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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Shady Lane Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1113) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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just remember the War single word dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, we're
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going to this week honor the Light Shirley Mitchell. At this point in old
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time radio history, the vast majority of people who made radio so good,
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so entertaining have passed away, and there are very few who remain with us.
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One of those was Shirley Mitchell, who died this past week from when
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I'm recording it, about a couple of weeks ago, if you're listening to
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it now, at the age of ninety four. And she was actually the
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only living member of my list of Radio's most Essential people. And she was
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a great character actress. Everything I've heard her in has been a supporting a
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character role, and she was probably most famous for her appearances on the program
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The Great Guilder Sleeve. But as her career continued in radio declined, she
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worked a lot on television, and in most of the obituaries mentioned her appearances
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on I Love Lucy. But she continue to act on radio, doing a
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lot of a lot of programs that wouldn't have normally been her forte including westerns
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like Fort Laramie. And she did several episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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In fact, we've heard her a few times in this run. So
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what I decided to do in honor of Shirley Mitchell, We're going to skip
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ahead a few weeks to play the next serial in which she appears. As
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I said, she mostly did that character role. So this isn't going to
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be a starring appearance for Shirley Mitchell. But let's go ahead and take a
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listen to today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, dedicated to the memory of
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the Great Shirley Mitchell, from July ninth and July tenth of nineteen fifty six
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from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar, Pete Carlson, Johnny Starr
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Mute, Oh hi have Pete. How's the family great? The lucky dogs
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are Cape Cotton summer while I toil and Fred? What's fretting you at the
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moment, Lenn, Johnny, listen, if you're wanting to know who murdered
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Allen Bate, you pay no mind to that person or person's unknown. You
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just look real close to home, look real close to home postmark Shady Lane,
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Vermont. And the signature, I suppose is that famous old name.
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That's right, anonymous. Ellen Bate was killed there a month ago. We
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shot to death. We carried a ten thousand dollars policy owner and the beneficiary
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Ben Bate, her husband. He's got a farm about four miles out of
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Shady Lane. What's the status of the investigation. Stay on, mate,
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Johnny. The coroner's jury brought in an open verdict and there's been nothing turned
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up since we were just on the point of paying off the policy. Now,
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well, all right, Pete, I'll fret for you if I can
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find Shady Lane on the map tonight and every weekday Night. Bob Bailey and
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the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense ACUT America Fabulous Freelance
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Insurance Investigator Es Truley Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office
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st Our Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting
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of expenditures during my investigation of the Shady Lane matter. Item one thirty six
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dollars and seventy cents Transportation and incidentals Hartford to Shady Lane. A quiet little
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town of around one thousand population, drowsy streets lined with white frame homes,
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picket fences, and flower bedded yards. A town with a well chosen name,
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built under the protecting shade of venerable elms and spreading maples. A country
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crossroads town with one of everything one in one restaurant, one garage, one
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general store, one barber shop, and one constable, a gaunt and a
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lantern, George leather faced man of middle age named Jeded Bramler. Yeah,
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it's a fact, mister Dollar, lived here all my life. First time
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I've ever seen it. This heart, Yeah, that's for more right,
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for this time of year. At least. Weather's changing. World too,
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everything's changing except human nature that too. Maybe take this killing. Don't rightly
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know how to go about dealing with it? Well, maybe we can figure
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out something between us. That's the bullet that killed him. Yeah, that's
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the one. It's an odd science and shape, hand poured. Say it's
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hand poured. It's for an old fashioned squirrel rifle, smooth bore, single
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shot. I see, and I reckon. That's about all I can give
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you in the way of facts or clues. I guess you call them.
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Oh, facts will do all right. Ellen Bates was a fine woman,
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had a hard life. She was married, no children, she was alive.
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Now she's dead because of death. A bullet and the heart. There's
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all facts, mister Dollar. How did it happen? Don't rightly know?
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Want no witnesses? Could have been an accident, even what do you mean
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in accidents? We're one of them. Hunters from the city them through here,
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regular confounded idiots shoot at anything that moves. Well, surely not a
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human being sitting in her own living room. They might have never can tell
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crazy as they are. Shot a gold belonged to Het Wilmer last fall,
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caught him with it tied on their bumper. Said it was a mountain sheet.
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Yes, yes, might have done it unintentional, then got scared and
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run out. Yes, possibly, except for one of those facts, which
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fact this's bullet. Hunters from the city don't use old fashioned squirrel rifles.
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Mister Bramler, Well, I said it could have been an accident. Didn't
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say it, tazoo, I reckon somebody meant to kill her? Oh,
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I don't think there's much doubt of that. There ain't which was might not
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feel so dang worthless? Then what do you mean Ellen Bates was a fine
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woman. Hate to think of somebody killing her and getting clean away with it.
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Then let's make sure they don't get away with it. Got nothing to
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go on, mister Dollar, not one lonesome thing. What about a possible
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motive? Haven't turned up a single one? Did she have any enemies?
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Everybody that knew her, loved her. What about this bullet? Did you
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have a ballistics check maiden, Yeah, send it clear to New York they
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come up with anything. Six page report. Yeah, it's got it here
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somewhere. You can look at it if you want to know. On need
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too. What was their conclusion? Same as mine? Fired from an old
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fashioned squirrel rifle. Now anybody around here might own a gun like that.
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Yeah, but now anybody in the township must be three four hundred of them
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rifles around keepsakes handed down family souvenirs, and that's one that end couldn't be
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much deader. It's like I told you, ain't no clues at all,
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at least none to speak of. Woman without an enemy in the world,
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sitting in front of her window, shot fired from outside the house. Woman's
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dead them the facts and all the facts, No, not quite all,
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Eh, what do you mean? People? Persons are factional and their relations
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with other persons are facts, facts that we can check on. Already told
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you, mister Dalla ellen Bate didn't have no enemies. The person who killed
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her wasn't exactly a friend known enemies, I mean, but she had contacts
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and relations with other persons, and one of them, known or unknown,
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was her enemy, maybe an accidental enemy with a motive in the capacity for
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murder. What you mean by accidental? Maybe missus Bates saw something from that
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window of hers something that made her dangerous to someone else. Maybe she didn't
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even know she'd made an enemy. Yeah, that might be. Or maybe
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it's just a matter of her death benefiting somebody, somebody who otherwise wouldn't be
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her enemy. Mm hmm, the thought of that course, But it don't
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lead nowhere. It might. I've got a letter here, mister Bramler,
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I wish you'd take a look at it, all right. It arrived yesterday
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at the home office of my client in Hartford. It was mail here in
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shady Lane, cool, close to whom looked real close to whom not signed,
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eh No, not signed. Any idea who might have sent it?
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Yeah, somebody with a lot of vinegar in their blood, don't know.
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It's a fact, wouldn't count too much on it. I five, was
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you What do you mean? Like you just said, a matter of her
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death benefiting somebody, So with that insurance policy, like here is the person
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that had benefited most would be her husband, Ben Bates forget him? Why,
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Like you said, motive and capacity. Even if money was motive enough
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for Ben, he just hadn't got the capacity for murder. Forget him.
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Is Ben Bates a good friend of yours, mister Bramler, since we were
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boys together? I see? Maybe you only think you see, I ain't
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making allowances for him. Just know him, that's all. Maybe i'd better
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meet him, all right, farms just out of town ways. I'll drive
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you out there if you want. Oh, i'd appreciate that. Only thing
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you've got an expense count of some kind, isn't you sure that's right?
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Why? Well, we're not exactly a poor folk up here, but we
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ain't rich neither, and the township is kind of progal with their money.
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I see going to have to charge you for the car expense, if it's
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alright with you? Oh? Sure that sounds fine? Yeah, well,
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then maybe we could make a couple of other calls on the way. Who
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do you want to see? Well? Mostly I like to talk to the
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coroner here, and you already have huh yeah, I'm the coroner, mister
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dollar. Well are we ready? Expense account item too? Three dollars?
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Even transportation at constable jet Bramler's car from Shady Lane to the ven Bates farm.
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It was a pleasant trip summertime on a country road, winding among the
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farms, climbing lazily over the ridges, the heavy pungent scent of flex and
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clover, the hum of bees. But I couldn't completely enjoy it. I
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kept wondering how much real help I could expect from a constable who'd already made
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up his mind at the suspect wasn't capable of murderer. A constable who was
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also coroner and for all I know county attorney and district judge, a constable
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who might even be just natal thoughts, might even be a murderer. Now
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this is a Preney farm. Ben Bates's place is the next run about a
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quarter mile. I see that's Martin Preny there outside of the road, working
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on that fence, much well past the time of day. With him,
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I reckon where the Prene's and the Bates good friends. Yeah, real close
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afternoon, Jed Martin Township must be getting lex Ugo gallivant and around on pleasure
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trips being paid for Martin facial business. This hears a mister Darney dollar from
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down round Hartford, Martin Preni, mister Dollar, that's quite a job you're
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doing that, mister Preeney. Well, rock world of just fine if you
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stack them real careful so they locked together. Looks pretty difficult. It takes
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a nack moved about that and work. But if it's dug in below the
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frost line, rock wall will last a lifetime. And that's what I believe
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in, mister Dollar, planning ahead and building right, that's a good philosophy.
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And then too, the rock Wall a site cheaper that Benson, and
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right there is his real reason, mister Dollar. A man that wastes a
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substance, the fool and a sinner. I believe in prudence. You're only
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virtue, Martin Fiddlesticks. We got callers, Sarah, come on out here.
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Ain't staying Martin. Just passing just a minute, Martin, just what's
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so called official business? You owned? Jet murder of Hellen Bates. Mister
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Dollar here is an insurance investigator. He's come to look into it. I
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see. Well, it's a terrible tragedy, mister Dollar. Sad thing for
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the whole township, especially for Sarah and me. Yes, I imagine,
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so they've been good neighbors, fine people, folks about it, be proud
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to know so, I understand, couldn't help feeling sorry for him. Just
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didn't seem to get ahead in spite of Ben being a good hub and then
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this on top of all the other Troublely there, what do you mean by
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trouble? Afternoon, gentlemen, Come here, Sarah, you meet a friend
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of Jed's, mister Johnny Dallah, my wife, Sarah. Mister Dolla comes
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from Harf then he's here for he works for an insurance company. He's given
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Jed the handle. This Ellen Bates thing. Oh, yes, I see,
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Well, don't let me interrupt he I'm just tell him, mister Dolla,
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what good neighbors the Baits should always been. A body couldn't ask for
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a better friend than Ellen Bates. Mister Preeney, you said something about all
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the other trouble later, I was referring to Ellen's illness after that operation last
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year. She was pertinently an in. You might say. Ben had to
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wait on a hand and foot longly, doing for the house and running the
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fire. A lot of time you spent taking care of her, now,
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Sarah, not half as much time as he spent hanging around that girl.
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What girl is that? Why that little flippery gybit that works up? I'm
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sorry, Martin, but it's true, and you know it, mister Dolla.
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I'm afraid my wife had just repeating gossip she heard. And Bait's a
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fine young man in his story to the contrary, I had the rumors nothing
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more. Well, sometimes the best way to stop an idle rumor is to
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check into it. If you'd care to tell me who I knew the girl,
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mister Dollar, her name is Milli Wales. He's a waitress at the
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Shady Lane Cafe. I'd like to talk to her. You can when we
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get back to town where folks reckon. We'd better be getting on, mister
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Dolla, Ellen Bates was a fine woman. Whoever it was killed he I
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hope you get him. I believe we will. Oh. And by the
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way, missus Freney, the company was very grateful for your letter. My
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letter, I mean, how did you know it? I didn't know.
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I was just guessing. Nice to have met both of you. See you
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again, Johnny Dellar. Ready would you call the Hartford mister dollars? Thanks
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operator, go ahead, Hartford. Hello, giant, Yeah, Pete a
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big fat expense account, and you still reverse the call I had to.
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I'm phoning from a crossroad store. Look, I need a quick factor too.
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In connection with the Ellen Bates murder. That ten thousand dollars policy on
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Ellen's life? When was it written? Pete? Around four years ago?
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I'll get the exact date if you want to hang on. No, No,
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that's close enough. I was hoping it was only a year or two.
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Back knocks a pet theory in the head. No, but it doesn't
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help it any He is there also a policy on the life of Ben Bates?
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Yeah, same amount, taking out the same time, right after they
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were married. A nice round zero. What do the local authorities think?
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The only local authority in Shady Lane is sitting outside in the car right now,
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and he thinks the same as I do, which is what we're both
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stumped. I'll be talking to you from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location,
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Shady Lane, Vermont to the home office Star Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford,
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Connecticut, assignment the Shady Lane matter expense account continued, Item four to seven
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cents. The copy of the Shady Lane Weekly Crier, the paper that prints
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the folksy news. According to the mast head. Maybe it would help,
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because the whole case seemed to have a folksy flavor. A young farm wife
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named Ellen Bates, a semi invalid without a known enemy in the township,
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had been shot to death a month before. The killer. Unidentified motive,
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unknown physical evidence, non existent, leads none. I rejoined Constable Jed Bramler
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in the car and glanced over the paper as we drove on to the base
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farm. I began to realize that folksy, and that the Bates case was
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probably going to be tougher than an old boot. We leave the car here
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at the road and walk up through the draw. I'll show you how it
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happened. All right, good, the shirt doesn't look like very good farm
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land, tain't. Ben's got a few good acres north of the house,
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but most of it's like this. Won't grow much of anything, scept in
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rocks. Takes a lot of scratch in to make a go of a place
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like this. Yeah, yeah, I mentioned, And it would be even
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tougher if you had to take care of an invalid wife at the same time.
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I reckon could watch yourself on that barb wire. Mister Dollar, All
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right, there's easier ways to get into the house. But I figured you'd
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like to see how the killer got away. And this is it, you
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think? Uh, he fired the shot from cover and then oh she did
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all right, whichever and then he or she ran back down this draw here
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and got away. Yeah, must have been seen otherwise. But here in
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the draw a person would be out of sight from both houses, either the
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Baits place or the preenies over on the other side. I don't buy that
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one, all right. This brush is thick enough to hide a herd of
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channel. Yeah. Once the killer got to the road back where we left,
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the car might have gone anyplace. That's the trouble. That's the place
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is too full of mites. Tried to pick up a trail in here,
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even brought in dogs, but they didn't turn up nothing. Dogs is mostly
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overrated anyhow, so I've heard. Yeah, let's see now, I want
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to be right about here some ah ah, yes, there we are over
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that way. Uh huh, yeah, yeah, I see the stake you
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put up the marketplace. Nope, because need to put it up. It's
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a survey markert. But it's just about where I calculate shot was fired.
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Drum right about here? What was the survey for mister Bromler Highway Department.
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They was figuring to build a new turnpike through here last year fell through.
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Though how come the whys of a public bureau ain't for mere man to know,
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mister Dollar, They finally picked someplace else a few months ago came too,
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might have made this land worth something to be in another one of those
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mites. Huh. Now, look through the bushes just to the left of
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that big maple. That's the corner, the parlor corner of the Bate's house.
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And Ellen was sitting right there in that big front window when it happened.
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Then has put the glass back in, since well, it wouldn't have
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been too difficult. A shot from here in old fashioned squirrel rifles is mighty
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accurate, and nearly everybody in the township has one. That's about it.
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That's not a matter of finding a needle in a straw stack. It's finding
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one special straw in a straw stack. Mighty hard chore, I'd say,
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so would I. So there she sat an easy target, alone at her
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own front window. Well, not exactly alone, mister Dolla. Alone at
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the window, yes, but missus Preeney was in the room with her at
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the time. The woman who wrote the anonymous letter accusing ben Bates, I
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didn't know that didn't seem to have no bearing. She just happened to be
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there, brought over a cake or something from next door. She was always
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doing things like that for Ellen. Uh huh that Missus Peeney didn't see who
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fired the shot. She just heard the window glass crash and saw Ellen come
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half out of her chair and then fall on the floor. An invalid,
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helpless sitting there at a window. And what the devil could a woman like
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that do to make somebody hate her enough to kill her? Dolla? If
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I could answer that, I would have somebody locked up by now, if
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anybody did hate her, of course, meaning maybe hate wasn't the reason.
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Got a better one. Oh, I'm just supposing. Eh, then quite
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a bit of that. Hey tell me something, mister Bramler. This waitress
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at the Shady Lane Cafe, the one Missus Preeney made the insinuations about it.
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Milly Wells, Yeah, Millie Wells, is she pretty rare? Ho'd
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say? Tastes differ, I reckon though most anybody'd call her pretty though?
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Well, what about that gossip? Missus Preeney was spouting. Is it just
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a rumor? I was ben seeing Millie before his wife was murdered? Hard
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not to see her? Ain't a very big town, you know what I
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mean? Did he go out of his way to see her? Stopped in
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the cafe there once in a while, a cup of coffee, piece of
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pie, doing all the cooking at home like he was? He got a
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mite tired of it? I reckon? What about now? Is he still
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singer each most of his evening meal? Is there? Is that? All
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other mounts to well? Folks generally agree that there's some interest building up since
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his wife's death. What about his wife? Did she have any chance at
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all of getting well? Nope, not according to the doctors. I'd see,
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mister Dollar, you are bocking up that same wrong tree again. It
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kind of adds up figures. Lie sometimes pretty girl, young and a live
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interested maybe an invalid wife, run down farm, a ten thousand dollars insurance
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policy, all tags true enough. He wouldn't be the first man I went
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wrong with a setup like that. Ah not. Then, I told you
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before, murder just ain't in his nature. Come on, let's walk on
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up to the house and talk to him and one of the thing that anonymous
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letter, Missus Preeney sent us. And why would she go out of a
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way to get Ben Bates in trouble? I'd say I thought she was a
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friend of the Bates, of Missus Bates, Yes, Ellen, But for
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some reason she never has seemed to like Ben very much. I don't know
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why she's done it, mister Dollar, but I sure wouldn't put no stock
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in what she said. It's just her nature, that's all it is.
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It was late afternoon, long shadows were beginning to stretch out over the funny
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ground, almost the same time of day that Ellen Bates was killed, killed
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by her husband. I was beginning to believe, and yet Constable Jed Bramler
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swore by Ben, his longtime friend, human ties, human emotions, just
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plain folks, and a case that was growing messier and more vague by the
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hour. How much sign of life in and out? You never know.
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Sounds like somebody coming around the house. Must have been working out in the
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barn. Always plenty to do on a flint rock farm. You've come looking
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from it, Constable, how are you, Grodade, he said, how
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are you? I'm fine, I'm just fine. Ben around. I've been
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working our back fixed and spread it. Yeah, let's fine, Grode.
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He's Ben here Ben? No, No, Miss Ben's not here, No
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where he is. No, he's not here. Any idea when he'll be
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back? No, no, he didn't say. You can go in and
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set though. If you want constable, maybe we will. Grode. This
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is mister Dollar, Brody Huckins. How are you, Grody. I'm fine.
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I'm just fine. Grody does our jobs for Ben. Some of the
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other farmers too. Oh, I see, were you working here the day
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missus Bates was killed. Well, that's a liar. I won't even near
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you that day, And anybody that says I was a liar, I was
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crow over on the other side of town. We'll go inside and wait.
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Mister Dollar, all right, see you. Grody kind of gets excited when
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he figures he's being cue something. Yeah, he seems scared of you.
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Has he been in trouble before? Petty stuff like shooting game out of season?
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Is he a good shot? Dead shot? Never miss his In fact,
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we waited in the parlor for a while the romware Ellen Bates had died.
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Her picture was still over the mantelin. A clear eyed sober woman,
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much younger than i'd have matching. The sun gradually set and the light on
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the picture grew dim, but Ben didn't come back. We gave up finally
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and drove back to town. I left Bramler at his office and walked down
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the street to the Shady Lane Cafe to week dinner. I'll be right window,
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sir, No hurry, you'll be cooler if you sit there by the
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window. Oh all fine, ks. There were half a dozen tables in
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the place, all empty. I was the only customer. The girl was
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pretty and friendly and fitted the description of Milly Wells. The pot roast is
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awfully good this evening. I think you'll like it all right, you've made
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a sale. You're a stranger in town, aren't you. Yeah. Yeah,
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I'm investigating the murder of Ellen Bates. I see, are you,
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by any chance, Milly Wells? Yes? Then I guess you're the person
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I'm looking for. You worked very fast. I thought it would take longer.
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Hm hmmm. Oh. I knew you'd find out, of course,
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sooner or later. But I was hoping Ben and I would have a little
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time together first. I see we were fools to expect it, though,
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once you've been tagged. You don't have a chance. Did Ellen Bates have
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a chance. I didn't give her the slightest cause to worry. I didn't
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let Ben know once, how I felt, not until after she'd been killed.
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That was very considerate of you. And I know he didn't give me
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one thought as long as she was alive. It's not in his nature,
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so I've heard it. Doesn't it mean anything at all when a person has
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been acquitted, acquitted of what of murder? What else? Isn't that what?
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Oh? I thought you knew. I thought that's what you. I
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guess maybe you'd better tell me about it, Millie. Now here's our star
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to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story. Tomorrow, A
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sudden twist and a cool threat, a strange revelation, and the lie has
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come thick and fast. Join us, won't you? Yours Truly? Johnny
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Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood,
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written by Less Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be
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sure to join us tomorrow night at same time in station for the next exciting
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episode of Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar Roy Rowan speaking when I when welcome back,
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I believe we heard Shirley Mitchell as the woman who sent the letter that
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has Johnny on this investigation, and this one I think is just very interesting
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from a psychological standpoint and a lot of questions based on Johnny's experience. It's
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probably worth noting because we've had this question in recent weeks about a change of
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attitude to Johnny. Really suspicious, but not in any way arrogant or sent
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in any particular direction. We can see that from the way that the show
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is playing out at this point. But that will actually do it for today.
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We'll be back on Wednesday with parts three and four of the Shady Lane
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Matter. Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectors dot net and follow
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Adam Graham signing off.