky, don't run even toward water. Just lie down and the roll or
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wrap yourself in something to smother the fire. I'll bet Sandy and Jill never
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forget. This is doctor Tim Detective saying, so long until next week at
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this same time when Sandy Jill and I will bring you by transcription the Mystery
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of the Dog that Did and Didn't Welcome Back. The most interesting part of
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this episode, other than the science stuff, is just kind of the audaciousness
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of the daughter in law, uh you know, basically walks up to a
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complete stranger of a doctrine says, you know what, I was wondering if
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you could help me plunder the estate of my father in law. Maybe that'd
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be something you would be able to assist me with. It's definitely some boldness,
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But I like this episode really. They do a good job mixing in
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the plot and the mystery and the educational lessons I think in a way that
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kids would remember. Of course, you know, listening to this, I
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can't help but feel of how much more in many ways subdued or cautious children's
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television and entertainment is in general. To have a storyline like this, you
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know, it would be like, you know, we'll get sued by somebody
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or you know, some groups going to complain. But the things are I
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guess a little more straight up and just telling them, you know what,
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the real danger this can happen, And I think definitely an appropriate message and
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really covered some good ground here. Particularly, I think that was a great
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object lesson on not running while you're on fire. And we do actually have
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a listener comment from Kevin regarding Doctor Tim, who says, Hi, Atum,
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I just finished hearing Doctor Tim. Thanks for sharing those. I look
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forward to the others. What an interesting combination of themes. Glad some of
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these survived, although I suppose it wouldn't have been along the runner. It
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was an interestingly different format. Obviously there was a lot of experimentation at what
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might make a good radio Thanks again for sharing. Well, thanks Kevin.
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We don't know a whole lot about this series other than there were thirteen episodes
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made and as best we can tell anyway, and we've got seven of them,
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and there's not a whole lot of information as to you know, like
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I said, it was not in the encyclopedia of old time radio. There
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were some radio. There was some radio in the school programs, so it's
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possible anyway that this was part of that sort of effort and was produced for
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just that purpose. Certainly, no big stars in there, so we don't
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know about the audience or you know, whether there was any thought that there
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might be additional programs. We just know it was from Monarch, and beyond
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that, we don't really have any information. So we'll have more to come,
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though it'll be two weeks. Tell Our next Doctor Tim is next week.
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No Doctor Tim returning in two weeks due to the lost Johnny Dollar episode.
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We explained after yours truly Johnny Dollar. All right, and we have
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one more listener comment, this one coming from Justin, who says thank you
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for bringing us this series regarding mister Moto. When I was in college,
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radio stations played OTR detectives in this series was my favorite. Until now I
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haven't been able to find the show on iTunes. Thank you for all you
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do to keep old time radio alive and accessible. Well, you're certainly welcome,
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Justin, and we're glad to bring you this forgotten showing mister Moto.
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And we'll keep listening for what else we've got to come. All right,
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Well, that we'll do it for today. We will be back on Monday
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with a new Johnny Dollar story, and then be sure and join us two
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weeks from today for the next Doctor Timman story. And tomorrow we have the
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