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great Detectives dot net. Well, folks, now it's time for today's episode
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of Yours Truly Johnny Dler. It's the Curse of Kamashek Matter, Parts one
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and two. Brob Hollywood, It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Jimmy sayfe
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Johnny. Oh, hi, Jim, how are you? The way I
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feel now, the way I'm going to feel depends on you. Okay,
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let's have it. Remember a guy named King Tutt, the Gyptian mummy,
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they dug out of a tomb full of treasure a few years ago. That's
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right, Well, they'll tell me you held a policy on him, Jim
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seriously. Now you'll also remember there was supposed to be a curse on anybody
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who molested his tomb. Yeah, supposed to be. But of course anybody
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knows that stuff's a lot of monkey is it isn't it? At a reserve
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judgment, Johnny, until you hear about the Curse of Kamasck Tonight and every
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weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action
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Packed Expenser cout America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yes truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Inner Allied Life Insurance Company
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Hertford, Connecticut following as an account of expendit yours during my investigation of the
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curs of Commashek matter. Expense account out one one dollar even taxi to the
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office of inter Allied Life to talk with Jim Sayer. The conference was brief
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and not very enlightening. I'd much rather have you seen mister Turnbull and get
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the story from him yourself. As I said in the beginning, he's a
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very important client. What's more, to the point, he can tell you
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about it much better than I can. Jim corn a cliche, you're being
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just as clear as mud. Also, by the way, he specifically asked
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for you, Oh, how come? Well, it seems he liked the
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way you handle the Parkinson case a couple of years ago. Oh yeah,
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Emily Parkinson, the widow who died. Yeah, Yeah, that's the one.
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She was his sister. And well go down and see him, Johnny,
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I honestly can't tell you anything more than I already have about the thing.
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James, you have told me nothing, but he can, and you
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can pick up a nice fee on it as a favor to me. No
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for that nice fee, Jim promised to phone Eric Turnbull, and I was
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on my way, and I ran up items two and three, four dollars
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and twenty cents for a quick lunch and trained fair to Stamford. There I
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was met by a chaufford Carr and driven to Turnbull's house far out of the
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town on Birchbrook Road. It was set on one of the biggest, most
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beautifully landscaped pieces of property I'd ever seen. The final home looked as though
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it had stood there and all it straight lay's dignity for a hundred years,
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and stolid against the changing world, would stand for another one hundred. In
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sharp contrast, it lithe clean Stuta Maac. A gold Hawk was parked in
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the sweeping driveway at the front Haskins. The chauffeur had explained on the way
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that he doubled his butler, so I wasn't particularly surprised when he opened the
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door for me, since he received the cool about your comings. You are
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to go right in while I take the motor car to the gati and this
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he glanced at the golden hawk, quickly back of me, then, having
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left the word unless hanging in midair, climbed back behind the wheel and drove
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all well, he said, gud. Inside the house was a classic.
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From the tile floored reception room with its walls of oak and a broad staircase
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leading to the second floor, I could look into the huge living room,
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finished and polished mahogany, with a leaded glass window at one side and thick
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oriental rugs on the floor, a fireplace that seemed to take in a whole
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wall, and find mahogany furniture that glowed with a beautiful patina. Beyond that,
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I could see the library, golden and walnuts, and sitting at a
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broad desk was a man, his face red with anger, shaking his fist
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at a very attractive girl of twenty two or three who stood before him,
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obviously distressed by what was going on. Don't call me uncle, Eric,
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I'm not your uncle now, And by heaven if I have my way,
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I never will be. You're not married to him yet, my girl,
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and if I have anything to say about it, you Oh, oh,
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mister Dollar, isn't it yes, sir, mister Turndle, that's right.
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Come in, come in and dorothy, mister Dollar, and I wish to
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be alone. The girl stood there for a brief moment, looking at the
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man with an expression of utter futility in her face. Then, without so
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much as a glance at me, he turned and left by the door that
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I ad just added. Come in, mister Dollar, come in, please,
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thank you. I'm sorry about this. Somewhat embarrassing to you, I'm
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sure, but it's well, it's something i'll have to tell you about later.
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Sit down. Please, thanks. I poor you would drink. I
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must confess. I feel I could. He was one at the moment.
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No, no, thanks, mister Turnbull. I think I'll pass it.
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I suppose it is a little early, but well, good luck now,
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Jim Sayer and then her ally tells me you have an insurance problem. Actually
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not yet. I'll be perfectly frank with you, mister Dollard. Please do
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I'm asking you to help me, not as an insurance investigator, but as
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a man I feel I can trust, but you don't really know me,
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mister Turnbull. Oh, on the contrary, I do very well as a
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result of your handling in the case of my widowed sister, Emily, which
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she died a few years ago. As a matter of fact, you and
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I met very briefly at the time. Oh yeah, yeah, of course.
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Emily Parkinson the case and fond a lot of funny relatives who file claims
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on her estate. Yes, that's right, And you're clever trapping of those
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false claimants. And now she attempts to gain part of Emily's fortune. Was
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I understand that several of them are still serving sentences? Yeah, I believe
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so, which is quite what they deserve. If there's anything I did test
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in this world, it's dishonestateble Well. I guess most of us feel their
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way about it. Of course we do, if we have any shred of
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human dignity. Yeah, but now, what is your problem? It concerns
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Donald, Emily's son, my nephew. I had expected him to arrive here
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before you. But suppose I go ahead anyway. Well, when her husband
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died, Emily was left with a considerable estate and their only child, Donald,
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the state's within a million now, with not too many years ahead of
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us. She wasn't well. She had lavished everything on the boy, the
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best of private schools, travel to Europe, all the things that befit one
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of our social and financial status. Before she died, she carefully put all
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of the money into a trust for Donald, a rather unique arrangement which I
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control until he reaches the age of thirty. What would happen if he didn't
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survive? You? Would it all passed to you? Yes? Yes,
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but of course I have no particular need of it. When I sold Turdbull
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Enterprises some years ago, I think you can see that I'm pretty well fixed
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investments, you know. At any rate. Since his mother died, Donald
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has been living here with me in accordance with her request that I care for
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him, and I've been glad to do it right. I love the boy
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very dearly. How old is he? By the way, the twenty five
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will be twenty six in October. And what's he doing for a living?
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That's the whole point. There's no need for him to work for a living,
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as you put it. But in college, against my better judgment,
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he majored in archaeology and egyptology. What did you want him to study business?
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That's of course, forgive me for being so blunt, Dollar, but
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I see no sense whatsoever. And he's taking the fortune and his father spent
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so many years building up and squandering and a lot of Oh oh, Donald,
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come in, come in. I received word at the club you wish
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to see me, Uncle Larry. What is it this, oh, miss
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Dollard, is my nephew, Donald Cruven. We've been talking about you,
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Donald, oh, as a result of a newspaper idem my just read and
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the effect that you're preparing for another expedition. That's right, sir, I'm
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going to the ancient city of Thebes in Egypt, Egypt. Since my trip
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last fall, I've done a lot of reading and research in New York and
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London. I'm convinced I've located the ancient tomb of the pharaoh Kamashek. The
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advanced party has already begun excavation. I'll join them there. Do you realize
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the cost of this this thing, Uncle Eric. It promises to be one
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of the most important archaeological finds of the century. You mean it might be
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if I let you go, You let me go Uncle Eric, perhaps mister
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Dollar mister doll, can hear anything I have to say to you, you
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see dollar Ware Finally getting to the point. Yeah, Donald, I'll make
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no bones about it. I'm quite fed up with your wasting your time on
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these stupid, pointless expeditions. That's not the way the museum feels about them,
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sir, Well, that's the way I feel about ways. Please,
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sir Donald. Isn't that your collection for Yugatan that the museum recently acquired.
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Why yes, sir, my party and I were able to I'm sure we
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don't care about your party and you. You're not only wasting your time,
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but your money. The money you off harvest struggled at the entire lifetime to
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get that money was left for me to spend in any way I see fit,
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provided you're handling of it meets my approval. When you're thirty and the
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estate passes completely into your hands, you can do any you like with it
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by the Brooklyn Bridge, if you are you probably will. But until then
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I am legally in control of it. And now, finally, I have
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every intention of exercising that control, at least to the extent of seeing you
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don't squander any more of it on these fool hardy expeditions. I take it
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you've made several donald, yes, sir, and he's opposed me in all
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of them, because sooner or later you've got to learn it. As the
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wealthy son of a family, it's up to you to carry on the tradition
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that's been set for you, to increase the fortune, that's power of your
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family name, build even greater financial power, not to throw it away.
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Do you call my contributions to science and history a waste of money? Ah,
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Look, my boy, there is nothing selfish about my attitude in this
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manner. I'm thinking only of you and your future, the family name that
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you alone are left to uphold. Well, why don't you give up this
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ass nine idea of going to Egypt? No, sir, what do you
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mean? No? Let me finish. There's no point in you're saying anymore.
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Uncle, I'm going to explore the tomb of kamashek Alishon here. I
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made all the arrangements, obtain the sponsorship of the museum, notify the universities
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that are interested in my work. Say you're not going, and I say
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I am, sir, You young fool don't you realize that I'm in a
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position to cut you off and out a penny If you think I care,
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Uncle Eric, you're crazy, and by heaven, I will so help me.
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Donald. I've tried to avoid this kind of situation, but you and
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your idiotic bullheadedness, you're out of disregard with the responsibility and importance of your
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family social status, have made it inevitable. Now it's come in spite of
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all I've tried to do, and by heaven, I'll cut you off without
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him. Wait a minute, Donald, where are you going? Egypt?
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In the moment or two before Turnbull recovered his poison enough to speak to me,
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my mind raised this whole situation offered a big flock of wild possibilities.
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Obviously, the two were at sword points, had been for some time,
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apparently, and I began to wonder about this. Turnbull had no need of
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Donald's money, yet he seemed determined to keep him from spending it, and
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what looked to me like a very worthy expedition. If Donald died, Turnbull
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had said the estate would pass to him. Oh and something else. I
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wanted to find out about the girl who's been there when I arrived, But
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why Why? Why did I want to know or need any answers? What
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did this whole affair possibly have been to me? I'm no family counselor i'man
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I guess I spoke that thought out aloud. I'm an insurance investigator, yes,
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dollar, which is another reason why I need your help in this fair
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But I just don't see it, mister Turnbull. Afraid I must apologize for
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I little scene a moment ago. Now there's no need to it. It
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was interesting, to say the least. Well, we didn't touch on the
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one thing that I wanted you to know about that girl are the heartness is
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so called fiance? Oh. Thanks to a generous allowance plus fees from the
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museum and some of the universities, Donald's ensured his life for one hundred thousand
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dollars fifty thousand for the museum and a like amount for the girl through inner
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Allie. Yes, I'll put it to your bluntly. She has prodded him
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to go on these expeditions, and I believe she somehow hopes to engineer his
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death during this Commashek project in order to collect on that policy. Do I
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make myself clear if anything was clear? About this situation. I certainly couldn't
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see it that more things had come flying at me from on the left field
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during the past half hour than I could cope with, and I wanted time
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to organize some kind of thinking, so I used a corny old devised glance
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at my watch, said something about being late for an appointment back in Hartford.
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I apologize, promised to talk with him again tomorrow when there'd be more
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time. Haskins drove me back to the station and courteously waited until the train
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pulled in and then left. And it was then I noticed a little suit
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of vicer Golden Hawk that I'd seen at the house pull up beside the platform,
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and the girl, Dorothy Harkness, jumped out and ran over to me.
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Mister Doller, I had to wait for Haskins to leave so we wouldn't
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see me. Oh, I must talk to you. Please call me.
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Here's the number. Is this about Donald? Yes, because of the danger
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he's in from mister Turnbull. No, and you must believe me from the
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cursive Comasheck, Johnny Dollar, I have you called the stamfordzer. Oh?
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Thank you operating at all? Oh, mister Dollar, I'm so glad you've
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called. Well, you seem pretty anxious to talk about something, Miss Harkness.
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I am about Donald and his uncle and Donald's plan for the expedition to
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Egypt to dig up the remains of the old Faroh commasck. Yes, can
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you come over here to see me please? When I talked to you on
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the station platform a while ago, you said something about the cursive commasck.
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Yes, mister Dollar, isn't that nothing more or less than superstition? No,
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huh, I'm afraid that in this case, mister Dollar, it can
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mean nothing more nor less than murder. I'll take the first train from special
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Investigator Johnny Dollar to Winter Allied Life Insurance Company Crutchfield Square, Hertford, Connecticut
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assignment. The curse of commashek matter expense account continued it Am four three twenty
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cave to the station train fare from Hartford to Stamford and cab to the modest
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but attractive apartment of Dorothy Harkness. The short trip gave me time to think.
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Eric Turnbull, wealthy retired businessman, called me in on this case.
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Turnbull, uncle of young Donald Cronin and turning in control of a large trust
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fund for the boy Turnbull, who was determined to prevent him from making an
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expedition to the tomb of commashek on the excuse that he suspected a plot against
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the boy's life engineered by Dorothy Harkness, who was not only Donald's fiance but
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a beneficiary of his one hundred thousand dollars life policy. So a talk with
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Dorothy Harkness seemed very much in order. Come in. I'm so glad you
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were willing to come and talk with me. How are you, miss Harkness?
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You make me sound so old? It's Dorothy. Won't you sit down?
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Thank you? But before we go any further, Dorothy, I think
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you ought to understand that I'm an insurance investigator, and so I know that
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Donald told me his uncle was going to send for you. But there's been
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no claim file, no reason for one. I know mister Turnbull does well
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kind of unusual things now and then, and I guess this is one of
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them, unless he's trying to prevent whatever might cause a claim to be filed.
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Mister Dollar, I don't know what mister Turnbull has told you about me,
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but I'm sure it wasn't good. I'm afraid we don't get along very
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well. Well, it's pretty obvious he doesn't like your interest in his nephew
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Donald. I've known Donald since school, mister Dollar, and we hope to
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get married least Donald does. Oh and what about you, Well, I
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don't know. I don't know. I got the impression for mister Turnbull,
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you were doing a pretty good job of getting Donald into your clutches. That
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isn't the way it is at all. We've been seeing a great deal of
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each other, and Donald has asked me to marry him, and I'm fond
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of him, mister Dollard, terribly fond of him, as so far as
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marriage is concerned. I I'm not sure. What do you mean? I
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can't help wondering all the time if he isn't hoping to marry me just as
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a well as an escape from his uncle. Huh? Would you marry him?
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If I was sure of him, you'd be sure of an awful lot
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of money, Dorothy, the minit he reached thirty, that is, mister
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Turnbull has poisoned your mind, mister Dolla. What money Donald has or may
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have, has nothing to do with it. That sort of thinking is filthy.
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I am I guess you mean that, don't you, Dorothy? Yes,
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I think I've loved Donald ever since my father brought him into the museum.
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Your father, yes, he's curator of archaeology. Well, how does
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he feel about Donald and you? His only interested in Donald is in the
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money, the financial support he gives them me museum. Since mother died,
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he's become a grasping, self centered old man who's only interested in the museum.
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So I don't live with him anymore. Well, then, I take
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it he opposes any thought of your marrying Donald. He wants me to string
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him along raise money and scientific contributions. But Donald is making something of himself
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instead of wasting his life in idle luxuries. Mister Turnbull would have it or
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would he rather have done increase the family fortune? No, no, just
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not spend it. That's all he cares about. So if anything should happen
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to Donald, there would be more left for mister Eric Turnbull. And that's
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why I called you, because I'm afraid that if Donald does go on this
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expedition to Egypt, something will happen to him. Oh no, wait a
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minute, Turnbull is objected strenuously to this latest expedition. You don't know them
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yet, either of them. They're of the same stock, and they're both
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stubborn, determined, and willful. And his uncle is clever, clever enough
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to play on this stubbornness, capitalize on it. What's that supposed to be?
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He knows that the surest way to keep Donald from doing something is to
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insist that he do it. It's always been that way. Are you sure
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you haven't been reading too much psychology? It's true. And in spite of
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Donald's academic maturity, he's almost like a child in some things emotional sometimes that
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that's another reason why I wonder if Donald really wants to marry me, if
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he loves me enough, or if he's simply rebelling against his uncle. You
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feel in that mister Turnbull is opposing the expedition to be sure that Donald will
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make it. Yes, because he doesn't quietly reason with Donald talk things out.
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He shouts, he storms, he threatens, and then gets Don's back
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hair up. It makes him more determined to go than ever. Wouldn't do
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the same to you. Maybe, so I'm afraid that if he does go,
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he'll never come back. You honestly don't want him to go, No,
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just what you think might happen to him, this cursive kamishek you mentioned.
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I think that would be the excuse for his uncle to have something happened
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to him. What is this curse? Do you remember King Tutan common well,
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I remember hearing and reading something about him, old Egyptian pharaoh. His
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tomb had a curse on it too, But because they believed it would yield
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important historical data and some of the treasure of those ancient dynasties, an expedition
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went to the Valley of the Kings and excavated it. Anyhow, you really
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have on this stuff because of Donald's interest in it, I guess, But
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listen to me. One after another people who were involved in that expedition died
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under very mysterious circumstances. Yeah, I remember, even Lord Carnavan themselves.
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They said that he died from the results of a mosquito bite and pneumonia.
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But the other deaths were not so easily explained away, not even by able
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scientists and doctors. You believe in the curse of King tut them and now
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the curse of Commishick. No, oh, I don't for what you just
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told. There have been too many other tombs, all bearing warnings where the
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people who dug under them touched the treasures, and them even touched the remains
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of the King's had no harm at all come to them. Well, then,
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I'm afraid I don't see what you're driving at this, Johnny. Any
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mysterious death of someone who's explored one of these ancient tombs will be accepted as
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a result of the curse. Don't you see? It's an open door to
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murder, you know something. To me, it all sounds a little far
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fettered. No, because of Eric Turnbull, because I'm sure he wants Donald
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out of the way. This terrible friction between them, this antagonism that's been
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building up for years, and it's reached a point where either one of them
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would be glad to see the other out of the way. But Eric Turnbull
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is the only one who's evil enough to do something about it. Oh,
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I gotta admit the sparks kind of flew between them when I saw them together.
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And don't forget it would be to his uncle's advantage if Donald were to
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die. He needs the money. Well, no, I guess he does.
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What I'm doing all right at the museum, learning enough to live on,
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and I'm happy in my words, just the same as I understand that
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you'd collect half of Donald's life policy. I hate you for even thinking about
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such a thing. You would help me save Donald's life. Funny, though,
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is that funny? Eric Turnbull is my employer in this case is a
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case because he's smart, he's clever. He's clever enough to know that calling
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you in would help cover up anything he might do. Look suppose Eric Turnbull
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did one did plan to get rid of Donald. How I don't know,
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but this I do know. It's the thing that has scared me on his
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last expedition, and he didn't realize it until afterwards. One of the men
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in his party, a man he'd selected himself, turned out to have been
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paid separately by mister Turnbull. Why not. He probably wanted somebody there to
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look after Donald without his knowing. Listen to me, This man caused a
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couple of accidents, at least they called them, accidents that could have cast
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Donald his life. Oh, Dorothy, look, no, no, no,
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I can see that you don't believe anything I've told you. Dorothy.
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I think you're just building up something in your imagination. You don't believe me.
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But at least do this. Remember, no matter what happens, remember
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what I've told you. Somebody was lying. That was a cinch. But
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who and why unless one of them really was plotting against the life of Donald
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Crowman. I couldn't get it out of my head that at least Eric Turnbull
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didn't need whatever money would come from Donald's death. Dorothy Harkness, on the
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other hand, would gain what to her would be plenty. Sure, nearly
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a midian would go to Turnbull, but that would mean much less to him
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than the fifty thousand insurance would to her. Well, there seemed to be
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nothing more to say to her at the moment, so I left her and
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took a cab back to the station. That's sign him five sixty five cents
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and telephone to the house on Birchbrook Road, and I hope that Donald would
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be home and I'd have a chance to talk to him. Hello, Oh,
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mister Turnbull, this is Johnny Dollar. Where are you. Well,
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I'm at the station, but I was calling to try and we'll drive the
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car down to meet you immediately. Well, I knew that if you thought
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it would be willing to take on this case. Yeah, sure, you
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just wait right there, asking us to be long a few minutes. Goodbye,
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come in, mister Dollo. Thank you of it before we before we
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talk about this, don't you now? From what I've been able to learn,
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Donald has planned to leave for Egypt immediately. I checked with a friend
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at the Explorer's Club in New York, where the boy has been staying in
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these past few days. Oh, I thought he always stayed right here with
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you. Well he does, except what he's preparing for an expedition, and
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you are going to let him go. How can I stop him without making
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him look foolish in the eyes of his colleagues. Museum universities are so interested
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in his work. Yes, I have to let him go, but with
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you beside him there. Of course, I'll expect you to be with him
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during the entire expedition. I remember this. No expenses to be spared in
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the protection of my nephew's life. I had to go down and New York
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to see David Wilt he's by stockbroker Harrison Dilman Company. While I was there,
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I stopped at my bank and arranged to have some five thousand American Express
26:07
Chavel's texts ready for you. All you have to do is go down there
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and sign them picked them up if you need more cable me, you don't
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waste any time. I know Donald, He's very stubborn and determined and wilful.
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In his present frame of mind, he might pack up and take off
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at a moment's notice. I want to be sure you're at his side.
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Okay, you're the boss, But mister turnbull, is you still haven't told
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me why you think his life is in any more danger on this expedition than
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on any of the others. He's undertaken because that girl, Dorothy Harkness is
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smart, it's clever, and because of something that happened on Donald's last expedition
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in Yucatand Oh he didn't realize it until afterwards, but one of the men
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in his party, a man he'd selected himself, turned out to be a
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friend of this Dorothy Hawkners. Not twenty minutes ago I heard exactly Listen to
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me, this man caused a couple of accidents, at least they called them,
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accidents that could have caused his life, and mister Doner, though lacking
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any proof, I am convinced he was put up to them by the beneficiary
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of his insurance policy. Dorothy Hawkness, did I say somebody was lying?
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Somebody had to be lying, And by now that old feeling was beginning to
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come back to me. That hunch, whatever it is, that told me
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somebody was planning to kill Donald Harry Turnbull. Dorothy Hackness, who something told
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me I'd better get to Donald Cronin but fast. Now here's our star to
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tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week story. Tomorrow. Suddenly the reason
27:51
for a carefully planned murder becomes crystal clear, and a race against death becomes
27:55
a race for my own life. Jore us, won't you Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starrying. Bob Bailey is transcribed in
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Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote this
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week's story. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and station
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for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome
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back. I liked Johnny realizing he'd said that he wasn't a family counselor out
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loud. That was just a really that was a good moment. Of course,
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this is setting up pretty traditional mystery tropes, but an interesting question of
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who's lying here? While we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
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do have some comments on the Crystal like matter. Joe says it was an
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excellent episode, and then Kelly adds just a general comment on the Bob Bailey
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run. Bob Bailey was the best Johnny Dollar. I have my niece and
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cousins listening now. Well, thanks for listening, and I hope both you
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Oh wait, one more email I want to address here less emails in Adam,
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longtime listener, he says, first time writer. Perfect contribution for the
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podcast would be the Falcon circa nineteen fifty to fifty two. Perfect way to
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compliment the excellent Johnny Dollar and keep up the good work. Well, thanks
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so much. I appreciate it The Falcon is a good series, and it's
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on my list of programs to do. It's a very big schedule of programs,
31:11
about ninety plus episodes. In many ways, the programmers reminds me a
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little bit of the Amazing Mister Malone, except the mysteries are a bit better.
31:23
I've decided that after we get through the five part Dollars, we will
31:29
be starting on Mondays with The Saint that's been announced, and I've also decided
31:33
what we'll be doing for a season after that, but late October early November
31:40
of twenty sixteen undecided. Actually between quite a few shows though at this point,
31:47
and so I'll keep The Falcon in mind. Though I received a lot
31:49
more feedback in favor of Casey Crime Photographer and Sam Spade at this point,
31:56
but we'll see. Still quite a whiles to go, all right, Well,
31:59
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