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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Henderson Matter, Part Five and Nightmare for Knight (EP0967) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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support of our listeners. Thanks much for your support. Now it's time for
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us to find out what happens to Nick Knight in Nightmare for n Part four.
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Carter Brown Mysteri is adventures in excitement and suspense based on the best selling
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novels by the slick storytelling sensation Carter Brown. It was beginning to make sense
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crazy Nightmare's sense, but sense right from the start. I haven't been Nicky
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Knight, the dashing private eye. I'd been Nicky Knight, the dumb puppet,
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with every move plan for me, even this last one, returning to
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the house with Marita spray fregning it to be a surprise twist. Only the
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twist was on me, with a gun pointed at me by Louie Katz and
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the pleasant prospect of being handed over to the cops for the murder of Prince
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Al's a man, runk matey girl away you know where to put her.
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I'm sorry, Marie, I guess they're calling a tomb. You very wise,
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mister Knight, to try nothing foolish, I know, and I've been
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not smarted. Louis not only outsmarted, mister Knight, out planned, at
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maneuvered, out thought. Yeah, I was picked as the fall guy from
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the beginning, wasn't I? From the moment her own got his brother over
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here to the States on the pretext of urgent oil business. Haroun, who's
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your boss, of course, was getting tired of playing second fiddle to Al's
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a man and planning to get rid of him, get rid of him here
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in the States instead of on his own home ground. Correct. So Haroun
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engages me to protect a hair um that's already protected. And then you come
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around with a story about your sister. Even when I beat it out of
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the house with text you and Haroun weren't worried. You knew I'd found out
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from texts that Marie was in the house, and I'd come straight to you,
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which you did, mister Knight. Yeah, and played right into your
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hands. For the murder of Owl's a man. That guy come with you
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and Fatso gets it with me. All I have to take the rap.
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The only slip up was with you, Louis. You couldn't know that I
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hadnt tipped off about you by the house stick at the hotel. But I
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hadn't figured at all in I was just suspicious of you. That's why I
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tapped on the skull and beat it with Marie. But you have come back,
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mister Knight. Yeah, he even worked that out right. While I
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was getting Marie out of the way, Haroun and Hassan were carefully collecting texts.
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Hassan is Haroun's man, too like you? And then after the phone
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call proposing the quid pro quo, or more accurately, the girl for girl.
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You figured I'd come straight back here hoping to surprise you. You waited
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for me, and here I am like a good little pawn going from square
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to square exactly i'd anticipation. Yeah, the perfect pawn which is about to
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be taken. You had that car that will be his Highness Haroun, the
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new Prince with the police. Goodbye, mister Night. It's been fun playing
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with you. Yeah, they had it worked out to see for tombstone with
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my name on it. There's something very depressing about sitting in a cell swearing
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at yourself for a sucker. That was how I spent the time all that
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night and next morning, that and thinking about texts, worrying if she was
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all right. And then round about midday I was taken out of the cell
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and driven to a downtown office where a gray haired guy sat behind a desk
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with a slim, efficient looking character next to him. Take a chair,
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mister Knight, and what is this? Who are you? My name doesn't
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matter this gentleman as mister Wilde. First of all, please accept my apologies
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for having kept you in that soul so long. But when your statement came
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to us, we had to investigate, and that takes time. I don't
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get it. You will when I tell you that we checked your story about
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Marita Spray and followed to be true. Oh you did her, that's night.
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Don't play carf from nine. This isn't a time on a place for
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it. It's all right, wild Mister Knight can't be blamed for feeling a
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little sorre oh a little, but I suggest you don't say anymore mister knight
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till I put you in the picture, an international picture. Okay, okay.
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It's mostly concerned with Prince als Aman and his country's oil. As you
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probably know, that oil is extremely valuable to us and incidentally to France.
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For a long time, the United States and Britain have advocated that als Aman
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should be deposed, but France has remained firm as long as the oil came
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out of the country. They weren't worded with what went on inside. There's
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a democratic party within the country, it's been fostered for some time, and
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it's ready to take power. We could assist him to do that bloodlessly,
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and now is the time with als Aman did but of course the French must
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agree. Now wait a minute, the French or getting it now, aren't
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you. It's important that mister Spray must be found alive. Yeah. The
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indignation of the French people when they learned what happened to her will swing their
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government to our way of thinking. Yeah, I can see that. Now.
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Our big problem is to find mister Spray. Have you any idea where
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she would be? Yeah? Sure, somewhere in the house. It's an
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old place that be a seller. They'd probably put texts there as well.
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Oh yes, i'd forgotten about the other girl. I hadn't. As soon
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as Haroun even thinks we're suspicious, he will undoubtedly murder that the spray girl,
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of both of them. That's the tricky part. Mister Wild hears from
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the FBI, But I can't use him or his men any more than I
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there. Send the squad of police with fear gas and taught me guns into
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the place. It would be signing the French girl's death warrant. Looks like
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a one man job, and I'm the one man by mister Knight, because
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I know the house. Look, here's an idea. Take me back to
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headquarters, book me for murder. Let the press get all the pictures they
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want. When he run sees that in the papers, he'll feel safe again.
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Then pull out all the cops at the house tomorrow night. Let me
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out of a side door and the jail. It's not bad, sir,
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A good word, that's wild. I suppose it could. It's a risk,
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but on the other hand, I can't think of any better. Skin
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Very well, mister Knight, That's how we'll do it, Okay, you
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guys, keep it quiet, all right? Now we got over the wall,
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NIGGI, this is where you're on your own. Yeah, me and
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my thirty two. And I've got another gun for you here. Okay,
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what's this a six inch howard? Sir? It's a rocket a gun.
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You've got an emergency you pointed out the window when you pulled the trigger.
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We'll see the rocket alright, all right, thanks? If this place to
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carry it is in your sock? Oh okay, right, I just hope
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it doesn't go off and leave me. Mind us three toes and we're fan
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out and watch for your signals. If it doesn't come within twenty minutes,
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we'll come in anyway, Good luck kid, Well thanks again. Oh for
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the third time. Now, I crept up to the back door for the
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third time. Now it was unlocked. These characters obviously they didn't believe in
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guarding their rear. I was halfway across the kitchen. I heard voices for
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a place to hide. It was a boom covered build from the wall.
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I got into the homes and pulled the door to leaving just a crack the
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sea through a second later, the light was switched on and Harun and my
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old pal Louis came in United States home to take up my rightful position where
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mister Knight remains to die for the murder of your brother. He's sacrificed in
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honor of the new Printon. What about the two young ladies, and I'm
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about to take their food to the miners. The team has prepared the tray,
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good food, I see excellent. I don't like thin women. Return
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to me on the library, Louis, when you have finished. We have
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other plans. I watched Louie pick up a tray and disappear through a door
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I'd never seen before. It looked like part of the paneling. When I
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was closed. I gave him a minute or so and then headed after him.
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The door opened on a flight of steps leading down. I've been right
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about the seller. Here's your meals he got, Highness, Prince. Those
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women who are well filled. I'd like to fill him with us or even
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lead Honey night, which means a long sleep for you, Marie and Finness.
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It's not out of here yet, texts baby. Get back to Marie
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and keep down on the floor, both of you. This will bring the
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rest of him here like honest, all right, Nickie, down the floor,
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Equick. It will not help you, mister Knight. Hillo Hassan to
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floor level. You've seen done, you see, mister Knight against that,
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you have no chance. No huh. That takes care of Hassan and his
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Tommy gun. Now you're on your own, your highness, Come on down
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and demonstrate how brave a prince can be. Huh not good enough her own.
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That's an ear who's scared to come down the night. Not scared now,
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since your gun is empty. I always waited by bye and by night
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is now is it? As he came down the steps, I remember the
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rocket gun in my sock. I grabbed for it and pressed the trigger.
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A ruin was practically on top of me when it hit him. I came
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to think of it. He didn't stay a prince for long. Later that
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day I was back in the office of the gray haired guy. Congratulations,
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night, you did a magnificent job. I just pined the middle above the
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heart. General, now go home. Well, that was a man and
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a ruin out of the way. That line of succession has gone forever,
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and we feel confident that a much more democratic regime will take it place.
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People should erect the statue in your honor, but they probably won't just tell
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me one thing. Who exactly are you all? Let's just say that I'm
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connected with the State Department. My job is connected with what happens in other
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countries, you know, the things you don't read about in the newspapers.
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Well, of course, of course I'm dumb espionage. Ye, yes,
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that's the ticket. You know, if you were interested, I could use
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a man like you. Well, it's very kind of you, but no
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thanks, I'll stick to a nice quiet racket like the private eye business.
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Hasn't been so quiet these last few days, hasn't, No, But it's
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going to be much quieter for the next few days. You see, there's
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someone back at my apartment who will see that, you know, Nikki,
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Yeah, there were times when I just couldn't believe I'd ever sit in an
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American apartment again. And here's some real American music again with a real American
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man again. Huh. Although you know, those those Eastern guys have one
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idea that's not bad, a harem. I think it's a wonderful idea.
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Ah. Sure, you you get tired of a brunette, so you pick
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a blonde. You get tired of a blonde, and you pick a road
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ahead. No, no, you will want to rewrite it. You get
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tired of a certain brunette and you pick up Prussic acid in your morning coffe.
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I never drink morning coffee. You will that morning. I was only
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kidding. I love you. I love you, NICKI love to marry me.
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Nicky, You've got yourself a one woman here in for life that takes
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care of Nicki Knight his Nightmare's ever or it's just starting, depending how you
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look at it. Well, I'll be back to bring you another of my
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books. The next one's called Destiny Danger, the story of an English undercover
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man who didn't stay undercover enough. So this is Carter Brown saying so long
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for now he's seeing him in Nightmare for Night. You heard June Salter text
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while as Nicky Knight, you heard our star John Buschell. Carter Brown mystery
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theater, based on the bestselling novels by Carter Brown, is dramatized and directed
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by Morris Travers for Grace Gibson Radio Productions. Welcome Back. You know these
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programs require suspension of disbelief, some more than others. This is you know,
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there's so much it's remarkable about the way that this all ended. You
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almost get the idea, since this is based on the book that the writer
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of Carter Browns of the Coward Brown Stories got Nick Knight into such a predicament,
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couldn't figure out how to write them out. So we end up with
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a guy from the State Department hiring him to break in to the Princes to
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the new princes quarters, and we get one of the most remarkable results.
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Only on a Carter Brown mystery shell will you'd be sent to non violently rescue
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two hostages from the home of a foreign head of state and end up blowing
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up the foreign head of state instead, and be told by a State Department
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official, nicely done, well played. Have you never thought about joining up
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with us? I mean, in reality, if an oil producing state had
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its prints blown apart with a rocket on US soil and the person who was
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illegally entering their premises was not punished, you would end up with a more
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you know, a radical eater, even in the nineteen fifties. So this
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is just the most far out ending to a mystery story that I've heard.
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That said, I also have to give some compliments to to Carter Brown on
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this in that his detectives can actually get married because his characters are for the
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most part, one time use, so he doesn't need to have this ongoing
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attention even though I think most well better, I guess the less said about
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this the better. All right, Well, next week we are actually switching
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the order of programs. Johnny Doller will be first, Carter brown story will
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be second, which with all the commentary I had on this week, so
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might that'll be better in a long run. Now, let's go ahead and
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take a listen to Johnny Doller with Bob Bailey, Part five of the Henderson
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Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Doller. I have a call
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for you from Hotford. Go ahead, please, Johnny. Right here,
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Connor's at Paramount Adjusters say what was his wire? Johnny, you're serious about
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denying liability to Missus Henderson. I sure, am. I think it'll bring
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the whole thing out in the open. This is pretty serious. If he
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got concrete his death wasn't accidental, Jim, I have a copy of the
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corner's inquests, concrete evidence that Missus Henderson lied under oath. She said her
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husband was drinking in the morning he died. Everybody here believed he was a
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little crocked when he fell out that hotel window. I've got proof that he
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didn't have a drink that morning. What proof? No bottle in his room,
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no bottle brought there, nothing. What do you say? Don't make
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a move, kid. We'll get the first plane tonight and every weekday night.
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Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense,
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Acount America's Fabulous freelance Insurance investigator OS Truly Johnny Deller expense account submitted by
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special Investigator Johnny Doller to Paramount Insurance Adjustice, Hartford, Connecticut. The following
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is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Henderson matter. Sheriff Holton
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agreed that there was enough of a doubt about the circumstances prior to George Henderson's
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accidental death to warrant an official re examination of all the facts. He promised
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me the police would start an immediate investigation. That was all I needed.
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I knew Missus Henderson would be requestioned and that the pressure would start to build
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up. For teen hours later, when Tim Connors arrived in Culver, I
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had some pressure on my own. Well, Johnny, what well? The
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best thing we could do now is move in deny liability on the grounds that
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the accident has not proved. I suppose missus Henderson seusis all right. Let
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her then the burden of proving that her husband's death was accidental would be on
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her, looked, Tim, Contrary to her testimony under oath, Henderson didn't
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have a drink that morning he died, all right, She made a mistake.
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He had a heart attack, got dizzy and tumbled out of the window.
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He wasn't drunk. Oh, don't talk nonsense, Tim, Listen to
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me. Missus Henderson was ready for the coronist jury a couple of days ago,
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and she was ready for my questions when I saw her yesterday. The
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only one she wasn't ready for was you. A few days ago when you
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phoned a long distance you said she hung up on you. Well, she
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half apologized to me for that, but it was because she couldn't think of
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anything to say. Well, maybe you're right, But suppose he did die
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accidentally, and suppose it is a just insurance, I tell you, it
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isn't the fact that she made a mistake testifying about him having a drink ken,
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Johnny, do you have anything else? Three? Instinct, experience and
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statistics. Pauling Henderson's a young woman. She married a wealthy older man.
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With him out of the way, she has all his money and all her
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youth. All right, I'm going to phone the company soon as I can
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find a phone. Tell him I'm working for evidence, and the best way
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to get it is to bring missus Henderson out in the open. File a
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complaint against her. What charge suspected murder? Oh no, Johnny didn't get
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us in all kinds of trouble. Remember the drink. Tim Henderson didn't have
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the drink, and I will have to have more than Adam. Sorry,
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Johnny, all right, I'll get you more. An hour later, I
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was with Sheriff Holton comparing notes. He reported that after questioning Missus Henderson,
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she admitted she might have been mistaken about Henderson drinking the morning of his death.
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She wasn't sure, but Eve Holton said what we both were thinking.
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He went in front of the corner's jury, gave a misleading impressions from made
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us think that George was drunk and stumbled out the window. We better find
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out who who helped her pull this off. Sheriff Holton had every man in
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his office working on the case. By then. It was a long,
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tedious job of combing over everything in Pauline Henderson's background to find a possible accomplice.
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About five in the afternoon, I drove to the Henderson ranch with Holton.
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Missus Henderson was out, but we interviewed one of the servants. That's
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right, sir, once twice a week. Uh, you know where she
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drove to on these trips? I have no idea. Missus Henderson get up
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early in the morning, be gone all day. How do you know she
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went out of town? Well, generally take a small suit case with her.
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Change your clothes. Don't take those when you're visiting a friend in town.
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Do you tell us what car she'd use on these trips? Cadiliac always
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come back covered with mud and ice. Let's have to be washed up.
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Mister Henderson used to complain about that, about the car being dirty, about
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the trips mostly, and Missus Henderson had some pretty good arguments about him.
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He'd say, Missus Henderson shouldn't visit that man? What man? Just that
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man? I never knew who it was. They argued about You've known missus
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Henderson quite a long time, yes, sir nor. When she was a
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little girl, when she first came here, saw her grow up, go
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away to school, go away to Europe, come back a little more,
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grown up, a little different every time. Were you a surprised when mister
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Henderson married her? Well? No, well, yes, guess I was
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because she was so much younger. Not that so much. I mean,
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well, mister Henderson, he had something about the plains and cattle mountains about
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him. When he moved it was as big as all them things. Missus
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Henderson's different. She didn't fit in here. Is that what you're trying to
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say? I think she fit not like him. Though before they were married
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they were sort of like good friends. I mean they'd ride horses and go
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hunting and laugh and talk about different things. Missus Henderson, she traveled Europe,
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saw so many things and places in the world. She'd fit here,
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But then she didn't belong here. I feel awful about mister Henderson's being dead.
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There was anything wrong with the way he died. I'd like to be
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fixed. Missus Henderson. Probably fire me for talking like this, but I
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don't care. This house isn't the same no more. By the time we
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got back into town, Sheriff Holton's voice had discovered the names of three men
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who had been seen at various places around Culver and the company of Missus Henderson
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rod Tyler. Oh, see mining engineer. He's been away from here for
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over a year. Now, you know, here's another one, Sam Pollard.
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Sam died six months ago. Hey, well, Noah Baxter Baxter.
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Her name is vaguely familiar. Yeah, he owns a hotel. You're staying
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in a couple of ranches too. He might have been the one who tried
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to have you thrown out. He also owns the Mayor young man about thirty
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thirty five. Let's go see him. Another drive, this time north of
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Culvert at the Baxter Wrench. We found No Baxter busy with his help shoring
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horns on kettle, A lean, tall man with thin features. If you're
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trying to find out if I haven't seen Pauline on the sly, well,
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she'd been married to George. Why didn't you come right out and ask,
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all right? Have you no? Not? On the sly There's nothing between
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us. George knew any time she came over here to see me he was
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a good friend of mine. I'm sorry he's dead. Pauline's a good friend
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of mine too, I'm sorry who people are thinking what you are about us.
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Let's go up the house getting cold? All right, Stan, It's
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enough for today. No, I got to ask you this. Where were
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you last Thursday, the day George died? Sir? Yeah? I was
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right here and you prove that. Sure? Ask anybody you boys want to
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drink? No, thanks, how I do mac mac? I didn't get
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it myself. When was the last time you were in cover, mister Baxter?
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Three four weeks ago? My cook and the others handle what supplies we
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need. Do you mind if we talked to some of your help around here?
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What do you want to talk to him about about last Thursday? About
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what happened when missus Henderson came here to visit. It wouldn't look good if
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she came here to visit me, wouldn't. Well, that depends on the
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circumstances. No, she'd come and sit there and read and look at some
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of those paintings. We'd talk when I had time. Anything wrong with that,
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No, mister Baxter, I think I ought to tell you. I've
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asked my company to find a complaint against Missus Henderson suspicion of murder. Oh,
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I like to tell you something. She didn't kill him, and she
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didn't have him killed. She loved him a lot more than George loved her.
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I think both you know her. Her dad was a drunken cowhand.
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When he died, George took her over, gave her everything. So you
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see, you're wrong. She loved George for giving her what he gave her,
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and mostly for being the kind of a man he was. I lied
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to you a couple of minutes ago. There was something between us. It
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was bound to happen. Sooner or later. She'd come here to cry on
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my shoulder and I my letter cry about George. He wanted to divorce her,
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didn't you know that? I had the idea was the other way around.
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You're all wrong. George raised her, educated her, made her into
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a woman, and then he married her, and she wasn't what he wanted
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at all. Do you know who George wanted to marry? Matty Nicka Baker
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the school Mark? Come on, Oh, there was nothing between George and
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Maddie, but there would have been if he lived. What about you and
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missus Henderson. Yeah. The thing that was between us was that I wanted
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her. She didn't want me, but I wanted her. I was glad
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when she told me about the divorce coming up. I really think she would
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have listened to me. But she wanted to be married to George. She
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really loved him. Sure you don't want one of these No, Nope,
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And I really loved her. I went to see George last Thursday this hotel.
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You know why to tell him to go back to Pauline. Yeah,
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because I knew what he meant to her. You can talk to my people
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around here. They'd lie for me and say I was here last Thursday all
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day. They tell you that Pauline never came to see me. They'd lie
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right down the line for me. But mister Dollar, I can't let you
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get out that complaint and take her in. One of my trucks was taking
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some beef to the hotel last Thursday. I rode in with the driver and
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went in the back way. I went right up to George's room to talk
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to him. Pauline had just left. I wanted to talk to him about
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the same things I've been telling you. I didn't want to hurt him I
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loved him the same as everybody loved him. When I got to his room,
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he wouldn't let me talk at all. He was mad that I interfered.
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He tried to swing on me. I shoved him once he went out
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the window. That's all I killed him. Expense account ida fifty eight dollars
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and fifteen cents. Hotel and food while in Colver, Montana. Item nine
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same as Item two transportation by train and playing back to Hartford Item ten eighty
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eight dollars. Miscellaneous expense account total eight hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.
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Remarks we still had to pay double indemnity Mattie, Nickobacher, Pauline Henderson,
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Noah Baxter. They'll pay another way with the hurt that comes to nice
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people. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Remember there'll be another exciting story beginning
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next Monday night next week, a real mystery complete with plenty of action,
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A beautiful blonde and a killer lurking in the shadows. Join us, won't
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you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours truly, Johnny Doller, starring
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Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written by John Dawson. It is
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produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast were Lillian baieff
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Irene, tedrow D J Thompson, Herblas, Marvin Miller Forres Lewis, Bob
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Bruce, and Russ Thorsonen. Musical supervision by Amerigo Marinho. Be sure to
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join us on Monday Night, same time and station, or another exciting story
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of yours truly, Johnny Doller, This is Roy Rowan speaking welcome back.
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You know, if I had listened to this episode first, I probably would
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have had a much bigger plausibility issue with Johnny encouraging the insurance company to press
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ahead with trying to get the widow charged with murder based on the fact that
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it may not have been an accidental death. But after what we heard in
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Carter Brown, this doesn't seem quite as egregious. This was based on a
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John Lon Johnny Dollar script, The Underwood Matter, we played at his episode
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five hundred and seventy back on December thirtieth, two thousand and eleven, first
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aired February twenty seventh, nineteen fifty three, and like a lot of the
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one scripts, there was definitely this one heads up to an anti climatic conclusion,
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and really you get the sense that Johnny's from lack of award, his
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sort of prejudice from all the years that he has been an insurance investigation playing
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the percentages, that he had a really firm idea of what was going on
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and how this was going to go, and really un characteristically, I think
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in some ways when off half cock just kind of on instinct here and it
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didn't quite turn out in this episode. But of course next week's another case,
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so we'll resume on Monday with another Johnny Dowler story with Bob Bailey.
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Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we begin with Kelly,
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who says, Adam Adam Adam. Even after that nice man called and told
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you how to pronounce it correctly, you still kept saying wrong. It's not
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Shastovic, it's Shastakovich. Please do the man the honor saying his name right.
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Shostakovich, Shasta to Kovich, and I will say Miakopa, Kelly.
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Sometimes it's weird. There are certain names that I will struggle with pronounced pronouncing
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right. I know that in earlier episodes I made a key fo pau not
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pronouncing POI row right. But we mean no respect to mister Shastakovich, the
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author the imposer of the opening theme, and we will try and say his
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name right in the future, and my apologies for them a stake on that,
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Thanks so much, Kelly. Finally, we have a tweet. The
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one negative on doing some of the short series is we don't get listener feedback
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until after we're done recording them. But we do have a tweet from Decody
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regarding the Big Guy, who writes it is sure to friend than the other
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shows you play, but not bad. Well, thanks so much, and
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I'm glad you enjoyed the Big Guy and hope you'll enjoy Mister Moto coming up
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next week. Well. Also this weekend we will have the one public domain
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Mister Moto movie. Mister Moto's Last Morning will be this month's video theater of
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more details in terms of family friendliness and stuff like that at the end of
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tomorrow's episode of the Lineup. Remember we will be back on Monday with another
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episode of Johnny Doller and on Friday. Join us for a brand new Carter
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Brown story starting next Friday. In the meantime, send your comments to Box
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