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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The San Antonio Matter (EP1360) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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once again we return to a previous era of yours, truly, Johnny
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Dollar, this time the John Lund era. Lunn took over the role of
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Johnny Dollar in November of nineteen fifty two and held it until the show went
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off the air in August or September of nineteen fifty four. Lue was a
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very well respected actor, particularly within the Hollywood community, where he was a
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longtime vice president of the Screen Actors Guild. Lund has definitely not been considered
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a fan favorite. In fact, in his book on this era, John
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Abbott describes the John Lunn era as Bori and Jim Wood, host of the
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rating Detective Story Hour, was initially not a huge fan of the one era.
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However, in recent years he went back and revisited some of the John
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LND episodes and found that he brought a lot of humanity and warmth to the
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role. Personally, I do find one to be pretty good in the role
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of Johnny Dollar. The Johnny Dollar role is one of those that multiple actors
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have played, and sometimes there will be debates to indicate that one actor was
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really bad, and usually this isn't the case, and that you can take
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a look at a wide variety of different franchises, for example, Sherlock Holmes,
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James Bond, or Doctor Who or The Saint. Rarely is it that
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there was some really bad actors, but usually there's a definitive verse by which
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all others pal and that's kind of the unfortunate fate of John Lunn. One
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actually has the second most episodes in circulation of any of the Johnny Dollar actors,
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and there's a good mix. A lot of them are what I call
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the insurance procedurals, which kind of mixed the insurance investigation with police procedural and
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the results aren't always all that interesting. But there are a lot of other
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cases with some interesting concepts. My favorite of which was the one where John
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Lunn Johnny Dollar went on a bus undercover with one person he didn't know who
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was a killer. Anyway, it's time for today's episode. Well, today
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doesn't focus on an episode of Johnny Dollar that hasn't been heard in any form
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in recent years, but one that wasn't available except as a rehearsal. Rehearsal
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recordings really aren't my favorite, and if there's a situation where there's a rehearsal
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recording of a program and a non rehearsal program, you'll hear the actual broadcast
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version of it. However, there are some episodes where the only thing that
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remains is the rehearsal and that was the case with the San Antonio Matter John
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Lon episode, which also served as a basis for the Valentine Manor in the
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five part era. But now the actual broadcast version of the San Antonio Manner
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has actually become available for people to listen to. So we're going to bring
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you the broadcast version of the San Antonio Matter. Original air date was April
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twenty eighth of nineteen fifty three, and we played this episode back in the
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rehearsal version back in February of twenty twelve. So let's enjoy the full version
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of the san Antonio matter. Wrigley's Fairmant Chewing Gum, the refreshing, delicious
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at Wrigley, Johnny, are you free? You mean him? I available?
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Yeah? What's up? Ed? Remember Mark san Antonio, the bootlegger?
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Yeah? Sure? What about him? Somebody shot him this morning,
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shot him to death in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Oh yeah, great Eastern
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Finality set up a trust two years ago for san Antonio's daughter. A wonderful
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report before they come across. I see you know who killed him yet?
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Or why? Ah? Not a thing, Johnny, Yes, that he's
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dead. When can you leave? As soon as I can get a plane.
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a transcribed adventure of the Man with the action packed expense account America's Fabulous Free
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refreshing, delicious. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Doller to home office,
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Great Eastern Fidelity and Life Insurance Corporation, sixth and Jordan Avenue, Hartford,
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Connecticut. The following is an accounting of situres during my investigation of the
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San Antonio matter. Expense account Item one one hundred and sixty two dollars and
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three cents Transportation and Incidental's Hartford to Saint Petersburg, Florida. I arrived exactly
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ten hours after I received the call from mid Quigley. The rainy weather there
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was as bad if not worse than the weather I just left. I checked
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in at the Saint Petersburg Hotel, shaved, showered, had a meal,
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and started in. My first contact was a police officer, Lieutenant Benjamin by
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name, a big, swarthy man who seemed to know what he was about.
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I don't quite get this dollar. What's your part? Just at my
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insurance company would like a full report on everything that's happened. Oh, you
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mean a report separate from what we have. Yeah, that's about it,
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lieutenant. Well it's their dough. They can spend it anyway they want to.
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What can I do for you? Oh maybe we can help each other,
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a lieutenant, I feel sort of. Let me tag along and see
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what's what on the case. We'll see. Well. San Antonio bought a
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big place over on the south end of town eleven years ago, just after
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he was released from Alcatraz. He's lived there ever since, quiet, minding
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his own business, keeping his nose out of trouble. Yeah, so I
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understand. As long as a man does that, even a man with a
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background like san Antonio, as long as a man does that, we don't
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bother him. He doesn't bother us. Well, today it was the first
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peep we ever got out of him. What happened seemed at six o'clock this
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morning, he phoned into the station and said that somebody was watching his house.
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Proulcar went out to have a look around. He told the officers that
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two men had been hanging around the front of his house, but they got
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away just before the car showed up. M hum. He gave a description.
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Yeah, both about six feet dark or dark overcoats and hats. San
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Antonio didn't recognize either of them. The officers put the description on the air
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and tried to find them, but they didn't have any luck. Oh,
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san Antonio wasn't the kind of a bird to get excited about a couple of
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guys taking out his place. He pretty well knew how to take care of
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himself and handle trouble. Yeah, but you say that he hadn't been in
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trouble or asked for any around here, that's right too, And I'm sure
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he didn't want any either. So his call was treated like any other Prower
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call. We investigated, didn't find anything, and promised to keep our eyes
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open. The cook came on duty about eight thirty. She went in the
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kitchen, made him some breakfast, took it up to his room. She
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found him dead. He'd been shot twice with the luger. Lab has the
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slugs. Now it's a close range job. Well, then the surest bed
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is the two men that san Antonio reported watching his house. Huh, that's
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about it. Wish we could find them somewhere. What about the cook?
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She just worked their days, fixing his meals and taking care of him.
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San Antonio must have been past sixty he was sixty seven. I guess he
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was beginning to show a little tread man who's lived the kind of life he
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has and done the things he's done, is bound to show somewhere and want
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some rest sometime in his life. According to her, he spent his days
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painting. Painting, Yeah, Mark san Antonio. Every room in the house
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covered with pictures he's done his last few years. Oil's pretty good too.
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And when he wasn't painting, he was listening to records, all kinds of
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heavy stuff in the way of music around the place. Now, you hardly
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figure a bootlegger like san Antonio thinking of anything like music and heart. Hardly.
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Yeah. And all the time he was in action running booze up in
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New York and getting himself in trouble with the tax people. He was bound
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to step on a lot of toes and get himself a lot of enemies,
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the kind of people who wouldn't forget you talk too much. Oh, yes,
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no. And then I'd meet him on the street or in a store.
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He seemed pretty gentle up how he lives. Apparently he saved something from
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the old days. A house he paid for in cash bank in New York.
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Used to send him a statement every month. I suppose he had some
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arrangement with him. Wow, that's about it so far. I see,
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I'm not sure appreciate the informations. Okay, when I get anymore, I'll
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let you know. Grime labs still working on some of the stuff in his
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room. Maybe we'll get something there. Say, do you mind if I
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talk to that cook? Oh that's your privileged dollar. Her name's Olsen.
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She's staying at the san Antonio house during all this. Okay, san Antonio's
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daughter blew into down this afternoon. She's at the house too. What does
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she have to say? Oh nothing. She didn't even know Mark san Antonio
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was her father until your insurance company told her. Didn't know. Oh,
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No, she's been living in Philadelphia all these years with an aunt all very
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legitimate. The girl's been using the name Randall, Edith Randall. Yes,
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sir, how do you, missus Olson? Yes, sir, my name
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is Dollar, Missus Elson. I'm from the Great Eastern Fidelity people. Do
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you suppose I could speak with miss Randall? Oh? I don't think so,
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sir. She's not feeling well, all of these being quite a shocked
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to her. I see it, well, and I guess my trip out
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here tonight was for nothing. Will you come tomorrow, mister Dollar? Please?
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Yes, miss Randal. Who isn't it It's a mister Dollar. He's
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from the insurance company. Are your round the company? Yes, I'd like
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to talk for him. The woman who said at the base of the iron
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grilled stairway was tall and dark eyed, and she came towards me, smiling,
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showing a frank, wide happy mouth, young kind of face that could
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have been twenty or maybe thirty. Missus Olson excused herself when we were alone,
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I wanted to talk to someone who might be able to give me a
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little more information about all this. It's all quite new to me. Well,
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i'll tell you what I can, miss Randall, Yes, I'm sure
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you will from one of mister Hurt and the insurances told me on the phone,
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I'm to be quite well off because this man was murdered here today,
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you mean, mister san Antonio. Yes, mister san Antonio. They tell
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me he was my father. To awaken one morning and discover you're not one
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person but an entirely different person. I mean, I'm the daughter of a
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famous racketeer who's been murdered. You seem to me like a very nice person,
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and so do you, mister Daller. Will you tell me all about
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this please, well, just our part of it, miss Randall. Let's
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see you're twenty six, now, is that right? That is well,
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twenty six years ago your father was on trial for income tax evasion. Just
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before he was convicted, he set up a trust fund with my insurance company
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to provide for you. He's been paying money for your support and education all
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these years. According to the condition of the true must the rest of the
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money reverts to you now comes to well over fifty thousand dollars. And that's
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all there is to it. Yeah, except for this, you mean my
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father. So strange to say that my father's murder. I suppose I'm grateful
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to my father. I suppose I should be grateful. I can't say that
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I'm particularly sorry about his death any more than I would be if any human
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being died violently somewhere. Strangely. Life treats us sometimes very strangely. You
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know, you've somehow made me feel comfortable in this house. May I offer
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you a drink? It was strange for me too, because I felt comfortable
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in the house. Over the drinks, we talked of Mark san Antonio.
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I told her what I knew of his life, of his activities up until
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the time he'd been sent to Alcatraz. She told me how she'd been reared,
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far removed from anything that might have connected her in any way with the
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san Antonio name. Altogether, it was a revealing conversation for both of us.
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She'd never imagined any part of the kind of life her father had lived,
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and I never imagined that it was possible for anyone to get away from
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a man like san Antonio with the road. Johnny, all right, how
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long will you be in Saint Petersburg till all this is straightened out? You
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mean you'll be here until they find out who killed him? How about you?
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I really don't know. I really don't even know why I came here
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exactly, Yes, I do. I wanted to see him, see what
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he looked like, what kind of a life he led here? Did you
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see him? No? I suppose I can if I want to. But
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I have seen what kind of a life he had. He was just an
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ordinary man, wasn't he. Have you noticed the pictures he's painted? May
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I ask you something? Well? Yes? How do you feel about him?
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Now? Is this for your report? For myself? Since you've been
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here in these last two hours, I've begun to think of him for what
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he was my father. I mean, I'd like to know why he was
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killed and who did it? Will I see you again? I hope so
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he did? Yes, I hope so very much, So do I Johnny.
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I left her at the door of that night with a warm sensation inside
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of me, something I certainly hadn't expected in the routine business of investigating a
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murder case. The next morning, I was back at the house talking to
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missus Olsen. She gave me all the information she could remember about San Antonio's
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activities up until the time of his death. Same information shed given the police,
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all of it accurate, but lacking any possible clues to the identity of
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his slayer or slayers. I had breakfast with Edith there and then went back
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downtown to spend a solid twelve hours in the company of Lieutenant Benjamin, who
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had still not located or identified the two mysterious men. However, there were
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other developments. Say this may be something. Oh, san Antonio's partner in
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the old days, Pallalichi, was murdered in Newark last night, Timmy Palalici,
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that's the one. Any details, oh, just that he was shot
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to death with a luger. When the slug's taken from San Antonio's body were
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compared with those that killed Pallolchi and were proved to have been fired from the
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same gun, the case took our new proportions. Every available bit of information
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regarding the two ex big shots of the twenties was located, read and re
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read. It meant activity in such cities as Saint Louis, Chicago, New
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Orleans, and Buffalo, but no new information as to the identity of the
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killer. Johnny, Hey, what is it you're shaking? Hold me,
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Hold me please, I suppose I'm being a terrible fool about it all,
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Johnny. But they've been after me all day, cheap little things. A
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newspaper syndicate wants me to write my exclusive story. Is the daughter of Mark
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Saint Antonio, very princess, daughter of racketeer. Hey, hey, no,
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take it easy, honey. Even Hollywood called. Some producer saw my
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picture in the paper and offered me a contract. He says, he has
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a script already. Come on, come on, now, come on,
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oh try. Women are fools, aren't they. I shouldn't have come here.
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I shouldn't have shown up at all. Then what would I have done
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either? And what would I have done? It makes you talk a drink,
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Johnny, I'll put on a new face. It had become apparent to
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me in the five days I had known her, and the five days that
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she'd known of her father, that she'd grown to love him by the memory
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of him. She stated it very simply. Everyone needs to father. If
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you find out you have one, or had one, really you love him.
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They were walking up the gravel path of the house when she said that.
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I suppose I was thinking of how nice it would be to kiss her
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at the door. When I heard someone behind me. I twisted trying for
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the gun in my inside pocket, but there was nobody that should at least
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nobody I could see me, Me, Jemmy what Edith died right there and
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refreshing, delicious, And now, with our star John Lund, we
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bring you the second act of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Ten seconds after
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read if Randall died in my arms, I was stumbling down the gravel path
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that led from the house to the road. It all happened so suddenly and
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violently that I can't say that what I did from their on or what I
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felt was entirely rational. All I know is that a car I was part
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of the deep end of the gateway, and two men were just climbing into
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it. Hey, hey, you too, stop stop, stop, get
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out of there. You get out with your hands up my head. I'm
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afraid to get out. Come on, I'm gonna come here, all right,
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you two, come on, come on, No use on him,
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mister you see you stop? You got him real good? You? Hey,
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hey, stay with you? What is it? What's happened? Phoning
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the police? Missus Olsen? Get over here right away? Go on,
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do what I tell you. Worry all you pretty tough? Well? What's
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your name? Just very equal? Who's he was? My brother? John?
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Eat the dogs? Listen, Oh tell it to me, Tell it
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to me right now. There's no policeman around the calvia, nobody but you
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and me. If you don't tell it to me. Now, you'll never
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tell it to anybody. Now tell it, tell it? No, I
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die first. I had one bullet left to my gun. I set the
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barrel back against his temple and pulled back the hammer. I think I really
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meant to go through with it. And for the first time I noticed that
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my shoulder was covered with blood. My head began to ring, and I
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I had let go and straighten up. That was not the thing to do.
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Oh hello, their dollar. Huh Oh, quite a night this one.
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Huh yeah, Oh, you stopped one boy? You were sure curled
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up when we got there. Eat it. I'm sorry, dollar. They
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thought I might have been wrong. No, you weren't. How long am
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I slated for this place? Well? The doctor says, you can get
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out when you want to if you like talking. They were just there and
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they shot her. That's it. Which one I don't know. They were
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together. That's enough, isn't it? Sure? Sure, same Luga that
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killed San Antonio and Palalici. Just try to pin it down a little more.
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We can't get much out of the one that's left. Let me ask
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him some questions. It's easy. I know how you feel about her.
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Just lie back there, now, did he say anything at all. Oh,
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nothing more than his name and his brother's name. Found papers on him,
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that's say that from New York. Please, New York are looking him
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up right now. So far they haven't been able to find any connection with
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San Antonio. People like san Antonio and Palachi make enemies. But that girl,
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it doesn't figure. And those two flew here from New York just to
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get her. Yeah, yeah, Dollar, you talked to her a lot
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in these last few days. What'd she say? Nothing that has anything to
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do with this. You know yourself. She didn't even know who her father
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was. They got killed. That could have been an act. No,
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it wasn't. I knew her well enough to tell you that. Yeah,
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why would they gun her down? Why the trip? That Rico boy you're
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holding in the jail hospital as the answer? Get it from him. We
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will, Dollar, we will. Oh just a minute, sure, old
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Dollar, h Maybe I spoke too soon. Rico died five minutes ago.
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As far as my investigation of the San Antonio case went, could have ended
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right there. The logo found and the dead Rico brother was the same gun
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that had fired fatal bullets into all three victims. I got my release from
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the hospital, and late that afternoon, walked into Lieutenant Benjamin's office. Dollar,
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I don't get it, don't get what here. This just came from
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New York on the Rico boys, Oh, came to this country when they
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were eighteen and twenty one. Both of them were naturalized citizens. Records not
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a thing, No trouble ever, that's funny. What else? What's about
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it? At least there can't seem to locate their old man. He disappeared
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a week ago, lived on the East Side somewhere. He a naturalized citizen
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too. Oh, that's another funny thing. He's taking out his papers and
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was due for examination with the immigration people this week. They're looking for him
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too. When are you leaving tomorrow afternoon at the one o'clock clean, Well,
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come on, I'll buy you some dinner. We had dinner together and
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talked about the case. It had been a strange one. The deaths were
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useless, the motives unknown. The killers weren't even associated with their victims.
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I parted company with Lieutenant Benjamin and went back to my hotel to trouble it
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out with sleep. About eleven o'clock I had a phone call Johnny Dower.
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I don't know. This is ben Oh, what's up? Old man Rico
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just walked into the city Morgue. He wants to take his two sons back
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New York for burial. Twenty minutes later, I was standing in the corner's
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office when Lieutenant Benjamin led a small wizard old man into the room and sat
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him down in one of the chairs. Gave him a glass of water,
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offered him a cigarette. Old man refused, no, no, no,
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no, oh, thank you, mister Rico. This is mister Dollar.
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Hello, mister dollst Rico. I read of you you killing my boys.
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So yes, they tried to kill me. Yeah, I know, I
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know, too bad. Why mister Rico, it just seems you were washing
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the way. I don't mean about me, I mean about Edith Randall and
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Palalichi and Mark san Antonio. Why I take her the water now? Please?
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Why do you know why she? And tell me they're all dead?
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Now? I missed you alive. Pietro Rico was held in custody for the
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immigration officials. He refused to talk about his sons or any of their activities.
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He just stayed in his jail cell, silent, noncommittal to all visitors,
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including the chaplain. I don't suppose we'd never have gotten the story of
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it, except that the will of Mark san Antonio disclosed that, before her
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marriage to him, his wife's name had been Maria Rico. Yeah, mot
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equations da, No, I've got some answers. Mark san Antonio's wife was
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your daughter, Wasn't she? Wasn't she? She was? That? All
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you have to say? I not talk well, and I do, mister
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Rico, because your daughter had a daughter, a lovely, wonderful daughter,
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that your two sons killed. I happen to know that girl. She had
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to die to why bad Alichi, sad Antonio and her they had to die?
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All the bad All of us are bad at one time or another.
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Who made them die? You? She who gave you the right? I'm
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the father. When a daughter married a bad man on the bad they cannot
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come of it. He came to our village many years ago, and he
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took her away. He and the man Padlichi help him to live with me
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all this time. I live only to destroy him. For that, I
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destroy him and the other man and the girl to my sons, Why the
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girl she could not have been a good from a bad man of Vendetta was
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at it. If you would like Mendette, he was a bad man who
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did a bad things. Bad man. I smoke, now you can a
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cigar. The disposition of old Pietro Rico is up to the immigration authorities.
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I didn't stay around Saint Petersburg for all the complex examinations would have to be
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made to test his sanity. I had enough of Saint Petersburg's expense accounts.
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Item three Hotel and board seventy nine dollars and thirty cents. Item four Hospital
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one hundred and sixty eight dollars thirteen cents. Item five same as Item one.
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Transportation back to Hartford expense account total five hundred and seventy three dollars and
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forty nine cents. Yours, Truty, Johnny Dollar. Remember, friends,
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by Eddie Dunsteader. Featured in Tonight's cast where John McIntyre, Joe Kerns,
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every day. This is Charles Lyon inviting you to join us again next week
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at the same time when from Hollywood, John Lund returns as Yours Truney Johnny
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Dollar. This is the CBS Radio Network Floorway, Welcome Back. This episode
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really made a much better impression on me listening to the completed, finished version
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as opposed to the rehearsal. I believe the rehearsal. The rehearsal I could
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tell. I didn't listen to the whole thing, but it was three minutes
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longer, and most of that, if I recall correctly, was repeated lines,
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just little delays that you would expect at a rehearsal. Plus the sound
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quality was pretty bad. This one I was able just to really listen to
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and focus in on the store, and it was quite emotionally powerful. It
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was different, I think than the Valentine manner for the serial version. I
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did love that last part of the Valentine manner when Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
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calls into the insurance company and you can hear the gun being caked as he
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goes out to confront the bad guy. But there's a very This one is
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just very honest and moving, and I think, what what does help it
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actually is because John Lons Johnny Dollar is a very mild character overall, very
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professional, and the way that he is personally involved it really does convey just
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how this is affecting him, and the acting here was just absolutely fantastic.
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So I really am a fan of this and I truly appreciate it. And
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over the next couple of weeks, we're going to take a listen to some
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loned episodes that haven't been played at all, and I'm hoping they're going to
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be as good as this one. It was. All right. Well,
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on to some listener comments and feedback. Wally emails into said lock the special
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omnibus edition of Johnny Dollar suggests you do it on a continuing basis every other
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Friday, question mark every third Saturday. Well, thanks so much, Wally.
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I'm glad you've enjoyed the omnibus versions we did of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar, and it's something I'm going to return to, though probably not
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on any sort of regular basis, just because there's a limited number of serials
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and then we're all out again. But I do hope to do at least
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one more omnibus edition before the end of the year, and certainly try and
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work these into our schedules of special and extras, because I know it'll be
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quite a while before the serial edition cycle by in our rotation of shows.
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Well, that will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with
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