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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Crystal Lake Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP1187) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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time now for Johnny Dillar. Hi, Johnny, this is Betty Norton.
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I've been trying to call you. I know I was out. I'm sorry.
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You keep pretty late hours. It's after midnight. They'll wake you up.
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No good. Why did you come over? Moon's real nice tonight,
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the lake is lushous. I'll come over, Betty, but not to talk
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about the Moon of the water. Got something else on your mind? Maybe,
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Yeah, a little thing called tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in
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free lacensed insurance Investigator, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special
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the Crystal Lake matter expense account continued, I have six two dollars tip to
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the Crystal Lake Hotel garage attendant for rusting him out of bed to get my
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car. I wanted very much to have another talk with Betty Norton, the
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wealthy, glamorous girl on the other side of the lake. She had told
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me she hadn't been with Edward Russell when he left the hotel bar that night
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he was murdered, But the bartender at the hotel swore that she and Russell
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had left together. If she lied about that, maybe she'd lied about a
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few other things. When I got to our Lake Shore mansion, she had
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a few well spaced dim lights burning, a dreamy type record playing, and
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some drinks mixed. The whole bit. Here you are, Johnny Bourbon,
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isn't it. Yeah? You've got a good memory, buddy. Sure.
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I always remember what's important or what you want to remember? Same thing.
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Listen, how about the things you don't want to remember? Meaning a couple
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of questions I want to ask. Oh no, don't start making with those
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dull questions again. Look, let's just have a drink. Last time I
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had to go swimming with you before you had answered. This time, it's
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got to be a drink. Huh. I thought we might dance too with
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you, leading I suppose. Sorry, Betty, I know you probably own
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quite a few things in this world, but the list stopped short of me.
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I want some answers from you, and I want them. Okay,
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so be a party pooper, so ask questions. You told me you met
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Edward Russell in the hotel bar the night he was murdered. You had one
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drink with him and left. That's right, you lied, Betty, who
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says so the bartender at the hotel man, I've always tipped him so well
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too. Look, baby, suppose we cut the comic routines. Huh?
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All right, so I left the bar with Russell. Why did you lie
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about it to me this afternoon? It's very simple, Johnny, part of
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the Norton training. I guess what does that mean. My father told me
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long ago I could do whatever I liked, but to keep it out of
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the newspapers. That's the way I've played it ever since. Well, go
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on on that night you're talking about, Russell and the bartender got into a
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fight. I know, and that's why I lied to you. Believe me.
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I just didn't want to be mixed up in anything that could land in
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the papers. I see what happened. Then he and I went to a
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coffee shop to sober him up a little. You can check that, I
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will. Then what kept mumbling about somebody named Billy he was looking for?
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He say much about him? No, he wasn't making very much sense.
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And then Hiram came into the coffee shop. Oh, Hiram, the old
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fellow who drives what passes for a taxi here at the lake. He told
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Russell somebody wanted to see him. Russell left with Hiram. And you didn't
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see Russell after that, No, I didn't. You don't look convinced,
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Johnny. I'm not. You lied once before, you could be lying again.
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Sorry, I told you I lied before, But this time it's the
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truth. We're gonna get in touch with Hiram his numbers on the cover of
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the local directory, Local directory, this one over here? Yes, okay,
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Johnny at this time of night, Yes, at this time of night.
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He doesn't usually take calls after midnight. Sleeper out somewhereiness, Well,
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I'll check him in the morning. What is it, squid, Johnny?
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What is it? What's the matter? I thought I heard something outside here?
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Could it have been one of your servants. I only have a housekeeper
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with me here and she went to bed hours ago. There are a lot
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of deer around here. Maybe that's what it was. Yeah, maybe,
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Johnny, you call hire him in the morning. He back my story up.
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It's crazy thinking I had anything to do with Russell's murder. What possible
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reason could I have? I pretty would one maybe, but it might fit.
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You told me the same afternoon. You had to play everything your way.
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You've probably been doing it most of your life and getting away with it.
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Maybe Russell wouldn't cooperate, are you kidding? Look, men like Russell
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are a dime a dozen. So I had a drink with him and got
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mixed up in a barroom brawl. I should have known better. But as
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far as getting interested in him, I wasn't believe me, I can always
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find others who like to play it my way as you put it. Ah,
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you kill me that goal, play the front you put on. I
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wonder if behind it you are just a hollow, lonely kid. Thanks a
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lot for reminding me, mister Freud. Oh, I'm sorry. I guess
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that was a lot of line. I guess I was asking for it.
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But you're wrong about me not being able to stand anyone who doesn't play it
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my way. You see, I found someone who won't and I kind of
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like it, kind of like you. That is. Yeah. Look,
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I always do worry. I'm not going to try to appropriate you or to
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buy you, but about the loneliness. Don't leave just yet, Johnny,
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stay just a few minutes more, Okay, just a few minutes. I
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guess I felt a little sorry for her in her loneliness, or maybe it
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was well anyway, I stayed a few minutes warm. I think it was
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just a few minutes. I watch it stopped. First thing in the morning.
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I tried to get higher on the cab driver on the phone again,
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but still no answer. I headed for Deputy Sheriff Ansel Garrett's office, Clarence
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Pixby, who owned the cabin where Russell's body was found, was with him.
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Good morning, Johnny ants mister Pixby, whole morning, Dolly. Anything
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new? Not much? Well, I won't take up any more of your
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time, Sheriff. However, I would like to ask a favor. What
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is it? So far? The Denver papers haven't mentioned which cabin up here
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the body was found in. I'd appreciate it it could be kept that way.
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Otherwise, if it got out, I'm afraid my chances ever selling the
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place would be pretty dim. Yeah, anybody who'd want to buy it for
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that reason probably be the kind of person not very welcome here at the lake.
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Okay, Bixby sounds reasonable enough. See what I can do? M's'
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oblige She here cigar No thanks, dollar, no, no thanks. Well,
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I see you later, fellas. I'll be around day or twomorrow if
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you want me. Okay, Well, how do things look this morning,
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Johnny? Just like Bixby's cigar wrapper, I wish he'd quit tying those things
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in knots. Every time he does it, it reminds me that we're right
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in the middle of a knot we cannot tie. It's a bear or oh,
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brother, it's worse than that. A guy named Edward Russell takes off
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from his home in Denver and disappears. He turns up here looking for a
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guy named Bill, of which there are too many in this time. Then
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Bixby brings a prospect up here to show his cabin too. He finds the
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padlocks been switched, Russell's body inside. Yeah. An, It's the only
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person who stood to profit financially on Russell's death is his wife, Leona,
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beneficiary on his fifty thousand dollars insurance Polus. But she couldn't have killed him.
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The Denver police established her in Denver at the time. Oh incidentally,
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she's up here at the lake now, Johnny. Oh yeah, she told
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me over the phone you wanted her to confirm the identification. How don't she
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bear up? Not too well, it's kind of rough you get any information
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out of Betty Norton. Well. Her story is she had coffee with Russell
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after his freaks with a bartender hiring. The cab driver came in and told
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Russell somebody was looking for him. Russell went away with Hiram you checked with
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I've been trying to get in touch with him on the phone, no answer.
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Yeah's on the goal lot. He keeps his cab behind the hotel garage.
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We can check there and leave a message for him. Yeah, okay,
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it's what about Bixby as a possibility. I thought of that too,
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Johnny. It had taken awful lot of nerve to kill a guy and then
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arranged to discover the body in your own cabin. But it sure would be
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quite a cover. Yeah, like you say, to take more nerve than
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most men have got. Besides, we run a check on bixbyan we've turned
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up absolute nothing to time into the deal at all. Now there's no evidence
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he'd ever known Russell. I know on a Russell can't remember her husband ever
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mentioning Bixby's name. I uh, hey, wait a minute. How about
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Putnam, the guy who wanted to buy Bixby's cabin. Yeah, the same
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thing could apply to him. He knew the cabin was empty, He could
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have planted Russell's body there and then arrange for Bixby to open the cabin and
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could be except how does he tie? And I don't know. He said
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he and his wife wanted to buy the cabin. It might be interesting to
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check with his wife and see what she says. Not a bad idea,
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Johnny, I'll put in a long distance call to her. Don't count on
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much though. At this point, Ansel, I'm counting on nothing, and
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I wasn't. I was getting nowhere trying to match a logical motive with any
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of the suspects. I decided I might as well continue checking guys named Bill
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around town and see if I could find that one Russell had been looking for.
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I went down to Bill's boat house at the landing Bill Jensen o ran
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I was a stocky, heavy set man in his late twenties. His face
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looked friendly enough, that is, if you weren't paying much attention to his
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eyes. They were about the coldest shade of blue i'd ever seen. What
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can I do for you, mister dollar Boat? Maybe a little information?
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Maybe what about a man named Edward Russell, the guy who was murdered?
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But what about him? Did he come around here to your boat house?
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Not that I know of, But he was saying for a man named Bill,
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and I thought you might be the one. No, No, Aunt
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Scarrett was telling me about him, But I'm not the one he was looking
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for. Sorry, did you have to see him around town anywhere, Russell.
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No. The first time I saw him was his picture in the paper
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after the killing. I see you got quite a lot of boats here in
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Jensen. Yeah, pretty big investment in him. You keep the ones here
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in the boat house parallocked? I said, no, I have to used
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to get one stolen now and then say you want to take one out in
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the lake now, mister Dollar, Uh not right now, Jensen, maybe
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later, see you round. All of a sudden, I was real interested
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in Bill Jensen in his boat house because some of the padlocks in the boats
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looked very much like the one that had been placed on Bixby's cabin door,
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the one he pried off when he discovered Russell's body. I wanted a closer
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look at those padlocks, but now wasn't the time. I went on back
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to the hotel to look for Hireum, but his taxi still wasn't there,
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so I left him a message to contact me as soon as possible. Then
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after dark, I went back to the boat house. There was nobody around
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me. I slipped in the back and took a close look at the boat
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padlocks. Had no doubt about it. They were the same kind as the
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one on Bixby's door, and one of them was missing. Yeah, Bill
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Jensen could be my boy. I hit the deck fast behind one of the
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boats and looked around me. It was a bad spot to be in.
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I was pinned against a wall. I edged toward the rear, then dole
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for the door the tiny office, and I realized my mistake. I figured
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that the office would have it outside door, but it didn't. I was
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trapped. It looked like I just solved the murder the hard way. Johnny
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Dollar Ansel Garrett, Johnny, I was out when you phoned a minute ago,
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and get over here fast. Matter. I'm trapped in the office of
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Jensen's boathouse. Trap. Look, I've got no time to explain. There's
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a man outside with a gun, and I can't hold him off much longer.
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I don't know, but I've got a strong hunch is the one who
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murdered Russell, and he's trying to do likewise to me. Expense account submitted
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by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Amalgamated Life Associates Home office, Hertford, Connecticut
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assignment The Crystal Lake matter expense account continued Item seven two cents just about what
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I figured my life was worth at the moment. The tiny office I was
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in had no windows and no outside door, a real trap. And outside
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in the darkened boat house, somebody with a gun was stalking me, probably
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the killer I've been looking for, but now he was looking for me.
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I stacked what furniture there was against the door. He started throwing his weight
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against it, and it couldn't last very long. There was nothing I could
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do with Wait. Right then, the sound of Ans Garrett's voice outside was
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just about the sweetest music this side of heaven. Yeah, yeah, just
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a minute, I'll get this stuff away from the door, Okay, like
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switcher somewhere there. Well, Bill Jensen, So you're my boy, Gensen.
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What are you talking about? What are you doing here anyway? Dollar
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getting shot at by you? Mostly? Look, this is my boat house.
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Remember, you've got no business to come prowling around here somewhere down simmer
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down. I thought he was a prowler. Answer, Oh yeah, sure,
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you knew I was getting close to you, Jensen. You decided to
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put me out of the ball game, and you came pretty close. Believe
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me, I tell you, I don't know what you're talking about. I
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figured it was somebody after my boats. Get me to buy it. Story
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like that. Just hold it a second, both of you. I can
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get a word in edgewise around here. Maybe we can straighten things out.
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They're pretty straight right now as far as I can see. Maybe, Bill,
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you claim you figured Johnny was a prowler trying to steal something. Huh,
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how would you figure it? Ants? I see somebody sneaking into the
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boat house and catch a glimpse of somebody else hanging around. Wait a minute,
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somebody else who man or woman? I couldn't tell that it was got
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a sight mighty fast? Oh sure, pretty convenient story, Jensen. Somebody
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around here has been keeping an eye on me right from the start. But
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right now it figures to be you. Bill. A couple of Jensen's boats
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have turned up missing lately, Johnny, it's natural he might think that.
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Yeah, and something else has turned off missing here too, Ants, what
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do you mean that's why I came here to the boat house tonight in the
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first place. When I was here this afternoon, I noticed that the padlocks
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on his boats were missing. One of them was missing. They looked an
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awful lot like the one that Russell's killer put on the cabin door when he
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planted the body. There locks a lot, Johnny, Yeah, but one
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of them, Jensen's, is missing. Don't forget that. Oh yeah,
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come here and take a look right there. Yeah, so it is,
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How about it, Jensen, I didn't even know it was gone. How
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do I know what happened to it? Somebody stole it, probably the same
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guy who stole those boats last month. Look. Look, if you're trying
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to involve me in Russell's murder, you're wasting your time. I didn't even
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know the guy, and you got nothing to tie me into it. No,
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then you better listen to a few facts, Jensen. Edward Russell took
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off from his home in Denver and came up here to Crystal Lake looking for
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a guy named Bill, which just happens to be your name, and half
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a dozen other Bills in town too, Dolin, And what does that proved?
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Russell's body was found in Bixby's vacant cabin when Bixby brought a prospect up
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to showing the place. Bixby's lock had been taken off the door and a
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new one put on your padlock, Jensen, I already told you. Somebody
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must have stolen it. Then I come around to your boat house here to
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check on the locks, and you start throwing shots at me. You figure
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it out. You haven't got a case against me, and you know it.
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Dollar just the same, Jensen, You better come down to my office
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with us. I got a few more questions I want to ask you,
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and i'd like to check your gun against the slug that killed Russell. Go
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ahead, check it, sure, I'll come down with you as I want
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to get this straightened out. Too. Well. Let me tell you something,
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Dollar, next time you come around my boat house without a search warrant,
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I won't miss. We questioned Jensen for an hour, but he didn't
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change his story. He kept denying any connection with the murdered man, Edward
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Russell or his wife le Owner. Afterward, answer and I went into his
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office. I don't think we got enough to hold him on Johnny Well.
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For one thing, his gun's a different caliber than the one that killed Russell.
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I'm sure he could have used a different gun, but we'd have to
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find it to prove anything. What about the padlock. That's a point,
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all right, but it's our only point. Somebody could have stolen it,
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like Jensen said a frame could be Jenson sure sticks to his story. Yeah.
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I throw everything I could think of at him, but he didn't crack
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an inch. After all, Jenny, you were out of line going into
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his boat house like that, so I should have had a search once.
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I wasn't time. You know, you got quite a knack for stirring up
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trouble. If you're wrong about Jensen and the other suspects, you're gonna a
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few apologies. Apologies. I don't mind hand an ounce, but Russell's killer
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I want do you think I don't. Deputy Sheriff Garrett speaking, huh oh,
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yeah, yeah, put it through. It's Missus Putnam and Denver Jenny,
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wife of the man who wanted to buy Bixby's cabin. I put a
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call into her earlier, hope. Hello, Oh yeah, missus Putnham,
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this is Deputy Sheriff Garrett up at Crystal Lake. The reason I'm calling your
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husband tells us you and he had been interested in buying a cabin up here
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for some time. I thought i'd check with you. What's that you sure
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about that? I see, Thanks very much, Missus Putnam. Well,
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I guess your hunches are still clicking, Johnny. She didn't know anything about
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it, huh, not a thing. Didn't even know her husband was up
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here. Look, gentlemen, I've already told you all about it. I
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saw Bixby's add in the paper about his cabin here being for saleed it sounded
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like just a thing that you and your wife had in mind, mister Putnam,
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exactly, so I can hold it right there. Putnam, you lied
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to us. I most certainly did not. Your wife doesn't seem to know
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anything about it. My wife, good lord, is she up here?
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No? No, I talked to her on the phone. You didn't tell
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her about my wanting to buy the cabin? Yeah, Putnam, I did.
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You lied, Putnam, And there could be a pretty good reason for
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it. Look, you knew Bixby's cabin was empty. You could have planted
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Russell's body there and then pretended to want to buy the place so Bixby would
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open it up and the body be discovered. It'd make a pretty good cover
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for you. Oh, gentlemen, Please, I'm in enough trouble as it
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is right now without you piling moron. I had nothing to do with Russell's
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murder. I didn't even know the man, what do you mean about being
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in trouble and with my wife. Look, it's probably hard for the two
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of you to understand. You don't know my wife, don't know your wife.
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What about it? I did lie about her wanting the cabin. She
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didn't know anything about it. We know that I just wanted the place too
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well to get away from her. Once in a while. Ants looked at
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me, and I looked at Ants, and I guess we both had the
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same idea, the idea that we do on another. In a long series
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of blanks we heard, putting them out a long and familiar tale of wool.
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We could establish no connection between him and the dead man, so we
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finally left. We left him in the middle of a long sentence about what
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his wife said to him every time he got home from the office late.
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Ants and I went outside. The lake was silver in the moonlight, and
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a million stars were crowding the sky. A goodnight to be young. But
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at the moment I was feeling ninety years old. Getting you down, Johnny,
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Yeah, yeah, right now, I feel like an old beat up
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merry around. I've been going around and round, and my bearings are getting
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creaky. Trouble is We've checked out just about everybody who could possibly be involved.
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It's motive that beats me ants. The only one we know of to
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gain by Russell's death is his wife, Leona. Beneficiary of it is fifty
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thousand dollars insurance poll Us. Yeah, but the Denver police established her in
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Denver at the time Russell was killed. Up here. Yeah, she couldn't
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be done it. We've got only one war lead as far as I can
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figure in. The guy who drives the local taxi here at the lake.
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H Yeah, he keeps his car right over there and that shit, And
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I know that's why I was heading this way. She had's empty though.
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Benny Norton told me when she was with Russell the night he got killed.
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As Hiram came up until Russell, somebody was looking for him drove him away.
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Hiram could have a line on the killer. But I can't seem to
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get a line on Hiram. I've tried to call him half a dozen times.
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I left a message for him to contact me, but I haven't had
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a word from him. I don't like it. Our boys are looking for
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him, no sign yet. Well, I'm not getting anywhere right now.
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Hey, look, if you're off doing the answer while you're drinking the hotel
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now I am. You got a deal. Course, there's one possibility been
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in the back of my mind all along, Johnny, probably in yours too.
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You mean the killer could be somebody we don't even know about, a
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stranger. Yeah, yeah, those are the toughest ones I know. Hmm.
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Lobby's kind of crowded tonight and getting into the busy season. Mister Dollar,
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it's Leona Russell. Excuse me a minute, dance meeting in the bar.
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You're right, get any of Missus Russell. I didn't know you were
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still here. I'm leaving in the morning. The sheriff asked me to come
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up here and make an identification of the body. I know afterwards, I
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just couldn't seem to get myself organized. I took one of the hotel cottages
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for a day or two. Such a peaceful spot up here, it's hard
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to believe. Yes, I understand, Missus Russell. Your husband came up
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here, apparently looking for a man named Bill. I've questioned two bills so
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far, calling the bartender and Jensen the boatkeeper. Those names mean anything to
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you, not that I recall That's what's so terrible about this whole thing,
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mister Dollar. There just doesn't seem to have been any connection between anybody up
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here and my husband. Why would anyone have done it? That's a good
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question, missus Russell, and right now it don't seem to have an answer
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for it. I went into the bar, but Aunt Scarrett was nowhere in
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sight. The bartender told me he'd been called away. Expensive con had I
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made seventy five cents one drink? I waited, Still no Garrett. After
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a while, I went on the back of the hotel to check on Hiram's
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taxicab. Nothing. The message I'd left him was still there. I went
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back into the bar, but ants didn't show up. Finally I went up
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to my room. Johnny Dollar An Scarrett, Johnny, Oh, Hi,
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I tried to call you in the bar just now. They told me you'd
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gone to your room. I got tired waiting for you. Sorry, I
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got holed away on official business. I'm calling from a gas station up near
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the three mile grade. Trombone plenty, Johnny. Seems like when you go
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looking for people, it always turns out to be bad luck them. What
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do you mean you came up here looking for Russell. He turned up dead.
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Now you've been looking for Hireum the taxi driver. Don't tell me afraid,
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So we just fished his body out of a ravine. Now here's our
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star to tell you about the final episode of this week's story tomorrow, the
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wind up, the payoff, a payoff with illegal tender lot lead Join us,
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won't you? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starrying.
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Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Robert Rife. It is
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produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night,
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same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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This is Roy Rowan speaking welcome back now. Johnny is definitely in a
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spot here because the Cabby could have given so much vital information as to where
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Russell went to. I got to wonder where Johnny goes from here. I
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kind of hope that the woman who was last seen at him didn't have anything
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to do with it. I thought they had a wonderful scene in part three.
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This case does seem to be getting to Johnny a little bit with his
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pressing of the boat rental owner seems to be a little bit of the earlier
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style of really hitting accusations without any real hard evidence. But I'm sure it'll
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all turn out for the best, at least for Johnny on Friday. So
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join us back here for part five. All right, listener comments and feedback,
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Johnny Doller, especially the Bob Bailey episodes, are, in my opinion,
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some of the best written radio stories of all time. Thank you for presenting
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them in a chronological fashion implies a certain feeling for the atmosphere and social norms
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of the time. Well, you're welcome, Chris. Yes. I recently
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we learned that Fa Mitchell Hedges of Crystal Skull fame had a radio program out
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of New York in the thirties documenting his traveling adventures. I wondered if you
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