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right, well, now it's time to go ahead and take a listen to
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today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, the Clever Chemist Matter from Hollywood.
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It's time now for Johnny Dollar. This is Harry Branson at Philadelphia Mutual Life
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and Cadule to come. Oh hello, Harry, was with you? John?
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I have a case I'd like you to handle for us. It's well
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with someone unusual. Have you ever had anyone that wasn't completely screwy? I
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said unusually when I said screwy. So now that we understand each other,
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what's it all about? Well, absolutely nothing yet, but I'm very apprehensive
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about one of our clabs. Oh, Harry, the biggest worry. When
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I Avenue, what was that? I said, who is this clan?
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Doctor Walter Merrill? Merrill the scientist that's right, Nobel Prize winner, the
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man who worked out the molecular orbital contraction something or other. Yes, yes,
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that's the one. As I say, John, I'm worried. Well,
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who wouldn't be about him. I'll be right down to see you.
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Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the action packed Expensive Count
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America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator as Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special
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Investigator Johnny Dollar that the Philadelphias Your Life at Casually Insurance Company in Philadelphia where
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else. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Clever
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Chemist, Matter, expensive transportation and Incidental's Hartford to New York to Philadelphia.
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I didn't even stop to check my bag and headed directly for the Philly Mutual
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Building on Walnut Street. Harry Franson is a good insurance man, but a
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great worry. Nonetheless, he'd given me some pretty importantive tool. And after
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all, what do we live for? Hey? I keep it chilling?
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Thank god, John? What took you so long? Now? What's the
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matter, Harry? Forget to pay the rent on your office or just forgot
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the key? No, John, as a matter of fact, I had
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the key rent. This is hardly the place for levity. Well, surely
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you haven't been waiting here on the sidewalk ever since you call me? No,
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I haven't. But by checking plane schedules I was able to determine when
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you'd arrive, almost to the minute, and not wanting to waste time taking
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you upstairs to the oh here as no matter, huh boy, you should
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be here short wife. Well now, usually I arrange these things myself,
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Harry. Yes, and how we pay for you all? Harry? You
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touch me to the quick one. Now, Please don't misunderstand me. I
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don't mean that there's ever anything really dishonest about it. I want to believe
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me. I'll pad it to the hill if I think I can get away
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anyway, The most important reason for engaging the car was so that you can
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leave immediate Malica. Yes, New Jersey, it's us there where doctor Merrills.
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Yes, As is his custom, he chooses to work in some isolated
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spot where he can't possibly be disturbed. He and his colleague, that Collie.
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I always heard that he worked alone freelance, and you heard it right.
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However, he now has a professor, Theodore Nash with him. Nash,
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when avouting to doctor Merrill, never heard him. John. They're working
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together on what I'm sure is some top secret project. Oh oh, say
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wait, didn't Merrill have something to do with the early rocket experiments? Precisely?
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Which is why I suspect their present work may have something to do with
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the space satellite or intercontinental missiles or something of the sort. Yeah, possible.
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But what does all this got to do with you? Their insurance,
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Doctor Merrill has had a policy with us for some years twenty five thousand dollars,
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and fore he took out a policy for ten thousand beneficiary. Nash made
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doctor Merrow his beneficiary. All that sort of thing is often done between men
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working together, Harry, You know that, yes, so that if anything
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happens to one, the other will be financially able to carry on what they've
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thought. Sure right, which is no doubt why doctor Merrow changed the beneficiary
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of his policy to Theodore Nash Saw what's the worry? No sooner was the
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change made than I received a letter of protests from doctor Merrill's daughter. Oh
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she missus Howard Harding. She and her husband live in West Philadelphia. He's
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a welder for an aviation company. I think what did she base her protest
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on, Harry? She claims her father must have been coerced into changing the
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policy. Oh now, wait a minute. That sounds like the hungry relative
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who complains about being cut out of the will. It might if Missus Harding
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weren't a perfectly well balanced, intelligent, and I'm sure a quite unselfish person
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a completely Is she good looking? Well? Yeah? And the real sweet
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to you? Yes she is, John. I don't know what you're trying
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to impair. I do it every time, John, particularly when there's a
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bit of money involved for looking insurance broker like you. And you're a bachelor
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too, aren't you here? John? You're pulling my leg, Oh,
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Harry, But then I guess we're all suckers or something like that that has
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nothing to do with it. I've had these hunches before, John, and
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they've always been right. Even you will have to admit that, yeah,
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yea, I'll confess that in the cases I've handled for you so far.
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Why don't you call up doctor Merrow. I think the quaint old fellow would
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die rather than have a phone near enough to disturb him. And as we're
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oh, oh, there's your wrantle car waiting at the curb. So if
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you go, John and see what you can find out? Okay, Harry,
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it all sounds like a lot of nothing you're worried about, but as
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long as you're willing to pay for it, And I always did like South
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Jersey this time of year, I drove across the Delaware River bridge into Jersey
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and headed for Arout forty five, the Westville Wood Very, and finally Pittman,
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where I picked up around forty seven. What Harry had said was true.
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These hunches of his had a remarkable way of panning outs. And yet,
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oh who was I to complain? After pleasant hours drive through granberry bog
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and farm country, through miles of orchards and the intoxicating odor of the peach
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blossoms. I pulled into the quiet little town of Malaga. Population Oh,
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i'd say around five hundred. First off the post office, Uh, doctor
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Merrill, Yeah, sure, you go back the way. He came about
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a mile till you say. You see the name wompers bone wampus. What
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wompush means cat boom bungalow, wompers bone. Yeah. Yeah. And the
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doctor and the professor got the four cottage beyond it, quite one with a
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fence around it. Yeah. Good, thanks, And if you don't mind,
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you can take their mail out to them. They have been in to
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pick it up four or five days now. Oh, nothing wrong? Is
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he where wood? No way, those two keep themselves. You'd think whatever
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they're working on was the atomic bomber. Yeah. Well, just to be
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sure, you let him know that you're at the gate now before you try
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to go through the fence. Oh, it's not supposed to me. The
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professor sees you prowling around, he's liable to take a shot at you.
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As I drove back and toward the edge of a little not like a lake.
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The idea of getting shot at by anyone living in this peaceful quiet place
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seemed ridiculous. The lake itself, by the way, looked pretty inviting.
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I made a mental note to come back here on my own sometime after the
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fishing season opened. As the postmaster had indicated, the fourth cottage beyond Wampus
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Bung was heavily fenced in, so I gave notice of my arrival. I
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had barely left the car when the door of the little cottage opened. Yes,
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who is it, doctor Merle. My name is Dollar, Sir,
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Johnny Dollar, insurance investigator, Harry. Yes, and that's right, Harry
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Branston sent me down here to see you. Oh, come in, Come
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in. I'm most most glad to see you. Please come into the house
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all right, thank you. Is Professor Nash here in the in the laboratory.
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Please. As I spoke, the sliding door on the garage at the
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side of the house open, a rather swarthy man stepped out, quickly closed
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the door and threw a heavy bolt on it, and then looked over toward
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us suspiciously. Yes, because it's better that you and I talking in private
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alone. Who is that? Oh? Yes, Professor. If we have
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a visitor, why do you not bring him here where we can both speak
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for it. Oh oh yes, yes, good. This is mister Johnny
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Dollar, Professor, theodor and I Professor. I'm from your insurance Copany,
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just making a little routine checkout. Oh fine, fine, I'm very glad
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to see you. As a matter of fact, I wish to talk with
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you. How do you do now come into the laboratory, professor, do
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you do you think it w of course, doctor, since he is not
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the man of science, I'm sure that he's no harm. He's seeing and
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you have an experiment going. And remember within these four wolves, the genius
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of doctor Merrill and my own poor efforts are creating things that will startle the
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world. Outside, the small building looked like an ordinary two car garage,
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someone that need a paint and repair. But inside it was a maculate and
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loaded with scientific equipment of all shapes and sorts and sizes. There were racks
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of test tubes, bottles of chemicals, beakers, a centrifuge, machines and
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apparatus I'd never seen before, but I imagine much of the world never dreamed
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of. All of it is need is a pin, not so much as
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a stirring rod out of place. Look, doctor, the polymetization step is
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almost complete. Eh, you must continue the molecular balance check immediately. Oh
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oh yes, yes, and you must both leave me. This must not
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be seen back by anyone. We understand, doctor, We understand. I
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hope you will pardon him? Is yes, of course, doctor. Oh
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come, mister Dollar, I will lock the door. Yes, he does
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require privacy, doesn't he? Yes? Oh, hey, you're not going
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to bolt that door. Of course for some habit I guess, well,
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it is he who keeps things locked so tightly when he's working unnecessarily so,
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But then genius has permitted his idiosyncrasies. Harry Branson seems to think you too,
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may be working on something to do with guided missiles. Very perceptive man,
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but that is something we must not speak about. No, why have
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you come here, mister Dollar. Well, like I said, just a
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routine checkup. We usually do this when a sizeable policy has changed. Oh
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there is something unusual about two men working together on important things, ensuring in
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each other's favor. Well, no, but when he's there, perhaps object
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You know doctor Merrill's daughter, quite know about her and about her unfortunate marriage
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to that day laborer. Nothing wrong with day labor and professor, But one
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who waits for a great man like the doctor to die so that he can
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get his hands on the insurance money. You think that's why his daughter objected
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to the chain, of course, but his money will be used to further
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his work by me, and of course for the good of humanity. I
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see, well, how soon do you think the doctor will be through with
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this experiment? And now? Perhaps true, and then he will call me
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in to assist him with the next Aikushov step. But no, but look,
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why don't I run in town, arrange for a place to stay,
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grab a bite, and then come back here if you like. I'm sorry,
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we have no room in the cottage. No, I'll give it a
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second thought. I'll see you later. Something of Harry Branson's funship passed on
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to me strange feeling about the whole set. There was something wrong about both
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Maryly and Nash, particularly the ladder. Something I couldn't put my finger on.
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Was Doctor Merrill afraid of Nash? I don't know. I had him
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to a dollar even for a quick bite and a little cafe along the highway
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after I've made arrangements for a room for the night in a private home.
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It was not much over an hour later when I drove back to the little
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cottage by the lake, and then I heard it, someone pounding on the
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door of the laboratory from the inside, someone calling for help. Professor,
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put the locks on the inside, turn the lock, hold here on the
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What are you hold it? Good lord? Professor? What happened to you?
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You look like you've been run over. But to light, Professor,
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what happened here? Through an then God, Professor BacT two of Yours,
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Truly, Johnny Dollar. In just a moment democracy to the many who have
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lived under tyranny, democracy comes as a guiding light shining on a brighter future.
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That is because democracy stands for the establishment of government conceived from deep thought
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and free each choice, rather than being based on accident and force. It
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is also normal that the free choice of a democratic government happens because people who
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choose their own government are directed by true interests in the welfare of mankind.
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Democracy has been proven to be mankind's greatest legacy of freedom. Now Act two
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of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and the clever chemist matter expense account ad him
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three ten dollars for the services of one doctor Frederick Foote, the only resident
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medico in the little town of Malaga, New Jersey. After pronouncing doctor Walter
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Merrill dead, he took the badly beaten Professor Nash to his office clinic.
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While waiting for Nash to get in good enough shape to talk, I ran
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about him four ten cents phone call to the sheriff, who promised to come
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over as soon as you could enlist the aid of the nearby state police by
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me. Doctor Foot gave the word, but I suggest you talk with as
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little as possible, mister Teller in pretty bad shape. Doctor. The intruder
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not only beat him severely, but threw a bottle dance in his face.
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Oh, Rester, Nash will never have the use of his left eag again
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because of that nitric acid. Has Nash said anything that might help us identify
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the assayer than killer? Now? Please don't talk with him too long,
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Professor, Yes, yes, hello, professor? Oh you still all that
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I will never see again with my left eye if he's told me? Yes,
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I know. I'm sorry, but the great doctor Merrio is dead.
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What the Lord tell me? Did you see the man who attached him?
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Yes? Can you describe him at all? Yes? Young, not more
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than thirty five feet six or eight, very heavy. Yes, he stucky,
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but like curly hay yeah, and like working man laborer. Have you
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ever seen this man before? Some water? Thank you? Thank you.
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Do you know why he came in and attacked you and doctor man? Was
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he after something there in the laboratory? Only two killed? Doctor Mary?
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I tried, I tried to differ. I'm sorry, mister Doll, but
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I think that's enough. Yes, yes, okay, doctor, I think
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I've heard enough. I managed to get back to the cottage by the lake
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before the police arrived, and came up with one very damning piece of evidence.
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In one of the bedrooms, I found a picture of a wedding couple.
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It was inscribed love to the dearest father in the world, and next
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to the brides to the man who went answered perfectly the description Professor Nash had
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just given me the husband of doctor Merrill's daughter, Howard Harding. And then
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I thought of what Nash had said about Hardy, his antagonism, his conviction
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that Hiding was the one who resented the change in the insurance policy. But
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there was something else too that had happened when I talked with Nash in the
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doctor's office. That h By the time I got back to the laboratory,
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the sheriff and state police arrived. The sheriff, I'm afraid, must up
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any prince that might have been left on the bottle of acid. However,
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in the weeds outside a state trooper found the pistol, a thirty eight caliber
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lugar that had killed doctor Merrill. Fingerprints had apparently been wiped off, but
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the gun was carefully fingerprints. Before taking off in a mad dash back to
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Philadelphia, I stopped at doctor Foots and picked up one water tumbler. I'd
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him five three seventy for a tankful of gas IDEM six fifty cents. Parking
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in Philadelphia as close as possible to Harry Branson's office. What have you found
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out about doctor Barry? He's dead? Oh dear, Now listen, write
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down the address of mister missus Howard Harding for me. His daughter does she
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know? She doesn't know yet, and I hope I can avoid telling her
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before I write it down. When you man, well, yes, of
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course, like this. Don't unwrap it. Let's see that it gets to
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Rate Kemper at the Federal Bureau fast. I'll check with him about it later.
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Thanks, But now, John Berry, this is one time this expense
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account of mine is going to save you a lot of money. I think.
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I don't know how many red lights I skipped on the drive out to
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West Philadelphia, but I felt like a hound dog in a hot sense.
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The home of mister missus Howard Harding turned out to be in a nice,
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quiet residential area. I was met at the door with a girl in the
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wedding picture, a tall, very nice looking blonde in her late twenties.
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Oh, yes, Missus Harding, I'm Kirie Hardy. Well, I'm Johnny
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Dollar from your father's insurance. Coming. Oh good, Come in. Perhaps
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you can help me make him do something about that policy of his that isn't
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exactly someone is poisoned daddy's mind. Dollar. What do you mean? What
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isn't that I need the money if Daddy dies, which heaven forbid. Oh
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it doesn't exactly look as though you do. Of course, we don't what
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Howard's been doing so wonderfully colonial aviation, yes, apparently, And I'd had
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a notion he was just a laborer or something. No, that's what Daddy
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called him, because well, because he wasn't too fond of how it and
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That is the way Howard started before we were married. But now he's one
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of the officers of the company. Oh where is he, Missus Harden.
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As a matter of fact, I thought you were Howard when you drove up
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just now. He's been fishy fishy some little lake over in Jersey, goes
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every Saturday all by himself, lak no malcs where Daddy was? M he
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and that that's what Missus Hardy. I don't know. It's Howard. I
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guess what do you mean? Howard has never liked or trusted him, even
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though they've never actually met. When Daddy changed his insurance to name that professor,
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there is something wrong about that man, mister Dollar. I don't know.
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Daddy always worked alone until he came along. Daddy's such an alert,
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bright eyed, little dizzybody, in spite of his age. Your father like
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a cute little wound up spring, hopping about like Missus Hardy, Missus Hardy,
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when I saw your father. You've seen Daddy, well, then you
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know what I mean. I was tired almost in the day. He spoke
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with difficulty. Oh no, you're mistaken. He chattered away like a jay
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bird. What is it? Must have been dope He looked as though,
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Honey, well, I'm just as lousy a fisherman as usual, not a
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single Oh excuse mister Harding. Just tell me one thing. Well, that
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depends who are you, Mister dollars from the insurance company, does not?
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Johnny Dollar? Yeah, that's right. Well I've certainly heard of you.
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Tell me. You tell me, Harding? Where have you been? Fish?
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Where over in Jersey? Where on Jersey little private lake? Where over
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in your mouth? Holly? One place I know of where nobody else ever
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goes where I can get rid of the cobwebs. It's my job. Hey,
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wait a minute, Dollar, what is this Harding? You've been identified
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as the man who murdered doctor Walterer Merrill. What I'm sorry, missus Harding.
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I'm sorry, but it's true. What are you talking about? Dollar?
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You didn't know about it, of course not. How could I?
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Where did it happen? How at his place in Mallaga? Professor Nash?
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I'll kill that man. I don't take it easy. You seem to forget
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that so far, you're the only suspect that you're out of your mind?
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Was anybody who was that Nash? Never I have truted that man and the
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insurance policy if anybody killed doctor Merriller, was that professor. Now listen to
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me. Nash was with doctor Merrill when he was killed there in his laboratory,
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of course he was. But Nash was attacked, also, beaten,
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acid thrown at him. He lost the sight of one eye because of it.
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And I tell you you sure, yeah, yes, of course I'm
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sure, because I who found them Nash beating against the inside of the door
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of that laboratory, crying for help, a door that was volted on the
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outside. For Dollar, Right, you're sure of that, I'm sure.
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I still think, Oh, Terry, I'm sorry, I need here.
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Let me answer that phone. Hold yeah, hello, yeah, oh yeah,
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it's for you, mister Dollar. Nice, come on yourself together,
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John. This is Harry Branson. I just received a call from mister Kemper
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at the Federal Bureau. Yes, he says, he must see you immediately.
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Call him back, Harry, tell him I'll be there in fifteen minutes.
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I need just to keep things straight. I wouldn't leave this house if
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I were you. Well, now wait a minute, we're tight. I
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think you're in the clear. Poor red lights got passed off on my way
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into the Philadelphia offices of the Bureau. So ray Kemper felt that whatever he
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found was important. If so, it would back up one of my suspicions.
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But a view of the circumstances that bolted door on the laboratory, for
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instance, how caught it? Fortunt is putting it mildly, Johnny the prince
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you found in the water glass? Right? Three sets one year? Well,
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naturally to doctor Frederick Foote, who is currently practicing medicine. Now I
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know in the town of Malaga, New Jersey, that's where the glass came
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from. Oh, but the third sead of Prince, Yes, I had
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to go into the international file for them. And Johnny Nash, Theodore Nash
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Nash Nashevsky. What Theodore Nashevsky, chemists from one of our not so friendly
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countries, expert on explosives. One time he was thought to attempted to enter
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this country. That was in nineteen forty. Hey, have you got any
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pictures on him? Money on the time he was a kid. Eh,
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Here tell me how you picked up these prints. The beard in this picture
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it looks like him, all right, Yeah, this two shaved head,
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almost as though he tried to keep changing his appearance, Johnny Wait sick.
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This picture of him as a youngster. This eye patch on his left eye
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and is pretty complete. He was quite an athlete until he injured that eye.
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It doesn't show in these other pictures. And he hasn't a glass eye.
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Oh, his eye always look perfectly natural. Now, Johnny, if
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you have intermisary, Hey, this has done it for me. Thanks,
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and I'll see it. Johnny ke give me a Manda tail, Johnny Dodder.
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All the way back to Malaga, New Jersey, I hope my rental
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car would hold together. It did in spite of the fact I pushed it
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all away. International intrigue has a bit out of my line, but this
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time so helped me. I was beginning to feel like an FBI man.
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I stopped at State Police headquarters along the way, and according to them,
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Nash was off the hook, not only because of the acid thrown in his
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face, but even more important because of my own testimony than I'd found them
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locked in that laboratory. I stopped again at the Lamb Nothing. Then back
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to doctor Footstal's very well, mister Deller. When they arrive island, insist
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that they wait for you, all right, Thanks Doctor well that's here sitting
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up. Oh have they phoned anything, mister? Do have there found the
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men who attacked us and killed Tomeo? Professor? I think I have,
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but tell me something. Yes, of course your your government doesn't pay you
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very well, doesn't it. Merily and I were not working for the government,
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mister, although, of course the results of all I'm telling you about
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your government, your own real boss, I understand no doubt, it's very
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much interested in anything this country develops in the line of guided missiles, that
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sort of things. That don't let me go on. Merrill was doing important
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work, stuff that would be of great value to any country in the world.
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Of course, your country would have paid you well for the results of
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his work. Brother, They'll never get it. I do not know what
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you are talking money. The loot from Merril's insurance. Sure, sure it
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was enough to get you out of here after you gained the knowledge you need
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of Merrill's work see here, after you'd killed him before he could give to
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his country, the United States, what he'd invent. I was beat the
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poor old man put up a pretty stiff fight, didn't do you think I
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would have done this to myself? Fenolf Away earlier when you reached out for
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a glass of water, I handed you're right here in this room. A
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man who'd lost his sight in one eye would have lost his aim until he
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got used to it. Funny though, it didn't come to me until Matt.
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You haven't seen out of that left eye since you were a kid.
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I tell you you are mad, and a little acid burned to make it
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look like somebody had thrown it at you would be well worth the Alibia gave
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you. Fayad Or, that's right, pet Or a chef's ky. Listen
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to me. You you were the one who found us locked in the door
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bolted from the outside. You found us also the core the string he used
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to pull the bolt too, that you looped over the bolt and pulled after
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you got inside. You couldn't have adopted Neveta Vessen. Thanks. I was
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bluffing, but I mean a lucky guess what what a brain the chefski.
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I'm sure glad you're not working on our side. The cancilor fished out of
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his pocket never got to his mouth, and I'm afraid he won't see very
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well out of his other eye for a while. My knuckles still hurt and
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it was lucky for him that the police arrived. Afraid I don't like guys
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like you. Expense account total including all the incidentals I could think of,
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and transportation back to Hartred eighty four to thirty five remarks, well, don't
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beep on this one, Harry. The criminal, in spite of being the
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name beneficiary doesn't get paid. Yours truly, Johnny Doller. Now here is
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our star to tell you about next week's store. Next week a real close
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look at a little known but very dramatic side of Hollywood. Join us,
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won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dell. Yours Truly Johnny Dollars starring Bob
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Bailey, originates in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone,
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who also wrote Tonight's story. Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg,
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Harry Bartel, Howard mcneer, Borrece Lewis, Jack Crusian, Russell Thorson,
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Frank Gersel, and Bob Bruce. Musical supervision is by Amarigo Marino. Be
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sure to join us next week, same time and station for another exciting story
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of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Johnny Dollar has come to you through the
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worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Servants. Three.
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Welcome back. Well, so nice to see the character of Harry Branson again.
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He had been very prominent in some of the five part stories, so
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it's good to see him back. It does kind of show one of the
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drawbacks of the single part stories is that the character really you could Harry Martell
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in the five part stories really played the character for a lot of comedic value
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with his worrying and just his overall mannerisms, but he really didn't have the
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time in this one. Also, in terms of the actual story, I
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think Bob Bailey did fine in it, but the mystery was kind of thinned
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just because it was forecast who the villain was throughout, which made it so
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that just wasn't a whole lot of suspense in it, with everybody sensing that
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this doctor Nash was a bad guy, and you know, even some of
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the other things that were hints about it. Speaking of hints, the one
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thing that continues to amaze me about programs of this era and also World War
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Two, except in World War Two it was with the Germans, and in
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this era was with the Russians where they would do a performance where there was
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espionage going on and it was obviously a Russian spy or before or in the
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pre World War Two era, a German spy, but they would not say
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what it was, despite the fact of it being obvious. You know,
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the accents, Russian accent or even sometimes Russian Russian surnames. That's pretty and
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even in this case was even more obvious the character of Nash or should I
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say, Matchevsky. The only way that character could have been more stereotypically Russian
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is if when Johnny came in to confront him, he was drinking a glass
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of vodka while wearing a furry hat, which also kind of contributed to the
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lack of suspense because you have this guy with the obvious accent and working on
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a process related to missile guidance, and everything very suspicious about him. So,
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yeah, this one was a bit off on that. There was one
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thing that someone interesting here, and this comes from the who is a Johnny
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Dollar matter by John Abbott, and Abbot notes in here that, uh,
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theu that the name of the FBI crime Land person, Ray Kemper was actually
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in the story was actually a CBS soundman who worked on a lot of programs,
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including suspense, now excuse me, including gunsmoke. They certainly probably did
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some suspense as well. All right, Well, that will actually do it
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for today. We will be back next week with another episode of Johnny Dollar
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and Tomorrow Tomorrow Dragnet. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen
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