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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Tom Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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wish not completely related to the program, but ties into another show I do,
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but also just a general of cultural note today. In nineteen thirty eight,
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Action Comics was number one was published introducing Superman. So a happy birthday
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before we get into today's episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dowler, I do
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travel, remember Johnny Dollar air dot com. Now let's get into today's episode.
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It's time for the Kronin Matter, Part five and coming up waiter a
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new Carter Brown story from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar, Doctor
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Bigbee. I'm asking you, if for a second time now, to come
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out to the Cronin Place. I told you last night, mister. The
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circumstances are different now, a lot different. We don't need a doctor,
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we need a coronary a car. Where are you calling from? The operator
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told me the phone out there was out of boarder it is. I'm at
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a forestry station a mile down the road. Jason Prell cut the wires last
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night before he was killed, shot to death during the storm, so that's
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how he ended up. It took a long time, but everything finally comes
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home. Yes, Missus Cronin said the same thing an hour or so before
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she died. Dolly two her heartness to Dollar in a way, maybe the
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dancing darling finally at rest. She what do you mean in a way,
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Doctor Bigbie. Missus Cronin was murdered tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey
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in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expensive Count America's Fabulous
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Freelance Insurance Investigator Os Trulli Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar at the Crown
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in the State Wells Falls, New York to the home office Shorty Mutual and
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Trust Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Kronin matter expense account, final
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page item thirteen ten cents a half pack of cigarettes. I left with a
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farmer who gave me a lift back from the forestry station. The price of
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my own feelings at the moment would have been lower, about eight cents lower.
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In fact, I brewed another pot of coffee and sat down to wait
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for Big Bee. But this time I laced the coffee with brandy. The
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sun was up by then, clear of the horizon, bringing a bright new
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morning and a brand new day. The storm was long over, and the
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world sparkled and danced, But too much of the night was still with me,
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and the past still too much alive. And yet maybe Dolly Cronin was
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better off. She was a part of that past now, where friends were
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always true, every minute of life was even more wonderful than the last one,
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and where she was still and forever the dancing darling. Good morning,
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Johnny. Oh, hi Sylvia, I'm in the coffee business this morning.
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How about it having yours with cream? I see? Yeah, bad night?
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Shall I make yours the same way? Right? I had a bad
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night too. Thanks. Hmmm, you look real beat, Johnny. Couldn't
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be any beat her. Something pretty terrible happened last night, didn't it.
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Yes, Jason Prett is dead. Oh, and Dolly Cronin is dead.
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Oh? No, I loved her, Johnny. I didn't mean what I
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said last night about life always having been too easy for And you were right,
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just being frustrated, tied the knots and covering up. I loved her.
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She was sweet. Yeah, she was quite a girl. She had
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something I don't know. She had loved. She loved people, and they
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loved her in return. Maybe soon anyway. I just this belongs to you
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now, the necklace, the circle of fire. What do you mean it
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belongs to me? She made a will last night. I witnessed it.
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She left the necklace to you. I just can't believe it, Johnny,
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Can I can I put it on? Why not? It's yours. She
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wanted you to have it. You look good at it. I just can't
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believe it, Johnny. Well, before you get carried away too far,
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maybe you'd better brace yourself. Oh it's not mine after all. Oh it's
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yours, all right, but it's not real. It's a good copy,
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worth maybe four or five hundred dollars, but that's all. Well, I
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don't understand. It's so well known, the Circle of Fire. It's been
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written up over and over, yeah, from old records, but nobody's really
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examined it for years, since before Barnaby Cronin died. It's been locked up
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on a bank fall until I took it out. Was there ever a real
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one? Yes, originally, but it was broken up and disposed of years
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ago. Jason Pell knew it was in on the substitution. I suppose That's
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why I was so desperate to steal it from me and get rid of it
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before I found out it was a copy. He knew that if that deal
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came to light, it would call attention to some of his other activities,
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worse ones. What do you mean Pearl had complete charge of Missus Cornin's estate.
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He told me it was worth practically nothing, but according to records I
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saw in New York at amounted to over a million dollars in the beginning.
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He was stealing her blind all these years. Oh it's easy. She was
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alone in the world, knew nothing about business. She trusted him, thought
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he was her friend. He trusted everybody much too much. Well, she
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sure trusted the wrong ones, including her husband. Barnes. Sure, what
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do you think disposed of the necklace and slipped her a copy after making such
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a big deal out of his fabulous wedding gifts, a phony, and she
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worshiped him the king in her book, the man who could do no wrong.
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Well on the business book, he didn't do much else but wrong.
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According to the records, most of his deals were pretty shady, especially after
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he and Prell teamed up. Yes, miss Etherington, doctor Bigbie is here
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to see you, all right, Searman, mister Dollin. I wouldn't believe
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too much of what he says. He's a chronic drunk. Yes, I
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remember you telling me. Sure I meant yes, sir, Well, I
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was just thinking, Johnny, missus Cronin didn't know any of this. I
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assume no. She was safe in her dream world, and she thought she
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was giving me the real necklace. That's right, it's crazy. I'm kind
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of wonderful, isn't it? Just like that she gave me something she thought
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was worth a half a million dollars just because I was nice to her and
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liked her. You know something, Johnny, all right, I'm just as
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glad it is a copy. It's beautiful, and and I love wearing it.
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I'd have been scared of the real world, and I'll always remember that,
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like that dream world of hers, she thought it was real. One
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more question left, but a big one, a question of murder, and
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I already had the answer. I was sure of it, and I knew
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there was nothing I could do about it. Doctor Bigbie was a man on
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the sixty when he looked years older, a harried man, tired and worn.
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He sat down for a moment and we talked. I began to realize
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that here was another man who had been under Dolly Crowlin's spell, and it
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was shocked and hurt by her dying. It was a remarkable thing, and
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a difficult one to explain. Mister Doller like many another. I suppose I
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often wondered why I felt the way I did about it. It was a
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sort of magic she had, Yeah, I know, even as a girl
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here in the village, she had that same power and had it without knowing
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it. Everybody loved her, No, not quite everybody. At least one
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person didn't. Yes, you mentioned on the phone would murder. That's right,
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doctor Bigbee, who killed her. A man we can't touch because he's
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already dead. Jason prowl Oh, he's done about everything else. I guess
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I wouldn't put it past him. What do you base it on, mister
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dollar? A bottle of pills. Peel supposedly went to Tupper's Lake last night
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and got a prescription fill for missus Cronin. She took some of it this
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morning, an hour and a half before she died. There it is.
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I'd seen the bottle on the train coming up with a few tablets left on
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the same prescription, and these are different. Well, you're right on one
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count, mister dollar. Those aren't what the prescription calls for. What do
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you mean one count? I talked to the druggist at Tupper's Lake on the
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phone last night he told me about Jason being in all right, it still
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stands. He had the prescription filled and then changed the tablets substituted these.
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It's possible, but you happen to know what they are without having them analyized.
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I've got a pretty good idea, but I'll wait until I've examined her
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before i'll say positively, mister dollar, I'd like to plain why I wouldn't
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come out when you called me last night. Yeah, I wish you would.
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I'd been drinking, so I gathered I'd been drinking that other time too,
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and I'd made a mistake. I didn't want to make another one.
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Just what do you mean? When Barnaby Cronin died here, I signed the
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death certificate. Yes, I know, I hadn't treated him. He was
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dead when I came out. I called it a heart attack. I was
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drunk, and I was wrong. Barnaby was poisoned. Go on. I
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didn't suspect it until later, and then I was afraid to do anything about
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it. I'd signed that certificate and I knew it would break me, so
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I kept still, and I consoled myself with drink, and finally it broke
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me. So the same end result was achieved. Look, doctor Pigby,
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If Barnaby Cronin was here alone, and how is he poisoned alone? He
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wasn't alone when he died. She was here with him, missus Cronin,
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of course not. Why do you think he was always making trips up here,
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always by himself. I didn't know he was for years, every week
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or two. The whole village knew about it. She was here with him
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that night. She's the one who called me, asked me to protect her
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good name. She's the one who poisoned him, and now she's had another
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try with the same poison. But why ask her? Why a ring for
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her and ask her that won't be necessary. Well, I'll go on up
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and make my examination. Well, miss Etheton, I'm asking why he was
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planning to break off our relation. He told me that night she'd finally won,
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that silly little fool had finally won. But I didn't let her win.
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I killed him. You're confessing the murder. You know it doesn't matter
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now. I've accomplished everything I meant to accomplish. So it was you who
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changed the tablets in her prescription bottle and substituted the poison. Of course,
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it was so easy. For once in my life. Things were just as
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easy for me as they'd always been for her. Will you have the shriff
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come out, mister dollar. I'd like to make my confession. It's odd
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how things work out sometimes, mister Dollar. Yeah, Missus Cronin said something
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like that last night. I was pretty certain when you showed me the tablets,
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but I wanted to make my examination first. What do you mean After
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Barnaby died and I started to suspect miss Atherton, I managed to steal the
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poison from her. In order to analyze it, I substituted harmless tablets of
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the same general appearance and those of what she's kept all these years, what
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she gave to Missus Cronin. That's right, they were perfectly harmless. But
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in that case, Dolly Cronin died from a heart condition. The tablets had
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nothing to do with it. In a sense, Dolly died the same way
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she lived from natural causes. Expense account item fourteen eighty three dollars and ninety
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cents incidentals and transportation from Wales falls back to Hartford. Expense account total two
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hundred and sixty three dollars and thirty cents. End of account. End of
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report remarks the insurance ankle here seems a little muddy. Premiums were paid for
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years on an item that didn't exist, and yet no claim was filed and
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none will be so well, I leave it to your legal eagles. Me.
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I'm beaten, tired, and maybe a little sad. I've come out
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of this with a kind of nostalgia and for a time and place I never
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even knew, and I'm halfway in love with a girl back in that time
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and place, a girl I've never seen. Oh sure, I know it's
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a dream world and a dream girl and none of it exists. But it's
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too bad. I wish it did, because she must have been a honey,
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a real sweetheart, a dancing darling. Yas Tully Shanny Dollar. Remember
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please, there'll be a new exciting story on Johnny Dollar beginning next Monday.
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Next week, the story of a man worth fifty thousand dollars who didn't have
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a cent to his name. Join us, won't you? Yours? Tully
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Shanny Dollar? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed
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in Hollywood, written by Less Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack
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Johnstone Hurt Him. This week's cast where Virginia Gregg, Shirley Mitchell, Vivy
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Jannas, Barbara Fuller, Benny Reuben, John Dayner, and Parley Bear.
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Physical supervision by Amerigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night at
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same time and station for another exciting story of yours Truly. Johnny Duller,
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Roy Rowan speaking welcome back, Well, tremendous, tremendous overall. I said
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a lot about Bailey's performance in this one. I will say just the way
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it ended was very poignant, and in some ways it's something that we can
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relate to as fans of older radio programs. It's not so much the mysteries.
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I don't know if I'd want to end up more than once in Sam's
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Spade's office or something like that has kind of a high mortality rate. But
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certainly there are some performances and places and people you think of, places like
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rivers End from Doctor Christian or Pine Ridge from Laman Abner, and the amazing
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talent of so many of these people in their personas Gracie Allen, Bob Hope,
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Gordon McCray, so many, and you can really relate in some ways
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to the closing monologue, just really nastly done as a dramatic story. I
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will say, Johnny, after last week, Johnny is definitely getting into the
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habit of barking up the wrong tree. So better watch that on Facebook.
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Stephanie Rahm says, love that Johnny Dowler in daid Way Doo. And It'll
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be Saturday and Sunday and then we'll get another new adventure on Monday, so
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I'll be sure and be listening. All right. Well, now it's time
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for today's Carter Brown my Mystery. And we start off with the twenty ninth
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episode of Carter Brown. So this is their eighth overall story, The Widow
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Is Willing. Carter Brown Mystery Adventures in Excitement and Suspense, based on the
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best selling novels by the slick storytelling sensation Carter Brown. How do you do,
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Ladies and gentlemen, This is Carter Brown with another of my stories for
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you, adventure which I call The Widow Is Willing. It's account of an
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insurance investigator named Mark Hunt who finds himself marooned on a lonely island in the
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company of an assortment of characters male and female, one of whom could be
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a murderer. For my money, I prefer being locked in a lonely room
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with a typewriter. But there's no accounting for tastes. While here's Mark Hunt
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and his story. When you get to the edge of the world, there's
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a river, and in the middle of the river as an island. That's
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where the Goldbright's live. It was a raw night, which made you think
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of vampires and things that go eake in the night. There was a moon
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with low clouds scudding across it. I'd give him the old character who owned
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a boat five bucks to row me across. He pulled at the oars and
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I watched the solitary light on the island getting gradually larger. Nearly there.
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Yeah, Goldbright's been living on the island long. He ain't eat farther before
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him and hit farther before then. And what did his father before that do
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to get banished? I mean it jumps out of yankee jolt. Thought of
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how don't they get to the mainland and it got a lunch. You couldn't
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let him know you were coming, and they just ended not for me,
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They wouldn't He ain't expecting him. That's right. Too bad about Henry Goldbright
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dying like that, stepped over the bark and the outside his bedroom and ended
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up on the stone jetty fifty feet below. They say, the Goldbrids get
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on all right together, I mean talking him, aren't you we're here?
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Yeah? You go up him steps and then on up to the hair.
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Yeah. Oh, thanks a lot. If I want to get back to
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the mainland again and maybe an hour's time, will you be around rom World's
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End at night? You must be crazy, miss you? Why you stay
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here long andover you find her? Not a place to be by yourself,
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not at night? Take you back, go back? The old guy pulled
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away and was lost in the night. I picked up my case and started
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up the steps which led to the path which led to the house, a
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gaunt gray building World's End. I thought the name was appropriate. As I
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pulled the bell rope, I wondered what missus Goldbright would be like, fragile
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white head with a quavering voice, or more probably tough and hard and thin
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lipped. Yes, this I presume was Missus Goldbright. She wore fifteen dunior
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nylons black. She wore a form fitting dress black since she was a blonde,
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the black did things for her and for me. She may have been
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a widow, but she was also a wow. Yes, what do you
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want, missus Goldbright? Yes, I'm missus Goldbright. My name is Hunt,
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Mark Hunt from excels Your Insurance Incorporated. Yes, I'm sorry to worry
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you at a time like this, but your husband had a policy with us
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for fifty thousand dollars. You're very prompt in paying your policies. It's not
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quite like that, Missus Goldbright. I'm an insurance investigator. I want a
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big claim like this comes along in the company naturally investigates it before they pay.
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Perhaps you better come inside, mister Hunt. It's not very comfortable here
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on the doorstep. I don't quite understand the need for any investigation, mister
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Hunt, says Goldbright. Your husband died to days ago. He was insured
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for a large summer money. Therefore, the company has to be sure there's
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been no foul play. You mean they want to be sure and my husband
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died of natural causes and wasn't murdered. You could put it that way.
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I suppose the police are satisfied he died in natural causes. That's half the
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battle, the other half being to convince you. I suppose well, I
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think the best thing you can do is stay here, mister Hunt, at
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world's end until you've completed your investigation. That's very kind of you at all.
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It would be impossible for you to work from the mainland. And it's
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sooner it's finished, the happier both of us will be. Of course,
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you better come and meet the others and we'll have dinner. This way,
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mister Hunt, they're all in the living room. She led the way down
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the cold stone paved hall way into a large room with polished wood floors,
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which contained five people, four men and a woman. Just a moment,
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everybody, I want you to meet Mark Hunt. He's an insurance investigator.
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This is my brother in law, Clem Goldbright. Hello was about thirty or
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so, dark, slim, dissipated, crooked, grinning, a sneer in
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the eye. This is John Cross, an old friend. Either Cross was
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rugged, look the good natured college athlete type. Roger and Mavis Beavis I
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know. Hello. Beavis was fat and forty, rimless. Glass is a
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successful business man. Mavis was a redhead with a ravishing figure. Every time
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my husband looked at her. He got a stupid look on his face.
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I didn't blame him. And this is Michael de Grescoo, delighted, mister
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Hunt. The Grescoo had a foreign action. The name was Romanian. He
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looked smooth and suave and probably shrewd. Well, now that you've all met,
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I'll do something about drinks. An insurance investigatory Hunt checking on my brother's
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death. It's just routine, mister Gulbright, with any large claim. In
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other words, it's a case of did he fall or was he pushed?
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Slam? That's no way to talk in front of Lilah. Why not?
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She probably gave three cheers when she found him on a jetty. We all
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know their marriage was mistake. She made the mistake. She married him because
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she thought he'd spend all his money on her, and he didn't. Claim
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always puts things so beautifully. Here's your drink, mister Hunt. One of
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these days you're get a crack on a jaw for talking like that. Such
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a rugged character, mister Cross, the guy who never got past college physically
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or mental. Least that's enough, mister Hunt. Will think where a bunch
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of lunatics. It must be an interesting career, mister Hunt, being an
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insurance investigators just a job, missus Beavis, pretty ordinary most time. That's
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rather sort of to me at least, it's a job claim something you wouldn't
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know anything about. We each take life as we find at Mavis, Me
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with my brains, you with your looks. Come u here a clam Mayvis
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married you for your dough rod, your boy, and we all know why
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you married Mavis. That's the gong for dinner. Let's move to the dining
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room, shall we. We got through the soup to meet the apple pine
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cream without any more of the barb comments. Then we adjourned back to the
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living room for coffee while Mavis put on some records and the others organized the
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game of bridge. I found myself left with the Romainian Michael de Grisco.
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Are you interested in our mister Hunt? No one specific kind? Sure?
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What kind is that? Leg art? Ah? You mean the cheesecake.
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I was referring to something else myself. I'm a collector of everything and anything
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that is beautiful, from women to paintings. The paintings in this room,
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for example, very if I I offered ten me one hundred thousand dollars for
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them. We refused. I'm hoping Lila will feel differently. Well, good
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luck, I think I will have it. It was a sin that a
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woman like Lila should have been tied to Henry. I hoped to add her
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to my collection of beautiful pains. I got the impression that John Cross was
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in the running there Cross and Moron with muscles. She will have more sense
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than that. Nighbs, Please sorry, I didn't mean to put that on.
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I didn't know it was with the rest of the records about four PA
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that was Henry's favorite music, better than the Coriolanus Overture. I don't like
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it myself. It was on playing the other night when it happened. I
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think poor Lila associated with instead. That was careless of mabies, careless or
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deliberate. Everyone went to bed around eleven. The room I had been given
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was upstairs. I will look in the water A sheer drop of fifty feet
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and it started the rain lashing against the windows. Though I was trying to
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break in, I was sitting having a last cigarette when there was a soft
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tape on the door. I opened it. Missus Goldbright stood there. I
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couldn't help thinking that Goldbright was a good description of a hanging. Could I
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talk to you for a moment? Was sad? Sure? Come in cigarette?
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Thank you? Thank you must have been quite an experience for you,
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meeting our little group this evening. That's an understatement. There was certainly a
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bunch of characters claim was quite right. You know. The burning question is
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did he fall? Or was he pushed? I'd like to know the answer
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to that myself. Where were you when it happened? In my room?
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Henry and I had separate rooms. The first thing I heard was his shriek
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as he fell. Do you think some one could have pushed him? They
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all had good reason to, so did I. It comes to that Henry
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was a good deal older than I am. He wasn't exactly a nice person.
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I'll be frank. I married him for exactly the reasons Clem stated.
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Clem himself has only a yearly allowanced, but part of the estate reverted to
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him on Henry's death, so he had good reason to kill him. John
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Cross imagines he's in love with me. I've never encouraged his feelings, but
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he could have thought about Henry out of the way. I might feel differently.
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Michael de grescoh exclaimed himself to me. To night thought about the Beavers
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couple, Roger and Mavis. Roger's making a fortune marketing gadgets. He's the
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driving force, but Henry put up the money. Recently, Henry took a
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dislike to him because he married Mavis. I think Henry decided to withdraw his
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capital. Roger has staked everything he has on a new project. I know
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that at this juncture the withdrawal of Henry's capital would ruin him. So everyone
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had a good reason for wanting to see Henry dark. Yes, including me.
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I had no love for Henry, and with his death, I'll presumably
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inherit his money. I'll know tomorrow the lawyer is coming to read the will.
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Why tell me all this, Missus Goldby, I don't know. Just
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seems to help having someone like you in the house. Mark. May I
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call you Mark? Surely, Missus Goldby, please call me Lila, and
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if you don't mind, I'll talk to you again. Might help me to
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keep saying any time, Lilah. Thanks Mark, I think I'm going to
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like you. I love She left, and I turned in to the accompaniment
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of the wind and the rain beating against the house. I fell asleep.
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Suddenly I was awake. Something coming from below, faintly, from downstairs.
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It aroused me. The Beethoven music. It sounded eerie and terrifying in the
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night. Nice there was something else, a voice, a whisper, weird
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and toneless. In the room were the one who can help. Eternity is
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forever Yet Eternity can be held in captivity, imprisoned for all to see.
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The second that plunged me into eternity held forever, said, and it shall
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be rewarded, and perhaps I shall be here with a supreme effort. I
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stretched out my arm for the bedside lamp and switched it on. There was
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no one there. The room was empty. Welcome back. Well, these
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are some cooperative suspects. He just shows up and they lay all their motives
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out. At least I think we've seen most of them, seriously, A
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good job at kind of an establishing shot of the case and what everybody's into,
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and then ending with the spooky ghosts. So what exactly is going on
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here? Well, that's anybody's guess unless you've listened to the whole series.
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Join us next Friday for another episode in this serial, and coming up tomorrow
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sorrow. We have the lineup in the Meanwhile, I send your comins to
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