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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Widow Matter (EP1429) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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plans, remember Johnnydollarair dot com. Well. Today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar originally aired August fourth of nineteen fifty seven and the title is The Wayward
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Widow Matters from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellar. John this is
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Harry Branson, the Philadelphia Mutual Liability and Casualty Company. Well, hi,
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Harry, what is it this time? Fraud? Murder? Arson? No,
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No, none of them. And what kind of a case has you
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in to dinner this morning? As a matter of fact, John, there
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is no. Oh now, don't tell me you're spending company money on just
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a social call. Why, Harry, of course not, John, I
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wish you to take a motor trip with one of our very important pliers.
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Well, no, that depends. Perhaps you've heard of her, Betty's Charlie
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in Winters. No, but she sounds interesting. She is. She's one
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of the most charming people. Very wealthy too, John, you'll love her.
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Oh, tell me more. I want you to accompany her to her
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summer place on lakehawai Yanda in northern New Jersey. Sounds better all the time.
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On expense account, of course, plus a fee of one thousand dollars
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for the week, or any fraction there are. How can I lose,
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Harry, I'll grab the first train. Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of
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the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America is fabulous. Freelance insurance investigate
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her yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
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to the Philadelphia Mutual Liability and Casualty Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following as
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the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Wayward widow matter. Expense
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account out of one twenty one to fifty Fair and Incidental's Hartford to Philadelphia.
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At his office on Walnut Street, Harry Branson looked as though he'd been just
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sitting there waiting for me ever since his phone call. I'll get straight to
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the point, John, Well, good, good. You don't mind if
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I sit down first, though, do you? Oh? No, no,
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of course not. As I told you on the telephone. Missus Winters
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is one of our misses. You didn't tell me that her husband died just
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a short time ago. Oh oh, and you, the old friend of
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the family, have been consoling the lovely widow, eh, John? Yeah?
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When you pick him here, really pick him? Harry. Hey,
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do you remember that little brunette you went for in the last case I handled?
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Is John? That has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter at hand.
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Okay, maybe not, Ah, but you sly dog, I'm betting
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right now. You wish you could make this trip to the lake instead of
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me. Of course I do. The beautiful forests and mountains up there at
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this Tommy, for sure, just for the scenery, all right, Not
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tell me all well? The Winters were very wealthy, Betty. Charlene Winters
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still is, thanks among other things, to the half million dollars she received
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on her late husband's double indemnity policy. Half a million. You make this
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sound more attractive every minute, John, Well, you don't suppose the gorgeous
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babe helped him have an accident in order to collect that, John, you
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are being absurd, am I tell me? This was he older than she?
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Yes, he was? Uh huh and two and two make four?
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And you are making no sense at all. Hey, you have got a
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case on her, haven't you. Will you please stop this nonsense and listen
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to me now, As I started to say, their lovely home is out
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between Ardmore and Brynmore, all right, go on. Their home, which
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mister Winters inherited from his father and his grandfather before him, is a veritable
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art I see. But she is going to dispose of most of it to
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the better known museums and galleries. She plans to sell the family mansion too,
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just as soon as the estate is settled. Doesn't go for the old
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stuff. You're quite right. Her taste is more for the modern. That's
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the way I like him. I beg your pardon. Nothing go on,
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Harry, Yes, some of the things. However, she is taking up
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to the summer home on lake while Yanda. Oh well, now wait a
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minute, Harry, Am I taking Betty, Charlene and Me's winter's John?
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Please, okay, I'll stay out of your territory for the time being.
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But am I being hired to take her up to the lake or just some
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of this junk you've been talking about? Both? You see, there's one
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thing in particular, some statue or other that she wants help with. Statue
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on, So you and she and the statue will make the trip. Now
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that's the kind of chaperone I like. Why do we start? I must
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confess it's quite a relief to get out of that office for a while.
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Oh, don't try to kid me, Harry. The only reason you wouldn't
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let me find my own way out to this winter babe's home. Babe.
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Honestly, John, you sometimes carried this levity much too far by the way.
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How long ago did her husband die? About four months ago? Oh?
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Brother, you don't even wait for the anses to get cold, do
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you, John? I tell you that any Diana. Well, it was
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an accident in the car during a little trip that they were making south of
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here. He'd taken over the wheel from the chauffeur. They struck the abutment
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of a bridge over a tidal creek leading out to Delaware Bay. Oh.
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He was thrown out and his body was carried into the bay. It was
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never recovered, and so our tasty little dish was left with a quarterm in
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life insurance, a huge ashine. I simply will not listen to any more
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of this sort of nonsense. Besides, this is the driveway up to the
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house. A lovely place, isn't it. It was lovely. There must
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have been over an acre of perfectly tended lawns and gardens, And in the
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middle, atop a slight rise was the main house, built of solid white
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stone of some sort, old too, but in beautiful conditions. This was
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wealth, all right, and plenty of it. Harry's, your old car
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looked almost tawdry in this setting. We stopped one of the broadfront steps and
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across a wide porch and rang the doorbells. Oh, mister Brand's that's right,
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and Missus Winters is waiting for you in the sun moom, thank you
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come John. The butler led us through a large reception room, a huge
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living room, both of them hung with beautiful prints and paintings, through the
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walnut panel library with its high seiling and hundreds of leather bound books. Finally,
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after passing through a long corridor lined with statues and magnificent vases, we
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entered the spacious sunroom. They are standing in front of a chair. At
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the window was a chauffeur, and in the chair sat Betty Charlene Winters,
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Missus Winters. May I present special Investigator John Dalla. Wow she was a
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cubittal thing, that I will say. But instead of a young, blond
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and beautiful, let's face it, she was seventy If she was a day,
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all my dreams of a high old time during a week and I'm on
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the lake suddenly vanished the thin air. How nice of you to come,
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mister investigated, did you say, mister Branson, Yes, I see.
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Well don't you stand there, sit down and be comfortable. Both of you.
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Thank you. Uh, yeah, is something wrong, mister Dollar.
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No, no, not at all, Oh Haskins. Here's my chauffriend,
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general handyman, Hiter Dollar. I just asked him to get the statue ready
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for our little trip. Oh you may go now, askin. Oh thank
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you? No, wait, please, I I wonder if I might see
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this thing we're taking up to the lake, Missus Winters. Of course,
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it's right there in the corner behind you, mister Dollar, the shed chairman.
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Oh this is beautiful. Well it was a cherub all right, about
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four feet high, with a couple of doves floating around his feet. At
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least that's what I gathered from the garish paint on it. Believe me,
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it looked like something a third grader. It swapped together as a joke on
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his moddeling glass. Now I'm no artist, but so help me. I
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could have done better myself with a handful of muddy with my eyes closed.
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No family anti. I started to say what I was thinking, but then
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Haskins lifted the atrocity off its pedestal and left with him. Haskins has made
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a special box for it. He replaced it in the car so we can
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leave with it. Tomorrow. You are ready to leave on such short notice,
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aren't you, mister Dalla Well, now look, Missus Winters. Yes,
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his luggage is right outside of my car Missus Winter's, and Eric you
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may said you didn't put it in one of the guest room. Very good
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about him, by the way, I hope you know how to drive a
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piercello, mister Dalla Pierce. Or did you think perhaps Haskins would drive us
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up to the lake? Well, I I don't know. No. Haskins
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is leaving today on his vacation, and I wonder if he will come back.
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Why do you say that, Missus Winters. Oh, I've been having
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some trouble with him. Oh, I thought you were always eminently satisfied with
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Haskins until recently, until the death of my husband. He's been well,
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if he doesn't come back, I shall have to replace him. But now,
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mister Blanson, yes, you're a bit of a rascal. You didn't
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tell me you were bringing a detective to go along with me, investigator Missus
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Winter's insurance investigator, since the company wouldn't permit me to issue any special insurance
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on that thing. Miss I thought you were going to bring me just some
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strove your BODYGD I have known John for many years, Missus Winters, and
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I assure you no, don't apologize. I think this is fun. I
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just hadn't expected so much, such a nice, good looking young But now
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come, mister Dalla and I'll show you the rest of the house. We
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spent the next hour or so on a tour of the place, and Missus
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Winters pointed out the various works of art destined for specific museums and galleries all
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over the country after she moved out after the estate was settled. Then Harry
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caught up with us and announced that Haskins had created the statue and placed it
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in the car. You know, I was curious about that car, so
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we went out to the garage and inspected it. It was a Pierce arrowall
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Right, nage of nineteen twenty eight, complete with headlights on top of the
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fenders, and as bright and shiny as the day was made. When I
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tried the starter, it purred like a contented kitten with a bass voice.
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That is along. About five o'clock, Missus Winters, with a sparkle in
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her eye, announced it was cocktail time. Harry, being a teetotaler,
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decided to leave, but not before I button hold him for a quick conference.
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What doesn't make sense, John, Oh that's silly statue, Harry,
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all a fuss over that piece of chump. After all, John, with
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all the big policy she can with us on the legitimate I work. Well,
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we just can't afford to displease it. But if it had me real
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value, perhaps it does to her. I'll can it unless she has a
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lot of jewelry hidden away in the base of it or something. What John,
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a cocktails? She said, And I'm sure ready for him. Go
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on back to Philly, Harry, and wait for my final report. Well,
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I must admit that Betty Charlene Winners turned out to be a charming hostess,
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a very interesting conversationist. Even long after dinner, over brandy and cigarettes,
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we chattered away like a couple of night flies. I didn't question her
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about the statue because I wanted to find out more about it on my own
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hook. Finally, about midnight, we decided to retire, had a night
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cap and went to our respective room. But instead of going to bed,
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I sat around and read for a few minutes. Turned out the light waited
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a few minutes more, then quietly I slipped out of my room. That
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was a mistake. Or as I reached the end of the long hall to
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the stairway, a door behind me suddenly opened. Huh, who's there,
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I said, Act two of yours truly a Johnny dollar in a moment.
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With the bigger, more impressive kaleidoscopic change of events on the world scene,
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tod we sometimes forget the smaller kaleidoscope, the child's toy, with its ever
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changing designs and color. The kaleidoscope is a fantastic experience for any child,
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that is, any child who can see, but one of those children who
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cannot experience the ecstatic pleasures of form and color in the ever changing world about
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them. This problem has bothered many, and many such people have tried to
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solve it. One time. Sold during in the United States Army, Robert
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Nieman is one of them. Captain Kenneth Moyer, also of the Army,
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is another. Both men, while stationed in Japan, recently set about the
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task of raising funds for the purpose of providing eye examinations and operations for sightless
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Japanese children. In return for this gesture, Japanese eye surgeons did not charge
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for their services for those children who could not be cured. Burial typewriters were
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purchased and donated for training purposes in the hope of giving a few more people
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useful lives. Both Nieman and Moyer worked independently of each other. Neither knew
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of the other's interest in such a gratifying project. Both have continued the work
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with enthusiasm. The results of their efforts. When a blind child sees again,
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or perhaps for the first time, that is their reward. For a
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child, as for an adult, new site leads to understanding, and understanding
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is a building block of freedom, the right of all men everywhere, and
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now act too, of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the wayward Widow
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matter. When I came to it was morning, and I found myself in
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my pajamas, lying comfortably in my bed in the guest room. But there
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was nothing comfortable about the lump on the back of my head. Whoever had
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slug me out there in the hall had meant business. I got up painfully,
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went down the hall and made a quick check of the room from which
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the attacker had surprised me. It was just another guest room. I showered,
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dressed, and went downstairs, where I found Missus Winters at the breakfast
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table. She was very much distressed over what had happened, and suggested we
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go out and look in the trunk of the car immediately here. Now it
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seems to dull at the box with the statue, and it hasn't been touched.
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I don't understand it. Where is your chauffe Haskins left on his vacation
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last evening? I thought, I told you, But surely you don't think
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well, you said you were having trouble with him. Maybe we'd better open
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that box to make surely. But it hasn't been touched, and I'm the
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only one who has. He keeps that little lock on it. Yeah,
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I see. But now it's pretty logical to assume that whoever slugged me last
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night was interested in missus. What is how long has Eric, your butler
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been with you? Why? Eric, the dear boy has been with me
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for nearly thirty years. But good heavens, you surely don't suspect him of
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anything like this. He's a very fine person, mister Dollar, and a
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perfect gentleman. Oh certainly more of a gentleman than my late husband never was.
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In spite of his money. Oh, I must confess that although his
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death was a terrible sharp cut, well, life has been very leasier for
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me since he passed away. Just how do you mean that this is what
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is nowhere? Why talk about it? Something that? Oh no, why
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not talk about it? I married Charles for his money, mister Dollar.
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I'd never got any further than the front line of the course until he came
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along. Would you believe that I was a chorus girl? And the wealth
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and the luxury that he could give me was very attractive, was very satisfying
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for a long long time. But for the past ten or fifteen years,
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maybe more. He insisted that we just stay penned up in this musty old
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museum he called a home, and what have Well, all our friends were
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traveling around the world, seeing new places and new people. We just sat
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here, looking at four walls and at each other, except for a couple
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of blessed months up at the lake. You love the place up there,
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mister Dollar. It's new and fresh and modern. I had it built over
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his protests. People, young people came to see us, and it was
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such a relief from her. Well, I'm sorry, this must be so
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boring for you to hear, not at all. Now, look, why
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don't we call the police and about this thing that has happened to you?
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Come, we'll go right back into the house. And no, that's not
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a bunch of policemen prowling around would scare him off, whoever he is.
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Suppose you're to attacked, and at least I'm ready for it now. I
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just don't like your taking this chance. Of course we could leave, go
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up to the lake, run away from him. Oh yes, of course.
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It might prove whether he's interested in the statue if he follows this.
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I mean, oh, dear, why don't you let me call the police
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only if you think they ought to be around here to protect the house while
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we're gone. No, no, that isn't necessary. We have a very
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efficient burglar alarm system, and it doesn't look as always working very well last
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night, does it? Unless it was someone in the house who attacked me.
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Who else is there besides you and Eric? No one except the cook
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male or female? Oh no, no, mater, Why the poor deer
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is nearly as old as I am and a real companion phone. Sounds strange,
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I know, but we're real nice friends, all right. Let's go
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back in, have our breakfast, pack our things, and go on up
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to the lake. Eric, who served the breakfast and whom I hadn't seen
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since dinner last evening, kept giving me around a strange look. And as
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soon as breakfast was over and I quickly stuffed my things into my handbag and
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headed down to the garage, Eric was waiting for me there. He insisted
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that he put my things into the trunk of the car, which killed any
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chance I might have had to pry open the box with a statue. I
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started to question about the night before, but as it turned out, my
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questions were quite unnecessary. Yes, mister Doller, it was I who carried
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you back to your room and put you to bed. Oh you see,
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I was making a final inspection of the house, as I always do after
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everyone else has retired. I'm always concerned about the many valuable things we had.
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I don't blame you well. I was on my way up the main
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staircase when I heard you fall. I was slugged, forgive me, sir,
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But when I found you there of the head of the stairs, I
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thought your condition was due to it. You must pardon me. It was
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due perhaps to having imbibed too much brandy. After deny not a bit of
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it. Somebody buys out of that guest drum and struck me from behind,
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But I saw no sign of anyone else about. You're sure most certain,
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sir? Was this fancy burglar alarm system you have turned on? Yes,
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sir, Well, then whoever did it either stayed in the house until this
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morning or knew the place well enough to get out without setting off the alarm.
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But I don't see how that would be. Have you called the police,
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sir? No, I we're not going to missus Winters and I are
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leaving for the lake just as quickly as possible. But don't you think this
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is sufficiently? Don't forget one thing, Eric, It was pretty dark in
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that hall. The attack might have been intended for you. Good hppens,
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But why, sir, I don't know. Oh yeah, oh there you
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are, Eric. You may fetch my bags from my room. I'm mister
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Dallan. I planned it very well, madam. No, you don't know
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how glad I'll be to get there, such a relief from this place and
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all things associated with it. I'll be so glad when Charles's state is settled.
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And I can sell this old house and just Marta and I can stay
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at the lick. Oh. I know, the paintings and things are all
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very fine and valuable. I'm so tired of looking at them. Well,
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then, why do you take this so called I beg your pardon the statue
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up to the lake where this is different? Oh yeah, I'll grant you.
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It is a bit different from the other things that. Oh well,
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let's talk about it along the way. But we didn't simply because I didn't
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bring up the subject again. Why not because a couple of pretty wild ideas
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had begun to pick away at the back of my brain, ideas just crazy
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enough to have some basis. In fact, the nineteen twenty eight Pierced Arrow
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ran like a dream in spite of its advanced stage, and Missus Winters,
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in spite of her advanced stage, kept the conversation going on a merry clip.
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There was a sparkling, almost buoyancy about her, and the hunch that
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had hit me began to grow. We crossed the Delaware River at New Hope
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on Route two O two, and in Lambertville we stopped at the sign of
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the Flying Red Horse to gas at the car that'side him two four to seventy.
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While the attendant was busy with that and checking the tires and battery and
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so forth, I made some excuse or other and stepped around to the telephone
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booth at the back. Harry Bronson, Hare, Harry, I want you
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to drive out to the winter's home at Bridmar again. Just do it right
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away and then call me up at the lake. But whatever you said,
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John, but I wish you'd tell me you got to go now. Goodbye.
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The rest of the trip through the pretty North Jersey countryside was uneventful.
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North and east of the little town of Andover, we came to Lake Kuawayanda.
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We go along a private road to the far end of it, and
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there, pushed on a little cliff above a deep basin, was a real
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smart, modern brick and glass home. That's right straight up the little hill
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and park in front of the ground. Little hell. I just hope we
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can make it right here. I hope the break the hold or this thing
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could roll right on back into the lake. Oh, and the lake is
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so deep right there, nearly one hundred feet an old mine or something before
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the water came up. Oh, this is a pretty dangerous driveway. He
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now, let me help you. Thank you. One of the first things
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I'm going to do is have this driveway built up and leveled off in a
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big stone wall built around. Yeah, you'd better careful now, this is
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pretty steep. Oh listen. Yeah, telephone is ringing inside the house.
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Oh, let me have the key and I'll go in and answer. Oh.
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I suspected the call was from me, but didn't want to say as
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much. So I opened the car trunk and proceeded to take out the luggage,
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a big, clumsy box for the statue. The box was heavy,
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very heavy, and I wondered how Haskins, the chauffeur, had been able
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to pick up and carry the statue so easily back in Primark. I finally
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got the box perched on the edge of the car trunk, and this is
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what is called to me. Were you mister Dolla? Oh okay, I'll
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take it. Leaving the fox there on this precarious perch, I went on
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up to the house right here, and I'd go on out to the car
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and get my coat. Yeah, Johnny dollar, John this is awful,
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terrible, because I just told him Thissus Winters, this is well. I
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couldn't believe it. But how did you know? Why did I know?
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What? Eric the butler, Yeah dead, he's dead. And John yet
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from what how did he die? He apparently fell down the main staircase.
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The poor cook Martha is the only the person in the house. She's beside
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herself. Yeah, I bet she is. But whatever may disrespect, something
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was wrong out here. Call the police, Harry, make sure they look
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for a possible blow on the head that might have been delivered before he fell.
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What so long, Harry, Oh dear, Oh, mister dear,
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fell off the back of the car. Yes, the big box. I
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must have bounced it when I reached it into the trunk for my weekend case.
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Bounced right down into the lake. Yes, my beautiful little statue is
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at the bottom of the lake. Oh well, don't worry, missus Winters.
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We'll get it back. I'll have a diver come up here. No,
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no, it's all right, we leave it there. Ah, No,
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No, you were right. There's only been another memory of the musty
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old house and benoir. There's no place here where everything was so fresh and
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lou and clean. We'll get it back. But it really had no actual
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value. You were rite mister Downer, it's better to just yes, we'll
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leave it there. Sorry, missus Winners, but that's where you're wrong.
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We'll get it back all right, and whatever is in it, Oh dear,
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I suppose I might have known expens account adam three two hundred ninety dollars,
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even for the diver who came over from New York and retrieved the box
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from the deep hole in the lake. Two boxes, as a matter of
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fact, one with haskins body in it, and the other with a body
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of Charles Wedders, the body that was supposed to have been washed out to
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sea after a car accident. The story well, of course, after Haskins
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got rid of Charles for me, I had to do something about him,
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or rather we did, Martha. You know, such a wonderful friend was
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Haskins, the one who slugged me? Yeah, yes, so foolish of
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him, wasn't. But he'd heard mister Branson say you were an investigator,
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and it frightened him, worried me a little too. Well, he might
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have killed you too, Fary hadn't stopped him. And of course Eric knew
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that Haskins had unwittingly made this second Marx for his own body. So now
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Eric's gone, Martha, Huh, yes she did, but she had to
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put him away. Oh yeah, you see, he was the one who
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took care of Haskins for us, and we shouldn't have him around knowing everything.
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Oh dear Martha and I had planned so many wonderful things together. But
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now, oh dear. Expense account total including incidentals and transportation back to Hartford
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three hundred and sixty five fifty remarks, Well, I'd rather not say how
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I feel about a case like this, Harry, A whole prime way by
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a couple of apparently sweet old ladies. The legal procedures, and there'll be
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plenty of them, are up to you in the company, as well as
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recovery of the insurance paid on poor old Charles Winners. Hey, next time,
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give me a case it doesn't turn my stomach? Will you yours truly?
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Johnny Doe? An Now here's our star to tell you about next week's
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story. Next week, A taste of the Old West and a taste of
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lead from a thirty eight colt join us, won't you yours truly? Johnny
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Doe, yours truly? Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood.
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It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's starr.
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Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg Harry Bartel, Eric Snowden, and
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Frank Griston. Be sure to join us next week, same time and station
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for another exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Joe
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Walters speaking. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Circuits Welcome
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back. Well, the title should have made it obvious who did it,
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and I think the mystery itself was mostly pretty obvious, but William Jack's Arstone
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credit he threw in some pretty good red herrings in there. One is the
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change of age, I think, particularly with what Johnny was expecting her to
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be, the scheming young widow who he'd come to expose, and found out
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that she was a much older lady, so that kind of threw things.
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And then when she offered to call the police. The thing, of course,
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was that really pointed to her is that we know this is Johnny Dollar.
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There's some nefarious goings on here, and of all the people in the
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house, she's the only one, and we get to see enough so that
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we might think that she actually did it, but still there was a question
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as to what she'd did and how Johnny would catch her, so that gave
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the show a certain sense of suspense. Virginia Gregg did a great job,
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and this is a different voice than what she normally does. I was actually
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not sure it was her on listening to this the first time, but Indea,
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it was a great performance, really a lot of charisma, and makes
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her even a little sympathetic when she's complaining about how boring her life was.
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Certainly not boring enough that we feel this was justified by the time. I
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did feel a little sorry for and poor Johnny, and also poor Harry,
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who Johnny heaps some scorn on at the end in probably his worst personal habit,
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which is blaming the people who give him cases when the cases go wrong.
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Harry had no idea that it would go wrong, and I think at
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the same point this is the type of thing really does bug Johnny because because
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and this is one of the things that I think Johnny works through and manages
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to still be optimistic. I'll bee it cautious with people, but obviously the
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circumstances were so twisted as far as he was concerned. I do appreciate that
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he really is bothered by some of these things, which makes him just a
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great human character. All right, Well, onto listener comments and feedback,
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and we just have Bobby Leek commenting on episode fourteen seven, the Confederate Coinage
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Matter, who says, always a great episode when they talk about the souths
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Well, indeed, and I do think they've actually done quite a few Southern
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episodes of Johnny Dollar in nineteen fifty seven. Now, certainly not all of
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them would be approved by Southern chambers of commerce, but they've certainly been interesting
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programs. All Right, Well, that'll do it for today. We'll be
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back tomorrow with Dragonet Join us next Friday for another episode of Yours Truly Johnny
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