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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Markham Matter (EP1423) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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your travel needs, remember Johnny Dollar Air dot com. Well, we're going
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to go back to November of nineteen fifty six. There was an episode I
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skipped because it aired around Thanksgiving. Most of the episode has nothing to do
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with Thanksgiving, but there's a great Thanksgiving message that I thought appropriate to play
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this time of year. In Johnny's post episode remarks prior to giving details on
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next week's show. So this program is from November eighteenth, nineteen fifty six,
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and the title is the Mark Matter. You would it's time now for
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Dollar. This is in Porter. Mister Dollar, you called my office.
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Yes, I'd like to see you as soon as I can, mister Porter,
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Well, of course, how long have you been in town? About
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a half an hour? Are you all squared away? I've got a rum
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and I've had a band, that's what you mean. Well, then,
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I guess you're ready to go to work. I will be as soon as
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I put on some pants. You sounded a rush. I'm always in a
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rush when I think somebody might be chipping us out of one hundred thousand dollars.
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Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expencer
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Coud America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigatory, It's truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted
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by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Western Life and Trust Company, eight twenty six,
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Spear Boulevard, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an account of expenses
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incurred during my investigation of the Markham Matter. Expense account adam one one hundred
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and forty three dollars and sixty nine cents air transportation from Hartford to San Francisco.
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I had him two seventeen dollars for incidentals along the way, including transportation
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from the airport at the Saint Francis Hotel. I walked the eight blocks to
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the Commodore Building, where Ed Porter had his office on the fourth floor.
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He was a short, thin insurance broker with a face like a tight drum.
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He apologized for the clammy weather as oh or his fault. He asked
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me how things were out on the East coast and invited me to sit down,
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and looked as uncomfortable as he was. I got the telegram you were
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coming last night, investigator. I've never met one in all my years in
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the business. Must be very interesting work. Yeah. Look, I don't
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want to take up too much of your time, mister Porter, but I
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would like to get some information from you. Oh, certainly, mister Dollars.
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What can you tell me about a man named Floyd Markham. Markham,
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Well, he's the husband of a client of mine. I've met him,
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but I really can't tell you too much about him. My dealings have always
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been with missus Markham. If she's my customer, then tell me about Missus
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Markham. Oh, certainly, I'm not going to ask why. I'm sure
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you have a good reason for coming all the way to San Francisco. The
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Home office thinks I have an excellent reason. He is Missus Markham. Well,
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I've known her for twenty years as a customer. She's wealthy, always
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has been, and she handles her money well, and she lives rather well.
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Missus Markhm is the one who has the money. Mister Markham is a
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salaried man and industrial engineer. Frankly, I think he depends on Missus Markham
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for his livelihood. These two checks were issuer to Missus Markham this year.
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Recognize him, Yes, yes, full payments on two endowment policies if fifty
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thousand dollars apiece and they've cleared the bank. Anything wrong with him? Nothing
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wrong with the checks on pay like this, I always take it in person.
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It's a custom, of course, to call and make an appointment and
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deliver the check to the client and try to sell a little more insurance in
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the bargain. Well, that's about the idea. Yes, anything strange about
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Missus Markham when you delivered either one of these checks. No, Before I
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left Hartford, I looked up for insurance records or premiums are always paid right
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on the button. Missus Markham doesn't have a business office or a business manager
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handling her affairs. The checks are always personal checks on her personal account.
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How can you explain why someone like that might forget a third indominant policy.
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Why no, Well there is a third endowment policy, but dured this month.
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I have the check with me for fifty thousand dollars. Yes, but
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this business of forget Floyd Markham called Hartford and spoke to the head of the
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endowmentt division. He explained that Missus Markham was ill and didn't know whether or
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not a third policy existed. He said he was checking for her. Uh
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huh. Now you say you've known Missus Markham over a period of twenty years.
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Yes, well, is she the kind of person whould forget fifty thousand
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dollars. No one forgets fifty thousand dollars. Did you notice that both of
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those checks were deposited in the Markham's joint account. No, so they were
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Maybe Missus Markham's feeling generous these days. Why do you say that, Well,
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they have a rather strange relationship as far as I've been able to receive.
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I mean, what money he makes is his and what she has is
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hers. Ah. I always like to get out of that house because they
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never seemed to me to be a very close couple in any way. But
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this seems to make sense, now, how's that, mister Porter? Well,
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now I called up and made an appointment to deliver both of these checks.
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The first time I went over, Missus Markham was ill, and the
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second time she had just stepped out for a few minutes. Who accepted the
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checks? Mister Markham both times? Yes, As a matter of fact,
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now that I think of it, he made the appointment on the phone both
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times. When was the last time you saw Missus Markham? Last spring?
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A check with the bank revealed that Missus Markham had not personally made a deposit
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since June the eighteenth. The deposit slips were initialed by Floyd Markham. The
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checks were endorsed by Leslie Markham. There had been no unusual withdrawals. Expense
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account out of three thirty dollars. Stenographic and notary services for the attached statements.
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Missus Markham has been having her hair done here for nearly ten years now,
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once a week every Thursday morning. Then she just stopped. I called
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her home and mister Markham informed me that she was away on an extended trip.
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Mister Markham called us it was last June and informed us that Missus Markham
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was resigning her membership in the Bridge Club. I telephoned the house twice to
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see what was the matter. Mister Markham answered both times and said Missus Markham
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was out. Well. She used to come in here two or three times
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a month. Let us go over the car from top to bottom. She
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hasn't been around now for seven or eight months. I don't know who's taking
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care of the car. Expencer account had him four to thirty cents three phone
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calls to the Markham residence. I didn't state in any particular business. I
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simply asked to speak to Missus Markham. Each time I called, a male
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voice answered. Each time. The male voice told me Missus Markham was out,
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she was ill, and she was away on a short trip. Industrial
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Management Limited, Floyd B. Markham, President, has a three room office
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suite near the Embarcadero. Ten years ago. It had been sensationally new and
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glassy. When I got there, the carpet was a little too thin,
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and the varnish a little too thin too. The whole place smelled faintly of
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mildews. Yes, I'd like to see mister Markham. Please, do you
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have an appointment? No, no, not exactly. My name is Harris.
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I'm with the Cleveland Pump Company pump company. Yes, we're setting in
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thirty eight of our installations of the new plan Valparaiso. Did you get my
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letter? Well, I'm sorry, I'm afraid. May I ask your name
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again? Harris Stephen B. Harris, Cleveland Pump Company. Oh yes,
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Well, mister Harris, I'm afraid mister Markham never received your letter. When
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did you mail it thirty days ago? Maybe it was two weeks? Well,
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tell mister Markham, I'm here and I'm sorry, mister Harris. Mister
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Markham isn't in the office just now? Ah? Well, our wives?
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Oh well, well, he won't be in today. As a matter of
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fact, he won't be in the rest of the week. Where can I
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call him? Well, I'm afraid that's impossible. Can I call him at
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home? No? Now, look, is he in business. Or isn't
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he, mister Harris, Mister Markham hasn't been in the office for six months
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or more. He's he's tied up on a rather long range project. What's
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your name? I'm miss Bidler. Why didn't you say that in the first
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place? Miss Bidler? Well? Who else can I talk to you?
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No one, I'm afraid you mean. That's all there is in this office,
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just you and him. When he feels like coming in, I'll tell
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mister Markham you were here. The Markham House was on fear Adellas Street,
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about six blocks from the Fairmont Hotel, stone walls, iron grill work,
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tangling ivy, an old house that had been built by rich people for rich
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people to live in the kind of shabby looking place that only New Yorkers and
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San Franciscans can get by with and still be called wealthy. I used dead
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Port's car with a Western Life and Trust company im on the door, parked
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it in the driveway as close as I could to the entrance. It was
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exactly one o'clock when the door opened. He was tall and pretty, with
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black hair and broad shoulders. Yes, is it I'd like to see missus
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Markham, please I'm mister Markham. Can I help you. My name's Dollar.
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I'm with Western Life and Trust Company. Mister Porter called you. No,
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he didn't. Oh, and I must have slept his mind. He
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said he was going to call. What's it about. I brought a check
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from missus Markham on her third endowment policy. Oh, well, i'll give
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it to her. She isn't in right now. Well, I'm supposed to
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deliver it to her. I'll come back another time. When she said,
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now, you can give it to me, I will see that she gets.
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I'm sorry, mister Markham, but I have a guy. I know
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you want to give her the check and try to sell her some more insurance.
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She's just not in the market, and you can say your little spiel
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where it'll do some good. Oh you must understand me, mister Markham.
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I have to deliver this to her in person. What's your name again,
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Dollar, Johnny Dollar, Come in. I'll wait till she comes back and
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make an appointment. Mister Porter told me he made it for three to Day's
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here, she's here, Come in. Why the run around there? Missus
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Markham is desperately ill. I don't want to disturb her with things like like
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this. I'm sorry to hear that. What's the trouble? Are you serious?
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Anemia? So if if you'll give me I have a report to make
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out when I delivered this. I just only took a minute to handle the
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check, and it'll be off my mind and off your mind. Oh look
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here, missus, didn't you call the company's home office about this check?
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I called because Missus Markham requested me to call. Oh yes, just wait
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here. In the little swirl of his exit, I smelled shaving lotion.
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I guessed at the brand name. I also guessed that his suit costs three
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hundred dollars, even if I didn't know what San Francisco Taylor had made it.
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The shirt to tie the shoes were expensive too. Yeah, mister Floyd
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Markham liked expensive things. I wondered if he dyed his hair to keep it
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all black. I wondered if he was forty five or fifty. I also
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wondered why, in a house of that size on that kind of street of
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servant hadn't answered the door. This way, mister beller. He led me
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up a flight of stairs and finally into a high ceiling room with a fireplace
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at one end. A gray haired woman with a sharp anger face was seated
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near the window, looking out of at the city in the bay. She
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didn't turn her head when we came into the room, but I could see
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that her eyes were watering and slightly glazed. Preaze. Don't take too long
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and don't upset her, Leslie, Leslie, dear, Yes, this is
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mister Dollar from the insurance company. He has something for you. Be a
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good girl, Leslie. Speak to mister Dollar. How do you do?
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And ask him? Yes, how is mister Porter? Oh, he's so
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fine, Missus mar confine. He'll be sorry to hear that you've been ill.
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I really would rather that you didn't tell mister Porter. I'm satisfied to
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make my own slow recovery and not worry any of my friends. He likes
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some sherry Floyd. Now you know what the doctor said, Leslie. Mister
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Doller, you'd like some cherry, wouldn't you? Why? Yes, I'd
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like that very much. I'm sorry, mister Dollar. It's absolutely forbidden,
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and you know that, dear. Do you have the check, mister Dollar,
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Yes, right here you are, missus wakhm, thank you. Is
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there anything else mister well, Leslie? Yes, what is it? Missus
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Markham, I'm very tired. Excuse me if I've seen him? Light?
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Good day, Good day, Missus Markham. Expense account at and five ten
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cents phone called a wet porter in his office. Yes, mister Dollar,
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look missus malcoms five to five, about one to twenty, black hair,
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gray streak to the right of the part, blue eyes, looks about forty
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years old and good forty. Why yes, that sounds like her. You
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mean you've seen her. I've seen what's left of him, mister Porter.
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Who good launch, He's not dead almost he's killing her, mister Porter.
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My guess is he's been at it for about six months. Act two of
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yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in just a moment, nobody will take
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a frown at face value anymore. Now that the word has gotten around about
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Jack Benny's return to the air with Mary Livingston, Dennis Day Rochester, Don
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Wilson, Mel Blank, Frank Nelson, and mister Kitzel, nothing less than
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Now at two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the Markham matter.
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Take a rich old house on a ritual street in San Francisco, walk in
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with a legitimate insurance check for fifty thousand dollars, and tell a man named
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Floyd Markham you want to deliver to his wife. Tell him this when you
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know that no one has seen or heard from his wife in six months.
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Just tell him you want to see her. Insists that you see her.
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Then stand around and listen to him lie a couple of times. Then let
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him take you to her, give her the check, say goodbye. Twenty
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minutes after I walked out of the Markham's house and picked up at Porter.
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We drove back to the house and parked a hundred threet from the MSS.
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This is the darndest thing I ever heard of, mister Dollar. I'm not
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sure it's all clear to me. What's opposition? Oh, I wouldn't know
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that, mister Porter. That's up to the legal department. This much I'm
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sure of. Right now, Malcolm's already deposited one hundred thousand dollars of her
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insurance money into a joint account. If I'm not mistaken this last check,
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I'll go into that account too. Right now, while we're sitting here,
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she's probably endorsing that check. Well, then, I don't see where it's
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any about it. He he's making her endorse the check. He's making her
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stay in that house, in that room, away from everybody. How what
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way he said she was ill? You said she appeared ill. I don't
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know how he's doing it, but I'm going to find out. Are you
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sure this isn't all surmise on your part. You weren't in the room when
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she said, let's have some sherry. Please, let's have some sherry.
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I must be she was really trying to say. She wanted him to leave
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the room so she could talk to me, so she could have one little
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minute to tell me what the matter is, what's going on. His next
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move is to deposit that check and one big withdrawal the whole one hundred and
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fifty thousand, and bye bye, Floyd Mark, mister dollar, I'm just
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an insurance Brokeride don't understand that. Well, how'd you like to be an
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investment to get her? For about ten minutes? Me? Yeah, you
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see that car that just pulled up the driveway, Yes, the girl driving
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it holds down that dummy office of Markham's. Her name's Bibler. She might
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be in on this with him. And that's mister Markham leaving the house.
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Good. Now, look, here's what you do. Follow them. I
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think I know where they're going, but you follow them and make sure where
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are they going to the bank to deposit that check? Well? Where are
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you going to have that glass of sherry? Mister Porter ed Porter pulled his
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hat down low over his face and put both hands on the wheel and took
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out. After that, fifty five catillaccidam. I crossed the street, went
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back up on the porch of the house and knocked. I didn't expect her
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to answer. I didn't expect anyone to answer, but I wanted to make
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sure. I went around to the garden. There wasn't a sound in the
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big old house. When I opened the garden door and went up the stairs
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again, the door to her room was closed. She wasn't by the window
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anymore. She was stretched out on the deman. I felt a wrist for
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a pulse. It was there, faint, but there about three inches up
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around there was a series of little marks. I left the one eyelet and
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fell her neck muscles. She was dope to the ears. Missus Markhamer,
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Missus Markham, can you hear me? Look, I've come to help you.
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Yeah me, yes, yes, I'm going to take you out of
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here. I don't be frightened. That's right, that's right, that's the
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ticket insurance company. Yes, I remember, Yes, that's right. Thank
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you for bringing my check. I don't want want what, Missus Markham,
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want any of my friends to worry. I'm proving, but I don't want
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them to know. I'm ill. Just say I'm out of down. Wow,
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he told you to say that, didn't he Yes, he told me
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exactly there, Sudah. Don't fool me. Please, don't fool me.
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What you will help me get out of here. You aren't fooling me,
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are you. I. I carried it downstairs and put her in my car
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and drove her to the Saint Regis Emergency Hospital. Expense ac countin of six
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one hundred dollars deposit with the hospital office. I explained as much as necessary
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to the intern, who promised to advise me when Missus Markat became rational.
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After that, I drove back to the house. Ed Porter's blue Coop was
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parked across the streets I didn't know what to do but come back here.
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And when I got back, I didn't know what to do. We listen
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to slow down, you're doing fun. Oh you were right, You were
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absolutely right. They went straight to the Bank of America to deposit that money.
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I kind of thought they might be back here by now. No.
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No, they're over at Angelo's having a drink and some dinner. I followed
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them there. You're getting to be quite a sleuth, mister Porter. Hell,
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try to do my best, use my head, mister Dolla. Did
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you talk to missus Mark as much as I could? She was doped.
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I took her out and put her in the hospital. Oh what should you
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have done that, mister Dollar. I could have left her up in that
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room to die. Mister Porter. Oh, yes, well, what's our
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next move? Ours? Certainly I can't quit now, mister Johnny, Well,
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let's go to Angelo's. Eddie head Porter settled the hat lower on his
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ears and gripped the wheel hider, and we took off for Angelo's on Stoka
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Street. When we got there, we didn't have to go inside to see
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if our people were still around. The Cadillacs. Nan was in the parking
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lot, so we took up a planet across the street. And why wait,
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why not go in and take them out of there and take them down
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to the police. That might blow the whole thing. Now we have to
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wait and see what missus Markham has to say when she's well enough to talk.
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Yeah, but I'm sure she'll have some charges to prefer. In the
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meantime, we wait and see. What's what? What do you think he'll
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do when he goes home and pines her gone? It'll be pretty interesting.
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What do you think he'll do? Will? I imagine he'll he'll think she
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got up and walked down. No, No, he knows better than that.
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He's had her doped up for six months. He knows he can go
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out of the house and she'll stay right where he left her while he's gone,
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that is. But then he'll know that she had help. That's more
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like it, mister Porter. I liked Eddie. It gives me kind of
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a feeling. Okay, Eddie, I'll answer the question, Oh, well,
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what'll he do? Well, he'll try to get out of town.
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That's it. He'll try to leave town. He'll know that he's headed.
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Come on, huh, they're pulling out. We followed them to a cocktail
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lounge near the Presidio. They waited around outside the place for two hours.
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Expense account adem seven twenty five cents. I called the Saint Regis Receiving Hospital.
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Missus Markham's condition was unchanged. I'd have eate two dollars to Habgar's,
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two cokes and cigarettes for mister Porter and myself. We had just finished eating
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when Floyd Markham's Cadillac turned out onto the street. We followed it for ten
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minutes. When Markham parked in a dark hill, we cut our lights and
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came to a stop. Mister dollar, Yeddie, can you see what they're
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doing? Yeah? What nicking? Huh? Nicking? You know I should
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have telephoned my wife. At twelve ten, Floyd Markham turned the car around
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and drove back into town. We followed once more. We saw him double
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park outside a four story apartment house on a steep hill. Let the woman
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out, then drive on. Yeah, Johnny, think you can handle something
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else a whole I'd love to Women sometimes talk a lot easier than men.
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You keep on him when he finds his wife absent. I want to know
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where he goes, wherever it is, I'll let you know, are you
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gonna shake her down? Something like that? Get going. I watched my
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new assistant investigator follow out after Markham's Cadillac. Then I went inside the apartment
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house. I Bidler was on the mailbox of apartment one oh four. I
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walked down the hall. Listen a minute and give it a try. Yes,
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Well, what on earth are you doing? I'm here to see you,
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miss Bidler. It's important. You're mister Harris. I'm mister Dollar,
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Johnny Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator. Oh, there was something about you
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today. I wasn't sure. No, you sure? What do you think
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right now? I'm working for Western Life and Trust Company? You better sit
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out well. I don't know that I'd better do anything. Mister Dollar.
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You're rather rude, then you can stand. We've been checking into Floyd Markham.
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I don't think I have to tell you what we found out so far.
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I think you also know that by this time tomorrow he'd be in jail
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and you might be right along with him. I'm sorry, mister Dollar.
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I said that, we'll be sorry. Just use your head, I said,
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you might be right along with him. On the other hand, if
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you have some useful information the insurance company might be useful to you. What
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do you mean, well, I figured he sold you on an island trip
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or an estate in the country, bill of goods. It'll be hard at
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getting it out of him, but we'll get it one way or another.
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We'll get it all right. Now, What do you want to do?
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I want a drink? You thanks. I'm I'm not bad, I'm not
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a criminal. I've never been in trouble. You are now? Why?
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Because I fell in love with him? Because you were helping him kill her?
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What are you talking about? Missus Markham. She's in a hospital right
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now. What I took her there myself today. He's had a dope with
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I don't know what for months, having as signed checks and doors deposit slips.
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Funny is it? He told me that Missus Markham was out of town
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divorcing him. I wondered how I you were right? It was a country
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estate in England, a genteel life, he said, the London theater walks
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in the country, little harmless things that most people can never do. He
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said, we could do them as soon as he cleaned up his affairs.
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Why tonight, he said, we could start. Heck, heck, I
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took higher spider with me back to the Markham house. The Cadillac was in
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the garage and ed Porter's blue cope was pulled up across the street. When
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he saw us in the cab, he walked up. Hi, Hi,
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how's he doing? You can talk in front of her. Holy He hasn't
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done anything. No, I mean I saw the light go on upstairs in
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missus Markham's room, then it went out again. He's downstairs now, sitting
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in the living room. Okay, wait here, hello Markham. Hello,
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if you're worried about your wife, which I doubt she's in the hospital,
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you police investigator. That's miss Bidler and the taxi over there. Oh,
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I want you to come with me now, of course. Yeah. You
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said your name was a Dollar. That's right. Why couldn't you have come
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around, say next week? She'd have been dead by then. That's the
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way she should have been for sixteen years dead. Yeah, come on,
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Markham expense account adam nine one hundred and two dollars hotel and board in San
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Francisco. I had them ten one hundred and sixteen dollars their fair back to
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Hartford fight. I'm eleven forty two dollars sixteen cents miscellaneous remarks. That's one
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a wind up in court. Missus Markham's charges will include attempted homicide, attempt
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to defraud, attempt to In the end, it was his attempt to run
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away and it didn't work. It never works. Even if you get away,
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you find something new to run from. Total expenses nine hundred and sixty
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eight dollars and twenty cents. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our
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star to tell you about next week's story. Before I do, I want
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to say something to you about Thanksgiving. Now, there's a day that deserves
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celebration and heartfelt thanks to the God who made us for being able to live
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in the most free and peaceful and poutiful country in the world. And yet
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why wait for next Thursday or any Thanksgiving day for Americans? It seems to
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me Thanksgiving should be every day. Think about it? Won't you next week?
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In our story New Orleans, the Friend, a beautiful girl on high
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adventure join us, Won't you yours truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written by John
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Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in tonight's cast
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were Lois Corbett, Frank Nelson, Virginia, Greg Bert Holland, Paula Winslow,
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and John Dayner. Musical supervision by Marigo Marino. Be sure to join
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us next week, same time and station for another exciting story of yours Truly
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Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back, well a classic commentary at the
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end. In fact, some of the old time radio sets I've seen out
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there have actually just included a clip from that for some Thanksgiving sets, So
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a great and very thought provoking commentary. Also, I love how Johnny works
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through this episode. Really, it's just about knowing your stuff, recognizing signs,
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and being able to take action, which he does. And I also
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like the twist of the girlfriend not actually being in on it, which is
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kind of a nice departure from the typical detective radio program. All right,
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Well, on to some listener comments and feedback. Actually got quite a few
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comments regarding episode fourteen eleven Truly Matter. Bobby Lee Walker says, I can't
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believe my buddy Johnny got carjacked twice in the same night, but he does
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say that he likes the recurring characters. Becky says this is one of my
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favorites. Christy says really enjoyed this one, and Elizabeth says, good story.
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