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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Bennett Matter, Part Five and Crime for a King, Part Two (EP1033) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Detectives dot net. All right, well, now it's time to get into
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today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller the Bennett Matter, and then we will
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continue on with Crime for King. But here now is The Bennett Matter Part
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five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dillar. H Johnny Andy,
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I saw George Foley and able to make him changes. Please. Well it
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was a good try. Jury still out. Yeah, that means they're arguing
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all the technical evidence. I was just thinking, no one really believes will
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get Arnold Bennett. What do you think I think we will. I know
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we will if we can get fully, we can get Bennett women. Hey,
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the jury foreman just sent for the bailiff. I'll be right there tonight
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and every weekday night, Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with
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the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator is Truley Johnny Dollar.
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Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the for State Fire Insurance
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Corporation, forty sixty five Spear Boulevard, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is
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an accounting of expended yours during my investigation of the Bennett Arson fraud expense account
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at am eleven ten cents one phone call to the hospital. The report on
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Arnold Bennett substantiated the newspaper story that he was recovering from the gunshot wound inflicted
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by his niece. Well, one thing, Johnny, He'll be alive for
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us if we can go after him. I wish it would worked with Folly.
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I think I get amated work if that lawyer Eggleston hadn't been there.
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Let's after four. You know that jury doesn't come in with a verdict.
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Pretty soon they left to adjourn for the night. Yeah I want to smoke.
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Yeah, thanks, Jenny, I would like that. Yeah. Thanks.
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Hey, they're coming back in. Oh yeah, come on, all
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right, stuffy in this courtroom. Yeah, excuse card is no in session.
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We see that as the jury reached the verdict in the case of the
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State versus George Foley, we have sir, will you please read the verdict
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on this card? We we the jury find the defendant, George fully guilty's
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charge. Come, I got some things to tell you. Now, was
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this with you dollar Andy Cord with the insurance company? Now, look,
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I haven't got any deals to offer, fully, you know that. I
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know that's how I took a chance. It's a lousy five more years.
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What about Arnold Bennett? You're a lax. I want some information first.
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They only gave us ten minutes. Fully, well's Bennett Now he's still in
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the hospital. He's going to be all right, he's out, my man,
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it's a break. Oh, come on, fully, let's have it.
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If you have anything to say, can you get Bennett. Can you
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really get him? I'll tell you frankly, we think we can get him
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with or without your help. Now it doesn't make too much difference. Maybe
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it'll take longer without your help, but we'll get him. The fact that
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the court is going to convict you for having set fire to Bennett's office building
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is the lever we've needed. We can go after him now. You want
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to help us, fully, I don't want to help you, just thinking
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insurance company. But I hate the idea of Bennett, mister no one do
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everything running around eating good food and sleeping in his nice bed when I'm rocking
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on way in prison. Sure. Sure, he hired me to fire his
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building. He paid me twenty five hundred bucks to put the torch of that
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lousy build in his He said he could throw all the blame and a guy
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named MIAs it came out. We want the facts, fully, How do
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he first contact you? I got a friend of those things seeing My friend
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told me to contact when a couple of days for the job. Come on,
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fully, who's your friend? I'm gonna tell you everything. Did you
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talk to Bennett in person about firing the building? I talked to him on
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the phone after my friend told me about it. Bennett said he wanted the
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place to go down because he's having money trouble, taxes and all. And
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he offered me a thousand bucks in a job. Wait a minute, fully,
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you just said you got twenty five hundred. I did, I did.
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I hung up on him when he offered me a thousand. I called
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him back later on and told him I wanted four thousand. Well, we
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all gue about it and then finally hit on the twenty five hundred. Did
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you meet him then? Sure? No, I never met him. I
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saw him once and I walked by the bill and look it over, but
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I never met him. Bennett's sniece said she saw you two together. Fully
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a sworn statement. You know she's alive. How about the money? How'd
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he pay it to you? He left it for me and the check stand
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at the bus time and over on Fourth Street. I told him how to
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do that. I wanted to leave it. Now. Let me get this
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straight. Fully, you made the deal to fire the building over the phone,
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and you went ahead and looked at the job. You never talked to
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Bennett in person, that's right, And you made arrangements for him to pay
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you twenty five hundred dollars by leaving it in the check stand at the bus
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termin all. Yeah, why did you make these arrangements the day before the
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job? How'd you work it? I just told you, I mean the
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money, oh half of it the first time, and after the job was
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over, he left the other half on me and you got it all sure,
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sure in cash? Why are you trying to see him in the hospital
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after he was shot, trying to shake him down from another five? Come
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on, let's start over. What do you mean, Oh, you're trying
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to sell us a build of goods here? For what reason? I don't
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know, but I know this. You had to meet Bennett. You had
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to see him fully, You had to talk it over with him personally.
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I just told you I picked up the money in the bus time. I
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don't believe that Bennett wouldn't have left the money for you to pick up.
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You could have just gone away with it. And after the building was burned.
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If it had been that way, Bennett didn't have to pay you the
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balance. I wanted to just see him. It's pretty important to know when
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and where and how many times you and Bennett got together. Thought you said
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you could get him. Whether I told you anything that we can we can,
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brother, don't ever doubt that. But if you tell us some facts,
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we can get him faster. All right? Now, where did you
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first meet him? Was it in a restaurant someplace with people around? No?
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No, I met him in his car. He was park on Market
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Street in a fifth That's the way we ranged to meet each other over the
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fonts. Did anybody see you meet him? People on the street? When
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did this meeting happen? Night? I touched this building? He paid you?
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Then? Yeah, the whole twenty five hundred, all of it.
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What'd you do with the money? You still have it? Never mind,
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this is a waste of time. You weren't telling us anything. Why should
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I why'd you call us here if you didn't have anything to say? Well,
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I'm saying something. You guys are lessener. We continued questioning fully about
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his association with Arnold Bennett. Each time he explained it, it was a
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different story. The only thing he admitted was that Bennett had hired him to
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fire the building. As far as the details of it were concerned, they
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were lost in a jumble of contradictory answers. He gave us expense account at
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him twelve five dollars and sixty cents dinner for Andrew Cordon myself. The next
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morning we returned to the Hall of Justice to question George Forley once more.
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All right, folly, now, how much did you say Arnold Bennett paid
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you for the job? A thousand dollars? You told us twenty five hundred
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one time, another time you said five thousand. Now, come on,
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what was it? Thousand dollars? And when did he pay you? Right
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after I fired the building, I met him right af was down on the
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street in his car. He asked me if was all set? And I
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fell him elism with the sirens. Pretty soon somebody put in the alarm and
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the fire engines come out. He pay me then, all right, place
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was three quarters gone by that time. He knew I did a good job.
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Where was this she met him? Now? A couple of blocks of
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ability? Did anybody see you together? No? Where did you telephone him
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from for my place? Same night you started the fire. Yeah, and
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he brought you the money that night, and you cased the building that night,
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and you started the fire. All this in one night. You got
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it? Now, that's the ticket, boy. It became increasingly evident that
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Fully was attempting to convince us that he was mentally deranged, in spite of
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the fact that he'd already been tried and found guilty and was slated to a
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peer at ten thirty the following morning for sentencing. It's an old trick and
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with arsonists where sanity is question from the beginning a good one. However,
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Fully had been examined by three psychiatrists appointed by the courts. I went in
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the jail cell with Fully. Andy Coyd went out to get copies of their
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findings. When he returned, we showed them to Fully. Oh share,
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good you got, John, Well, what do you show me these things?
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To let you know? There's no way to get out of it now,
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Folly. These are from psychiatrists. All of them had a good look
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at you. You're sane, You're all right. Do you remember when they
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looked at you? No, all right? Look at the dates on the
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paper you can read, can't shore January fifteenth January sixteenth January twenty first witnesses
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were around for all the examinations. Well, well are you through playing games?
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Now? Okay, delly, you guys will come on give us the
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story. I met Arnold Bennett at the Hopkins Bob about a month before the
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fire. I made sure i'd meet them there. Now, what do you
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mean fully? Well, I've been setting fires for living for a long time
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now. I always have a list of people like Benn. I took to
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use a fire I get around. I knew he was in trouble four or
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five years ago with the income tax people. They sent a guy to prison
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for cover up, Yes, Tony Midas, and I figured he'd be needing
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another one pretty soon. So we got a drink. I brought it up.
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Who prayed for the drinks? Who saw you together? The bartender name
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is Alfred it was I made a d there a couple of people at the
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table. I put the proposition up them. How do you like that?
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Was Bill, and burnt down and collect his five hundred thousand dollars get himself
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out of trouble. Well, he said he'd like that fine. I told
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him to cast him five thousand bucks in advance. Said he couldn't raise that
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much, but he didn't manage to get thirty five hundred together. I took
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it and I did the job. What did you do with the money?
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I still got it where it's not going to do me any good. Now.
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I buried it in a gallon can a vacant lot over by the tower.
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I could show you where. Okay, we'll get you to do that.
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Swell, I'll be glad. Hey, I can send Bennett up the
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same way you are sending me. Yeah. I can testify against him.
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At his trial. The next morning, at ten thirty, George Foley received
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the maximum sentence. Two hours later, charges were filed against Arnold Bennett,
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naming him for conspiracy, arson attempted to fraud, and collusion. A warrant
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was issued for his immediate arrest, but it was never served. Arnol Bennett
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died in the hospital that night. In a way, you could still say
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that no one ever beat him. He beat himself. Expense account had him
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thirteen eighty seven dollars and fifty cents. Hotel on board in San Francisco had
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him fourteen another one hundred and twenty five dollars. Trans Vitation back to Hartford
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I had him fifteen thirty five dollars. Miscellaneous expense account total one and forty
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dollars and thirty seven cents. Remarks nothing yours truly, Johnny Dollar Remember there'll
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be another intriguing story for you beginning next Monday Night. Next week the Phantom
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five Matter, Death on the High Seas. Join us, won't you?
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is
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transcribed in Hollywood. Written by John Dawson, It is produced and directed by
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Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast were Lillian Baya, Stacy Harris,
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chat Stratton, Will Wright, Marvin Miller, Hans Conried, Edgar Barrier,
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and Parley Bear. Musical supervision by Abarigo Marino. Be sure to join us
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on Monday night, same time and station for another exciting story of Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar. This is Roy Rowan speaking, uh, welcome back.
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Well, I downbeat and as they don't as they in a way they don't
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catch their man. But in some ways you felt the insurance company was kind
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of, you know, they were kind of extending their goal, perhaps a
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little bit beyond what it needed to be, because ultimately, in the end,
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what they needed to do was to stop them from being able to defraud
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the insurance company, and so the estate doesn't get that extra money. And
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so I guess that I could consider that a win. The only thing they
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lost was having to deal with the Arsonists. That's what really makes things seem
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futile, because they went to all this trouble to get the information from the
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Arsonist and he, you know, he basically ends up not giving them anything
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because the guys, you know, because their suspect dies and they can't try
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him. Well, I should mention this episode was actually adapted from three different
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scripts by E Jack Newman. It borrowed from Jeff Reagan Investigator script The Man
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Who Came Back, The Adventures of Sam Spade, the Champion Keeper, and
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it borrowed from an episode of Yours Truly Jony Dollar the l Champion. So
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uh, this is one of those plots that E Jack Newman just reused and
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reused. All right, well, that will actually do it for Johnny Dollar.
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But now it's Tom or Crime for King. Part two, Gotta Brown
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Mystery Adventures in Excitement and Suspense, based on the best selling novels by the
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slick storytelling Sensation Gotta Brown. The yacht moved through a heavy swell at fast
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clip. My thoughts moved through a heavy head at a feeble crawl. I
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looked around me the cabin was fit for a king. But this king's name
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was Roger. And why Roger King had been drugged and then dragged on board?
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I hadn't the faintest idea. All I knew was the first I was
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working for Poulvy trailing Elite Increase. Then I was working for Elites trailing Pulvy,
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And in the course of that, Pulvy's secretary Marcia Oliver ped me a
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dope Martinian here. I was all set for a cruise to the Caribbean.
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I decided to come up for a breath of fresh air, mister King.
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That's right, Captain Harris, and it feels very fresh. Yeah, the
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swell is getting heavier. We look like having some fog. You have breakfast?
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Yes? Thanks, you run a first rate service for shanghaied passengers.
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We do our best. You don't feel like doing better? Still and telling
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me why I'm here and who owns this boat? I'm sorry I can't oblige
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you. Well, no harm in trying. Oh, mister King, I
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think you better go below. I've had my quarter of fresh air. Huh,
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I prefer in your cabin. I had one of the crew conduct you,
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well, if I'm going to be incarcerated for anny long periods. Do
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you mind if I borrow one of your bottles to keep me company? And
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not at all? There's a good supply in the saloon. You can stop
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off and pick up some of your way down. I didn't notice the rest
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of the day pass, due largely to the bottle, whose contents transferred from
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it to me made things seem less bewildering. And then it happened. I
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was flung from the bunk to the floor, the empty bottle still in my
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hand. I picked myself up and tried the door. It was locked.
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The engines had stopped up above. I heard footsteps running along the deck,
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and after a while it was silence except for a single sinister sound. The
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plash of running water cavin tiller to a crazy angle, and I could see
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the water creeping in under the door. And I was forced to the comfortless
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conclusion that I had been left to my fate. And then I was proved
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wrong. Oh hi, there, sailor, how's a hard pie. You're
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right, let's take him. That's just as well. We hit a reef,
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mister King got too close inshore, and the thought, oh no,
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I never plenty of yet it's bad luck for you though. If this hadn't
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happened, you could have enjoyed a ten days cruise and then we'd have dumped
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you someplace and that would have been it. As things are now, I'm
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afraid I'll have to kill you. Why, you bold bad boy. You
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see, we can't take any risk of you being around on the eighteenth.
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That was the whole reason for getting you aboard, to keep you out of
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the way till after the eighteen. No, I'm sorry, King, I'll
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have to give it to you. What another bottle a bullet? Are you
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kidding? No, I'm not. There's already about a foot of water in
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here. I'm gonna shoot you and you'll go down with a Hey. I
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think you're really serious, perfectly theoria, goodbye King. Oh no, I'll
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eventually never figured I was such a good shout on an empty bottle, the
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bottle I had thrown in desperation that struck Harris just above the temple. If
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i'd been stone cold sober, I don't think i'd ever have done it.
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I left him lying there in the water, which was rapidly rising in the
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cabin, and made my way to the deck. I looked at the reef
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on which the yacht had struck, then at the wave, now pounding hungrily
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against the sides of the vessel. Suddenly it lurched under my feet. That
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told me, as plainly as words, that it was my time to get
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off. Reef below didn't look inviting, but it looked safer than the yacht.
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Swung out over the guard rail and let myself drop landed on the rock
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and old forest. And as I picked myself up and stumbled away from the
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yacht, there was a harsh, rending sound. I turned to see the
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yacht slowly turned sideways and disappear. Then I headed towards the end of the
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reef. I remember staggering across the slippery rock service and then the sudden shock
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of the ice cold water, and nothing more. Take it easy, now,
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come on, come on, drink some more. Not so fast?
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Now, what's this? Bed? Blankets? Where am I in? Bed
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in my gottage? Mister king, Come on, have a little more of
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this brandy. Yeah, how'd I get here? I found you on the
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beach. You must have made it to the end of the reef and swum
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the rest of the way. Don't remember, only remember the water. I
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saw the yacht strike, and then I came down to the beach. Later
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I saw an upturned dinghy out of sea. Then I found you. What
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about the others don't know? Well, perhaps you'd better not talk anymore.
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Mister king, you know my name. When I stripped off your clothes,
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I took out your wallet. Naturally I look through it, but cat'sure safe,
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your license, your money, everything. My name is Wallace. By
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the way, you Wallace or mister Wallace. I guess I owe my life
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to you. That seems to entitle you to the whole story. And that
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said mister Wallace, right up to the time I saw the yacht go under
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the rest of it. Well, you know, it's an incredible story.
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What are you gonna do now? Going back to where I came from?
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I'm annoyed enough now to want to pizza revenge and another thing too. I'm
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curious about that date Harris mentioned, the eighteen. I'd like to find out
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why I had to be kept away until after that, and what exactly is
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going to happen on the eighteen What about the wreck? I've been thinking about
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that you saw an upturned dingy, looks as if the rest of the crew
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must have ground. I know Harris is dead, and that leaves me the
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only survivor. I'd like to keep quiet about the wreck for two reasons.
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One because explain Harris's death would be awkward. Two because with Poulvy and his
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secretary thinking I'm dead gives me an advantage. But of course your conscience may
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insist on reporting the thing. Mister Wallace, Well, it's up to you.
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You saved my life, and I won't argue with you on your decision,
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whatever it may be. I believe your story, Roger. It's too
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fantastic to be anything but the truth, and I'm only too happy to keep
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quiet about the wreck. You see, I'm wanted in four states for forgery.
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It was good to get home. It was good to roll into my
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own bed and sleep eighteen hours straight. It was close to lunch time of
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the next day when I got to my office and found an irate note from
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my employer, Miss Saint Cris. I flicked theleophone dial to the number in
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her note. Ah ah, Hello, good morning, Eliz, Roger King
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speaking. Oh, I got your note. A tone of it seemed rather
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angry, with good reason. Where have you been the last three days around
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A round is expensive by two hundred dollars. That is the amount I pete.
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You remember I want more than that, you, Darvin, I've been
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busy. I couldn't wait around my office for a call. This had better
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be good. Otherwise I shall ask Johnny to call on you and convince you
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that it is better to produce results. Johnny, who was driving my car
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the other night. I remember Johnny bends iron bars before breakfast, simply because
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he has to work off his surface energy. That ape, if he gets
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near me, I'm liable to forget. I'm trying to be a gentleman and
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break a chair over his head. Oh, I'll tell him that if you'll
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worry him for weeks. Now look leaving your playmate Johnny out of the picture
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for a while. I'm under something really good. I can't tell you yet,
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not until I'm really sure. This begins to sound like stalling to me.
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Just give me two more days, after all, as long as you
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know before the eighteenth, that's all right, now, very well. I'm
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prepared to give you two more days. But if I don't hear from you
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by then, you will really be in trouble. That I can get it
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misticate. So the eighteenth means something to you too, baby. The question
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is what? And I figured there's only one person who can tell me that.
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You learn all kinds of handy hints in the private eye profession. One
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of them is how to use a knife blade to open a window. I
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thought I had a good half hour before Marcia Oliver got home, more than
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enough time for a quick look around. The platinum blinds. Wardrobe was full
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of clothes, and if those clothes have been bought out of a salary as
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a stenographer, then brother I was gonna take up shorthand and typing. I
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looked around for a hiding place. Full length drapes over the living room windows
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seem to be as good a place as any. Arrange the drapes carefully,
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leaving myself a crack to seat throom, took a deep breath and settled down.
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Here we are money. I'll get us a drink. It's something I
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need more than liquor. Come here for Robbie. You're gonna tell me you
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don't like it, but there's no time. You can't stay here more than
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a minute. Ali's coming. One of these days I'm gonna wring his neck.
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You can do it with pleasure, baby, but not before it's too
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valuable. Yeah, it makes me sick when I think of that slugging you.
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It won't be for long. Now. Come on, let me give
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you a drink and get go. Skip the drink, I'll just have the
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same again. You must get out of here, Okay, okay, Well
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I won't be happy with the whole thing's over. That's the day I'm living
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for two lover, baby bye. You got pull one for me too,
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monsieur, Only this time you can skip the mickey fence. You're dead?
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You mean I should be dead, but I'm not. How did you get
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in here through the window. I've been behind the curtains for quite a while.
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Well, I don't know what you want here, But mister Paulvy will
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be calling very soon his regular visit, huh, which explains all that expensive
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clothing you ow. If he finds you here, I'll turn you over to
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the police. I don't think so, baby, not after that little sea
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trip you arrange for me, you and Pulvie. I presume I think you'd
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better give me a little information. If you don't, I'll tell Poulvie of
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the pretty little scene I just witnessed between you and dear Rodney. I'm sure
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i'd love to hear all about it. What do you want for a start?
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The eighteen? That's a date everyone seems to be interested in. What
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happens then. I don't know, now, Baby, don't start with the
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fairy stories. Holby says he's pulling off a big deal. Then there'll be
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a stack of money and I'll get some. That's all I know. Well,
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I could be true, I guess. And why did you slip me
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that dope Martini? I was scared when you said you followed me home.
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I thought Paulvey's wife might have put you onto me. I wanted to keep
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you here until I could get in touch with Paulvey and ask him what to
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do, and he suggested the seat trip. Yes, I don't think I
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believe you, but I can wait. When paulve comes tonight find out something
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deffinite about the eighteen. I'll call back around midnight. You'd better know then
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or I'll blow the whole works to pale Polvie. So it's up to you,
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baby, Welcome back now. After wonder what Roger King expects to get
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from the help of the secretary because nobody, including Roger King himself, actually
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believes that she doesn't know what's going to happen on the eight tapes. But
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we do have I think a decent twist in the story, and certainly,
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you know, we're halfway through it, so there's a lot of time for
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this to develop, so I'm going to definitely look forward to seeing what happens
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in the next part. Well, now we do turn to some listener comments
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and feedback mark emails in regarding Whitney Kent and the High Fly and the High
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Sky Hoodoo story that Kent guy doesn't know jack about aircraft. He mispronounced the
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aircraft terms to parafy it phrase the match read was one the speed of sound.
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He pronounced it a soft match A soft pronounced it much soft seas and
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it should be mock hard k word comes from the poly math Ernst Mock.
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My formative years were on supersonic air force basis. That's a good point,
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you know. I'm going to defer to Australian audience members to see if there's
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any local variations on some of those pronunciations. The thing with most of the
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Carter Brown mysteries is they really do try to set these stories up as if
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they are happening in the United States. But occasionally there's linguistic things that I
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think think, you know, just kind of natural to Australian audiences, and
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also you know, just to make it sound not too foreign, that do
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kind of make a It's clear. I remember one episode, I believe it
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was Back during the Night, Mere for Night, where someone mentioned going to
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buy a petrol, which isn't something that would be said by someone in the
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United States, which is where the characters are supposed to be at. So
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I'm wondering if there is some local variation. I'll refer to our Australian listeners,
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who, according to stats were our fourth highest source of listeners in terms
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of country US, Canada, UK and Australia, and then Germany fifth and
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everybody else further back. So any Australian listeners love to hear from you if
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there was some local variation. Finally, have this comment from ec fan regarding
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the app the latest update. Oh sorry, this one's from Michelle Myers.
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Excuse me, I love this app. Adam does a great job setting the
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stage for the various shows, as well as helping to give historical perspectives each
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show. Great job, Adam, look forward to listening for years to come.
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Well, thanks so much, Michelle, that we'll do it for today.
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Join us back here tomorrow we will continue on with the lineup, then
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coming on Monday, another Johnny Dollar Cereal, and then on Friday we continue
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