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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Burning Carr Matter (EP1267) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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com first. Now here's today's episode, if yours truly Johnny Dollar the Burning
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Car Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny dillar Foreman pri State Life
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and Casualty on the Branch office manager down here. Sorry, mister Porreman,
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but the answer is no. Well, this is an arson case Dollar and
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we're already having to make one payoffice. Sorry, but it'll have to wait.
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I'm going to get as far away from this New England winter as I
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can well for that, I don't blame you, but there's no reason you
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shouldn't. Look. I've had a rough year of it. I'm tired and
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I'm cool, and unless I can get down to where the warm Bomby breezes
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wapped in, I have got to have you on this case. There's a
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lot at stake now. My office is down here now, sir, I'm
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sorry you're in Sarasota. I just can't do it, mister Foreman. I've
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already made a plane reservation for Sarasota, Florida, and this is one time
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I'm going to Where did you say your branch office is sarah Sota, Florida.
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Bob Bailey in The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expenser
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Count America is fabulous free lance. Insurance investigator of US Truley Johnny Dollar.
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Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri State Life and Casualty
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Insurance Company Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an out of expenses
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and curd during my investigation of the burning car matter expense account out of one
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which I thought I was going to have to absorb myself one hundred and twenty
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nine dollars transportation and incidentals to Sarasota, Florida. It was nearly five pm
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when I got there, so instead of checking into a hotel, I taxied
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that side him two a dollar even, I taxied to Earl Porman's office in
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the Conrad Building. He turned out to be a tall, lanky, easy
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going fellow with clear blue eyes and already smile. Sit in an office and
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talk business this time of day. You're in Florida now, Johnny Well,
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I thought from your call, this was a pretty urgent matter. Mister Porman,
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it is Arson, you said, yeah, probably, here's no reason
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we can't go out to my little shack on the key and be comfortable while
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we talk about it. Besides Michael Wacher for dinner, Mike, my wife
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Gertrude. Oh, come on, my gelopp is right out at the curb.
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Come on, Johnny. Poor Man was a misnomer for this man,
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because his Jealopy turned out to be a spanking new Cadillact, complete with air
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conditioning and all the fixings and the shack anything. But it was on Saint
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Armand's Key across Sarasota Bay from the mainland. A beautiful two story concrete and
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stucco job. The big yard backed on a quiet bio and they're tied up
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at a private dock. Was a twenty four foot lap strake speedboard, ideal
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for fishing the Gulf of Mexico. After all long gear down here on expense
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the country. Yeah, but it's charged to your company. Remember. Oh
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hey, there she is the door. Huh, the big fat, overbearing
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broad I'm married too. This was another switch for Earl's wife. Standing in
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the doorway was the cutest little trick I'd seen in a long time. But
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see, pretty and blonde with eyes that you noticed right away because they were
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almost green eyes that suddenly narrowed as she looked at me, And I wondered,
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why, Johnny Dollar, did you say that's right insurance investigator on here
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to look into those fires? Oh? Any objections, No, of course
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not. Just set your bags here in the hall, Johnny. All right,
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And wouldn't you like a drink after your long trip? Yeah, and
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you can get me one too, Scotch. Johnny Martin Zvo. Oh great
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Welsota place. Nice. I take it Mike isn't too interested in the insurance
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business. Huh. You know she used to be a singer dancer. Oh
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wow, this is a little different. But now tell me all well,
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actually, I guess we ought to wait until Arnold Carr gets back. Carr
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Brothers Lumber Enterprises. Arnold runs a business and his brother Edward well ed just
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shares the profits, real black sheep of the family from what I've been able
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to learn. Oh, anyway, they have yards all over the state.
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There's one here in Sarasota, one up the coastaways at Fort Pierce, and
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still another at Arcadia that's about forty miles in and just east to hear.
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And there was one up in Orlando, was completely destroyed by fire a couple
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of weeks ago, and one hundred and twenty thousand dollars claim has been filed
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one hundred That's where Arnold Carr is then in Orlando, trying to clear things
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up. You dream, all nice, he earl. Yeah, Well to
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the gods and goddesses and us. Shouldn't I be up in Orlando? And
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Arnold's on his way back here now he lives here. He just went up
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there to arrange for clearing off and selling the property. You mean he's planning
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to just parker the money if tri State pays off. I mean looks like
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it. But I take it you suspect Arson, Yes, Earl suspects Arson,
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Johnny, and so does Arnold Carr, at least he says he does.
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But they have no reason. No. How about the other fires or
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attempted fires. Oh, we're at Arcadia for one, But they got it
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out in time. At least that's the way Arnold Carr reported it, the
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way he loves me tell it, Mike. Oh, there was another at
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the yard here in Sarrisota. Arnold himself discovered it one night when he was
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just driving around. But nothing to indicate it was attempt at arsen. No,
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the authority's up in nor Line. No, found no indication of it
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there, Mike. You know as well as I do that a lumberyard fire
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will obliterate signs of arsen better than any other kind of fire in the world.
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But she has a point of world unless there's some evidence of ours.
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Of course, why I sent for me, well, mostly because Tulie,
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because Arnold Carr, but he's given you no real reason, none at all.
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I think he has a real reason, but he just won't tell us.
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Wait to see him. He's gonna call when he gets in. We'll
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run over to his place on longboat. Key. What about his brother,
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Edward? Did you say I've never met him. He's always stayed in Orlando.
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I was wondering if he might tell things that Arnold is holding back.
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I had Edward Carr. You can never be too sure. Look, why
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can't you agree with me? For that must be Arnie? Now excuse me.
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Hello, this is Arnold Carr. Oh, hi, Arnie. Johnny
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Dollar arrives, so we'll be well, I'll let you talk to him here.
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No, okay, No, listen what I told you before? It
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was Arson? It was Arson again tonight tonight? What's that? Arcadia just
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went up in flames the whole yard. Good lord, did you hear that?
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Yeah? I heard it. Well can you prove it was Arson tonight
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in Arcadia and before in Orlando? I have proof? Well, Arnie,
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we will be over just as fast as what. No, wait for me
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there at your home. Well, but look now, lessons come here,
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and I mustn't stay here because I now listen, man, you Arnie,
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Well, I guess he's ready to tell us now. A suspicion began to
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grow in my mind, a suspicion that Mike apparently shared with me, that
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Arnold Carr himself might be responsible for the fires. After oh, he was
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the only one who had seemed to know about the two unsuccessful attempts. He
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himself had planted the idea of ours. He'd lost no time in filing claim
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for the Orlando burnout. But Earl said I was wrong, Arnold was too
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honest a man. Earl had also said we were only fifteen minutes from Carr's
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home, so when half an hour passed, we called him back got a
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busy signal. After the fourth try, the three of us took off on
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Earl's cab. As we pulled into cars driveway, we could see him through
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the picture window, sitting at his desk, telephone in hand, apparently engrossed
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in a call. Then, as we walked up to the door, I
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noticed something else. Arnold Carr looked enough like me to be my brother.
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Maybe that explained Mike's reaction when she first saw me. Hey, Arnie,
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can't you see he's on the phone. In there. Well, the least
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he can do is hear his own doorbell. Earl Wait, good lord,
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what's the matter through the window? I don't know? Stand back, say
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what is it? Didn't you see from out there? What's wrong? Well,
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Johnny right to the foreheader looks like a thirty eight before I get stopped,
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and Meryl took the phone out of the dead man's hand and called headquarters.
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Mike turned pale and slumped into a chair, and I gave the place
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a quick rundown, checked doors, windows, et cetera. A few minutes
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later, an officious young sergeant named lark And arrived and took over hey caliber
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straight through the middle of the forehead. We're all three of you here when
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it happened, mister Forman, missus Porman, and uh, who are you?
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The answer to your first question, sergeants know none of us was here.
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And this is Johnny Dollar Insurance invest hire you insurance guys work pretty fast.
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You related to mister Carr? No? Why look a little like him
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who busted in the front door the killer I did. When we drove up,
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we saw mister Carr sitting there at his death. We rang the doorbell
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and knocked but when he didn't move, you took things in your own hands
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and busted in. Euh, that's right. You haven't moved anything, have
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you, No? Except I took the phone out of his hand to call
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you. Dollar. If you're any kind of investigator, you should have known
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better. They'll let him touch anything. And let's see, the shot must
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have come from somewhere near this window by the fire. Sure, here we
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are, bullet hole right through the pane. Bull was fired from outside?
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You're sure, sergeant, Sure, I'm sure. Look for yourself. You
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call yourself an investigator, Hey, Cummings, Well I check the area around
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that window beside the chimney out there for footprints, maybe an empty cartridge case.
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Uh, you folks, get out of here so I can call Doc
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Handley over and get on with my investigation. And no, Dollar, I
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don't need any of your help. Well, thank you, sir. Your
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job is fire's not. Hey, where did missus Porman go out to the
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car? Why? Who told her she could leave? Who told her she
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had to sit here looking at a corpse? All right? Dollar? All
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right, just be sure the three of you stick around town in case I
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decided question you further. Oh, of course, sergeant. Yeah, not
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shot by somebody standing outside. What do you mean, Johnny, Oh,
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I spotted that bullet hole in the window too, So I also noticed there
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were no particles of glass on the inside sill, but there were some on
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the outside. Yeah. The shot that made that hole was fired from inside
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that room to make it look as though it had come from outside. Then
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somebody was in there with Arnold Carr. Yeah, either somebody he let in
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or who had normal access to the house, and he had to stop Arnold
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from talking about the fire and Arcadie. Hey, how much do you know
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about his brother, Edwarod? Nothing really outside of what Arnold told me was
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either the married family of any sort. Arnie wasn't. But Arnold's death means
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Edward will own the business then woa, Yes, and he lives up in
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Orlando. Seen of the first big fire. Yes, very good, Heaven,
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Johnny, you don't think his own brother. We're gonna rent a car,
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take Mike Chevy in the car part of the house. But what are
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you gonna do? Drive up to Orlando by way of Arcadia. When I
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got to Arkadia, only a few people were standing around the remains of the
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fire. One host company was still working on it, and a couple of
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police were poking about in the embrass. Walking toward it, I almost stumbled
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over a little old man sitting alone in the darkness beside a palm tree,
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hunched over his head in his hands, sobbing. He didn't even look up
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when I stopped beside him. Who was a part of my own life?
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Which is you were you lost someone in the fire? Said no, son,
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only part of my life. I helped build up that yard, me
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and miss ny Arnold carr all long. He's been worried about it last week
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when him and me smelled smoking, come over here and put out the barrel
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of tracea was smoldering. He knew, knew what that somebody was trying to
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burn him out. That's why he stopped by tonight on need to wear home.
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We drove over here, him and me, and I brought my gun
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just in case. When we got here too late, already blazing, when
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he s an automobile pulling away. Auto. Yes, Frank, he said
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to me, I knowed he who was the one trying to burn me out?
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He said, who, old timer? Who do you mean? He
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didn't say, and he called the fire department. That car that pulled away?
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What was it? Just uh auto, big white buick. But he
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tied it in with whoever set the fire. All he said was I knowed
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he was the one. Do you know who it was? He meant,
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well, he told me even if I didn't know, I should never tell
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even the police. Well who do you think it was? Break my word
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to mister Johnnie? Ah? Never shine? All right, Look, oh
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man, I'm sorry, I have to tell you this. Mister Ronnie's dead.
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What push push? He can't be he was you? Eh? Maybe
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you sort in the darkness, I would know you, but I do know
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you just a minute. All times, mister Arney, standis because you killed
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him? What? Just like you shut the file? No, I'm not
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who you think. I kill you. That's what I'll do down a cat
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act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar In just a moment. Back
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Now Act two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the burning Car matters expensic
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con Item three five dollars fifteen cents gas for the bar of Chevy to keep
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me going to Orlando. The old man's sind side was bad, and he
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was just a lousy shot. Either way, it was okay by me.
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I hated to slap him down, but there was no point hanging around ar
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Katie had trying to explain things to the local authorities, So after making sure
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I hadn't really hurt him, I appropriated his gun and took off fast.
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He'd thought I was someone else, even I had noticed a family type resemblance
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to myself an imal car. Sergeant Larkin had asked me if I was related
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to him, and now the old man at the fire had apparently thought I
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was the one who Oh well, I'm afraid. I made the rest of
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the trip to Warnlando, when somewhat less than legal time and at police headquorters,
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I parted into the office of Lieutenant cal Hudson without bothering to be announced
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early in the morning. Sit down while I finish up report. Mister Carr.
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Uh. Thanks, I was trying to reach you, but we got
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no answers to the phone at your house. That's very interesting. I'm afraid
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I have a painful duty and notify you that your brother Arnold down in Sarasota
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last night. Why did you say? Very interesting, mister Carr? Glad
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you already learned I'll be dog gone. Yeah, you're not the first one.
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Who are you, Johnny Dollar insurance investigator. I can't believe it,
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Dolly, you look enough like Edward Carr to be his twin. You even
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sound a lot like I take it you haven't located it with Jedna Well,
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no, Lieutenant, I think Edward Carr is the firebuger after and the killer.
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Wait a minute, briefly as possible, I told him of Arnold Carr's
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phone called Earl Puorman his emotional upset just before he was killed. I told
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him Arnold had been murdered by someone inside the house, someone close to him,
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and that everything indicated that someone could very well be Edward Carr. That's
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still all just theory. Dollar without any proof, I will admit that Edward
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is a pretty worthless playboy living off the properts of the Lumbia Eye. In
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any event, the Lieutenant promised to put out an app on Edward Carr that
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was at breakfast for the two of us had him four three dollars in a
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quarter. Before I left him, he gave me ed Car's address seventeen twenty
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six, Allen Place. As I expected, there was no answer to the
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doorbell at seventeen twenty six, so I tried visiting up the street. It
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quickly became clear that ed Carr wasn't very popular and this otherwise quiet, well
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ordered neighborhood, the big noisy God is at all hours of the night,
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cars parked up and down the street, blocking respectable people's driveways. Yes,
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you know, once in a while you expect a person to have callers and
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such me. I have the Ladies Bridge Club every third Wednesday, Princess.
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But these are all ladies, not like some of the trash that that man
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and his friends have, dancing and drinking and carrying on at all hours.
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Yes, you mentioned cars. You know people like missus Herford Robin, she's
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awfully nice and Janet ASTERI wedding. Now she's a widow, and you know
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she could have her pick of anybody she likes. But does she ever look
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at another man? No, sir, And then this is missus Harper.
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Yes, you mentioned cars. Do you know what kind? Mister cardrove?
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Why? Yes, it was a big white one. And well no,
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my husband, when he was alive, always drove a Maxwell And I guess
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that's the only kind I forgot to nobody name. But mister Carrs is white
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only. I guess that isn't much help to you. Is it? All
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the right cars here in Florida? I mean? Now, even at blonde
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hussy who's around him all the time, drives a white car. Oh.
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I really shouldn't use a word like that, though should have, but it
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fits. Wait a minute, what blonde missus Harper, mister Dowler. I
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don't pay any attention to people like that. Why you think she owned that
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house of his? The way she keeps popping in and out all hours is
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if she belonged there. Missus Harper drives all the way up from Sarasota too.
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Do you know who she is? I do not. I refuse to
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pay any attention to people and the way she dresses too, like a newly
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rich chorus girl, with all her fancy clothes and furs and things. How
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do you know she comes from Sarasota by the license on her car. Of
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course, every city has its own number, you know that very well.
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And hers is twelve ww something. And you don't know her name, of
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course, not flauding all those expensive birds, as though she bought and paid
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for them herself. And if there's anything I hate to see, it's a
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little shrimp loaded down with furst. Now a tall person like eyes. If
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there's anyone I don't trust, it's a person with green eyes. Thank you,
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missus Harper her description of Carr's girlfriends stopping in my tracks. That description
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could fit Mike Pullman to the letter. Herteet, blonde, green eyes,
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and she came from sarah Sota. And then I remembered Mike's reaction when she
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first saw me. Her dismissal of Edward is a possible suspect. There was
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ably as friction between Earl and Mike too. I figured it was just normal
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and a couple who'd been married for a while. Now I had them five
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A dollar thirty phone call from the nearest booth, I could find an earl
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pullman at his office in Sarasta. No, she isn't, Johnny. What
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well do you know where my kids? When I woke up this morning,
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I could hear her talk to her girlfriend Betty on the phone downstairs. Betty,
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Betty lives here in Sarasota. They used to be on the stage together,
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sister act you know. Yeah. Well, well then when I went
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on for breakfast, she was gone. Took my car too. I had
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to come here to the office at Taxi. Yeah, well whole care.
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Oh thanks a lot. Yeah. Now wait a minute, how are you
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doing? Found out anything I ought to know about this arson and murder business?
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Noh, oh, nothing that you need to worry about. I sat
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down at the corner drug store that side him five eighty cents over a sandwich
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and a colt to try to think things out. But I'm afraid I didn't
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like anything that I thought. Finally, I drove over to Allan Place again.
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I parked a couple of blocks away and walked to seventeen twenty six.
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I rang the front door, though knocked a couple of times. Then I
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slipped around to the back door. Finagela lock on it with a little celluloid
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pocket calendar finally got it open. I left it open for the sake of
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a quick exit if such became necessary. I guess that was a mistake.
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For a couple of minutes later, as I rounded the corner from the den
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into the living room, I felt the barrel of a gun poked into my
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back. Out of town. I'll wait a minute, move any boy trying
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to stole off me the five grand by saying you're going to be out of
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town? Okay, so you think I'm Edward car You kidding? Lets you
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know what happens when somebody tries to stall me. I don't know exactly how
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long I was out, but when I came to it was dark except for
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the globe from a street line outside, and what aroused me was the sound
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of footsteps, feminine steps cautiously entering the back door, then briefly silhouetted against
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the window. I saw a trim, petite figure that was all too familiar
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coming toward me, and she saw me too. Darling, you're hurt.
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What happened? What do you think? Who struck you? You don't know?
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Yes, of course it was Tony, because you didn't pay him soon
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enough for the Arcadia job. Let me help you. No, oh,
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just I'll arrest For a minute, I thought that was Tony I passed on
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the road in from Sarasota. Why did you come over from Sarasota to see
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you? I knew you'd be here. Oh why? Why so the police
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could surprise you with the news of your poor dear brother's death. Why did
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you come to the house because I hoped you'd come here. I guess,
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Eddie, you should have waited until I could raise the money to pay off
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Tony you made for killing Arnold two? Of course, No you trying to
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say you didn't kill Arnold. But I saw you from outside in the buick.
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You'd swear to that, wouldn't you. I don't know what, Eddie.
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You sound like you don't trust me. We're in this thing together,
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are you sure that? What are you talking about? Whose idea was it
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to knock off Arnold? But you had to when he saw you had Arcadia.
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He knew that you were having the yards burned out. That's the way
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you figured it from the beginning. Wasn't it first burn up the lumber yards
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and collect the insurance on them? And then convinced me that you and I
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should have it all by putting Arnold out of the way, But you had
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to kill up. I don't understand you, Eddie. Yeah, I wish
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I didn't understand you. Mike, Mike, come on, let's turn on
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the line. No, no, somebody sees this, Eddie. You Oh
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who are you? Are you kidding? Mike? Wait a minute, who
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are you? You're that insurance investigator Johnny Dollars that Mike told me. Let
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me don't know you don't You're staying right here, Mike. Poorman's sister,
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aren't you? Well? Whose sister? So we went? Did a sister
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act before she married that Poorman guy? Now, but let the go by
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along. Shot. You may as well. Dollar, what, Eddie,
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don't move? Dollar? Get his gun? Betty get it? Yeah?
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Yeah, sure here Edo head car. That's right. You know we do
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look alike, you and me. Yeah, sure enough for Betty here to
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have told me all I need to know. Don't believe me, Maddy,
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he's lying. I heard no, Eddie, I thought he was. You
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don't just sure? Sure? Why did you come up here anyway? Because
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Mike told me that Dollar was coming up here? You've been shooting up your
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mouth. Have heard too, She knew, she thought you might have something
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to do with the fire. She was my friend. She was trying to
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get me out of this whole mess at which i'd listened to. Well,
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it's too late now, baby, and what are you going to do?
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No, I gotta get rid of both us and figure some way to shut
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up Tony's mouth. You know you never got away with a car. I'll
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call him, That's what I'll do, yeah, Betty, and he'll come
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here to get his money. Then I'll call the police. See, tell
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him to come right away. Tell him I found out about you having Tony
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start the fire. That's right, that you had him burn up the yard
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so there'd be even more money for you to bleed from me, like all
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the door you got from me already. You're crazy head. I'll tell the
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police to meet me here, and when they come in, it'll just be
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in time to see me kill Tony and self defense. After getting here too
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late to save you, I'll tell me you're out of your mind. They'll
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check that gun of yours so fast, and that'll prove it, because the
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only shot out of my gun will be the one that gets Tony, it's
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gonna yours is the one that's gonna knock you two off, and they'll think
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it's Tony. Oh Eddy, please, you're drunker, You're great crazy to
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save my own life, to keep you on, Tony and Dollar from putting
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a noose around my neck. If you think that hair brained scheme of yours
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will ever work, you because it's my only chance. So it's going on
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work now. Thanks lo times. I'm afraid I was too late to say
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it, Johnny. Yeah, yeah, but Eddie Car'll lived to face a
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jury. What brought you here? Anyhow? I did, Johnny, Mike,
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stay there, stay right here, Mike. I didn't want to see
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it. She was my friend. I came along. When I talked to
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Betty this morning, I knew your suspicions about Ed were right, because you
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see, I knew Betty and Ed were going together. Earl didn't know.
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Yeah, maybe you better call him. Expense account Adams six nine dollars eighty
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cents gas and incidentals for the drive for the two of us back to Sarasota,
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remarks Freddy, of course, has already paid for her part of the
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deal, and I guess it's pretty obvious. What will happen to Ed Carr
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and Tony Ricardo? The insurance money in the car estates will be distributed according
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to Florida law. Further remarks the apparent friction between Earl and Mike was only
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part of a normal married life. They're a pretty nice pair. Oh and
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I thoroughly enjoyed three days of fishing in the Gulf thanks to Earle. Expense
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account total including all the incidentals I could think of, three eighty five twenty
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have some solid acting. Uh. The story itself really was was a bit
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contrived to have all these coincidences, uh, and some aren't necessary, like
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the coincidence of having the insurance guy already be in the city that Johnny was
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flying to and Johnny looks like one of the suspects. What a coincidence.
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Twinn's stories always seem to have that that temptation to just become I'm a little
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too silly, convenient and pant. This story actually kind of turned around for
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the at the end for me, because I didn't see the twist coming where
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the woman Johnny was talking to would turn out not to be Mike but Mike's
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friend, which was a nice surprise, even though it was yet another coincidence
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and a little confusing because she was talking to Johnny thinking Johnny was Ed,
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and he was talking to her thinking she was Mike. So I'll give Johnstone
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credit for a decently clever end that did take a nice twist. By the
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way, contrary to what they said, Ed didn't sound anything like Johnny.
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All right, well, that'll do it for today. Join us back here
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