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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Caylin Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0987) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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ahead and get into today's episode as we begin a new Johnny Dollar cereal the
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Kalen Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Doller, Walt Albright,
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Johnny Trindady me up, you're limited? Oh hi, and Wald, how's
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your health? Terrible? Since you ask, I got asthma, Johnny again,
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I thought we agreed. I know, I get suspicious. I get
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asthma. Happens every time. What's the case? Walt Man named Eddie Kalen
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c y l I n Out in Los Angeles died yes to the five thousand
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dollar policy double indemnity. What did he die of? Mysterius circumstance? Well
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that's usually a fatal disease, all right, but Johnny, that's all I
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know, O mysterious circumstances. The body was identified by the widow. I
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see a salesman out there can probably help you. He issued the policy only
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six weeks ago at the request to the widow. Six weeks one premium paid
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check signed by the widow. They tell me something. What the beneficiary happened
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to be? Right? The widow? Oh, this s asthma is killing
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me. Johnny, you gotta do something about it, all right, Walls,
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just call me doctor tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey and The
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Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Freelance insurance
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investigator Australey Johnny Deller expense account sumitted by special Investigator Johnny Deller, the home
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office Trinity Mitchell Insurance Company Limited, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an
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accounting I've expended yours during my investigation at the Klin matter. I'd on one
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one hundred and ninety eight dollars and twenty cents a line Fair and Incidental's Hartford
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of Los Angeles. I had an arranged for anybody to meet me when I
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arrived at LA so I picked up my bags and headed for the taxis stand.
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Mister Dollar, please wait a second. He was a small man,
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nervous and fluttery, with a shiny pink nose and a face like a little
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white rabbit. I was watching for you out from the ramp, but somehow
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could you must have slipped by it. You are mister Dollar, aren't you.
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Yes, I'm Johnny Dollar, but I don't think I am Welch,
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Presley Welch. I'm oh yeah, sure, the district salesman here for Trinity
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Mutual. Oh how are you, mister Welch. I'm out of breath at
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the moment from running, you understand. You see, I'm troubled occasionally by
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asthma. You two. Do you have asthma? Mister Dollar? No,
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it's a friend of wine and Hartford. Oh what do you don't say?
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Yes? In fact, I came out here just to cure it for him
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out he Oh, this is the worst place you could have come. Oh
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you see the smile here is soap. Oh no, I do believe you're
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joshing. I guess I amn't there. Come on, let's add to my
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expensive count with a cup of coffee. You really think we should? Oh?
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Why not? Let's be daring, all right? Let's I always say
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if the company can Aford E. Fressley well sold insurance. The way he
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answered questions, it was amazing that he hadn't starved to dead years ago.
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He skidded around the field, flip flopped overhead, and buzzed the tower,
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all verbally, of course, and for fifteen minutes he didn't touch a wheel
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to the ground. But when he did finally land, he came in with
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a swoop. I do hope you'll accept my apologies, mister Dalla, for
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causing all this trouble, because the whole thing is my fault. Of course,
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I don't see how unless you murdered Eddie Kalen. Why I scarcely knew
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a perfect dollaby. Oh no, no, no, no, you misunderstand.
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I'm just josh. What was I wrote the policy and I knew better
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right when I did it. Oh what do you mean? Well, mister
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Killen was quite facetious about the whole procedure. When I tried to point out
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the retirement security factors in our multiple endowment plan, he actually laughed. You
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don't say yes, he said, all the security he'd asked for was two
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aces up and one for the kicking. What about missus Galen? What was
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her abbit? Well, she was quite serious about it, wasn't she the
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one who actually applied for the policy? Will not technically the beneficiary curnt You
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know it's against the rule. Yeah, I know, but didn't She was
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the one he has that called me and asked me to come out and talk
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to her husband. And he finally signed the application, but he seemed to
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regard it as a joke. He only did it as a favor to her,
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something of that sort. And now it's turned out to be a ten
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thousand dollars favor. What kind of a woman is she, mister Walt Will
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She's quiet, well mannered, quite charming. I thought, I must confess.
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I thought I could do sympathy for her in view of her husband's incessant
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flippancies. A real happy fellow, positively frivolous, mister Belln. And I
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should have been worn by his attitude. You know, insurance is a serious
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business. Oh sure, But Eddie Calan didn't laugh himself to death. Oh
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no mind, or he died in the fire when his automobile comfort oh laughed.
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Oh I see what you mean. If they tell me, how well
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did you get to know the Calan? Oh? Hardly at all. I
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saw mister Caln twice, once at his apartment the evening I sold him the
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policy, and then two weeks later at my office when he came in to
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sign the page. And missus Calon only once that evening at their apartment.
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She phoned me earlier in the week. And you haven't seen her since her
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husband's death. No, no, I phoned to express my sympathy, but
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she wasn't available. She hasn't filed to claim yet. No, but I
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knew she would, so I took it on myself to notify Hartford. I
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just can't help feeling guilty about this, you know, Yes, so you
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mentioned not that I really am, of course, but well you understand it's
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him. Sure, I understand. Well, I'll keep in touch. Watch
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out for comedians, mister Welton, Watch out for who comedian expensive count item
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three six dollars, the thirty five cents taxi fair tot the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel
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and the second taxi to the West Los Angeles Precinct Police station. The case
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wasn't being handled by any of the usual Department's Bureau of Homicide, Missing Persons
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and so on. The man in charge was Detective Sergeant Jose Reinosa on attached
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working out of the Central District on special assignment. Bill up chair, mister
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Dollar. When I talk with him in his office, Rainosa told me the
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reason for it. Yeah, it's a funny deal, mister Dollar. The
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facts in the case could point a lot of different ways, but the way
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it stands right now, they just don't add up in any direction, at
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least not quite. Do you mind filling me in on some of those facts,
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sergeant, I'll be glad too. Last Thursday morning, at four twenty
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am, we got a call relay through the fire department to investigate a burned
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automobile out on the Verdus head Let up in the hills above the harbor.
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The car was lying in the bottom of a ravine below the road and it
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was a total loss. Apparently the gas tank had burst and flooded the whole
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interior. Oh what do you mean? Apparently Ly upholstery may have been deliberately
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soaked with gas. The arson squad isn't sure. I see. That's why
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this case doesn't quite fit in any niche mister Dollar. Might be homicide,
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might be arson, missing person, or only an accident We're not sure yet.
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Anyway, there was a body in the driver's seat, burned to a
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cinder, unrecognizable, but we did recover a few personal effects. Signal ring,
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keychain, wristwatched with a strap burned off, a wallet badly scorched.
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I noticed the keychain has a metal tang with the address stamped on it.
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Yeah, that and a part of the driver's license were the only leads.
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Eddie Kaylin argus Terrace apartments up on Sunnyway Drive above the strip. So we
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went up there and we ran into a second surprise. What do you mean
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nobody home? We attained access, found the place in a mess. Apparently
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been a fight. A chair and a couple of lamps were broken, and
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they were bloodstains in the living room. What about missus? Klan located her
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the next afternoon. She'd been spending a few days at friends cabin up at
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arrow As, the friend confirming she was there alone at her own car.
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She might have come back to town that night, but we got nothing to
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prove it or disproven. Right, just another one of those maybes. It's
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all those cases, a collection of maybes. Yeah, see what you mean,
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Tommy Sargeant, Just who was Eddie Calyn Eddie Kaylyn. Male, Caucasian,
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height five eleven, weight one seventy five, complexion, olive hair,
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medium brown eyes, gray, age thirty four. Birthplace he wanted. He
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two. He called himself a promoter, then a lot of things, small
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time agent for a while, handled few singers and dancers, vaudeville and nightclubs,
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been a bookie off and on, but mainly he was a gambler.
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Oh and there's another maybe for you now. According to rumor, Eddie was
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in an all day poker game. It broke up only a few hours before
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we found the car. The game was supposedly run by a big time gambler
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named Papo Leany. And the word has it that ed he cleaned up something
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over sixty thousand dollars. I there's no money found on the body. Nope.
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Have you talked to this topo sternly? We had him in here for
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four hours this morning. He never heard of Eddie Kalin, wouldn't know a
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poker deck if he saw one. Spends all his spare time raising petunias and
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driving his dear old mother to church like that. Like that. So there's
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another one for you, maybe, Topo didn't like the idea of losing sixty
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grand decided to get it back, or maybe the widow wanted the insurance.
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Or it could be that somebody else took a crack addic man. It's possible,
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of course, that he mailed the sixty thousand to a blonde Milwaukee and
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just ran off the road by accident. No, that's possible, but I
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don't think so. I don't think it was an accident. I'm always getting
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cases like this. It's a kind they always put me on. Officially,
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it's because I'm a college man, a majored in criminology, but actually it's
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because I'm a Latin Mexican ancestry and they know I get certain feelings about a
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case. Hunches h huh, And how do you feel about this? One?
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Is hokey, real hokey, and it's murdered, not an accident.
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But beyond that, gain savvy, why don't you poke into it a little,
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see what you can find, then maybe we can talk it out some
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more over a bottle of muscatel. Yeah, good night. Where can I
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find missus Klan or the widow? Well, that's a good starting point.
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She's out of their apartment, there's the address. Okay, thanks. Oh
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just one other thing, Sergeant Reinosa. When you gained access to the apartment,
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I assume the door was locked. Yeah, it took a little effort.
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What kind of a lock automatic night lanch springs some in there? No,
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it was an old fashioned warden boat had to be locked with a key.
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What are you getting at, mister dollar or hunch of my own,
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sergeant. Let's save it for the muscatel see you later. Expense account adem
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for two dollars taxi to the Klan apartment of West Hollywood. It was shortening
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after dusk by now, and the lights were coming on all over the city.
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It was a cool, clear night, Los Angeles at its best.
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As we swung off the sunset Strip and started climbing up into the hills,
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I looked back across the basin, toward the dark mass of the Palas Verities
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headland that bounded the far side of the Great Carpet of Lights. Three nights
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ago, a man had died over there in the darkness, and in a
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few minutes now I'd be talking to his widow, or at least to the
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woman who claimed to me his widow. Keep the change the ungus Terrace apartments,
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like most of them in that section, sprawled up the hillside above the
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street, six or rate apartments on as many different levels, all opening onto
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a central patio filled with walks, steps, and banks of tropical plantings.
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The Cayman's apartment was at the top, and I was still fifty feet from
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him when the door opened and a man came out and hurried toward me.
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I stepped back against the shrubbery and waited for him. Good evening, mister
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Welsh. Oh na, oh, it's you, your second visit to missus
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Calyn. Second. Oh, yes, yes it is. I imagine you've
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been notified too, notified. Oh yes, I got a wire from the
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Home Office in Hartford this evening. That's why I'm here. Well, missus
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Calyn has filed under the double indemnity clause of the policy a claim for ten
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thousand dollars. She hopes it can be paid immediately and without any trouble.
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Well, I don't like to dash your ladies hopes, mister Welsh, but
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I've got news for the widow news. The claim won't be paid immediately,
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and before this is over, there's going to be a lot of trouble.
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Oh. In fact, mister Welsh shift, my aunt's right. This claim
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is not going to be paid at all, Johnny Dollar, missus Killen.
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I think mister Welch told you I'd be around to see you. Oh,
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yes, you're the special investigator the insurance company send out? That's right,
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mind if I come in? All right, mister Dollar, thanks and through
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here. Your company didn't waste any time, did they sending you out here?
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I mean no, no more than you did in filing your claims.
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I have a right to it. There he gone, Now I need the
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money. Sit down. Thanks? How many keys are there to that door?
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Keys? What do you mean your front door? How many keys do
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you have? Just one? Of course Eddie had one? Why what difference
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does it make? Just about enough difference to hang somebody? Cigarette missus Killen
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from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, Los Angeles to the hall offas Trinity
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Mutual Insurance Company Limited, Hartford, Connecticut, assignment the Killen matter expense account
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continued. That's quite a dramatic statement, mister Dalla, Are you prepared to
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name that somebody who may get hanged? Not at the moment. Could it
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be that you don't have a name. That's possible, of course, if
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you're just fishing, so to speak, bluffing. Why would I do that
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with you? I don't know, frankly, but you must have come here
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for some reason. Yes, I wanted to ask you a few questions,
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and you'd be smart to answer them under the circumstances. What circumstances. The
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only one I know anything about is the tragic one of losing my husband only
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three days ago. You have my sympathy, missus Killen. Sergeant Minosa questioned
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me for hours. There's nothing more to answer. Will you go now?
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Please? All right? If you say so, your unwillingness to cooperate will
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undoubtedly prejudice your claim for the insurance. That's all you care about, isn't
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it finding some excuse for not paying off the palaces? Killen. I'm not
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crooking, and neither is the company. If a claim is gentlemen, they
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pay it always. I'm sick of being under suspicion of being accused. I'm
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not accusing you of anything. All I'm after is some information, and if
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you refuse to give it, good night, missus Killen. No wait,
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wait, mister Dolly, yes, don't go, come back, please,
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I'm sorry. I've been under such a strain on edge. Forgive me,
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that's all right, I'd forget it. I didn't mean what I said,
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but I've answered so many questions, and to go through all of it again,
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will it seems so pointless? Yes, I understand. But I found
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that people say things to me sometimes that they forget to say to the police.
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There are more relaxed I guess, don't feel here on the spot so
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much. But I thought it was just me. Oh, you're not alone.
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I remembered something like that. After I talked to serget Minosa. He
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wanted to know where Eddie hung out, mostly bars and so on. Only
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think of two. What are the names of the bars? Missus Killen,
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the elloweenas on Beverly Boulevard and the Brass Monkey in on the strip. What
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difference does it make? Anyone wasn't killed in the bar. Nobody probably met
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people there, talk to them. You see. It's a matter now of
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trying to reconstruct his life step by step, right up to the moment he
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died. You'd be surprised how much bartenders seeing here. And remember I suppose
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they do. All right, mister Dollar, I'll be glad to answer any
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questions you want to ask. One thing, though, I wasn't expecting visitors.
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Of course, I wonder if I could have just five minutes to change
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and freshen up a little. Oh that's unnecessary. I won't be here long,
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but i'd feel better. Really, do you mind? No? No,
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of course, not go ahead, I'll be right back. Poor yourself.
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A drink, Johnny. I had the drink and waited and got ready
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to brace myself. I've been through this before. A tag plan number two,
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a common garden variety. When you can't beat him, join him,
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and when the joiner is a lovely woman. A maneuver usually starts with some
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paraphrase of slip into something more comfortable. Why don't you have a drink?
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And a sudden switch to first names? And it always ends up with you
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and I against the world, And couldn't you forget just one little mistake?
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The little mistake being something like arsenic and a husband's coffee, in an old,
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familiar pattern and a first resort just as often as a last. She
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was gone twenty minutes, not five. But it was time well spent,
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carefully casual touch with a hair, make a skillfully softened perfume and one of
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those frothy nylon jobs designed for that special evening in you will call charge like
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another drink journey. Thanks, I still have something I think I could use
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one? Would you mind? Sure? What do you have? S gotchan
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soda? Please? Thanks for being so patient. I feel better now,
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more comfortable, something like that easy on theisoda? Right there you are,
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missus Killen. Thanks? Would you do something else for me? Oh?
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I'd be happy to, but I don't know your first name? Tuesday?
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All right? What are your questions? How do you think it happened?
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I don't know. Not some enemy, because Eddie didn't have any, just
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friends, too many friends? Who are some of them? There's only one
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who really fits the definition, who who's really lasted? His name is Pete
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Steimer. Pete Steimer. Where can I find him? You can't, or
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at least the police haven't been able to. Nobody's seen him since that night.
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He's had nightclubs off and on, and in between him mixed books.
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What about those other friends? Are the ones who don't last? Drift in,
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drift out, depending mostly on whether Eddie had any money at the moment.
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Of course, there were women, all show girls, mostly dancers,
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strippers. Know any of them, hardly ever hear any of their names.
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Always made a point not to Otherwise I'd have killed him long ago. Did
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you kill him? Missus killon? No? Did you love him? That's
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a good question. I think I'll have to pass it, though I don't
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really know. I feel all hollow, smashed up inside over what happened.
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And yet there were times I'd have killed him myself, i'd had a gun.
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But there were other times too, when it was a crazy sweet you
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wanted to die because you knew it would never be like that again. Yeah,
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that's where it was with Eddie Yah, mixed up, like watching a
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ten ring circus from the front seat in a roller coaster. That's why a
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women flocked around him. That's why they always ran from him. Later,
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you didn't run? Could I have another drink? Were you trying to run
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when you went up to Arl ahead by yourself? Maybe you get a fight.
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I ran out and told him I wasn't coming back, and only three
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days later over the radio, I heard where he'd been found dead, burned
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up in the sky. There you go. I guess they call it shock.
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I still can't really believe it. Even though I know it's true.
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Well, I guess you shouldn't. I understand you're the one who identified the
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body. I identified a wallet, they're in black, the wristwatch, ring,
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all of them things I bought for him. They told me there wasn't
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anything that it could be called a body. Yeah, well, I'm sorry,
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missus call and I know this is painful sight. Like I said,
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I can't believe it. Really, do you have any other reason for not
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believing Eddie is really dead? I mean besides just a feeling? No,
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of course not. What do you mean? What do you mean? Well,
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always, it's just a question. That's all. Forget it. But
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let's get back for a moment to another question. You said you were sure
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it wasn't some personal enemy who killed your husband. Then what do you think?
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Well, the same is the police. I guess they said Eddie won
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a lot of money that night from some gambler named Toppo Leanly. You don't
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know this Topo Leanly, huh No, But I suppose that's why Eddie was
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killed. He wasn't found, so I guess it was robbery. Did you
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know about the money? It all happened while I was up an arrowhead anyway
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Eddie ever had any money, I'd be the last one to know about it.
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He always spent his money where it would show get something for it.
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Laughs, bells, whistles, balloons going up, not at home. Never.
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Yeah, I'm sorry, I forget I said that. I hate women
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who sit around drooling with self pretty like you said. I didn't run.
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I guess maybe I did love him, mister d Is there anything else you
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No? No, I guess not, at least not tonight. And you
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look a little beat. Yes, I'm afraid I am. You'd go around
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trying to keep up a front, but it's been rough. Yeah, I
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imagine what business a while ago fixing myself up a little this robe. I
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just I had to do it. There are times when a woman has to
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feel like a woman in order to feel anything. Even saying I guess you
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wouldn't understand, though, And I'm afraid I gave the wrong impression. No,
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I think I do understand now. And I also think I owe you
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an apology for what for walking in here with a preconceived opinion, for being
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ruled being wrong. I'm sorry, forgiven, forgiven, forgotten, and come
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back again, please, regardless I might on one condition. Yes your first
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name, would you mind? It's Lilah. Thanks Lila, good night,
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good night. I caught a flash of movement from the corner of my eye
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and world around, just in time to see somebody slip off the corner of
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the terrace and edging of the shadows of the shrubbery. I stepped off the
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porch and moved toward the dark hedge of banana and scrub palm. I was
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watching for a sudden attack, but nothing happened, and I heard a slight
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sound on the next terrace level up the slope, a rustle of bushes and
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accidental scrape of a shoe on the cement walk, and I slipped along the
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walk. I stopped at the head of the steps and listened nothing. The
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only way out of the patio to reach the street was to come past me.
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I started searching, but even though I was on guard, when the
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attack came and caught me off balance, all I could see was a dark
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shape and the glint of metal and an upraised fist. I grabbed the arm
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and twisted and drove my left into his stomach and again. He rolled to
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his knees and raised his right hand, and again I saw the glint of
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metal. I jumped along, crammed his hand, twisted it back, and
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at the same time I swung my foot and kicked him in the jaw.
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All right, yeah, I'm all right. Call Sergeant Reinoso, would your
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Lilah? It was out? Call. I turned him over on his back,
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can struck a match to get a look at him. He was a
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big man, stocky, bullneck, blonde haired. I slid my hand inside
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his coat and fished out his wallet and opened it. His name was Tompo
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Leanley. No, here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of
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this week's story. Tomorrow we meet a Latin doll from Santa Monica, an
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areatite bartender, and a Terpsichorean ectysiast, and they're all in the cast.
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Join us, won't you? Yours Truly? Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny
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Doller, starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Les Crutchfield.
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It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow
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night at same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny
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Doller. Roy Rowan speaking Welcome back some some good acting here, and the
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gambler, you know, does save Johnny some trouble by assaulting him, you
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know, showing up so that way Johnny doesn't have to go and hunt the
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hunt the guy down. And we'll see, we'll see what's going to happen
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in this situation in the next episode. I do wonder what Johnny's hunch is.
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I've got a couple thoughts. I don't actually remember this one, so
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it'll be interesting to see how this turns out. It was also kind of
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it was it was kind of odd, almost like how immediately hostile and said
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he was in the h in his theory from the get go. All right,
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well, we do have one listener comment here before we go for today,
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and this one comes from Facebook, and Steve says, listen to several
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episodes last night. Hard to believe with just radio and budding TV. Hard
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to believe the level of entertainment was so much better back then with radio and
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budding to TV than it is today with mass market cable and satellite television.
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Well it's it's interesting. It's something I discussed in my ebook What made the
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Golden Age Shine? And one part of the problem identified It's similar to the
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issue of If you follow pro sports, the issue of expansion is always a
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big concern. For example, before expansion started back in the sixties, you
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had a grand total of twenty Major League Baseball teams, and with twenty five
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person roster, you can you know, you basically I'd be like, you
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should have the top five hundred players in the world, and you expand to
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thirty teams. All now it's open to the top seven hundred and fifty players
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in the world, which means you have two hundred and fifty people playing who
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wouldn't have at the expansion not started. And that's kind of you know,
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that's the sports argument. And the same things happened in entertainment, but on
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a different level. There were a couple of things, uh, you know,
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I think we're true about entertainment. First, it really had to appeal
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to a mass market. The ratings of programs like I Love Lucy and Andy
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Griffiths Show, those were just you know, I'm you know, having drawing
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is a huge chunk of the population. You had to write something that was
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good and that would really appear heel to the great mass of the public.
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With the expansions of cable and all this additional conduct content in television. You
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no longer have to appeal to that mass market. In fact, you can
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write something that's a pretty lowbrow and offensive to eighty to ninety percent of the
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population and you can have a successful program and make money because you don't have
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the requirements that come when you've got three networks and you really have to draw
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a big audience if you're going to stay on the air. And so that's
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part of the reason why the expansion and increasing availability of television and the increasing
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of channels has actually I think made things less quality. But a good question,
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and thanks so much for your comment. We'll be back tomorrow with mister
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Motto and then join us back here on Wednesday as we continue the Eland matter.
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