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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1131) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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travel, check Johnny dollar Air dot com first. Well, folks, it's
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kind of hard to make a good detective program. Christmas show, The warmth
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of Christmas time is usually a pretty far cry from the usual plots of most
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detective programs, which I think is part of the reason why so many never
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fit a special. And it's possible, it really is possible for things to
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go wrong, for you to have a show that just seems goofy, or
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in really poor case, such as the first Johnny Dollar Christmas Special in nineteen
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forty nine. However, I must say that this is probably near the top
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my favorite detective program Christmas shows without actually departing too much from the normal setup.
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So let's go ahead and take a lesson. We're going to go back
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to December nineteenth of nineteen fifty five as we begin the Nick Shern Matter Parts
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one and two from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Don welcome
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Johnny, Oh hi, Don, Thanks for the Chris was present. Well,
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just don't take out the cork near an open flames. Yeah, doesn't
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see you know anything about a guy named mel Pranker. Nothing good about him?
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Why got himself killed last night? Murdered? Franker was born to be
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murdered? Maybe so, but not at our expense. By holding one hundred
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thousand dollars policy on him. Wow, what was the beneficiary? Is a
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partner? Nick Shearn? Nick Shearn, you picked a fine pair of rats.
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Yeah, I know that. Now the New York police are holding Sharan,
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but they've got no evidence. Got down there and check it out for
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us, Johnny. If Nick did the killing, we're off any witnesses won
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apparently the head check girl in that nightclub of theirs. What's her story?
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I wish I knew she's disappeared. We gotta find her, Johnny before some
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of Nick's Houdlum's finder don Maybe they already have tonight and every weekday night.
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Bob Bailey, in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expenser
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out America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts
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submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Home Office Primutual Insurance Limit at Hartford,
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Connecticut. The following is the account of expenditures during my investigation of the
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Nick Shuran matter. Item one twenty two eighty transportation to New York tips and
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incidentals and taxi fair to the Office of Lieutenant Ed Rafferty Homicide Division. The
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man in charge of the case. Oh, hi you, Johnny, have
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you been not bad ed? How's the homicide business? Terrifor if you look
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at that teletype shoplifting, five complaints right in a row the week before Christmas.
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That's all we get. Shoplifters. Mel Pranker was in shoplifting. Oh
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you're working on a journey. Yeah, the insurance saying Nick Sharen's the beneficiary
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one hundred grand policy or you got a tough one boy. Sharon killed him,
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all right, but I don't think we're going to be able to stick
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him. Come on in the office. Hey, you know what that kid
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of mine wants for Christmas? Marilyn Monroe? Oh next year, Johnny.
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He's only ten, you know, go ahead, okay, nxs No,
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he want some motorbike. Can you tie that? Ten years old? And
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he says he needs a motorbike? Have it? Jay? Okay? Well,
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look, I know a franky representative here. I'll make you a good
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deal on one. And oh now forget that, Johnny. No, I
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was fourteen before I even had a pair of roller skates, and then I
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had to buy him misld. Yeah, kids are spoiled today. That's the
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half of what's wrong. With him. Ah, there's the pilon the case.
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What little we've got? Okay, how'd that happen? Ane? I
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mean, how do I think it happened? That's good enough for me.
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Melt Preiker and Nick Shern were both in the rackets for years, as you
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probably know. I've heard rumors. Well a while back they teamed up and
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opened a string of supper clubs. That's where Priker got it in their main
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club, the Chez Colette. Strictly legitimate, huh yeah, more or less.
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I guess they could afford to be the door they were making and arguing
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over. According to the word around, that's the reason for the killing the
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way you've seen. Sure, they figured if half was good, all to
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take could be twice as good. And the insurance on top of him.
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You're a fast one, Johnny. Anyhow, several people heard the shots about
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two thirty in the morning, it was right after the club closed, but
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none of them bothered to report it. The cleanup crew came in at three
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and found Praiker's body. He was lying in his office, shut twice gone
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on the floor beside him. No prince with his own gun, and it
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was kept there in his desk where was Nick Sharan? And they picked him
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up an hour later at another one of their clubs. The manager was with
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him and oh, Benny's stock now he was in a yeah, no trigger
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man for nixt mob and the old fifteen years overdue for hanging. That's our
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Benny. Anyhow, they both swear that Nick was there from one thirty on.
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What about a perfect test and positive clear to the elbow and you can
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throd out the window? What do you mean? Earlier that evening Nick spent
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two hours at a shooting gallery uptown hiring a pistols Ooh smart, he really
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planned for it, he really did. Without a witness. We haven't got
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a chance. I understand there was a witness, some girl who was mixed
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up in it. Easy, Johnny, you're talking to a rafferty mm hmm.
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So the girl's Irish. Miss Kathleen o'dad old country back three generations county
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killed there? Then? Naturally, she says, innocent as a newborn babe.
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Naturally, then how does she figure? A taxi driver knows her said
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that he saw her leave the club five minutes after the shots. She denied
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it, said she left his closing time. Well, now, in my
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book. She was lying, scared to talk, paralyzed and with plenty of
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reason. You know Sharan's reputation. What about the cab driver? Now I
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changed his story. He said it might have been some other girl. He
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oh no, no't tell me, ed, let me guess. Ah,
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that's right, these names O two. And I forgot to mention that Kathleen's
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pretty naturally. Anyhow, I let her go. I had too, and
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when I went around to talk to her this morning, she'd flown the coop.
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Any chance I'm a next boys grabbed her, I don't think so.
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It looked more like she came home packed in a hurry, took her kid
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and blew kidd eight year old daughter Irish, and a mother too. I
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was on sacred ground. Way was fingering megun No, seriously, would you
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find her. She may be able to break Nick's alibi, and it's our
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only chance, and it might be her only chance. Nick Shuran's not the
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boy to leave a loose end line around. I know I've got thirty men,
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chicken bus depots hell and now luck in this mess, this time of
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year. I'm a hard boiled cop, Johnny, I've got no Christmas spirit.
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I'm glad it only comes once per anim. Well, it's not very
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much to go, and that's for sure. I'll see what I can turn
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up and check with you later. All right, that's fine. Oh bind
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the way, Johnny. Yeah, about that friend of yours, well,
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friend, the guy with the motorbikes. How would you be getting in touch
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with him? Oh? Yeah, his name's Ralph Sterner. He's in the
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phone book office in the Micley building. Hard boil cat the kids only young
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ones. Yeah, sure, now you'll find that. Oh there, good,
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find her, keep her alive and get it to talk. How long
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have I got to find her? What do you mean, Nick Sharan?
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How much longer can you hold him? Johnny? He was turned loose an
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hour ago. So that was it. A lot of maybes, a lot
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of questions, and a lot of pressure, John to be done and done
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fast. Find one Kathleen o'dre former hatcheck girl at the shake Collette keep Nick
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Sharan's hoodlums away from her and persuaded the talk and three to one Nick was
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looking for her too. He was free now, on the loose, and
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he might be anywhere. Only the way it turned out, he wasn't just
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anywhere. He was in one particular place, parked right smack in front of
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the precinct station over here, Jenny. He was sitting in the backseat of
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a sedan and his trigger man, Benny Stark, was at the wheel.
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Been in a long time, hasn't it, Jenny? About five years?
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As I remember, Nick, it was that warehouse robbery over in Queens when
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you got away with forty thousand dollars worth of furs. Ah, you've forgotten
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me. How was it quitted on that one? Oh? Yeah, I
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know. After they pull the only witness out of the East River, his
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feet in a bucket of cement. Just coincidence. I never seen him before.
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You've seen miss O'Dare before? Sure I have. She works for me.
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She's a good kid, Jenny, So I hear. I wouldn't hum
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a hell on that girl's head. She'll be relieved when I tell her that.
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Get in I want to talk. Oh no, no, sorry,
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Nick, I like it fine, just the way it is in the car.
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I'd be outnumbered. Who got me all wrong? Johnny? I don't
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play that way anymore? What about Benny? Has he reformed too well?
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Of That's what Benny? Go take a walk, yeah, I said,
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go take a walk, Okay, get in, Johnny, I watched any
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of my Nick you were working on this case. Yeah, I'm on it.
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Why that's what I figured. I was talking to my lawyer in there,
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and so you go to Rafferty's office. I guess the insurance company's gonna
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try to welsh on that claim. At you talk, I had a better
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idea. What's that? You know? It's real nice out in Las Vegas
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this time of year, Johnny. The man can have a lot of fun
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out there for the next month with maybe ten thousand dollars to play. What
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man are you talking about? You? I don't have ten thousand dollars.
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You will thirty minutes from now if you say it away. Oh, Nick,
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you're lucky. We're not standing out there on the sidewalk and a car
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seat. I haven't got room to swing. It's still a fool, eh,
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I don't know. Why don't you write me about it. You'll have
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plenty of time up there in the death cell. Suppose I didn't make any
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claim on that policy, and you wouldn't have any reason to stay on a
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cake. No, sayal Nick, one hundred grand there is a lot of
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money I'd want to find out why you didn't make a claim. You know
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why you're out to pennis on me and so the cops. A man with
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the wrecked hasn't got a chance. You should have thought of that before you
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kill Milk Priker. Want to know something, Jenny, I didn't kill him,
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Well, I'm betting you did. What do you care who killed him?
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You're not shedding any tears over it, no, but I'd sure hate
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to see you get away with it, and I'd hate it even more if
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anything happened to that girl, Kathy Odd. Now what could happen to her?
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She just might fall in the river. She probably thinks she's safe as
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long as she hides from the police and refuses to talk. She doesn't know
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you very well. Let me all wrong, Jenny. You know you hear
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a lot about peace on earth goodwill toward men around this time of year.
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But I don't have much goodwill toward the kind of rat you are, and
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I figured to be more peace on earth if you went on it. Push
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me and maybe that's what will happen. At least that's fair warning. Yeah,
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that's fair warning. I'm going to tag you for this. Nick.
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You can count on it. Yeah, expense account at him two two dollars
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and forty cents taxi to the east side roomming house of Kathy O Dare.
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I didn't have much hope of turning up anything. Ed Rafferty and his men
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had already been through the place inch by inch, but it was the only
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starting point I had. The landlady was out, and the uniformed policeman led
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me into Kathy's flat. I spent an hour and a half and got nowhere.
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I went through her mail, bills, advertisements, casual notes for men
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she'd met at the club, nothing personal, not even a postcard. There
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went a pictures, photographs if Kathy or her daughter anywhere in the flat.
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She made a clean sweep then left in a hurry, and obviously she didn't
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mean to be found, but I had to find her. In fact,
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it was dusk when I left. The street lamps were on and the colored
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Christmas lights in the windows among the block. Snow was falling in big,
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soft, gentle flakes, and there was a holiday feeling in the air.
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It was neither the time or the setting a murdering, big contribution, son,
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You've do something to help pool, Oh sure, how's it? Going
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this year, Sanna. He'd better than usual, but it just seems never
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enough to go around, no matter how well blake you son, Thank you,
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Ken, I'll mention him. Good luck, Pomp, Thank you sons.
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Well, the city got to clean the streets better. I've been waiting
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for you. Sorry, Benny, it's not my day for punks. Get
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your friends. Want to talk to you. Start walking, Johnny down the
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alley. It's stock down there. Start walking. This ain't just my hand
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in my pocket. Had better be, Benny, with two cops standing up
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there on the porch watching you talking about there, ain't no. I smashed
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him in the mouth and knocked him flat, followed it up and kicked his
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gun. He rolled over, came to his feet and rushed me. I
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was hoping he had that coming son, he had a coming hand. Well
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he sure did get it. Yeah. Hey, you know something, Pop,
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I think Benny wants to make a contribution to help the poor. Oh
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he's a good boy at the moment. At least here you go. That
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ought to help some five hundred dollars for the world. Do the most good.
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Well, Merry Christmas, Son, Happy New Year. Yeah, same
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to you. Popping anymore? Hey, taxi Johnny Dollar speaking Ka Lansley.
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Oh yeah, that's word you wanted to talk to me. That's right.
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I'm trying to find miss so Dare Do you know where she is? I
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think I will be once I meet her. I'm an insurance investigator. I
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want to help her. That's what the other one said. What do you
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mean? What other one will go short? He shift the eyes. Benny
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Stark was that his name? He didn't say, mister Dollar. I get
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he was too busy, busy doing what breaking my good right arm. I'll
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be right over. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, New York City to the
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home office tri Mutual Insurance Limit at Hartford, Connecticut assignment. The Nick Sharan
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met her expense account continued. I had him five two dollars and thirty cents
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taxi to missus Gondler's rooming house, the place Capio there had called home until
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she disappeared. Come in, get your hat. Look, I'm Johnny Dollar.
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I talk to you on the phone. It's all right. You can
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put that gun down. Well, yes, it's you all right, Sorry,
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DOLLI but I've only got one good arm left, and I may even
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to cheap it. Pull up a chair. Thanks kind of rough boy,
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Huh, I'd showed him who was rough. If I could have got ahold
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of my gun, i'd a blasted him Christmas week or not, I'd have
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blasted him, mister Doler, I know how you feel me with all these
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presents to wrap? How can your wrap presence with one arm? But it'd
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been a paper hanger. Well, I'll be glad to help out, missus
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Goudler. All right, won't get and see what they'll look? No,
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I'm sure to appreciate it, and don't worry about their looks. I got
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to get them wrapped at all. Let's see. You know this paper goes
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on that one? All right? The water muffler for my nephew over in
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Brooklyn. You know them terrible winters they have over there. Oh yeah,
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they're frightful. Of course. It may be better this year the Dodgers won
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the pennant. Nothing but luck it won't happen next year. They tell me
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something, Missus Gottler, I'll come, Benny worked you over? Why did
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he break your arm? Here? Pick this card on it as soon as
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you get the ribbon tied. Okay, all the time of year like Christmas.
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He wanted to know where Kathy went, and I said I didn't know
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it. Jumped on to me, said it was lying. If I could
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have got hold of that one. Where did she go? By the way,
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you aiming to break my other arm, mister dollar, with all these
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packages to wrap, holds your finger on that that I had tied. Now,
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postmen in Brooklyn are always busting things open. That's one down. Where
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did you say you want? I didn't no this one. I'll deliver myself
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so I don't need to be wrapped to careful Kathy live out of here in
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the middle of the night. You think I set up twenty four hours a
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day spying on my rumors, you might if the rumor happened to be one
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of your special favorites who told you that. What's the difference? She was?
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Wasn't she? Kathy was everybody's favorite. Anybody that ever met her,
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Oh, you gonna meet them as make remarks about a girl that works in
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a nightclub. But I'll tell you one thing, mister dollar. Kathleen,
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No, there's a final lady as you'd ever cared to find, and I
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would care to find it. Good luck to get in, and if you
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do, let me know where she is. You helped her pack, didn't
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you? No? How did you do that? That's about as good as
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I can get it. Be careful when you deliver it those on time,
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very time. I didn't know, missus Gottler. I was guessing, but
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it figured Kathy was scared half to death when she packed up and left here.
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All she had in the wine was to run and hide. She wouldn't
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have thought of stripping that flat, taking out every bit of personal identification.
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Somebody had to help her. How would she go? I don't know.
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Look, you don't get the idea. I'm on her side. She's up
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against a rough deal and doesn't even know it. You've got a sample of
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the way those boys play, and that was only a sample. But Kathy
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will be a whole lot worse. They're looking for her, and sooner or
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later they'll find her. Her only chances for me to get to her first.
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So I'm not lying, mister Dogger. I don't know where she went,
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and that's the truth. To help me, tried to get her to
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tell me, but she wouldn't, she said, if I knew it would
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be dangerous for me. I helped her pack, Yes, but I don't
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know where she was going. Well, that's sad, I guess I don't
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know where to turn next. She apparently didn't have any other close friends.
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I don't even know what she looks like. I've never even seen a picture
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of her. I was hoping you, well, if that'll do you any
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good, I've got one right here, my throwing that a picture? What
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did you think? Give it to me? About a year ago? She's
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never had many taken, but here it's it nice, really pretty good,
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don't you think so? Yeah, she's lovely. Well, at least i'll
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be even a right. When was this taken? Missus Godler? Now?
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How should I know? Three or four years ago? I guess before she
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come here to the city. This photographer's address, the name of the town.
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Is that where she came from? Brambury, Michigan Wall. Yes,
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that's her hometown, Brambury. I'd forgotten the name of it, and she
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was just talking about it a week or so ago. She wanted to go
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home for Christmas, but she said she couldn't say, mister dollar, do
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you think she might? Maybe it's the most likely place a scared girl would
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run to home. Anyway, it's worth a chance missus Gotler, I love
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you what mister dollar. Mister dollar expense account adam six eighty eight dollars and
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thirty five cents. Hotel and Nincintal's in New York and transportation to Bramburry,
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Michigan. Brambury turned out to be a lumber village, half hidden among the
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pine covered hills. It was a little bigger than a wide spot in the
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road, but not much bigger. A foot of new snow had fallen within
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the past twenty four hours. A fluffy white blanket lay softly on the trees
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and the housetops, and filled the deep hollows and the frozen ground. Men
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in bright red planel shirts drove horse drawn logging sleds through the forest trails,
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and their shouts sounded sharp and clear. Crystalline tinkled in the icy air.
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Branberry looked like the place where Christmas was invented. It was beautiful and very
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quiet. When it came to putting out information, I found it out first
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when I tried the local telephone operator number. Please, I uh just checked
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in here at the hotel operator. There doesn't seem to be a phone book,
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so steal them. That's why traveling people going through h souvenir hunters.
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I suppose that. Look, I wanted to call the odairs because you put
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adairs. There ain't but one, that's all Mike. Oh, and that's
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the one I want to call. Would you mind ringing him? We'll do
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no good. He ain't there. He's slabbing up a number four meal today.
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Well, actually it's his daughter I want to talk to. Yeah,
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that's right, Kathleen. You know, just growed up with her. Oh,
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well, would you mind friend her? No, I've never met her,
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but frown. I came here from New York, Johnny Dollar? Now,
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would you please ring Kathleen live here in New York City? I know
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where she lives. And what give you the idea she'd be up here?
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I'm psychic? You what law? Where can I get in touch with her?
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I wouldn't know anything about it, mister Dollar, and I can't give
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out that kind of information. You better go on back to New York and
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write her a letter. Let me talk to your supervisor. Supervisor. Well,
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I'm all there is, so I guess that's me start talking. I
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got it. You're welcome. I got the same kind of run around from
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the hotel proprietor. As soon as I mentioned Kathy, he suddenly forgot his
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own name age in the time of day, I'm thing sure this town took
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care of its own. I wondered if the law in Branburry would take the
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same attitude. I decided I'd better go find out. As it happened,
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I didn't have part of Oh, on the sidewalk in front of the hotel,
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the law came to me just a second there. M'd like to have
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a little talk with you, if you know mine mine for the change to
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find somebody here who wants to talk. I understand you just got in from
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New York. Here own business. Look, you know why I'm here,
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But now everybody in town knows got any identification on you? Yeah? Have
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you? My name is Martin, Dan Martin. I'm the deputy sheriff in
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charge of this part of the county. Oh, then you're just the man
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I was looking for. Is that so? I'm Johnny Dollar insurance investigator.
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I'm looking for a girl named Kathleen o'dair. Do you know where she is?
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What do you want with her? I'm working on a murder case.
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She's a witness. Is there any kind of a charge against her. Oh,
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I just want to talk to her. What makes you think she's here?
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Are you a friend of hers, mister Martin? I've been in love
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with Kathy since we went to grade school. I'd be willing to die for
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a Does that answer your question? All right? Let me put it this
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way. You think you're helping her by hiding her out. All of you
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thinks so, but you're wrong. You're helping her right into her grave.
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Kathy doesn't figure it that way. She's scared. She doesn't know what she
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thinks. I know these boys who were after her, they don't play kid
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games, and sooner or later they're going to find her. So if you
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love her, and if you know where she is, you better take me
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to her before it's too late. I don't know. I don't know what
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it is. Kathy's mixed up, man. I didn't want to ask her,
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but I know it isn't the police she's afraid of, and I don't
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think it's you. No. At the time she ran out, I wasn't
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even in the picture. I'm on her side too, mister Martin, and
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I've got to see her. Go talk to her father. Oh, Mike,
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see what he thinks. He's not at home right now? Yeah,
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I know he's out at number four mil. How do I get there?
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The county pickup truck is parked down the block. The tire chains bit into
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the packed snow and pushed the four miles of logging road behind us. It
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was late afternoon, and the sun had dropped behind the timbered slopes, throwing
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a pale sheet of cold yellow against the western sky. Here and there,
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a few scattered lights were coming on in the windows of the village, in
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the bunkhouses of the lumber Champs, bright twice smarks against the darkening shadows,
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emptiness, loneliness, and somewhere in it a frightened girl and hiding a girl
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who'd run away from the city of one hundred million lights and from an unsolved
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murder. I go Dare was winding up a job working at the big slabbing
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Song, and I stood by and waited for him to finish. Good night,
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rider, mister Diller, is this a nastron Okay, that's a least
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of it. Now we'll after Christmas. I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
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I'm sorry, mister otaire. My name is John Mind. I know all
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about you. Dan Martin phone said you was on your way out. Mister
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Dallan, the answer is no, I see. I've had it over since
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Dan called. Before i'd have anything happened to Kathy. I'd rather see ten
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murderers going home now. Look, hiding out won't help. As long as
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Nick sher and is free, Kathy's in danger. He can't hurt her if
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he can't find her. I found her, mister o'dair, just by luck.
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There's not one chance in a million of sounded like a car. Oh,
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the carnation had drive out here this time of the evening. We walked
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over to the big door. As the car had stopped about twenty yards away.
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A man got out and turned toward us. I was standing out of
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the dock light, so he recognized me. Before I got a good look
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at him, he jumped back in the car and went for his gun.
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Benny stuck. Get back, mister Otair. It was too dark to get
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a decent shot. I tried once more and missed, and the car disappeared
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behind the trees. Mister Dollar, who is got one of them? That's
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right, Mike, they found her. There will be another intriguing episode in
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our story of the Nick Sure Matter Tomorrow Tomorrow, a lonely vigil in the
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snow, a killer prowls the night, and a lovely lady vanishes. Join
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us, won't you Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is
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starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Les Prutsfield. It
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is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night
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at same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly, Johnny
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Dollar. This is Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. I absolutely, I really
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do love this episode in the way it's set up. It shows just the
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wonderful combination of toughness and kindness in Johnny Doller. On one hand, you
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see Johnny very tough with Nick Shern and not afraid to take down one of
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his boys a peg or two. On the other hand, the warmth and
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humanity as he's talking to the landlady. It's just a great contrast in this
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character and still a very interesting story. And be sure and listen on Wednesday.
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As we continue. Now we turn to listener comments and feedback and Lucas
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comments regarding the matter of reasonable doubt, but he says, first, I
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just wanted to say thanks for digging those episodes up and putting them out there
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for us. I'd never heard of Johnny Dollar before I started listening to your
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podcast a few years ago. He's pretty quaint, don't you think? I
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agree with you on the matter of reasonable doubt. The girl was the best
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part of the whole series. I'm surprised with all the speculating Johnny did about
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the old lady's motivation for calling off the trust. He didn't consider the young
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girls safety as a motivator. Maybe Johnny had a tumor in that episode.
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It seemed a pretty basic assumption to me. Well, Lucas, One thing
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I think we have to give Johnny on this is Johnny knew where Susan was.
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She was with the newspaper editor and was safe and sound, So I
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think that that being the case. In reality, he probably missed what they
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might have what lies they might have told her, though I do still think
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he should have thought of it. And he says, any who, thanks
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again and keep up the good work. I don't know if you care,
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but I listened to you on Stitcher these days. Four hundred hours worth of
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Detectives while that is quite a bit, I don't know if you use Stitcher,
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can you just download all of them? That means that if you got
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stranded on a desert island, if you could find some way to keep the
32:34
battery going, you could listen to it every waking hour for twenty five days.
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Got to get that, and folks as emergency kits, well, thanks
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again so much for the comment, Lucas. That'll do it for today,
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and we'll be back tomorrow with the amazing mister Malone and we'll continue on with
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the Nick Schuron matter on Wednesday. In the meantime, send your comments to
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