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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Callicles Matter, Part Three and Four (EP1091) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  But let's go ahead and get into today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller.
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  As we continue with Callicles Manor Part three and Part four from Hollywood,
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  it's time now for Johnny Dollar. What are you doing lying around the hospital?
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  This is Dave Plain. Johnny, are you here in Los Angeles?
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  I'm in Boston. Still what happened? I was with Missus Parsons this afternoon
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  trying to find out what happened to her husband. She missed a turn in
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  the road. How is she? Is she all right? She was killed?
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  Dave? Good? Look Johnny, what can I do to hell?
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  Nothing, Dave, nothing much to do. Now Parsons is back. And
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  well, now he's back, I'll wrap it up, Johnny, What is
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  it? Broal? She was a pretty nice person, Dave. I saw
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  a die tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of
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  the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator was
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  truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Eastern
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  Casualty and Trust Company, number twenty five Yardly Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts.
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  The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the calicles matter.
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  ID him three twenty six cents for a package of cigarettes, which the night
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  nurse at Saint John's Hospital bought for me. She also brought in a sedative.
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  That was the last thing I remembered until about five o'clock in the morning.
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  God, look, yeah, I guess you just lie down. You
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  need some rest. Can I get you any bring mister donnas and water.
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  No, no, sister, no, no, thank you. What's your
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  name? I'm sister Ahmada you you weren't here when they brought me, you
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  know. Now you just go back to see my sister. Wait. Yes,
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  I'd like to talk to you about it. Of course, you mean
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  the accident, yes, yes, all of it. I I feel better.
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  Well, we want you to do that, certainly. I came to
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  Los Angeles for an insurance company. Back easton, we had a report that
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  a big executive in a stock firm out here was missing. I see a
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  man named David Parsons, junior partner with his father in the stock and bond
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  business. Oh, yes, I've heard of the Parson's family. I talked
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  to a man named Ecker, al mister Parsons secretary. Ecker took me out
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  to see the old man. He was pretty nasty, wouldn't talk much about
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  his son being gone for ten days. Then I met David Parson's wife.
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  I told her I thought the matter should go to the place. She agreed
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  with me, But later on this afternoon out with the ocean, she said
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  she expected them to come back. She called the house and they said David
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  Parsons had come back. It was a strange afternoon, sister. I mean
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  we sat in the sand and talked about these things. I could have fallen
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  in love with her. Maybe I did. I'll never know, sister,
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  and dare al you're more shaken up than you think. Really, you should
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  never get used to things like this. Now you just sleep, mister Dollar.
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  Go on now, go to sleep. The world becomes very heavy sometimes
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  I just got to sleep it them four fourteen dollars and ninety five cents one
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  night in the hospital. When I got back to the Beverly Hilton, I
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  bought a copy of the morning paper, ordered some lunch, and sat down
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  to read about my accidents. An unidentified woman was killed. An unidentified man
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  was slightly injured in a car crash on Sunset Boulevard the afternoon before. No
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  names, no details, no nothing strange. But even stranger was the appearance
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  of Robert Ecker, old Man Parson's secretary at my door. Then I didn't
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  know why his eyes were red rimmed. Oh all right, now, I
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  guess come in. This whole thing's pretty terrible. Dollar. I just stopped
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  up. See how you feel? Is is there anything I can do for
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  you. No, no, nothing, thanks. Mister Parsons wanted you to
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  know that he's concerned for you. Call him. I'm okay, how are
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  thanks there? Young mister Parsons is pretty broken up. He's really back then?
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  Oh well then, I'm just about through out here. Could I see
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  mister Parsons, thought you'd want to Yes, Expenser con out of eight one
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  hundred and seventy eight dollars airplane ticket back to Hartford Adam, nine forty three
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  dollars hotel and board for two days in Los Angeles. Itdem ten six dollars
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  carefair. My plane was scheduled to leave at nine o'clock that night. I
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  checked out about four in the afternoon. It went directly to the home of
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  David Senior. He looked a little ashen when I came in, but his
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  temper hadn't improved much. He pointed a crooked finger at me. I've got
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  this to say to you right now. Dollar. If you hadn't insisted on
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  talking to who should be alive today, she wouldn't have been with you driving
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  that car. If she hadn't been forbidden by you to see me, we
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  wouldn't have had to drive around in a car. You haven't drink around here,
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  right there. I didn't come here to argue with you anymore. My
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  job was to find your son. Evidently he wasn't lost. Ecker told me
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  I could meet him here about this time. You're pretty free with my whisk.
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  You can afford it on one. I got a jigger before every meal.
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  That's all. Cheers well in my earlier what David will be here anytime
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  now? Have any arrangements been made yet? You'll have to ask Ecker about
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  that. I don't know. I like the sense of flowers something, that's
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  all. Was the logical gesture, Does mister Dollard, David come in?
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  It's my son David. A man in the black suit wasn't what I expected
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  in the way of David Parsons Junior. Somehow, he was tall and rangy,
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  almost athletic. He had a good sunburned a pair of square shoulders.
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  I would have read him for an advertising man or a pro ball player,
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  certainly not for the investment appropriation business. We shook hands, he smiled wanly
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  and lit up a cigarette. That tells me you've been looking for me.
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  That's right, mister Parsons, where have you been all this time. I
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  took a freighter out of Los Angeles and wrote it up to Oregon. Just
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  a whim. Wanted to be alone and do some thinking. I'll come.
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  No word, that's a whim too. Are you trying to get into my
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  personal life? No? No, just curious again. Well, here's some
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  reports I have to make out. If you'd sign them, i'd appreciate it.
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  Go ahead, sign them, let them go. Sure, sure,
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  I have a pen. Okay, fine, thank you, satisfied dollar.
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  Uh what ship did you take up there? Ship? The boat to Oregon?
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  Oh the loreene B Winner Maker Timber Company ship. Oh sure, well,
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  I'm glad you're okay, Thank you for your cooperation. I went back
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  to my hotel, checked in once more, canceled my airline reservations, and
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  put in a call to Robert Ecker. He wasn't in his office. A
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  little arguing got me his home number. No one answered. I went out
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  and spent twenty five dollars. I had a made to rent a car.
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  I drove it over to Ecker's apartment address. He wasn't in, so I
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  waited. Half an hour later, he drove up, ran into his apartment
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  for about a minute and a half, came back out and got into his
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  car. When he pulled into traffic on Wilshire, I was one buick behind
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  him. He finally stopped at a place on Olympic Boulevard, the Parkway Funeral
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  Home. I waited five minutes and then walked in. Robert Ecker stood in
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  a semidoc room, hands folded before him as if in prayer. He was
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  looking down at the body of David Parson's wife. Had a wiker. Hello,
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  came by to pay my respects. Sure, I wish she acker?
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  Why was that? Who is this girl? She isn't Dorothy Parsons, I
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  know that much. I wish we better talk about this. Yeah, yeah,
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  we better talk. Her name's Ellen. Her name was Ellen Myers.
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  I'm going to be married. I'm sorry. She was one of those only
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  people that you find in this time. She worked a bit in pictures and
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  drew and painted a little bit. I don't know how I met her.
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  I just know that she was fresh and lovely, and she'd do anything for
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  me or for old man persons. For me, she was mine. Everything
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  else is his. She was mine. He blew up the other morning when
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  I called uphim and said you were in town looking for David Junior. He
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  said, we had to steer you out. He didn't want you talking to
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  anybody. Sorry, arranged that she'd be there posing as Missus Parsons. He
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  asked me to get someone. She was delighted with the ideas and a little
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  game for where's the real Missus Parsons? Oh my guess I don't know.
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  I'll find that out now. Tell me who's the guy I shook hands with
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  us afternoon? He said he was David Parsons Junior. I don't know his
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  name. Is someone the old Man hired to play the part for h Then
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  David Parsons is still missing? Yeah, why all the cover up? Why
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  doesn't the old man want him found? He does want him found. He
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  wants him found in the worst way. He's been turning the country upside down
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  looking for him for a week now. Had something like twenty three operators from
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  a private detective fir him looking for him. But he doesn't want it to
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  go to the police. Wants it out of the papers at all costs.
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  Parsons is going to merge with Little and Henson. You've heard of them.
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  The old Man's got to take it easy. Heart attack Parsons Junior will get
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  into the saddle when the merger happens. He'll take over the whole play.
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  That is, of course, with the old man sitting down in Palm Springs
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  dictating orders to him. In other words, old Man Parsons wants his figure
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  head to be on Dick Clean and I'm sullyed for the merger. That's it.
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  What do you think happened to Jr? And I don't have any idea
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  what happens to any of us who worked for Parsons. We give him lip
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  at first, we get mad at him. In the end, he shakes
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  out all the dignity and honesty you might have a have, and he makes
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  you his own personal robin. Look at me, dollar, He got me
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  to make my girl play all that out in front of you. She's dead
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  and I'm still a robot far and sure, how did you get on to
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  Junior? He didn't look broken up. He was a pretty bad actor.
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  He also gave some wrong answers about being off a ship and so on.
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  Hey, look, you don't have to say anything about talking to me.
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  Oh but I will. I'll tell Parsons you pumped it all out of me.
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  I worry him a bit. You'll figure out some other way to stop
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  you. I told you once before, Dollar, he'll break your heart.
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  Johnny Dollar, ready with your few number? Yeah, mister Parsons, Johnny
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  Dollar, what are you doing in town? Still looking for your son?
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  Mister Parsons, you met him yesterday. He's been found. He wasn't lost.
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  I met the man you hired to convince me that he was your son.
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  I know he isn't. If you're going to make trouble, well,
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  if I have to, I have that guy's signature on two papers in my
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  briefcase. It constitutes a witness forgery no matter how you look at it.
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  I'd be willing to call up a lawyer and see what kind of noise I
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  can make. What do you want? I'll be out to tell you in
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  twenty minutes. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Eastern Casualty
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  and Trust Company, number twenty five Yardly Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts. The
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  following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Calicles matter. Expense
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  account Item nine one hundred dollars legal retainer. I hired an attorney named Robert
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  Watson. To arrange for a court order impounding all the records in the Parsons
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  brokerage house. I also turned over to him the Forge reports. After that,
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  I drove out to sea. Parsons still laid up in bed oo,
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  spilled the beat you did. Mainly, I didn't believe that guy here yesterday
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  afternoon. I didn't believe the woman who was supposed to be his wife.
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  So let it go at that. I'm here to find David Parsons Junior.
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  Let's stop playing game. Don't get fresh with me, boy. I've crunched
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  many a loud talker just like you. You want me to walk out of
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  here and start jamming up your works right now? Or do you want to
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  listen? You've watched up everything so far. Do I handle it? Or
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  do we keep on like this. I'm gonna kid you when I get on
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  my feet. In the meantime, you're gonna lie there and like it.
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  I came out here to find your son. You arranged to throw me off
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  his trail by hiring a woman to play his wife and a man to appear
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  and pretend he was your son. Let's take it from there. I understand
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  you've had private detectives looking for him all over the country. What agency?
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  Universal Operators? Who's in charge of it? There? Man named Underwood?
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  Have they got any leads? Nothing? Nothing? For twelve days? Did
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  he take anything? I don't know. We haven't made an audit. Well,
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  there'll be an audit. I've got the machinery started right now. Who
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  do you think that happened? Lie down or you'll bust up. Blood vessel
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  is missus Parsons in town. I sent it out a Palm Spring all right,
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  it's ten fifteen now, if I remember right, there's a plane for
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  Palm Springs about noon. Call her there and tell her I'll be at her
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  house at two o'clock. I want to talk to her. Are you giving
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  me order? I sure am. I want everybody in that household there.
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  Two o'clock. You arrange it. I'll arranged nothing for you. I'll get
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  out of here. Call who you have to call two o'clock, mister Parsons.
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  I left him fuming on the phone, and drove my rented car downtown
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  to the offices of Universal Operatives Incorporated. Mister Underwood, the man in charge
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  of finding David Parsons Junior, shook my hand and told me he could report
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  nothing to me about the case. I asked him to phone old man Parsons,
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  which he did. That changed his mind. He broke down and gave
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  me an hour long story on what they'd done to locate the missing man.
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  When he was finished, it came out the same way. They'd run into
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  blank walls everywhere. They had no idea where David Parsons might be. I
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  told Underwood he and his staff were fired, and that mister Parsons would confirm
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  it. I left him fuming on the phone. Expense account aut of ten
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  four dollars danks, some lunch all along. After that, I drove over
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  to the residence of David Parsons Junior. Missus Parsons was a tall, graceful
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  woman in her late thirties, settled on a sofa in front of the fireplace.
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  The clothes she was wearing, the house itself, the appointments of the
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  former room all suggested a well run, well kept sort of life. I've
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  answered so many questions from those private detectives. I'm sorry to put you through
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  it all again. You must operate in a rather high handed manner, mister
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  Dollar. My father in law Expresley told me the point here is not to
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  let any of this get into the papers. The point here is to find
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  your husband, Missus Parsons. He's been missing twelve days now. But I
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  suppose I was the last one to see him was after dinner he went upstairs.
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  I didn't see him after that. This would be the thirteenth, Yes
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  it was. Did he sleep here that night his bed had been slept in.
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  Yes, Then he really disappeared sometime on the fourteenth. I suppose that's
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  accurate. He wasn't in his office that day. Did he take a car?
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  No, but I know the private detectives check the cab companies could have
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  flagged one two blocks away. How about close? Did he pack anything?
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  Not a thing money? I don't know. Okay. Can you think of
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  any enemies who might want to harm your husband? Enemies? Oh, dear,
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  no, think about it. Well, perhaps in his office, in
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  his business, there's someone. But he never discussed what went on there with
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  me. Are you sure it was a rule? This is our home,
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  that is David's business. We just never talked about what went on in his
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  office at all. How long have you and mister Parson's been married? Eighteen
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  years next July? Have you been getting along. Of course, we've been
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  getting along. We've gotten along always. Ever discussed the probability of divorce or
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  anything like that, certainly not. Can you think of any reason why mister
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  Parsons would just walk out and not come back? None whatsoever? Have the
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  people in his office been worried about him? Well, I believe mister Ecker
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  is the only one who knows. The others think he's away on a business
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  trip. In otherwise, the whole thing has been kept quiet. Oh yes,
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  of course this merger situation is quite delicate, as miss Parsons. Were
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  you very close to him? I beg your pardon, don't beg my pardon,
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  Just answer the question. Everybody seems to be worried about a merger,
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  not about a man. Did you spend time together? Do things together?
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  Of course? We entertained frequently, we traveled, We had common interests home,
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  of course, what else? I don't know what you mean? Did
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  you enjoy each other, go out together? Have fun? Really? Did
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  he have a hobby? But yes, sort of. David liked to read
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  and write a little. He fancied himself a scholar along some lines, what
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  lines literature? Of course, it was just an indulgence where did he indulge
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  himself. He had a small study upstairs. Would it be possible to look
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  at that room? I guess I suppose, sir. All right, I'll
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  get to that in a minute. Drink very much cocktails before dinner, maybe
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  two or three after ever, any long drinking jobs on the town. David
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  never went off and drank. If that's what you're trying to find out.
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  Oh, that's what I'm trying to find out. Is he in good health?
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  Yes? Perfect? I think. What's the name of his doctor,
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  Oh, Stanley Warner, doctor Warner. Okay, how about his attitude?
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  What do you mean? What kind of man? Is he? Quiet?
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  Loud? What I'd say, David is and always has been a very quiet
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  person. Like his work. Of course he loves it. I'm terribly afraid
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  there's a great deal of insinuation in these questions. You asked, mister Dollar,
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  what have you been doing in Palm Springs Resting? Got a boyfriend,
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  mister Dollar? You? I resent that very much naturally with my husband here,
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  I go out with friends there. David knows about it. You have
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  a girlfriend. You're being ridiculous, No, you're being ridiculous. You sit
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  here and describe the kind of association a man has with a drug clerk who
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  sells the cigarettes, and you call it a marriage. Your husband disappears from
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  the face of the earth and you romp off to Palm Springs forgetting all about
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  it. You're insulted when I ask you what's wrong. You're heard when I
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  ask you how common. You're annoyed when I mention it. What on earth
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  do you want me to do? File a missing person's complaint right away.
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  Get some help in here. If it isn't too late, too late.
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  It could be, lady, it just could be you and your father in
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  law have fooled around too long. She made the call. A half an
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  hour later. Two detectives and the Missing Person's Bureau are out here gathering facts.
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  I tagged along. They questioned missus Parsons, the servants. They examined
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  the study as well as his bedroom. From all they could gather, David
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  Parsons had nothing but the clothes on his back when he disappeared. By midafternoon,
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  the police had started on old man Parsons and gone downtown to question the
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  members of David Parsons's office force. The district attorney moved in quickly in the
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  gated mic court order impounding the books and records for a careful audit to determine
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  if any money of Barnes were missing. They promised to keep me informed.
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  I went out of my own Come in, please. Doctor Stanley Warner had
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  a four suite office on Wilship Boulevard. He was a big, graying man
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  who looked as though he played a lot of golf and drank a lot of
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  whiskey when he had the chance. I told him about Parsons being missing and
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  asked for some details. According to my records, I examined him the first
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  of last month. He was in good health, excellent for a man of
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  his age and responsibility. Could you explain that, doctor, No. I
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  was thinking only by comparison. David Parsons is forty years old, has held
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  a position of tremendous responsibility for many years. For a lesser man or for
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  a frailer man, the incidents of organic disturbance in this age area increases considerably.
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  David Parson's case, that didn't seem to hold true. Doctor. Are
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  you talking about the pressure from his father, you know, the old man?
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  Mmmm? I'm talking about that. Yes, he cracked couple a lot
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  of people. How do you suppose, as David Junior escaped, he knew
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  how to escape, at least for periods of time get a complete rest.
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  Was there any indication or any reason whatsoever when you examined him to suspect that
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  he might suffer from some sort of mental trouble. No, I'd say that
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  when I examined him, he was an excellent mental shape too. See.
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  Did you ever meet him outside the office? Socially? Yeah? Yes,
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  both belong to the same country club, but golf with him several times,
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  seen him at dances other affairs. He and Missus Parsons strike you as a
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  happy couple. I'll answer that by saying that happiness is intangible. I envied
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  him, though not because of his wife, you understand, because with the
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  with all the requirements that were made of him, he was still a gentle,
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  decent man. Did you ever appear with other women? Not that I
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  know? Did you ever have occasion to talk with him with his hair down?
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  Once startled me? At first. I was aware that he was a
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  man of education and culture, but I was quite taken him back by his
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  ability to quote the classics seemed incongruous. Somehow. I remember this day we
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  met in the club. We had a drink. I don't think anyone was
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  there except the waiters. I was talking to him, and suddenly he dropped
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  off the conversation. He stared ahead, and then he began to quote a
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  Greek Calicles. Calicles. Yes, I was so impressed by the passage,
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  I took the trouble to look it up myself and write it down. I
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  have it, yes here, I can still see him quoting that word for
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  word. Read it. But if there were a man who had sufficient force,
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  he would shake off and break through and escape from all this gone?
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  Will you be? He would trample underfoot all our formulas and spells and charms,
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  and all our laws which are against nature. The slave would rise in
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  rebellion and be lord over us, and the light of natural justice would shine
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  forth. When did Parsons quote this to you, doctor Monday, the day
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  before he disappeared. Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's final intriguing
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  episode of this week's story. The answer is with that old Greek who lived
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  three thousand years ago. Tomorrow we'll find it. Join us, won't you?
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  Yours? Truly? Johnny Dollar Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey,
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  is transcribed in Hollywood, written by John Dawson, It is produced into
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  directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time
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  in station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan
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  speaking Welcome Back fourteen ninety five for a hospital stay boy. I have to
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  admire those nineteen fifty six prices, even adjusted for inflation, one hundred and
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  twenty eight dollars and fifty five cents. Hard to find a hospital stay at
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  that type of price. Also, I love the performance by Harry Bartellen part
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  three as the Secretary, probably one of the better performances we've seen from him.
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  And this show really had a strong ensemble cast. With so many great
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  radio dramas canceled, so few left on the air. Really they had access
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  to most people who were willing to do radio work at this time, and
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  they really use it to great effect. I think this episode's trying to address
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  some more serious and deeper issues than your average detective show. How well this
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  is going to work, I guess, remains a question, but it was
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  somewhat notable. Aired originally during the nineteen fifties round, a lot of people
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  were enjoying material success undreamt of by their parents and grandsparents. Question really raised
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  is whether that success in and of itself is all that fulfilling, and if
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  not, what do you do about it? I guess we'll find out the
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  answers in part five. I do think the thing with the nun in part
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  three the other thing I'll mentioned really briefly, The thing with the nun in
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  part three was kind of the oddest attempt to recap everything that we've seen,
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  because the sister working at the hospital really didn't have any reason to recap it
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  other than to keep the audience informed. But what we learned afterwards I think
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  did show some insights into his character, so it was worthwhile. Well.
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  We turned out a listener comments and feedback, and this one comes from Thomas,
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  who says, I just wanted to write to tell you how much I
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  enjoyed the show. Every morning at five thirty I take it along with me
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  as I give my dog a long walk to start today. It keeps me
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  great company, especially now that the mornings are so dark and chilly. I
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  have to say, I'm amazed at the difference of the quality of the different
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  programs. Like many people, I really love Johnny Dollar. It is a
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  real contrast to you when you run it back to back with a show like
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  The Carter Brown Mysteries, which isn't on the same level. I almost wonder
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  if you did it on purpose to show the best and worst of the genre.
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  For example, a few weeks ago, Johnny was involved in the Fathom
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  five matter, which I really enjoyed immediately after. It was Crime for a
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  King and the dialogue was all about hair triggers and itchy trigger fingers. It
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  was so silly, it was almost camp. Was the choice intentional? Keep
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  up the good work, and it's from Tom in Westfield, New Jersey.
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  Well, Tom is certainly not intentional. I like the Carter Brown Mysteries.
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  They're not as good as the fifteen minute Johnny Dollars, but what is And
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  whether we're talking about Carter Brown or Doctor Tim Detective or Manhunt, there is
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  a kind of limit to the quality of these shows that will kind of make
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  them not stand up as well as Johnny Dollar. But I think that they
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  can be enjoyed in their own right, and I hope folks do that.
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  Certainly, Carter Brown Mysteries. Well, it was a good show. I've
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  said it before. It was kind of the it was kind of an Australian
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  detective version of Spaghetti Western because so many of the programs were set in the
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  United States, but all of them basically recorded in the in Australia with Australian
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  cast, So it's a different type of show. But I think it's still
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  very good, very enjoyable. But I think that there is a contrast between
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  all the shows. You know, you go from Today's program to something like
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  Nick Carter to Doctor Tim and Amazing Mister Malone. We're really bringing a great
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  variety on the show, and it's pretty much to the listeners to determine which
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  they like best. I've got my favorites and I share them, but to
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  one degree or another, I enjoy all the shows we bring you, so
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  thanks so much, and I encourage everyone to keep listening out there. We'll
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  be back tomorrow with Nick Carter, and then on Friday we wrap up the
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  Calicles Matter and also bring you another episode of Doctor Tim Detective. Sendra comments
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