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on with today's yours truly, Johnny dollar Case. It's time for the Lamar
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Manor Part three from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellar. Johnny,
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this is Vonnie. Yes, please come out here to the house right away.
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It's something wrong, Johnny. I you said you came back at the
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South Bend too, well, because you didn't want me to have to be
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alone to face the death of my father. Yes, dear Johnny, you
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also said you have business here, well, yes, it is. It
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connected with my father's death. Monny, Please, dear, don't lie to
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me. He was insured for over a million dollars or do you know that?
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Listen? Was this business of yours connected with Daddy? Was it because
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you too think he was murdered? Johnny, I'll I'll come out and see
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you tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the
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Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator Yours Truley Johnny
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Dollar Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Home Office Universal Adjustment
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Bureau Hertford, Connecticut. Assignment the Lamar matter, the question was it murder
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the beautiful girl Fannie Lamar and the beautiful romance I found during my so called
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vacation at La Hooya, California. Well things really got into a buine when
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she received news that her foster father back in South Bend, Indiana, had
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suddenly died. And I received word that I was assigned to the case,
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not only because of the midion and a half policy on Lamar's life, but
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because it looked as though it might be nothing more nor less than murdered.
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From Lahoya, California to South Bend, Indiana was only a quick flight by
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plane and the first person I contacted was Lawrence Comstock of Primutual Chicago Offers,
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who had issued the policies on Lamar's life. Yes, Johnny, the only
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two real friends Thomas Lamar had these past few years since his wife died.
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Where doctor ed Wilson and myself? And Wilson is the man you called in
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when Lamar died. You see, time and I used to spend a lot
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of time together, weekend golf, belong to the same clubs, that sort
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of thing we used to love, playing two handed pinackle together. I was
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with him at his house the night he died. And so unexpectedly, Johnny,
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as I told you, he'd had a most thorough physical examination only a
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few months before, or I'd never permitted him to increase his insurance to a
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million and a half. Must have cost him a fancy premium. It did,
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It didn't prohibitive, but that was the way he wanted it for his
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adopted daughter, for Bonnie, whom you know. And if you're half a
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man, having spent a few days with her in La Joya, you're in
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all shut up and tell me what you know. You said, murder.
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Oh yes, I'm sorry, Johney It began last weekend, as I often
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do, I spent the weekend with Tom Thomas Lamar. Or Friday night,
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doctor Ed Wilson was with us. We played three hundred pinacles. Yes,
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Tom was in perfect held, I know he was, and our evening was
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all fun, completely uninterrupted, except by young Marston Marton, Tom's confidential secretary.
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And he's the one. Larry, you are the one who told Pat
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McCrackan back in Hartford that you thought Thomas Lamar was murdered. That's why you
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wanted me to come on out here to investigate the case. Yes, why,
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now tell me the truth. Is it because of your great friendship for
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Lamar, because of the minion and a half policy through your company, or
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because you really think he was murdered? Are you here because of the commission
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you can earn on a case as big as this, or because Thomas Lamar
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happened to be the father of Vonnie Lamar. I was ordered on this case
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from Hartford? Oh? Yes, oh, yes, of course. Okay,
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okay, all right, Now, maybe I'm a silly old fuddy daddy.
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Maybe I'm more worked up over this case than you were. Whatever the
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reason, but let me tell you this thing in my own way come oner.
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But we know Ed Wilson, and I ay because of being so close
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to Tom Lamar so long ed because of his medical knowledge. We know that
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Thomas in perfect health. His fifty nine years were nothing for a specimen like
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him. Left Friday night, I stayed. On Saturday. We played nine
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old's golf. Tom wanted to play eighteen, but I didn't feel up to
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it, And that night we played pe Knuckle, just the two of us,
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and we got to bed early. But Sunday we just sat around and
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talked until evening when we played cards again. There was no strange, Johnny,
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even if the man had had a bad heart or something. Now,
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what about this marton your name? We quit shortly before midnight. I was
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tired, my years, no doubt, and I knew Tom would have a
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hard plan on Monday, and so I suggested we get to bed. He
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smiled as only Tom could smile, a warm, tolerant yet at the same
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time understanding and friendly, completely friendly smile. Go uncle, And he said
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he'd probably have to take one of Ed Wilson's sleeping pills to doze off so
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early. But I knew, Johnny, you know what sugar pills. That's
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all Ed had ever given him, sugar pills. I think Tom knew it
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too well. I went up to my room, Tom to his. I
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heard the water running in his bathroom about the same time I was brushing my
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teeth, and then the crash, crash. Yes. I ran out through
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the hall to his room. He was lying on the floor of the bath,
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broken tumbler beside him. He left the bottled sugar pills still open.
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He'd taken one of them. Yes, and he was dead. You you
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mean you think no? I called Ed Wilson. He was there in only
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minutes. It was he who officially said that Tom was dead, had died
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instantaneously, and he was sure it was poison. Peculiar color of the lips
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is something. What do you mean? It was some terrible stimulat to the
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heart, A very rare drug that only a few researchers would know about.
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Even the heart of a young and healthy boy would find the influence of this
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drug too much, too strong. Doctor Wilson told you this, what is
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this? I don't know, something very rare, but he is sure that's
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what. What did the police say? You call them? And did And
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she had did they had never heard of it, the drug, but they've
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sent samples of the sugar pills to Chicago and to Washington for analysis. Well,
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we should hear from them shortly. Where is this doctor Edwilson? Oh?
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Here, I'll just write you his address. Good? Thanks? All
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right, nollri Is you told me earlier there was one man you thought might
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be responsible for this. Who Walter Muscos Walter Marson. Walter has been Thomas
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Lamar's personal private secretary for some years. Come on, and Walter has been
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married to Levonne for over a year. Oh, I'm sorry, Johnny,
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because I know how you feel about her. Well, why should that make
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him want of murder Vonni's because of Thomas's will? Tom made a will,
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Johnny that left virtually everything he owned to the corporation of which he was the
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head, except for his life insurance. Is that why the amount of his
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insurance was so bad? I suppose so. The sole beneficiary of the policy,
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as you know, is Vonnie. Oh, go on. Therefore,
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the only way in which anyone else could share in the estate is by being
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married to her. All right, all right, you've knocked down a couple
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of dreamcastles for me and I'm not talking about a family fortune. I'm talking
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about a girl. Is john I understood if she loved him enough to marry
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I'm not gonna be happy if he shares some of that million and a half
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bucks. I let him share it. He deserves to if she wants him
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to. He married her. She married him, all right. It isn't
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as easy as that. What do you mean you've forgotten? He wanted to
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know why I think Walter Marson murdered Thomas Lamar. Yes, yes, you
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see, I happened to know. Vonnie did not love Walter. She just
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said she married unknown to her foster. Follow what are you getting here?
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Somewhere somewhere along the line, Walter Marson, shall we say, got something
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on Vonnie. What it was I don't know, but he had a strange
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power over her. See, Laurie, what are you talking about? I
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don't know, Johnny. From the time Walter first started working for Thomas Lamar,
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I well, I didn't trust him, and yet Tom seemed to have
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the most implicit faith in him. Walter was a good accountant, just handled
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many of Tom's personal investments and handled him very well too. Thomas paid him
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very well, rewarded him always when he made unusual profits. Why not?
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But Walter Marson made it plain from the beginning that he wanted to work his
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way into Thomas's shoes in the corporation, and this Thomas would not have.
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And the reason because Thomas knew that many of the stock deals Walter had made
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in his behalf were not completely shall we say, legitimate or legally proper perhaps,
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but not morally so that is corporation money instead of his own, right,
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Yeah, that's it buying huge blocks in order to inflate the price and
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then dumping the stocks at their peak, that sort of thing. I don't
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know much of the details, that's out of my line. But Thomas knew
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very well that if Walter Marson were ever put into the corporation, he'd used
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the same slick methods for purely personal gain at the expense the corporation he'd spent
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his life building up. How do you know about this? I was Thomas's
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confidant, his closest friend. All right, Larry, let me do a
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little summing up. Or if Marson failed to dig into Lamar's money via the
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corporation, so he married his daughter to be sure of latching on to the
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family fortune and that's it. Yes, it's as simple as that. Therefore,
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you're sure this Marson poisoned Lamar? Yes, and because of the findings
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of doctor ed Woods, which haven't yet been verified. Well, no,
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And even if you do find proof that Lamar was poisoned, you have no
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proof that Marson was back of it. No, Larry, what if Vannie
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had something to do with it? Oh? No, Oh yes, yes,
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that's a real possibility, is what happens? Johnny? You can't mean
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that you you say you know the girl? Yeah, sure, And I
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fell for like a ton of bricks. Whether it's simply because I'm a sucker
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for such a arm just because she charmed me so, well, I don't
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know. But why did she want me if she's already married, Johnny?
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What are you getting at a million dollars at stake? A million and a
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half. How she could possibly have known I'd be staying at the locker center
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in Lahoya, California. I don't know. But with a million and a
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half at stake you could find out most anything. So she worked on me,
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got me on her side even before she needed to, and when her
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father died, According to plan. She knew there'd be no question of settlement
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of acclaim for the insurance because of the way she'd so successfully drawn me into
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a cozy little news Junny, you're out of your mammy. What are you
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talking about? You old? Yeah, I guess I am John. I've
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been a confirmed bachelor all my life, even before I was your age.
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But I know very well that if I had ever met Vonnie Lamar, my
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bachelor days would have suddenly ended. Or you're hurt now that you've found out
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she's married. Your hurts and you're angry. You're striking out at anything you
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can reach any one, and I'm sorry, don't let it take away your
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judgment. I'm sorry too, Larry. I didn't mean it. I really
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didn't. It's all right, Jenny. No, get hold of yourself.
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You have a job to do, not only for me, for the company,
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but for yourself. Okay, Larry, Thanks, good boy. I
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don't know what I'm going to do, but I guess whatever it is,
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I better start doing it. Yes, good luck. Jenny. No is
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our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story Tomorrow.
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Well, it doesn't take long to find out what has to be done on
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this case, because the turning point of the whole thing comes straight to me,
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and with a vengeance, join us, won't you yours truly? Johnny
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Dollar, Johnny Dollar, Doctor Edward Wilson, mister Dollar. Oh hello,
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doctor, mister Comstock of tri Mutual Insurance, asking me to call you regarding
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the death of Thomas Rone Lamar. Yes, I have just left the police
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department the chief autopsy surgeon. Yes, there's no question about it. Thomas
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Lamar was poisoned. I see, I'd like to talk to you, doctor.
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I understand you were one of mister Lamar's closest friends. Yes, and
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one of the beneficiaries of his will. That's quite Where did you learn that?
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I didn't? It was a shot in the dock. Look here,
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let us stick close to your office. Doctor. I'm on my way over
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to see you. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Home
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Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut assignment the Lamar matter now proven to
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be murder. As the facts of this case lined up, it appeared that
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Thomas Renee Lamar, wealthy manufacturer of aircraft components, had only two really good
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friends Lawrence Comstock, who had istioned him a million and a half worth of
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life insurance policies, and doctor Edward T. Wilson, and a wonder my
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whole, lovely charming adopted daughter Leabon, whom I'd met during my brief vacation
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in La Jolla, California. Oh, might accompanied back here to South Bend,
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Indiana when she received word of her father's sudden death. What little evidence
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I'd been able to pick up seemed to point to one Walter Marson, Lamar's
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personal secretary. Unknown to Lamar, he had married Bonnie and therefore stood to
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benefit from his death. Oh, I kid about it. I'd fallen for
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the girl heavily, and when I found out that she was already married to
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a slick, smart promoter, Well, let's keep personalities out of this case,
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especially mine. I told Vonnie that I'd come up and see her out
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at the family mansion, but I thought i'd better contact doctor Wilson first.
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I mean, I mean, mister Dollar, I've heard a great deal about
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you from Lawrence Comstock, and please sit Thanks. Doctor. You said something
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over the phone that's bothered me. I won't mince words. Apparently you and
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Larry Comstock were Thomas Lamar's closest friend. I don't think there's any question about
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it, my boy, and I'm sure Lawrence will verify that he already has.
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That's why I took a shot in the dark and suggested that you're a
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beneficiary of Lamar's will, not his insurance. I already know that his daughter
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Vonnie gets that, but his will? Does that shock you? I suppose
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Larry's a beneficiary too, Yes, then either one of you might conceivably have
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had a motive for bringing about his death. What now, just a minute,
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tures, doctor Relax. I make no bones about it. This is
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the roughest case I ever tried to handle. Unfortunately, I started out by
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getting myself emotionally involved with Bonnie Lamar. Go ahead and laugh if you want
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to, hardly. She's a very wonderful girl, a bit mixed up at
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times, perhaps because wow, because of what? Are you aware that unknown
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her father, Vonnie was married? He is married? Yes to some Water
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Marson. Larry can't start. Tom Marson was Thomas Lamar's personal secretary. Did
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Lawrence tell you why she married him? I don't think he knows. It
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was a few short months after Thomas Lamar's wife died, a terrible blow both
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to Vannie, who was completely devoted to her foster mother, and to him.
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By way of quenching his sorrow, Thomas drove himself in his work,
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sixteen eighteen hours a day at the plant, all his waking hours, so
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that he would have time to think of nothing but his work. But Vonnie
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had no such outlet for her emotions. Her friends, a lot of rich
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ne'er do well's, rich, worthless bums, if you like, got her
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interested in gambling. She plunged into it with the recklessness and abandon that quickly
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got her into debt so deeply, and it was only one way out.
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Her father didn't know, but young Marson did, and he took full advantage
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of it. In return for her agreement to marry him, he promised to
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quietly obtain the necessary funds from Thomas Lamar's investments, which she Marson handled and
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he did, and she married him. Yes, but how could she She
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didn't love him, And you must realize her emotional state at that time.
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She was terribly upset over the recent death of her mother, and so was
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her father. Of course, she knew the shocka would be if he ever
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knew of her gambling and the tremendous debt she'd incurred. She was beside herself
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ready to do anything, so she married Marson. I could kill him.
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Now, let's get one thing straight, mister Dollar. Yes, you too
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were a bit upset when you came in here. You spoke as though you
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might think both Lawrence Comstock and I could have motive for wanting Thomas's death.
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I'm sorry, doctor I. It's true that we are beneficiaries of his will
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at least Thomas assured as we were, but only in a very minor way.
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Thomas was loyal to us as he was to the servants who had been
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so devoted to him for so long, and whatever little he has left us
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and them. I'm sorry, doctor I Ah, I guess I was just
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feeling hurt and angry and taking it out on anyone I could fined. At
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least that's the way Larry Comstock put it. Andy was right. Now,
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I get a job to do. What had the police found out? Only
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enough to back up my immediate suspicion that Thomas was poisoned by Pirdam pirate Damarn.
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Yes, it's a little known drug that produces tremendous but only momentary stimulation
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to the heart causes the heart to almost literally burst, and it leaves virtually
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no traceable residue in the system. But you said, the chief ahutopsy surgeon
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found out, Oh no, No, he found only positive indication that pyrodamaran
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had been used. I found the first clue to it only minutes after Thomas
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died, the staining of the tongue that even then was rapidly disappearing. Can
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you tie this drug in with Walter Marson? No. The fact that it
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was available at all is stumped both the police and myself. The last known
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source was a small island off the coast of Greece, roll many many years
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ago, and all the tiny plants from which it could be obtained as pollen
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were burned by the Greek government. But somebody somewhere must have had some seeds,
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planted them and obtained This problem is, how do you suppose mister Lamar
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took the stuff? Well, it could have been mixed with one of the
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medicines in the cabinet in his bathroom, but we found no traces. Larry
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Comstock said, you used to give him harmless sugar pills as a kind of
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sedative. Yeah, Thomas knew they were perfectly harmless, but he occasionally took
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them anyway. It's a kind of joke that this pirates stuff have been mixed
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with them. We've found no trace in the bottle, but you would have
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been able to. Yes, it is only an assimilation by the human body
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that dissipation is so complete as to make it virtually undetectable. I'm afraid I
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haven't been of much help to you, mister Doner. I think you have,
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doctor, I think you have. There's only a hunch. But in
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this business you sometimes have to depend as much on hunches is on common sense.
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I picked out the library nearest to the Lamar residence to do my research.
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Pyrodamarn. You're sure that is the word? Yes. Can't you find
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anything on the subject, Nothing beyond what you've found in the Pharmacopeia index.
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The name of the plant from which it is derived Blefera Paporus calanders no common
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name. Yeah, I know, well, thanks, of course, the
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main branch of the City Library in Chicago might have something. Sure, Thanks,
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Why, yes, yes, I'm sure I can find what you're looking
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for. You see, I myself am quite a student of rare drugs and
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poisons. Now what's that After a long, dull day here at the library,
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I enjoy nothing more than curling up in a big chair in my little
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apartment and reading detective fiction. Oh well, where's the book. I'll show
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you, but quietly, please, we must maintain the proper atmosphere for our
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readers. I'm sure, yes, I know the poison pyrodamerin very well.
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It was used in that wonderful story The Case of the Yellow Lipped Monster.
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Oh, excellent book, thrilling, or you should read it. Yeah,
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well, Pyrodamarin was new to me, so as usual I had to find
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out all about it, and I did find out too. The planet's derived
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from where it's grown, where it was grown. You see, it's been
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extinct now for many years. Yeah, I understand now, deadly thing,
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terribly deadly. But now here's the book that will tell you all about it.
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The title is Flora Exotica Mediterranean. That means exotic flowers of the Mediterranean.
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Flora exotica. Hmmm, good heavens, it isn't here, sure,
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but it was. I'm sure it was only yesterday. Oh dear, we're
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here do you see it was taken off from right here? Well, hold
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took it out. I don't know. I want your record show. No,
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I never permit any books to be taken from this section without my knowledge.
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But never afraid somebody consult the stuff for ulterior motives. Oh dear,
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No, it's just that the only ones who want these books are the rabbit
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who'd done it, fans like myself, and well, I like to talk
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to them. Well, isn't there some other book that might give me the
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information I want? Oh? Not another book in the world I know.
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And now, oh, tragedy, it's been stolen. Well, this was
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one time a hunch didn't pay off. Quite the contrary, I'd wasted a
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lot of time expense of Connaudam nine five twenty taxi out to the Lamar mansion.
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I was almost relieved to learn that Vonnie was not home. I'm very
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sorry, sir, but she and mister Marson left shortly afternoon to make the
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funeral arrangements. Thank you, Harrison. However, as you know, miss
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Vonnie wished you to have full access to the house. And if you get
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a weight, how is she holding up? Harrison? Most admirably, mister
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dollar under the circumstances. Mister Lamar's passing has been a terrible thing for her
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for all of us. Yes, sure, what will happened to the house?
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I don't know. Well, miss Lamar continued to live in it.
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This morning? She said, no, that she'd traveled for a while and
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then settled down somewhere else, far away from the city. Ah, and
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what about you, the servants, We shall, of course have to seek
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employment elsewhere. Say tell me, Harrison, didn't mister Lamar provide for you
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in his will? I do not know, sir, and I do not
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particularly. Yeah, his kindness and loyalty to us during his lifetime was far
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more important than any provision he may have made for us. I guess that
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takes you off the list. Beg pardon nothing? So tell me. Has
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Walter Marson been around much since mister Lamar's death. Yes, he's been most
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attentive to miss Lamar, which we've all appreciated. He lives here in the
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house, you know, No, I didn't know Harrison. I'd like to
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see his room, sir. I'm going to lay my cards right on the
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table. I'm an insurance investigator. Here my card? Why? Oh,
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I see Miss Varney hadn't so informed because she didn't know. Well, Sir,
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I show me to Marson's room. Yes, yes, this way,
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please you like Walter Marson, Yes, sir, very much. Now what
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does that mean? I've never spoken of this to anyone else, mister Dollar.
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For years, Walter Marrison was a clever, scheming, conniving young man
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with overpowering ambition to take over the Lamar corporations, so I've heard. I'm
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convinced that at one time he even tried to marry Miss Lamar, and solely
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for the purpose of forcing his way into the business, just trying to well,
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yes, sir, However, in the past, order to mister Marson
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has changed completely. What makes you think so? Because of conversations between him
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and mister Lamar that I could not avoid overhearing from time to time. Mister
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Lamar knew what Marson was attempting and faced him with his knowledge of it.
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Here is his room. Go on. Mister Lamar could have made it very
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difficult for him in view of his records, yes, sir, for embezzlement,
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but instead he gave the young man another chance. So go on,
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and mister Marson made the most of it. He changed completely, I say,
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without reservation, so that mister Marson is as honorable a young man as
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I know. Are you sure of that, aren't you? Yes? Sir,
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Butler living is close to them both for so long? Can pardon me,
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sir? But does something give you the reason to think I'm mistaken?
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No? No, unless perhaps it's this book I just found lying on his
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desk, books Flora exatica Mediterranean. Now here's our star to tell you about
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the final intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow, the wind up and a
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switch that will make your headspin? Join us, won't you? Yours Truly
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Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood.
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It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story.
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Be sure to join us tomorrow night at the same time in station for
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the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back.
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Well, Poor Johnny in this case really has done a number on his
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professionalism. Uh and probably truth be told, this was a case he should
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not have taken. But in many ways what would happen, you know,
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I don't think was predictable. But this also gives a nice flashback to life
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before the Internet, where you could hide information from someone by checking out or
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stealing the only copy that a library had of a book. I mean,
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in a situation like this, you would either go on line and find the
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information, or if you still couldn't do that and you needed the book,
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you'd go to a used book website. So an interesting look at how life
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worked in the nineteen fifties, and we'll have to see what the big surprise
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ahead is. All right, Well, now we turn the listener comments and
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feedback, and we have an email here from Mark, who says I'm one
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of the slew of younger listeners mailing you. I want to say thank you
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for bringing these old time radio detectives to my ears during my horrific Atlanta commute.
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I'm thirty six. In seeking a bond with my father and grandparents,
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I would often hear of them reminiants of the golden age of radio. I
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most specifically remember my father talking about listening to it as a kid and how
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wonderful they were, seeking something vintage and a sense of wonderment on what they
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would speak of. I ran across your show Johnny Dowler is the best and
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has me anxiously awaiting the next nail Biding episode. As I write this email,
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I'm downloading about eight more episodes. Thanks Adam for all you do,
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and please keep it up for years to come, or at least tell me
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if you plan to retire so I can keep it going well. Thanks so
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much. Mark. No immediate retirement plans, but if I have it.
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But if I do decide to retire and have time to give notice, uh,
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probably should and will communicate that to see if anybody would want to take
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it over, but no intense of doing that at this point. It is
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interesting you talk. You mentioned the father and grandfather talking about it. My
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dad talked about radio, but it was often in this really general, uh
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sort of term. It was he never talked about specific shows. And I
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was, you know, I was reading your email before the show, and
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it just kind of thinking about it, and what really truly occurs to me
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is that radio generally didn't have the power of reruns. One of the reason
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why so many of the most remembered and well beloved shows like The I Love
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Lucy and The Andy Griffiths Show are so well remembered and so well beloved is
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because they've been in reruns. It keeps it fresh in people's mind. I
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think with radio, so much of it, like the specific programs, were
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kind of played once and then gone, so there was not that same opportunity
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that we have with television. And I think that's the case with a lot
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of people, because I rarely run into people who specifically mention who haven't been
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accessing a specific show on CD or podcast or something. They rarely mentioned a
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specific program, but what they talk about is just the general good feeling and
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it does make you curious. We're blessed, I think, to have so
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much available to us now. You know, ten fifteen years ago a podcast
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like this, program like this would not have been possible, possible, but
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there are tens of thousands of episodes and hours out there of just so many
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different detective programs that we really have a unique opportunity, and particularly at a
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low cost, because when the old time radio became a going hobby for two
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decades plus, the main way people were able to access it was through purchasing
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some pretty expensive tapes that were just so expensive. People couldn't just buy it
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because of curiosity. You had to already be a fan. Practically now through
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the Internet, we really do have the ability to go back. So it's
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a great opportunity and I'm glad you're listening out there. Finally we have I
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want to say thank you to Bill who tweeted out to his followers on Twitter
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You can just leave a simple rating if you're enjoying the show. Well,
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we will be back tomorrow with Nick Carter and we will wrap up the Yours
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Truly Johnny Dollar story on Friday. Send those comments to Box thirteen at Great
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Adam Graham, sign and off.