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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter, PT 5 and Dr. Tim Detective: The Dog Who Did and Didn’t EP1075 · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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All right, well, now it's time to wrap up today's episode of
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and then afterwards Doctor Tim returns. But here now
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is the Laird Douglas. Douglas of Heatherscope Matter Part five from Hollywood. It's
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time now for Johnny Dollar, Ronald Kenworthy, mister good I want to talk
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to you. Are you at your home? I am okay? Then stay
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right there and I'll be able to see you. Why don't you send the
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police instead? What's that supposed to mean? A few minutes ago, in
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missus Van Playton's library, before you kicked me out, you practically accused me
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of the murder of her nephew. I well didn't, didn't, All right,
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Ronnie? Just calm down and stay put until I can get over there.
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You mean you want afraid I might try to take a powder, as
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you high handed detectives like to put it. You mean you want worried about
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tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to the
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Philadelphia Mutual Liability and Casualty Company. Following is the final report in my investigation
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of the Laird Douglas. Douglas of Heather's Scode matter. The whole case started
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out almost as a lark when I discovered that I'd come to Philadelphia to act
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a bodyguard. De laired Douglas Douglas and for a fat fee and virtually unlimited
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expense accounts me bodyguard to a dog. But it ceased to be funny when
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I learned that the dog's two previous caretakers had been murdered, and when only
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a few hours ago an attempt was made on my life that ended with the
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death of young Warren Staley. Yes, mister Dollar, I see, I
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guess I was so upset by the death of my nephew that I didn't realize
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the attempt was really made on your life. The second attempt, missus van
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Piden. What shortly after I arrived in Philadelphia, somebody planted a booby trap
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in my suitcase in my hotel room. Good heavens no. And you think
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that Ronald Kenworthy did that too? Well what do you think? Oh?
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Yes, Now that poor dear Warren is gone, there's nothing to prevent the
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Kenworthy estate from achieving control of the than Python holdings. That is, if
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I were to die go on upon the death of Harrison Kenworthy, the whole
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financial empire would be inherited by his son Ronald. So I understand Ronald,
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and he would be the wealthiest, the most powerful man financially in the United
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States. Ronald who pretended to be Warren's best friend, who pretended to love
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me. It's a terrible thought, isn't It Apparently ends up though, doesn't
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it? There is no question of it. But what evidence have you none
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yet? Well, then I'll help you get it, and I can do
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it, mister Doller. I may appear to be only a wealthy, foolish
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old woman who doats on her pet Leir Douglas, but I'm not. I
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astute, shrewd and clever. Since Peter, my husband, died, I
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alone have managed this estate, this financial empire. I use the word again,
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with my money, with my Oh yes, I can do it,
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mister Doller, and Ronald will be made to pay for these terrible things that
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he has done. I uh, I admire You're comfort nothing. No one
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can stand in my way. You see, I'm only sorry that a few
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minutes ago you didn't keep him here and make him face it. I'm going
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to see him now, Oh where at his home? I understand the estate
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that joins this one, Yes, but please look out for him. Shoot
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first, mister Dollar, what because now he may act like the cornered rat
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that he is. I decided to walk across to the Kenworthy estate and the
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wholt of fresh air would help clear my thoughts. Logical as it all seemed,
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I didn't like what I just heard. Then luck pure unadeliorated luck.
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As I walked across the broad lawn between the main house and the gatehouse,
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I passed the garage building where it's Rolls Royce, two Cadillacs in the station
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wagon, and then I saw him, Andy Laford alias Andrey Fortune alias Andrew
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Ford, one of the cleverest second story men in the country, with a
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record on the West Coast as long as your arm, A man who would
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do anything for money. He was hardly going through the motion of dusting off
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a car. I walked past quickly, not sure whether he'd notice me or
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not. I hope not, for it was one of his ilk food had
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to plant the booby trap in my hotel room. Who could have slipped the
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poison into the liquor that killed Warren Stately I turned in at the gatekeeper's house,
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Eh Dollar, I saw you at the question. I want a telephone
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quick right here, sir, it's something nice operator goat me Central Police Emergency.
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The man there in the garage polishing cars? And how long has he
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been here? Oooh more? Ever since the door ste would belly kill?
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What does he do? Oh? The driving for missus Van Payton. But
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there's something going Hell, give me Lieutenant Howard homicide after wanting the old gatekeeper
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and I'd have his head if he said anything to any want about my phone
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call. I left by the back door. I went over to the Kenworthy
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mansion, where young Roma was waiting for me. I must say before we
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go any further that I resent the way you ordered me out of the Van
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Piiton house a few minutes ago. Yeah, well, I'm sorry. Whether
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you suspect me or expect me to help you in this case. It was
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funny. You knew Warren Staley very well. We were the closest of friends.
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Confidence all right? Just how much did he really care about the Van
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Pyton estate fortune whatever you want to call it? To put it bluntly,
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he wanted none of it, and I'm afraid his aunt rather resented it.
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Well, why do you say that? Because her whole life she's been obsessed
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by an almost overwhelming lust for power. When Warren finally rebelled against this,
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she tried not to show it, but she hated him for it, unlike
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my father. Oh, I feel as Warren felt, and my father and
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I together have been laying the groundwork for dissipating the Kenworthy estate into corporate setups
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that will benefit many instead of just us. Does that sound strange to you?
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That sounds like true philanthropy. If you mean it, you must believe
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me it is, and I do mean it. Oh. I won't suffer,
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of course, I'll still retain some control here and there, but I'll
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have to work at it instead of just carrying on the tradition of the idol
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rich. I'll be a man. I hope you're telling me the truth,
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Ronnie. I believe you are, and I'd like to meet your father.
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You will, needless to say. It was much harder for him to break
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from this tradition of financial power than for me. So perhaps you can see
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why I admire him above all other men. Anything else. I'll see you
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in him. I was worried about your mister Dolla going over there to see
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Ronald Kenworthy alone after all that has happened. Yes, you should have been
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Missus van Piten, especially if you notice that I passed by the garage in
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the way. What I happen to notice someone there? And I think it
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answered a lot of questions for me. It was Andy la Fort Andrew,
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my private chauffeur. Is that all he is? Do you know him?
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Mister Dollar? Look, I took on this case, Missus van Piden,
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because you offered me a fee too good to be turned down and an almost
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unlimited expense account. You haven't answered me. I should have got wise then
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and there, but I thought your great passion for your dog was just an
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amusing foible of an immensely wealthy kind of foolish old lady. Oh, Laird
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Douglas is a dear one, isn't it? Why, mister Dollar, let
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me add things up. A few minutes ago you told me that, thanks
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to your wealth, in a very sharp, clever mind, you'd let nothing
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stand in the way of anything you chose to do. Please, mister Dollar,
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I don't think I understand all right. You made a contract with Harrison
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Kenworthy that you'd marry him when and if Laird Douglas beat that puff of his
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at the dog show, and apparently silly sort of thing. Yet everybody believed
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it. But the real reason for marriage to him was solely to acquire control
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of his holdings, increase this financial empire of yours, very subtle kept you
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looking like a cute, whimsical old lady. Why this is the most absurd
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thing I ever heard, so I thought at first. But let me go
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on, Oh please do when you realize that Laird Douglas wasn't ready to beat
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that dog of his, rather than admit defeat, rather than lose the chance
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to make this marriage, you ordered the murder of the dog's handlers. Then
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the contract was still just delayed. I won't listen to such terrible things.
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You'll listen whether you like it or not. You learned that Kenworthy and his
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son were planning to dissipate their fortune and thereby put it beyond your reach.
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Mister. On top of this, your own nephew, Warren wanted to do
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the same with your estate. This was too much. What you have said
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is too much. Then by the time I arrived, you learned from an
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expert, ray Roland, that your dog would never stand a chance against Kenworthy's,
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so you wouldn't dare let him compete At least until you'd hooked Kenworthy some
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other way, and part of your whole scheme was to build up evidence of
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attempts against you through the dog. Of course, though I'll bet you actually
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hate the munt. No, that's not true anyhow, From the moment I
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talked to Ray Roland, I was only in the way, so you tried
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to get rid of me. Had somebody booby trapped my luggy? You have
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no proof, Andy Lafort, this so called chauffeur of yours, would do
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anything for money, and I fully intend to break him down and make him
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admit you hired him as a killer. Listen, listen to me. On
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the second try the poisoned liquor, your nephew Warren got it instead of me.
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Fine, Fine, another obstacle out of your way. After all,
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he had opposed you, mister Dollar, how much do you want? I
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can make you financially independent? And you set your sights on Ronald Kenworthy,
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who was trying to break up the other empire you wanted to get your hands
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on. You even hope that somehow I might help you shoot first your cent.
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You don't understand. I was just what plans you had for his old
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man on that warp twisted brain of yours. I don't know, but I'm
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sure you had plans. Well, lady, now it's too late, No,
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mister dollar, No, it isn't too late. Stay with that drawer.
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You'd even shoot somebody down with your own hand if you thought it necessary,
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wouldn't you? But it isn't necessary, mister dollar. Are you sure
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it wouldn't be easier if I were just to give you, say, a
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hundred thousand dollars and two hundred thousand All right, Andrew? Right here,
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missus lampikee, Wow, wow, Hello, Andy, got a license for
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that thing? Want me to do it now? Missus van? Yes,
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Andrew? What if the servants hit a shot hold of Donna? Don't worry,
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Andrew. I'll take care of things, haven't I always for you?
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Yeah? Yeah, sure, sure, she'll take care of things. While
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you're pulling that trigger, she'll blast you down so fast you won't know what
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hits you, like it looked like we killed each other and leave her in
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the clear. She's got a gun in that drawbyside her, and showed you
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is that if you hear me out, I say, quiet. What you
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don't know is that she can't do without me, but we can do without
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you. All right, Andy, wait, now listen with you now,
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missus van all right, Andrew, now, thanks lieutenant. Oh lieutenant,
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then you saw he was going to shoot down mister Dollar. Yes, I
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heard too, missus Varan Phyton play. Oh no, you don't understand.
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Mister Dollar had come up here to talk to me. I wanted to offer
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him a deal more money for his work for me. I guess it almost
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didn't make it. Lead you keep tugging to him so long, got a
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cough dropping? Is this, buddy, the air bit of fortune? Oh?
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Shut up? What was that? You heard him? I beg your
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pardon, clever shrewd astute, you're just off your rocker. You'd have to
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be, I guess to start a thing like this in the first place.
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Well, I guess by the time the estate and inheritance laws get properly applied,
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the Van Piton Empire will be spread around the way Warren wanted it.
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Expense Account Item ten twenty eight ninety fair and incidentals back to Hartford, total
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including fees eleven hundred and thirteen dollars forty cents. Remarks I'm glad, I'm
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poor Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell you about
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next week's intriguing story. Next week an insurance swindle that really backfired. The
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only trouble was it caught me right in the line of fire. Johnas wants
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you Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey,
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is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone,
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who also wrote this week's story. Heard in our cast were Jeanette Nolan,
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Harry bartel Byron Kine, Jack Krusian, Bill James, James mckellian, Ken
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Christy Dick, Ryan, Bert Holland, Jack Edwards and Hi Everbeck. Musical
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supervision by A. Marigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night
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at same time in Station for another exciting story of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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Roy Rowan speaking where Where Welcome back Well. I told him that the scripts
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were getting better, and I think this was definitely a better episode than the
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last couple of Johnstone stories we've heard. This was not the expected result,
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although he did kind of tip his hand a little bit towards the end,
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with hers basically suggesting that they would support shooting down the guy who was the
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son of the other family. But other than that, I thought this was
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an interesting episode, even though it had that really kind of bizarre tone issue
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where Sirius the first two the last three episodes after being really a comic episode
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the first two. But at anyway, let's go ahead and take a listen
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now to doctor Tim Detective and today's story is the case of the dog who
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did and didn't to Tim Detective to bring you by friendscription the mystery of the
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dog that did and didn't. It had been a tiring week, and as
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I washed up after some experiments I've been making to determine whether a certain murder
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case that involve the use of poison, I thought what a swell day would
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be for a picnic in the mountains. It is early in November, and
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from my laboratory window, the mountains looked as if they'd been sprinkled with pottered
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sugar. I'll get Sandy and Jail, I told myself, and we'll make
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this a Saturday to remember. You see. Jill's my landlady's daughter, and
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Sandy lives up the street aways. They were both mighty useful time to time,
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and helping me to solve the mystery. I turned off the water,
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dried my hands, and started to go out into the hall of calls.
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Jill and Sandy hung the phone, rang him, Jim, Yeah, Jarvis,
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I've got a case that looks right up your alley. I sided there,
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I thought, goes my holiday in the mountains, because whatever my hols.
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The doctor Jarvis called it sure to be a case of more than ordinary
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interest. Jarvis works for the health Department, and I've been consulted by him
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on problems before. He continued, Yes, it's right in your neighborhood,
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Tombs. If just taken a woman to the hospital, and there's no doubt
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about it. She has Rocky Mountains spotted fever. What in November interested out?
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But that takes season has been over since well in the middle of the
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summer. Well, you can examine the woman yourself if you want to.
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But three doctors, including myself, has made the diagnosis and it can't be
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wrong. Severe chiln's followed by a fever of one hundred and four or five.
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Pain and the muscles and joints, and get this spotting of the skin
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has already started this morning. But where do I come in. Well,
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you and I know there's one cause and one cause only for a spotting fever
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ticks. She's been hidden by an infected chicken recently. What did you say
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that tick season has been over for several months now. Why don't you go
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over to the house. Oh, look, Javis, that makes you think
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I am the one. Well, you're supposed to be good at that sort
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of thing, Okay, but don't expect any results spotted fever in the winter.
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This plan doesn't make sense, that's all. Oh, give me that
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name and address. Slipping on my top coat, I tried to make sense
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of the puzzle. The address was that of mister Herman May, just around
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the corner from me. I recognized the name. I was a Willie May,
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a few years older than Jill and Sandy who played with him sometimes.
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And speaking of Sandy and Jill, it was curious eyes thought that I hadn't
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seen anything of them this morning. Usually on Saturdays they'd be clamoring at my
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dog here. Well, I needn't wonder any longer. I called, come
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in like a streak, A yapping hike dog ran between my legs, jump
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up and down and greeting, and then dash around and around my laboratory,
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barking and sniffing in great excitement. Sandy and Jill followed the dog into the
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room, more slowly, but obviously bursting with excitement. Sorry, sorry,
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come back to the systance. Oh hey, I'm scry. Got to stay
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caring. When he got away, a little ball of fur silent now came
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dancing into the laboratory from my adjoining bedroom. I blushed to admit that my
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ambassador house keeping his knowledge should be. The dog proved that for two days
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I've been looking for that particular sock the dog carried in his mouth. It
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must have been under the bed. Put it down stairs, put it down
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at one The dog off the sock and wagged his tail nearly off. Honeys,
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I'm awful, Sorry dat you, camp City. I'm really name.
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He's mad as you has to do. I mean the dog mother phebe Dick,
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I mean Reilly's man, and he has something awful. I could get
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what it's called him. It's called Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and it's caused
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by the bite of a tick. Despite its name, the disease is found
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in almost every state of the Union. The only funny thing is they aren't
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supposed to be any ticks around during the cold season. Good gosh, how
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did you find out not? Miss man detectives know everything? Sandy O have
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that ice tournament? Jackie Keating got him in a case already, but he
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can't keep us out of it because Willy na assus to take care of this
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jog's baying how he's doing already? There did miss a nice working and can't
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get off? And left the key with us to the doctors, is going
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to investigate? Can get in? And all the time it was you docty
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camp and then what are we waiting for? Let's get going. A few
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moments later we unlocked the door to the may house and went in silence and
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pondering. All equip men consisted of flashlights for peering in the dark corners in
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our search for the presence of another tick or two which might have been countered
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to the illness of Missus Maine. Each of us had an envelope, but
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a pair of tweezers, so as not to run the risk of crushing an
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infected tick and getting some of the deadly microbes upon ourselves. After a few
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joyful home coming yelps, Heiney disappeared to some secret place of his own.
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We began the search in earnest. We divided the front room and the adjoining
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dining room in the areas, calling across to each other as we searched for
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a chance tick that might be hiding. Yeah, I don't think I've ever
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even seen touched out as him. Well, you can't miss one if you
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find it. They're grayish brown little bugs oh less than half the size of
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your little fingernail, which makes them pretty hard to see when they're in their
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natural setting. Yeah, I know, I found them in riding laws in
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the woods. The bite is the bite of the stick if you've bought at
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season. The bite of most ticks won't. But there's one particular kind of
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tick. We doctors call it Derman Center and her SONA, which can pass
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on the disease to human beings. Gee, what ant He's just the season
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and they don't, Jill, They only carry the organism that causes it.
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I wish you'd quit you in Norse words, what the Heck's in an organism?
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It's an agent which carries a disease, but it's so small that it
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can't be seen except through a microscope. Yeah, but I'm still want Well,
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these ticks bite sheep or squirrels or parry dogs or kyotes that have a
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disease, and then they bite people and pass it on to them. And
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what we call carriers. They can pass spotted fever on but don't have it
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themselves. You think, just like the mosquitos did cause malaria exactly. Oh,
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I like tuh flaid Mary. They ain't about her in school. He
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goes hundreds of people's high floid after she covered some of his suff You didn't
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even know she was carrying the disease around. Hey, if bot some don't
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touch it, let me see it. I thought it was a kick.
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It's only an old piece of rubber band. Well, kids, we've covered
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these two rooms thoroughly. We can give them a clean bell of health.
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Let's move on towards the bat. By the time we'd covered the downstairs thoroughly,
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Sandy and Jill had received an elementary course in Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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They learned that it's mostly in April, May and June the ticks are active.
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They were made to realize the necessity for protecting one's self with heavy boots
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stockings, gloves, and tightly buttoned shirts before going into areas in the mountains
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which are known to be full of ticks. They learned that the only way
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to make sure even then is to have one's body thoroughly inspected each evening before
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going to bed. Thank explain how to remove all ticks gently from the skin,
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and removed them without crushing. They learned that the clothing must be inspected
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as well, and all danger of ticks hiding there eliminated. It was a
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good lesson, but we weren't any further along in our mystery. Just as
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we'd finished looking over the downstairs part of the house and the basement, the
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door opened and mister May came in. We introduced ourselves and soon were deep
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in comfort. Well, yes, doctor fire in the old hunting clothes and
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sheepskin jackets that they might it taken into tick country. I don't die.
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I haven't been outside my car in the woods and the metels for several years.
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Well, what about the dog, Brass he had a tine, has
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never been on a trip during the year we've had him. Finey hearing his
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name came rudily backing in bears a trophy exactly one half of what looked to
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be a bedroom slipper proudly he later performed. Mister May, we all quickly
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agreed that such a short haired dog couldn't very well carry ticks without their being
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easily found. Besides, he'd had no chance to pick them up. There
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was nothing to do but continue our search. Slowly we moved upstairs, mister
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May leading the way, or rather Hine leading, with all of us following
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behind. It was in the closet of missus May's room that our first break
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came. In the case, Stanley, he a shout, look a tit
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right here on this master colt. Quickly we gathered around. I took the
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coat, laid it on the bed, and then one by one hauled the
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clothes out of the closet. By the time we were finished, the count
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was five ticks under my magnifying glass, all of them we easily identified as
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the carrier of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the wood tick Derma Center ANDERSONI in
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the clothes closet of a house in town, months after the ticks season was
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over, here was a mystery. Indeed, in fact, in the excitement
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of our discovery, I overlooked what turned out to be one of the most
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important clues in the whole case. Honey, the dog came bounding into the
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room with a small box in his mouth. He shook his head back and
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forth as if he were worring a bone. Suddenly the lid of the box
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drew off, and some of the coppets threw out a messus butterflies the food
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of some collector's search of the previous summer. So man, come on,
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he rockets them out, pick them, and with a farewell to mister May
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and the promise to resume our detective work later, I took the kids out
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to eat. It was an hour later we sat over dessert in a downtown
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left had with both kids feeding their week's allowings into a jukebox while we discussed
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the progress of the case. Well, I got a theory anyway. I
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think it was murder. No one's dead in the first place. Now could
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it even be attempted murdering that one person in a million would think of scattering
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woodticks around a room. And I hope that the right victim would get spot
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at the beaver. I don't know, you know how that's complete? Widow
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picks that have detten him or young willing for me. Hey, that reminds
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me. We looked all over that dog gone hot, but we didn't remember
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the secret room in the basement. They said room. What gives this a
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Middle Ages thriller? Oh, it isn't really excent room. It's really sorry,
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drap as may killum to keep the collect phone too, keep hanging teleb
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on. Sure you go to kind of a whining passage, all painted black
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lighte ones spoil the pictures? Will he developed? Let me stop and think
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a moment. What sort of collections the master will he make? Oh?
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Butterflies, buzz and stuff for pretty apisots. Got that that's the first one.
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Now hold on a second. You mean the dog can go in and
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out of that room as he pleases? Drake? Can do you like as
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you can't like to connection? I'm not sure, but I think I know
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how missus May got footed fever. You kids dropping the car offside. And
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I'll make two phone calls and maybe I'll come up with the answer. And
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I did the first call of the young Willy May at his ants house.
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I asked one question. Willie said, yes, he did collect a lot
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of miscellaneous insects the summer before, some of them were ticks. The second
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call was to a specialist friend of mine who is an authority on the habits
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of insects. He assured me that certain insects that would tick among them can
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live in hibernation for months and still have enough life to attach themselves to a
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human being and cause the disease. It was obvious that Willie's tick collections,
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scattered around the bedroom by the dog, just as he'd scattered the butterflies,
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was the solution to the mystery, and it turned out later it was.
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Sandy and Jill were full of questions, but only one or two were to
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the point, Well what about moss mose d he get, Well, yeah,
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she has an excellent chance, Jill. Spotted fever is often fatal,
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but one of the new wonder working drugs is being used in a lot of
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cases these days. They're using it on her. Gosh, isn't there some
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kind of stuff like vaccination for spotted fever? There is that There isn't much
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reason for anyone to have those inoculations unless he plans to go into places where
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ticks might reasonably be found. It's not a sure method of preventing spotted fever.
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Even if used, the injections must be taken six weeks before exposure.
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Being careful is the only answer. Wow, this is here wanking where a
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dog was the carrier of the disease? He Jetty whyn't Yeah, No,
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you're your way now, the mystery of the dog that did. I puzzled
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over that one and finally came to a compromise. It's the mystery of the
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dog that did and didn't. This is doctor Tim detective saying, so long
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until next week. At the same time when Sandy, Jill and I will
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bring you by transcription the Mystery of the Girl from Singapore. Welcome back,
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good educational program. And at the very least, Cindy shows a very active
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imagination with his suggestion of murder. Doctor TAM's almost practically saying what type of
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show do you think this is? And that actually, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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does continue to remain one of the most lethal illnesses in the United States,
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so it's definitely messing. I thought it was pretty clever solution here. Obviously
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no criminal to track down, but they definitely do what they do pretty well
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in terms of making these medical science stuff interesting. Well, speaking of that,
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we have a listener comment from Clarissa, who says, Hi, Adam
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love your podcast. I've been enjoying the new Johnny Dollar serials but missing Sherlock
31:56
Holmes. I've also liked a few episodes of Doctor Tim, not particularly from
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a mystery standpoint, but because I think the medical knowledge from the nineteen forties
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is really interesting. I was wondering if do you know if the young girl
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from Doctor Tim is played by Sandra Gould, possibly best known as the second
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Glightest Kravitz from Bewitched. It sounds like her to me. Thanks for all
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the great mysteries. Well, Clarissa, thanks for the question. I delayed
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answering on the show just because we didn't have any Doctor Tam episode last week.
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But my answer is not in lightning though. I just we don't know.
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Doctor Tim is one of those shows we have very little information on as
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to who the players were or where it was even produced. It may sound
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like the character, but yeah, there's just no information really available on the
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series other than the name of the company that produced it, Monarch or Syndicated
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Monarch Program Library Syndication. Other than that, we have no information on it
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at all, and that it was released in nineteen forty eight. So,
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and what we can say about Gould's career is that she did do some radio,
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but when you get to nineteen forty eight, she was making appearances on
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programs like My Friend Irma, The Adventures of Sam Spade, and Feb McGee
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and Molly, which doesn't totally exclude the possibility of her doing an obscure kids
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show, but I think the career probably wasn't at that point. Personally,
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I lean towards this series. My best guess is that it didn't even come
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from Hollywood and was made somewhere else as an educational effort. I could be
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wrong, but that's just my best guess. All right. Well, and
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if there's anyone out there who has some more information on Doctor Timdetective, I'd
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love to hear it. But that'll do it for today. Join us back
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here tomorrow for the lineup. We kick off a new Johnny Dollar story on
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Monday, and Doctor Tim will be back next Friday. Send your comments to
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