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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Alvin Summers Matter, Part 5 and Call For a Columnist (EP0937) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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that. All Right, Well, now it's time for today's episode of the
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Carter Brown Mysteries. Today's episode is Call for a Columnist, Part three,
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and coming up later in the program, we will wrap up the Alvin Summers
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Matter. Here now is Carter Brown, Cutter down Mystery Adventures in Excitement and
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Suspense based on the best selling novels by the storytelling Sensation Hot Up. Proud.
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People have open told me how much they envied me. Well, I
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can't blame them. Who wouldn't envy a guy right to call him like Dynamite
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with Johnny Lane, which is a four million readership, But right now even
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I wouldn't envy me. By the time Senator Rowland's ex girlfriend Fellman or two
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hudlums have finished with me, I was really in trouble. I knew what
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was going to happen when the two additions of my column that telmot forced me
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to ride hit the streets. When Senator Rowland, in the full pride of
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his position at the head of the Vice probe Committee, read those allegations against
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him and chief of Police so Burne, I could guess who was going to
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be on the burning end me and who add injury to libel. Tony Spencer,
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my bodyguard, the girl with a captivating curves and the concrete Constitution,
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at first rescued me and then slugged me over the skull. Y you're awake,
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Yeah, how are you feeling? Oh fine, just fine? How
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long did I sleep? Hey, you hit me. I'm sorry, Johnny,
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honest I am. But it was the only way to get you here.
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Where where am I? This is a hide out and mister Arts picked
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out for you. You're safe here, safe nothing. I got no time
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to be safe. I remember. Now, I got to get to the
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paper. I gotta stop from printing those columns. I'm a trade. It's
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too late for that, Johnny. What do you mean the paper won't go
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to bed for a couple of hours. Ye've already been to bed, Johnny,
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and so of you for three days, three days. Don't scream like
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that, Johnny, you'll burst me your drug just burst. I can't have
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been out for three days just from a tap on my head, of course
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not. I dosed you with a sleeping draft every time you woke up.
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And those columns, they've been published. Yes, Johnny, I don't know
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what you're so worried about. I think you're wonderful. They have the courage
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to say what you did about the senator and the chief of police. They
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gave it a special treatment both days, ran it right on the front page
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with a heavy black border around it. My obituary. Notice, Hey,
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butN that only covers two days. How about the day's issue? What did
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they run today as statements saying you hadn't had time to write your usual column,
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but that they confidently awaited the proof you're shot to bring in. Oh
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they were awfully nice, Johnny. They said that in spite of intimidation,
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rits and threats, they stood solidly behind you. Intimidation, rits and threats.
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Holy column, A dead duck. Look, I've got to get back
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to town before they served me up to the cops with cranberry sauce. Will
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there's no reason why you can't go now, mister Arts and I were unconcerned
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with laying you low for a couple of days. You did that all right.
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No guy could have been laid lower. I've got the car. I'll
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drive you back. No thanks, I'll drive myself back. As of now,
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your services are no longer required, Johnny, you'll need a bodyguard more
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than ever now. The kind of budd god that knocks me out call for
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three days. I can get out of a bottle and it won't cost me
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thirty five a day and expenses. Goodbye, miss Spencer, Monsieur Lane.
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I am so happy to see you. We have missed you. You're gonna
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miss me a lot more in the future, as you own for a number
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of years. I should imagine you are going away, Miss de Lane sing
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sing Alcatraz State hasn't made up its mind yet, but it will, Joe,
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it will. You would like a bottle of your usually too well pleasure,
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I will fetch it myself. Juny Oh, it's good to see you.
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Johnny. It's great to see you, Simone. A little luscious,
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feminine company is just what I need right now. I was so worried about
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your journey. Terrible man. Did they hurt you? They kills me?
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Ut you You are joking now, you know when you did not come for
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four nights, I was worried. I wondered perhaps if I had inadvertantly insulted
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you Ju. As long as you supply drinks like this, you can't and
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something. I am proud yourself, you with your Lane. The man who
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has the carriage to print what you have printed is a man to be admiring.
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But don't drag that up. There's a two million dollar damage suit against
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me in the paper, and my editor is going quietly crazy. What is
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the latest development? Perhaps you would give us the inside story. This You
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tell us how you're fiet against virus is progressive viruses want a technical knockout.
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It's only a matter of the referee counting me out. You must be somewhere
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around eight already. Truly, it is as bad as that, worse,
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much worse? Am I leaving all for a little while? Oh god not?
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I just remember someone only the duck, and I have to go out
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and shoot one who, Julie, you are in those punity. I expect
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to be in very high spirits by the time I finished this bottle. Johnny,
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if you feel though, why not go to my place. You can
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tell me all about it and it might help you. Yeah, I guess
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it. Man, Johnny, he comes trouble. I think when you're come
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to my apartment, I'll be waiting. I looked up to see what someone
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meant by trouble. I realized she was right ascending on me. Was Captain
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Stanger, chief of police, so Burns right hand man. Well, well,
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well, if it wasn't my favorite columnist, so that I'm captain,
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kill yourself drinking? Hey, when did you get back in the circulation tonight?
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I was kidnapped? Oh no, And I suppose you were forced to
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write those columns. You better think up something better than that, Johnny,
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boy or burns matter than a hornet. He's issuing a call for you as
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a material witness, and by the time the boys are through with you,
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you'll be happy to admit up with you who assassinated Lincoln? Okay, so
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you come to take me in till I get the handcuffs on me? Now?
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Oh, got me wrong, Johnny. I'm not taking you any place.
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Officially, I'm not doing and officially I don't even know that you're wanted.
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I yeah, just dropped in for a friendly chat. I don't care
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it. Why should you bother to tip me up? I'll tell you,
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Johnny, I think you're in a spot. Give me an original thought that
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somebody must have tipped you off to print that stuff, somebody who knew what
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they were talking about. After only, we're right about Albert Berraro's killing,
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wasn't they You mean they could be right about Senator rolland and place chief or
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burn or? Did I say that? I just figure that if i'm would
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you, Johnny, I'd find out and find out fast before you haven't got
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a chance of finding out, Before you've got bruises where your body used to
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be. I think it over, Johnny, and you don't have much time
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square blow. I watched him go, wondering whether he was crazy or me.
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Then I pulled myself together and left the club destination Simon's apartment. When
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a door opened, I thought she changed. Suddenly she was wearing a suit
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and it developed a blue shadow and her chin, and I realized it was
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her Daggio partner, Simon. I've come in, mister Lynne. I've been
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expecting you. Simon was caught up with some business, so I have taken
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her place. You won't mind if I say that it's not quite the same.
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Still, perhaps I can per squat what's up with it? You know?
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Endy, you, mister Lynne, the columnist of your non must fascinating
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life. It's all right when they can keep on living. It's a dying.
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That's a tough part, don't I don't understand. I died tonight professionally.
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Oh, you know surprisingly enough to lend. I think I can help
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you with your problem. You have some knowledge which should interest you, Okay,
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almost not. You know, yours is a wonderful country, mister land.
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Everything here is organized on the grand scale, even crime, the rackets.
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And there's a new type of recketeer today, the recortier with education,
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good social background, good standing in the community, perhaps company director, or
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even a politician. Is that not so? So let us take a hypothetical
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case. It's a politician who is also a recketeer. Let us imagine him
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controlling the vice and the profits of vice in the city. For a time,
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all goes well, but sooner or later, what you call the heat
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is on. People get tired of the records flourishing under their noses and the
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noses of the police. They protest, They use papers, take up the
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protest. Obviously, something must be done. And what what would you do
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in a like situation? Person, I may have been taken for a ride
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the last few days, but I'm not that I thought of that. One.
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You have yourself elected head of an investigating committee, inquiring a device in
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the city so that you can cover yourself and at the same time crush any
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opposition that might need crushing. Exactly so, I congratulate you, Missler.
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But this opposition you'll speak of is of course part of the politician's own crime
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organization. I didn't know that the way should you. It is that part
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of the organization that is being squeezed too much, bled just a little too
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much by the politician. They are not organized, and they are alarmed by
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the politician's coming activities with the Investigation Committee, but they lack the means to
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positive action. And then the politician, that's something varies. He throws over
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his girlfriend Falmer, whom he had confided him too long, too much,
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precisely, and Senner has some knowledge of events still happen in particulation, knows
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that one member of the opposition is still working for our politician. Well,
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that's just call him Rowland her and getting tired of this hypothetical case very well.
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So Selima knows that Ferrado, who is supposedly one of the opposition,
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is still working for the senator. He is to give evidence at the first
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hearing of the investigation Committee. He will reveal the activities of all the people
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in the Senator's organization whom the Senator wishes to get rid off. So Rowland
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Her Feraro kill. On the contrary, the opposition had him killed. Just
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where do you for under the picture, sermon, I am a member of
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the opposition. It was handed cleverly. I think Ferrado's deaths of the double
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purpose. It prevented him giving information, and it served as a warning for
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the Senator. And then and then we use our master's stroke. We needed
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widespread publicity for our scheme to work, and what could be better than a
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columnist with our readership of four millions? You, mister Lynn, don't you
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feel flattened? And I feel slightly sick, So I was taken for a
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ride by the way. First two are given several items to published. Then
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all that was needed was to move you out of the way, persuade you
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to write what we wanted you to write, and make sure it's what's published.
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At first, it seemed as though our plans came unstucked when your friends
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rescued you. But fortunately they hit you away as well as we could have
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done ourselves. What happens now It is a sad scenes to learn, but
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you will appreciate that the situation cannot remain static. At the moment the police
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send Senator on and I allied against you, your own newspaper will discredit you,
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so the public will begin to doubt your allegations. But one thing would
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convince them that you were telling the truth what's up? If you were to
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be murdered, then people would be convinced that you had been right, and
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that you had been murdered to prevent your presenting the poof of your allegations.
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That prospect, as it is to learn. Once you are dead, you
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will be a national hero, a matter think of the honor and glory.
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I'm thinking about what comes before that. I don't let you want you it
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will be a weekend. Don't struggle, mister, learn accept the inevitable.
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We experience the greatest adventure that life can offer. Death, I asked the
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kidder, and you as a receiver, welcome back. While the Australians in
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the nineteen fifties could be more cynical about our government than we were, and
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urban governments in general, I will say that that guy does make from an
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egotistical perspective, the killing of Johnny Lane seemed almost appealing to him. But
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he's kind of hooked on that whole idea of living. And what question is
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will we be allowed to You'll have to join us next week we'll wrap out
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call for a columnist. Now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dowler. This one is the Alvin Summers Matter, Part five, which
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was set up with a fabulous cliffhanger. Let's see how it all turns out.
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From Hollywood. It's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny Dowler. I
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told you that's my name. What do you want an alfa David. I've
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got to be sure. Look you've got me out here in the middle of
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the jungle with a gun in my bone. Tund I can't even see you.
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Do you think I'd be kidding you at a time like this? Any
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move, any move at all, and it'll be your last tonight and every
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weekday night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action
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Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar,
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Santo Tomas, Mexico. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
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home office Northeastern Fidelity and Bonding, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an
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account of additional expenses during my investigation of the Alvin Summer's embezzlement of seventy five
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thousand dollars. It'd am twelve two cents just what I figured my life was
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worth at the moment. Gloria Harris taking me down the beach and into the
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jungle to show me the hut where Alvin Summers have been hiding out. There
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was no sign of him, but I heard a noise outside in the underbrush
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and went out to investigate. I didn't see a thing, but I felt
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something, a gun barrel pressing against the back of my neck. I want
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to talk to your Dollar. You've got a point way of arranging a conversation.
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Believe me, I could do better if you take away that gun.
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Don't answer, I was answering. Wait, well, be in your hotel
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room in exactly one hour, Lork. What's this all about. You're looking
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for Alvin Summers, aren't you, am I I've got some information about him
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for you. Let's happened now. Now I've got to talk to you alone.
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Be in your hotel room in town in an hour. Understand, Look
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you as I say, and be sure you're alone alone. Okay, Now,
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just keep looking straight ahead, don't turn around, and don't tell anyone
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about this anyone. Understand you make it pretty clear. I'll be watching your
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dollar. You won't see me, but I'll see you. I can believe
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mistress. Johnny. Please, Johnny, Well here you are. Yeah,
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why didn't you answer me? I came out here looking for a guy.
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Remember, how am I going to find him? If I started shouting at
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you? I got worried when you didn't come back to the hut. Yeah
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that noise you heard outside? Did you see anything? No? I didn't
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see a thing, Johnny. Didn't you find anything to give you a lead
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on where Summers might be? I don't know, but you said if I
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helped you find him, you'd see what you could do about getting me a
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passport back to the States. Yeah. Sure, come on, let's get
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out of here. Suits me fine. This place gives me the creeps,
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all these trees, divines, broad daylight, but you can't see a thing.
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I know. My imaginations still working over time. I got that feeling.
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We're being watched again. Funny, isn't it? Yeah, real funny.
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We kept on toward the beach. Gloria was fidgeting because she thought somebody
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was watching us. I was figging because I knew somebody was, and I
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had a strong hunch he was the man whose long distance phone call to the
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States brought me down to Mexico in the first place. We got back to
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the beach, I took Gloria up to her hotel and went down to mine
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in town. As I crossed the lobby toward the stairway to the second floor,
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I'll popped to from in your face. Hello friend, Oh Carson,
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Lieutenant Gomez let you out of jail. Oh. Now, let's get one
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thing straight, friend, I never was actually in jail, and you're lucky.
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I've seen the jail. Huh. Oh. Well, I just had
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to pay a fine, and that judge they got in this burg read me
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the Riot Act. But then they let me go. Well good. So
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now it's back to selling zippers huh. Sure is. And I'm behind schedule
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too, checking out right now. As a matter of fact, a lot
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of territory to cover, Like I always say, half half the Earl's waiting
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to get zipped up. Yeah, you told me, I did say tour.
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I'd like you to do me a favor. Oh that little trouble I
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got in the last night up at the platt Omar Hotel. Sure appreciate it
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if you'd keep quiet about it when you get back the States. You mean
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you don't want anybody to know you got plastered, grabbed a sarapi and did
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defendang look a guitar over the musician's head. Now, can't we just forget
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up? Leave me? I had until you reminded me, Carson, I'm
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reasonably sure we don't know the same people that won't be seeing each other again.
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I'd say the secret of your lurid pass was pretty safe. Well,
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I sure hope so, friend, But about not seeing each other in the
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States, I was planning on looking you up, kitty, Yes, sir,
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I got a deal for you. Sorry, but I have all the
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shippers I can use at the moment. No, that's not what I mean.
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Friend. I've been trying to get you into a cribbage game. Remember,
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how can I forget it? Well, instead, I'm going to look
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you up in the States and let you teach me to play Jim Rummy.
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How could I be so lucky? Oh? Sorry, I think that's my
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fault. So along, Carson, I'll sure look you up back and I
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get old USA. Friend. Hello, Hello, Hello, m keep your
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hands on the table. What oh my shadow again? Anybody call you?
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Not that I know of your early I know and I searched your room that's
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become an old Santa Tomas custom to make sure you really were Johnny Dawes.
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And now you know what about it, you can turn around. I don't
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know. Maybe you'll tell me what wait a minute, A decent shave and
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you'd match that photo I have in my suitcase. Alvin Summers. Yeah,
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I'm Alvin Summers. I don't get it. I had you figured for the
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man who made that long distance call to the States that tipped me off to
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come down here. You're right about that too. You put the finger on
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yourself if you want to call it that. Oh what happened? Your deal
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go sour on you? Maybe? Yeah? Okay, sit, I don't
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take it easy. Tell me about it. I'll turn on the overhead fan.
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Pretty stuff. You can hear dollar that phone call you got just kN
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hung up. Clerk downstairs must have rung the wrong room or somebody was checking
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to see if you were here. Could be okay, I suppose you start
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from the top. What was that? Relaxed? Just one of the charming
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features of this room. Turn on that big overhead fan. It slams the
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balcony door. Well turn it off. Well you I'm kind of edgy.
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Yeah, sure. You ask me if my deal had gone sour. It
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went very sour. Oh, I had it all figured out. I was
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planning it for a year. I was going to embezzle a seventy five thousand,
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really live, live big. Instead of that, I spend all my
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time hiding. Mexico City, Guenelac at, Tompico, you name it.
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I was there, always undercover, always hiding. Could you ever spend much
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time hiding? Dollar? Not? Not much. Oh, it's a great
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life. Great. Every time somebody who looks at you on the street,
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you're sure he's after you, tailing you. You wake up in the middle
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of the night, you see a shadow outside. It turns out to be
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just a bush, but you spend the rest of the night sweating. Finally,
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I just couldn't take it anymore the rest of my life that way,
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you know, Summers, A lot of guys figure that out before it's too
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late. Too bad you didn't. Yeah, So finally I owned the bonding
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company, a long distinance. I knew they'd send an investigator. They sent
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you. I thought, if I could talk to someone like you, see
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what could be done. There's only one thing can be done at this point,
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Summers come back with me to the States, bring back what's left of
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the money. Sixty. That'll help. But you know there can't be any
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deal. Yeah, I guess I always knew that. Here, take the
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gun. Thanks. Now, what about the money. It's in a safe
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deposit box in Mexico City. Here, here's the key. One thing I
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don't get those summers. Yeah, you wanted me to contact, but you
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were sure playing hard to find. I had to be careful. I got
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to look at it the first day you arrived. I wasn't sure you were
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the one, so I decided to come to your room that night. But
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then I saw somebody else coming here, so I gave up. I wasn't
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the bellboy, but hey do hey gotta be just before he got knifed.
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Oh no, I wasn't the one who killed him. Dollar. I'm no
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killer, just the fool who runs away with somebody else's money. Remember.
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Anyway, I didn't have another chance to get to it today. I had
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to keep undercover so they wouldn't find me. Wait a minute, Wait a
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minute, who's they The man who arranged for me to come down here and
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the girl who was going to make it all worthwhile? The girl Summers don't
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Gloria, Hello baby here, let me lave the gun right where it is,
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Johnny, that safe deposit key on the table. I guess you're calling
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them thanks, And it all adds up. You found out Summer's here was
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planning to turn himself in. He didn't want that money to slip through your
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fingers. But Summer's disappeared from his hideout. You couldn't find him, so
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you figured it. Let me find him for you. That's right, and
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it worked. And you're so right about that money. You think I'd give
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it up? Now keep out of it, Alvin. If you want to
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go back and be a boy Scott, that's your business. The money stays
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with me, Johnny. This doesn't have to be the end of it for
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us. Oh so now we get the pitch about making beautiful music. I'm
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not kidding, Johnny. Sixty thousands a lot of money. You know.
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You put on quite an act. Maybe I believed a little bit of it,
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but if I did, I quit the moment you walked through that door.
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Just now, Okay, Johnny, that's enough. I thought maybe you'd
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be smart, But if you won't, you leave me no choice, no
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GLORYA don't glorious the balcony. I'm on the balcony. Hold it, Carson,
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stay right where you are. Brando, shut up. She's dead.
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She crossed me. You and she were working against each other. She wanted
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me to lead it to Summers. You wanted to find him yourself, that's
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right, And Summers you took a lot of fine. That's why you killed
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Benito the bellboy, to shut his mouth. Then you went up to the
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big hotel and clowned around so you'd get arrested, and that way set up
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an alibi for the evening. I was pretty proud of that little idea dollar,
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and it's all worked out just the way I wanted it. You see,
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right from the start, Carson was holding all the trump's. They were
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made out of lead, and I knew he was going to start dealing them
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any second. Then I remember the overhead fan. The switch was right next
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to my elbow. The balcony door was opened, and Carson had his back
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to it. What are you doing? Just turning on the and I need
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some air? Can you blame me? Yeah, you're sweat and aren't a
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dollar. It's no matter. You're losing your nerve. Well, it really
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doesn't matter one worth. The door swammed Carlson World and I knocked the lamp
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on the table. By the time I hit the four, my gun was
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out. I picked up the lamp and at it again. Summers was crouched
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in a corner across the room. Sitting on the floor was Carson, staring
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stupidly down at the red bullet hole in his side. I picked his gun,
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a boar. Summers call the police station, Lieutenant Gomez. Yeah,
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all right, help me do Yeah, it hurts, but not as much
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as it hurt Benito. And Gloria, you finally got me into a game,
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didn't your friend? And you lost Expense account Item thirteen double the amount
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of Item one, four hundred and forty dollars transportation back to the States for
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Alman Summers and me. And you know I turn them over to the authorities
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as soon as we got back. That's the way he wanted it. Gloria,
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Well, once in a while I get to wondering if she really meant
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some of the things she told me. Not that it matters. Conclusion of
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report. Expense account total nine hundred and twenty three dollars yours, Tully,
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Johnny Dollar. Remember please There'll be a new exciting story on Johnny Dollar beginning
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next Monday. Next week the Valentine Matter, And believe me, it's not
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the kind of Valentine you'd wish on even your worst enemy, Jonas, won't
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you, Jos Tulli Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Doller, starring Bob Bailey,
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is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by Robert Wright, it is produced and
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directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast where Virginia, Greg,
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Marvin Miller, Don Diamond, Tony Barrett, and Parley Bear. Be sure
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to join us on Monday night, same time and station for another exciting story
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of Yours Truly Johnny Duller. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, that
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Carson guy just gives cribbage players a bad name. Now, I wonder if
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he actually was capable of playing cribbage. If Johnny had nawn, he might
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have been able to call him on the bluff. But overall, a very
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nicely done episode and one of those I cannot find any other script it was
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based on. Of course, when I first heard the title of The Valenhei
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Matter, I was immediately reminded of George Valentin. I've listened to that cereal
30:56
there's no connection, but it's none the last a good program. And by
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the way, if anybody is aware of of an episode that of another radio
31:10
program that this was adapted from, and I'm somehow missing them, let me
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know. All right, Well, listener comments and feedback now, and I
31:18
have a message from Joel who emails in. I was interested to research Virginia
31:23
Gregg and himI Delbai, the producer and transcriber of early episodes of Johnny Doller,
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The Lineup and many other programs. I was interested to learn that he
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was married to Virginia Gregg, who played so many key roles Brooksie among others,
31:37
and was very active in television and film. She had a prolific career.
31:42
Delvai was a descendant of the Creole family who was among the founders of
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Los Angeles. It's interesting I had never known that those two were married.
31:52
Of course, Virginia Gregg. I've been completing my countdown of Radio's most Essential
31:57
people, and she finished number five, highest for any character performer, and
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she really had a great poise. One story I read about her on the
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digital delifgp dot com was that when she was playing on the radio. She'd
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often do different parts. She knew her part so well she would actually sit
32:22
and knit while she waited for it to be her turn to come on again.
32:28
She was that professional, that good behind the microphone. And he goes
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on to write your podcast to become a regular part of my nighttime ritual.
32:37
I prefer these programs to television and appreciate your hard work in diligence as well
32:42
as your commentaries in your distinctive accent. Is it native to Boise here or
32:46
from somewhere else and all? This is a great question, and I wish
32:52
I could give you a really good answer. Truth is, I don't know.
32:57
Both My parents were from the northwest over. My father served in the
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army, traveled around. I spent several years down south around North Carolina Way,
33:07
and then growing up, I spent several years up in northwest Montana,
33:12
place called the Yak And then we traveled to and fro up and down the
33:16
northwest with my dad's sort of a tenorant preacher. Then headed down to the
33:22
south for a summer. Yeah, a summer, I think I would have
33:25
preferred spring, but and then up to Montana. A couple of smaller towns
33:34
Eureka and then Kalispell and then moved out to Boise, so somewhere around there
33:40
in that time, I apparently picked up this accent, and honestly, I
33:47
don't know what it is. I guess I'm going on the assumption for now
33:52
that it's an Adam graham accent, and if anyone out there knows the source,
34:00
a blow me now. So it's a Grammy in accent. That's what
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we're calling it for now. All right, well, we will see you
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tomorrow for the lineup. Join us back here on Monday for another episode of
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Yours Truly Johnny Doller, and on Friday. Next Friday, we wrap up
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call for a columnist. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen
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