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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Chesapeake Fraud Matter, Part Five and Call for a Columnist (EP0931) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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the program, Am, we will wrap up a Chesapeake fraud matter. But
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now it's time for part two of Call for a Columnist. And when we
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last left Johnny Lane, he was waking up to a dangerous looking visitor.
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Cutter Brown Mystery Adventures in Excitement and Suspense, based on the best selling novels
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by the slick storytelling sensation cut Up Brown. I think people would have a
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little more respect my position, not to say my feelings. After all,
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four million meters turned regularly every day to my column to the headline I am
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I with Johnny Lane, I'm somebody in this town and what happens just because
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I print a hint in my column about a mobster's imminent demise, A hint
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thrown my way by an anonymous female phone call. I'm suddenly everybody's favorite focus
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of attention around kind of attention like the guy at my penthouse door shoving a
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gun into my stomach and telling me to get inside. That's bitter, mister
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Lane. Now we can get down a business now. Look, I got
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no business with anyone like you. I'm just a newspaper columnist. Nonner that
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I am about Albert Ferraro's murder, didn't you before? And half? Yeah?
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But look I burned the chief of police and the captain of his danger.
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They wanted to know about it too, but I didn't tell them anything.
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So you and your friends don't need to be nervous. No, but
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you do. You're gonna need protection, friend, I just proved it.
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But you're sitting duck, mister Lane. I could have blown your head off,
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and who was to stop me? Who you? My car? But
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leon Art's private detectiveness in person's face. Bodyguard supply and that's just what you
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need. A bodyguard. Now. I can supply one our rates a thirty
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five a day and expenses. That's not too much to save your life,
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isn't, mister Lane? No? I guess not but no buts, mister
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Lane. I suppose i'd been one of these criminals you've been ridiculing in your
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column, you would have been dead by now. Okay, you sold me.
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Oh fine, Now, one of our standard agreements here. If you
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will sign it, I'll spend the night on your sofa. In the morning
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I'll all sign a regular bodyguard to you who will let me, oh Tony
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Spencer, my best opera it. Okay. I don't know that I approve
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your method, mister Arch, but you've got a deal. The comforting reassurance
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of the private eyes presence and the sofa in the other room gave me eight
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hours solid slumber. But when I yawned the morning in and nearly dislocated my
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jaw halfway through the yawn, the sofa was empty, and I remembered Arts
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must have gone out to arrange about Tony Spencer, my permanent bodyguard and its
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cheaper burns. Threats of the night before disappeared in the thought of constant protection
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from some nice hefty eggs heavyweight. The percolator was buddling and self music from
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the radio was cheering. The morning when the buzzard went I bounded to greet
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my bodyguard, mister Lane. Sure, what can I do for you?
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It's what I can do for you, mister Lane. I presume it's all
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right for me to come in. You have a nice place here, mister
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Lane. I think I'm going to like it. I certainly do. Well,
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that's fine, just fine. Beautiful blonde is just what I need in
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my life. Honey jumped the top? Hey, what hit me? A
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blood buster? I don't know why it is, but I have this trouble
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with every assignment. It's always the same. Men just can't get used to
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the idea of a female bodyguard. You mean you're a Tony Spencer. That's
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right, and there's no need to look so surprised. There are female lawyers,
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doctors, dentists. Why not a female private detective. But I can't
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go around with a lady bodyguard. I've been a laughing stock of the town.
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Now. I'm sorry, but you'd better go back for the agency.
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I'll pay for the days higher. Of course, it'll cost you more than
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that. Didn't you read the penalty clause in the agreement? I didn't read
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it. I just signed it. Your agreement calls for a bodyguard for a
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minimum of two weeks. If you break the contract, the full premium is
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due immediately, plus compensation of five hundred dollars. That's blackmail. That's business.
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Wow do I stay? Oh am? I to argue with a beautiful
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girl, especially when she's a jiu jitsu expert. Well, there's certainly one
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thing about working to used to learn. A girl gets taken to the best
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places. I'm here every night. Ju and I have an understanding. You
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know. I can't get over what address? Why is something showing nothing?
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I shouldn't be jul Oh you remember, Oh? I didn't realize you had
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company. Simon Sadan. This is Tony Spencer Simon. She's half the Adagio
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team in the floor show Simon and Simon. Yes, I've heard about you,
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especially about that intriguing finish to your act where you spin off the stage.
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Tell me, do you have to take your meals off the mantelpiece afterwards?
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You must wait? And she? Unfortunately not tonight? Simon? Is
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you so we do not perform tonight? What a pitty? I'm just dying
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from curiosity, just so long as it's from so mister Lane, will you
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excuse me? I want a part of my nose. It's obviously not want
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it. I admire your teaste, Johnny. I must even confess to a
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my mute touch of jealousy. Jealousy flatter me, Simon. I thought we
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had a mutual interest to each other. I was even hoping that as I
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had an I don't tonight. Oh you don't have to worry about Tony.
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She's only your buddy. What that isn't exactly a nice way to describe a
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girl. I mean, she's only a friend, simone. Now, but
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we fade quietly away while the opportunity is right. Indeed, your girlfriend,
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Oh she won't care. Come on, let's get one Agatting's good, all
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right, Johnny? And I know just bitness Yeah where my body? Ah,
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this is what you call really anything? Beautiful girl and cozy apartment so
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it's just a place to sleep. You know you fascinated me, Journey,
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I do. What does it feel like to be a power in the lent
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to know that what you write today is read by four million people the following
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day? Or feels just like any other job where you can make a hundred
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thousand bucks a year. It Juny told me about mister b who runs device
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circuits. I'm dying to know who he really is, so am I?
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Honey? Come on, Johney, don't be a sell. Of course,
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I won't be the word to anybody. Sorry, Honey, I wish I
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could tell you, but I can't. Oh, Juney Blast, I don't
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know who this is, but I don't want them, whoever they are.
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She moved out into the hall, and I get a lot of pleasure out
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of following that swing and sway walk. In a couple of minutes, you
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came back with two men behind her. The first one had a face like
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a horse in a suit with more padding than the average woman's magazine cereal.
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The second had white hair and blue eyes covered by black heavy respectable Joy,
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whoa company? Introduce me to your friend, Simon, I can't. I
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don't know them. What do they want? I don't know. I wanted
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to ask them because the one with the glasses has a gun in my back,
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and he told me to shut up if I wanted to stay alive.
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Oh, okay, that's enough. We're in a hurry. Come on,
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let's go, Johnny do something. Well. It's a shame to break up
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a pleasant evening. These gentlemen are so anxious for your company, simone,
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I don't want a dame, we want you buster me. Yeah, so
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grab your hat and get moving. I had to put up a struggle,
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but I was outnumbered. There were four of them, two men and two
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guns. I was bundled out of the apartment into a car. About an
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hour later, after more twists, turns, and a roller coaster with hiccups,
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we pulled out outside a dilapidated check off the main highway. Two hoods
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shoved me inside by a rolling lug. Fire STI the ravishing red head.
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When she saw me, she smiled. When I saw her, I blake
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did the double take. I love Johnny. Hey, weren't you a blonde?
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Last emisower? Good? I really forget. Oh, the world suddenly
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gets to be a small place. I remember you're a piece of dirt I
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wouldn't use in my column. You use such a nice language, Johnny sat
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Rolland's girlfriend. That's important, Johnny ex girlfriend Filma as I live and breathe,
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which you will for a long time. I hope aren't you going to
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say thank you? I gave you some good stuff for your calum than that?
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The best lyle the mystery, the anonymous phone calls and it's kidnapping.
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He called me at a come oh with a prototed this way, Johnny,
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and maybe we got a peculiar sense of doing. Okay, so I'm laughing
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and out of gags over? Can I go home now? Sorry? Johnny,
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the gag isn't over. Not good. You're staying right here for two
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or threading? But four? Who we thought the peace and quiet would give
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you a chance to write you a column without any intellectual Oh be crazy.
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How can I write my column here? I can't get in touch with any
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of my contacts. I'd be isolated. You don't have to worry about that,
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Johnny. You see we've written your column for you. What that's right?
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To cover two issues and asking a few interesting questions like do people know
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that the learned senator roll and made his money out of slop machines in the
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first place, sitting up the wires for bookies in the second place, and
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built from cargo rackets in the third place, Also that Albert Ferraro was bumped
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up not because he was going to sing to the Senator's investigation committee, but
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because he was trying a double cross. And finally asking whose influence, got
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police chief over burn his job. Holy come, well, you've got to
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do is copy the stuff out in your style and hondwriting so we can deliver
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it to the move. If you think I'm sending that sort of stuff to
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my paper, you're crazy. If you think you're not, you're as good
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as dead. You have an insinuations like that about rolling and a burn,
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I'll be shot. You will be shot, eve, So what do you
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get to lose? I'm always a guy. I'll see reason, especially when
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there's a gun pointing in my midriff. Alma stood over me while I've betted
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out the column and a ramshack of typewriter that presumes you just wanted to check
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in my spelling, and she and the white haired guy they called him the
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Professor, grabbed the car and hit it for town, leaving me in the
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tender care of the horse face character, who am I allogically enough called horse
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face. You just keep in line, Pale, and you and me'll get
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along. But now, of course, look, fellow, what's the sense
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of keeping me here? I did what Thelma wanted, didn't I? You
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might as well let me go now, huh oh, No, we ain't
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dead. Gun wasting you do when you get back to town. Has canceled
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them columns or no pel you'll stay right here? What's dead? Sounds like
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visitors at the front door. I ain't expecting nobody. I'll go see you
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and you can get fast shut out. Hey, who is it? Hey?
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Horse face? Well that's a fine thing to call a girl. Holy
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you rat running out on me like that. Don't be supplies to mister Arts
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invokes floors. Fourteen of the contract was fourteen non cooperation, non cooperation of
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a client. Doubles the fist table to the eighth books. Never mind the
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fees. How did you get here? I'm a private detective, remember but
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horse faced the guy who opened the door, it came off and hit in.
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Come on, we're getting out of here. Mister Arts is outside in
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the car. We've got everything arranged by. Are you sure work fast?
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We've got a hot all arrange where you can lie low for a couple of
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Well, hello, what are you talking about? I gotta get back to
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time and stopping publishing my column. I don't know anything about your column.
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I've got my orders for mister Arts. You've got to hide out for a
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few days. I am doing nothing of the sort. I am not moving
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from here except to go back to town. Oh I feel like that,
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sorry, mister Lane, that orders are orders. Welcome back. One is
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tempted to pawn that the bodyguard was a knockout in more ways than one.
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Well, next week we'll find out if Johnny Lane is able to salvage his
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journalistic reputations such as it is and a very interesting private detective contract. We'll
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see how this all plays out next week. But now we turn to that
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man with the action Pact expense account, yours truly, Johnny Doller, as
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we wrap up the Chesapeake fraud matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Bob
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Bailey as Johnny Deller. This is the operator, ready with your call to
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mister Pat callaher and Baltimore go ahead, please, Hello, Hello, Pat,
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I got your wire? What's all this? What happened? We're still
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trying to find out the man calling himself Frank Bowers was killed an hour ago.
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George Hanley, one of the operators I had watching him, was killed
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too. We've got a vague description of the killer. Are you all right?
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Yeah? But I'm gonna be tired about the police here. Well,
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you need money for Baylor or anything like that, just or a draft on
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the company outing from it. Thanks Pat, so bad about your friend.
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Yeah, he was a good guy. I want to find out who killed
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Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with
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the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny
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Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Universal Adjustment Bureau,
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Baltimore, Maryland. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the Chesapeake fraud matter. Expense account continued Item thirteen a quarter for some aspirin.
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It turned out to be a long night. Several homicide officers arrived at
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the double murder scene within a matter of minutes and got right down to the
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business at hand. Frank Bauers had been shot to death. George Hanley had
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been shot to death. Lieutenant Tom O'Neill was in charge, a big blonde
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man who seemed to know what he was about. Okay, let's see that
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idea again. There you go, insurance investigator. That's right, Okay,
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what was your business here with these two men my home office in Baltimore had
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reason to believe that Frank Bauers was really a man named John Reardon. Reddon
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was supposed to have died five years ago. I was sent out here to
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investigate it since there had been a twenty thousand dollars claim of the matter.
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Sure, I hired George Hanley to help me out. He was keeping an
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eye on Frank Bauer's I came out earlier tonight to give him my hand,
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and the shooting began, and the idea who did it? A big man
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and a top coat and a hat. I really didn't get a look at
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him, Lieutenant. I was busy with George Hanley. Cure you carry again?
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Sometimes I didn't have one to night. I tried to chase the kill
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him, I said, I was busy with my friend. That's right,
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you did well. How was your investigation coming along? Frank Bauer's fingerprints didn't
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match the samples I had for John Reardon, but it didn't satisfy me.
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There were a lot of things about him personally I couldn't accept. I hirassed
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him a little last night, and he got pretty excited and sluck me.
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This was after I found out, even trying to call Baltimore. Who in
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Baltimore? I don't know. Tell me about this harrassing. We'll make a
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check with a phone company. Well, I needed him purposely trying to scare
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him into a blunder. I think I was doing pretty good. I'll never
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know. No what else you got to say about your case? Well that's
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about it, lieutenant, it is Well, that's all I got to say,
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because that's all I know about it. Next time, be careful with
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your needling tactics. I was doing what I thought best on the case.
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Here you were, you were doing swirl. You let a friend of yours
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get shot down in front of your eyes, not to mention the other guy.
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You can't give us a description of the killer or a hint at the
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motive. Maybe George Hanley wasn't a friend of yours at that Why you can't
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take it easy? Kid? Would take it easy to below the bell.
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I'm sorry. That quite a night. Nobody in your business or mind knows
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what's behind the door when he kicks it in. I'm just a cop trying
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to get straightened out. So I pushed too hard. Sometimes we'll get it
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taken care of. Nobody walks in a man's house and shoots him down without
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somebody here in southing or seeing something. I mean somebody beside you. My
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mental covery of every house in the block, in this whole area, if
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we have to bound to be somebody somewhere the dog and Lieutenant O'Neill turned out
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to be one hundred percent correct. In fact, he turned out to be
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three hundred percent correct or By eleven o'clock the following morning, his men had
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located three different people who had information about the brutal murders of Frank Bowers and
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George Hanley. The first was a man named Randall who had lived across the
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street. He had seen Bowers open his front door and admit the unknown killer.
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He said he wore glasses. The second was a paper boy who had
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come to collect while the killer was there. He stated that the killer and
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Bowers were arguing when he came up to the door. The third witness,
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a housewife, gave the most important information as to the man's description. He
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was a good deal taller than mister Bowers. How much taller three four inches
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at least? I saw him standing in the doorway from here. He had
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on a brown tweed top coat. My husband has one dislike it. How
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old would you say he was? Forty five? Have you ever seen him
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before? No? Would you know him if you saw him again? Yes?
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Anywhere you got that good look at him? Huh. Yes, the
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porch light was on. Here's something dollar. Lieutenant O'Neill had issued an all
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points bullet and, based on the combined descriptions given by the witnesses in the
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meantime, has Been had checked the local cab companies and found out that one
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of the drivers had carried a fair to Frank Bauer's home at eight o'clock in
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the evening. The cab driver verified the housewives description of the suspect and added
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the important information that he'd picked up the man at the airport. When that
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was checked, it was found the man had come in on a plane from
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the east at five forty five in the afternoon. He had used the name
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Orn Williams. Expense account item fourteen eight dollars and ninety five cents. Another
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long distance phone called to Baltimore and pet kelleher. Oh, we'll be John.
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Do you have to stay there? John? Of course I have to
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stay here. I'm a material witness. Not to mention the fact that a
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Palamine was shot down. They'll get on your high horse, John, It
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was just a question. Have any idea what it was all about? While
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at the moment, I'm just sure a guy named Oran Williams flew in shot
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up two people and beat it. If we had Williams, I'd give you
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the whole thing on a silver platter. You're awfully touch well, this thing
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has gotten out of hand. Wow. I won't brush you any anymore.
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John, You know what you think is best. As far as the company
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is concerned. It's really not our business anymore, is it. It's our
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business until it's cleared up. I mean Bowers, he wasn't John Reardon?
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Hold it? Pat? Yeah? Answer from Washington on your wire here,
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let's see, Pat, Yeah, it is our business after all. The
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Lieutenant here sent a hurry up request to Washington on some of Bower's fingerprints I
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mailed a couple of days ago. They check out. I don't get it,
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Bowers, was John Reardon? Oh well, well, why where'd you
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get the samples of Reardon's princes that didn't check out? From Hugh Bryan Arden's
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attorney. Don't you dare? Don't open your mouth. I'll handle it when
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I get there. Tell me about this fellow Hugh Brian, according to the
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phone company, that's the man Bowers was trying to call in Baltimore. I
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told him all I knew, and Lieutenant O'Neill listened thoughtfully. It became apparent
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from that point on, since Bower's true identity had been established through Army records,
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that the bulk of the case could be concluded not in Denver but in
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Baltimore. Expensive count out of sixteen two hundred and sixteen dollars, plain fair
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and incidentals Denver to Baltimore. I arrived at ten fifteen in the evening,
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checked with the Baltimore police, who had been informed of the case by Tom
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O'Neill in Denver at his request. They'd taken no action as yet. From
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the police station, I went directly to Hugh Bryan's residence. The house was
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English, conservative and expensive. The fire in the living room looked cheerful.
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When the door opened, Elizabeth Ridden did not look so cheerful. Hello,
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Johnny Hollong, missus Ridden. Didn't expect to find you here, No,
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I suppose not. I never expected to see you again, Elizabeth I have
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something to tell you. Don't tell me now. It's about your husband,
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all right. I want to tell mister Brian too. He's upstairs in his
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study. Wait. Look, I've done what I thought best about the all
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this, and I'm trying to do what's best now. It doesn't make any
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difference, Johnny, I'm a married woman again. Ah. Yes, Hugh
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and I were married this morning. Excuse me. I walked in and watched
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John Reardon's widow alias Frank Bauer's widow now Hugh Brian's bride disappear up a column
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stairway. The news that she had married Hugh Brian cleared up some of the
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small doubts in my mind. When Brian came back down the stairs with her,
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he looked anything but a happy bridegroom. Hello Dollar in a late caller.
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Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Congratulations, thank you? How did
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you come out and denver? Everything okay? No, everything's not okay?
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Well, what's the matter do I have to tell you? I'll run along
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upstairs, Hugh. It's getting terribly late, all right, dear, good
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night, mister Dollar, good night missus Bryan. There'll be some men out
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to see it pretty soon. Brian Policeman. Oh there's I think you'll be
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interested in what mister Dollar has to say. What I don't understand you.
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I wasn't in Philadelphia yesterday, Liz. I was in Denver, Colorado.
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I flew there to see John. He's been alive and living there all this
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time. I'm sorry this is only for her benefit. Dollar. I'll tell
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it just once. When it gets into court, it'll be different. How
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did it happen, Brian? John Reardon didn't die on that boat. No,
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he was picked up in a bay by a fishing boat on his way
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to Florida. And they didn't never radio on the fishing boat. The first
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port they came to was Charleston. John phoned me from there and told me
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all about it. And this was ten days after we all thought he was
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dead. That part was all accident. Sure, the rest of it was
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a little different, Liz. It was his idea. You've got to believe
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then. What was his idea not showing up ever again, letting everyone think
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it was really dead, making you a widow. I don't believe it.
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He hated his life here, everything about it. He was in debt right
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up to his ears. Of course, there was your money. But he
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while I flew down a chart and to talk to him, he was like
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a crazy man, kept saying there was a way out. I didn't know
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what he meant at first. Then he came right out and said it was
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his chance to get away from all the things he hated. He knew how
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I felt about you then, how I feel about you now? He said,
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I could have you for a price. What was the price those checks
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he got every week from a New York bonding concern? Yes? What did
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they come to? Twenty five thousand a year, regular weekly payments. I
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could afford it. I could afford anything for you, Liz. Did he
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come right out tell you what he hated me? He just said he wanted
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to get away from everything. I went that way for five years. I
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believe. I asked you to marry me every six months. Yes, but
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that didn't work out either. And then one day along game Johnny Dollar,
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How was it feel to be so efficient? Mister Doller. We don't have
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to go into that to me. No, I'll admit you did everything to
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throw me off, and it threw me off, especially the fingerprints you provided,
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didn't. John Reardon insist his name is Frank Bauers and do everything he
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could to make it believe that was true. He did too much to make
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me think it was true. Where is he now? Where is John?
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He's dead, Missus Bryan, Oh truly dead now. He was shot to
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death last night by mister Bryan. Mister Brian also shot a friend of mine,
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didn't you, Brian? Yes, John got scared, called me,
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said he was going to tell everything to Dollar blow the whole thing. All
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I wanted out of this was you is He didn't want you I did last
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week. You decided to marry me. It took you five years to do
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that. And it took him one afternoon to decide he was going to come
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back to the Proof that John Arden's widow is guilty or not guilty of a
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fraudulent insurance claim is a matter for Eastern Fidelity to decide. The matter of
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Hugh Bryan and two murders is matter for the courts. Expense account Item seventeen
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same as Item one, Expenses from Baltimore to Hartford, IDEM eighteen eighty nine
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dollars even car Rental's Miscellaneous etc. Expense account total eleven hundred twenty four dollars
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and ninety eight cents, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Remember please, There'll
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be a new exciting story on Johnny Doller beginning next Monday. Next week.
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A quiet, sleepy little town in Mexico and a beautiful sen you rita that
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well, things didn't stay quiet and sleepy for long, Johonnas won't you Yours
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Truly Johnny Doller. Yours Truly Johnny Doller, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed
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in Hollywood, written by John Dawson, It is produced and directed by Jack
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Johnstone Hurt. In this week's cast where Jean Bates, d J. Thompson
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Hi Everback, We'll write John Daynard, Tony Barrett, Paul Dubob and Forrest
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Lewis. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same time and station
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for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Doller. Roy Rowan speaking welcome
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back script was based on the Walter Patterson I Matter. It was actually one
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of the very first John lonn episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Doller, which was
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broadcast back on December twenty sixth of nineteen fifty two. We played it for
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you on November fourth, of two thousand and eleven. There are still some
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issues with the plot, maybe a little over melodramatic, but we had a
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pretty good investigation along the way. I also think we heard Paul Dubob,
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who of course is the current Frank Race. Doesn't say which party played,
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but I think he played Johnny's friend who died in the course of the investigation.
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All right, well, listener comments and feedback, and we begin with
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Timothy, who writes in as always, keep up the terrific work. I
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have a couple of comments about the new five part yours truly Johnny Doller.
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First, I tend to agree with earlier comments that Bob Bailey isn't really any
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better than earlier Johnny Doller actors. In fact, if I were to rank
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them, Edmund O'Brien and John Lynn would come in first and second. For
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me, it is possible that the extra time available in the five part episodes
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allowed for more character development, and therefore folks would better understand the character of
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John Lunn or another actor have been in the five parters, he might have
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been more well locked. Well, there's something to what you're saying. I
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wouldn't agree with it in total, but I will say that oftentimes we associate
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the Johnny Dollar programs with the actor who played the lead. These are the
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Bob Bailey Johnny Doller episodes. In reality, they're also the Jack Johnstone emphisodes
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and most of them, not all, but a great deal of these best
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of these nineteen fifties to nineteen sixties Johnny Dollars or Virginia Gray episodes where she
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particularly these five parters, showed a great deal of vocal dexterity. She wasn't
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in this week's show, but she is in next week. She'll be back,
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and then a couple of weeks after that she'll be back again. And
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she had a great deal of availability with the coming of television her radio schedule
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a little less crowded, and let's not forget the music that was also a
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key part of it. But that said, it was not just a slamdunk
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to my fifteen minute programs work. So I mentioned before, CBS had tried
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several shows in this four fifteen minutes and it really hadn't worked out, hadn't
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held the audience's attention, because you needed to draw people in, give them
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something to tune then to not after not, and really get some solid ratings
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to keep this up. Mister and Missus North couldn't do it, Mister Keen
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tracer of Lost Persons couldn't do it, and Gerald Moore as Johnny Doller and
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Jack Moyles as Rocky Fortune couldn't make it past the audition stage in the mid
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fifties to get this fifteen minute a night slot on CBS. So I wouldn't
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say it would be a slam dunk for them to be popular or even to
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make it. And if you recall, John Lunn actually did audition for fifteen
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minute program before they ended up opting to do the half hour show. Plus
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Bailey's popularity outlasted the fifteen minute format, which only went for a year,
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and then he had four years of playing Johnny Doller in thirty minute episodes.
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But I do think O'Brien and certainly Lund are underrated, so I was glad
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to bring them to you. He goes on to say. Secondly, I
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tend to prefer listening to the whole story at once, or as clean close
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as possible. I have a thirty minute or so commute into work, which
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makes it ideal for listening to great detectives. I've decided to save the Johnny
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Dollar episode parts to listen to on Monday Part one and two, going to
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work and three and four returning home on Tuesday Part five. I'd appreciate it
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if you would take the third fifth part to be first in the podcast,
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so I could hear the conclusion of Johnny Dollar before going to another show.
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This would also allow folks not to listen to the other show if they weren't
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interested in it. Thanks again for all your excellent work. Well, I
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appreciate the viewpoint, and I'll listen to listeners on that. The reason I've
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kind of opted to do it this way is I don't really want any part
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of the show to be anti climax, and because on Friday we're going to
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be ramping up a Johnny Dollar program, starting a new episode of a other
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series, or in this case, we've got the middle part of another series,
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just asn't going to work well. Plus, I tend to like to
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talk right after the Johnny Doller episodes completed and all for my thoughts on the
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week's past story and then to you know, after lengthy closing commentary or you
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know, in this case, responding to listener comments regarding Johnny Doller. It
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just wouldn't flow as well. But you know, if listeners want it,
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I am, you know, willing to consider different ways, and there are
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a few weeks where I will give it a try, at least with having
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the having the Johnny Doller first. But thanks again. As always, Tim
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always sends along some great comments and truly appreciate it and gives me a chance
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to exercise both my mind and my voice and appreciate his comments and support.
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We also have a comment over on Facebook Atlanta. I asked, where did
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you get your intro music? Is it from a show or is it an
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original composition? It is actually a part of the in music from Pat Novak
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for Hire, which was one of the first shows we did on the program,
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and I just love the in music. I think it was actually something
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from the Armed Forces Radio Service, So yeah, that was the source.
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And thanks so much for the question. And I have a new review of
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the iTunes the iPhone app over in the iTunes store. Lindsey ts rights first
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right all the way, so glad I found this app. Thanks well,
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Thank you so much, Lindsay. And that will actually wrap up today's episode.
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We will be back tomorrow with the lineup and then join us back here
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on Monday. We'll start it all over again with another great episode of Yours
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Julie Johnny Dowler, and join us back here on Friday for Part three of
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Call for Calumness. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen at
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