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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Indestructible Mike Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP1127) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot detectors dot net. Well, now it's time for us to continue on
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with the Indestructible Mock Matter Parts three and four from Hollywood. It's time now
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for Johnny Dollar. What you're John Wesley Cosgrave, aren't you? That's right,
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Well, my name's Johnny Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator. Oh of
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course I've been expecting a call from you, or at least from somebody like
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you. What's that supposed to mean? I expect you're interested in why I've
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insured the life of a bowery bump of fifty thousand dollars. You bet,
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I am. I want to see you, why not anytime? Only it
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won't do you any good Tonight and every Weekday Night. Bob Bailey and the
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Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact. Expense account America's Fabulous Freelance
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Insurance Investigator, Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar,
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location, New York, New York to the Lake Signed Life and Casualty
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Company. Following is an accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the Indestructible
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mic Matter expense A cont Item nine ten cents the phone called a John Wesley
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Cosgrave from my dingy little hotel on the Lower east Side. Item ten two
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seventy taxi uptown to see Sergeant Randy Singer, Detective Division, eighteenth Precinct.
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You get back to the glad Hand rescue mission in time, after all,
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when the Lamb boys discovered that so called whiskey was almost pure wood. By
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the time I got there, Randy, the poor old coop had drunk nearly
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half the bot. Oh it's too bad. Well, I'm better arranged for
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him to be hauled out of the morgue. Uh. Oh, Mike's still
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alive and happy. It's impossible. You don't know the half of it.
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A week or so ago somebody stabbed him with an ice pick just below the
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heart. Result, he said, the scar itched a little bits. Two
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days ago somebody drove a couple of thirty eight slugs throw him. He said
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it gave him a slight twitch in his side for a few whiles. Johnny,
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come on, he goes and drinks nearly half a bottle of wood alcohol.
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Results a bit of a headache. Indestructible mic, indestructible mic. Where
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is he now? Locked up in my room at the Berkley Hotel with orders
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to eat the groceries I picked up for him and to let nobody in good
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good But whoever's trying to get him is going to give up. Hey,
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did you dig up anything on the beneficiary of his fifty thousand dollars life policy?
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Cosgrave? Only enough to scare you at death. Listen to this.
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John Wesley Cosgrave formerly known as John W. Gordon, John Dutchy Gordon alias
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Skippy Grant alias Duchy Smith eighteen arrests, was only one conviction back in nineteen
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thirty eight for possession of arcotics. Randy Ever hear a murdering corporation? Sure,
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but apparently they had a subsidiary. Apparently your friend Gordon or Cosgrave or
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whatever you like to call him, was one of the big shots in it.
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But outside of the narcotics bit, the department was never able to really
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pin anything on him. But this guy's addresses, Yeah, let me see
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six twenty one. He's forty ninth Street. Yeah, that's not only a
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respectable neighborhood, but pretty plush. That's right. Well, how recent is
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his record? What's he doing now? Last pickup was in nineteen forty four
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numbers game and book making charges dropped for lack of evidence. Then, apart
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from the record, is he still in the rackets? He is? Nobody
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can prove it. Like in the old days, he masterminded and let somebody
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else do the dirty work. It's listed here as a quote retired unquote.
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Well, my money says he's still in business now if you can prove it
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the department in the DA's office. I love you, dearly, but I
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don't think you will. Every time we dragged in a stoolie who could give
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us what we wanted, something happened to him, like what jump bail?
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You should have known better than to let him have bail. One of them
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poisoned in is selling the tombs one breakout and his body was found in the
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East River. Even won suicide, Like to bet, I can't tie him
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in with these attempts on Mike Flynn's life. Well, no, that's something
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else again. Maybe it's something we should have. No no hands off,
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and I mean I don't get testy about it. John. I like the
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old guy, and anybody who tries to hurt him has to answer to me.
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And somebody's tried. Expense ac count out of eleven one sixty five cav
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Fair to the smart modern apartment building at six two one East forty ninth,
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where the dorman announced that mister J. Wesley Cosgrave was expecting me and to
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take the elevator to apartment eleven B. Come in, mister Doner. The
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apartment was expensively but tastefully furnished with overall carpeting. It felt an inch and
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a half thick. Several original oils by famous contemporary artists hung on the walls.
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But it was the man himself who really seemed out of character, with
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a rundown Randy had given me. He was six one or two, built
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like a man who spends his odd hours in the gym, quick gray eyes,
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his hair slinky gray at the temples, and his tailor was a mastic
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Do you like it, mister Doller? Eh, that is a genuine Picasso
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you're looking at. And I consider myself very fortunate to possess this original by
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Salvator Dolly. Oh, and I'm sure you'll appreciate the excellent view of the
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city from these corner windows. Yeah, I must have the best, mister
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Dollar, only the best. Oh, sit down, Please? May I
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pull your drink? No? Oh? Thanks? I suppose you're wondering why
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I decided to buy old Michael Flynn a life insurance policy in which he's so
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proud. I am alterly very easy to explain. You see, I was
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born and brought up in the Lower East Side, mister Dollar, in deplorably
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poor circumstances. My early life was a never ending struggle for survival and for
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whatever questionable sort of education I could glean from those about me, Many of
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them criminals were my only companions. That's all very touching, mister Casker.
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And I'm afraid I did little to lift myself out of the gutter until one
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winter night, hungry and broke, I wandered into the Helping Hand Rescue Mission.
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Yeah, I understand. You still go around there now and then,
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oh, yes, I do, in the hope that somehow I can help
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the poor unfortunates there the way the mission and Daddy Bill helped me repay some
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of the debt I feel, I owe, is that the only reason what
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do you mean is that the only reason you've given jobs to some of those
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poor unfortunates from time to time, haven't you? Yes? Yes, I
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what kind of jobs? What business? That's hardly a concern of yours,
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mister Dollar. I've contributed much to the mission. I've tried to make life
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easier for some of the deserving habituaries of the mission. It's the least I
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can do after so much was done for me. In the case of Mike,
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why his greatest desire in life was to be the proud owner of life
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Insurance? Why, I don't know, I do because you sold him on
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it. That's a lie, that's a desert. Then why make him name
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you as beneficiary instead of a mission of some other deserving cause that, mister
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doll it was his own idea, and since it made him happy, I
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didn't protest I suppose the real reason for this particular desire was this feeling that
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it might give him dignity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now tell me
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something, where does all your money come from? Duchy Dutch? Who told
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you that nobody calls me duchy? No more, I knew you and nobody
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else. Them days are over. I'm respectable, even educate. I wondering,
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look at my record. I haven't been on the blot since forty four,
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and that was a bum, mister dollar. I make no pretensions about
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not having a past. During prohibition and later I made millions, yes,
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millions, and rum running and the policy racket is a betting commission' on a
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narcotics. Sure, it was hardly a caper in this town. I didn't
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have a figure into and I was smart. I pocketed the profits, not
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my boys. That's why I can afford to be retired and live decent.
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And I'm going to keep on living this way. You were lucky some of
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those boys that Mabby yours didn't runt on you. Yeah, thanks to a
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couple of convenient rubouts that I had nothing to do with. You understand,
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I managed to take cleave with the law, and now you're as pure as
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the driven snow dollar. If this was the old days, you wouldn't even
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live long enough to regret what you're implicating. You think, which makes me
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dead sure, I'm thinking right. I don't know how much money you've got
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socked away from those old days. I don't care, but from once you've
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just admitted to you dollar, not to any judge of da right, And
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I'll never believe that a clever mind like you are smart enough to keep you
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out of the pennel. Flattery won't get you. I refuse to believe you
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could turn down a chance to make a crooked buck. I don't know what
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kind of jobs you sent out those poor suckers from the mission. On the
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fact they never came back makes that look pretty bad. You care How along
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came Mike Flynn, poor old alcoholic Mike. Where the talk of insurance came
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from? I don't know, but it was too good to pass up and
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sure his life for fifty thousand bucks. Have him name you as beneficiary,
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give him a few dollars so he could spend his last days in a happy
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alcoholic Hays, then rub him out and collect the fifty g listen dollar.
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If Mike gets knocked off. Neither you nor anybody else is going to be
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able to tab me with it. And one other thing, Yeah, what's
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that as a friendly piece of advice? If I was you, I wouldn't
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even try. Is that a threat? Oh, mister dollar, he made
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a miserable host of me. Come let me pull you a drink the finus
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twenty five year old Scotch and we can talk of pleasant things. For some
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reason or other, I did have the drink with him, but he knew
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what was in the back of my mind, and I'm afraid I knew I
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was in the back of his something along the same line as a couple of
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convenient rubouts once or twice, as when they're of education slipped. But all
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in all he made a fair conversationist. Finally I left, and all the
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way down to the street, I kept wanting to look back to see if
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I was being followed. Somehow, somewhere there was a way to get this
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Cosgrave, but I could see would have to be through someone else, someone
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working for him, and whoever that might be could very well be out to
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get me first or Mike. I am twelve two ninety five taxi back to
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the Breakley Hotel, where I hope the old boy was still locked up on
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my rope he was. Oh well, Johnny man. Now I was beginning
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to wonder what had happened to you? Hey, hey, hey, hey,
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what was the matter with that food I left with you? You hardly
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touched I had enough. It was kind of dry, though, kind of
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dry. There's a container of coffee there. Yes, the coffee just doesn't
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seem to quench my thirst. We should let me bring the rest of that
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bottle alone. That one alcohol, any more of that would have killed you.
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Yeah, I did have a kick. I don't know how you live
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through it. Well, look now I want some lunch, and Mike,
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I'm gonna take you along with me. Oh that'll be. I could I
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have maybe a little drink too, Oh sure you can have one? Oh
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that's nice. Good of course, the size of the drinks they serve nowadays.
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Just one? Now, come on, Oh that's fine. One we'll
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be There's a lovely saloon just around the corner, you know, even sandwiches
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for those that one. M I understand. Oh, these stairs, maybe
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we could just bring a bottle back, whether it's to your room, if
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we are going to come back, sweet funny. Also, I loved him,
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and I knew that without me he'd be a dead one so fast,
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So far, the attempts on his life had been made by persons unknown unless
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the mission Daddy Bill. Could Daddy Bill be somehow tied in with Cosgraves operations.
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I wanted I paid the check that's item thirteen twenty five when we started
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walking to the Glen Ann Rescue Mission along some of the back streets. I
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want a time to think it out, if I could think over the incessant
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pleasant check. I'm really enjoying life now that I have money now, and
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then sometimes I get on the subway and I just ride all over town all
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day. Yeah, yeah, you told me. Why don't you try that
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sometimes? Johnny really want to say, there's a bar there on the corner.
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Why don't we just let's past them? John Why do you feel that
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you have to look after me this? You know? Darn well? Why
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hey, watch that curve. Why I'm looking after you, It's because somebody's
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under like Mike, Mike listened to me. Can you hear me, Mike,
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Hey, mister, get a cop an ambulance mean for him? Or
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what's left of them? Yes, hurry, what's the matter with you?
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Use your eyes, buddy, It's too late, Johnny Dollar. Johnny,
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this phone number you left for me to call it. You at Bellevue Hospital?
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Yeahy, what's wrong? You would headquarters? Yeah, the truck ran
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over Mike Flynn and I'm sure it was deliberate. But he's alive. I
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hope he was four hours ago and I dragged him in here. Indestructible MinC.
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I'm not so sure this time. What about that truck? You get
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the license? Yeah? The boys are the first pre singer working on it.
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Check with HM you while I stay here at the hospital, Johnny,
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and one other things. Yeah, find out how long that glad hand rescue
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mission has been in existence place where all Mike's been living. Yeah, why,
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I don't know yet, But do it? Will you? Sure?
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And you let me know when Mike's out of danger? Huh, Johnny,
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better pray a little bit, Randy. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
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Dollar, location, New York, New York to the Lake Sidne Life and
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Casualty Company, following as an accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the
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Indestructible MIC matter. Of an air of class and education assumed by Jay Wesley.
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Consgrave just wasn't think enough to hide the fact that he was better known
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a few years ago as Duchy Gordon. And to the old time racketeer,
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it looked like a cinch. Pick up a bowery bomb like Mike Flynn,
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insure his life of fifty grand, give him a few weeks a high living,
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then knock him off and collect the insurance. Yeah, real cinch,
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especially for Cosgrave, who learned as far back as the early days of prohibition
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how to employ hired thugs to do the dirty work. Well, he sat
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back and collected the profits. I knew as surely as I'm sitting here that
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Cosgrave was behind the knifing, the shooting, and now this accident to old
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Mike. But how to prove it? Yeah, sitting here in the waiting
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over of the hospital, waiting waiting for some word of Mike's condition. Oh,
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yes, Doc, can I see him now? Very shortly? I
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believe? Oh how is he? Is he? A phone call for you
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at the floridask? Oh wait, please, thanks, but how is Mike?
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Doc? How is he? You'll be able to see him shortly?
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Yeah? Yeah, oh, it's nice Johnny Dollary. Oh, mister Dollar,
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I was quite sure that you would be there at the hospital. This
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is J. Wesley Cosgrave. What made you think that? Why? Because
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of the accident to Michael Jeremiah Flynn, How did you know about it?
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I kept it out of the papers. I find it helpful to know about
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a lot of things that don't get into the papers. Well, your boy,
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goofed Cosgrave. Mike is still alive. My boy, you know as
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well as I do, Duchy, that one of your mob was at the
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wheel of that truck that ran him down. You better keep you a yep
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shirt, Dollar run. I thought I made it plain to you earlier that
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I no longer have any connection with the doings of the shall we say underworld?
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Oh sure sure. As for poor old Mike, I understand it was
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an accident, very unfortun Knock it off, Cosgrave. I was there when
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it happened. Oh yeah, pretty stupid of It would be killer to try
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that with an investigator right next to Mike, wasn't it. Did you see
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the driver of the truck, I suppose I did you say he wasn't one
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of your boys? So what difference would it make to you. Why no,
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none at all? Did you see him? Why don't you worry about
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that? For a while? Again I waited, He sat and waited and
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paced the corridor of the hospital. Outside. The sun sank slowly behind the
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horizon of skyscrapers, and the busy clamor of the day's traffic segued to the
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softer, muffled but still busy traffic hum up night. And I waited and
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smoked and waited. Finally, it must have been close to midnight, the
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nurse led me quietly down the hall and indicated the private room that I'd had
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set aside for Mike. After a brief instruction about not staying too long,
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she pushed open the door for me, and she tiptoed away. And there
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lo and behold and all this glorious head, swathed in bandages but wearing a
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smile of mile wide set, indestructible. Mike, Johnny, Mike, Oh,
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Mike, you will reprobate it. I guess there is something in prayer,
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after all. How about this Johnny in this well? Isn't this the
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finest place you ever said? Oh? Mike, You're gonna be okay,
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aren't you gonna yeah, I am, but I guess I had those doctors
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scared. Oh my, my mind, Johnny. You just should have seen
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the way they fluttered around. Or and those nurses, Johnny, I never
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saw such beautiful ladies. No, I am so nice, and doesn't it
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smell good in here? But dis in fact they used here as much nice
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And Daddy Bill has the mission. And you know, somebody, I haven't
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seen a single bit bub, not even a cockrow. No, Mike,
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Mike, I'm so glad to see in one piece. Sure I am,
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but an old bum hasn't any righting and pretty place like you had no more
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business living through that accident. Then, Oh, Johnny, how you talk?
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Yeah? Yeah, and you mustn't talk so much. No matter how
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good you feel, you need rest, time to heal up whatever got broken
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broke me. Well, you still need rest and quiet. Here. I'll
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turn off this light. I'll see in the morning. Oh but Johnny,
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Yeah, Johnny, how can I just sleep too much? Pain? Want
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the nurse to give you a hype hoe? Oh? They filled me up
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with more needles than you ever saw. But there's only one real pain killer,
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you know. Yeah, I'll see you later. If the Administration of
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Bellevue Hospital ever found out that I was back in Mike's from a few minutes
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later, and why they'd probably have my neck. But I didn't leave the
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whole bottle with him. I swear it only about three fingers in his water
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tumbling, and the blissful expression on his face as he closed his eyes to
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sleep made me sure I'd done right. I am fifteen one eighty taxi back
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to my dingy little hotel, and I thanked whatever gods may be that all
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Mike could pull through even right. They just couldn't seem to kill him so
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far, but I knew they wouldn't give up, not with fifty thousand dollars
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at stake, fifty thousand more to line the pockets of Dutchy Gordon, who
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I was sure was just as much of a racketeer as ever, despite his
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present name of J. Wesley Cosgrave and his pretense of gentility. Because his
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henchman had always feared to squeal or died violently before they could, the police
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had nothing on him. My job was to find one of the mob,
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make him sing. How I guess I was still thinking or dreaming about it
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when my phone rang the next morning. Hello, Joy Dollar. This is
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Jersey Who oh Johnny Dollar. Hey he's still in bed? Oh, Randy?
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Yeah, I thought you were gonna call me. Is he still alive?
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He sure was when I last saw him about midnight. Well that's a
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miracle after what that truck did to him, and say, yeah, the
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boys downtown found that truck. Yeah, he had been stolen and was abandoned.
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Did they find any princi plenty, who's lefty skillman? Well have they
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picked a Yeah? Yeah, they found him all right, died up in
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a sack floating in the East River. Old time gangstersh So help me.
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I knew that when cosgre Si Mike's gonna be okay, Randy, he was
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sitting up in bed, pricky as a cockatoo. No, I don't know
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how he does it. Why he was all ready to pack up and go
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back to the glad Hand Rescue Mission. Felt he didn't deserve to be in
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such a nice, clean place as the hospital. Bless his foolish Did you
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find out anything for me about that flophouse? Yeah, that's what I called
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you about. But you still haven't told me. What'd you find? Well,
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according to the records, the building was put up in nineteen oh one
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as a mission as a pianos store. Nineteen one to nineteen six real respectable
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place. Then well that section began to degenerate. Nineteen six to eighteen was
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a cheap grocery store, eighteen for nineteen fifty six, nineteen eighteen to twenty
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two was the second hand clothing store, and to speak easy nineteen twenty nine,
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you going y, I guess the depression knocked that out because next it
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was a saloon. How long. Let's see nineteen forty four, that's when
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William Grover Larkin took over the lease. Daddy Bell, Yeah, Randy,
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I know it. Yeah what Duchy Gordon alisj Wesley Cosgrave told me that he'd
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got a hand from that mission when he was just a kid. That would
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have meant twenty five thirty years ago at least. Yeah, it's only been
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a mission for twelve Hey, wait a minute. Lease on that property when
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it was speak Easy was in the name of Larkin too. Had one more
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effect, Randolph, and you see what I'm getting at what's your own police
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files show Cosgrave was still in the rackets in forty four. Yeah, but
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on a charge that we couldn't substantial right, tie him up. Cosgrave was
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a rum runner during Prohibition. Daddy Bill ran to speak for him since nineteen
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forty four. Whoa, whoa, Now, boy, you're trying to build
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a case on purely circumstantial eleven? All right, but I think I can
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make it stick. Now, listen, where does Cosgrave get the thugs for
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whatever job he's pulling? Now? If he is, of course he is,
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and he gets him out of that flophouse. The boys he gives jobs
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to that I've never seen again, remember, Yeah, wow, Hey,
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maybe it does tie or you bet your sweet life it does. At least
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I'm going to tie it up here, and then I take it easy.
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Johnny, Just how are you going to go about? Well? The first
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thing I got, hold it? What's the matter? Somebody outside the door
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of this room, I think, hold on? Ready, No, no,
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no, wait a minute, Johnny, all right, what do you
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think you're doing? Whoever hit me with, whatever he hit me with,
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wasn't full of me? And the second before I passed out, I vaguely
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remember hearing a voice, the voice of the room clerk, shouting at whoever
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it was, and the sound of footsteps running away in blackness and a dark
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heavy throbbing in my head. Then, after a long time, another familiar
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voice. It was Randy, I think dimly somewhere along the line. I
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could see figures bending over me, hear the voice again, and more darkness,
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and the weird sounds in my brain. Other sounds too that seemed familiar.
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It seemed meaningless, meaningless, meaningless. Finally, after an eternity of
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jumble sounds and shadows, a cold, bright light pierced into my slowly returning
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consciousness. Momentarily, I could see a man in white and women. Yeah,
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yeah, a hospital. He's with a doctor and the nurses. I
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tried to speak to them. I couldn't. It's slowly a realization of what
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had happened came to my model. Randy on the telephone had heard the attack
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on me and had brought help. An ambulance had brought me here. For
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a brief moment, I saw the gwind of a needle poised about my arm.
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Then blackness again, but a soft, quiet, peaceful blackness. Johnny,
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Johnny, Johnny, Oh wow, well Johnny, that's the wake up
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Mike. That's right, isn't it nice they put you in the same room
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with me? Yeah? Right, you're a policeman. Friends are and he
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told me something, Johnny, and he's right. You got to make Therefore
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they're out to get you too. Now here's our star to tell you about
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the final intriguing episode of this week's story Tomorrow. Well, all, Mike
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may have been indestructible, but I knew by now that I wasn't so tomorrow
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and the wind up it had to be while I was still alive. Join
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us, won't you? Yours Truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
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is starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by
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Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story. Be sure to join us to
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onorrow night at the same time in station for the next exciting episode of Yours
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Trulyjohnny Dollars, Roy Roman speaking, welcome back. Well, I have to
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say this that despite some issues, this does feel a lot better than previous
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Johnstone written stories. Really, as he's going through this, he's keeping a
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good mix of the serious and the more comical elements of Indestructible Mike's story.
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How it'll all pay out in part five, Well, that we're going to
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have to listen for all right. Well, now we turn to listener comments
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and feedback and receive this from l K who writes in actually on an old
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episode of Rogues Gallery, Dick Powell, in my espen estimation, was a
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man of little talent but having a great ego. Listening to him, you
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can hear the self sertified smirk in his voice. I'm not a fan,
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and some radio shows were much better when left, when stars left them to
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do films. Well, everybody's got their opinion. I think that Palell certainly
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had some great talent as a singer, and he may have been best actor
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to ever play Philip Marlow on the silver screen. And he definitely has some
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good comedic timing, so I think I think he was number thirty one on
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my list of Radio's most essential people. But people can have differing opinions.
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But when I put Powell, you know, as one of the as probably
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the best actor to play Philip Morrel on the silver screen, it definitely means
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something, given that Humphrey Bogart was another one. All right, Well,
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that will actually and I'll actually would say maybe it'd be better to say the
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best overall portrayal of Philip Morrow, because overall I think Bogart was a better
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actor, but Powell was in their league in my opinion. All right,
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well, we'll see you back here tomorrow with Nick Carter, and join us
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on Friday as we wrap up the Indestructible Mike Matter. In the meantime,
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com slash Radio Attactives from Boise, Idaho. This as your host, Adam
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Graham's signing off.