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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Funny Money Matter (EP1393) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Detectives dot nem. Well, now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly
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Johnny Dollar. Today's episode originally aired on June thirtieth of nineteen fifty seven,
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and the title is The Funny Money Matter from Hollywood. It's time no war,
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Johnny Dollar. George, Oh hello, Georgie. How's Floyd's of England
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doing these days? Payments keep on the way they've done it. This morning
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the company will go broke. What does that mean? One of our old
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clients quite a character by Oh wait, George, for just once give me
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a case involving some nice, ordinary, normal person. No, Johnny,
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first it was that old fuss budget Jedediah Gillett. Yes, but now big
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Bet Michael Meanie, who was already on half the state Louisiana. Well,
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yes, I know. But compared to them, Durrango Laramie dell Hard is
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as normal as they come. Drang what except for one thing, of course?
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The payment of his insurance premium this morning? What was the matter with
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it? Forty five hundred dollars Johnny? One hundred dollars bills? You're still
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here on my desk, one hundred dollars bills? You call this character normal?
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Listen? Will you? Every one of these bills is counterfeit. Ah,
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I'll be right over Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
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the Action packed Expense account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator. Oh it's truly Johnny
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Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollars two Floyd's of England, North
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American Offices, Hertford, Connecticut. It's an a kount of expenses incurred during
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my investigation of the Funny Money Matter. Expense account out of one a dollar
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even taxi from my apartment. At George Reid's office, I found him sitting
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steering brimley at a pile of paper money spread around on the top of his
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desk. Oh. There they are, Johnny, forty five one hundred dollar
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bills, and every one of them as phonny as I've ever seen. Look
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at them. Yeah, yeah, see what you mean? Where we turned?
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These aren't didn't even have sense enough to use the proper kind of ink.
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Yeah, it looks like he must have diluted it. Yeah. Have
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you ever seen such washed out looking money? And on your life? Good
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tough paper though, just like the realm card. Yeah it's real, Chris
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Banu, Johnny, look at those colors. Even the black isn't really Blacky,
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You think they'd at least have tried to wrinkle them up a bit and
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dirty them. Yeah. This is the most obviously flagrant. What are you
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looking at, Johnny? Oh this is unusual for counterfeit, that is what
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all. They've all been printed up with different cereal numbers see here and here.
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I about that pretty smart funny, isn't it. The thing that usually
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makes this stuff easy to spot is the same number on all the bills.
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Sure, whoever made these was clever enough to think of that, and sense
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enough to use good paper too, But he certainly slipped up and it came
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to the color and quality of the ink. As for the press word,
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well, I don't pretend to know much about phony money, George, who
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needs to Heavens knows, I don't see too many hundred dollar bills. But
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to me this engraving looks just about perfect. That's just what I'm saying,
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perfect plates, sense enough to change the numbers, good paper, Yet look
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at the result. Has he ever tried anything like this before? What the
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wrangle? Yeah, and just for the sake of the record, what is
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his real name? That's it? The Wrango, Laramie del hud Oh.
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I can't believe it. And the answer to your first question is no,
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the Wrango is as honest as the day is long. Well, maybe you
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mean he won? Well maybe, but if so, I want to know
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why. There'd have to be a mighty good reason. Believe me, running
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out of door is the best one I can think of. But he's always
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had plenty, after all, forty five hundred dollars to spend on insurance,
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year after years, just who is he and where is he? He lives
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on a ranch in Oklahoma. What kind of a ranch I don't know,
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but it must be awfully big. Where in Oklahoma the place called bum spun
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bum spun? Yeah. Oh, now, look, George, this whole
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thing is beginning to get a little too thick. Durrango bum spung laramie doll
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har right, whatever it is. Look, counterfeit money is for the secret
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service for So why don't you just put it up on all of them?
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No, and let them carry the ball? No? Why because of Durrango.
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I simply can't believe he deliberately hand over a lot of phony money.
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He's been paying on that policy for years, always in cash, always in
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cash. Crisp knew legitimate hundred dollars bills, not till now. Were you
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here when he left these? No tell it, Johnny. If somebody is
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trying to take him, it's up to us to protect him. Well,
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that's a big ift, George. From where I stand, Johnny, we've
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always tried to give more personal service to our clients than some of the other
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companies. Look, I want you to investigate this thing for us, without
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Durango's knowing of course, on a fee plus expense account. Basis all an
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extra fee. That's not you, you will, George with you, it
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is you know as well as I do. The padding that goes on your
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expense account is plenty fee for anybody. Oh, George, you cut me
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to the quick, all right? Where is Durang? Where is mister Dalhart
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now back in Bumspung, Oklahoma, or at least on the way. But
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I thought he just left this money this morning. Every year he follows the
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same pattern. It comes east through a fling, you know, New York
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and all the nightclubs and that sort of thing. Then just before leaving he
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drops in here makes his premium payment his gun. So, George, I
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still think you should have called in the secret service. But I'll take this
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on for just one reason. But then I want to find out what kind
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of a place could ever deserve the name of Bumspun. Since George had already
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arranged for plane travel as far as Enot, Oklahoma, Item two is a
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mere eight fifty five for incidentals along the way, I arrived and need it
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shortly after noon. Item three two sixty for lunch. I had him four
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to fifty dollars deposit on a rental car, and the owner of the Drive
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your Own agency wore a silly little smile as he gave me these directions to
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bum Spunk. Anyway, I had to do north on Highway eighty one across
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the Oklahoma flatland, some twenty six miles or so. Further on, after
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passing through Pond Creek and crossing the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, I
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spotted a rather crude, weather beaten sign indicating that the place I was looking
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for was somewhere up a dirt road. To the left road, that's a
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laugh, and it twisted and turned for seemingly endless rough miles along the riverbank.
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I just about decided that bumb spun with a bump steer, when suddenly
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I almost ran into the gate of an old wooden fence surrounding some two or
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three acres of sandy ground. And there they were a huge ramshackle, unpainted
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building that passed for a house, and even more dilapidated, a fair propped
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up with timbers that probably served as a barn. There were a couple of
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broken down out buildings too, and on a small irrigated plot in the back,
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two cows steers well anyway, two r other sad looking bowvines, much
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on the faded grass. There was some decrepit looking chickens, a mangy old
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dog. There was a horse of sorts and a small corral. The windmill,
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its whole tower sagged with fatigue, and the rudder on it slapped ivy
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against the broken veins. Went right next to it, in complete contrast,
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stood a spanking new Cadillac convertible, and on the other side of the house,
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hanging some climsy pretties on a clothesline. She was maybe twenty three for
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a burnette, and wearing a pair of well tailored white writing breeches and a
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tight flowered silk blous. She was slim, and she was pretty, and
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had a couple of rosebuds tucked in her hair right and about as out of
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place as anything I ever saw. It was like seeing the vision of a
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gonnessan. Mm hmm, money, I'm going inside that post that you left
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what Durango called the gate. Oh yeah, Durango, did you say,
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don't tell me this is bums? Fuck here is and you see the time
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down the road, the vast acreage within this broken down fences, the cattle
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ranch of Durango. Laramie Dollhard, who happens to be my uncle. I'm
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Carol Dollhard. Who are you? Why my name is Johnny Dollar dollars.
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That seems to me I've heard that somewhere, but you do not hear just
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driving around, you know, vacation. You look like a city man.
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I uh, well, I was intriguedent that sign down the road, you
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know, curious about what bum spunk could mean bad water, bad spring,
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So the Indians called it bumspunk. Oh, Drango liked the name. So
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he brought up these two acres and settled here. And this is all there
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is to his ranch. What's the matter with it? He liked it?
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But I'd had an idea. Well, yeah, nothing from what you've told
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me, I think I'd like to meet Durrango. Is he around you trying
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to kids me or something? I haven't told you anything about him? Now,
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look Chinese dollar, Yeah hell look. Well suddenly she turned to an
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old cold forty five and as I duck, she let go with it.
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Holy she got him all right. A small snake that had poked up out
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of a hole in the ground some twenty five feet away and she got him
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right through the head with bull shots. Oh god, rattlesnake snakes. That
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looks to me like a poor old gopher snake. What's left? Gup?
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So what's the difference? Could have been a rattlesnake. Hey, you were
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plenty fast with that gun. I gotta be roll o. Angle. Wouldn't
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have me on the place. It's no use for anybody to hand me a
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couple of those clothes pins, will you. I gotta get these things hung
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up? Yeah? Sure, here you said you're his niece. That's right,
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only one left to take care of the old budget. You live here
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with him part of the time, well enough to look after him, make
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sure he don't get lonely there. He's got enough food in the house and
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that kind of thing. And I stick around when he goes out on the
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west coast or the back east for a flank. That's where he is now.
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Yeah, I mean to do that. Have me that slip out of
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the line to day. Sure? Hey, all right, I take it
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that convertible is yours. Huh Yeah, that was my birthday. Christ Oh,
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your family must be pretty well healed. Family, Durrangle, we're all
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this left. Give me the stockings now, sure, but certainly, Durgo,
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why not? He gives me a new one every year. And this
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ranch is all the on us except for his money. Says he has a
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barrel of it he must down or else or else? What? Uh?
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Nothing? Go on with what you were saying? More toasting. Yeah,
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And when he kicked off, I get it off and I can give up
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the filling station. Filling station, you must have passed it, just decide
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to eat it. Drango says, a woman's no good unless she's got a
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job. So I've got a feling station. Let somebody else run it for
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me, though, And Drango don't know the difference, or at least he
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don't care. The main thing is I'm around to keep him happy and give
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him somebody to cut that now, man and say, why am I shooting
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off my face to you this way? I don't know, but don't stop
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there. Then proths will be dry and iron. If you're still here,
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can help me take him down and cat carry that back for me, and
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I'll give you a cool drink. And great, you say, Drangos,
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do back here? Why don't save yourself time traveling by plane instead of train?
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I'll never Johnny. If you're just around here on vacation, I'll eat
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my shirt. Why'd you come here? And don't give me any guff?
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All right, come on, pull me that drink and I'll tell you now,
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I'll tell you you're here to pull something on. Oh God, don't
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easy now me. I bucked my micle. It's just a frame here,
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arm over my shoulder. Okay, thanks? Oh lord, I wanted to
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kill it. Go back there. Yeah, but I'll carry it head.
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That's better today. Oh you got muscles, you know? Ah? What's
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that? Well, take me over to the So what's the matter, Josh.
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What stopped me was the inside of the ramshackle little house, clean,
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modern, well furnished, even the kitchen with its gleaming porcelain and electric range
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hued. Your refrigerator and freezer modern in every ward. Don't just down there
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staring. Get some water hot and cold with this ankle. While you're at
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it. Pour us a drink at the bar over there in the corner.
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I could use a good stiff snort. I did what I could to reduce
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the swimming in her ankle, but by the time I'd taped it up,
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when she was snoozing comfortably on the sofa was getting dark, so I hide
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myself into the whal stock kitchen to see when I could scratch up to eat.
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And I'll be honest about it, with this mighty attractive patient on my
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hands, I'd completely forgotten about my mission in these parts, the investigation of
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one Durango Laramie Dalharts. I wasn't allowed to forget it long though. As
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I opened and was about to reach into the ample freezer, stop right there,
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you huh. I don't know one way to deal with a peephen steeleen
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goer reenviarment right, I put that thing down. I'm not furdering this way.
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Holy no, hey, no, you're ready Act two of yours,
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truly Johnny Dollar. In a moment a number of years ago, it was
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said that, in spite of the large population of this planet, men and
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women remain the most inaccessible things on it. Today we see this lack of
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understanding among peoples of the world reflected in headline stories. But it isn't because
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the people of the world are enemies. All people want to be friends.
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Long before the termination of World War Two, Reverend Eugene would the Methodist minister
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from oceside, California, went into a Scottsdale, Arizona camp where German prisoners
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of war were in turn, and offered his services to the imprisoned men.
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Among other things, Reverend Wood taught the men English, and he taught them
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about the United States of America. During the following years, after the men
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had been repatriated to their native Germany, nearly half of the internees corresponded frequently
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with Reverend Wood. Those men expressed a unique understanding of the people and the
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country of the United States of America. This great feeling of friendship and understanding
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prompted the minister to make a pilgrimage to Europe to seek out the men he
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had befriended in the prisoner of war camp in Arizona. This gesture on Reverend
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Wood's part gained him a fantastic welcome everywhere he went. In all the places
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he visited, he spread the gospel of love and friendship, and had it
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returned to him. There were no enemies, only men with the love of
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freedom, the right of all men everywhere, and now act two of yours,
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truly Johnny Dollar and the funny money matters robbing my house an around you
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while I'm trying to sleep. He heard it cares right this in here,
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you'll cut it up, cut it out about me too, forget me right?
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Holy? Okay, okay, yeah, and here's your gun. Keep
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it in your pocket where it belongs. Sure, now, what was the
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big idea whenever you bring one of these fancy boyfriends you were around to my
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house? They got a right to have a little fun with him? Eat
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it one? Is this your right? A fun? Crazy goll darn fun.
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Look what you did to the stove you bloated wood store would have held
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up. Yeah, buy yourself another one there, four five hundred, nice
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new dollar. Now what about that wind and the jars on the shelf?
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Yeah, okay, here, you gotta show him when I started throwing that
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lid all around there here, Johnny, let me wipe off some of that
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jam that fell on your head. Johnny, Johnny who Johnny Dollar? And
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I think it your drago Laramie doll hard Now sure am fast shot in the
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country too. When Paul learned then d Wranga Mama learned own Laramie, and
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I'm better than both of them. Was the only thing is you get no
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chance to show off, no more the wranger you crazy it is? What's
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the idea? No harm? May no harm? Yeah, take a drug
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of this, you forget all about it. I get a glass the man
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brings shot it up bottle go ahead, Johnny, Oh well, thanks,
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bad enough. A he man has to live around all this feminine fripsy and
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lace, curtains and rugs all over the floor. You know, dad blame
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well? You like the way I picked up this old dumpy years drangle?
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Yeah, I look you yeah, you know, dang well, a man
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get caired. You're sitting around no matter how party party it is. Why
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else do you suppose I've got to get away every now and then in San
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Francisco or New Yorker, coming in places where they got some noise and excitement.
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You get right, Johnny Dart, what's he doing here anyhow? Well?
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Well, uh, well to wrangle. I'll tell you why. Because
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he's just driving around on his vacation, and he happened to get to the
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end of the road and I made him come in. That's why you got
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an objection. I'll sell you this. You've got a lot more get up
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and gut than most of the boys you bring around here. The larap on
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the chiey kill me. Well, I'm sorry about that, all right?
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For what you didn't act like some of them lily livered kids she brings around.
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Run for home, very boy, you are all right? You're sure?
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What the sham hill you got on your foot? Well, it's high
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time you noticed. Well what happened to it? I like to a busted
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my ankle and I go for a hole. If it hadn't been for Johnny,
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I'd still be laying out in the yard howling with payin me. I've
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seen that happen. I thought you broke her away. I'm liable to cook
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her out and shot her. Johnny, boy, you're doing a real good
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job on my little ticket. Yeah, honey, I have to get back
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on the shoulder. Now that's Johnny. She's a lot jealous and I kind
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of like him. Hear that, Johnny, you better look out when the
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putty girl starts talking to you like that. Here's you're fixing to get laugh
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and throll. Well, I can think of a lot worse your angle.
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You just shut up and fix us up from little We're hungry, Yeah,
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sure you're no sooner get back he come woman, start giving the order.
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Oh, I don't need help. I'm feeling fine now. I just wanted
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to talk to you. Should have stayed on that so fun, missed all
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the fun fun you too beside me? Johnny? Well sure, why not?
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Ah now, none of that much stuff? That is what I meant.
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Oh, I can't see you. I mind it with you, Johnny.
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Well, now if that isn't an invitation, I get a nice date
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to cover with chops from every pants to dy up you all right? Just
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make it good and take your time? Or shall I do it if that
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woman I can cook better than you anytime? Well, Johnny, before you
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start, what the matter is, I'm right in there. You get it
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getting Just mind your own affairs. And I warn you, Johnny, you've
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been a white out. For your help, I'll risk it. D rangle.
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You don't want to light? Do you know where? Mm hmm wow,
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I don't know why you come out here to bumps bump can't Helene m
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hm No, make your god somewhere else and going very late for the time
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we went, or I might as well bump here tonight, not Toney your
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room? Leave me? Yeah? Sure, Rango, thanks thanks a lot.
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No, Carol, you haven't answered again tomorrow. I'll tell you tomorrow
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when we can beat them all. Let me alone now, Oh, not
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as much as I wish we were mighty cute guys. Yuddy, you don't
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know me, Carol. I'm really just an old wol. I don't read
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that. I don't know. It's one of the roses still out of my
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hair. With bunch of roses in her hair and kisses on her mouth.
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That's that. Just a wid an old boy. I have the ruses in
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my hair. What about the rest? Did you find out? Yeah?
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You didn't want to build out on the job. While you're waiting off.
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Who else you turned your cooking? Mm hmmm h at the angle, he
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certainly puts together a meal in a hurry. Too much of a hurry.
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The mean itself. I'm up for an army. And to see him packing
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away you think he'd been out of the range for years after heard nothing like
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coming home were an amplepite. Yeah, Coop, with help, lcome more
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beans, Johnny. I still hadn't made any progress in my investigation and encouraged
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him to talk about himself. He did willingly, and how much it was
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true with something else again said he left his found his little farm and conorrad
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out a hunt for goals, said he founded too a lot of it.
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Waded to use that money exploring for royal wildcatting and everything he touched and turned.
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The money that he'd made in banks so much he could never spend it
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all. That's why he'd go on those flings to San Francisco, New York,
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just to get rid of it, then come back here to this little
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plot of ground and rest up for the next excursion of the big city.
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His only regret was he was too old to make the New West like the
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Old West. Yes, Sir, I was twenty years younger. I'd write
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a heart into Dark Kitty and show all them raw and order. I'd show
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him just exactly how it was in the old age I read about in Them
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magazine. But if all this were true, why the counterfeit money? Those
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phony washed out one hundred dollars bills I'd seen on George Reid's desk. The
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bend in the guest room was as comfortable as my own, but I couldn't
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get to sleep. Fortunately, a long after the house was dark, it
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must have been close to midnight, I heard the door of Drango's room open.
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I heard him sneak out of the house the back way quickly, as
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quietly as I could. I slipped on trousers and shoes, took along my
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gun and went after him. From the back porch. I could see that
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there was a light on in one of the small out bildings. With my
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ear pressed tightly that the side of the little shack, I could hear it
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only too plainly, the printing press of which Durango was turning out the phony
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money, no question about it, and I was sorry, kind of began
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to light the old carry say nothing. It was beautiful, Carol. What
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are you doing, your kirs but to walk in the moonlight? To walk
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ride them? Jack, car Carol, listen, I'll lay my cards right
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on the table. What I really came to this place for was to find
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out who it was right here inside this little shack. And now that I've
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found out about Johnny, you'll break is heart. He thinks nobody knows about
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it. Oh, of course he does. He's been doing it ever since.
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And he thinks that even I don't know all. Oh Johnny, please,
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you'll spoil everyone. It's about time. Is that he means no harm
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to end what I mean, no harm? Are you kidding? Or maybe
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you're in this whole thing with him? Are you No? But I don't
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see what difference it would make. Johnny, Johnny bab all that stuff.
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It's time for a showdown, Helry. What's the racket? What's going on
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it? Oh slooper? Why you on me? Low down? Freaking kayo?
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All right? All right, d wrangle, just cut it and stand
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where you are? Well, what are you doing with that gun? I
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only hope you won't make it necessary for me to use this About that door,
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drango, I want to see what you've got inside there? Go ahead
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and now open it. Look n there ain't no harm in what I'm doing
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in there. No harm. That seems to be a pat phrase around here.
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It's just that, well everythings, I've made my pile everywhere i'd go,
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what spend a lot of money? So you told me a great length
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always if maybe it was sort of showing off a bit. But when I
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drought out of the bank, I'd make them give me brand new money,
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you know them crush the folks like a big shot up from Hertford where I
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pay my insurance for Carol here every year, and brand new hundred dollars bills
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supposedly, that's right, and no supposed but this last insurance payment to Georgia.
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Yeah, I know, but Johnny had worked my fault. The bank
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didn't have nice new ones for me, and they couldn't get him in time
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either, so I had to. Well this was the next bitch. Oh
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that's all, like Johnny, open that or yeah, going? I kept
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hoping nobody come on open it? Okay, heah, yeah? What under
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the that's the walking machine there, and that's the shop, and plenty of
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strong breach, and it starts to make them nice and Chris, oh no,
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and that there's iron and board where I press them out, reading nice
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and flat. They'll never believe it. Where it does make them look real
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pretty new, honest, Johnny, I didn't think it was no farming.
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Well there you have it, George, full report on the funny money.
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It turned out to be only cleaned up a bit. And the next time
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call in the secret Service with you. Oh no, I didn't mean that.
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Just don't question the charges on this account for the extra week I've spent
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out here. If you can see this pretty little Carrol, oh that Carol.
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And if I ever get enough money, so help me. I think
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I'll retire the bum spung Oklahoma expense account total including incidentals and the trip back
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to hartfred One. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here is our star
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to tell you about next week's story. Next week, We'll just remember one
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thing that old saying about a cat having nine lives and be sure to join
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us, won't you, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours truly, Johnny
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Dollar, is starring Bob Bailey. Originates in Hollywood. It is produced and
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directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story. Heard in our cast
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were Virginia Gray Gee, Stanley Jones, and John mclintired. Be sure to
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join us next week, same time and station for another exciting story of Yours
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truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan cobberly speaking. This is the United
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States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Welcome back, well in the past
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I've and probably in the future too. I have some criticisms of some of
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Jack Johnstone's scripts, but this one was abute and a fantastic play. A
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simple story pulled off mainly by just three actors, with the vast majority of
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the story taking place in one location, and this is the type of script
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that Jack Johnstone does really well. If he tries to put some deep mystery
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in there usually doesn't work well. But if there's a lot of character and
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some quirkiness, he has a lot of had a lot of fun with it.
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And this is a great one for that, one of the really good,
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lighter Johnny Doller stories. And of course Virginia Greg. You know,
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I've talked about her throughout this series, and I think I'm going to continue
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to talk about her because she is able to do so much for a story,
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particularly when she's given a chance. If an episode that Virginia Greg appears
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in isn't extremely entertaining, it's usually because it's poorly written and or they didn't
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give Virginia Greg a very big part. There are certain episodes of Johnny Dollar
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in particular that really just let her go to town, and this is one
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that works. And she's just was just a fantastic actress, and this really
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makes this play with a lot of charm and creates this wonderful character and John
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McIntyre's perfect timing, and of course, just as a written scrap, it's
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nice to have a happy ending. All right. Well, on to some
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listener comments and feedback. Val, who thanks again for her support, says
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hi, Adam, I suddenly realize how long it's been since I contributed to
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Johnny's expense account. Little something to tie them over. Well, it's truly
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appreciated. Thanks so much, Val, and appreciate your support. Listeners can
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