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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Midas Touch Matter, Part Five and Kudos for Khan (PT 2) (EP1159) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  the War doc Great Detectives dot Net. All right, well, let's go
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  ahead and take a listen to today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and
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  then coming up later we'll bring you the second part of our current Carter Brown
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  Cereal. But now it's time for part five of the Modest Touch Matter from
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  Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Answer It, Answer It,
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  Johnny Dollar. Hello, Jake Kessler, be careful what you've said, Johnny.
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  What are you doing out there at the too lazy too, Johnny,
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  talk to him, be careful, don't forget this gun. Why Jake,
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  and what's on your mind? Million dollars of insurance? Dora Haskell's piled the
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  claim on the basis of actiental death unless you can come up pretty quick with
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  proof the Haskell brothers were murdered, Jake, I have a funny feeling.
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  I'm looking at that proof right now. You mean they're at the ranch.
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  You still haven't told me what you're doing out there? Why uh, why
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  don't you come out here and see Jake? What are you talking about?
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  Johnny? I'll pull this trigg Is so fast. You try that, Dora
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  and Jake will hear it over this phone and come out here anyway? What
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  hell you heard that? Hang up? Hang up? Come on hanging up
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  yourself tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the
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  Man with the Action Packed expensercout America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator, Ours Truly Johnny
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  Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location near Kingman, Arizona. Attention,
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  mister Jake Kessler, Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company. Following his an
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  accounting of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Midas Touch matter, proof that
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  the Haskell brothers were murdered rather than killed accidentally in the cave in that the
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  Midas Touch Mind could save Greater Southwest a cool million and a half dollars.
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  But the one man who could have given me that proof was murdered himself.
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  Thanks to Buster favorite the Lake Mohabi Resort, who could read a set of
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  tire tracks like you and I read a newspaper, I was able to trace
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  the killer's car to the two Lazy two ranch and there the evidence all pointed
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  to the foreman, Alex Bundy. However, when Alex appeared at the ranch
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  house, he also put the finger on Dora Haskell. That's when your phone
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  call came in, Jake, and that's when you don't thanks Buster. Yeah,
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  well, I kind of hit a woman in that worship. She wouldn't
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  have missed with that rifle. Matter of fact, she didn't. She preached
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  her arm there, just I forget it. First of all, let's take
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  this gun I'll touch. Oh, that's right, Alex kind of forgot about
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  you. Oh, why don't you put that thing down before you make the
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  same mistake. She almost did. It won't be a mistake, dollar now,
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  Look shut up, Buster, you should have known better, and to
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  mess around this whole thing. Maybe you're the one that should have known better.
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  Alex. According to Dora here a few minutes ago, order I heard
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  from outside the window, heard all of it, and she lied, keep
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  an eye on Buster. Yeah, sure, just stay where you are,
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  stay stay away from that gunners too. Look, Alex, why don't you
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  just calm down? You lied? She was the one who shout at you
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  down at the lake, not me. But it was you who shot up
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  old hard Luck Dennis when he tried to talk to me. Sure, sure
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  I did. I had to. He was going to tell you it was
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  me that keeved in the Mightys touched on the Hasker brother. He did tell
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  him. Sure he was going to tell you. I know he was,
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  And I had to stop him. Wouldn't you stop the man who was trying
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  to put a noose around your neck? You listen to me, That's why
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  I had to kill him there at the hospital. When he was well enough
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  to talk some more, he would have put the finger on me. I
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  tell you, he already had glory. He would I know he would,
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  and I had to stop him. But it wasn't my fault. It wasn't
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  my fault. Dollar. She was lying to you. I heard her outside.
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  I heard she was trying to lay it all on me. But she's
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  the one, not me, in spite of your murder of hide, Luck,
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  I had to don't understand me. I had to look, why don't
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  you put down that gun? And Lee's the one all the way from the
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  start. I'm not dumb, Dollar, but she was smarter than me,
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  and she kept getting me in deeper and deeper. I'm a good ranch foreman.
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  Dollar, see for yourself what i'd done for the Too Lazy two.
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  But this kind of thing I don't know about. So she got me in
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  deeper and deep right from the start. Just how did it start, Alex,
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  I'll tell you. I'll tell you how it started. I got drunk
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  one night over in Kingman, so I heard made a lot of foolish talk
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  about wanting the too Lazy too for myself. Any foreman wants to have a
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  big ranch of his own, any of masked him. You ask him,
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  it isn't that true, Buster, you know, stay back, you stay
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  back. I want him to know I don't want him to know everything.
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  She heard about what I said understand, and she came to me, sweet
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  talked me, said I could own the lazy too along with her. Made
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  it sound so wonderful, just me and her. But then when she started
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  plotting how to get rid of her husband. She thought he was gonna die
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  when he came out here, but he didn't see, so she started plotting
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  how to get rid of him, and I was I was scared about that,
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  but she told me I was already in it on ac koind of I
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  knew about it, so I better help her. So what else could I
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  do? And all the time she kept me thinking how how wonderful it would
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  be just me and her. Do you know what that means to a man?
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  Mister dollar? Like it was? So I helped her with the boat.
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  You know the time, Buster, You mean when the hask goes sank
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  during the windstorm out on the lake. Yeah, yeah, because I fixed
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  the boat. I took out the flotation tanks and weakened the transom so any
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  kind of strain it would sink, and it did. Brother, You're in
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  so deep, But you went after him. You saved him, didn't you,
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  Buster? Yeah, I guess I did so, but then I wasn't
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  too deep, you see, do you understand? Yeah? I like I
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  understand, and I'm afraid that you are. She thought of the mine.
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  She made me tell Old hard Luck to take him out to the Midas Touch
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  because he thought they were still gold in it. Johnny hard Luck, tell
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  you the door got him started on that page. Now, nobody would have
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  That's why I had to kill him, because he would have blamed her,
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  and then she would have blamed me the way she did. You just now,
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  don't you see? All she was doing was using me. You didn't
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  come out here looking for her. You were looking for me, weren't you.
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  Yeah, Alex, I guess we were. And if there had been
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  a fight, if I tried to gun you down, she would have killed
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  me. Then she would have been un the clear, don't you see?
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  She would have killed me the way she made me kill hard Luck. It
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  took you a long long time to realize it, didn't it, Alex.
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  There are a lot of things you didn't realize. But what's done is done
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  and you can't ever change it. You're in so deep there's no way out
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  for you now, and you know it, Alex. But you're not going
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  to make things any easier for you. No get back. I'll tell you.
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  I'm in so deep I can't get in any deeper. That's what you
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  really mean, isn't it? So only chances to kid? You gonna try
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  to get away with Alex, but before I tried, I'm going to kill
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  her. I'm going to kill her, but because what she's done to me.
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  Listen, you're crazy, mixed up? Sure, I am creasy.
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  Maybe I've been creasy all along, but I'm gonna kill her you hear me.
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  I'm gonna kill her now. No, you're not door have her gun
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  busy? Okay, Okay, you've done it, added one more murder to
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  your list. I'm glad. I'm glad I did it and put that gun
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  down, and I'm going if you try to follow me up to you too.
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  Come on, Johnny, I've got her gun. Oh go ahead,
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  it's jammed. That's why she couldn't pull it on him. She did.
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  Yeah, we can't just let him get away. Hey, buster, while
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  I make a phone call, see if you can find a gun for yourself
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  and some ammunition. You sure she's dead? Yes? Hello? Operator.
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  A couple of thirty eight handguns here, Johnny, and find some am operator.
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  Operator, got me kingman one nine nine seven oer emergency oh set with
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  his side arm. Johnny, you want a rifle, Jake. Alex Bundy
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  has killed Dora Haskell and headed for Parts unknown. Yeah, that's right.
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  We called ted hiding at headquarters. Haven't been a roadblock and every highway leading
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  from this ranch. Be sure there's a block at Davis Dam so he can't
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  cross over into Nevada. Yes, that's right, he can full. By
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  the time I hung up, Buster had my rented car started in waiting,
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  so we took off on the main road leading from the ranch. We could
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  still see the dust left by Alex Bundy, and the chief could see that
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  when he swung onto the highway he turned right toward Lake Mohabi. We saw
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  nour dust on any other side road, so we kept on going down toward
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  Davis Dam, hoping that by the time he could get there, the roadblock
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  would be set up. We'll be able to see when we get to the
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  top of this hill, Johnny, go ahead, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  you see him cars across the road over the dam. That means he
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  will have seen him. And there's only one place he could go Lake Mohave
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  Resort. Right, Dan is just up ahead. All right, we'll take
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  it on two wheels. We aren't having to track him this time. A
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  wind's coming up. See the dust blowing off the Masons up the east.
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  Yeah, when that east wind comes up and comes up fast? All right,
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  hang on, here's our turn. Buster was right. By the time
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  he got down to the dock at Lake Mohabby, the wind was blowing a
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  gale. The chief we've been chasing was parked next to the tackle shop,
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  and no sign of Alex Bundy. We learned the reason from Ham Pratt,
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  general manager of the resorts. Hey, Johnny, Fluster, what's going on
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  here? Blundy? Ham? Listen, Ham? Did you see Alex Bundy
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  came down the road like a bad out of hate. He's a couple of
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  minutes ago? Where'd he go? Jumped out of his jeep waving a rifle,
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  tore down to the dock and took off in his outpoored runabout. Got
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  a boat for us, Buster here? Sure he come on me along.
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  Oh, two of us are better, Ham. We need all the speed
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  we can get out on that lake. All right. That boat of Alex's
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  is the fastest one of the loft, two dirty horse by Johnson's Here we
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  are, I mean, Johnny cast us off ham at y'all are here we
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  go? All right? This winter is really coming up? Sure is to
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  have us a rough ride? Why would he had nothing wood landing not twenty
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  miles up or even Nelson's landing. He has enough gas, Eat away,
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  get over into the bottom. All I hope is he's having as rough a
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  time of it as we are. Oh he is that boat of his his
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  mask, but not as seaworthy as this. Hang on, I hear in
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  the middles where we'll really get this wind? And we did. And unlike
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  salt water, where the wind builds up long swells that you have a chance
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  of riding over, this lake developed a chop waves only three or four feet
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  high, but one on top of the other. With a less skillful hand
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  than buses at the wheel, we would have swampted a minute. As it
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  was, we were both soaking wet and hanging on for dear life. As
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  a little outboard pounceton bounded along. Look Johnny did, yeah, I see
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  him. Hey, he's making an awful lot of speed. Too much feed
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  for that hole. It is in this kind of weather, you'll pound the
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  bottom out of it. What do you think you're doing to this boat?
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  This will hold again, all right? That was a man chase, a
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  crazy one. And then I noticed that we were slowly but surely gaining on
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  Alex. I knew he couldn't take it in that home and see he had
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  to slow down granchially. The distance between US crew shorter two hundred yards one
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  hundred at least he'd never be able to aim his rifle in a sea like
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  this, at least until we got right on top of him. Keep it
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  going on him, Johnny, it's gonna be rough trying to lash on to
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  him in this chop. Okay, why do you pull us alongside him?
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  Then it happened. As we came up on him, Alex suddenly swung his
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  boat straight in at us and gun his two motors wide open. That's really
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  all there is to it, oh, except that ham Prep bless his heart,
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  had followed us with an outboard cruiser and picked us up. Alex,
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  while the shock of crashing into us must have wedged him into his boat and
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  with the bottom of a torn that sank like a rock, and he went
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  along with it expense account total including transportation back to Hartford nine seventy eight thirty
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  five remarks. There was no question, of course, but that the Haskell
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  brothers had been murdered, no double indemnity, and Dora's little scheme to collect
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  a cool three million, well, it got her exactly what she deserved.
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  Won't people like that ever? Learn? Yours truly, Johnny Up. Now
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  here's our star to tell you about next week's intriguing story. Next week,
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  a quiet little New England town with elm shaded streets, picket fences, flower
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  beds, and a killer on the loose. Join us, won't you yours
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  truly? Johnny Up? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is
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  transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also
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  wrote this week's story. Heard in this week's cast where Virginia, Greg,
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  Johnny Jacobs, Herd Butterfield, Parley Bear, Barney Phillips, Shepmanken and Roland
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  Winters. Musical supervision by A. Marigo Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure
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  to join us on Monday night, same time in Station for another exciting story
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  of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking when when welcome back.
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  Well, I've had issues with the Jack Johnstone written stories, but this one
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  was actually pretty good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some good twist. I
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  think only one real convenient plot contrivance with that guy following them on the on
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  the boat out there, But other than that, I thought this was really
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  good. The ending was surprising, particularly with her and Alex Bean accomplices,
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  and I love just the rich and vivid detail that was given to the area.
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  It's the time of narration that makes a setting come alive in a radio
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  show. And I heard the name of Rolling Winters in the credits, and
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  Winters was probably best remembered, at least best known by me for playing Charlie
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  Chan in the final six of the Golden Age Charlie Chan Mystery movies received,
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  succeeding a Sydney Toller in the role. These, of course, were the
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  Monogram Picture Charlie Chan films, so not perhaps as well remembered. Now it's
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  time for kudos for Kahn Part two. Cata Brown Mysteries, Adventures and Excitement
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  and Suspense, based on the best selling novels by the slick storytelling sensation Kata
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  Brown. As I waited for the little guy Caplin to come back, he
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  couldn't help speculating on what it was that he'd promised to hold on to for
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  the dead Carl Duisburg. Whatever it was, it promised to lead for me
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  to Dusburg's wife, Helen, whom my sister Diane Clutterbuck had hired me to
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  find, and clutterbucketd come just in time because Joe Kahn, private detective,
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  and his secretary Daisy were minus credit, cash or clients. I was just
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  finishing a cigarette as Kaplin came back. Here you are, mister Kahan.
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  I haven't liked holding onto a dead man's property bit since i'd promised Carl.
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  Sure, mister Captain, I understand now my wife can't stop worrying. The
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  partilors delived and were finished with it. Uh tell his wife from me,
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  mister Kahn. The car was a great guy, Sure, mister Captain.
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  I'd be happy to That accident was a terrible thing. Terrible. Had the
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  truck driver never stopped, I don't know how we could have that on his
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  conscience. Yeah, poor Carl, he must have been careless. He had
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  something on his mind, you know, he was worried. The last three
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  weeks before he died, worried her. He never mentioned what was worrying him.
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  No, he never said anything, but I could tell he didn't have
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  his mind on his job or on where he was going. I guess hence
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  the truck. I suppose so well. I'm glad you came, mister Cohn.
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  That parcel's been on my mind all the time. It was on my
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  mind too, every second of the way back to my apartment. When I
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  got inside the door, I opened it. It contained a note and a
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  silver box. I read the note first. Dear Helen, you won't be
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  reading this unless the worst has happened. I know that sooner or later you
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  will think of caplain and asked him if I left anything with him for you.
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  He is the only person I can trust. I thought it was safer
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  to do it this way. If they try and force you to tell them
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  where it is, you won't know. Do whatever you think best, Darling.
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  Good Bye Karl. Then I opened the box and nearly fainted because the
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  box was brim full of dough tightly wrapped words of high denomination notes. When
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  I finished counting, I got another shock. There was just under two hundred
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  thousand dollars. But where did had come from? Or what it meant was
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  a mystery? I got rid of the wrapping paper and shoved the box in
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  a drawer. Then I picked up the phone and dialed the office. Ah
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  gone, detective agents, Daisy, Well, well the boss himself. When
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  are we going to be honored with your presence in the office later? First,
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  I've got a proposition to make to you. Oh, goody, goody,
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  I'd given up. Not that kind of proposition. How do you like
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  another job? You can't fire me till you pay my back salary. I
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  wasn't thinking of firing you. Why I want you to help me on this
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  case? Oh that's different. What do you want me to do? Get
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  a job at that nightclub, the kas bar? What do how do I
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  know? But you're all as busy displaying your legs around the office. Maybe
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  the kasbar would pay you for doing it. Okay, I'll try. That's
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  my girl. I wish I were. Now, let's stick to business.
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  Speaking of which, anything new around the place. Well, there was a
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  dame came in, but you didn't look exactly new to me. What you
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  want to see you? There was a guy with her lean Latin type.
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  Did they say why they wanted me? No, but let me warn you
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  boss, in case she comes back. She looks like a lady to stay
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  away from in the clinches. Thanks for the tip, Daisy, I'll keep
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  it in mind. Mmmm callers. Yeah, mister Kahan, forgive the intrusion,
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  but it is important that we speak to you. If we may sure
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  come in. Don't make me to introduce myself. I'm Earl Cortes and this
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  is my sister Ines. How do you do mister Khan? We got at
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  your office earlier, but your secretary is it? Tell us you one?
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  Not in? Oh? That was you? Was it? So we thought
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  we would try your apartment. You will be wondering about the purpose of our
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  visit, mister Kahan, So perhaps it is best if I come straight to
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  the point. You have been hired by Diane Klatterback to find a woman,
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  Helen Dusburg that he saw you are telling the story. I also particularly want
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  to find this woman. She has something which belongs to me. Would you
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  have any objection to accepting two clients. It's not exactly ethical. I will
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  by double if ease Diane Clutterbuck's paying Sorry, no days. I may not
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  look as though I go in for business ethics, but I do. I
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  see ell. Perhaps mister Kahan might be more receptive to persuasion from me.
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  Is that could be so? In any case, I have another appointment.
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  If you will excuse me or please don't trouble, I shall let myself out.
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  Well, Can I off here? Drink? Miss Curtiz? Or is
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  it two million a day? No? Drink? Thank you? And I
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  hate for meloity. Why don't you call me ines? I'd like that?
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  And your name Joe exactic? Isn't it Joe? I like it? Commence
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  it over here, Joe close to me in this? I don't need asking
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  twice? You know, Joe, My brother Early is a big man,
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  a wealthy man. If you take this job for him, there will be
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  other jobs. He will do anything for his friends. But if he doesn't
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  like people, he can be a dangerous enemy. How about you in this?
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  Are you dangerous too? I am like my brother. We are Spanish.
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  You No, I can be dangerous, Joe. I can also be
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  nice to people. I like very nice, and I like you. Joe.
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  You're a hunk of man, Joe. Yeah, I'm gonna prove Joe.
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  Oh, baby, you will do this thing for won't you, Joe?
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  No what I said? No, not after one kiss, not after
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  a hund Oh you you he you will quite a wall up baby. It
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  is a mistake to laugh at me, mister Khan. You will find that
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  out. Remember I told you that I could be dangerous. She slammed the
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  door nearly as hard as she'd slapped my face. I thought he wasn't kidding
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  about being dangerous, and I thought it might be a good thing to try
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  and find out a few things about her and a brother. Oh tell Astoria,
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  miss Cladibagh, please one moment, Hello, miss Cladibugh, there's a
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  Jo Khan. Mister k you not yet, but I'd like to have her
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  talk to you if it's convenient, when say quarter of an now, very
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  well, I'll be waiting for you in the bar. On my way to
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  the estory, I stopped up in my bank. I had the silver box
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  for the two hundred thousand dollars with me, and I hired a saved deposit
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  box and left the money inside it. Then I mailed the save deposit key
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  to myself at the office by a registered mail, an old gag but effective.
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  The bar of the estorier had stools, and one of them, Diane
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  Clutterberg, was seated. She had an old fashioned drink in front of her
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  and an old fashioned look in her eyes. Well, mister Kahan, you've
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  arrived at last. I've been waiting here exactly thirty minutes. Sorry I was
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  delayed. I'll have whatever the lady's drinking barman. Okay, what did you
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  want to see me about it? Just a little information if you have it?
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  What kind of information? Drink? Thanks? Keep a change, here's
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  luck. Are you going to tell me now what you want? Mister Com?
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  Sure I met some friends of you as a little while ago, Miss
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  Clutterbuck. What friends of mine? Maybe they're just acquaintances Earl and Dinez Cortez.
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  Oh, yes, I know them. Earl had a preposition. You'd
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  hired me to find Helen. He wanted me to do the same. It's
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  not precisely ethical, is it, mister com to accept two plans for the
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  one task, Which is why I turned this proposition down and then left,
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  leaving Innes behind to persuade you. He must be friends of yours. You
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  know their every move? How successfully did Innes do her persuading? Very successfully
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  until he asked me out right to find accept Rozafa. I told her no,
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  Oh, I can imagine a reaction to that. It was drastic to
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  say the least. I'm sorry, mister coon. Let's skip the formality.
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  Call me Joe. Well, I'll make it first names for both offers.
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  I've always hated Clutterbuck. Anyway, I'm surprised some guy hasn't tried to change
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  it. Between trying and succeeding is a long way, Joe, I see,
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  well, to get off the personal and back to the personnel in this
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  case, you can imagine that I'm curious, Diane, Yes, of course,
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  who is a courtez? I believe that American phrase is racketeer. I
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  have a nasty feeling that Hadda must have been mixed up with him at some
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  stage or other. He seemed to know her quite well. How did you
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  meet him? He was at the kasbar when I saw mister Maler there,
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  And you don't know anything else about him or his sister, no, except
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  that I have a feeling he'd make a bad enemy, Diane. That's one
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  feeling we have in common. I left the Historian and headed back to the
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  office. The door was locked, and as I opened it. I and
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  wondered what had become of Daisy. Then the phone rang and I found out
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  Joe, Yeah, I got the job, Joe Scott Tonight, I'm a
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  cigarette great, Daisy. I told you those ladies of yours would pay off.
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  Since I can't work day and nice, I've decided not to come into
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  the office. Sure, that's okay. I'll call you if I hear anything
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  work. That's the girl, Daisy. Keep your eyes peeled for that man
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  and woman who came looking for me. The guy's name is court Is.
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  The name is his sister in. Yeah, you know what you said about
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  her? You were right? They Wait a minute, I said she looked
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  like a lady to stay away from in the clinching. That's right. Well,
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  the only way you could know I was right would be because that's right?
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  Why you you oversized apology for a walk in? Now wait a minute
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  here have I've been trying all this time to clutch you on a clinch and
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  what you do have me up forgot? Daisy? Watch your language. And
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  once the court has coupled two, they're in this thing up to the teeth.
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  And I got a feeling those teeth can be awful sharp, welcome back.
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  I have to admit I was expecting something a little bit more dramatic than
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  the cash, but that will definitely do for escalating the situation. We definitely
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  have a good story on our hands and I hope you'll be back with us
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  next Friday as we continue on with Part three of Kudos for Con and of
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  course on Monday, we'll be back with another Johnny Doller series and coming up
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  tomorrow, it's the lineup. In the meantime, sendra comments to Box thirteen
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