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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Salkoff Sequel Matter (EP1609) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Dollar Air dot com. First. Well, now from March the sixteenth of
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nineteen fifty eight, it's time for the Southcoffe sequel. Matter here on yours
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truly, Johnny Dollar from Hollywood. It's time Dollar ar Gott it Dollar,
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Gotty Dollar. Yeah, I'm Johnny Doller, a's bunk off by and novels,
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mister Darland, but my plains about it. Take off, I'll get
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back. Hey, look my name is Dollar. I understand you have a
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Oh thanks, Johnny Deller, jod Swamp, Johnny, the Chamber of Commerce.
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Oh, Todd, Look, I'm sorry I didn't have a chance to
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say good bye to you. And I appreciate all your house, like your
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city too, nice people, good fishing. But I barely had time to
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make my plane reservation, packed myself. You've got to cancel your reservation.
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Cancel my plans already to leave. Earl Forman is on his way to the
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airport now to pick you up and bring you back here. Look, we
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proved that the accident in that rocket fuel laboratory was an accident, doctor alworths
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technician, that Leon Southoff is not a Russian spy, so the company will
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pay for the damage, and that's that. Well. The company also pay
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a claim on Leon Salkoff. Don't see why not? Now, Look,
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I gotta catch my what south Koff is dead? Johnny? It looks like
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murder. Oh, Bob Bailey in the exciting Adventures of the Man with the
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action packed expenser. Call America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator as Truly Johnny Dell and
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now act one of yours, Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special
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Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri State Life and Casually Insurance Company Sarah so Outa,
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Florida, following us an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the
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Salkoff sequel matter expense account out of one three dollars no show penalty for canceling
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the flight back to Hartford. By the time I hung up the phone on
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Todd swam Earl Porman had pulled a shiny new cat into the airport parking lot
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and we took off. I'm glad Todd Kotchie. Before he climbed aboard that
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plane, Johnny Earl, he said that le Unselkoff had been murdered. That's
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what it looks like. What happened. Actually he's just disappeared, but under
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circumstances it make it look like he's been murdered. Any idea who Johnny,
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You know as well as I do that he was pretty deep in subversive activities
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during the last War Yeah, but he's been given a clean slate, at
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least so far as our country is concerned. Right, but then wait a
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minute. If some of his old pals, and we know there are plenty
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of them in this country working for the other side, right, if they
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know he's working for us, the first thing they'd do, for the sake
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of their great and glorious cause would be to eliminate one Leon Salkoff. Yeah,
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or at the very least persuade him, and I mean torture him.
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And they're telling the formula the stuff he's helped doctor Alwood develop. Exactly where
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and how did it happen? Well, you'll have to get the detail from
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Todd. Swamp Us. Common people aren't even allowed to know where Allworth's lab
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is hidden away. You know. That's why I'm taking you to see Todd
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and drive on. Todd was waiting for us at the chamber at Commerce Building.
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He thanked Earle for dragging me in from the airport. Earl left,
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then Todd and I walked out to his car. Here Johnny used my car.
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Do you know where to go out to the lab? Yes, you
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still haven't told me what happened to Leon Salcoff because I don't know exactly.
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Doctor Alworth called me from the nearest phone down there, told me Salkoff has
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gone, that he's sure he was murdered. Have you dragged a police in
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on this. No, but I telephoned the FBI in Washington. They've promised
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to send him in all till they know I'm here. They might not want
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any interference. Well, I told them about your investigation down there at the
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lab, and they said to give you a free hand. All right,
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good, Well, I better get going, Johnny, let me know what
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you find out. Once again, I headed south and robbed forty one down
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through Fort Myers, Or I swung left on eighty two and on into the
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heart of the Everglades. I found the old wagon trail leading into the swampy
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jungle. Finally came to the shack of the Indian Benonziola. There I hopped
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aboard one of his air bows, one of those strange little contractions driven by
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an airplane cypropeller. Fifteen minutes later I pulled up at the breast covered island
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in the middle of that vast wet Soggi swamp. Doctor Alworth was standing in
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front of the well hidden laboratory. Mister Dollar, mister Dollar, I'm so
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glad you have left you. What's happened out here? Doctor, Oh it's
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been terrible, a terrible thing, like a nightmare. Here. Come inside,
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I'll show you and tell you everything I know. Oh, are living
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quarters down this car? Yeah, I remember. After you and mister Swarm
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left us yesterday, Leon and I went to work immediately to replace the rocket
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fuel additive we had lost in the accident. You investigated him, Yes,
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Oh, if only i'd paid attention when he told me about the man he'd
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seen in Fort Myers the day before, but we were so busy. Wait
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a minute, what man? Someone he'd known in Europe during the war,
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the man he suspected of now working for well, for those who'd like to
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sabotage our Come on, doctor, Look this is my room, and this
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right next to it is Leon's show. Great Scott, Yes, there must
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have been a terrible struggle. And doctor, this looks like blood on the
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floor. Now, what happened? Well, it was early this morning,
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before dawn. I heard voices in here. At first I thought Leon was
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shouting in his lead, but then he began to call for help, and
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I heard the furniture being knocked about. Well didn't you come in here?
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Something had been shoved against my door, this table, I couldn't open it.
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Then I heard the shot. I heard Leon scream with pain. Then
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another shot. Oh, terrible, terrible, come on do Then I heard
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them drag poor Leon's body away outside. But how did you get out of
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your room? By placing my bed as you see it now, I was
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able to brace my feet against it, forced the table away from my door.
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That now comes to dollar all right. I pursued them down this hall,
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but by the time I reached the outside door, they were gone.
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But unless they had an airplane, must I have hidden somewhere on the edge
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of this little island over There are a thousand places in the brush and trees
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where it could have been hidden. It d see look a thousand faces.
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I don't see Leon's airboat out here on the r they took it. That's
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why I think there was more than one of them. And now I must
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leave you. You what I must go into a telephone. I'll be back
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as soon as possible. I'll look wait a minute, doctor Rowlin, that
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you're here in charge, I must tell it phone the FBI head away.
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You've already even known of my bike. Well, I'll be dying if I'm
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gonna chase him. What's more, I doubt if I could have caught him
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in the old airboat that I had, So all right, it would give
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me a chance to look around along. Sometimes that's the best way. I
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poked around outside for a while, looking for where Leon's attackers might have concealed
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the boat they'd used, and that swamp and brush. He was like looking
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for a needle in a haystack. Then I walked back to the laboratory building.
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The front door was closed. Funny, I thought we'd left it open
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a minute ago. Oh well, huh, oh No, you don't act
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too if yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment, now act too, if
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yours truly Johnny Dollar, and the sealkof sequel mattered. I don't know how
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long I was out after the attack on me at the hidden laboratory in the
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Emuglades, But when I came to, I was lying in aur with bed
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across the roman a desk sat a well dressed man going through files of papers
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and folders. I played possible because I wanted time to think if Leon Salkoff
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had been murdered by some versions, then this man must be one of them.
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But how had he got here without all worth knowing? Or didal with
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no after all? Now that the time to think about it. His explanation
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of what had happened at sealkoffident pretty glib and the doctor sudden departure a while
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ago to phone the FBI, he said, didn't he know that Todd Swam
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had called him? In any event, he'd run off to leave me alone
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like a sitting duck. Who was the man sitting here? And why hadn't
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he killed me when he had the chance? And I rode over and grown?
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I had felt like it was split down the middle. Oh, well,
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mister dollar, you finally come around. Yeah, yeah, I guess
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so. Whether we were quite concerned about you, we I'm terribly sorry about
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what we did to you. But until we frisked you and discovered your identity,
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who are you? Weldebremen FBI. Oh, when we found you prowling
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around, we thought you might be one of the people we hoped to trap
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here the killer of Leon Selkoff. Selkoff is not dead, mister dollar.
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What if you forgotten the case here? In Florida that you handled last year,
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Parli Baron. Yes, another scientist who apparently disappeared. Actually, we
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had arranged the whole thing so that his whereabouts would not be known while he
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continued with his nuclear research. Yeah, I remember. The report of his
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death and disappearance was to throw off our perils behind the Iron Curtain, precisely.
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So now you've done the same thing. Ouch again, I'm sorry,
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Dollar, but we didn't know who you were. We didn't want to take
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any chances, you say we, mister Fridman, my colleague Mike Krusian,
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who's in searching the laboratory. Ah for what There are two groups, agents
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from behind the Iron Curtain who would like to get to Leon Salkoff, either
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to gain the secrets he's learned in this laboratory or to get rid of him
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because of his help to this country's defense and missile programs. So if he's
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reported dead, each will think the other did it and they'll stop chasing him.
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Exactly. We had to act fast because Leon has already spotted some of
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his ex pals as you call him, in this general area. Does doctor
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Alworth know this whole thing was rigged? No? And you mustn't tell him
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he's a great scientist. But well, he might let the cat out of
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the bag. Stall him Dollar, stall for time, drag out your pretended
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investigation. It'll delay always bringing in the police, that sort of thing,
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until we can take care of Salkoff, that is, install him in his
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new place. Well maybe I'm a little muddle because of this wallop on the
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head, but I should think you'd tell everybody you can. You'd know how
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to make sure his so called death is publicized, make sure these people are
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after him will get the word. Don't worry. They know I'd stake my
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life on it. And needless to say, if any of them come out
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here, we'll be ready for them. Oh, Michael, what did you
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find? Nothing a single? Oh? Say, mister Dollar has come too,
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almost say I'm sorry about the way I just loved your dollar. Yeah,
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me too. I'm sure Walla told you. Why you find anything in
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here? Wall No, I'm afraid we'll have to go back. Oh Dollar,
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Yeah, I take you. Doctor Alworth is in on one of his
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usual all day trips for supplies. Yeah, yeah, something like that.
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We've got to leave you for a while. You have your gun, you
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know what to do if anyone suspicious comes around. Well, now, look,
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when the doctor comes back, I'll have to tell him you've been here
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fine, and that we'll be back. Well, yeah, we'll be back.
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Oh sure, well, dollar, we'll see you later. How you
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rest you need it? You're not kidding a couple of money. I felt
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so rocky. I didn't quite know what you're making it. I heard them
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leave by the other door. Then a couple of minutes later there from off
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on one side, I heard their airboat leave. Wait a minute, it
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wasn't going out by the channel I'd been given to understand was the only way
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out of this place. Strange. Painfully, I rose and walked out.
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I headached so much I could hunt. You think straight, there's something wrong
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here. Oh sure they'd left me your gun. But yeah, they left
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it with me, all right, But the chambers had been empty. My
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airboat was still where I'd parked it in front of the building too. Yeah,
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and I wouldn't start Tampa wood. Maybe. Then I heard it,
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another boat coming into the regular channel. In the distance. I could see
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there were two people in it. Quickly I crouched behind a clop of brush
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until I saw who the two men were Mac McLaughlin. Oh all right,
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dollar, Oh, I said, you're out here. Mister mc laughlin was
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already on his way when I telephoned. Why didn't you tell me the FBI
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had already been sent for mister Dowd. I tried to, but you took
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on. Lord Johnny, what happened to you? Are a couple of your
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own boys? Did this? Mikel What? Men from the Bureau? That's
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what they said. And I was so adult from this knock on the head,
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and that's impossible. What do they look like? What are their names?
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What are Breandman? For one Blenman five eleven, spice, gray hair,
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blue eyes, about one hundred and fifty pounds, mark of spectacles on
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his nonavy discripsion. And the other Michael Krushin, heavy set, maybe five
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six, about two hundred pounds, all scarb or the right eye heavy almost
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gravelly boy. Yeah, Brenman and Khrushion. So they said, we're in
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trouble, Jenny. What unless I'm completely cock eyed? Those are the boys
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who kidnapped and probably killed Leon selkov Man. I've been waiting a long time
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to catch up with them. Their real names are Brenmanoff and Krushinsky spies and
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killers from you know where, Act three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in
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a moment and now Act three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar and the suck
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off sequel matter. Mc lachman, my old friend of the FBI, gave
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doctor Allworth a gun with instructions to lock himself into his lab and shoot on
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site anybody who set foot on the allem before we got back. Then we
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took off in the air bows briefly as possible. I told Mac, what
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did happened to be at the laboratory there in the middle of the everyway?
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Only a pair like Fredmanoff and Christians give it up the guts from person at
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FBI agents After that beating, I was too muddled even ask for their credentials.
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What I don't understand, Mac, is why they didn't kill me.
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They haven't yet learned the formula that missile fuel, so they've got to leave
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every possible door open, Johnny. But you convinced that from the bureau,
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so they think, yeah, well, the men they could go back to
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the lab after the doctor returned, maybe even get your help and obtaining the
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formula from him. Why sure, the abduction of Leon Sakoff would indicate the
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doctor himself is in danger. That's true, But if he wanted his work
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carried on, if anything should happen to him, well who better to give
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the formula two than agents of the FBI. On the way out of the
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lab, he was ready to give it to me. Hey, Mac,
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he and Kay's little visits. They're crowling through the lab and always papers.
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It means they didn't get the formula from Leon Selcoff, which probably explains their
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sudden departure. They couldn't find the formula the lab, so they'll go back
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and put the pressure on Leon again. Makes sense, Mac and I sure
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hope he's still alive. But where let's hope in all points Pulitan will help
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us catch up with him when they leave the swamp. Got to come out
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of it somewhere. They've had a big hit stern on us. Yeah,
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but this channel we're taking is the most direct route to the highway, any
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highway. They carried off their polls pretty well. They even know about that,
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piny Baron matter. I handle with you, boy, Why not the
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broadcast a whole on your radio show? It gave me Clarence or just keep
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mom about this affair half until after the boys on the East Coast launch a
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space satellite successfully. Don't worry. A few minutes later, we'd pulled up
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at bent Onciola Shack at the head of the bayou, where we'd left our
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car. Use mine, Johnny. It's better equipped than yours for whatever we
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may run into. I saw what he meant, because in the back of
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the seat was a regular arsenal. As we tore out of the jungle and
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headed south on Highway twenty nine, Max Short waved in all points to where
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we ti out on the area and to the state. Fool we're heading st
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Johnny, Because you said that's the way they left the island by airboat,
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right, Mac. But well, the way those rivers and bayous twist around
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in the swamp, they could come out anywhere. Well, I know this
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country pretty well. They'd almost have to go south to hit this or any
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other highway. You'll keep your eye field for any side roads it might lead
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into where they could land their boat, will you. And look what about
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this car that's coming at us. Man, he's really stepping on it.
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That's okay, Johnny's police Huh sure? But did you see who was driving
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it and who was sitting beside him. What Yeah, Khrushenski and our old
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pal bred mahloda your hat. They must have hurt the old point. But
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if they didn't, they're hearing it now in that car. And if that
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thing is souped up like mostly all right, boy, they won't get away
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from this old boiler. Mac wasn't kidding. How we held the road it
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over one hundred miles an hour, I'll never know. Thanks to the Saron
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on the stolen police car, the road ahead was kept clear. They must
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have recognized me though when we passed. When we finally started to pull up
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on them, they fired the first shot. I can't weave it this meet,
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Johnny stayed alone. I've loaded this gun from the stuff in the back.
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Watch put that lemon squeeze away. Good the tourmmy gun and back of
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the seat. Right, you got it, I got it all right,
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Mac, keep your hands on the wheel. Ghost boys can really shoot tog
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to the tillers. Let him have it right for the tires, Aim for
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the tires. Hold all that. You've got him. The goal off the
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road, Mac. If they hit that row of cyperate trees, they're gone
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there. Yeah, they are beyond Selkoff. Well, I'm afraid he gave
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more than his skill and efforts to the country he loved that had taken him
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under its wing. His body was found trussed up and floating face down on
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the bayou from which Brenlanoff and Krushensky had launched the airboat. Doctor Alworth,
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Well, now that the US Space Settlite is carrying out his mission, he's
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safely and officially working in the government laboratory. Expense acount total including incidentals and
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the trip back to Hartford. I'll forget it if in any way it helped
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to get the explorer out in space orbits. It's on me, yours,
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Trulie Johnny Dodller. Our star will return in just a moment. Now here
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is our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week a trip
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to a mining town out near Denver, Colorado. And for me, it's
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a little too close to the wild, wild West. Join us, won't
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you? Yours? Trulie, Johnny Dollar, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring
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Bod Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone,
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who also wrote today's story. Heard in our cast Worder Bellus, Vic Perron,
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Harry Bartel, Jack Pushan, Lou Merrill, and Stacey Harris. Be
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sure to join us next week, say in time and Station or another exciting
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story of yours true Le Johnny Dollars, This is Dan Gubberly speaking. This
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is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. This is Andrew J.
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Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a Man of His
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Wife. You're listening to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. Wow,
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what a fun episode. A couple of observations. First of all, we
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have Johnny broadcasting the details of the Parley Baron matter after clearance from the FBI.
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I'm not certain I would buy them clearing it. And actually, if
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I were Parley Baron, I'd be less concerned about the Soviets finding out what
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I was doing as I would be my wife thought finding out, given that
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he basically ran off without noticing that particular case. And it's an interesting idea
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that the Johnny Doller radio show is so popular that even the KJB is out
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there listening to it so they can hone up on what's going on. And
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it makes me wonder, was there a Russian version to counteract Johnny Dollar is
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Russwie. Welcome to Sege Ruble Adventures of the Eastern Blocks, Low rent Insurance
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investigator and now you know why don't make my living doing Eastern Block accents.
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But it's a wonderful thing. I just actually over a great detactives dot net.
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I'll mention this at the beginning of Saturday show. I'm doing a review
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of the Ellery Queen Show. And they had a character named Simon Brenner who
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was a criminologist who had a show where he salved fictional crimes and actually tried
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to take a hand at solving real crimes in the fictional universe of Ellery Queen.
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And you have to wonder whether that's sort of blend of reality was inspired
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at all a sort of stuff that happened on Johnny Doller. Also, we
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had them breaking out the Tommy guns. I don't think we've heard one of
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those on Johnny Dollar since the Edmon O'Brien era, and one the way,
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I guess it was a bit of a relief though, to find that Leon
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had died before him, because if they'd found out he'd been in the back
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of the car or hidden somewhere and they'd fired the Tommy gun into him.
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That would not be a good thing at all. Now, the actual real
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lifetiming of this episode, if you'll forgive the expression, this episode originally aired
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on March the sixteenth of nineteen fifty eight, and the FBI guy said just
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keep it off the show until after the Explorer launches. Explo one, the
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very first United States satellite, launched on February the first of nineteen fifty eight,
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and it was the first in a long line of the Explorer programs.
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This is really one of those things where you just get such a trait from
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the radio program. Well. I love many of the great modern radio programs
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that are being done. There's something about hearing a Johnny Dollar cold war thriller
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that throws in a bit of space race nostalgia. And I hope you enjoyed
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it as much as I did. All right, Well, join us tomorrow
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for Dragnet, and then next Friday we'll be back with another episode. It's
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during yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In the meantime, send your comments
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