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it's time that we got into today's episode of Yours truly. Johnny Dowler,
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the Sulfur and Brimstone Mann. Well, y'all listening and don run as Johnny
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Dunning, Johnny, what are you all about? Hydro electric Tower Dance not
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a thing. Should I? The Travers Construction Company is building one at the
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day. Buddy, it's a couple hundred miles west of Venezuela. Don't you
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might like to run down there and take a look at it. Well,
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it's very thoughtful of you, but no thanks. There's a time penalty clause
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in their contract. Johnny, and we put up the completion bot and the
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dam isn't finished by a week from Friday. It starts costing US five thousand
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a day until it is. It's found worried. We got a radiogram from
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ASA Travers yesterday claiming that attempts are being made to prevent the completion of the
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dam on schedule. Last night, Travis got himself involved in a premature dynamite
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explosion. Did they kill him? Oh? That was accomplished by two thirty
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eight caliber sluts they found in him afterwards. I wonder if coffee is any
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cheaper in Venezuela. Expensive accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dallars, who
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home office Eastern Indemnity Insurance Company in Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an
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accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the sulfur and brimstone matter expensive count adem
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one two hundred and seventy three dollars and fifty cents air fare and incidentals between
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Hartford and Caracas, Venezuela. I was met at the Mactea airport by the
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deceased travers partner, Janior Catulio Matacta, who wasted little time on the amenities.
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Ten minutes later we were aboard a twin engine Cessna with Nattarsta to controls
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flying west or the Sierra de Avari dam as to whom may appeal to your
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travels or why I continue not be supposed to? Said? The police would
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have more information for us when we all right? Why federal authorities on a
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homicide mant o me being fussibly finised by governmental phone next with the federal authorities
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or intellect? What's your opinion about as a traveler's reports that somebody trying to
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sabatize them, when it is true we have had some breaks out of equipment,
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some vital materials loss or stolen. I do not believe anyone is attempting
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to delay construction by physical means. What do you believe many police organizations in
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your dollar day evening? Yours in the United States, there will always be
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a small percentage of disconest men. You're talking about, Captain Borrow. When
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it does it such who diligence, police investigations calls it justice work, stuffices,
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vital delays which could carry us far beyond the contact deadline that at five
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thousand a day, I can turn out to be pretty rough. And either
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you were travelers trying to improve this will be a real un We will be
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of the Dam's shortest in your dollar and your investigation can begin. It would
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not would have to be white of me to attempt to give you any three
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conceived ideas. Maybe you should have thought of that before you tried so hard.
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Some twenty minutes later, I'm hard to put the plane down on a
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bare earth field in the midst of the jumble of giant steam shovels, earth
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movers and bogos, and overlooking at all was the great bulk of the seatra
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de of Ari Dam. I'm tired. I made some excuse about having to
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check on a turboine inflation, so I made my way alone to the shack,
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which was construction headquarters of the pocket. Oh I'm sorry, my fault,
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Yeah, yeah, my name is Saler. I'm an insurance investigator.
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I'm looking for Captain Barrow, insurance investigator. That's all we need out here.
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Now, who's paying you off? Boris and Matarsa? Maybe we better
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start over again. My name is Dollar, I'm an insurance investigator. Who
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are you, dyll Ansony? I'm strap off with this outfit, and let's
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get one thing straight right now. I'm here to field this. Damn it.
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It's gonna get still in spite of you or Boris or Matasta or anyone
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else. Very admirable. Now, where's Captain Barrows? As I heard he
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was going over to Trevor's house, and where's that. He's a kind of
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whet or customers. I'm ten miles north of here. Uh huh. We
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got some cheeps parked down on the other side of the hill. Tell one
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of the boys, I said, he could drive you out there. You're
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mighty accommodating. All of a sudden, we get you out of my hair
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for a while. Yeah, that's what I figured. Oh, by the
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way, who's the girl I bumped into on my way in. Tell me
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that's ut Aisa's daughter. It's widow bar You must have been discussing some pretty
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important business, and what makes you think so either one of you remember to
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wipe the lipstick off your chin. There were a few questions I wanted to
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put the matartha regarding Bill Ansony and ASA Travelers coming a young widow Filmina,
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but I didn't see him around. So I made my way to the mortar
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perule and got myself transportation and a guy to take me to ASA travers home.
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Indeed through the end of the signor North Americano. It's coming here,
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and this that matters Senior Traveler's day. Well, the word's gotten around three
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first as a federal where when one has lived in the Sienna Oha as long
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as he's better or did that way anything pain or different become a quickly known
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well and maybe feathers in a question I was something about why Senior Travelers was
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killed. I know only that when men make an evil things and you're it
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will bring evils. You're talking about the building of the damn seat, and
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you're why should that be an evil thing? It is not like for men
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to change the things become natural through the earth. And you're too part the
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throwing waters of a river backward upon them head think he's not a good scene,
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can y'all you talked like a plantation on her? Pedro, No,
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no, can you're My father was a poor farmer who worked hard that I
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might foot to the school of the workers here. What Petron knows if he's
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nothing but sing? What is being done here today? The evil that men
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creates with his pointing, as he has already done to single fibers, And
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there would be more it would deproy than your many many more. Now that's
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a happy thought. As a traver's house with a neat, white suckle bungalow
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half hidden by a mass of flowering brugunder, I left Pedro de la questo
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with his bloomy thoughts while I want us to see if anyone was around.
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It soon became evidence that somebody was. The shots came from a low barn
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like building at the rear of the property, and I wasted no time getting
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over there to see a Cedro's prophety already been fulfilled when I started senior.
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So we meet again. Yeah, pretty looked for startled. You're almost as
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though you had expected to find a body in here. Well, I hadn't
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expected to find a shooting Galery send you're a travelers. If I had it
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built for my amusement, I haven't even found fire. I'm fascinating every since
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I was a little girl, and there is little else with which for me
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amuse one sets up here in this wilderness. I had become quite profusion at
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it. You see not bad? What's the gun? Thirty eight caliber and
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a forty five frame? And you're thinking perhaps that it is the samey celibra
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bullet which caused the death of Asta I thought had occurred to me. Yeah,
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it's regrettable. One was disappointed, senior. Hap some bottles has already
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said begun? Oh I see where is the good captain? Oh? He
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nest perhaps twenty minutes ago we didn't pass them on the road. Are you
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always at the spacious of other person's statement? Sing a dollar? But way,
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I'm curious, and you find something to be serious about? Something new?
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Oh, a number of things. Oh well, I haven't told you
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who I am or why I'm here, but you seem to know. And
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you're still anthonline has called me on a telephone and to inform me. And
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you don't seem particularly grief taken over the death of your husband. I have
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a philosophy of life, Senor, it is always to look forward cover back.
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It was only the future when I possibly tend to never the past.
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Sometimes the past has a nasty habit of affecting one's future only if one has
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been let look, I'm a crime and you haven't. Would you believe me
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if I said no, Senor Dollar, and here I'm a taous, you
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must return with me to be down as well? Why what's up? It
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is just copit and more. Yeah, just ordered an immediate topic of all
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work on the damn your fishing your dollars. Althoughady, the work has come
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to a hold nothing. He's moving through, tim, so will the come
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quite? Mix's nothu? Wife, Captain Boris, you can stop some check
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with Bill Ansony. Let's talk with him. I tell you, seniors,
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Dollar, there is only one answer for the actual Capatain Borossi's looking for the
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sail. We'll talk to him. I'm about ready to ship. Well that's
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about time you got here, Dollar, and you can talk some sense into
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this bullheaded jackass who calls himself captain of police. I have listened to enough
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of this kind of tops in your anthony. I'm willing to talk sensibly in
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carmony with anyone, but violent words or actions will not asswage in the least.
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Well that makes sense, Captain. You do the same about the sudden
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clampdown order of your Quite simply, Senora, I had no alternative. It
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was necessary to hold work up under them in order to prevent possibly irreparable damage
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to the construct. What kind of nonsince that, top Tan? It is
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a statement of facts in your Metasta. I discovered this afternoon that sen your
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anthony was about to dynamite a passageways for the new river bad He wasn't employing
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an excessive amount of dynamite, but bring the huge side down upon the cut
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that has already been made your line in your teeth for us. I am
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no engineers in your anthony. But when a specifications scored for twenty five cases
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of dynamite, and I find fifty such cases are being employed, drastic action
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of some kind is certainly called for. How about that Anthony he got his
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rocker dollar. I usued the specifications for the job. Twenty five cases were
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called for, and only twenty five cases were taken out of the powderhouse.
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It seems to be a little difference of opinion, Captain Spots, we go
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down and take a look at those dynamite charges. If you wishing you,
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I can assure you you will be able to learn nothing that will alter my
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decision until I get to the charges. We set the black New River bit
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somebody come off, and now with our star John Lund, we bring you
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the second act of yours tool aid Johnny Dollar. Our subsequent investigation show that
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Bill Anthony's specifications for twenty five cases of dynamite had cleared to the powderhouse just
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that way, and the explosive experts there said that only an amount greatly in
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excessive that could have caused the damages had been done. And we discovered that
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the blast had been touched off by a crude homemade sparking contraption. We found
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an a brush on one of the nearby hills. It was dark by the
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time we got back to the construction shack. Patarsta was waiting for us with
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a report on the results of the investigating. He and the Lataney had done
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the original damage. He is not as great as we feel, Senior.
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This yeah, how's that fasted? Whin? It is truly explosion buried the
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new card. It's only for a relatively short distance. We can buy pass
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through a natural canyon on the other side of the hill. The work will
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be completed by Friday. You are forgetting something? Are you notching off your
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work? Copy orders? Capitan Borders? No, I am flying to karact
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As to night. There are higher resources there who can quite easily countermand your
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orders. I am certainly they would prevent you gram interest hearing any longer in
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the construction of this. But it's not. A senorist looks like he's calling
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your hand, Captain, see and if I've no doubt he will succeed in
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your There are those in characters who for a handful of silver who will sell
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practically anything, including their souls. You know, Matassa has the same idea
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about you. He's not the first, now will be the last. The
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police official is always suspected. There are but few who realize that there are
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other considerations besides those of money. How about naming me one, captain.
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Eight men have died so far in the construction of the dam Singer, all
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of them during the so called accidents which have occurred. What if I should
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tell you that my reason for holding construction until we get to the bottom of
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this consist solely of a desire to save more lives. Well, I'd say
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it sounds reasonable. On a construction project like the Sierra Deavari Dam, there's
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not much to do at night except eat and sleep. In the mess hall,
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I was served up a beautiful thing called kat Swayler. I was seriously
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considering presenting my accompliments to the chef when I was called at the phone in
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Bill Anthony's office. I guess I did not interrupt anything to importance in your
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daughter. But I'm about to leave this prevery wilderness. Rely much more pleasant
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surroundings to be found in Karaka. Getting tired of target practice. Oh,
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I'm tired of many things in your tired and board. So perhaps when you
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have finished with your business there you was scheduled of me at in Karaka,
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I would be at the Grandpa as here. That's not what you called me
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about everything for him? What's the rest of it? Well, after you
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lift, I happy to record what my dear husband Asa once said to me
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concerning to them and the exit would have been occurring there. What was it?
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He said? Strange how the works of the de will always carry the
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order of sulfur and brimstone with him? What else did he say? He
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talks are but in coryptly? Isn't it? It meant nothing to you?
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Should it? Would it help any if I were to tell you that very
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close to with a dynamatic explosion? Of course this afternoon there's an old abandonce
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dand for mine that might What do you know about an old sulfer mine somewhere
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around here, Petrol? I know that there is once in you, but
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he has not been worked. There has been no one needed for many years.
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It would be of no importance to anyone. So probably find out that
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is evil in here? Sen your not evil? What is your des in
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your hopes to discover here? I'm not sure? Pedro? Can you know?
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Up? I had to have? What's your guest? There's there's wooden
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boxes? How would I know? You've been working on a construction job,
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Pedro, take a cloth to look. M is the explosives in your the
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boxes of dynamite? Yeah, i'm Emprey, I'm well. I answered one
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question? What questions? You know? Early access dynamite came from that blew
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up half that mountain today? And take a look behind those stack takes snare.
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Yeah, looks like we got more answers than were barking for. When
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we got back to the camp, I rounded up Captain Border. He agreed
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with me heartily in all respects. I would tell you a little treat to
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the shelfer mine has supplied us with several lancers finding the dynamite the body of
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Senor Bill Anthony. Let's not forget the gun, Captain thirty eight caliber,
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the same caliber that killed in your travels. The initials on the butt are
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GM. And when you consider that the sulfur mine is owned by Senior at
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Tullio met Tars, huh yeah, yeah, how soon are you living for
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Crocus immediately? Perhaps you would like to return with me. That's the second
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best offer I've hadn't done a zuela the first Seniors, Well, I should
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find the answer to that at the Grand Palazio. An hour and a half
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later, I checked in the the Grand Pelacio Vallet service did a fairly good
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job of removing the clinging yellow sulfur dust from my clothes, while a hot
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shower did the same for my skin. But nothing could help the chemical reaction
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of the sulfur dust that atonish the silver coins in my pocket until they were
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almost black. When I asked for Senor Travers, I was told she would
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be. It's a hippodromo nacional expensive cond item two three dollars and fifty cents
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cabs there from the Grand Pelacio to Caracassus, sumptuous hippodroma or nacionale. Pleasing,
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Senor? Can you do surprised in a way? I wasn't staking to
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see you get a nice Do you always accept invitations of hiety while only under
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unusual circumstances do you find this one on your shot? Well, let's say
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the widow's lack of grief over her husband's passing with Radhamont. You're not being
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very unus. Neither was your explanation about that self of mine. It's leading
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Captain Boros the Gatulio Mattarsta just about now he's the one. Oh, it's
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too bad. Why you promised to take care of my expences during my favor
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in Karaka one? You better start looking for another philanthropist. I don't suppose.
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I don't think I could afford it. Unfortunate, Well, in that
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case, I would not consider asking you to pay for my drink I'm still
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not too happy about that self. For mine explanation, it's nothing more I
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can faith in yours, not even where you got that coin coin, the
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one you just threw on the bar, punished almost black. In case you
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didn't know, that's what sulfer does. The silver I see, well,
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it was given for me betterfore yesterday than you. It was a wish of
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a given that I purchased a candle with the brand for my husband who gave
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it you La quest. I didn't take long to find Captain Borrows or to
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make the return flights to the other day about it. Locating Pedro de la
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Cuesta was another matter. When we finally made it, dawn was already hitting
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the hills. Unfortunately, it looked like we were a little too late.
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And you're doing a yeah, I see him that box he head with him
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another. It is fucking making it. The dynamite must be buried in the
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hill beside him. Isn't the river on the other side it is. If
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he explodes that dynamite, the river will break into a new channel and its
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sweep down upunder them alder for us, there is no other way. Sing
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on it all your bullet can stop him now you can expire the charge at
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any time before we each you let me take a crack out. It's not
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good, Pedro. What you're doing is not good. It really the evil
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and y'all even be any good from being down. Maybe we didn't walk for
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a while, maybe but only for a while. No matter what you'll do
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here today, that damn will be built, Oh thank y'all, it could
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be taking it at hod at the time for heaven, the evil thing will
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be left alone from down and he don't work us, and they we to
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dome. Maria, you're Maria Pedro? Who is she? He has father?
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And ya my mind, she who came with me be lanned on what
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the years of call Maria who worked with me in the stile, who by
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our Susans, who gave him a heap for me, our family, for
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al I was glad like there beyond a kissing your where the evil one would
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be easy to walk out? Is that why you want to destroy the damn?
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Pedro? Because of Maria's grave belong and y'all in the good art to
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which you get so much of her past, and they wish to be fight
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our days, and y'all so do in the fifty walkers, so they can
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make money to watch away you anything. They never make anything by down.
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How could I alone that? San? Y'all? How is that why you
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kill? Sang your travelers. You will not listen on my nap, had
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said him. But they would not listen. An evil man sang you and
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sang your anthony, and he's for sassed me. Follow me today, sought
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for mine. I had no choice, and y'all, and you have given
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me on now put the backs down, said no, tan, y'all,
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it is unfortunate you might die with me. Put it down to lessen at
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somewhere we will meet again. You're all right? Yeah? Thanks? Bus?
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How come you missed him? Wait? Necessary that I missed? What
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if I'd hit the bush and it caused contact? Hey, most unhappy thoughts?
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So was the one I had? What was that you do? The
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same thing could have happened just now when it hits the ground. Expensive count
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Adom three forty one dollars and sixty ten hotel bill and incidentals and Caracas.
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Expensive count Adom four two hundred and sixty seven dollars air fare and incidentals from
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Caracas back to hyfand expense accounts total five hundred and eighty five dollars and sixty
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tens yours twenty Johnny dollars welcome back. Well, definitely it deranged character the
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time you usually only see or hear about in old time radio classic television shows.
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Donnie nearly got himself killed trying to save the perpetrator here, but it
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all worked out for the best, well for everyone other than him. Well,
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we don't have some listener comments and feedback. I'd mentioned my and I
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mentioned this on Facebook as well. My first feeling when I heard eight twelve
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The Case of the Sunhower Mystery mentioned that ith that my first thought is that
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it reminded me a bit of scoobay Do, though I thought better of it
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later Andrew size Andrew says, I wonder if Hannah, if Hannah, Bara
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and Barbara listen to old time radio. You know, I think that old
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time radio definitely had an influence on the writers and creators of some of the
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classic television programs out there, and you can see that for years afterward.
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And there are some and whether it's in Hannah Barbera cartoons, where of course
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Oggie Doggy sounds a lot like Jimmy Duranti or you can look at the superhero
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comic Fantastic Four, and writer Stan Lee borrowed the phrase of William Bendex,
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what a revolting development. I can even see it in some of the later
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programs. Steven Spielberg produced programs like The Animaniacs and Pinking the Brain, which
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had several homages to Golden Age entertainment, both a lot of motion picture but
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even some radio. One that stands out to me, you know, without
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a watch when I was a kid, was the character of Mindy and the
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Buttons and Mendy's cartoon, who continually asked why to me that seemed to be
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borrowed from Baby Snucks. Certainly, if you grew up during this period,
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you listen to radio, it influenced you and it kind of shaped you.
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And I think that in some ways that's why there are silver ages. And
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in addition to that, I should add some people who wrote for radio and
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performed on radio actually performed on pormed and for television. Jackson Yellis, who
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writes Let George Do It It, wrote a lot of the early Colombo shows,
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and DAWs Butler, who did the voice of Huckleberry Hound voiced a similar
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sounding character on the radio show That's Rich. I think over time the influences
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from the Golden Age have diminished, and if we're picking up much from the
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Golden Age, it's probably third and fourth hand stuff. Finally, we have
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this comment from David, who says, I'm a co worker who is in
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his seventies, and now we have something strangely in common. We both love
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Johnny Dowler. I love when the old time radio brings generations together. It's
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a great story. And of course we're only a few weeks away from the
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Johnny Dowler that most people associate with Bob Bailey. I think we shouldn't been
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about fifteen weeks getting to that. But when we have a busy week of
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programming coming up next week, do all a recap it for you. Sunday
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we have the first episode of Decoy, Tuesday we'll be bringing you the premiere
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episode of A Life in Your Hands, and on Wednesday and Thursday we'll have
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Christmas episodes of Sherlock Holmes and Let George Do It. Though we have a
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lot coming up next week, I hope you'll be with us and the Meanwhile,
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