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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Phantom Chase Matter, Parts Eight and Nine (EP1243) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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War The War dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, it's been two weeks
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and we're going to go ahead and wrap up the Phantom Chase matter. So
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here is part eight in part nine from Hollywood, It's time now for Johnny
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Dollar Boy genius. Oh look, Johnny, don't blame yourself. We come
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here to Lagos Island to pick up Tom Chase. So what happens? He
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circles around behind us, grabs a boat and takes off. How could you
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help it? I should have figured what he was up to. He was
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all alone here on the island, no way to get off, so we
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obligingly show up in a boat. He pins us down on the end of
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brush with a few wild shots while he works his way around to the boat.
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Well, one thing I got to admit, Lola, your husband's no
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dummy. Please, Johnny, I just soon not be reminded of Tom's cleverness,
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bezzlement, murder, escape. If that's cleverness, I don't want any
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part of it. I hope you're going to turn himself in. That chance
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of that, maybe if he goes back to Barbados, we can find in
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there overlooking one small detail alone. You and I are now in the same
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spot, Tom Chase. Wise, we're alone on this island, and there's
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no way off. Tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed
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Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous freelance insurance
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Investigator Ours Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, Largos
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Island, three hours by boat from Barbados and the British West Indies to the
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Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut assignment the Phantom Chase matter expense
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account continued. I was getting nowhere. I've been on the trail of Tom
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Chase ever since he'dn' bazzle one hundred and twenty thousand dollars from his New York
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investment firm and jump Baale first to New Orleans. There, a man named
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Freddy Quintenna had offered to deliver Chase for a price, but Quintana had wound
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up dead in an alley. Obviously, Tom Chase didn't want to be delivered.
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I'd finally tracked him to Barbados and found a fisherman who told me he'd
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brought Chase here to Lagos Island. Chase's wife, Lola had flown to Barbados
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and insisted on coming with me to the island, hoping she could convince her
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husband to turn himself in. But instead, Chase had maneuvered us away from
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the boat I'd rented and had taken off in it. And now Lola and
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I were out in the middle of nowhere, but really nowhere. What are
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we going to do? Johnny, you know that's a good question. Moller,
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police inspector Whitsid back at Barbados told me that nobody comes near Lagos Island
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anymore, not even fishermen. We may be here quite a while. We
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don't even have any food. Well, let'd abandoned house across the island my
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husband was hiding. Could be this food in it that he brought? Would
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you do me a favor, Johnny? What is it? I just assume
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you didn't keep calling Tom my husband. Yes? Isn't he legally Yes?
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When I found out he wasn't traveling alone, that it was a woman who
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arranged his hiding place in New Orleans, I guess I just quit thinking of
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him as my husband. Oh, how do you think of him now?
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Is a confused animal on the run. He doesn't seem very confused to me.
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One thing I don't get, though, what's that? Well that night
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in Barbados before you arrived, when Chase slug me over the head in that
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waterfront warehouse, why didn't he finish me off? Then he had a chance
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to take me off his trail for keeps. And today here on the island,
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those shots of his were plenty. While Johnny, I keep telling you
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Tom is no killer. I know he's an embezzler running away from the law,
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But I can't believe he killed that man. Couldn't Tanna, New Orleans.
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I can't believe, or won't believe. I won't believe I guess,
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yeah, and I'm going to build a fire here on the beach. It's
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just possible about my pass near enough to the island to see it. It's
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funny the way things work out. Oh, timing is always so bad.
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What do you mean, Oh, you and me here under other circumstances.
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I don't really think i'd mind being here with you at all, Johnny.
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I uh, I think i'd better start building that fire. We collected a
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pile of driftwood and brush and touched a match to it. Then we went
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across the island to the house where Chase had been hiding out. It was
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a pretty wickedy affair, but he left some food after we didn't, and
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we went back and built the fire higher. Then we waited. I was
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dragged by and I was sure Chase was getting farther and farther from me all
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the time, but there was nothing I could do about it. Finally,
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I guess I dozed, doctor, Johnny, What what is what? Look
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coming around the point out there? A boat. Come on, let's get
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out where they can see. What's the matter. That could be the fisherman
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who brought Chase here. If he's working with Chase, maybe he's coming here
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to try and finish us off. Johnny, do you hey, wait,
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that's a police boat. Yeah, it's inspecta whitson, Thank heaven, Come
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on hi, Inspector, yes, Inspector yes, yeah. Aside from getting
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shot at a couple of times, A bit of a girl, eh,
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pretty one side ago, Oh, inspect you of the most beautiful sight we've
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seen all day? Oh well, thanks man. And I couldn't raise your
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bar radio and decided to come and have a look. See where's trace?
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Who knows? He pinned us down on the underbrush with a few shots while
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he circled around behind us and took off on the boat. I see,
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I wonder why? About halfway here, I saw a boat in the distance,
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was two away for me to see who was in it? Which way
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was it? Heading back towards Barbados? And let's get this boat cranked up,
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Inspector. Maybe we've got a chance after all. I imagine Barbados looks
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pretty good again, do you too, It certainly does, Inspector. Yeah.
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And you came along and looked like we were going to turn out to
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be Longos Islands alders citizens. Oh yeah. Incidentally, mister dollar, do
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you know a trap named George Jefferson. Yeah. Sure. He's the senior
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partner of the firm chasing bezel of money from in New York. He's an
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old friend. Inspector Why. Well, he dropped in on me just before
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I shoved off. Huh, said he'd wait for you at George Hotel,
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George here and Barbados. Well, I found him earlier and he said he
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was going to catch the first plane he caught and come down here. Why
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mainly to take you back to New York. Now, Johnny, we've been
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all over there, yes, and I still think you ought to. Hey,
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hold it, what's the matter That boat on the other side of the
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pier tied up there? It's the boat we went to the island in.
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Yeah. Sure, so Chase did come back to Barbados. Good. I'll
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have the airlines and steamships watched, and I'll get word to the fishing and
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charter. But Chase is there. I think we can keep him bottled up,
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Inspector Whitz. That took off to cover all the bases, and I
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took Lola back to her hotel. When I got to mind, George Everson
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was waiting for me. I took him to my room. Any luck on
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Lagos Island, mister Dollar, Oh yeah, Oliver Bead, you were sure
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it's really Chase. You've been trailing all the way. Freddy Quintana, New
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Orleans stole a letter from him, one that he'd started to Lola. It
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matched the sample of Chase's writing. You gave me New York. And when
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he grabbed our boat on Lagos Island, Lola got a look at him and
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recognized him. How's Lola holding up on her all this? Oh? I
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don't know. She says she's all over being hurt that once she found out
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there was another woman involved, that killed her feeling for Chase. I'm not
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so sure that, mister Dollar, neither mine. Lola was completely devoted to
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Tom. She was bad hurt by his embezzlement, and I think she's still
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being hurt. Well, in any case, i'd feel a lot better if
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she'd clear out. Well, as you know, I came down here to
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take her back, but on the way I started thinking about it. Oh,
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as long as she is here, perhaps she could be a big help
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to us. Well. I still think Tom Chase would listen to Lola,
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even if he wouldn't listen to anyone else. Nobody could change that much.
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I wouldn't count on that, mister Everson. Yeah, still is worth a
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try. If it could only work out so that Lola could talk to Tom,
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or better yet, if Lola and I both could talk to him,
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or what would you say to him? I don't know what Lola would say,
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but for me, I'd put it to him that his only hope of
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straightening himself out is to turn himself in and turn over whatever the embezzled money
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is left all. Look, I'd even go so far as to guarantee the
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eventual restitution to our investors of whatever amount he's already spent. I know,
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to take time. Well that's pretty generous of you, mister Everson, but
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I'm afraid you're a little too late. Why in the first place, Tom
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Chase obviously is not going to turn himself in. He's had plenty of chances
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to up to now, and he hasn't exactly jumped at them. But if
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I I think it's well, I think he's got a good reason for not
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turning himself in. It's better than an even chance. He's the one who
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knocked off Freddy Contana, New Orleans, the man who offered to turn Tom
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over to you for a price. That's the one. Oh no, mister
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Everson. At this point, it looks like there's only one way for me
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to get Tom Chase, and that's to track him down and drag him in
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expense account out of twenty seven a dollar twenty American cab fare from my hotel
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to Colonial Police headquarters. Check with Inspector Whitstt, who, fortunately for me,
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he was being most cooperative. Chase hasn't contacted any of the airlines or
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steamship lines. We're in touch with the charter and fishing boats. He hasn't
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approached any of them so far as we know. In other words, the
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chances are good that he's still here in Barbado. That's the right question,
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is where right? Again, take a look at this map and you will
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see our problem. One hundred and seven to square miles more or less.
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Yeah, he could be here in the city around the stick, somewhere over
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here in the mirsl beach out Yet I somehow dot that. Well, it's
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pretty fashionable spot, and I imagine Chase that try to be as inconspicuous as
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possible. Yeah, so he's probably hiding out in the city here, well,
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there are scores of hotels and rooming. Hid it, I don't have
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enough men to no, excuse me? What's that here? Yes? Oh,
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what's the address? Thanks her boy? Yeah, things are looking up,
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mister dolla, there's a man answering Chase's general description. Just checked in
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at a hotel out in the north part of the city. It's the room
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at the end of the hall, mister donna. Okay, let's not be
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polite inspecting. Let's use the pass key the clerk gave us and bargeering in
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right. Ah. Empty. How about that closet nothing, windows open,
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and there's a fire escape. Yeah, if you lived in the is he
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there? There's clothes on the chair. Yeah. That jacket it looks like
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the one he was wearing when he swiped my boat on Longest Island. Did
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he We just miss him, inspector. I've been just missing him for the
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last ten days, and believe me, I'm getting tired of it. Probably
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only by a few minutes too, Sure, just a few minutes, but
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it might as well be a year. I went back to my hotel,
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I was beat Being always one jump behind Tom Chase was getting on my nerves.
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Sure, he was still in Barbados, but where that the rate I
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was going catching him was turning into a full time career, A career was
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getting fed up with. Then as I ended my room, I had a
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slight movement behind him. I realized all of a sudden that I wasn't alone.
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Don't turn around on why hold it very still? Okay, Look,
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I can save you some time. It's my gun you're looking for. It's
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in the should to host a lot side. You know, I just had
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a real wild idea. I said to turn around, keep your hands in
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sight. Okay. My wild idea is that you're a Tom Chase. Yeah.
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If I ask you a couple of questions, why not? Why did
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you do it the embezzlement? Was it because of a woman? It was?
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It turned sour? It doesn't matter anymore. And where's the money?
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That doesn't matter either. You won't get it. I see next question?
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Why did you come here to my rum, Chase. I've tried every trick
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I know to shake you dollar. None of them's worked. You've kept on
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coming. I can't stand it anymore. I'm sick of running. Give yourself
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up, Chase. It's too late for that. No, there's another way.
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I've got to take you off my trail once and for all. I
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love, sorry, but that's the way it has to be. Dyla.
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This is the end of the line for you, Johnny Dollar. It's Lola
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Chase. Johnny, hang up Dollar, Johnny are you there? Yeah?
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Yeah, I'm here. But right now I can think of a lot of
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places i'd rather be, said, Johnny, there's someone there with you.
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Tom. It is Tom, isn't it. I'm coming over. No,
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don't do it. I'm coming out away, Lola. He has a gun
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and he means business. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Barbados, British
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West Indies to the Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut. Assignment
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the Phantom Chase matter expense account continued Item twenty eight. Well a long about
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then. I figured this item would be around two hundred bucks burial expenses for
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me. Tom Chase was desperate, tired of running, and ready to take
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me off his trail for keeps. But Lola Chase's phone called me seemed to
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have a strange effect on him. That was my wife was yeah, that
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was all. Why'd you drag her into this? Dollar? I didn't Chase.
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She insisted on coming here to Barbados herself. Why couldn't she stay out
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of it? I suppose because she's your wife. That's all over. Yeah,
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I figured that when I found out it was a woman who arranged your
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height out of New Orleans. That's all over too. Turn sour, real
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sour. There's nothing left for me, I love, Chase. There's only
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one thing for you to do. Turn yourself in, turn over what's left
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of the money, and you'll wait for that dollar. There's only one thing
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left. Wait a minute. Killing me is not going to do any good,
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Chase. Somebody else will take over and keep after you until they get
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you. And they will get you sooner or later. You can count on
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it. I know they'll keep coming after me. I can't run any more.
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Dollar. I won't take it any more from you or anybody. I
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just won't take it all. I never thought i'd be glad to get hit
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on the head, but just before I blacked out, I remember being very
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happy that it wasn't the bullet in the back I'd been expecting it. I
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don't know how long I was out, but when I came to Lola,
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Chase and George Everson, were bending over right? Are you all right?
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Johnny? Oh? Yeah, I guess so. Brother. In my head
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feels like I was on a pogo stick. What happened? Mister dollar?
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Chase was waiting for me here in my hotel room with a gun. Why
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did he come here for a very good reason to take me off his trail?
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For keeps? Oh? Yes, But when you phoned Lolla, it
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seemed a time of a notch to learn that you were here in Barbados.
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He started talking wildly, mister dollar. Lola and I'd still like to try
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the plan I mentioned to you, are not hear me out? We could
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just be wasting your breath, Everson, Tom Chase is not about to turn
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himself in now or ever. I still don't get it, though, Get
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what why he didn't kill me just now? And why he didn't kill me
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before in the waterfront warehouse or on Lagos Island. He had plenty of chances.
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It's almost as if, yes, I'll skip it, Everson. Suppose
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you take Lola back to her hotel. I'm going to check with police inspector.
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What's it? Well, what't you tell me, mister dollar? I'd
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say, Chase is just about the breaking point. Yeah, that's why we've
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got to track him down fast before he loses his head completely. Oh,
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they're continuing our check of hotels and rooming houses. I don't think there's anything
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else he can do for the moment. Excuse me, what's it here?
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Yes, in just a moment for you and mister Donner. Oh. Thanks,
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Hello, it's Lola, Johnny. He was just here, Chase,
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swear here at my hotel cottage. Please come quickly, Johnny, I'll be
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there in ten minutes. I made it an eight. Lola was still trumpling.
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It was horrible. He was talking wild crazy. You see which way
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he went? Yes, I got to the window in time to see him
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drive off to the mountain. Johnny, we've got to find him. He's
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out of his mind. We piled into the car and took off after Chase
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up a twisting, steep mountain road. Tell me what happened? What'd he
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say? I've never seen like that before, Johnny. He's sick the things
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he said, like what? Then it was all over. There was nothing
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left for him that he just wanted to see me once more before before what
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he didn't see? But oh, Johnny, we can't take these turns any
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faster. I begged him to turn himself in. He said he wished he
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could for my sake, but then he couldn't. Look, Lola, maybe
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he just took this route across the island the way he was talking, Johnny,
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I don't think he was trying to get across the island. Look up
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ahead, that's the car he was driving. Park beside the road, next
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to a cliff. All right, Lola, you'd better stay right here in
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the car. Yes, I guess i'd rather. I walked to the edge
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of the cliff and looked down. His body was crumbled up on the rocks
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below. I climbed down. He was dead, all smashed up. It
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wasn't pretty. I climbed back to my car. Lola just looked at me
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with the big question in her eyes. All I did was not. All
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she did was slump over on the seat. I drove her back to her
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hotel and phoned inspector whits it. Then I went back to my hotel.
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Expense account had him twenty nine three dollars drinks for me. I thought about
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a lot of things. Tom Chase, who'd had everything in his favor back
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in New York, but who'd embezzled one hundred and twenty thousand, had killed
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a man in New Orleans for trying to turn him in, but who hadn't
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killed me for trying the same thing, and who ended up at the bottom
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of a cliff in Barbados. I thought about Lola would come a long way
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for nothing except the final heartache, And I thought about me, who would
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also come a long way for nothing period. The next day I dropped in
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on Inspector Wester at police head quarters. Well, Dollar, i've missed you.
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Uh, I sort of took time out for a while, Inspector,
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I don't wonder. Yeah, this is Chase, of course, identified the
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buddy. The inquest was this morning, let it suicide buryls this afternoon here
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in Barbados. At first, missus Chase wanted to take the body back to
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New York, but mister Everson felt that that would just be adding another painful
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experience to those she'd already been through. Ah yeah, well I still don't
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have the money chasing Bezel. Inspector him, no, and offend. I'd
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say, the chances are finding it, We're not too good. Did you
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find anything at all in Chase's pockets that might give me a lead. Ooh,
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just the usual loose change his wallet, cigarettes, some matches and co
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book matches. Yeah, when the water burnt bar, we'll let me see
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him, inspector. It's not much, but it's the only thing I've got
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to go on. I went down to the waterfront bar named on the match
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folder and started calling the neighborhood. I checked every hotel in roaming house.
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Three hours later, I was about ready to give up, and then I
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found it. Yep, Chase's last hide on. I searched his room,
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but the money wasn't there. I went back to the desk and checked the
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register again, trying to find out if a woman had checked in about the
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same time Chase had no soap. But then I'd pulled out the sample of
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Chase's writing that ever since had given me a New York and I compared it
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to chase the signature on the register. A few wild ideas started chasing themselves
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around in my brain. Idea as I began to fall into a crazy pattern,
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Adam thirty twelve to sixty long distance phone called at the home office of
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Universal Adjustment in Haydford. I asked Pat McCrackan to run an air informing.
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Three hours later, we call back from New York City with the answer,
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yep, I'd come all the way to Barbados, but the case got solved
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in New York. I phoned Lola and Everson and asked them to come to
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the cemetery. Fifteen minutes later we met at the freshly turned grave. Mister
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Dollar, I must say you're not being considered the flower. I'm sure you
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realize it. Coming back to Tom's grave here is the most painful experience for
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I'm sure you had a good reason. Johnny, Yeah, yeah, I
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did. I wanted both of you to know what a jerk I've been in
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this investigation. Don't say that you've done everything that could be done, and
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I appreciate it. Well, thanks, Lola, But you see, for
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almost two weeks now, from New York to New Orleans to Barbados here,
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I've been chasing a dead man. Hi, I don't understand. I think
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you understand real Well, look here, if this is some kind of a
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joke, it's some very poor takee It's no joke. I've got a hand
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it to you both. Though you engineered the whole deal with just two people.
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What are you talking about dropped the act. Lola, the faithful grieving
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wife. You had me fool but good look, Dollar, You told me
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you took a trip alone about the time Tom was arrested. Lola, Oh
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that was true, but it wasn't to Martha's vineyard. You went down to
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New Orleans and rented a rum under the name of Tom James. You were
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the other woman I was looking for. That's a lie. You don't know
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what you're saying, Dollard. I Freddy Quintana in New Orleans showed me a
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letter Chase was supposed to have written. It matched the sample of Chase's writing
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you'd given me a New York Everson. Well, of course it did.
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That proves it proves that the sample you gave me in New York wasn't Chase's
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writing. I just checked by long distance phone. What Oh, yes,
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Freddy Quintanna played his quite real well. But what he didn't know was he
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was going to get paid off of a bullet. That was the day you
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turned up in New Orleans, Lola, to kill him. Shut his mouth,
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Dollar, let him finish. Oh, there's not much more. You
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hired the second guy to pose as your husband and lead me a merry Chase.
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That explains why he didn't kill me and why I was always able to
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pick up his trail. Again, I was supposed to. That's the way
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you were playing it. And all the time the real Tom Chase was dead.
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You probably killed him back in New York when he was supposed to have
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jumped bail and disappeared. Are you through dollar almost? Except for the money?
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You are the embezzler, Everson. It was you who juggled the accounts,
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and after I ran into a dead end down here with a fake Chase's
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death, you and Mulla could live happily ever afterward with the dog go on.
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Of course, the fellow you hired to pose his chase didn't realize he
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was going to get paid off the same way Contana was What are you talking
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about? The way you helped him over that cliff, Everson, to make
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it look like suicide. How did you know I probably wouldn't have tumbled to
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it if I hadn't checked his hand writing. Of course, you can't prove
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any of this, like to exhume the body, ship it back to New
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York and prove that it isn't the real Tom Chase. The bunny states where
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it is dollar Oh, put that gun down, and they already know most
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of the story. In New York, you're bluff And why didn't you call
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the bluff and find out. I think he's telling the truth, George.
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In that case, yes, you'd better take care of him, not we,
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Lola, not anymore. What do you mean. I think we'd better
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just dissolve the partnership. Don't try anything like that, George. This was
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our idea together, and you're in it as deep as I am. And
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that's why I'm leaving, Lola. I wish it had worked out, but
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as long as I do, can't do that. You've got the money.
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They both went for Everson at the same moment. The shot spun her around
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and crumpled her. I grabbed a gun from Everson. I'm afraid it's not
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serious. If his aim had been better, he'd have done you a favor.
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One thing I still don't get. Your husband wouldn't make any statement after
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his arrest. That means to me he knew what you were up to,
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and he loved you so much he was willing to take the rap. Tell
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me this, Lola, why did you marry the poor guy first place?
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Expenser count total seventeen and twenty three dollars. Lola and Everson were turned over
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to the authorities, and Everson gave up the key to a safe deposit box
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in New York where the embezzle money had been all the time. It also
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showed us the deserted spot on Long Island where he and Lola had hidden the
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body of the real Tom Chase remarks, Dear pat, next time you call
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me for an assignment like this one, I hope you get a busy signal.
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Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell you about
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next week's story. Next week, a body suddenly rises from the grave to
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take the spotlight from a Hollywood star. Join us, won't you? You're
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truly Johnny Dollar. Yours truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed
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in Hollywood. Written by Robert Wright, it is produced and directed by Jack
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Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Michael Ann, Barrett, Jack Edwards,
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Ben Wright, Virginia, greg Don Diamond, Boris Lewis, and Richard Crenna.
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Musical supervision by A. Marigo Marino. Be sure to join us on
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Monday night, same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, that was definitely a
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twist, almost worthy of let George do it, which kind of we were
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kind of set up with it looking like it be almost mediocre ending, but
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then we found out the truth and it's much more. I think of a
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classic hard boiled story the way that it ended as our whole understanding of the
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story and who the characters were literally changed in a moment. Though, as
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Johnny said, it was a crazy idea, but it does explain everything that
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happened in the story. Lola was the one, I think who really kept
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subtly giving it away in ways that we wouldn't understand and could perhaps only be
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picked up later. All right, Well, now on to some listener comments
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and feedback, and we start over on Facebook with this comment for Brook I
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love Johnny Dollar and I'm so sad the last of the episodes is coming up,
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And similarly a tweet from aug King of Bashian says, Adam loving the
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program, I'm not looking forward to the end of Johnny Dollar. We'll check
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out your books. Well, thanks so much, definitely appreciate you checking out
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the books. Regarding Johnny Dollar, this is not the end of Johnny Dollar.
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We have coming up, just the end of the serial era. After
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next week, we will have Johnny Dollars on Fridays for about another of four
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four and a half years, and most of that with Bob Bailey, but
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then Bob Readick and Manuel Kramer taking over. We have three and a half
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years with all Bailey to listen through, and then about a year and a
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half with others. So four and a half to five years left of yours
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truly Johnny Dollar, just adding some other shows on Mondays and Wednesdays. Ouga
30:29
also rights Adam. Is Rocky Jordan a program you have shown or one that
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might be coming up. I really enjoyed it. Thanks, I've addressed this
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before. Rocky Jordan is one we did during our preview series as a program
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we weren't going to be doing in the next year or so. But when
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we intend to do eventually, how soon eventually it comes, I don't quite
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know yet. I have very solid with my plans for most of the schedule
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outside of Tuesdays for the next couple years and on Wednesday for about the next
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four years. I'm pretty firmly set but we will. It's sometime in the
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future going to be a ways, but I hope you enjoy the shows we
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play in the meanwhile, and then Twitter user talking Donkey tweets enjoy the show.
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Thanks for all your hard work blessings well, thank you so much.
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I do appreciate that. Finally, we have an email from Michelle who says,
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Hey, Adam, my dad and I really enjoy listening to your podcast.
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We are We started listening recently in March with the Old Time Radio Superman
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show and the disappearance of Clark can't follow by the secret letter. We also
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enjoy yours truly, Johnny Dollar. We have serious XM Radio a classics Wich
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Pace Johnny Dollar, but we usually aren't in the car long enough to finish
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all five parts of the episode, or the episode has already started to Your
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podcast have been a great help. I was looking in the history of the
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show and found that Bob Bailey did an unsuccessful TV pilot of Johnny Dollar in
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nineteen fifty eight. I tried looking for it but couldn't find it. Do
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you know anything about this? Also, with the serial era of Johnny Dollar
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coming in to an end in a couple of weeks. Are you going to
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go back to the rest of the Bob Daily episodes if you already talked about
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it in a podcast we haven't gotten to yet. My apologies. Any information
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you could supply would be greatly appreciated, and we'll be definitely sending in a
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donation. Thank you so much for the show. Well, Michelle, thanks
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so much. No need to apologize because we've done twelve hundred and some episodes
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and you can't expect listeners to go back through all the shows and hear all
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the comments, So some way issues come up several times, and that's okay.
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As I mentioned before, we definitely are going to go through the Bob
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Bailey half hour episodes, and those, particularly the early ones, tend to
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be entertaining. The thing with the Johnny Dollar TV pilots, I've heard different
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things about Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey and TV pilots. Information I've been able
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to find was that there were two Johnny Dollar TV pilots made, none of
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which featured Bob Bailey. There also is a widely circulated radio interview that was
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done with Bob Bailey's daughter in which she stated that her father has given an
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opportunity to film a TV pilot, but was turned down because he didn't look
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telligenic enough. Whether that was a TV pilot for Johnny Dollar or a TV
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pilot for Let George do It, I don't know. I did check the
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Encyclopedia of Television Pilots and it lists two separate pilots. One was made in
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nineteen sixty two and it was called Johnny Dollar and it starred Gil Gerard.
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The other was made in nineteen forty nine and it starred Charles Russell. Was
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produced for CBS back in nineteen forty nine as a very early pilot, which
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was which if they're if they're accurate in the Encyclopedia of Television Pilots is kind
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of an odd thing to do, since Johnny Dollar had barely been on the
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air in nineteen forty nine. But thanks so much for the question. And
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if I ever track down a TV pilot anywhere, I will be sure and
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let listeners know well that will do it for today. Join us back here
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tomorrow for police headquarters, and on Monday we begin the very last of the
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Johnny Dollar serials, and next Friday, Manhunt returns, before moving to Monday
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for the rest of the run of that series in the meantime. If you
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