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Well, now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar The Indestructible
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Mic Matter, Parts one and two from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny
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Dollar, Pat mccrack and Johnny Universal Adjustment Bureau. Oh no, how are
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you boy? Terrible? Goodbye, Johnny? What's the matter? Well,
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the last one you had to me was that funny Spiritualist case, and it's
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still haunting me. Before that it was Larry Douglas. Douglas of Headscope.
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Oh you made money on him, didn't you. Yeah, I nearly lodged
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my mind. All right, I've got one for you now that'll surely make
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you lose your mind. Johnny, come on over, Okay, goodnight,
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and every weekday Night Bailey. In the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the
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Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Shohnny
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Dollar expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Lakeside Life and Casualty
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Insurance Company following his accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the indestructible mic Matter
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expense account out of one eighty cents cab fare from my apartment of the Officer
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Pat McCracken at Universal Adjustment Bureau. Every one of the cases Patt had handed
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me Laby had been rough, and if it weren't for the loot involved,
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which is to say, Pat never really cracked down on my expense accounts.
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Well, after all, I didn't have any of the cases pending. So
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Hi, Johnny, Hey, you're looking great. Sit down cigarette, would
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you like to drink? Well, how are you boy? Okay, Pat,
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let's have it. This one must really be bad, like, Johnny,
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what makes you say a thing like that? You sure you wouldn't like
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just one little no, no, no, no, no, no thanks.
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Now come on, let's get to the point. What are you trying
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to get out of paying off on the start? You want the truth,
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Johnny? Nothing, nothing at all, Just a favor for a friend of
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mine down in New York. Yeah, I want you to go down and
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see Peter Branson. Branson any relation to that worry ward Harry Branson a filly
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mutual well brother, whoops, hit yourself? Another boy band, Johnny,
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Johnny, he's as different from Harry as day is from night. Well,
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he better be that literal minded sticking them out of Harry and there he drove
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me crazy on those two cases I handled for He is different as day is
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from night. Honest, now when you see him, Expenser con Item two
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twenty one, even train fair and all the incidentals I could think of hard
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for to New York Item three fifty five cents taxi from Grand Central the Peter
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Branson's Lakeside Life and Casualty Offices at five hundred and fifth Avenue, or where
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my worst fears were justified. That is correct, mister dollar, I am
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not only Harry's brother. Don't tell me here is twin? Why? Yes?
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How could you have guessed it? Oh? But now, wait a
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minute. Did you say you took a taxi for the three blocks over from
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the station. Yeah, at least that's what goes on the expense account.
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Oh dear, my brother was right. You are expensive, and yet he
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seems to have the utmost confidence in your ability. Yeah, but now an
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amazing way in which you settled that. Uh pete, Yes, what's the
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case that's bothering you? Isn't that interesting? I don't know yet, Tell
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me about it. I mean you're starting to call me Harry because of my
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twin. Oh yeah, better tell me about the case. You know a
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great many of our mutual friends. What oh? Oh, yes, of
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course, Michael Jeremiah Flynn a terribly serious matter. If this sort of thing
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ever gets out of Flynn John he is a bummer, a regular typical movie
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type version of a Bowery bump, And unfortunately he holds a fifty thousand dollars
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policy. Well, he must have seen better days to carry that much insurance
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ever never, I'm sure of it. No human being could degenerate to such
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a state in a mere forty seven years. And he looks and sounds like
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sixty seven. Also, by the way, his policy is only two months
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old. Well, what's happened? Somebody knocked him off? No, but
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I am sure somebody is going to Well then, why did you ensure him?
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It was Martha who was really responsible. Martha Ingersol, the girl I
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had working for me here in the office at the time he applied for the
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policy. I was out sick for a couple of weeks, and I'm afraid
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that when I came back I did not pay sufficient attention to the application she'd
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accepted, at least so far as Flynn's policy is concerned. You'd better tell
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me about him. Oh, of course, he passed his medical all right,
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though heaven knows how, and his cash payment of the premium was all
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right, yes, yes, cash. But I still should have investigated myself
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before allowing the policy to be issued. Look, you still haven't told me
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what's wrong now? Of course it's too late, Pete. Oh, oh,
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of course. Well it's simply this. The home address that we have
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for him has turned out to be the glad Hand Rescue Mission just off Fulton
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Street near the Fulton Market. Yeah. Biggest fish market in the world,
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isn't it. Well, yes, yes, a fascinating place. Chip sloaded
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with fish from all the Seven Seas characters speaking a dozen different tons. Yeah,
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well, I'm sorry I interrupted what you were saying. Oh, that's
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all right, that's all right. I'm quite a connoisseur of seafood, you
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know, real epicure if I do say so. Have you ever tasted Boston
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Squad? Yeah? Sure. Uh now, let's get back to the case.
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Oh oh yes, Michael Flint, Michael Flynt. That's right. Well,
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mister dalla John, it's simply because of what's happened before that I'm so
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worried about this one. After all, fifty thousand is a sizable part of
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what has happened before the same thing. So you can see Harry, uh,
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Pete, I can't see a thing, John. It's like the Angus
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Cormac matter back in forty seven, like the old Woman Berry affair. That
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trying to tie Peter Branson down to the facts of the case was exactly like
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trying to tie his brother Harry down, only more so I had to keep
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reminding myself that all of Harry's assignments had paid off handsomely for me, and
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keep hoping the same would be true of his brother. For times in the
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next fifteen minutes, Pete launched forth on the epicurean delights of seafood, and
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three times I vainly tried to steer him back to ports. Finally I threatened
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to walk out on him unless he got down to business. All right,
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all right, John, I'll give it to you in black and white.
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Oh not literally, of course, I mean I'll tell you from the beginning
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at a boy. Now. Four times within the past few years, this
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very same sort of policy has been issued to some pennelss worthless bomb. Yes,
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and everything is indicated fraud. What do you mean in only one case
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where the police able to prove anything, the case of Maggie Dolly Varden Smith.
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Oh yeah, seems to me. I remember that's some racket teer x
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bootlegger direct candy kid show. He ensured the old derelict for twenty thirty thousand
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dollars, had himself named beneficiary, and it is correct, and then he
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had old Maggie murdered of course you remain and you think you've got the same
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sort of a situation here. Yes, John, I'm afraid so. And
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you can't cancel the policy unless this proof of an attempt at fraud correct.
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So you can see why I'm so deeply concerned over this. If only I
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hadn't left Martha Ingersol in charge while I was sick. Who's named is beneficiary
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in the post? She did sell some good policies beneficiary. Oh yes,
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here here it is John Wesley Cosgrave, six to one East forty ninth Street
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here in Manhattan. What do you know about him? Nothing? Really,
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And frankly I'm afraid to find out, John, Yeah, yeah, I'll
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look into it. And what's the address of this rescue mission where all Michael
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hangs out. It's down near the big Fulton fish Market. Let me see
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here. Why don't you give me that whole folder so I can get what
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I want from it? Of course, John, But I am sorely afraid
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there isn't much to get. I'm sorely afraid. Peter was right. When
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I had to start somewhere. I had them four two eighty taxi back to
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Grand Central to pick up the bags i'd parked there in the same taxi to
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a slightly dingy little hotel a couple of blocks off Chambers Street on the Lower
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east Side. I had them five nine dollars eighty three cents to a second
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hand clothing store, where I outfitted myself in hat, coat, pants,
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shirt, shoes and socks that I hope would make me eligible for a spot
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on a bench at the glad Hand Rescue Mission. When I finally shuffle into
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the place, which looked more like a cheap flophouse than a mission, I
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felt somewhat like a kid playing tramp at Halloween. Welcome, brother, Welcome
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to the mission. I'm daddy Bill. Hi. The entrance to the soup
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kitchen is over at the side, you know. Yeah, Well, I
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just want to sit down for a spell, rest my feet, and have
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you a bed for the night? Brother? Oh? Who nos? I
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my god, there's always room for one more, you know. Will you
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be here for our meeting tonight? Well? I don't have an excellent singing
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voice, I can tell. Are you sure you don't want something to eat?
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My boy? Nah? No, I'm all right. Well then just
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itn't be comfortable and we can talk. Uh. I kind of hope maybe
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I might run into Mike Mike Flynn. Oh, yes, of course Michael
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lives here, spends most of his evenings with us, poor fellow, although
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I really shouldn't say that, huh, say one, poor fellow. After
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all, he's also one of our biggest contributors to when he's sober. Although
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where his money comes from I'll never know. Yeah, well, although I'm
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sure it's money honestly gained. Michael's very religious, He's taken the pledge many
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times many has a lot of money now. And yes, he seemed to
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think he might have a contribution for us when he comes back tonight. But
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you don't know where he gets. My boy, I never ask these personal
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things of the brothers. Now, tell me all about you. You're from
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out of town, aren't you. I can tell this was something I hadn't
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anticipated, and I had to rack my brain to come up with a story
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that would convince Daddy Bill. I was a bum when I could get a
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word in edgewise, there is and a kindly gabby old biddy proceeded to tell
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me, in my nute detail, the life history of all of the habituats
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of his mission, all that is, except the one I was interested in
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Mike Flynn. Maybe he was suspicious of me, afraid I might be trying
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to get my hands on some of the money. Or Mike frequently showed up
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with you interest in the extreme, John, That's why I feel I must
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protect him from some of the people who come in here and might try to
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take advantage of him. Sure, Daddy, responsibility for the care and welfare
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of the brothers weighs heavily upon me sometimes, but it's a burden I'm glad
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to bear. Yeah, feed their stomachs and feed their souls. That is
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my task. You say, your thing, and as I say, it's
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a task I'm privileged to assume. After all, who else have they to
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lean on. You think Mike will be back here? And I, yes,
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John, I'm sure he will. But listen the quartete in the well
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we call it in the music room. Can you hear them? Oh?
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Yeah, they're getting ready for the meeting tonight, aren't they? Wonderful?
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Beautiful voices? You're sure you won't join them? Oh? No, some
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of the time, now, whever you say. But if you're going to
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stay here long, my boy, with that wonderful voice of yours, I
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can tell I will insist that you join one of our singings. Yeah,
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but Mike again, Oh did you hear that someone hit a solid note?
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Oh? Boys, they just can't get along without my help. You'll just
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have to excuse use me, John, while I go back there and lead
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for him. I'll come back later. We will call. I don't know
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whether it was the overuse of steam heat in the battered old assembly hall on
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the mission, or having listened to two sound hours of Daddy Bill's talk about
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his boys. Whatever it was, I retired, and since I had nothing
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better to do than wait for Mike Flinn to show up, I stretched out
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on one of the hard benches and closed my eyes. Hm hmm, how
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long I slept? I haven't the least idea I'd managed to conjure up on
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Whney Sweet Dream too. What? Oh there, Hold, you had a
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couple of different He's out back working with a quartet. Now, come on
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over here, and I guess Michael Michael Jeremiah Flynn's there. I guess,
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I guess. I guess I have had a couple of a couple too many?
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Was right, but none of what I'd thought. His tattered code opened
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as he fell and they are just below the heart too. Dark red splotches
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slowly widened on his ragged shirt, and it looked like Peter Branson was right.
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The beneficiary of Michael Jeremiah Flynn's life insurance policy was anxious to collect Johnny
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dollar. John This message I found when I came here. Yeah, Pete,
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somebody took a couple of shots at your fifty thousand dollars client, Mike
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Flynn. Will he die? From the looks of things last night. He
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may pull through in spite of the two slugs in him, I hope.
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So. Do you know who did it? No idea, but I'm going
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to try to talk to him. Have you talked to the beneficiary? Not
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yet. First I want whatever information I can get from Mike if he's still
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alive. Expense account submitted by Special investigator Johnny Dolly, Location, New York,
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New York, Attention Peter Branson, Lakeside Life and Casually Insurance Company.
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Following is the counting of expendit yours during my investigation of the indestructible mic matter
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expense account Item six fifty five cents taxi to the neighborhood of the glad Hand
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Rescue Mission where Daddy Bill, a general fact Totem had promised to take the
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best of care of Michael Jeremiah Flynn. He'd given Mike a run to himself
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on the second floor, and what a roam. What wallpaper was left hung
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in shreds from the cracked plaster. The shades on the dirty windows were tatted
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and torn. A single bare fly speck light bulb hung on a cord from
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the ceiling. The floor was bare, and the only furniture was a battered
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chest at drawers, an ancient washtand with a crack pitcher and ball, and
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a sagging iron bed on which old Mike Flynn lay. Come in, Hi,
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you must be the man that helped me into the mission last night.
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Yeah. Yeah, my name's Johnny Dollar. Come up to see how you're
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making out where. I much oblige you, Johnny, I'm real obliged to
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you. Wow, how are you feeling this morning? You all? I'm
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fine, I'm fine. It never felt better. Well, what did the
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doctor that Daddy Bill got for? You have to see the doctor for me
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own, Johnny. You must be joking, joking after you had a couple
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of slugs tear through you. Here, let me help you. Oh you
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want to see him, ses, I just look for yourself here. Ah,
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you see see they just went through my side here in the front and
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out the back. Aren't they heating up nicely? That one couldn't have missed
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your heart by more than three inches. It did not nearly the closest this
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scar though. I want to see this guy look at it. That here?
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Was that a bullet wound too? No, no, no, Johnny,
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that was just an little ice pick or something somebody in the crowd during
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that fire down the battery, lad. Oh wasn't that a beautiful fire?
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Johnny? You see that? But what did these slugs do to you inside?
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You must be to me, Oh, not a thing. I'm so
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durable. We don't wait a minute. Did you say there was another attempt
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on your life last week? Oh? No, no, no, course,
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not just an accident like those shots last night. You think that was
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an accident. Why don't you do you know who fire them? Oh?
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Johnny, I haven't the least ideas Where did it happen? I was right
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here in the mission and I didn't hear any shots. Oh dear, no,
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I was down near my private place. Where's that? Where's that?
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Mike, Well, I'll tell you, darny, it's this way. Daddy
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Bill and the others here at the mission are real nice. Oh they're real
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nice. You can see by this lovely private room they fixed up on me.
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Yeah, and they'd like for me to stay here all the time.
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I guess Daddy Bill thinks if I'm here most of the time, I might
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not drink so much and keep getting into those kinds of skull. See.
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Do you ever enjoy a little drink, Johnny? Well, on occasion,
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but you were gonna talk. Oh. Here, I've got a little bottle
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tucked under the mattress, one under the sun. Is that that? That
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that color? That pink? Yes, that's my favorite. That paint a
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straight whiskey. It costs so much, even when I have the money.
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Now, And you know something, I like a little bit more kick in
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mine. I guess it's kind of a hangover from the prohibition days, so
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I mix a little kick into it. Here, Johnny, I want you
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to try this. Oh you like this? Oh? What a wallet?
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What? Yes? What that stern? That's what I add to it,
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Just a little bit of stern. Oh, I've been drinking that for years.
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Look at me. The picture of health. Just take a little I'm
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going to get to a doctor. Oh no, you're not. I won't
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stand for it. But you've been shot. Oh just gave me a little
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twinge or two last night, But now I feel fine. Well, you
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fell flat on your face when you came in here. Now listen, Johnny,
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don't you tell daddy Bill. But I'm afraid it wasn't the bullets last
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night. It was over indo, brother, I gave up. No,
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no, don't say that. Oh all right, then how did that happen?
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Well? I was on my way back here when the car drove by.
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That sounded to me like a couple of backfires or two. But then
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I felt this little sting on my side and that's it. And you call
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that an accident, Well, of course the man in the car will probably
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just have a little friendly How many men, Well, I'm not sure.
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I think there were only two of them. I waved at it. What
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kind of a car? Black? Well? What make? Could you tell?
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Well? It was shiny, it was new. See I wish I
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had a car, Johnny. Look, Mike, I'm on a level with
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you. I'm an insurance investigator. Insuresy. Well, let's say you that's
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interesting, Johnny. Say let's have a little drink on that while you tell
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me no, no, And there isn't much to tell except that I'm here
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to try to save your life, among other things. Well, no,
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I don't understand that. I'm getting along all right. I've been living it
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up here in the Bowery for years. Maybe you were getting along okay until
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you took out that big insurance policy. Yeah. Oh, say, wasn't
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that nice? And mister Cosgrave, Now, all my life I wanted to
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have some life insurance. You know, it gives you a kind of feeling
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of importance and security. So when he came down here one night and I
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told him that, I say, his eyes just lit up, and he
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said he was going to make me a person of some insurance. Oh is
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this Cosgrave? How much you know about it? Oh? Always wealthy,
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I know that much about He has a beautiful car, and the shoulders they
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come down here often. Now I'm in just now, I'm why Now,
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I've often wondered about that, Johnny. So one time I asked Daddy Bill
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and he said that years ago, when mister Cosgrave, he was young,
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he came to the Mission for help and Daddy Bill gave it to him.
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Oh what does he do when he's here? Oh he brings some food for
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the brothers and the brothers, that's what Daddy Bill calls us, and some
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money. And he always gives jobs to a couple of men who've drifted in
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the aim. What kind of jobs, Mike? You know that's something I
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don't know. You see they never come back here again. Maybe it's because
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they can't. What's that? What do you say, Jenny, Mike,
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I'm going to give it to you straight to me. The whole thing smells
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to high heaven. I mean, this Cosgrave sounds like a racketeer or may
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be wrong. I'll know better when I meet him, and I intend to
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do that as soon as possible. But right this minute, I bet that
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he comes down here for only one purpose, to recruit help for some sort
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of illegal job. Oh that's terrible thought. When he heard you say you'd
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like insurance, he jumped at the chance. And why not let you name
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him as beneficiary? And then have you knocked off? Oh a nice picking
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your side was no accident, Mike, No more than the shots at your
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last night. He's been so nugh sure, of course, he has he
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can afford to. After all, your body's worth fifty thousand dollars to him.
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And that's what you're gonna be, Mike, just a body unless I
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can do something about it. Such a nice man. How has he been
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getting this money to you? In an envelope? Usually it's just left hit
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the mission. Well, nobody ever seems to know. It's just a plain
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envelopes dropped in the maildress. No, no, no, no, but
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I'm sure it comes mister Cosgray. So there was one dude yesterday every Monday,
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you know, but Daddy Bill said it didn't arive. Well maybe it'll
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be here today. And you know something, I'd like to see it deliver.
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No you and you can't kid me, Johnny, you'd like to see
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who delivers it. Why don't we get downstairs and wait and see? Easy
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there, Mike, you're a sick man. Stop talking that way. Sick
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up. We go right, let me give you No no, no,
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no, no, no, I'm all right. I'm oh see look at
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that. Look at that. Daddy Bill left my shoes here by the bed
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of party. Brother. Now I've seen it an addressed. I don't know
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how you're doing money, shall we get downstairs. Sure, pave the way.
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The envelope should be there, because it always comes in the morning when
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there's nobody here, you know, and Daddy Bill's out shopping, and just
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the door to the assembly room is open for any poor lost soul who wants
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to come in. Wait for the child line to open. Well, we'll
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see, we'll see, and then we'll go to my private place. You
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see, there are two things I like, Johnny, solitude and crowds of
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people. Look at that, Johnny. There there's mail there by the door.
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You see. Ah, here's my envelope and my name's on it too.
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Wait, Okay, it's all right, it's all right, it's right.
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Ah. You see that, Judny, a twenty dollar bill. We
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I me have that envelope if possible. Oh yes, yes, hey,
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Johnny. Now we can go out to you a night. We can have
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a real will now, Johnny, look at that A package for me?
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Too easy, Mike, let me have that. No, no, no,
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I know what you're thinking, an infernal machine or something. That's exactly
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what I'm thinking. But you didn't hear it. Gurgle. We'll look at
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it, Johnny, will joyous be one for you and one for me,
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easy, Mike, I want to carry this one in the rapid oh finger
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prince hat. That's right, Mike. I'm going to take you back upstairs
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and lock you in your room. You had to stay there, let nobody
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in, not even Daddy Bill until I get back. Jet, I say,
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and just remember that I'm trying to save your life. Item seven two
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seventy Kevfair uptown to the eighteenth Precinct station. The Lamb Boys took over three
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hours while Randy Singer and I talked about cases that we'd handled together in the
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past. I asked him to dig up whatever he could for me on John
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Wesley Cosgrave, the man named his beneficiary of insurance policy. This he promised
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to do one. Finally, a slim, intellision looking lieutenant walked in and
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handed Randy and neatly typed reported the lab's findings in connection with the liquor bottle
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and envelope. I've given them, m oh, Randy much. I'm afraid
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Johnny currently the only Prince with those made by the old man, and you
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proof that somebody has been pretty darned careful not to be identified. Yeah that's
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what Hey, wait a minute, sealing the bottle had been tampered with,
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so the lab boys opened it. The bottle contained enough wood alcohol to kill
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an army. I thought, old boy, drinks the way you would,
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Randy, see you later. I'd have made ten bucks even taxi fair and
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tip back to the Gland hand Rescue mission. I don't know how the driver
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did it, but he skinned through practically every red light on the route,
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and I soldly cursed myself for having left Mike with the other bottle. The
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place was apparently still empty when I pounded up the stairs to the second floor,
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and MIC's around. At least he kept his room locked and ordered Mike,
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Mike, Mike, are you all right? Mike? He was stretched
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out on the old iron bed, his face drawn even whiter than the pillow
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on which his head rested. The half empty bottle lay where he dropped it
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on the floor beside him. I get a sob for the stupid, careless,
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unthinking way in which I Mike, Johnny, what a hangover this is
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going to be. Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intrigging episode
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of this week's story. Tomorrow there would be beneficiary of indestructible Mike turns out
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to be a very interesting and dangerous man. John us, won't you Yours
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Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed
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in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote
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tonight story. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time in station
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from the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking welcome
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back. Well, this one definitely has a bit of a lighter tone than
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some of the other serials we've heard, even though obviously dealing with a somewhat
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serious issue. Of course, having the presence of Peter Branson as well as
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Indestructible Mike definitely does set the tone and expectation for what we're going to hear,
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and we'll see how that plays out over the next few days. Well,
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now we turn to listener comments and feedback and Raymond says, regarding the
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Shady Lean Matter, one of the best Johnny Dollar episodes, and I definitely
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would agree with that, and I'm glad you enjoyed it all. Right,
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Well, that will actually do it for today. Coming up tomorrow, we
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continue with the Australian series of the amazing mister Malone, and we will be
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back on Wednesday with the next two parts of the Indestructible Mic Matter. In
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the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives not net,
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