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com. Now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller, and
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we begin now The Primrose Matter, Parts one and two from Hollywood. It's
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time now for Johnny Diller, Brad Taylor, Johnny mid State's Industrial Oh,
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I have Brad got another chief accountant with his hand on the tail. Nope,
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this is an old case, Johnny, three weeks old. Anyway,
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it's at Kansas City Payroll stick up. We were right. It was a
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Jibbernitzen gang. How do you figure Well, as you know, there's been
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an apb out on him, wanted for questioning ever since he disappeared the day
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after the whole up. Yeah, I know, Brad. He was recognized
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last night in Phoenix, Arizona State Highway Police throughout roadblocks. They tagged him
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south of Tucson, just north of the Mexican border. Get him they had,
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I wouldn't be calling you. He shot his way clear. They killed
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one of his boys, Ronnie Blitzoe. He'll never be missed. So Jipper
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is still on the loose. Huh yep, along with that one hundred thousand
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dollars payroll and short by us. I gotta get that money back, Johnny.
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All right, Brad, I'll fly out there and find it for you.
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Well, watch yourself every minute. Those HUDs are three time killers.
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I thought it was two free now they killed a state trooper at that roadblock
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tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Pact, Expenser Coud, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator in aus
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Truly Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office mid State's Industrial
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Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is the counting of expenditures during
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my investigation of the Primrose matter. I don't one one hundred and forty two
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dollars and eighty cents Incinnett's in Hartford, and transportation to Tucson, Arizona,
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where I checked into a hotel. Then I contacted the Highway Police and presented
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my credentials to Lieutenant cal Mervin, who was directing the all out search for
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the Knitsen Gang. Lieutenant Mervyn had been at the roadblock. They called us
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flat footed dollar. That's how they happened to get away with it, How
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do you mean, Lieutenant? We flashed the red light on them, and
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they slowed down and rolled up to us like they were going to stop.
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The car was a different make from the one they'd supposedly been seen in.
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We found later they'd stolen another one in Phoenix. I see then when we
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threw the spot on them, we saw just the one man. The driver
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turned out the others were down on the floor. How many were in the
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car? Four? Apparently three? Afterwards I shot one of them. They
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threw his body out a half mile down the road. I may hit another
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one. I'm not sure that figures. I tip off from Kansas City named
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Jipper Nitson, Ronnie Bledsoe, and two unidentified Yeah, and Bledsoe's the one
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who was killed. Nitson and the other two got through. You said they
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slowed down as though they were going to stop what happened. Oh, there's
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no excuse, mister Dollar. We were careless, it's all. Why don't
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you get so many false alarms, mistaken IDs and to make a car the
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whole set up, it didn't seem to fit. You can't be wound up
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ready to pitch all the time. Well, we paid for it then with
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his life. I was luckier. I got off with this bullet burn on
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the side of my head. A't never no checked. Well anyway, the
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boys on the floor of the car came up, shooting one of them with
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a Tommy gun. They used the tommy gun and the stick up. That's
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how the two guards and the armored truck were killed. It's a rough weapon.
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Mister Dollar then dropped on the first burst from it. Didn't even know
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what hit him. I got this scratch from a pistol. Bullets saved my
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life. I guess it flattened me before the tommy gun picked me up.
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Then the driver slammed into second and they skid it past on the shoulder.
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I hauled up my gun and emptied to the them before I passed out,
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hitting a fellow bledsoe is sheer luck? Any trace of them at all?
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Since they broke clear? No, they had little luck themselves. As I
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said, I passed out, and it was twenty minutes before a car came
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along the highway, or before one stopped anyway. I think several probably passed
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scared to get mixed up in something. Oh, that's understandable. And the
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fellow that picked me up took me fifteen miles up the road to an emergency
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first aid station. All in all, it was over an hour before the
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report got the Highway patrol headquarters and they could get new blocks set up,
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and Nitsen and his voice could have covered a lot of ground by then.
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Sure it's it. Here's a map of the southern Arizona area from here to
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the border. Here's where they hit us. We had the roadblock there at
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the junction. I see from there south to the border, there's no through
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road branching off to some dead enders, or like the Arivaca road that looped
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back and connect into the highway Again, what about the border, Lieutenant.
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According to the Mexican customs officials at Nogalis, the car didn't show up there,
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And I'm inclined to buy that. With the rear window shot full of
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bullet holes, it would have been pretty conspicuous. And as I understand it,
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it hasn't turned up anywhere else. No, so far we haven't been
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able to find it. Of course, they had the advantage of an hour's
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head start. Well that's it, mister dollar. They could have doubled back.
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It could be in New Mexico, northern Arizona, California, thousand places.
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On the other hand, though, they couldn't have known they'd have that
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hours started. What do you mean, Well, they couldn't have known they'd
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killed your partner and left you unconscious. He was still shooting at them when
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they gonned away from that roadblock. All they could reasonably suppose was that you'd
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be reporting in by radio two minutes later. What are you getting at,
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mister dollar. Well, if that's what they did suppose, then they wouldn't
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try any doubling back and yet they didn't reach the border down here at no
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Gollys. But there's no through road that connects into that twenty mile stretch highway,
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all right, so maybe they're still bottled up right in that section.
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I don't see how We've been over at half a dozen times and cars,
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horseback, helicopter were still checking it. I'm just about ready to ross it
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off. Logic says that's the most probable place they'd be. Can logic find
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them? Mister Dollar and mine, combined with a whole lot of luck,
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you got something in mind? I don't know. I was wondering if a
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civilian, so to speak, might have a better chance of stumbling onto them.
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They'd be on the lookout for the official search parties, you being a
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civilian. That's what I sort of had mine. They're pretty rough lands.
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Hey tell me something. Do you get a lot of rock hounds around here?
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Amateur geologists, uranium hunters? If you're not careful, they jump out
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from behind the cactus and stake a claim on your watch. Dial Easterners some
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of them, I suppose tender feet. I guess you'd call it. Not
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some of them, most of them then one more wouldn't exactly create a sensation.
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He wouldn't even be noticed. Isn't the angle you're thinking of unless you
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know a better one? No, it's not bad. Well, do you
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know where I can get fixed up with enough? Go to Dave Bright's Sporting
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Goods on South Stone Avenue. He'll give you that. Dude look about as
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cheap as anybody. Just tell him I sent you, all right, and
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don't get too far away from civilization, mister dollar, any special reason.
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Yeah, I may want to contact you to let you know the Nitsen Gang's
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been picked up in Portland or in Butte, Montana. Maybe, but I
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wouldn't count on it. Expense account item two, four hundred and forty six
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dollars and thirty five cents for a DeLux Rockhound rig complete from buckskin Field boots
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to sleeping bag, snake bite serum, and a Geiger counter, and including
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five days rental on a four wheel drive jeep. With that kind of a
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get up, anybody'd have to find you any just to break even. But
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at least I figured I was equipped for any possible eventuality. So I headed
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into the wilds, and the first part I decided to prospect was around twenty
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miles north of the border, fifty yards back off the highway. It was
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known to the local inhabitants as Jake's Bar and Grill. The bar was a
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warped flank counter with rickedy wooden stools. The grills seem to consist of a
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rack of stale sandwiches wrapped in Wie's paper. But I looked as though Jake
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himself might be paid there, heard stranger, What do you say? Save
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your money? Might be that's a good idea, And I think a lot
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of Scots this time even better idea. Have something yourself you paying for it?
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Yeah? I might at that. Well, then I'll just have me
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little this foreign hoots. Yes, sure, Well here's biting a rattlesnake.
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You're figuring to find yourself some of that there uranium? Are you? Yeah?
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How'd you guess? Sim doudgs you're wearing come from Dave Bright's place,
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Sunday mining clothes. We call them no offense. I'm hard to offend.
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The name is Johnny Dollar, mister Jake's enough though, everybody who's been for
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that been around here a long time. Oh then you know this country pretty
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well, I imagine, well enough to tell you the if you find a
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fresh square foot one where somebody ain't already been looking, and you're doing better
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most tender feet. No, no offense there, just the way of talking.
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Well, I guess you'd call us a vacation too. I don't really
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care much whether I find anything or not. It's just a chance to see
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some new country. Well, I reckon you could call some of this more
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or less new once you get away from that their highway on how do you
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go about doing that? You mean by car? Gas? Easterners ain't much
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on walking. Well, I have one with a four wheel drive get you
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a mile or two further, but that's about all the only way to do
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it on foot. You're probably right, but i'd start by car at least.
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Which side road would I take if I wanted to get lost around here?
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You mean, yeah, anywhere along the highway between the junction and the
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border. Well, as a matter of fact, you wouldn't have much choice.
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There's six seven passable roads, but they don't need no place upt the
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ranches don't even get up in the foothills. You ain't getting the mic dry
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again, are you? Oh? Sure? Fun them both of them again?
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Much blights, mister yeah, Well they'll always be in England, like
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a fella says. Oh yeah about them roads, now, the only one
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that might fit the bill for you is Santa Rita Summit Road. Oh I
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think I remember that on the map. Yeah, on the map. Well,
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it leaves a highway about three miles down and runs fourteen miles back up
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into the Santagrida Mountain Range. It doesn't connect on through, no dead ends
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a couple of miles past Primrose Camp. None of these here roads go no
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place. That's what I've been telling them. Stake place for two days.
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They've been looking for some stick up fellas, I reckon you heard about that?
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Oh yeah, yeah, Why them fellows should be out of their minds.
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Take one of them. Their side roads ain't no place they could go
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to on them. Oh it sounds logical, al right, you asked me
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them fellaws jumped the border somehow. That's how come they was down here in
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this part of the country to begin with. Are you're probably right, Jake?
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Anyhow you think this time at road might get me off the beaten path,
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Well, it's your best bed around here. It climbs up into the
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pines. He hits six thousand feet at Primrose Camp. It's a good shape,
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too, used to haul oer out over a few years back. There
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are mines up in there. No, no, no, they're all worked
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out now, all few little high graders scratching for pennies, but the big
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stuff's gone for the time being. At least some folks figure it'll come back,
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But I ain't one of them. Oh what is this Primrose Camp?
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Pop by Dell's place, named after the old Primrose mine. Yeah, well,
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what is it? Well, mixture things? Why? Pop probably been
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making more money there than he would if the mines did come back. He's
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got a filling station and half a dozen flimsy tourist cabins, lunch counter that
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his missus runs, little grocery store and souvenir shop. His daughter Jenny takes
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carev who've got a lot of things make an income for him. On about
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customers with a place fourteen miles up at then End Road. Well, he
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gets a few enough picnickers and tours in the summertime, hunters in winter,
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and fellas like you all year round come looking for this uranium stuff. He
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ain't got much experience neither. It's all in the family you see, and
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now he's got a new hand to help starting today. That's so yeah.
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Yeah, he come down this afternoon and get the mail. You see,
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the bus stops and drops it off here with me, and Pop comes down
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every day and picks it up. Hey, I figure he likes a chance
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to get out of the side of the missus for an hour. He sent
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this boy today. Uh, this new hand he's taken off, well,
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not exactly a hand. He Pop's nephew, so he said, comes out
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of Tulsa yesterday. Ah, I see, funny thing though he sure didn't
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have any Oklahoma accent. And Jake, how the boy is? He will
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hard say between twenty five and thirty maybe a real close smile sort of fella.
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Couldn't hardly get a word out of him. Uh huh, nothing toll
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like Pop. Why that old fellow talk a leg off here? If you
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go up there or you can open your mouth, he'll tell you tank a
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gas, two quarts all you don't need, some genuine phony or samples,
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and rent you a couple of them cabins. And oh, thanks for the
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morning, Jake. I'll be ready for good luck. Mit your dollar whatever
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it is. You're a hunting. What do you mean she a lot of
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tenderfeet come hunting uranium. But you were the first one that wore a shoulder
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holster with a gun in it. No offense, you understand, Johnny.
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Lieutenant cal Mervyn mister Dollar, State Highway Police. They relate your call to
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me. Good. I was just checking in, Lieutenant. You said to
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keep in touch in case I left civilization. You haven't left it far.
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I recognize the number. Oh you're a Jake's bar and grill on in the
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Galley's Highway. Yep, you didn't need a uranium hunter's outfit to go prospecting
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in that little nugget. Well, I'm going up into the Santa Rina Mountains
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around Primrose camp Hunter. We got a lead, well both, but at
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the moment it's more hunched than lead. I just wanted you to know where
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to start looking in case I disappeared. Now, look, mister Dollar,
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I've got every man on the force out now looking for that gang of killers
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and one hundred thousand dollars payroll they stole. If I have to add you
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to the list, that's about all I'll need. Relaxed, Lieutenant. If
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things work out, you may find us together from special investigator Johnny Dollar,
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location Jake's Bar and grill somewhere on a highway in southern Arizona to the home
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office mid State's Industrial Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, assignment the Primrose matter
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expense account continue it them four three dollars and sixty cents to Jake Meager for
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information and incidental beverages. The chibber Knitsen gang had hijacked an armored truck in
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Kansas City escape with one hundred thousand dollars payroll. Two nights ago, they'd
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shot their way through a roadblock in southern Arizona, killed a state trooper,
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and left one of their own members dead in the road. Then the other
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three had simply disappeared. The information from Jake that old Pomp Bardell operated a
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tourist camp and service station fourteen miles up a dead end road in the nearby
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mountains, and it seems that Pomp had acquired a new nephew within the last
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twenty four hours, a complete stranger. To Jake, there was only one
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way to check it out. Drive up to Primrose Camp. He Hi,
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how I want me to fill up the tank? Yeah? I might as
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well, probably won't take much. So hey, how much farther does the
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road go? Just a couple of miles? Oh, too bad. I
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was just starting to enjoy the scenery. You know, you're a rookie living
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up here in the hills. Got some real pretty country. I thought I
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might spend a little time in it if I could find a place to stay.
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I guess there'll be some more tourist cabins on down the road. Oh
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no, these are only ones. Oh oh wow, on that case,
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you gets yourself. A border took place in four gallon. Yeah, I
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figured it was not much. I hate to get caught short though off here
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away from a highway. Now, how about that cabin? Sorry, we're
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all full of huh you'll you'll find some places down on the highway. Well,
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wouldn't be much point in that. I was planning to do some prospecting,
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getting around a little on foot. This would be a good spot to
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work for me. I've got no vacancies. How about the oil and water?
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Oh yeah, you better take a look. I guess bad country for
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a kind of food. You get in a lot of trouble, such as
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what uh, snake bite? Get lost full off a cliff? Good things.
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Oh, I've been in a place or two before. Best you forget
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it, hun, Well, it's all right. It's funny. Those cabins
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look empty. No cars park in front of it. They're all rendered.
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And the water saw it too. Oh they were in it. Two vacationers.
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Probably couldn't say. It'll be a dollar twenty six, all right,
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and they worth stopping for it. Here you are, keep the change call
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again? Yeah, yeah, maybe I will when Pop Bardell gets back.
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I'm Pop Bardell. You can't be you know fit the description? What do
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you mean? Well? I was told Pop Bardell and start talking a leg
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off me before I even got my mouth open. But he not only sell
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me a tank of gas, but also two quarts of oil I didn't really
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need, in a handful of fake ore samples, and rent me a couple
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of cabins, whether I was planning to stay or not. Who told you
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that? Jake Meager down at the highway. Jakes one talks too much?
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Maybe what is it nephew you're about through out there? Yeah? Yeah,
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I'm oh that the nephew Jake was telling me about it. Yeah, that's
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a nice second. Fella arrived yesterday and expected that Jake tells me, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, that's that's right. It comes from Tulsa. I
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understand. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right from to I'm coming. I
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got some friends in Tulsa. I wonder if he might know. Where are
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you going? I want to say a lot of your No, No,
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you can't go in there. Why not? We we're fumigating. They just
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ain't safe. All right. I won't go inside, but I want some
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cigarettes out of the machine. I'll get them for you. Just give me
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the quarter you feel all right? Sure? That seems to me you're kind
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of jumpy on edge. I thought all you west And were supposed to be
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relaxed and easy going. Look, you want them cigarettes? Trouble uncle,
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No, no trouble. This fella just wants some cigarettes, is all?
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What brand Atcesterized? There? Yeah? Thanks? Oh here? Don't you
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want the money for you? Give it tomorrow for here? Yeah? Sure
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you go, thank you? If that's all I say. I understand you
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from Tulsa. So I got a good friend down there. Clem Wilkie thought
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made me know right now. Look if there's nothing else, now you've been
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there about a year. He's working on that new electric plant. They're building
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down there. But I guess he'll be out of a job before long.
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Though. Understand they'll have the plant done by the end of the month.
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Yeah, yeah, that's right, it's about finish now. Look, mister
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Rice, you never met Clem, But Tulsa's big town. Yeah, it's
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a big time. Come on, uncle, let's get that stuff moved.
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Well. I guess I'll drift on down the road and sleep out tonight.
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Maybe I got my sleeping bag. Oh, probably see them all way back,
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I guess, yeah, you do that. There was only one thing
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wrong with the whole setup. The best of my knowledge, there wasn't any
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new electric plant in Tulsa. I drove on past Primrose Camp, two miles
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farther into the end of the road. It was narrow, unpaved, and
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for the most part bound by a straight drop off on one side and a
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vertical cliff on the other, with no chance for a car to turn off.
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There were two fire roads for access by the Forest Service, actually nothing
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more than narrow trails. Their turnofs were blocked by steel cables padlock between heavy
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metal posts. As far as I could tell, they hadn't been tampered with,
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and no car had turned into either of the trails for a month or
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more. It ended up to one thing. There was simply no place in
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the area where the Nitsen Gang's car could be hidden, yet I was still
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certain that they were here somewhere. An hour later, I'd left my car
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at the road and was lying on a rocky ridge three hundred yards or so
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above Primrose Camp, watching the place through binociars and seeing nothing of any importance.
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Two cars stopped sight seers. Apparently one driver had the water check and
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left. A couple got out of the other car and spent twenty minutes in
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the lunch room, came out and drove off. Pop Bardell came outside occasionally,
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his wife too. A couple of times by Bardell's daughter, whom Jake
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Meager had told me about, didn't show. Neither did the mysterious nephew.
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I kept on watching him. Oh the strangers, yeah, oh no,
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oh, not exactly. It looked like you was just admiring the view the
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city fair. He jessing go on, every time, can't see kid,
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when you lived alone in the mountain. As long as I have then named
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duds you're wearin too. Got him at Dave Breke store didn't you. That's
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right, Dave outfits a lot of you Eastern fellows, and all the call
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stuff that comes from Dave's it's got a look about it. Hey, you
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wouldn't be a prospector, was he? Forty years of excep You live up
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in these parts somewhere the six mile across the canyons. There got a cabin
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I built myself from some clams of mine. He'd been there for three weeks,
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so that no, we've been prospecting over towd the rim cans getting him
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back home. Now you're the first living soul of seed. You haven't heard
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any news then in the last three weeks. And my name is Johnny Dollar.
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By the way, you can't Marsh proud to know your sine size you
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up before I spoke to you and decided to take the chance. Might be
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glad that the find you eat a smart alley like a lot of them city
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fellows. Oh, it takes all kinds to make us silly, mister Marsh,
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I reckon, so we'll never can see why it takes some kind So
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there's pop. They're out in front of the station usually step by and say
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how do you do him? But I reckon. I'm going to pass it
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this time. John Pop Long about fourteen years now. Then you must know
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his family pretty well. Where aside from his missus, there ain't no family
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except their daughter Jenny. No. I was thinking of his nephew and Telson.
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He ain't got no nephew, mister Doller, Oh whatsterd he had.
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He ain't got no living kin at all except for some cousin in Virginia.
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I guess I was missing for Yeah, that's for sure. Pop's a real
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lone wolf. Used to be a prospect hisself years back, but he never
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really had the neck for it. Anyhow, he finally bought this hi primrose
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camp and settled down to a civilized way of living. I'd say got about
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as far away from civilization as he could compromises. That's what he has always
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fooling hisself. I told him that a lot of times, even keeps on
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prospecting off and on right around the camp there when he knows there rate no
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pay dirt on this rock. Well, that's like a city man growing vegetables
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in a window box. I guess I wonder if I can ask a favor
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of you? Well, sure, what I was able to go on down
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there and get pop to do it. But I'll have to stay all evening
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if I do, and I'm kind of ankry to get home. Of course,
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if I go to the authorities, they'll keep me around asking questions,
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making steaks. What are you talking about, if there's been any signs of
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life? Anything I could do to help you? Understatesill marsh, What are
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you getting at? Where? Over across the ridge there in the bottom of
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the canyon there's a car half buried under a rock slop. All right,
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we don't want to start the rest of that rock coming down. I didn't
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moving rock wall in my life, sir. All right, it's clear.
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Let go. Well, that's good. I can get the car door open
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now. They had a pretty well buried l Who do you mean by day,
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mister, It doesn't matter at the moment. Give me a hand when
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he lives. Get this guy out, that's fine. We'll lay him here
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on the side of the car. It's like I figured, couldn't be anybody
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left alive after rolling all the way down let slope. This one wasn't alive
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before the car rolled down what he was shot by the State Highway police.
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He did a good job of hiding the car temporarily. At least it couldn't
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have been seen from the air. The only way of finding it was to
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stumble onto it the way you did. You ain't up here just for pleasure.
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How are you, mister Doller. I'm an insurance investigator. I'm after
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a stick up gang who've killed two bank guards and a state highway trooper.
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This man was one of the gangs. There ain't nobody else in the car.
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Here is he the gang? There were four of them to start with.
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This is the second one who's been shot to death. There are still
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two to go where you figured they are at Primrose Camp. Now here's our
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star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story. Tomorrow, a
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lion's den reluctantly opens its door to let a trusting victim step inside, and
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the victim me join us, Won't you? Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar?
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar? Starrying Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. Written
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by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure
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to join us tomorrow night, same time and station for the next exciting episode
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of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well,
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at this point, I think Johnny should probably call in the police. Uh,
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you know, drive to civilization, make a phone call. Well,
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I have to see what steps Johnny takes. I do remember, even though
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I've not spent a ton of time in Arizona, I lived a few months
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in Masa when I was a about nine or ten. But I do remember
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driving through it, and there are a lot of places, particularly, and
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I assume this is still the case where there are not a lot of people.
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I remember driving through the small town of nothing, Arizona, population four,
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so I can relate to the area that Johnny's going through. All right,
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Well, before we go today, I do have we are nearing the
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end of the Johnny Dollar serial era. After this week. We only have
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three more weeks of cereals to come, and I'll talk a little bit more
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actually on Friday of what you'll be hearing on Monday in four weeks. But
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look towards us some changes coming up in four weeks as we transition to the
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next phase of our podcast. All Right. In the meantime, send your
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