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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Plantagent Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1041) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Now now it's time to continue on with our new Johnny Dollar adventure.
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It's time for the Plantangent Manner Parts one and two from Hollywood. It's time
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now for Johnny Dollar. This is mister Costello at the Plantagent Hotel in Vicksburg,
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Virginia. You left word. Oh yes, mister Costello. I'm acting
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for Eastern Seaboard Casualty Insurance, you know investigation. Who I understand you had
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a burglary down there? Are we sure did, mister Dollar. Well,
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the main reason I wanted to talk to you, mister Costello, was to
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let you know I'm getting the first plane out of Hartford as soon as the
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weather clears. You're coming here to Vicksburg. Yes, that's right. Easton
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Seaboard Casualties asked me to investigate the burglary for them good. And I'll expect
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you when I see you, and I'll be there tonight and every weekday night.
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Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of Demand with the action packed expense account.
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America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator was Truley Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by
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special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Chief accountant Eastern Seaboard Casually Insurance Company, Providence,
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Rhode Island. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the plant Agent matter. Expense account Item one two dollars cab fare my apartment
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at the Hertford Airport. I had them two one hundred and seventy three dollars
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one airline ticket from Hartford to Vicksburg, Virginia and back again. We took
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off in ten below zero weather about one thirty in the afternoon. By five
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o'clock we circled into Vicksburg for a landing. It had them three five dollars
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cam fair to the Plantation Hotel, three miles outside of town, a pleasant,
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spacious, gentle old buildings set back among the wintry trees. Fifteen minutes
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after checking in, mister Costello appeared wrung my hand and reported that the Vicksburg
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police had apprehended the burglar who had rifled the hotel safe the night before.
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All of the loot had been recovered as a matter of form. I spent
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two hours with the police itemizing the stolen property, which was all intact.
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Then I returned to the hotel, assured mister Costello that everything would be all
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right, and got busy trying to make return reservations for Hartford. Now.
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The rest of this report is by way of apology for my tardiness in submitting
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the expense accounts. In between phone calls to the airport, I went downstairs
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to the bar for a drink, and then stepped outside for a walk in
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a breath of fresh air. In the back of the parking lot behind the
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hotel, a blond woman about thirty in a green suit was talking to a
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tall, tippitty dark man who had his back to me. They were arguing
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about something. As I walked past them, I couldn't help hearing too well.
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Please please help me. Are you talking to me? Yes? Please
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on your way, mister, This is private, you hear me. Just
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keep your hands to yourself, Bud, I'll keep rolling. Then we're having
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a little argument private. Please. I don't know who you are, but
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I shut up. She's had a little too much to drink, mister.
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That's all oh that's all. It doesn't look that way to me. What's
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this all about? I just told you and nosey she's had a little too
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much to drink. I'll go on, but get on your way. Wait
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a minute, I told you to keep your hands to yourself. Yeah,
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I don't want to keep it up. You hear me, Yes, I
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hear you, and I I let it go this time, mister, just
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this once. You want to have them haul in? Miss No, that's
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all right, it's all right, okay, then, okay, come on,
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beat it you. I'll listen, beat it. I said, she's
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tired of you, and so am I go on, beat it? Okay,
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Just remember Amy, I was only trying to talk some sense into you.
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So long, hero, Thanks, thank you very much. That was
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awfully kind of Yes, where it hurts the most. I guess I'll never
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get accustomed to being disappointed in people. Oh well, he didn't look like
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your type anyhow, So why isn't it just Oh I'm sorry, Hey,
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hey, look now this is just the end of everything. Yeah. I
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know, maybe it looks sad way, but but maybe it isn't. I'm
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sorry. I'm very sorry to have caused you all this trouble. That's okay,
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must look rather cheap and dingey. I mean, I don't know what
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that means. Well, look, let me ask you something. Did you
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really have too much to drink tonight? No? I only had one drink?
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All right? Then maybe you'll let me buy you one. How about
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it? You're very kind. You look like you should be with someone for
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a little while right now. So what do you say? How about it?
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You're a very kind man. And that's the way it began in the
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parking lot outside of the Plantation Hotel in Vicksburg, Virginia. She trembled a
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little when I led her back inside to the warmth of the bar and the
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people, and sat her down at the booth looking back into now. I
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guess we had a rather strain, one sided conversation. She did all the
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listening and seemed preoccupied with her problems, whatever they were. Even though I'm
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not the greatest wit in the world. I did manage to get a faint
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smile out of me. It was a nice smile from a warm, frank
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mouth. I had them four two drinks for us. You see there,
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next thing, you know, you'll be telling me it's Joe. Oh that
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reminds me. That reminds me of another one said. It's one of the
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oldest and most respected jokes in the country. You've probably heard it a thousand
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times. It seems ten men were standing in the rain under an umbrella and
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none of them got what Well, just about then a fellow walked up you.
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You've been very very kind to me. Thank you again. Well,
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I'm I'm glad you feel better, Miss h Are you from here in Vicksburg?
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No, my home's in Hertford, Connecticut. I flew down here this
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afternoon on business. I'm waiting for a flight out. Oh. What's your
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name, Johnny Dollar? Thank you again, Johnny Dollar. Thank you for
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not asking me my name, for not asking me about the man in the
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parking lot, for not asking me to explain what my trouble is. Thank
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you, mister Dollar, and thank you for sitting here with me this little
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while and trying to make me laugh. You really feel all right now?
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Huh? Yes? I think so. That's well, because I wouldn't want
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to let you go. Oh if I thought you were going to step outside
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and start crying again. No, No, I won't do that, I
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promise you. Sure positive, okay, Ah, you want one more for
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the road now, Oh, thank you, But i'd better not, mister
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dollar, I really should be getting home. Well, will everything be all
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right at home? What? Oh? Oh? Yes, he wasn't my
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husband or my boyfriend. Even he won't bother me. Okay, then yeah,
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let me help you out with your coaches. Thank you. Hey you
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have a car, No, I'll get a cab. There's always went out
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in front. Good, I'll help you. Thank you. Say, look,
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I'm going to tell you something. I'm staying here in Vicksburg at the
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Planetagent, and I doubt if I'll be able to get a plane out tonight,
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probably not until tomorrow sometime. So look, if you need me for
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any reason at all, why don't you just call me? Okay, yes,
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that's right, cam taxi. You're still worried about him, won't you?
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Why do you say that the way you looked around when we stepped outside
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here just now? Would you like me to see your home? No,
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thank you, you've done enough already. And about him, I made a
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mistake, that's all. Oh, we all make mistakes, so forget about
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it. Well, I'm afraid this one can't be corrected very easily. But
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here's my cab. Good night, mister Dollar. Good night. You and
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I will probably never meet again, but I shan't forget your kindness. Thank
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you. Okay, and I am downtown. Please. I hope you have
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a nice trip home, mister Dollar. Hold drive a hole? Hey,
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anything wrong? What is it? I know I have the strangest feeling.
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Look you feel all right? Just shivering? Sir? I know what hurts.
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I didn't think. What is it? What can I do? Mister?
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Let's go a driver. She fell back across the seat of the cab,
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riding with pain. I took her in my arms and tried to find
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out what it was, but by that time she wasn't able to speak.
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In another ten seconds, she was unconscious. The cab driver delivered us to
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an emergency hospital. Five minutes later. They carried her in through the ambulance
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entrance. I let the driver go and waited around the desk to see if
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I could learn what happened. Just waited. Vicksburg Emergency. Waited one moment,
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Please by it. Please Vicksburg Emergency out this time of the night,
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sir. You'll have to call first thing in the morning. I'd suggest any
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time after seven thirty. Yes, sir. Yes, hey, look,
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would it be all right to go back and talk to the doctor now,
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I'm afraid not, sir, Well, could you bring him out here I've
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been waiting for I'm sure he'll be out in a very short while. He
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knows you're waiting to talk with him. He thought maybe forgot me. No,
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sir, I just want to make sure she's all right. The doctor
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will be out Vicksburg emergency just a moment. I'll connect you go ahead,
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please. Has she had many of these attacks? Sir? M oh,
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I don't know. I just met her. Oh well, if you'd like,
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we could call you at home and let you know how she is.
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This isn't my home. I'm on my way out of town as soon as
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i can get a plane. I'll wait, certainly. Excuse me, Yes,
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doctor, Yes he's right here. Yes, sir, thank you.
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Doctor. You'll see an as good. Thanks. End of the hall,
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room, one eleven, Okay, thank you. I don't know what it
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was why that hallway looked so long to me? Call it an old fashioned
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premonition of what have you. That's what I had, walking down the hall
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to see a doctor about a girl i'd known only a few minutes. There
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were three people in the room, two doctors in their white clothes and the
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nurse. I can still see the light burning above their heads, the way
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they look tired, exhausted. All three of them had been working very hard.
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Doctor. Yes, oh, you're the man who was with her,
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that's right. How is she? When did this happen? About a half
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hour ago. I put her in a cab at the Plantation Hotel and she
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complained of feeling sick, so I brought her here, but she lost consciousness
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in the cab. See sit down please? Oh why some papers we want
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you to fill out? Just routine. Oh your name please, Johnny Dollar.
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And she is missus Dalla. No, oh, I see you're a
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friend of hers, mister Dolla. But yes, look what is it?
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Doctor? What's the matter with her? I can't exactly tell you that right
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now, mister Dolla. Well I wait a minute. Why don't have to
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contact her family first? Mister Dolla? This girl is dead now. If
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you're willing to pull up her picture, is yourself in my position? I
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mean I'd known the girl only a few minutes. I didn't even know a
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name. Yet somehow I'd become closely involved with her too much, so I
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guess all I knew about her was that she was someone who had died while
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asking me to help her. Under the circumstances, what would you do,
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Johnny Dollar? Are you the mister Dollar from hot That's right? Who's this
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Jim Aicin's Vicksburg Police Department. I'm sending a call for to pick you up,
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mister Dollar. Some questions. I want to ask you about that young
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lady who would last night? I hope you weren't planning on leaving town.
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Of course I wasn't. I canceled my plane reservations last night. You tell
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me where you're located. I'll come down by myself. No sense getting had
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up. You want in your own backyard, now you know, Dolla?
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I know where I am, the town where a girl died in my arms.
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If you can stop getting lazy with me for a minute, maybe you
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can tell me who she was why, because I'd like to talk to her
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family. I was the last one to see her alive. Who is she?
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We have not entified it yet. Uh she's still Jane Doe. Expense
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accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Vicksburg, Virginia to it's a
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special investigated Johnny Dollar. The following is the accounting of expenditures during my investigation
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of the Plantation matter, A real mystery about a very mysterious girl who happened
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to be dead. Expense account item five ten cents one morning newspaper, which
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carried a two inch story and a half in space about an unidentified girl who
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had died at Vicksburg Emergency Hospital the previous evening. I was reading it over
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in the lobby of the Plantation Hotel when one of the Vicksburg Police force stepped
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up to the desk and asked for my room number. He was a swarthy
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man in a black suit, plain clothes type. Wow, I big buddon,
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I'm Johnny Dollar. Oh, Jim Akins. We talked on the phone
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a little while ago. You said you were sending a car. You sounded
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so hugh hit about everything. I thought I'd drop over myself to say,
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hello, I got the car outside. Okay, okay, let's go.
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Where are you from, Dona Hertford, Connecticut. I'm an insurance investigator.
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Look, I talked to a man in your burglary division yesterday about the burglary
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they head at the hotel yesterday. I was sent down here by Easton Seaboard
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Casualty Insurance cause you got any identification? Yes here okay? Looked like who
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you say? Uh? Now? Just what was your connection with that girl
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who died at the emergency hospital. I met her outside in the parking lot
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last night, back of this hotel. She was with a man I don't
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know who he was. They were having an argument. I stopped when she
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asked me to help her. I got rid of the man and took her
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inside here and bought her a drink. Then I started to put her in
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a cab to send her home, but she got sick before the cab could
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take off, so I took her to the hospital. She died there.
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And that, mister Aikins, is it? How long did you know?
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About a half hour? I told her. She didn't tell you her name,
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no where she lived, no name of this man she was with in
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the parking lot. Who was he? I haven't the slightest idea well,
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what kind of trouble was she having with him? She didn't tell me that
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either. I didn't ask her. But you sat in the cocktail lounge over
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there, and you had a drink or two one one, no name,
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no address, no nothing. Well, maybe we better do a lot talking
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downtown. Anything you say, let's go. Higgins turned out to be a
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lieutenant, and it took him the whole ride downtown to thaw out and make
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up his mind that I was just as concerned about what had happened to the
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unidentified girl as he was. He rephrased, but asked me the same questions
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in front of a stenographer when we got down to his office. He was
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still asking me questions when he led me in the police stenographer to the basement
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of the building, the morgue. And she didn't say anything to you about
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herself before she collapsed. Uh no, all I know is what I've told
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you. You're sure positive. Hey, look, let me ask you one.
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I put up with yours for over an hour. Now, what killed
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her? Yeah? Well do you know? No, we're still trying to
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find out. What'd you talk about while you were having a drink? Was?
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She asked me for help, that's all. It seems she needed somebody
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else to do the talking at the time. So I did it. I
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meane chokes and try to get in a laugh. I was a great,
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big cut up it's ard me if you want it. It won't do much
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good. Still got some things to find out. Yeah, lows An,
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it sure is. This is the girl who were with last night. Yes,
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you're positive, I'm positive? Okay, Dollar, you want to sign
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this for the records. That's that's good, all right, Sam, you
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can send this on upstairs. We'll be up pretty soon. No, dolla,
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did anyone there at the hotel bar seemed to know her? I don't
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know, cocktail, wait for somebody like that, I don't know, well
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I do. We asked around, knowing that ever seen in the Plantation hotel
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before? Tell me something, doll, he ever worked on one like this?
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No, not quite. O kay. Then I'm gonna tell you what
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we're up against. All the clothes she was wearing was standard brand stuff,
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mostly come from stores downtown, some of them New York. Gonna take us
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a long time to check him out. We may not be able to trace
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him at all. We're gonna work on the cleanin marks too, and that'll
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take time. Now. For what you say, An, from what she
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said, and it wasn't much. He's probably a local girl. Somebody's wondering
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about it, But nobody come in make out a report asking for I hate
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to do it. I might have to take a picture, run it into
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night's paper. Just find out who she is. I could be pretty lousy
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for somebody. It's allows a business. I thought you could help men dolla.
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Oh well, two things. One that budge she was with, he
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was arguing without in a parking lot. You say that meant he must have
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had a car out there, but you didn't bother to take a look at
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nah all right? And another thing now wears her putting. I don't know.
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Well, she must have powdered the nose when she sat down and had
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that drink, WHI the every woman does. She must have reached for a
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cigarette or something in that pisce. So why is that puss? I don't
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know. Now you see, you see how much help you are to me?
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Or just second mark, Lieutenant Achoms, Oh yeah, put them out.
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While Lieutenant Agins talked on the telephone, I lit a cigarette. After
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that, I tried to interest myself in a calendar that was hanging on the
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wall. After that, I tried tying both shoelaces. But wherever my eyes
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rolled around that white chiled room, somehow they always came back to rest on
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the quiet, still form of the girl who had ask me for help.
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By any standard, she was attractive, fine golden hair spun out of smooth
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white skin. I remember her eyes had been very big and very brown.
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Now they were closed, But she looked more asleep than what she was.
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She looked as though she might wake up any minute and answer me if I
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sat out loud what I was saying to myself silently? How can I help
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you? Let's get out of here, dollar hope mean that was a lab
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on the phone. I had a little trouble with analysis. What analysis?
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What kind of trouble identifying? They called in a toxicologist from the university.
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A drug called Perry Mythol killed it. Parry Mythol. That's a new one
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on me, me too, Petrol based stuff. Now they figured it had
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been in her stomach an hour or so before she collapsed. Could be a
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suicide judge for the way she acted and talk to you. What about the
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boyfriend? Well, that seems to fit in, okay. Told you she
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was disappointed in him, didn't she. Well, sometimes women want to end
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it all in front of a guy they have in trouble with. It'll probably
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turn out. Ah, you talk like a copy and im so simple.
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Make it fit into your formula. This girl knocked herself off because she lost
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her boyfriend. This girl killed herself because she lost a job, filling in,
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filling in, giving off the boat. Dollar, whoa, what's the
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matter with you? What are you getting there? Oh? Oh, I
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don't forget what? No now, wait a minute, wait, just a
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minute. I'm not all cop Dollar. I saw her lay in that too,
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and I can see she was a nice girl, and something went off
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l wrong with him. If I'd been the last one to be with him,
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talk to her livewise. Probably be taking the same way you are.
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But take it easy, sorry, lieutenants. Man, I'll buy you some
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breakfast. He did, but it didn't help much. And after that we
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shook hands and parted. Expense account had of six two dollars cab fair back
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to the Plantation hotel. I went up to my room, packed my bags,
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called the airport and made arrangements to leave on the six o'clock plane.
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There's nothing more I could do about the case, nothing more at all.
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It was police business. I had time before the plane for a quiet drink
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at the hotel bar. What's your pleasure, sir, Oh some of that
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little water? Yes, sir, you were you want to do the last
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night? For any chance? Yes, sir, why you asked? I
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just wondered if you happen to remember me? No, sir, was you
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at the bar at that table over there with a lady, a blonde girl
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in a green suit. Well, I'm sorry, I just don't remember.
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Oh, there you go. Thanks, here keep the change. Well,
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thank you, sir. Now I probably waited on you, but well,
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so many people, you know. Yeah, sure, why you asked?
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The lady lost a purse? Thought maybe it might have been turned in here.
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No, sir, we didn't get any places last night. A couple
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of money clips is on, not much in them either. Uh you're talking
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about the lady who died later on, ain't you so? Yeah? Yeah,
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I am. Police officers was in he asked the same questions. I
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thought they would be you policeman too. No, I was a friend of
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hers. Oh, well then you should call the police. They still trying
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to find out her name, saw my hm. Well, I thought you
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said she was a friend of you. I didn't happen to know her name.
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It didn't seem important to ask it. Last night. I just don't
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understand. I can tell you one thing. I might have saved her life
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if i'd asked her name, and some other things. Oh yes, sure,
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expense account had him seven three dollars three drinks. I sat there for
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almost an hour, talking to the bartender. Once when he stepped out of
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the kitchen, I went over to the booth where i'd sat the night before
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with the unidentified dead girl. I searched down on the cushions behind the table,
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under the chairs, hoping the missing purse might still be around. I
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found nothing. Then I had another idea. I left went out to the
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parking lot where I had first seen her at your cammister, No, I
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don't have one. Oh well, hey, look, last night I was
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out here with a lady. I met her in a man here in the
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parking lot about over there where that Chevy is. So what, well,
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the lady lost her purse last night. I just wondered if it might have
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been lost out here someplace. Well, it might have been. Nobody turned
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anything into me. Wanna take a look? Sure? All right? Well
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what time last night? All around ten, maybe a few minutes after huh.
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A lot of cars in and around that time of night. Did you
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look last night? I didn't know it was missing until this morning. About
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here, you say, huh, here's the chevy. Yeah, well let's
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take a look. Yeah, make it a good one. Yeah. Hey,
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I think you're a lot. Yeah Yeah, here's a purse. Hey,
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you're in real luck? Is that hers? It was hers, all
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right, a green Swede purse, the same dollars of green suit you've been
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wearing. It still carried the faint sweet odor of her perfume as I remembered
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it. I looked inside, but there was nothing to tell me her name,
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lipstick, calm, a ten dollar billons of small change, and one
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other item, a thirty two automatic recently fired. Now here's our star to
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tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story. Tomorrow, a dead
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girl's thirty eight automatic comes to life. Join us, won't you yours truly?
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Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly? Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is
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transcribed in Hollywood, written by John Dawson. It is prod It Waston,
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directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure and join us tomorrow night at same time
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in station for the next exciting episode of Yours truly Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan
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speaking, welcome back. Definitely starting out to be a very personal case that
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is a bit of a break from the insurance almost procedurals we've had so far,
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with a lot more of just a personal angle. And like I said,
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this seems like it'll be a very different type of case. So we'll
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be looking forward to parts three and four. We do have one listener a
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comment via email. Joan emails in and she asked regarding episode ten twenty seven,
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the Quaibaro matter, there was the salesman in Ladies ready to wear.
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The man's voice I heard many times, and I keep on thinking it is
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Howard mcnehir, who played Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show on tv
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AM. I right, he had a distinct voice, one that's hard to
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miss, you know. I thought Johnny was giving up a little too soon
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on this case between when along came the salesman and gave it the finishing touch.
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The salesman was indeed Howard mcneir, who from television is best known as
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Floyd the Barber, but really was one of those key character actors and we
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heard him a lot of times. I think particularly on. Let George do
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it as well as yours. Truly, Johnny Dollar managed to create a lot
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of great supporting characters and really was just invaluable in the days of radio.
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All right, well, that will do it for today. We will be
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back tomorrow with our next serial murder and mister Malone, and then join us
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back here on Wednesday as the plantagent matter continues. In the meantime, Sendor
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commons to Box thirteen at Great Detectors dot Net from Boise, Idaho. This
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is your host, Adam graham Son and off